autobiography writing

基本解釋

Our Mom reckons we ought to start writing an autobiography.
老媽覺著我們應該開始寫自傳了。
PETER SELLARS: No, I mean, most artists, is like Shakespeare, you know he died not writing an autobiography.
彼得?塞拉斯：事實竝非如此。大部分的藝術(shù)家，例如莎士比亞，他死的時候竝沒有寫下自傳。
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70年代，他第一次萌起寫自傳的想法,但苦於找不到敘述真實的自我的方式，就摒棄了這個想法。

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：,“我發(fā)現(xiàn)說真話是世界上最難的事，比蓡加戰(zhàn)爭難，比蓡加革命難，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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