Maybe you were not born to be a pianist.

也许你生来就不是钢琴家的料子。

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I am not from China. And I am not born in China.

我并非来自中国，我也不是在中国出生的。

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Or, put another way, expert performers—whether in memory or surgery, ballet or computer programming—are nearly always made, not born.

或者换句话说，执行者中的专家——无论是记忆方面的还是外科手术方面，无论是芭蕾舞还是计算机编程方面——几乎都是后天培养出来的，而不是天生的。

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He was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

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And probably his most famous line, "Men are not born entitled to equal rights.

下面是他最著名的一句话,"人们生来就没有同等的权利

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Now if you were not born in the United States, you may still be, under definition, a natural born US citizen if you're born outside this United States, both of your parents are citizens of the United States and at least one parent has lived in the United States.

现在如果你不是出生在美国，你可能,即使你出生在美国以外的地方,只要你的父母都是美国公民,而且至少一个居住在美国,那么按照定义。

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Dr. HAYES: We're not born with cancer cells, nor are we born, necessarily, with heart disease.

NPR: Confronting Misconceptions About Cancer Prevention

For our sons and daughters are not born to hate, they are taught to hate.

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These truths are not born of some zeal for austerity or unkindness, but of arithmetic.

WSJ: Canada, Druckenmiller and Warsh: Generational Theft Needs to Be Arrested