1·As a 16-year-old high school student living in New York, one of the craziest cities in the world, I felt like I needed a change from the pettiness and drama that seems to thrive there.
我是一名16岁的纽约高中生，纽约是世界上最疯狂的城市之一，那里的生活琐碎而戏剧化，我感觉自已需要一点变化。
2·But he must get around such pettiness.
但他必须处理好这些琐碎杂事。
3·Do I know my pettiness without comparison?
没有比较我会知道自己的琐碎吗？
4·If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
如果我能向死而生，承认并且直面死亡，我就能摆脱对死亡的焦虑和生活的琐碎。只有这样，我才能自由地做自己。
5·Then you will become aware of your own reactions, of your own pettiness, of your own jealousies.
此时你会觉察到你自己的反应，你自己的琐碎，你自己的嫉妒。
1·We tend to equate jealousy with pettiness and selfishness.
我们倾向于把嫉妒与卑鄙、自私相等同。
2·Now I am well aware the pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.
现在非常明白，卑鄙与伟大，怨恨与仁慈，憎恶与热爱，都能在同一个人身上发现。