autobiography writing

基本解釋

Our Mom reckons we ought to start writing an autobiography.
老媽覺(jué)著我們應(yīng)該開始寫自傳了。
PETER SELLARS: No, I mean, most artists, is like Shakespeare, you know he died not writing an autobiography.
彼得?塞拉斯：事實(shí)并非如此。大部分的藝術(shù)家，例如莎士比亞，他死的時(shí)候并沒(méi)有寫下自傳。
He first toyed with the idea of writing his autobiography in the 1870s but abandoned the idea because he couldn't find a way of telling the truth about himself.
在19世紀(jì)70年代，他第一次萌起寫自傳的想法,但苦于找不到敘述真實(shí)的自我的方式，就摒棄了這個(gè)想法。

Well, Wright himself described that difficulty of writing his autobiography, and these are the terms he used: I found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth, harder than fighting in a war, harder than taking part in a revolution.
萊特自己描述了,自傳寫作的艱辛，他如是說(shuō)：,“我發(fā)現(xiàn)說(shuō)真話是世界上最難的事，比參加戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)難，比參加革命難，如果嘗試寫自傳。
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You might think that at age 35, Castroneves is a bit young to be writing an autobiography.
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As testament to her gold-plated soul, she was very loyal and discreet, purposely never writing an autobiography about her life, including details of her marriage with Ronald Reagan, Zamboni said.
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After their divorce, she settled scores by writing a lengthy autobiography in which the left-wing-novelist-turned-Gaullist-minister is presented somewhat unflatteringly.
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