You know, most men in this town would've thrown me off the boat.要知道，换做是这镇上其他人我可能就被扔下船了

throw off抛弃； 摆脱

I'm unable to throw off this feeling of inertia.

我无法摆脱这种懒散的感觉。

She has thrown off all sense of shame.

她已抛弃一切廉耻之心。

And I spent the first part of my life either disappointing them or worse...living up to their expectations.虽然我人生第一阶段的表现确实挺让人失望，甚至是...辜负了他们的期望

either...or... 不是...就是...

Tom is going to buy either a guitar or a piano.

汤母不是要买一把吉他就是要买一架钢琴。

You are either with me or against me.

你不是支持我就是反对我。

live up to不辜负，做到，实践

We will never fail to live up to what our parents expect of us.

我们决不辜负我们的父母对我们的期望。

He finds it hard to live up to his ideals.

他认为很难按自己的理想办事。

and we've had to deal with some pretty unexpected things in a short amount of time.在这短短的时间里，我们还经历了一些非常意想不到的事

deal with讨论；处理

We have no space to deal with such details.

我们没有篇幅来讨论这种细微末节。

I have a huge pile of letters to deal with.

我有一大堆信件要处理。