I felt too constrained working with the past, like what I wrote needed to be fact as opposed to fiction, but writing about the future gave me more freedom to imagine, to invent.

和过去打交道让我感觉太拘束了，就像我写的东西必须是事实，不能虚构，但写与未来有关的东西给了我更多的自由去想象，去创作。

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I really felt tired, I needed time to relax.

我真的很累，我需要时间放松。

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I felt like I needed to do something with my life.

我感觉我需要对我的生活做些什么。

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But I felt I needed to play for Honduras."

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Now again, don't get carried away, I almost didn't talk about this whole message-passing paradigm, but it's so pervasive in the world I felt you needed to hear about it.

现在我基本上没有讲过这种消息传递的实例，但是你们需要了解它所以我觉得你得好好听,但是他不是什么很深奥的概念,如果你不想考虑消息的概念。

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But I needed a full half hour before I walked into the office before I felt comfortable that I could talk to him about what happened overnight, what was in the newspaper, what his day was gonna be about.

但是在进入办公室前,我需要准备半个小时,然后我才可以,和布什谈话,谈论晚上发生的事，报纸刊登的东西，和他的一天要处理些什么。

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One of the areas that I felt needed immediate attention was the water and sanitation issue.

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Since I can usually be relied upon to check my e-mail religiously, I felt that I needed to warn those who are part of my virtual world.

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