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Ordinary
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
我被荒谬地高估了。没有超人&我很普通，&无论艺术效果如何，我都会这么说。在这一点上，我是少数几个说真话的人之一。
And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.
这就是那部剧的结局。开始的时候很普通，开始的时候很糟糕。正如我所说，有一篇评论说，真的，我们认为广告比节目更好。然后它逐渐发展。
Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.
影评人说，我道出了我们所有人都有的恐惧:我们会到达人生的某个阶段，环顾四周，会意识到，我们说过要做的所有事情都不会成为现实，我们只是普通人。
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
我总是惊讶于一个普通的观察者是如何给予如此多的信任和重视醒着的事情，而不是那些发生在梦里的事情……男人。是他记忆中最重要的玩物。
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
为了论证和说明，我假定某些日常饮食习惯，无论在青年时期多么有益，在老年时期却有害无益，就像豆子对马一样，马的日常饮食就是干草和玉米。
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
当两个人第一次见面时，他们只能拥有一种很普通的友谊。但当你开始了解对方，当你接近他们时，你会发现你突然渴望更好地了解他或她。
I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.
我读了一些冰岛的传奇故事。它们的迷人之处在于它们完全是普通的。农夫会跑到山里去和巨怪搏斗，然后回去做一些普通的事情。这是幻想和现实的奇怪结合。
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
一个普通的人，只要有了磅数和五年的身世，就可以在平常的生活中，不慌不忙，不加任何压力地让自己的趣味受到影响，在自己的周围摆满书，而且都是用自己的语言写的，因此，他在这个世界上至少还有一个地位。
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
现在最好的意见是，有许多形态没有足够的区别来区分植物或动物，而就普通的植物和动物而言，给它们下一个定义比以往任何时候都困难得多。
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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
我不是弥赛亚，而是一个平凡的人，因为特殊的环境而成为一个领袖。
Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.
普通光子确实有自旋，它们有螺旋性的概念，所以它们在运动时绕着自己的方向旋转。
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
而诗人，在我看来，我认为大多数人的观点，的确是在说上帝的语言——它比普通人在日常生活中说的语言更好，更好，更高级。
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
因为它将传统等同于偏见，左派发现自己越来越无法用普通人的共同语言与他们交谈。
My hearing is out of the ordinary as others might see it, but not for me. I'm used to my hearing in the same way that I'm used to the size of my hands.
我的听力和别人看到的不一样，但对我来说不是这样。我习惯了我的听力，就像我习惯了我的手一样。
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
普通人以一种我们不太理解的方式投下了阴影。天才会发光。