I felt too constrained working with the past, like what I wrote needed to be fact as opposed to fiction, but writing about the future gave me more freedom to imagine, to invent.

和过去打交道让我感觉太拘束了，就像我写的东西必须是事实，不能虚构，但写与未来有关的东西给了我更多的自由去想象，去创作。

youdao

I don't like him. He's far too smooth for me.

我不喜欢他。我觉得他太圆滑。

《牛津词典》

I do like to have some people around me, so I'd prefer to live with a family somewhere in a house not too far from the university.

我确实喜欢身边有些人在，所以我更喜欢和家人住在离学校不远的房子里。

youdao

I don't like the GPS. That's too modern for me. I'm very traditional.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

I don't really like central London. It's just too crowded for me.

我很不喜欢伦敦市中心。对我来说，那里太拥挤了。

怡人的的汉普斯特德 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And if you don't see a role model, you say to yourself, my gosh, I can't be like that person because there's nobody who looks like me and I don't inspire too much, and that's a problem.

NPR: Attorney Works to Promote Diversity in Law

Like him I, too, continually wonder at the moral law within me, which dictates my conduct, or perhaps I ought to say the ideals of conduct, which I wish I could fulfill.

NPR: A Hope For Bettering Humanity

"I have stated that I will not stay in an Ulster Unionist Party that is heading towards a merger with the DUP and the decision that the party took yesterday against the wishes of people like myself and John McCallister leaves me with no option but to say that I, too, will be resigning from the Ulster Unionist Party, " he said.

BBC: Basil McCrea