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Make your goal more than accumulating money and buying stuff that eventually winds up in an estate sale.
讓你的目標(biāo)比累積金錢和購買物品更重要,因為那些物品最后也是在“遺產(chǎn)拍賣”場出現(xiàn)。
(wind up=end up; estate sale是指兒女把父母生前的遺物便宜出售,如同yard sale)
Improving another life is not only a gift to that person, but to yourself.
改善另一個人的生活,不但是給那個人的禮物,也是給你自己的禮物。
Quitters never win and winners never quit.
放棄者不會勝利,勝利者不會放棄。(動詞時態(tài):quit, quitted, quitting停止,放棄;win, won, winning獲勝;quitter多指輕易放棄的人)
Having money is not the ultimate goal of life.
有錢不是人生的最終目標(biāo)。
Try to be as happy as a rooster in a barnyard.
要像公雞那樣在殼倉旁的空地上自由活動,高高興興。 (多半只用rooster而不用hen)
Thanks to mistakes; we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.
感謝錯誤,我們能借它修正我們對自己的了解,也能改進我們對世界的看法。
Don't let millions of warnings create a state of perpetual panic.
不要讓千千萬萬的警語,造成一種長期不斷的恐懼。 (perpetual指never ending; panic 指 fear)
Life is no picnic; take control of your destiny.
人生不是常常輕松的;掌握你的命運吧! (no picnic=not a picnic,也就是not always easy)
Unfortunately, knowing how much is enough is the biggest challenge facing all of us.
很遺憾,要想知道多少(財富)才算“足夠”,是我們大家面臨最大的挑戰(zhàn)。
Tomorrow is promised to no one; give 200 percent at anything you try.
沒有人知道明天會怎樣;用你雙倍的努力去嘗試任何事情吧! (通常用100 percent,但用110或200 percent表示加強maximum的意思)
Volunteer work is emotionally rewarding; try to volunteer for anything else you can manage to squeeze into your schedule.
義工是情緒上的報償;盡量設(shè)法安排你的時間表,去做任何事情的義工。 (squeeze into 擠入,安排)
I have no fame, no money, but I have no problems and no worries.
我沒有名,沒有錢,但我沒有難題,也沒有苦惱。
If you perpetuate a cycle of hatred and revenge, this conflict will escalate into a war.
假如你長期繞著仇恨和報復(fù),那么這種內(nèi)心的矛盾仍會引起戰(zhàn)斗。
Material gain does not matter, character does.
物質(zhì)上的收獲不重要,品性才重要。
The years will pass more quickly than you can imagine; 5 years are like the blink of an eye, and 10 years evaporate with each breath in and out.
歲月的消失,比你想象快得多;5年就像一眨眼,10年就像呼吸般地過去。(只用an eye, 不用eyes)
Those who reduce their consumption and accumulation of stuff are happier and less stressful.
那些減少消費和少累積物品的人,較為幸福,也較少有壓力。
Sometimes we may get a bit bored with the same-old-same-old, but love can make the world go around.
我們有時對“刻板老套”的生活感到乏味單調(diào),但愛使世界美好。
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain in your life.
但愿在你人生中,每個雨天都跟隨著一道彩虹。(在不如意的生命中,都有如意的時候)
= May every cloud in your life have a silver lining.
= Good luck in everything you do. (cloud 指陰暗;silver lining 指襯著銀色的亮光) (編輯/立原)
海外星云 2012年22期