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Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
机会是你买不到的东西。你必须为它付出,你必须用你的生命来付出,花很多时间,你用时间来付出,不是浪费时间,而是花时间。
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
这就是客户付钱给我们的——为所有这些细节费心,让他们轻松愉快地使用我们的电脑。我们应该很擅长这个。这并不意味着我们不听取客户的意见,但当他们从未见过类似的东西时,他们很难告诉你他们想要什么。
And we must pay close heed to those who play such ungrateful roles, for these roles are indispensable. It is no small thing to be a monster or a spiteful idiot, and in the first case to think oneself beautiful, in the second a highly intelligent person. Such characters must be represented. Some one has to do it.
我们必须密切关注那些扮演忘恩负义角色的人,因为这些角色是不可或缺的。成为一个怪物或一个怀恨的白痴并不是一件小事,第一种情况下认为自己很漂亮,第二种情况下认为自己很聪明。必须表示这样的字符。总得有人去做。
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We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.
我们将削减项目,我们将努力控制官僚机构的规模。我们将使被过分夸大的联邦工资标准与市场利率保持一致。
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。
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
我工资不高是因为我有很多钱;我有很多钱,因为我的工资很高。
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
我们年老时为青春的挥霍付出代价。
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。
People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.
人们仍然愿意诚实地做一天的工作。问题是他们想要一个星期的工资。