Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

收益可能是暂时的和不确定的;可是,只要你活着,花销总是固定不变的,而且是确定无疑的。建造两个烟囱比把一个装进燃料里要容易得多。

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It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

南北之间爆发了战争,这是不可掩饰的。-政治家和商人正在努力恢复和平,但他们所要实现的和平是肤浅的、虚假的和暂时的。

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

在中年,我认为一个女人和她十几岁的孩子比任何人都有更多的共同点。我们都有点不确定。我们有生以来或几十年来第一次意识到,我们现在掌握着主动权。

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

当他们的父母坐在沃尔沃的路边哭泣时,十几岁的孩子却无忧无虑地跳到不确定的未来,因为青少年的大脑还没有发育到足以识别和评估风险的程度。

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

尽管作为一名水手,我鄙视政治——因为我热爱我的水手生活,直到今天仍然热爱它——但环境迫使我对政治问题采取明确的态度。

You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.

你只需要每天和他们一起工作,向他们展示他们所做的事情的例子,并加强他们的工作,从而建立起团队的精神。

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

有时候,正如我所说,你必须在力所能及的地方搭建桥梁——但在必须的地方划一条线。

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

把猫从袋子里放出来比把它放回去容易多了。

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

我试着让音乐更容易让他们理解。