当然，我的弟弟跑到他的朋友们那里去了，而我自己也有很多事情要做。

My brother, of course, raced off to be with his friends, while I had plenty to do myself.

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生活的艰辛让我看起来活像个野蛮人，而我自己的感觉也是如此。

The rough life I lead has made me look and feel like a barbarian.

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而我自己的经验和我的职业生涯表明，我可以信任的人我自己的结果。

And my own experience and my own results in my career show people that I can be trusted.

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I'm perfectly capable of understanding the past in and for itself without any contribution of my own, without, in short, any preconceptions."

我十分能够理解过去,而没有自己的贡献，简单点说就是没有任何的先入之见“

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Like, it's harder to get around L.A. because you have to drive everywhere and I really don't like driving.

想要在洛杉矶游玩要比在纽约困难，因为无论去哪都要自己开车，而我确实不喜欢开车。

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But I am a novelist, not a critic, and I can excuse myself from explication de texte on that ground.

但我是个小说家，不是批评家，对于我以此为根据而说明,我可以为自己找借口。

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