Still, I'm careful when I explain myself.

尽管如此，我在做解释时还是很小心。

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I really don't see why I should have to explain myself to you.

我真不明白我为什么非要向你解释我的行为不可。

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"I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see."

“我恐怕说不清，先生。”爱丽丝说，“因为我不是我自己，您知道的。”

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So Milton will continually be saying in his prose tracts, "Oh! I just had an idea. Dear reader, before I go on, perhaps I should say something about myself. I need to explain something to you about where I'm coming from. You wonder who I am to tell you this?

所以弥尔顿会在他的散文中不停地说，“哦！我有一个主意，亲爱的读者，在我继续下去之前,也许我应该介绍下自己，我需要向你们,解释一下我从哪里来，你们会想我是谁呀？

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But in the past few years, I've found myself having to explain this more and more.

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Early on, I felt like I was constantly having to defend myself from those terms, and constantly having to explain how I feel that you can make something completely original out of pre-existing media.

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"I want to prove my innocence and will explain myself at an appropriate time, " he added.

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