佚名/Anonymous

　　“Time,”says the proverb, “is money.”This means that every moment well spent may put some money into our pockets. If our time is usefully employed, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. Let those who think nothing of wasting time remember this.

　　Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Our life is a brief span measuring some seventy or eighty years in all. But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merrymaking; some in watching over the sick-beds of our nearest and dearest relatives. Now if all these years were to be deducted from the term over which our life extends, we shall find about twenty or thirty years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly waste a single moment of his life.

　　All time is precious, but the time of our childhood and of our youth is more precious than any other portion of our existence. For those are the periods when alone we can acquire knowledge and develop our capacities. If we allow these morning hours of life to slip away, we shall never be able to recoup the loss. Just as money laid out at interest doubles and trebles itself in time, so the precious hours of childhood any youth, if properly used, will yield us incalculable advantages.

　　谚语说：“时间就是金钱。”这句话的意思是，有效地利用每一分钟，就可能让我们增加财富。如果我们充分利用了时间，生产一些实用的东西，到市场上卖掉，会赚些钱，同时丰富我们的经验，增长我们的才智，这就是说，赚钱的机会成熟了。让那些对浪费时间毫不在意的人记住这一点吧。

　　时间就是生命，所以浪费时间就是变相自杀。一想到死亡，我们就会惊恐万分，不遗余力、不惜一切代价去保全生命。失去一个小时或一天的时间对于我们来说无关紧要，但我们忘记了，生命就是由这一天、一小时所构成的，因此生命就这样逐渐流逝了。人生短暂，总共不过七八十年。但是，睡眠占据了三分之一，吃饭花去几年，海陆空旅行用去几年，再加上娱乐，照看病**的亲友，如果扣除生命中的这些光阴，我们会发现，仅仅二三十年的时间能供我们积极工作。记住这一点，就不会有人甘愿浪费生命的每一分钟。

　　所有的时间都是宝贵的，而童年和青春时光比生命中的任何阶段都珍贵，因为这是我们汲取知识、增长才智的特有阶段。如果让这些时光悄然流逝，我们将无法弥补这些损失。就像储存金钱可以得到两三倍的利息一样，充分利用童年和青春的宝贵时光，会给我们带来不可估量的利益。

　　词汇笔记

　　increase [in?kri:s] v. 增加；提高

　　例 How to eat to increase plaque?

　　怎么吃才能增加血小板？

　　capacity [k??p?siti] n. 能力；容量；容积

　　例 Failure is due more to lack of capacity rather than not enough.

　　失败更多的是因为努力不够而不是能力不够。

　　proper [?pr?p?] adj. 适当的；正确的；合适的

　　例 However,I have no idea when is the proper time.

　　然而，我还不知道何时才是一个合适的时间。

　　suicide [?sjuisaid] n. 自杀；自杀者；自杀行为

　　例 Committing suicide is no way to solve your problems.

　　自杀不是一个解决问题的途径。

　　小试身手

　　时间就是生命，所以浪费时间就是变相自杀。

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　　所有的时间都是宝贵的，而童年和青春时光比生命中的任何阶段都珍贵。

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　　如果让时光悄然流逝，我们将无法弥补这些损失。

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　　短语家族

　　……it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money……

　　so as to：以便；为的是；使得

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　　……we shall never be able to recoup the loss.

　　be able to：能；会；能够；胜任

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