I learned that I do more independent thinking about what I wanted and that my parents couldn't decide everything for me.

我体会到我必须做更多的独立思考，需要考虑我到底想要什么，我父母不应该为我的一切作决定。

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I thought I had to decide everything at once-where I would live, what kind of girl I would marry, who my friends would be.

我以为我必须一下子对所有事情都做出选择——我想住在哪，我想娶什么样的女孩儿，我想交什么样的朋友。

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We decide everything according to public opinion.

我们是根据公众舆论来决定一切事情的。

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They decide they're going to have a bonfire and they build this giant fire and into it they throw everything from the past.

他们决定要燃起一堆篝火,将之化为熊熊烈焰,将过去的一切尽抛其中

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It's absolutely constitutive of the ideal of freedom, of our freedom; because if we don't try everything, if we don't give ourselves an opportunity to decide for ourselves, then, of course, someone will invariably be making those decisions for us.

它也构成了自由的理念，我们的自由;,因为如果我们不是尝试过所有东西，如果我们不给自己做决定的机会，当然，总是有人会帮我们做决定。

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You feel that one guy with a small signature can decide everything and you feel totally powerless.

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"Making it through this round or not will decide everything, " he said.

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The elections will decide everything.

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