autobiography writing

基本解释

Our Mom reckons we ought to start writing an autobiography.
老妈觉着我们应该开始写自传了。
PETER SELLARS: No, I mean, most artists, is like Shakespeare, you know he died not writing an autobiography.
彼得•塞拉斯：事实并非如此。大部分的艺术家，例如莎士比亚，他死的时候并没有写下自传。
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世纪70年代，他第一次萌起写自传的想法,但苦于找不到叙述真实的自我的方式，就摒弃了这个想法。

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.
莱特自己描述了,自传写作的艰辛，他如是说：,“我发现说真话是世界上最难的事，比参加战争难，比参加革命难，如果尝试写自传。
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