I wish I was able to embrace time and go against it.

我希望我能拥抱时间同时与时间对抗。

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Though I wish I'd been able to peek inside Frank Shay's Greenwich Village shop, which lived briefly in the early nineteen-twenties, I'm O.K. with the idea that it was of its time and only of its time.

虽然我渴望能偷看一眼Frank Shay在格林尼治村开的那家小书店，这家店仅在19世纪20年代初存在了不长时间，虽无缘一见，但我知道它是属于而且仅仅属于它自己的年代，对我来说就足够了。

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I wish I was omnipotent and able to whisk us all out of here to some tropical paradise that smells of nothing but honeydew!

我多么希望我无所不能，可以让我们迅速离开这儿，去到某个除开蜂蜜露味儿以外就再没有什么别的气味的热带天堂！

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"If things do not improve, well, I will certainly pray for the Americans and wish them success, but I will no longer be able to take part in this, " he was quoted as saying.

BBC: Afghans defend US air strikes