The doctor told me to stay in bed.

医生要我卧床休息。

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The doctor told me to rest.

医生叫我休息。

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The doctor told me (that) I had to stay in bed.

医生对我说我必须卧床休息。

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And the doctor told me it is good for me to express my creative urges.

医生也告诉我,表达出我自己强烈的愿望对我有好处。

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The doctor told me that because my surgery is coming up,

医生告诉我是因为马上就要动手术，

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So the knowledge was there, sitting at the back of my mind, waiting to come true, when the doctor told me.

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"The doctor told me I can't really make it any worse and it's part of my competitive nature to go out and push it as far as I can, " he said.

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Then the doctor called for me and told me to pull myself together, I was a senior rank.

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