Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

岁月不待人。这是一句浮夸而自满的谚语，在过去的十亿年里一直适用;但在我们有电线和压载水的日子里，我们使它回转:人不等待时间，也不等待潮汐。

Tortoises only make progress when they stick there necks out.

乌龟只有把脖子伸出来才能进步。

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

真正的进步悄无声息、持续不断地向前推进。

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

除非我们实行节约，否则我们的后代将不得不为我们今天的进步和繁荣付出痛苦、堕落和失败的代价。

Unless you progress a step or a half-step more than yesterday, you haven't really lived today.

除非你比昨天多走一步或半步，否则你就没有真正活在今天。

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

通常，以进步需要进步为借口所做的可怕的事情根本不是真正的进步，而是可怕的事情。

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

在战争的发展过程中，出现了一系列不可预见的情况，人类的智慧无法估计其结局;只有一件事是肯定的，那就是增税。

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

我们都想要进步，但如果你走错了路，进步就意味着掉头走回正确的路;在这种情况下，回头最快的人是最进步的。

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

我们也可以从电脑外扫描图像…用传统工具制作的照片或素描;然后我们就可以在电脑中绘制、操作、处理、改变和进一步发展图像，在显示器上观察我们的进展。

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

我们一直在进步或倒退。生命中没有静止不动的东西。

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

作为一个国家，我们可以继续朝着人人生来平等、我们的国家将以这种精神对待每一个人的承诺前进。

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

我们认识到有必要出版资料，显示学生从一个教育阶段到另一个教育阶段所取得的进展。

We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

我们必须承认我们取得的进展，但也要明白，我们还有很长的路要走。情况有所好转，但仍然不够好。

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

我们所谓的进步，就是用一个讨厌的东西去换另一个讨厌的东西。

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

每当一个人或一个企业决定已经取得了成功，进步就会停止。