I really didn't like New York, but I wanted to stick it out a little bit longer.

我真的不喜欢纽约，但我想再稍稍坚持一段时间。

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I dressed not like a tourist, but like my regular New York self, which I hoped would peg me less as an outsider than as an unusual outsider, an object of curiosity.

我把自己打扮得一点也不像一个旅行者，而是和我在纽约时的穿着差不多，我希望我能显得和那些其他的外地人与众不同，并成为一个令人好奇的对象。

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New York is cold, but I like where I'm living.

纽约很冷，但我喜欢我住的地方。

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But I had like, really, really big dreams, so I wanted to pursue in New York, which led me here.

但我有很伟大的梦想，我想在纽约实现这个梦想，这也是我来这里的原因。

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We tend to stay on campus. But... I have, I do have some friends who like go to New York or Boston,

所以我们基本上都待在校园内。不过……我有一些喜欢在空闲时间去纽约或者波士顿的朋友。

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But in California, I don't know like, especially with film schools out here and in New York,

但在加州，特别是这里和纽约的电影学院，

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"I know this sounds ironic especially in a place like New York, but there just aren't enough lawyers, " said Thomas Maligno, who is leading Sandy outreach efforts for Touro Law School, which includes a legal hotline and a new legal clinic on Long Island staffed by a professor and eight students.

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So I think you know, I think people are beginning to see sense but it's, it's, you know what it's like in London, I mean in New York, you know you've got one Mayor who's got huge power and can bulldoze things through, it's much more difficult here.

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