The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

  • -- Philip K. Dick 迪克

受教育的问题在于它需要很长时间;它占用了你生活中较好的部分,当你完成工作后,你知道,如果你进入银行业,你会受益更多。

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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

因此,对促进一项研究和对最完全占用时间的其他工作的职责的促进存在着一种强大的吸引力,而这比任何科学知识对其他工作的促进作用都要小。

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

银行的根本问题一直是:它们从事的是银行业,而银行业,无论是普通的还是极其复杂的,本质上都是有风险的。

In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important to be equally prepared about my opponents.

在我的工作中,每当我发表演讲时,我都会在实际活动之前排练几次。在体育运动中,对我的对手同样做好准备是很重要的。

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

有时候,在一起很长一段时间的人开始想象过去的事情会变得更好,即使事实并非如此。

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

这就是导演的问题。总是咬下金蛋的手。

Many gloat over their own troubles.

许多人对自己的麻烦幸灾乐祸。