I forgot all about the ring. Which just goes to show that getting good grades in school doesn't mean you're clever.

我完全忘了戒指的事情。这证明在校取得好成绩并不意味着你就聪明。

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In other words, I mean in the desert you have the carbon granules which would collect moisture on top of them.

换句话说，我的意思是在沙漠里，你有碳颗粒，它们会收集表面的水分。

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I didn't like the general atmosphere in which people like being mean to each other.

我不喜欢那种人们喜欢对别人刻薄的气氛。

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I mean it's understandable-- this was before 1879 which was when Red Cliff was founded, and long before Harvard became co-ed.

这是可以理解的-,那是1879年之前，雷德克利夫学院还没成立，远在哈佛成为男女合校之前。

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And it's just, I didn't like the general atmosphere, people, like, being mean to each other, which I found.

我不喜欢他们平时的那种氛围，我发现他们人与人之间也很刻薄。

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Frost is a kind of materialist, by which I mean he calls attention to the circumstances of imagination, its limits and conditions.

弗罗斯特是个唯物主义者，这样说的原因是他引起了人们对,想象的环境的注意，它的限制和条件。

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They were going to merge two characters, Bertha and Maureen, which would mean I'd be on set for about six weeks instead of having just three lines.

BBC: Working with a Hollywood legend

The second I call "conservatism, " by which I simply mean conservatism as I would describe and explain it.

NPR: Book Argues for Retaking the 'Conservative Soul'

My attitude, however, was entirely too grown-up-by which I mean cerebral, unspontaneous, and a bit grim.

CNN: The hobby that helped me take flight