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Sooner
Sooner barbarity than boredom.
与其无聊,不如野蛮。
Sooner or later, we sell out for money.
我们迟早会为了钱而卖光房子。
Sooner or later, you're gonna wish you had me...
迟早,你会希望你有我…
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
总有一天,那些认为自己能赢的人会赢。
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
许多人宁死也不愿思考;事实上,他们就是这么做的。
Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
中年——比你想象的要晚,比你预期的要早。
Strength will find you sooner than you ever thought it would.
力量会比你想象的更快找到你。
I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
我宁愿被称为成功的骗子,也不愿被称为贫穷的君主。
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
与板球相比,棒球的最大优势是结束得更快。
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
如果我必须再活一次,我也会犯同样的错误,只是会更快。
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
战争是残酷的。试图改革它是没有用的。它越残酷,就会越快结束。
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
一个人迟早会发现他是自己灵魂的园艺师,是自己生命的导演。
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For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
对于那些迟早会幸运地脱离群体的男人来说,最令人陶醉的时刻是,他们不再是受他人支配的躯体,而是发现自己掌握了自己的时间,学会了自己的声音和权威。
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
我唯一遗憾的是我的过去太长了。如果再让我活一次,我也会犯同样的错误——只是更快。
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
我宁愿看时刻表或目录,也不愿什么也不看。它们比一半的小说更有趣。
I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.
我从无到有。我来自项目和福利部门,最后成了一个没有参照系的百万富翁。我迟早会碰壁的。
As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.
只要女性还在劳动大军中,自己挣钱,自己做决定,男性就必须意识到这种生活方式是存在的——因为它需要两份甚至更多的收入才能实现。你越早处理好你和伴侣的储蓄和消费方式,你们的关系就会越好。
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
我们也许会更早地爱上那些恨我们的人,而不是那些爱我们超过我们所希望的人。