To achieve my dream, I thought of something I could do.
为了实现我的梦想，我想到了一些我可以做的事情。
I thought of something else Morrie had told me: "So many people walk around with a meaningless life."
我不由地想起了莫里曾对我说过的另一番话：“许多人过着没有意义的生活。
Quickly reviewing my parental options, I thought of something: I reached into my pocket and found a quarter.
脑子里迅速回想了一下作为父母的选择，我想到了一个办法：我把手伸到口袋里，找到了一个25美分的硬币。
I thought of something like when you enter a website and some arrows appear indicating the process you have to do, or where you have to click.
我想到的东西，就像当你进入一个网站和一些箭头出现指示你做的过程，或者点击。
Before we close today, I thought I'd mention a biological event that's a part of the transition from winter to spring, something you can go outside and watch if you have some patience.
在今天结束之前，我想我要提到一个生物学事件，它是冬春过渡的一部分，如果你有耐心的话，你可以去外面观察。
And then I had another thought, I thought about something I heard one of my teachers say when I was in middle-school.
随后，我又有了另一种想法，我想起来在我上中学的时候一位老师说过的话。
If I thought something would work and it didn't even after I gave it my best shot, well then, I've always learned something of value.
如果我认为某种方法有效，即使我竭尽全力它还是不起作用，我也总是学到了有价值的东西。
I always thought they were a waste of a perfectly good afternoon when I should be out doing... something. Anything.
在我所能记起的日子里我从来没有午睡过。我总觉得午睡是一种浪费——大好的中午时光为什么不出去干点什么呢？
As this street is very good for that kind of thing, I thought they were shooting a soap or an episode of Morse or something.
这条街道很适合这些东西，我本以为他们在拍肥皂剧或者Morse的一集还是其他什么东西。
It was dawn on the beach and my first, sleepy thought when I saw something poking out of the sea was: shark!
海滩上正是黎明时分，我看见有东西突出海面，睡意朦胧中的我首先想到的是鲨鱼。
On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother's words: "if you carry on, one day something good will happen."
在回家的路上——以后也有很多次的，我思考着母亲的那句话：“如果你坚持下去，总要一天会有好事发生。”
I thought that doing something like this would be a great way to demonstrate that today, technology is easily available to design a much more environmentally friendly means of transport.
我认为这样做将会是一个伟大的方式去证明，今天，科技是可以简单有效去设计一个对环境更加友好的交通运输方式。
As I sat along our (at last) quiet street, watching her go back and forth in front of our home, I thought about how learning to ride your bike is usually something a kid will remember.
最后我还是鼓起勇气，坐在我家附近那条安静的道路旁，看着她骑着车在家门口一次次地经过，并琢磨着为什么孩子们会对学自行车这样的经历记忆深刻。
I thought I'd try something new this post - I'm stealing an idea from Leo of Zen Habits.
我觉得我这一次正在尝试一个新的帖子——我偷借了禅宗习惯的利奥的一个点子。
I think many really dreamed of doing this but it wasn't something they ever thought would become a reality.
我想他们很多人都梦想能收养小孩，但是他们做梦都想不到有一天真的就收养小孩了。
Doing something every day is such a powerful way to form a habit that I thought I would make a list of 24 habits that are worth doing on a daily basis.
每天做事是形成习惯的强大方式，我认为有必要列出一个值得日常养成的24个基本习惯的清单。
I thought, what the hell's going on, I must have slipped a disc or something and then I asked the guy to help me and he said he wouldn't "because he was afraid of being sued."
我想，这真是糟糕透了，我肯定是椎间盘滑位或是怎么了。于是我试着喊人帮忙，但他拒绝了，因为他害怕会被起诉。
Perhaps the driver had popped into the police station or something, or perhaps taking a leak in a bush, I thought. And thought no more of it.
我猜，也许司机急着去警察局办点事，或者去了附近的灌木丛方便，便没再多想。
I also thought that creativity, especially creative writing, was something otherworldly and mystical. Over and over I read about the importance of creating a sacred space, whatever that is.
我还觉得创造，特别是创造性写作，应该是超脱俗世的，神秘的，于是需要制造一点神圣的空间和氛围，我一遍遍阅读，对这种重要性深信不疑：燃烛、焚香、喝花草茶、听格列高利圣咏。。。
I used to Code Fearlessly all the time, tearing up everything whenever I had a thought about a better way of doing something.
我曾经一直都是代码无惧的(Code Fearlessly)，每当我想到更好的方式去实现什么的时候我就会砍掉所有东西重写。
I found something I thought I'd never find again - calmness, a sense of peace.
我找到了我以为再也找不回的东西——平静，一种安宁的感觉。
During the summer holiday of this year, I thought I should do something meaningful instead of staying at home, watching TV and so on.
在今年的暑假期间，我想我应该做一些有意义的事情，而不是呆在家里，看电视等等。
But I thought I heard something down at the far end of the old emergency services wing, a suite of rooms that were now being used for storage, or else kept empty.
急诊科的那几间房子现在有的被用作储藏，有的空着。
Because everybody asks me about American central heating. I thought that the Prince of Wales would talk about something more interesting.
因为每个人都问我美国中央供暖的事儿。我想，威尔士亲王准会谈些比较有趣的事。
The first thing I thought of was: Mother can keep her intersession money and buy some pretty clothes and a special trip or something!
我想到的第一件事就是：妈妈能够维持她的学校假期生活费，并且买些漂亮的衣裳，并做一次专门的旅行或别的事！
The history department chair invited me to his office, which is something he did for all graduates, and inquired as to what I thought of the program.
当时，历史系主任请我去他办公室——这是他对每个毕业生都要做的例行工作——问我对历史专业的学科设置有什么看法。
HERE's something I hadn't known: first, that some people consider the use of anyways to mark an ill-educated boob (I'd have just thought it casual).
以下有点东西，我过去未曾弄懂过：第一，有人认为使用anyways这个词会让人觉得自己是个没文化的乡巴佬(而我只是觉得这样用比较随便而已)。
HERE's something I hadn't known: first, that some people consider the use of anyways to mark an ill-educated boob (I'd have just thought it casual).
以下有点东西，我过去未曾弄懂过：第一，有人认为使用anyways这个词会让人觉得自己是个没文化的乡巴佬(而我只是觉得这样用比较随便而已)。
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