He explained how he started collecting art, and why he collects art: "This question, the more we talk about it, the more I should talk about things that happened in the past."

他解释了自己如何开始收藏艺术品，并且为什么要收藏艺术品：“我们越谈这个问题，就越是要谈到过去的事情。”

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I need to ride past her house yet again to see if I might find her outside where I could maybe, just maybe, have the chance to talk with her after school.

我骑着车一次又一次地经过她的门前，幻想着或许能碰见她出门，或许——只是或许，能在放学后有跟她说话的机会。

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At dinner, I made polite, boring talk at the table - no mention of our past, of my feelings, of what was really on my mind. I was in Straight Steve mode.

吃饭的时候，我很客气地说了些无聊的话——没有提到我们的过去，没有提到我的感觉，没有提到自己内心真实的想法，那时我处于直人史蒂夫模式。

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And you'll use "If I were" to talk about yourself in the present in relationship to the past.

你可以用“If I were”来比较现在的你和过去的你。

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It also demonstrated new public cloud services from Boeing and General Mills plus a commissioned report by Forrester attesting to the differentiated economics of cloud platforms, something I talk about with CIOs in a report published this past spring.

FORBES: The Cloud Computing Market Grows Up