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I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.
我在服装方面开发得相当晚,但我突然意识到这是生活的乐趣之一。
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.
二十年前我自己写的许多文章现在给我的印象是,它们对我来说是相当陌生的东西。
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
当我读到自己的一句话时,我仍然觉得这句话真的很棒,而且它具有经久不衰的品质。
I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.
我不知道我为什么被欺负。我很害羞,骨瘦如柴。非常书呆子气,非常书呆子气。我想我只是个靶子。
I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
我想很多人都有过这样的友谊或爱情,但从来没有完全和好。
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。
I have to be alone very often. It be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
我经常一个人呆着。如果我从周六晚上到周一早上都一个人呆在我的公寓里,我会很开心。这就是我加油的方式。
Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.
我很随意地进入我的情节,在我的角色周围闲逛了一会儿,然后慢慢离开,没有留下任何道德的证明,也没有留下任何读者的改进。
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。
Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
世界各地仍有不少歌剧在演出,但除了观众的欢迎程度,没有什么能比几场演出更能保证演出的成功了。
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?
我有两本书是很久以前出版的。我开始读大约三句话。我得把它关上。我太难为情了。我以为我是谁?
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.
有一次我签了唱片合同,我把那些还没完成的歌拿了过来,也许它们是个好主意,也许不是。我把它们带进工作室,冲洗出来。他们活了过来,他们进化了……他们好了。
I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.
我有很多焦虑的梦。
I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
我想我已经习惯了不被理解而不是被理解。
I never quite toed the line.
我从来没有完全遵守过这条规则。
I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
我是大有罪恶的人,他是大有怜悯的神。现在,借着他的怜悯,我的良心像从未犯过罪一样平静。
For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
对于任何一个在观众面前工作的人来说,没有什么比感受和听到观众享受的证据更令人激动的了。笑声和掌声真的很强大。