英語(yǔ)翻譯
“Time” says the proverb “is money”.This means that every moment well-spent may put some money into our pockets.If our time is usefully employed,it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market,or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes.There can thus be no doubt that time is convertible into money.Let those who think nothing of wasting time,remember this; let them remember that am hour misspent is equivalent to the loss of a bank-note; and that an hour utilized is tantamount to so much silver or gold; and then they will probably think twice before they give their consent to the loss of any part of their time.
Moreover,our life is nothing more than our time.To kill time is therefore a form of suicide.We are shocked when we think of death,and we spare no pains,no trouble,and no expense to preserve life.But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day,forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live.A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited.Let us bear this in mind,and waste of time will appear to us in the light of a crime as culpable as suicide itself.