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唯物主义
Materialism
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
无论多么痛苦的痛苦，很少有收入对其不起作用的。
The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.
万能的美元，这一伟大的目标，我们的土地上的普遍奉献。
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
设摆筵席，是为喜笑。酒能使人快活。惟有钱能叫万事应心。
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
有钱的人比没钱的人更嫉妒富人。
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
我厌倦了爱;我更厌倦押韵;但是钱总是给我带来快乐。
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
曾经有一段时间，一个傻瓜和他的钱很快就分开了，但现在这种事发生在每个人身上。
Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin where you are.
从这个世界上的事物中抬起你的眼睛是一项必须从你所在的地方开始的活动。
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
一种冷漠的无神论唯物主义是当今所谓物质哲学的倾向。
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
它曾说过，爱钱是万恶之源。缺钱是千真万确的。
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
正是对财产的执著阻碍了我们自由而高尚地生活。
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
那些有钱的人认为世界上最重要的是爱。穷人知道那是钱。
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
当代科学是以唯物主义哲学为基础的，唯物主义哲学主张一切现实都是物质的或物质的。
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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
我终于知道了人与其他野兽的区别:经济上的担忧。
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
金钱好比粪肥，只有撒到大地才是有用之物。
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
财富并非没有它的优点，相反的情况，虽然它经常被提出，但从来没有被证明具有广泛的说服力。
The problem with borrowing money is that as soon as one has, one inevitably begins to think of it as one's own. One becomes used to it, treats it like family, and may even come to resent or lose sight of the fact that it must all someday leave to visit someone else.
借钱的问题在于，一旦你有了钱，你就不可避免地开始把它当作自己的钱。一个人会习惯它，把它当成家人，甚至可能开始怨恨或忽视这样一个事实，那就是总有一天它会离开去拜访别人。
If your Riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you t’other World?
如果你的财富是你的，为什么不带着它们到另一个世界去呢?
The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I’d rather go into a grocery store today than to a king’s banquet a hundred years ago.
世界在进步，资源越来越丰富。我宁愿今天去杂货店，也不愿一百年前去参加国王的宴会。