You can find all kinds of influences, if you look hard enough you probably even hear the classical influences I had as a little,little boy."

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You've had a hard life. That hard life, you think, is really what made you into the writer you are.

你的生活很艰难，你觉得正是那种艰难让你成为了作家。

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We're talking about like, if you didn't, even if you had all your data on your computer backed up on hard drive,

如果你没有将你电脑里的数据备份到硬盘里，

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It was very well received. You decided, "for my next project I am going to write about my life." You've had a hard life, by the way.

你决定：，“我的下一本书要写我的生活”,顺便提一下，你的日子很贫苦。

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In fact, even if you haven't had a biology class it's hard to be alive in 2008 and not know something about DNA; it's become such an important part of our lives.

实际上,即使你们没有上过生物课,也不可能活在当下却对DNA一无所知,它已经与我们的生活密不可分

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So if you had a hard day, you go to Nick's for vodka.

所以如果你这一天过得很辛苦，就到Nick's喝伏特加吧。

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