So said Paul Krugman, the Princeton economics professor and New York Times columnist, long before he took up journalism.
远在投身新闻业之前，普林斯顿经济学教授兼《纽约时报》（NewYorkTimes）专栏作家保罗-克鲁格曼（PaulKrugman）就说过这样的话。But these days, sitting in the sun makes me feel guilty as well. A health columnist with a tan? Shameful.
但这些天来，坐在阳光下也让我感到惭愧。身为健康专栏作家，皮肤却晒成古铜色？真丢脸。Although I am not sorry I decided to go abroad and take a rest, I wish that I had not given up the job so easily.
尽管我对决定当医生并不感到后悔，但是我仍觉得要是当初选择当一名自由专栏作家就好了。To newspaper readers, he was one of the nation's most prominent syndicated columnists.
对于读者来说，布罗德是这个国家最重要的联合专栏作家之一。'You and I can be our own lexicographers now, ' says Barbara Wallraff, the longtime language columnist for The Atlantic magazine.
《大西洋月刊》（TheAtlantic）杂志资深语言专栏作家沃拉夫（BarbaraWallraff）说，你和我现在都可以成为自己的字典编纂者了。Yet his name had come down in the history of the ring, and no sporting writer's lexicon was complete without it.
但他的名字永远的留在了拳击历史当中，而且在每一个运动专栏作家的字典里，“帕特·格兰登”这个词条是绝对少不了的。If the guy had any guts, though, he would have had the pool filled with sports writers, or maybe that's the way he was looking at it.
如果他有胆量的话，他也许已经把体育专栏作家塞满池子，或者那就是他如何看待这个的方式。I ask David, who seemed to have nothing but respect for the columnist, agreeing that America remains sexually repressed.
对于这位专栏作家，大卫怀揣着一百万个敬重。我同意如今的美国人在性方面表现得依然很压抑。For just a few minutes of your day, you can help a columnist get on the straight-and-narrow with his editors, who are a mean and surly lot.
只需几分钟，您就可以帮助一位专栏作家直接、正面地与他的编辑沟通，他们是一群凶狠且脾气坏的人。