我一直是那种花了很多时间来确保人们不会认为我疯了的女孩。

I've been that girl who has spent so much time trying to make sure people didn't think I was crazy.

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即便他人认为你成功的时候你也可能感觉情绪失落，而他人认为你疯了的时候你却感觉良好。

You will feel down even when others think you're a success, and you will feel on top of the world when everybody else thinks you've lost your mind.

youdao

你疯了吗？你会丢了性命的！

Are you out of your senses ? You'll be killed!

《牛津词典》

Notice something about all of those figures: Shakespeare is preoccupied with figures who may or may not be crazy.

看一下这些人物：,莎士比亚专注于疯了或者没疯的人物。

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Cervantes is preoccupied with a figure who is crazy we're pretty sure of that, but he certainly isn't.

塞万提斯专注于一个疯了的人物,这一点我们很确定，但是他并不这么认为。

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Now Descartes, you remember, in his Meditations begins by asking a series of questions about how we can know anything, and one of the skeptical questions he asks is, "Well, might I not be crazy?"

大家应该记得，在《沉思录》的开头，笛卡尔问了一系列,关于我们如何知道一切的问题，其中的一个问题是，我可能疯了？

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