I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

  • -- Tim Cahill 蒂姆·卡希尔

我十几岁的时候就想成为一名作家,但是我从来没有告诉过任何人。在我看来,作家就像上帝一样,如果我说我在努力成为一名作家,那就太自大了。

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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

通过努力去做不可能的事,人总是能完成可能的事。那些谨慎地做了他们认为不可能做的事情的人从来没有向前迈出过一步。

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

经过一个世纪的努力,经过一年的辩论,经过一次历史性的投票,医疗改革不再是一个没有兑现的承诺。这是国家的法律。

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

短吻鳄和鳄鱼是这个星球上最具攻击性的动物之一——如果你到它们的巢穴上来,它们会把船撞翻。

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

是的,孩子们很残忍。当然可以。孩子是非常残忍的小动物。