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Advice to a Young Man 给年轻人的建议（抄书打卡第1天）

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Advice to a Young Man

给年轻人的建议

作者:Robert Jones Burdette

Remember, my son, you have to work.

记住，我的儿子，你必须要工作。

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.

ringing an auction bell:敲响拍卖钟

无论你握着的是锄头还是钢笔，独轮车还是书籍，无论你要挖沟渠还是编纂文章，搞拍卖还是写些有趣的东西，你都必须要工作。

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.

如果你环顾四周，你会发现那些能够安享晚年而无须工作的人往往是工作最努力的人。

Don't be afraid of killing yourself with overwork.

不要担心过度工作会致命，三十岁之前这种情况是不会发生的。

It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty.

有些人确实会在三十岁之前死去，

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.

但那是他们晚上六点结束工作，却在凌晨两点才回家造成的。这段时间才是致命元凶，我的儿子。

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.

工作会增加你的食欲，使你安睡更长时间，让你完美和愉快地享受每一个假日。

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

确实有些年轻人不工作，但世界不会因为他们而自豪。

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

世界不会知道他们的名字，甚至只是简单将其称为“某人的儿子”。

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

没有人喜欢他们；伟大而繁忙的世界不知道他们的存在。

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

所以，想清楚自己想要成为什么样的人以及想要做什么事情，然后脱下外套，大干一场吧。

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 holi-days, and the better satisfied will the world be with you.

你越是繁忙，就越不容易受到伤害，睡得越香甜，假期越愉悦，世界对你也会越满意。

1. a set of :一组，一套，一副，一对

I bought a set of classic English novels at a discount on November 11th.

双11那天我以打折价购买了一套经典英语小说。

2. be apt to do sth. 易于做某事，有做某事的倾向

He used to be apt to find excuses for his failure in the exams, but now he realizes that it will always turn out to be not bad if he tries his best.

过去他倾向于为自己考试失利找借口，但是现在他发现，如果他竭尽全力，结果通常都不会差。