书城英文图书青春阅读——聆听人生真谛(双语)
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第9章 理念篇(5)

浪费时间就是掠夺自己。

As every thread of gold is valuable, so every moment of time.

一寸光阴一寸金。

In our expenditure the item that costs most is time.

在我们的消费中,时间最昂贵。

Time is often said to be money,but it is more—it is life.

人们常说时间就是金钱,但不如说时间就是生命。

Time lost may be repented but never recalled.

失去时间可以后悔,但不能追回。

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

失去金钱损失小;失去时间就失去一切。

If youre never scared or embarrassed or hurt,it means you never take any chances.

假如你从来未曾害怕、受窘、受伤害,那就是说你从来没有冒过险。

Time tries all things.

时间检验一切。

Time works wonders.

时间能创造奇迹。

Time dresses the greatest wounds.

时间能敷治最大的创伤。

Take time while time is,for time will be away.

有时间就要利用,因为时间会消逝。

You may delay,but time will not.

你可以耽搁,但时间不会延迟。

Since yesterday has gone and tomorrow has not come,take account of this now moment that now is.

昨天已去,明天未到,故应重视现在。

When all else is lost the future still remains.

就是失去了一切也还有未来。

The future becomes the present if we fight for it.

只要为之奋斗,未来就会变成现在。

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

充分利用时间的人不会有余暇。

You cannot have two forenoons in the same day.

同一天里是不可能有两个上午的。

Not keeping an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty you may as well borrow a persons money as his time.

爽约显然是不诚实的行为。占人时间无异借人钱。

Ordinary people think merely how they will spend time,a man of intellect tries to use it.

常人只想如何消磨时间,智者则努力利用时间。

What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.

我今天做的事情很重要,因为我为它付了一天生命的代价。

We are only young once,that is all society can stand.

我们一生只年轻一次,社会也只能忍受这么多。

Curtsey while youre thinking what to say. It saves time.

当你在思索着要去说些什么话的时刻,先寒暄一下,那将节省你的时间。

Busiest men find the most time.

最忙的人,也最有时间。

Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend.

可以节省时,不要浪费;必须消费时,不要吝啬。

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

财富不是侍奉主人就是支配主人。

Procrastination is the thief of time.

耽搁是时间之贼。

Often the more money you have, the less sense you have.

您拥有的钱越多,那么你所拥有的理智也就越少。

That man is admired above all men, who is not influenced by money.

不为金钱左右的人最受崇敬。

Too much money, too many problems.

钱太多了,也就会有太多的麻烦。

Take time by the forelock.

把握眼前的时机。

Time wait for no man.

时间不等人。

Times flies.

光阴似箭。

Time marches on.

时间永不回头。

Time cures all things.

时间医治所有的创伤。

Waste not, want not.

旧的不去,新的不来。

A penny saved is penny earned.

节省一分钱就等于赚了一分钱。

Tomorrow never comes.

切莫依赖明天。

Thrift is not only a great virtue, but also a great revenue.

节俭不仅是一大美德,而且是一大财源。

Economy is the art of making the most of life.

节约是把生活尽量巧安排的艺术。

A penny saved is a penny earned.

节省一文就是赚到一文。

Economy is itself a great income.

节约本身就是大笔收入。

National progress is the sum of individual industry,energy and uprightness,as national decay is of individual idleness selfishness and vice.

国家之前进在于人人勤奋、奋发、向上,正如国家之衰落由于懒惰、自私、 堕落。

Money is a bottomless sea,in which honour,conscience,and truth may be drowned.

金钱是深不可测的海洋,能淹没廉耻、良心和是非感。

Some people are masters of money, and some are slaves.

有些人是金钱的主人,有些人是金钱的奴隶。

Make money your servant, not your master.

要金钱做你的仆人,不要让它做主人。

Wealth is a slave to the wise,a master to the fool.

财富是聪明人的奴隶,是蠢人的主子。

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

节约是一切美德的根源。

From small profits and many expenses comes a whole life of sad consequences.

赚得少,花得多,一世日子不好过。

Easy come,easy go.

易得便易失。

Soon got,soon gone.

得来容易去得快。

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

铭刻在心:每一天都是一年中最好的时光。

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

该做的事总是越早做越好。

First you borrow, then you beg.

头一遭借钱,下一遭讨饭。

For to lose time is most displeasing to him who knows most.

知识越渊博,越不喜欢浪费时间。

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

能够充分利用时间的人不会有多余的光阴。

The early bird catches the worm.

早起的鸟有食吃。

Take time while time is, for time will away.

当有时间的时候就要利用时间,因为时间即将消逝。

There is no time like the present.

有必要做的事情,不如现在就做。

If you want something done in a hurry, dont go to the man who has clearly not much to do. Go to the busiest man you know, particularly if you are sure that he has not a spare minute in the week.

如果你急着想找人帮你干点事,不要去找那些显然很轻闲的人帮忙,去找你熟人中最忙的人帮忙,尤其是本周没有闲暇的人帮忙。

Idle folks have the least leisure.

懒惰的人最没空闲。

He has no leisure who uses it not.

那些不利用自己闲暇时间的人是不会有闲暇时间的。

Light come, light go.

来得容易,去得也快。(或:不义之财,理无久享。)

We should count time by heartthrob.

我们应当按心脏的搏动来计算时间。

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

人们在谈论消磨时间,与此同时,时间也在不声不响地销蚀人们的生命。

In sorrow he learned this truth one may return to the place of his birth. He can not go back to his youth.

一个人在悲哀中懂得这个真理:他可以回到他的出生地,他的青春却一去不复返。

Money is the root of all evil.

钱是万恶之源。

An inch of time is worth an inch of gold.

一寸光阴一寸金。

Seize the day! Begin now! Each day is a new life. Seize it. For it today already walks tomorrow.

把握住今天!现在就开始!每天是一种新的生活,抓住它,因为今天已经走进了明天。

Lost time never returns.

光阴一去不复还。

Its a lot easier to get in the hole than to get out again.

负债容易还债难。

A lack of ready cash has often held back even men of iron.

手头无钱困好汉。

An idle youth, a needle age.

少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。

Fame, power, wealth; all is vanity.

名利富贵皆身外之物。

Much coin, much care.

财多虑多。

A light purse makes a heavy heart.

财浅愁深。

Wealth invites danger.

财多命殆。

Time is money, efficiency is life.

时间是金钱,效率是生命。

Time is money,trust is gold.

时间是金钱,信用是金子。

Happiness doesnt necessarily go with money.

幸福未必有钱财。

An easy life never makes a man of talent.

舒舒服服出不了人才。

If a little money does not go out, great money will not come in.

小钱不去,大钱不来。