After that NOLS course, I led several more expeditions, but I never felt that I could live up to my colleagues' expectation of a quiet, authoritative, slightly removed outdoorsman.
在NOLS课程之后,我又指导了一些考察旅行,但我从未感到我能够达到我同事所期望的安静,有威信,带一些些疏远的户外活动人。
I never thought I could go a year without a stapler or paperclips - but I'm happy to report that I have. I guess attaching papers isn't as important as I'd thought!
我从来没有想过我能离开订书机或者曲别针整整一年,但是我很高兴的告诉大家,我做到了,因为我发现把文件装订到一起并不像我想象的那么重要。
I said I could never give up my car, but I barely drive now and am going car-free next month.
我曾说我不可能离开小轿车,但现在几乎不开车并计划下个月不开车。
But that summer it meant I could go out to nice dinners with my girlfriend, and never worry about paying for drinks at expensive clubs.
这意味这个夏天,我可以有钱带着女朋友出去吃大餐了,再也不用担心那些高档俱乐部里的酒水的价格了。
I was never a fan of reality television, but one night, I became weirdly giddy to realize I could watch whatever I pleased on television without negotiation.
我不喜欢看现实生活节目。然而,一天晚上,我竟然喜欢看对电视上播放的任何节目。
I could have had a special -backup_mailbox flag to override "all mailboxes," but frankly I never needed it.
我本来可以有一个特殊的- backup _ mailbox标志用来覆盖“所有邮箱”,但老实说我从不需要它。
I’ve never seriously investigated WordPress, but I’m nearly certain that if I wanted to, I could switch Daring Fireball from Movable Type to WordPress without changing the design at all.
我没有认真研究过WordPress,但几乎肯定地说,如果我想的话,完全可以把Daring Fireball 的后台程序从MovableType 改为 WordPress,整个设计感觉一点都不会变。
This comment relates to another point I would make about general equilibrium; not only has it never existed, and is not an operational concept, but also it could not conceivably exist.
我对一般均衡的另一个论点与上一个意见有关,它不仅从未存在过,也不是一个可操作的概念,而且根本不能想象它的存在。
For a while I toyed with the idea that Tommy was behind it somehow, but on those chaotic days all I could do was keep track of myself, never mind watching him.
有一段时间,我怀疑也许是汤米在背后捣了什么鬼。但是一遇到这样忙乱的日子,我所能做的就只有专注于自己手上的活儿,根本没有时间再去盯着他。
'I am a foreigner,' I said.Then he spoke slowly, but I could not understand him.My teacher never spoke English like that!
我是个外国人,“我说。”于是他说得慢了,可我还是听不懂。我的老师从来不那样讲英语!
We shared a laugh and she told me "I could never say that to my boyfriend, but I can to you.
我们一边笑着,她一边说:“这些事我连男朋友都不会告诉的,不过我可以跟你说哦。
We had very, very different methods, but I could never comfortably feel, Oh, I have this thing sewn up.
我们的写作方法完全不同。但是,真的,有他在,我从来不会安心认为我把事情搞定了。
The day I turned myself into the police for grand theft, I could have just told God and my mother "sorry I will never do it again", but saying sorry wasn't enough.
在我因重偷窃罪向警察自首的那天,我本能告诉上帝和我的母亲“对不起我不会再犯了”,但是说对不起是不够的。
Look, I knew you could never have said some of that stuff. I mean, you are kind of critical, Trish, but still.
我知道你永远不会说那种话,我的意思是,你这个人有点严肃,崔西,不过我怎么会知道乔纳森是玩真的呢?
Sometimes I would think about staying up late at night, so I could see him leave them there, but just like with Santa Claus, I didn't want to ruin the magic for fear that he would never do it again.
有时我曾经想熬夜藏在一边,以看到他把它们留在那里。但就像对待圣诞老人的传说那样,我不想破坏掉这种神奇幻想,更害怕他再也不会继续。
In time I came to enjoy the hot steam of the sauna, but despite my growing love for Finland during several trips since, I could never get into the ice water.
慢慢地我也喜欢上了桑拿的蒸汽,但尽管从那以后我又去了几次芬兰,也越来越喜欢那里,却从没泡过那洞里的冰水。
“I have never met Ann Coulter, ” he said, but added that he was heartened that the friend who spotted the error could fix it then and there.
“我从来没见过安·寇特,”他说,但是发现这一错误的朋友已经将它改正过来了,这一点让他感到很欣慰。
I found that funny because we never could put a saddle on the horse but had to ride it bare-backed.
我觉得这很有意思,因为我们根本无法给马装马鞍。如果骑得话,必须直接骑在马背上。
I answered that I just kept following the ramps but I could never find the top, which I found weird, why do you ask?
我告诉他们我一直沿着斜坡走,但却怎么也找不到顶楼,我觉得这有点诡异。我问他们为什么要问这个。
I had a 5 percent chance of surviving the tumor, and I did, but somehow I could never deal with the fact that I was going blind.
由于肿瘤,我的生存机会是5%,而我活了下来,但不知何帮,我总是不能面对这个事实——我将要失明。
But the changes never made it to Google \ \ \ 's servers; I could see edits when I viewed the document in ie on my own PC, but on other browsers and other PCs, the changes vanished.
但在服务器上却看不到更改过的文档,除了在IE中和用我的电脑外,在其它电脑上和其它浏览器上,更改不见了!
I knew I could never compare with Steig, but I didn't want to embarrass myself, either.
我知道我不能与威廉·斯泰格相提并论,但我不会让自己丢脸。
I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and he was that convict.
我从来只认得一个能替代千斤顶的人,就是那个苦役犯。
My grandmother had always hoped that I'd be a doctor, but unfortunately I could never fulfill that dream.
我祖母曾一直都希望我做一名医生,很可惜我让她老人家失望了。
I said I could never give up my hamburgers or Fried chicken, but now I'm a vegetarian.
我曾说我离不开汉堡和炸鸡,但我现在是个素食者。
Over the years, I spent hours trying to reconstruct it, but there was something very odd about it: no matter how hard I tried, I could never get it quite right.
多年来,我花很多时间练习,但有一件事非常奇怪:无论怎样努力,我却一直不能保证完全合拍。
We will see what happens in the future, you never know what may happen, but I could beat the record.
看看吧,谁知道会发生什么呢,我会打破纪录的?
We will see what happens in the future, you never know what may happen, but I could beat the record.
看看吧,谁知道会发生什么呢,我会打破纪录的?
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