Once I wondered what it meant to be a star.

我曾想知道当一个明星意味着什么。

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This was the first time that I learned what it meant to be a woman.

这时我才第一次懂得了做一个女人的含义。

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Though they were both apprenticed to their Uncle Luke, the two had very different outlooks on what it meant to be a Jedi.

虽然他们都是卢克舅舅的徒弟，但两人在认识作为一名绝地武士的意义时，观点截然不同。

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because of this man here. He really wanted myself and all of us who participated in the program to get our degrees and learn what it meant to be a good citizen, and to be good parents and husbands and responsible human beings.

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Now I would like to read to you from the footnote to Howl, Allen Ginsberg's famous poem, that for many people embodied at the time what it meant to be engaged in this new literary project.

现在我再给你们读一段《嚎叫》的脚注，这是艾伦金斯堡的著名诗歌，对于很多当时的人来说,参与这项新文学事业意义深远。

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That really wasn't meant to be hard, but what's relevant about this exercise is not the fact that it's hard.

这应该并不难,与此相关的东西,事实上并不难

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