So I don't want anybody feeling that if he or she is down here that it is hopeless at this point. It is not.

我不想让任何人感到,来到这的他或她,在这点上是无望的，不是这样。

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Yeah, I was homeless but I wasn't hopeless, okay?

是，我无家可归，但是我不绝望，明白？

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They're a hopeless mess. They get everything wrong.

简直糟糕得无可救药，真是成事不足败事有余。

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That's hopeless.

这种想法根本无用

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you know, don't feel hopeless, you know.

不要感到绝望。

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But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night.

然而突然，糟糕得很，我崇拜的那副美好的裸体,投入了台灯下一双男人赤膊的肩膀，他穿着内衣裤,读着报纸，靠在敞开的窗边，沉浸在,炎热，潮湿，绝望的夏夜里。

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