My father, who was trained in engineering at M. I. T. in the slide-rule era, often lamented the way the pocket calculator, for all its convenience, diminished my generation's math skills.

我的父亲，在幻灯片统治时代，他在麻省理工学院接受工程教育，经常感叹由于袖珍计算器带来的便利性，削弱了我这一代人的数学能力。

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The way I think of shocking people is to do things that people don 't expect in my music, in my performances.

我认为让人们感到震惊的方式在于我的音乐和表演能出人意料。

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I hope you don 't mind the open window. My husband and brothers will be home soon from shooting, and they always come in this way.

那扇窗户开着，我希望您不会介意，我的丈夫和兄弟们打猎去了，他们很快就会回来，他们总是喜欢从窗户进来。

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I can't dispose of my life or my liberty or my property in a way that violates my rights.

我不能放弃自己的生命或自由或财产,因为某种程度上说，这侵犯了我的权利。

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Something is usually said about Kafka in connection with Wise Blood, but I have never succeeded in making my way through The Castle or The Trial, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Kafka.

经常有人说到卡夫卡,与《慧血》之间的联系，但我从来没有成功地,读懂《城堡》或者《审判》,我不会假装我了解卡夫卡的一切。

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But middle way through my first year in law school, I just felt like it wasn't something I would really be able to do.

但是在我学习法律的那一年期间，我就发现,这不是我真正想做的。

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He didn't want to stand in my way if this was what I wanted.

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"I am an active person, and even though I haven't let it stand in my way, the injury has been painful and distressing, " she said.

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And basically, that's when I started feeling like, you know, video is not going to be my friend if I can't do what I want to do with it and I can't explore it in my own way.

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