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相当
Quite
I never quite toed the line.
我从来没有完全遵守过这条规则。
I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.
我很讨厌那种女主角。
I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.
我有很多焦虑的梦。
Not being boring is quite a challenge.
不无聊是一个相当大的挑战。
When a cricket is quiet, it is digging.
当蟋蟀安静时,它在挖土。
The average is that which no person quite ever is.
平均水平是没有人能达到的。
It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.
一路顺风。我喜欢它的每一分钟。
I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.
我过去优柔寡断,但现在不太确定。
My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.
我母亲在我的许多歌曲中都有重要的地位。
I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.
我想六十年代一定很有趣。
I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.
我是一个相当乐观的人,相当快乐的生活,相当微笑。
It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.
面试官被面试的情况一定很少见。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.
坦率地说,我一直听收音机的黑暗面。在我成长的地方,有很多这样的音乐,有很多现场音乐。
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.
你知道,在通俗小说中你真的可以很具有颠覆性,通俗小说可以涉及政治、战争、商业王朝的兴衰等重大问题。
One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.
我们可以看到一幅六英尺乘八英尺的画布,可以说,相当精确。但是你可以花两分钟,认为是五秒,或三十秒,这只是一个不同的床上的活动。
It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top.
你打败了谁并不重要,重要的是你最终取得了胜利。
I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
我不指望人们理解我。那就太傲慢了。我想世界上有很多人是没有人能理解的。
When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.
当你年轻的时候,你并不十分清楚自己的目标是什么。你很冲动,会冲动行事,这很重要,也很有价值。但你是在盲海中游泳。当你长大后,你会有更多的方向感。