Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

  • -- James A. Garfield 詹姆斯·加菲尔德

贫穷是不舒服;但是,十有八九,一个年轻人所能遇到的最好的事情就是被扔到海里,被迫沉沦或游泳。

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Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

现在,它并没有影响到我的音乐,除了我没有时间去写它。这和我刚开始住在家里没有什么不同。我会在下午弹吉他,然后我的妈妈或爸爸会回家,然后我不得不辞职。

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

作为一名演员,在媒体中,人们对你似乎有着永不满足的好奇心。

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

我是那种容易保养的人——让我们把事情做完,然后开始吧。打蜡没那么痛苦,但是……我没有时间——把剃刀给我就行了。

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

去游泳比赛的旅行让我超越了我的小镇生活,让我对自己家之外的激动人心的世界有了一丝了解。

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

人们去上几何课,我甚至在斯蒂文斯的大桶里游泳。“就像做梦一样!”

Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he threw his wife overboard.

每一点都有助于减轻货物的重量,船长说,同时把他的妻子扔到船外。

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

在更换主人的过程中,穷人除了改变主人的名字外,什么也没有改变。

Burning up from the inside out with all these uncomfortable feelings.

所有这些不舒服的感觉从里到外燃烧起来。