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第48章 时 间 Time

把每一天当作你生命的最后一天来过。

Believe each day to have dawned as your last.

不知安排时间的人,度日如年。

The day is long to him who knows not how to use it.

不要虚度光阴。

Don’t let the grass grow under your feet.

Don’t trifle away your time.

当机遇向你微笑时,要好好利用它。

When fortune smiles upon you take advantage of it.

到时开花,到时果熟。春华秋实。

Timely blossom, timely ripe.

凡事皆有定时。早晨进山去,傍晚泉边来。

The morning to the mountain, the evening to the fountain.

方法得当可赢得时间。

Method will teach you to win time.

光阴莫虚度,青春不再来。

Don’t waste your precious time, for youth, once spent, will never come again.

光阴似箭,日月如梭。

The year glides(滑翔)swiftly along.

Time flies like an arrow.

光阴一去不复返。

Lost time is never found again.

No man can call again yesterday.

No one can call back yesterday.

Time lost cannot be won again / recalled.

Time past cannot be called back again.

Today only comes once, and never again returns.

Yesterday will not be called again.

欢乐时光过得快。

Time takes wings when you’re enjoying yourself.

机不可失,时不再来。

Seize time by the forelock.

Take time by the forelock.

Take time when time comes, lest tie steal away.

Take time while time is, for time will away.

When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you.

交友浪费时间。

Friends are thieves of time.

节约时间就是延长生命。

To save time is to lengthen life.

今日复明日,明日何其多。总有一天就是总没一天。

One of these days is none of these days.

快乐不惜时光逝。

Happiness takes no account of time.

浪费时间是最大的犯罪。

What greater crime than lost of time.

浪费时间是最大的奢侈。

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

老来日子快。

Old age comes on apace(急速).

利用好时间,时间就会提高你的价值。

Improve your time and your time will improve you.

忙人最会利用时间。

Busiest men find / have the most time.

没有时间可浪费了。

There is on time to lose.

明日复明日,明日何其多。拖拖拉拉,万事蹉跎。

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Any timg is no time.

明日无穷尽。

Tomorrow is endless.

明天又是一个新的开始。

Tomorrow is another day.

莫道君行早,路上已有早行人。

Don’t say that you have started too early, for many people are already on the way.

莫让年华似水流。

Let no grass grow under your feet.

青史留名的人从未浪费过时间。

He never broke his hour that kept his day.

日久自明。

Time will show / tell.

如果时间是最宝贵的,浪费时间就是最大的挥霍。

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.

失去金钱损失小,失去时间则失去了一切。

Money lost, little lost; time lost, everything lost.

时代在变。

Times change.

时代在变,我们也随之而变。要顺应时代的潮流。

Times change and we change with them.

时光不会重复。

You cannot have two forenoons in the same day.

时光飞逝不耽搁。

Time flees away without delay.

时光是留不住的。

There is no barrier keeper to keep time back.

时光永不回头。

Time marches on.

时机揭露一切秘密。

Time and chance reveal all secrets.

时间不尊重你,但你必须尊重时间。

Time does not bow to you, you must bow to time.

时间对青年是黄金,对壮年是白银,对老年是灰铅。

In youth the hours are golden, in mature years they are silver, in old age they are leaden.

时间可以使万物发生巨变。

Time works great changes.

时间和思考能抑制极度的悲伤。

Time and thinking tame(抑制)the strongest / greatest grief.

时间会赋予真理以光芒。

Time brings the truth to light.

时间检验一切。

Time tries all things.

时间检验真理。

Time tries truth.

时间就是金钱。

Time is money.

时间就是金钱,但金钱不是时间。

Time is money, but money is not time.

时间考验朋友,烈火炼真金。

Time tries friends as fire tries gold.

时间可治百病。

Time cures every disease.

时间能安抚极度的悲痛。

Time tames the strongest grief.

时间能创造奇迹。

Time works wonders.

时间能摧毁一切。

Time destroys all things.

时间能揭露一切。

Time discloses / reveals all things.

时间能消融一切。

Time dissolves all things.

时间能医治心灵的创伤。时间是最好的医生。

Time is the best healer.

Time is generally the best doctor.

时间能医治一切。

Time cures all things.

时间不是用绳子能捆住的。

Time and hour are not to be tied with a rope.

时间是伟大的老师。

Time is the great teacher.

时间是真理之父,经验是科学之母。

Time is the father of truth and experience is the mother of science.

时间是最好的顾问。

Time is the best counselor.

时间是最伟大的发明家 / 发现者。

Time is the greatest inventor / discoverer.

时间一去不复返,丢了一点点,失去到永远。

Time past never returns, a moment lost, lost for ever.

时间有限,学术无限。

Art is long, and time is fleeting.

时钟不能倒转。

One cannot put / turn back the clock.

事不宜迟。切莫依赖明天。

Tomorrow comes never.

Tomorrow never comes.

守时是事业的灵魂。

Punctuality is the soul of business.

睡眠是贼,偷走了人生一半时间。

Sleep is a thief; it steals half one’s life.

岁月比书本知道得多。阅历胜过书本。

Years know more than books.

岁月不等人。

Time and tide wait for no man.

You may delay, but time will not.

岁月使人增长智慧。

Years bring wisdom.

牺牲时间是最大代价的牺牲。

The sacrifice of time is the costliest of all sacrifices.

闲事管得多,时间白蹉跎。

Who meddles in(管闲事)all things may shoe the gosling(没有经验的人、小鹅).

消逝的时间和说出的话都不能追回。

Time and words can never be recalled.

眼下的时间最宝贵。

No time like the present.

There is no time like the present.

要珍惜光阴。珍惜前方的瞬间。

Let’s take the instant by the forward top.(莎士比亚)

要记住,每天都是一年中最好的一天。

Write it on your heart every day is the best day of the year.

要忘记昨天,不要担心明天,重要的是利用好今天。

Yesterday is dead, forget it; tomorrow does not exist, don’t worry; today is here, use it.

一寸光阴一寸金,寸金难买寸光阴。.

All time is no time when it is past.

一日之计在于晨。

The first hour of the morning is the rudder(舵)of the day.

The morning hour has gold in its mouth.

赢得时间者便赢得了一切。

He that gains time gains all things.

与其迟到一分钟,不如早到一小时。

Better be an hour too early than a minute too late.

越做得多就越能做;越是忙碌就越是空闲。

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

在伟大的时钟上,只有一个词,就是“现在”。

On the great clock of tie there is but one word, “Now”.

早起三朝当一日。

To get up early in three mornings is equal to one day of time.

掌握了时间就是掌握了生命。

He that has time has life.

珍惜光阴者无暇时。

Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.

只要肯等待,一切都回来。

Time brings everything to those who can wait for it.

只争朝夕。

Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Seize the present, trusting the tomorrow as little as may be.

只争朝夕。今天一小时胜过明天两小时。

One hour today is worth two tomorrow.

最忙的人空闲时间最多。

The busiest men find the most leisure time.

The most busy men find / have the most leisure time.

坐等时机,就会失去时机。

Who waits for time, lose time.