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The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

  • -- Ray Stannard Baker 贝克

病房里的大街小巷都是出了名的肮脏，承包商们习惯性地忽视了他们，然而，他们并没有忘记从市财政中定期支取款项。

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I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

我不会做做得不好或不对的工作。事情发生了——事情出了问题，承包商没有通过——但我不想为没有正确地做某件事而负责。

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I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

我穿上了周围气候的颜色，驱走了从布鲁克林街道上升起的所有情绪，这样我就可以加入国会这个排外的俱乐部。

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

神学告诉我们，来世将要忍受的地狱，并不比我们在这个世界上习惯性地以错误的方式塑造我们的角色而为自己制造的地狱更糟糕。

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Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

让我们指出房间里的大象:演员乐队并不是出了名的成功企业。我想不出来。

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I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

我没有时间一边写一边画。

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Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

众所周知，有创造力的人接受新技术的速度最慢。

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Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

除了我，我家没有人会画画。

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