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1.The Value of Time时间的价值
1."Time" says the proverb"is money". This means that every moment well-spent
may put some money into our pockets. If ourtime is usefully employed, it will
either produce some useful and importantpiece of work which will fetch its price
in the market, or it will add to ourexperience and increase our capacities so
as to enable us to earn money when theproper opportunity comes. There can thus
be no doubt that time is convertible intomoney. Let those who think nothing of
wasting time remember this; let themremember that an hour misspent is equivalent
to the loss of a banknote; and that an hourutilized is tantamount to so much silver
or gold; and then they will probably thinktwice before they give their consent
to the loss of any part of their time.
1.谚语说：“时间就是金钱。”这句话的意思是，一时片刻只要用得有效，都会让我们
的口袋增添一些钱。如果我们的时间使用得当，就能生产出有用 的、重要的产品，在市
场上卖得一定的价钱；就能充实经验，增长才干，等 到适当的时机来临时，我们就能挣
得金钱。因此，毫无疑问，时间可以转化 为金钱。让那些对浪费时间满不在乎的人记住
这一点。让他们记住，浪费一小时等于损失一张钞票，而利用一小时就等于得到若干金银。
这样，他们想 浪费时间时或许会三思而后行。
2. Moreover, our life is nothing more thanour time. To kill time is therefore
a form of suicide. We are shocked when wethink of death, and we spare no pains,
no trouble, and no expense to preservelife. But we are too often indifferent to
loss of an hour or of a day, forgettingthat our life is the sum total of the days
and of the hours we live. A day or an hourwasted is therefore so much life forfeited.
Let us bear this in mind, and waste of timewill appear to us in the light of a
crime as culpable as suicide itself.
2.再说，我们的生命无非就是我们活在人世的时间。因此，浪费时间也就是一种自杀。
我们想到死，便惊恐不已，因而不惜一切努力、麻烦和费用来保全我们的生命。可是，我
们对于损失一个小时或者一天的时间却往往漠不关心、无动于衷，忘记了我们的生命原本
就是我们生活的每一天、每一小时的总和。因此，浪费一天或一小时也就是丧失一天或一
小时的生命。让我们记住这一点，这样就会把浪费时间看作一种罪过，跟自杀一样应该受
到惩罚。
3. There is a third consideration which willalso tend to warn us against loss
of time. Our life is a brief span measuringsome sixty or seventy years in all,
but nearly one half of this has to be spentin sleep; some years have to be spent
over our meals; some over dressing andundressing; some in making journeys on land
and voyages by sea; some in merry-making,either on our own account or for the
sake of others; some in celebratingreligious and social festivities; some in
watching over the sick-beds of our nearestand dearest relatives. Now if all these
years were to be deducted from the termover which our life extends, we shall find
about fifteen or twenty years at ourdisposal for active work. Whoever remembers
this can never willingly waste a singlemoment of his life. "It is astonishing"
says Lord Chesterfield, "that anyonecan squander away in absolute idleness one
single moment of that portion of time whichis allotted to us in this world. Know
the true value of time; snatch, seize, andenjoy every moment of it!"
3.还有第三层考虑，也会提醒我们别浪费时间。人生短暂，总共不过六七十年，可是
将近一半时间必须用于睡眠；吃饭时间加起来也得花去一些年; 穿衣脱衣又是一些年；水
陆、陆路旅行又是一些年；再加上一些年娱乐时间 (不论是为自己还是为别人）；一些年
宗教节日和社会节日的庆祝活动；还有 一些年在病床边照看至亲至爱。现在如果从我们
的寿命中扣除所有这些岁月， 我们将会发现，能受我们支配的有效的工作时间大约仅十
五或二十年而己。 谁能记住这一点，谁就不会心甘情愿地浪费他生命的分分秒秒和每时
每刻。 查斯特菲尔德勋爵说过，“对于分配给我们这一生的时间，若有人游手好闲，即
使浪费片刻，也是令人吃惊的。要认识到时间的真正价值，要争分夺秒，充分利用有限
的时间。”
4. All time is precious; but the time ofour childhood and of our youth is more
precious than any other portion of ourexistence, for those are the periods when
alone we can acquire knowledge and developour faculties and capacities. If we
allow these morning hours of life to slipaway, unutilized, we shall never be able
to recoup the loss. As we grow older, ourpower of acquisition gets blunted, so
that the art or science which is not acquiredin childhood or youth will never
be acquired at all. Just as money laid outat interest doubles and trebles itself
in time, so the precious hours of childhoodand youth, if properly used, will yield
us incalculable advantages. "Everymoment you lose" says Lord Chesterfield "is
so much character and advantage lost; as onthe other hand, every moment you now
employ usefully is so much time wisely laidout at prodigious interest."
