In my culture, if you smoke in their house, you are a bad guest, but if they don't allow you to smoke in their house, they are not rude hosts.

在我的文化中，如果你在他们家里吸烟，你是一个不好的客人，但如果他们不允许你在他们家里吸烟，他们也不是粗鲁的主人。

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He said I'd come to a bad end, if I didn't watch my step.

他说如果我不谨慎行事，我的结局会很惨的。

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Things got so bad that I even asked my old boss if I could do some work for the magazine.

事情变得非常糟糕，我甚至问我的前老板是否可以在杂志社做一些工作。

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If I did refuse to help, my supervisor might say bad things about me behind my back.

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To sort of give you a quick taste, if after my death I won't exist, how could anything be bad for me?

让你们先来体会一下，如果在我死后，我不存在了，对我来说怎么会有坏事情？

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And so even if, you might say, the way my life is going in terms of its contents is bad, being alive per se might still be a good thing.

所以，就算，我的生活内容方面非常糟糕，活着本身也许仍然是件好事。

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They will say that if all the notes in my bank are as bad as my musical ones, they are not worth the paper they were written on.

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But I wonder if you read my explanation for why Florida is such a bad place to grow commercial slicing tomatoes in the winter months.

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Now, here I am at the eleventh hour, wondering what might happen, who will I be, if I allow my passion to be swayed by this dangerous bad boy.

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