He thought to himself for a moment.

他想了一下。

He thought of himself as a ball player only for informal games with friends.

他认为自己只是个和朋友打非正式比赛的球员。

Yet he did not try to play on any sports teams when he entered high school. He thought of himself as a ball player only for informal games with friends.

但高中时期，他并没有参加任何体育队。他认为自己只在和朋友进行的非正式比赛中才是一名棒球手。

Loving paradox, Brooks, with the advantages of ten years' study, had swept away much rubbish in the effort to build up a new line of thought for himself, but he found that no paradox compared with that of daily events.

酷爱悖论的布鲁克斯， 凭借十年钻研的优势， 在为自己建立新思路的努力中扫清了很多垃圾， 但他发现，与日常事件相比， 悖论并不多。