雙語美文，給一位青年的忠告

Remember, my son, you have to work.

謹記，年輕人，無論如何你都得工作。
 

Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an auction bell or writing funny things, you must work.

不管你揮灑鋤頭亦或筆墨，不論你是推車的或是統(tǒng)計帳薄的，無論你是汗流浹挖溝渠還是編輯報紙文章，也可能是拍賣師亦或是一位作家，都必須有一份為之努力奮斗的工作。
 

If you look around you will see the men who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work are the men who work the hardest.

如果你留意觀察周圍的人，你就會發(fā)現(xiàn)，足夠努力才能積累以后享受悠閑晚年的資本。
 

Don't be afraid of killing yourself with overwork. It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty.

理性看待勤奮工作帶給我們的負擔，因為30歲的你承受能力遠不止于此。
 

Handle /?hændl/ v. 操作，操控;容易搬運

Auction /??:k?n/ n. 拍賣;競賣

Hardest /'ha:d?st/ adj. 困難的(hard的最高級);努力的

Overwork /???v??w?:k/ n. 過度工作

They die sometimes, but it is because they quit work at six in the evening, and do not go home until two in the morning. It’s the interval that kills, my son.

當然也不乏有六點下班后在外流連到凌晨兩點才回家揮霍青春與時間的人?；蛟S正是晚上六點到凌晨兩點，這段時間的生活毀了他們自己。
 

The work gives you an appetite for your meals; it lends solidity to your slumbers, it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday.

積極的工作心態(tài)會帶給你愉悅且不錯的生活質量，還能讓你學會如何更好的享受完美的假期。
 

There are young men who do not work, but the world is not proud of them.

有些年輕人不工作，但世界并不以他們?yōu)榘痢?br />  

It does not know their names, even it simply speaks of them as “old So-and-So’s boy”.

這世界只會銘記努力的人，所以記得別成為他們口中的那些“那個誰誰誰、某某某”。
 

Interval /??nt?vl/ n. 間隔;幕間休息

Appetite /?æp?ta?t/ n. 欲望;胃口，食欲

Solidity /s??l?d?ti/ n. 固性;硬度;可靠性

Slumber /?sl?mb?(r)/ n. 微睡，安眠，熟睡

Appreciation /??pri:?i?e??n/ n. 增值;感謝;欣賞

Nobody likes them, the great, busy world doesn’t know that they are there.

沒人會在意他們，這茫茫人海、忙忙碌碌的世界，更不會記得他們。
 

So find out what you want to be and do, and take off your coat and make a dust in the world.

所以努力找到你想做、你要做的事情，挽起袖子，在這世界留下你的印記。
 

The busier you are, the less harm you will be apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you.

所以讓自己忙起來吧，這樣你會發(fā)覺自己生活更幸福，夢鄉(xiāng)更甜美、生活更富足，這世界也因你的努力讓自己更加明媚。
 

Satisfied /?sæt?sfa?d/ adj. 滿意的，滿足的