"Thank you so much for doing that." Mark's mother said. "As you can see, Mark behaved better and better at school."

“您所做的这些，我们感激不尽，”马克的妈妈说，“您也看到了，马克在学校里的表现越来越好。”

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Times have changed for black Americans since those days and Jones herself admits she's been lucky to achieve so much for doing something she loves.

从那时起田径变成了美国黑人的天下，琼斯本人承认为她热爱做的东西取得如此成就是幸运的。

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Afterwards, I would feel bad for having wasted so much time doing unproductive things, that I'd work extra hard, and usually late into the night.

事后，我就会对浪费了这么多时间去做没有效益的事而后悔。我不得不更努力地去工作，而且往往工作到深夜。

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"Last year,he chastised me a little bit for taking so much risk and just never really thinking about what I was doing."

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I'm in school for writing, so I pretty much, always doing one of the two.

我在学校修读写作课程，所以我经常不是在阅读，就是在写作。

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That smells wonderful. And 'cause I was a gozillionaire and I liked doing it so much, I cut that grass for free.

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But they also get so much praise for doing things that ordinary people just do look at the gooey rapture over seeing the Yankees assemble as a team in the back of Rivera's news conference, as if it was some grand act, and not basic, expected human courtesy for a teammate.

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So I want to give a hearty congratulations to both the Kings and the Galaxy one more time for bringing two championships to L.A. and for doing so much for your fans back in California.

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But just possibly he'll charged so much for the privilege of doing so that he'll regard it as a prohibitively expensive publicity stunt.

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