"Who shuts love out, in turn shall be shut from love. "If I were a boy again, I would school myself to say "No" oftener.

“谁拒爱于门外，也必将被爱拒诸门外。” 假如我又回到了童年，我就要养成经常说“不”字的习惯。

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Not only did I have the chance to leave school, but I also could sit in my dad's taxi all day long and we would go to a restaurant for lunch.

我不仅有机会离开学校，而且我还可以一整天都坐在我爸爸的出租车里，我们会去餐馆吃午饭。

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Oh, how much better it would have been, a thousand times better, if only I had gone to school!

啊，要是我去上学了，那该多好啊，要好一千倍！

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Finally, I let him go to the examination to experience what I was sure would be his dismissal from school.

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But middle way through my first year in law school, I just felt like it wasn't something I would really be able to do.

但是在我学习法律的那一年期间，我就发现,这不是我真正想做的。

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Well, if I had the option, I would really like to go to grad school for linguistics.

如果可以选择的话，我真的很想去读语言学的研究生。

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When school let out there would be a month without school, and if I did not salvage the situation, I would not see them until school began again in the spring.

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Thinking about it now, if I had asked that many questions at school, I would have done a lot better.

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