the value of time 时间的价值

Our life is nothing more than our tim. 时间就是生命.

To kill time is therefore a form. of suicide. 所以浪费时间就是变相自杀。

We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble and no expense to preserve life. 当我们想到死亡就惊恐万分，我们会不遗余力，不惜一切代价的去保留生命。

But we are too often indfferent to the loss of an hour or a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and the hours we live.  失去一小时或一天的时间对于我们来说无关紧要，但是我们忘记了生命是由这一天，一小时构成的。

A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much  our life forfeited. 因此生命就这样逐渐流逝。

Our life is a brief span measuring some seventy of eighty years in all. 人生短暂总共不过七八十年。

But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; several years have to be spent on our meals; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merrymaking;  some in watching over the sick-beds of  our nearest and dearest relatives Now if all these years were to be deducted from the term over which our life extends,  we shall find out about twenty or thirty years at our disposal for active work. 但是睡眠占去了我们三分之一的时间，吃饭花去几年，海陆空旅行用去几年，再加上娱乐，照看病床上的亲友，如果扣除生命中的这些光阴，我们会发现，仅有二三十年的时间供我们积极工作。

Whoever rembers this can never willingly waste a single moment of his life. 记住这一点，就不会有人愿意浪费他生命中的每一分钟。