“彼得,”她问,试图坚定地说,“你对我到底是什么感觉?”
"Peter," she asked, trying to speak firmly, "what are your exact feelings to [about] me?"
简而言之——去回答这个问题,我们需要弄清楚这些:我到底是什么?
For short — to answer that question, we need to get clearer about: What exactly is it for something to be me?
然而弊端在于这些孩子要比别的孩子花更多时间去培养身份认同感:我到底是什么?
But there is a disadvantage in that the children have to work harder than other children when it comes to developing an identity.
我爸常告诉我,我所遇到的人不会在乎我到底是什么样的人,更不会在乎我长什么样儿。
My dad used to tell me that the people I meet will never care more about who I am than they will about what I look like.
TimHensley的《沃利·格罗皮乌斯》大概是我今年最喜爱的漫画小说,我也正在试图搞明白它到底是什么。
Tim Hensley's "Wally Gropius" was maybe my favorite graphic novel of the year, and I'm still trying to figure out what exactly it is.
九年过去了,现在回首过去,我已记不清到底是什么原因让这些大学显得如此美好。
Looking back now, nine years later, I can't remember exactly what it was about these universities that made them seem so much better.
大体上来说,我可以说那些进来的应聘者并不太清楚他们申请的职位到底是什么。
Maybe in general I can say that candidates who come in and they do not know exactly what job they are applying for.
我问了好几个人这句话到底是什么意思,但没人能说清楚。
However, I asked several people about what it really meant, but nobody could give a clear answer.
如果他还坚持,说这个我知道,但是它到底是什么意义呢?
If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean?
这让我很好奇,到底是什么让一个人有趣呢?
But this makes me wonder what really makes someone interesting.
我现在也想象不出这个媒介到底是什么样,它应该可以把所有社交网站整合在一起。
What this may be, I can't even imagine, but it would have to be something that ties the social web all together.
我这里讲的到底是什么样的借口?
我本来可以站起来,但是,即使我站起身来瞧瞧它,十之八九我也说不出它到底是什么;因为一旦一件事发生以后,就没有人能知道它是怎么发生的了。
I might get up, but if I got up and looked at it, ten to one I shouldn't be able to say for certain; because once a thing's done, no one ever knows how it happened.
在课上,每次训斥我的学生没能很好地完成他们的家庭作业后,我总是不明白到底是什么问题让他们就是不能耐心,专注和自律呢。
In class, after again haranguing my students for failing to do their homework properly, I often wonder aloud why they have problems with patience, focus, and discipline.
直到现在我也不知道那晚我房里的到底是什么,我也不知道我到底想不想知道。
I never found out what was with me in my living room that night. I am not sure I want to know.
我感兴趣的是,也是我觉得很多读者应该感兴趣的是,当他们阅读《论出版自由》时,到底是什么允许了,为什么这本著作这么容易就被理解为在批判控制。
What I am interested in here, and I think what a lot of readers are interested in when they approach Areopagitica, is why this treatise, why it can so easily be read as an argument against censorship.
在过去几年里,我一直研究的问题是,到底是什么使得现今最有效率的公司和个人获得成功。
For the past few years I've been fascinated with what makes the most effective companies and people of our day successful.
等下,我听到你们的叫嚷声了。他们怎么知道的?那到底是什么东东呀?后现代主义——我还没理解它。我从来就没理解过它。它怎么说完就完了呢?
Wait, I hear you cry. How do they know? And what was it? Postmodernism—I didn't understand it. I never understood it. How can it be over?
接下来的几个月我奔波于医院,做着一个接一个的检查,以确定到底是什么问题。
Over the next several months I was in and out of hospitals taking test after test, trying to figure out what was wrong.
我觉得我们被爱丽丝梦游仙境拽回去的一个原因就是它提醒我们生活的真谛到底是什么。
I think one of the reasons we are drawn back to Alice in Wonderland is that somehow reminds us of what the actual truth of our life is.
我想更深入地了解,到底是什么东西把这些陆战队员联系在一起,是什么驱使他们风尘仆仆地从全美各地赶来纪念自己的战友。
I wanted to know more about what linked these Marines--what compelled them to come from all corners of the country to commemorate one of their own.
我想看看到底是什么样子,所以我要迪米特里给我一个剂量,那感觉就像做梦一样。
I wanted to see what it was like, so I asked Dimitri to give me a dose. The trip is like a dream.
他不确定那些别的东西到底是什么,我想可能是更宽泛的世界观,是我教学和写作中带进的视角。
He's not sure what that something else is; maybe it's a broader view of the world, the perspective I bring to bear in my teaching and writing.
我心中甚至有想输掉上诉的念头,这样我就可以在法庭上公开所有的文件和宣誓证词,让公众看一看我的对手的目的到底是什么。
Part of me almost wanted to lose the appeal so that I could go to court, get all the documents and depositions released, and show the public what my adversaries had been up to.
但是,由于某种原因,看着那些女性母乳喂养各种动物的照片使我非常的恶心(到底是什么原因呢),虽然它仅仅只是不自然,无论你来自哪块大陆。
But for some reason, looking at these photos of women breastfeeding various animals makes me very nauseous, it's just not natural, no matter what continent your from.
但是,由于某种原因,看着那些女性母乳喂养各种动物的照片使我非常的恶心(到底是什么原因呢),虽然它仅仅只是不自然,无论你来自哪块大陆。
But for some reason, looking at these photos of women breastfeeding various animals makes me very nauseous, it's just not natural, no matter what continent your from.
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