It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

要想从马戏团里跑出来当一名会计，做点别的事情是很难的。

-- Samuel West 塞缪尔·韦斯特