I kept telling myself to keep calm.

我不断叮嘱自己要保持冷静。

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I keep saying to myself, "What is it?"

我一直对自己说：“这是什么？”

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Heidrich now visits websites that discuss gaming addiction regularly "to remind myself to keep my love for online games in check".

海德里希现在经常访问那些讨论游戏成瘾的网站，“以此提醒自己要控制对网络游戏的热爱”。

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I bent my head backward to drink in the stars, and clearly I heard a song so sweet and pure I had to hold myself to keep from breaking.

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He says: It had only been through books, at best no more than vicarious cultural transfusions, that I had managed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.

并加以思索，他说，：,“唯有通过读书，这种让文化在我心中产生共鸣的方式,才能维系我生存的勇气。

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And actually keep going to do better for myself.

并且总是不断前进，做更好的自己。

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But this is one wisecrack I keep to myself.

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