When the lights go down and the spotlight is on you, no matter how much you know your topic, conveying the information suddenly seems daunting.

当所有灯光关掉，聚光灯对准你时，突然要演讲了，无论你对你的主题有多了解，此时总会令你有些怯步。

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But just like paper, when the lights go down, you’re going to struggle to see the text, even if you’ve been eating your carrots.

也正如纸张，当光线变暗时，您要阅读的话，就变得很困难了，哪怕你每天吃胡萝卜。

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When the sun goes down, the lights go on. The city is never dark.

当太阳下了山时，灯火便亮起来了。大城市的夜晚永远是灯火通明。

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But the savior is that I think there's an amnesiac effect on you when you sit down and the lights go off and you watch the movie.

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But at the end of the day, when the visitors go home and the lights go down, a few of us are blessed with the tremendous honor to actually live here.

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