he thought to himself, "I will not throw it away.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Now, of course, Freud himself thought he was a scientist, and his reading of the myth was also supposed to be scientific.

当然，弗洛伊德也觉得自己是个科学家，也觉得自己对这神话的解读是科学的。

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But we have to remember that King himself was a poet, or thought of himself as a poet.

但我们得知道金自己也是个诗人，最起码自认为是一个诗人。

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"He found himself in a beach community and thought, 'Well,I might as well try to learn to surf,'" "He asked me if I wanted to come out and learn with him.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

How could you develop an argument in which a thought like that might actually seem to work? After all, Foucault--setting himself aside, he doesn't mention himself--Foucault very much admires certain writers.

你如何为这样一个看起来可能的想法,去辩护呢？毕竟，福柯--不谈他自己，他从不提到自己-福柯很钦佩一些作家。

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But faced with the question what should he do, what did he want to do with his remaining couple of years, what he decided he wanted to do -- was finish his Yale degree-- thought he'd set himself the goal of graduating college before he died.

但面对着他该做什么这个问题，在他剩余的几年生命里他想要做的事，他所决定的他想要做的事,是完成他的耶鲁学位-,认为他想给自己设定在死之前,从大学毕业的目标。

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