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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

  • -- Chinua Achebe 奇努阿切贝

人们说，如果你发现水涨到脚踝，那就该做点什么了，而不是当水涨到脖子上的时候。

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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

优点是我一直有我的家人和我在一起。当你的女儿迈出第一步或说出第一句话，而你的儿子正在接受如厕训练时，我没有错过任何一件事。

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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

有些人会说我的画展示了一个未来的世界，也许他们是这样说的，但我画的是现实。我把一些东西和想法放在一起，也许，当我完成的时候，它可以显示未来。

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It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

正是教育将为我们提供工具，使我们能够取得成功，并制止可预防的死亡率不断上升。

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Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

勒罗伊跟我打赌，我在最后找不到一罐金子，我告诉他那是个愚蠢的赌注，因为彩虹就足够了。

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Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

这些报纸粗俗下流，每天都刊登有关演艺界人士的谣言，讲一些不道德的行为和愚蠢的事情。

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To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

为了查明她是否真的爱我，我给她接上了测谎仪。正如我所怀疑的，我的机器坏了。

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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

文学是对一个人所生活的时代的谴责。

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