I'm reminded of a time when I had cut it too close and inevitably missed a flight, cursing my failure until my traveling companion reminded me to “be kind to myself.

我突然忆起有一次我把时间安排的太赶，以至于最后，不可避免地，错过了我的航班。那一次，我不停地咒骂着自己的愚蠢和失败，知道我的旅伴提醒我说“善待自己”。

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I found myself needing some kind of database to keep track of my tastings.

我发现我自己需要某种数据库来对我的口味进行追踪。

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Yet, sometimes, I like to think of myself as belonging to a kind of fellowship of mutations.

现在有时我会乐意将自己想成属于某种突变团体的成员。

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And for me it's fun because I may not know the novel that you end up picking, and so it is a kind of challenge for me to take a novel that you've chosen and come to grips with it myself It may be one that I know.

我也觉得很好玩,因为我可能不知道你们最后选择的小说，所以对我来说,认真对待你们选的一本书很有挑战性,可能是一本我知道的书。

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I mean, it's kind of a necessity for a lot of students, myself included, to have these jobs

我的意思是，对于大多数学生而言，
也包括我在内，做这些工作是很有必要的，

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I just, kind of, want to be at home by myself."

我只是想一个人独自待在家“

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