I hope we're not keeping you up.

希望我们没有耽误你睡觉。

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I took a lot of flack for not playing up to expectations.

我因为没有达到预期希望而成为众矢之的。

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I crept up the stairs, trying not to wake my parents.

为了尽量不吵醒父母，我蹑手蹑脚地上了楼。

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"I am not the first president to take up this cause," he said "but I am determined to be the last."

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My ego, I hope, is not bound up with the status of being at Princeton or Yale or Berkeley.

我所追求的，并非是,在普林斯顿或耶鲁或伯克利大学执教。

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It's not the same as it was when I was growing up and it was almost, for a child, it felt scary.

它现在的模样和我小时候的不一样了。那时候，对于一个孩子来说，这个地方很可怕。

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And now, though I was not up in the apple tree, I had found various salients in our half acre that allowed me to see a good deal of her at night, when she went to bed.

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Without it, I would not wake up every morning knowing that I am not alone.

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If I played dumb, went mute, how could I not end up committed somewhere?

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