再混用一些隐喻，你还不会走就想跑，而我又修短了你的翅膀。
To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings.
我们的妈妈们让我们坐下读书、画画，而我们真正想要做的却是胡闹一阵。
Our mothers sat us down to read and paint, when all we really wanted to do was to make a mess.
我想跟他比赛拳击，因为他从未被打败过，而我想成为第一个战胜他的人。
I'd like to fight him because he's undefeated and I want to be the first man to beat him.
一颗小行星可能已经把美国毁灭了——而我可能几个小时内都没有听说这个消息。
An asteroid could have annihilated the USA—and I wouldn't have heard the news for hours.
一千个人中大概只有一个女人会把包背在左边，而我往往会避开她们。
Only about one woman in a thousand carries her bag on the left, and I tended to steer clear of them.
你可以像给房子画蓝图一样在脑海中勾勒出愿望的蓝图，而我们每个人在日常生活中都在不断地绘制这些蓝图。
You can make a mental blueprint of a desire as you would make a blueprint of a house, and each of us is continually making these blueprints in the general routine of everyday living.
这是一个非常严格的行业，要求非常高，而我有点太胖了。
It's a tough, tough industry with really high standards, and I'm a little too chubby.
我不擅长算术，而我妹妹却有一个精于数字运算的超级脑袋。
I have no head for figures, but my sister is blessed with a superb head for figures.
我们被锁在囚车里，而我们的警卫则看着一场支持卡扎菲的微弱抗议。
We were locked in the paddy wagon while our guard watched a feeble pro-Qaddafi protest.
这是一个秘密花园，而我是世界上唯一一个希望它活过来的人。
It's a secret garden, and I'm the only one in the world who wants it to be alive.
若你处于危险边缘，会产生一部分令人作呕的恐惧，而我似乎明白，这种恐惧随时都有可能瓦解。
There's part of this sickening horror of knowing you're walking on the edge with this, that I kind of like, knowing that it could all fall apart at any second.
即使是一个伟大的医疗体系也无法治愈死亡，而我们未能直面这一现实，现在正威胁着我们的伟大。
Not even a great health-care system can cure death—and our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours.
她会给我讲一些恐怖但又激动人心的故事，而我躲在我的床单里，然后闭上眼睛。
She will give me some horror but exciting stories, and I hide in my bed sheet and then close my eyes.
然而，如果其他人在这个过程中受益，而我也得到了一些报酬，那我的动机是什么真的重要吗?
However, if others benefit in the process, and I get some reward too, does it really matter where my motivation lies?
不幸的是，一般地区的轻微犯罪和反社会行为的数量有所增加，而我想谈谈一些被提出的具体预防措施。
Unfortunately, there's been an increase in the number of minor crimes and anti-social behaviour in the general area and I want to talk about some specific prevention measures that are being proposed.
莱斯利认为，好奇心是一种经常被忽视的人类美德，它对我们的成功至关重要，而我们正在失去它。
Leslie argues that curiosity is a much-overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success, and that we are losing it.
我的另一半说不，因为锅炉可能会坏掉，屋顶可能会掉下来，而我们没有可用以自救的储蓄。
My partner says no because the boiler could go, or the roof falls off, and we have no savings to save us.
我的另一半说不，因为锅炉可能会坏掉，屋顶可能会掉下来，而我们没有可用以自救的储蓄。
My partner says no because the boiler could go, or the roof fall off, and we have no savings to save us.
一位立法人员对这些活动人士的担忧不屑一顾，跟她说：“我丈夫对此负责，而我留在家里。”
A legislative staffer dismissed the activist's concerns, telling her "my husband took care of that—I stayed home".
我相信有一些东西在那里等着我，而我必须努力去证明我自己。
I believe that something, something is waiting for me there, and I have to work hard to prove myself.
这让我有点紧张，因为我们快到最后期限了，而我感觉这个项目一切工作都是我在做的。
It's kind of stressing me out, because we are getting close to the deadline and I feel like I'm doing everything for this project.
她会把我的脏衣服推到一边，而我则把我的书放在她整洁的书桌上。
She would push my dirty clothing over, and I would lay my books on her tidy desk.
将来，他想成为一名警察，而我希望成为一名音乐家。
In the future, he wants to be a policeman and I hope to be a musician.
“而我，”母亲说，“我感到很不安，好像一场大雷雨就要来了。”
"And I," said the mother, "I feel so uneasy, as if a heavy thunderstorm were coming."
她那时是一位丰韵又害羞的新娘，而我是一位强壮又快乐的新郎。
She was then a plump and shy bride, and I was a strong and happy bridegroom.
我也没有真正理解他的世界。他是一个牲畜卡车司机，而我认为当我在高中毕业典礼上走过主席台时，我会超过他所取得的任何成就。
I didn't really understand his world either: He was a livestock trucker, and I thought that I would surpass anything he had accomplished by the time I walked across the stage at high school graduation.
“你是一个善良、聪明的好姑娘，”他说，“而我确实是一只骄傲而愚蠢的癞蛤蟆。”
"You are a good, kind, clever girl," he said, "and I am indeed a proud and a stupid toad."
有一天，我母亲正在做饭，而我和弟弟正在玩。
On day my mother was cooking while I was playing with my younger brother.
如果狗跑进了一个山洞，而我追着狗跑，那怎么办？
幸福是一扇永远敞开的门，而我们自己是得决定是否要走进这扇门的人。
Happiness is a door that is always open, and we are the ones who have to decide if we are going to walk through the door.
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