亚历山大曾经在汽车行业工作,生活不错,但那已经是两年前的事了。
Alexander used to make a good living working in the auto industry, but that was two years ago.
虽然没有明确的计划,只一心想逃离那曾经赐给他所有的生活。
He had no definite plan. He merely wanted to get away from a life that had given him all it had to offer.
(事实上,我经常听到的唯一的噪音就是鸟叫声或者是猫咪调皮的打闹声,不要问为什么),但我曾经生活在纽约市,而且在过去的十年里,我每年都回去那拜访我的家人好几趟,所以我非常清楚那里被汽车的嘈杂声,救护车的呼叫声,慌张的脚步,还有数小时的堵车包围着的感觉。
Don’t ask.) But I’ve lived in NYC and have been visiting my family there several times a year for over a decade.
现在在我的生活中,当我感受到决心和勇气的那一刻,我突然意识到,曾经我能那么清晰的听到恐惧的声音,听着它告诉我什么是应该做的,而如今那声音却变小了。
Now in my life when I reach a moment of decision or courage, I recognize so clearly the voice of fear telling me what I should do to become less.
我曾经辅导过一个家伙,他跟一个女人生活了16年。对四个孩子来说,那女人是个极不称职的母亲,对他来说更是个糟糕的妻子。
I once coached a guy who was married for 16 years to a woman who was a horrible mother to his 4 children and a worse wife to him.
他曾经回收可乐瓶换钱,靠克利什那庙里的免费食物生活。
He used to return Coke bottles for money and live on free meals at the Hare Krishna temple.
这是诗人赫西奥德曾经生活的时代,他悲痛地呼喊:“假如我不是人类的第五代,在这之前死赴或者晚点出生的话,那该多好啊。”
It is in this age that the poet Hesiod lived, and he exclaims in woe, "Would that I were not a man of the fifth generation but had either died before or had been born later."
这是诗人赫西奥德曾经生活的时代,他悲痛地呼喊:“假如我不是人类的第五代,在这之前死赴或者晚点出生的话,那该多好啊。”
It is in this age that the poet Hesiod lived, and he exclaims in woe, "Would that I were not a man of the fifth generation but had either died before or had been born later."
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