过去我总是将时间和精力投入到一些从一开始就注定要失败的项目上。

I used to pour time and energy into projects that were doomed from the start.

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我还花了很多时间照顾我的玉米和水稻作物。

I also spent a lot of time looking after my corn and rice crops.

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在八十年代早期，我花了很多时间往返于韦科和埃尔帕索之间。

I spent a lot of time in the early Eighties travelling between Waco and El Paso.

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Now I want to pause a little bit more, then, in this regard over Derrida's distinction between writing and speech--writing, ecriture.

现在我想再停下来花一点儿时间讲讲,德里达的书写和演讲之间的区别，书写，文字。

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I lived with Italians and, um, my entire life was not in English, um, for a year, um, which I loved,

我和意大利人住在一起。所以，整整一年的时间，我都没有接触英语。当然，我挺喜欢这样一段经历的。

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And that description, which I won't read just because we're running out of time, it's on 181 and 182.

那个描写，我不会给你们读了,因为时间已经没了那是在181和182页。

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