I know it's not too late to start planning, so just in the last couple of years I started seriously thinking about what I need to do, and how to get started.

我知道现在开始计划也不算太晚，所以在最近几年我开始认真思考我需要做什么和，以及怎样开始我的退休计划。

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I started thinking about this a lot on real paths, ones in the mountains and back country of where I live in Southern California.

我开始在真正的道路上认真思考这个问题，就在我所居住的南加利福尼亚的山间小路或是乡间小径上。

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Maybe just like people now don't want those horses killed, somewhere back in pre-Roman Greek times people started thinking dead animals, and death in particular wasn't such a good thing.

或许就像人们现在不想那些马被屠掉。追溯到前罗马希腊时代，人们开始认为死的动物，特别是对于死，不是件好的事。

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I was an undergraduate here in 1995 as a freshman, I came in thinking I was going to major in government and sure enough I started off on the track; I'd like history, I'd like government, English, these kinds of things in high school.

995年我作为本科新生进入哈佛，我刚来的时候想主修政治,后来我就沿着这条路走了下去，我喜欢历史，政治和英语，就像高中的时候一样。

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And then, I mean when I started thinking about all the people issues and doing Psychology, it was like being in the university interacting with a lot of people that it kind of occurred to me that this would be something I was interested in, and like I knew how to do it so I just did.

当我学习心理学,开始思考人与人之间的关系，就像在学习之余,去结识不同的人,似乎我对这些更感兴趣，我知道如何去做，于是我就行动了。

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But the other two references -- to Franklin Roosevelt by name and to Abraham Lincoln by quotation -- started me thinking, and worrying, about how our president sees himself in relation to the other 42 men that have held his job. (Grover Cleveland was president twice in nonconsecutive terms).

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They started thinking about how to expand nationally and bought several companies in Brazil in the 1990s.

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