And rather than say anything, I spent money I didn't want to spend because I didn't want my buddies to think less of me.
说得具体一点就是，我花了自己并不想花的钱，因为我不想让兄弟们看低我。
I'm also not saying that the fine people who hire me under these circumstances get any less of my enthusiasm.
我也不是说，在这种情况下，我只给请我做事的善良的人们较少的热情。
Given the tendency within the diamond to predictability, it seemed to me fine as a defensive formation, but of less use to a team who needed to take the initiative.
考虑到钻石型中场内在的可预见性倾向，在我看来它可以作为很好的防御性阵型，但对于那些想掌握主动的球队来说用处就没那么大了。
This task is near the top of my list; it bothers me, and motivates me to do other useful but superficially less important things.
这件事排在我清单的顶端；它给我压力，激励我做些其他有用但看来却没那么重要的事情。
Now in my life when I reach a moment of decision or courage, I recognize so clearly the voice of fear telling me what I should do to become less.
现在在我的生活中，当我感受到决心和勇气的那一刻，我突然意识到，曾经我能那么清晰的听到恐惧的声音，听着它告诉我什么是应该做的，而如今那声音却变小了。
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life.
成功的重担被重新起步的轻松替代，对任何事情都不再特别看重，这让我感觉如此自由，进入一生中最有创造力的阶段。
These dynamics tempt me to squeeze work time into every square inch of my life and over time cause me to become less effective at everything because I have little to offer.
这些因素让我把工作时间都填满了我的生活，而且常常让我做任何事都效率低下，因为我已无心应对。
Now I can do it in 15 minutes or less. It also saves me a lot of stress and a lot of filtering through stuff I never read anyway.
好吧，结果就是以前我需要一个小时的时间阅读这些RSS，现在已经彻底地降为了15分钟甚至更少的时间了，这样其实也减少了很多的紧迫感，很多被过滤掉的信息我再也不会看到了。
Sally: me too. I can get more done in less time these days with all of the new gadgets.
莎莉：我也是，在所有的新技术帮助下现在我花很少的时间可以做更多的事。
They strike me as less intellectually adventurous than the Yale students of today.
我觉得他们与如今的耶鲁学生相比心智没有那么活跃。
In her last months of life, Mom told me she was writing something about cancer that she thought could help other people who were sick feel less alone.
在母亲生命的最后几个月中，她曾告诉我她正在写关于癌症的一些东西，她希望以此帮助其他病人，让他们觉得没那么孤独。
Of course I'd like to find a love, but the main thing is to make some friends to make me less lonely.
我当然希望找到自己的爱人，但是更主要的是交几个朋友让我觉得不那么孤单。
Some people talk of marriage as a safe haven, heaven even, but for me it has turned out to be nothing less than purgatory here on earth.
有的人说婚姻是安全的避难所，甚至说是天堂，但对于我来说，它简直是地球上的炼狱。
I dressed not like a tourist, but like my regular New York self, which I hoped would peg me less as an outsider than as an unusual outsider, an object of curiosity.
我把自己打扮得一点也不像一个旅行者，而是和我在纽约时的穿着差不多，我希望我能显得和那些其他的外地人与众不同，并成为一个令人好奇的对象。
To me, middle class has much less to do with the actual amount of income one earns, and more to do with the degree to which one can manage the various aspects of life that involve money.
在我看来，中产阶级跟具体的收入金额数目关系不大，而是更多地取决于一个人处理生活中涉及金钱的方方面面的能力高低。
What I have found to work for me is a change of scenery. Big changes or little ones it doesn't matter but a change none the less.
我发现对我起作用的，是改变一下环境。不管是大的改变还是小的变化，总之就是要变一变。
The telephone directory gave me the name of the one person capable of passing on the information. He lived in a suburb of Fenton, less than half an hour away by train.
电话号码簿给了我一个人的名字，惟有他才能替我把情报传出去：他住在芬顿郊区，不到半小时的火车路程。
Unfortunately for my children, who’d probably be just as happy to stay home, that reason is what keeps me slogging through the less glamorous parts of motherhood.
不幸的是对我那些呆在家里也一样快乐的孩子来说，这条理由就是让我能挺过做母亲那些烦人的一面。
I more or less gave up drinking because I realized that even just one glass of wine or a beer made me feel belligerent and indiscreet - and then desperately sleepy.
我已经差不多放弃了喝酒，因为我意识到就算一小杯酒或者啤酒都会让我变得又好斗又冲动——然后就是极其恶心、想睡。
These concepts of simplicity and focus and less... they've been revelation to me, in my life.
这些单纯，关注和少量等概念一直启发着我和我的生活。
Of course, you might have to adopt a slightly less flashy design to ensure cross-browser compatibility, but that's fine by me.
当然，您可能需要牺牲一些花哨的设计来保证跨浏览器的兼容性，但这对我来说不成问题。
I've never really been able say why, but perhaps it is because I sense unconsciously that when I'm in one drivers somehow see me as safe, or zoned off, and so in less need of attention.
为什么不喜欢我还真说不出来，也有可能是因为我总是下意识地认为当我在自行车道里骑车时，司机们不知怎的就觉得我在里面是安全的，或是受到隔离保护的，所以就没有必要对我多加关照。
Eric lamented to me: "I have dated a lot of women since then, some more seriously, most less so."
埃里克懊悔地对我说：“自那之后我约会过很多女人，有些比较认真，大多数不怎么认真。”
The other key reason I have not achieved what I would like to with the guitar is that I let any number of less important things distract me.
我不能自如弹奏的另一个关键原因是一些无关紧要的事情使我分心。
The other key reason I have not achieved what I would like to with the guitar is that I let any number of less important things distract me.
我不能自如弹奏的另一个关键原因是一些无关紧要的事情使我分心。
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