A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
你不交税,他们收税。
I pay my own bills. I feel my own pain.
我自己付账。我能感觉到自己的痛苦。
I get paid to work; I don't pay to work.
我拿工资工作;我不付工钱。
I would pay to do what I do if I had to.
如果有必要,我愿意花钱去做我该做的事。
Great men always pay deference to greater.
伟人总是尊重伟人。
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
我们年老时为青春的挥霍付出代价。
Youth is given to us. Experience we pay for.
青春是给我们的。我们花钱买来的体验。
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
年龄是为成熟付出的高昂代价。
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
价格是你付出的代价。价值是你得到的。
There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.
毫无疑问,法官需要加薪。
All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.
我一直想做的就是付得起房租。
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
最成功的战争很少能弥补它的损失。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.
正在讨论提高国会议员支付给他们福利的金额的法案,我支持这些法案。
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
很难想象有比把这些决定交给那些不为错误付出代价的人更愚蠢或更危险的决策方式了。
I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.
我只是喜欢做能激励我的工作,我不关心它是高预算还是低预算的电影。
I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.
我不会谈论在监狱里是什么感觉,只会说我很高兴我出狱了,我计划永远不再回去,每天都要交税。
Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.
赢得那件绿色的夹克太好了,我可以付得起买尿布的钱。
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
没有比强迫一个人为他不想要的东西付出代价更糟糕的暴政了,仅仅因为你认为这对他有好处。