I need distractions. I need to amuse myself so I won't keep thinking about things.

我需要娱乐。我需要自我消遣，这样我才不会一直想事情。

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This stops my overly paranoid side from thinking: but what if I NEED this when I get there?

这可以让我停止我那偏执想法：如果我到那里之后需要用到这个东西怎么办？

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I need some time to Orient my thinking.

我需要一些时间来使我的思想适应。

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Even now, as I'm sitting here lecturing to you, part of me, because of this very question that I'm raising, is thinking about how's the lecture going, and am I going to get through what I need to get through, and so forth and so on.

就算现在我在讲座，我的一部分，因为我提出的这个问题，正在思考讲座进行得如何，我能否传达必要的意思，等等问题。

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However, as any skier knows, I also need to be thinking about the second and third turns, so I can position myself and come out strong.

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You can't be thinking I need to give myself an extra 45 minutes just in case, like we do when we're normally driving around London.

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Those two things have me thinking I might need to re-evaluate my extreme dislike for Wal-Mart.

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