Once I spoke of the sea to a brook and the brook thought me but an imaginative exaggerator .
我曾对一条小溪谈起大海，小溪认为我只是一个充满狂想的夸张者。
Once I spoke of the sea to a brook , and the brook thought me but an imaginative exaggerator ;
我曾向小溪说起大海，小溪把我当成胡思乱想的浮夸之人；
There I was in my ideal habitat -- a natural exaggerator surrounded by natural exaggerators -- and yet , to my surprise , I found myself drawn to dave , the one student in my program who didn 't seem eager to impress everyone with his raconteur skills .
