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Take one day, share it into sections, to each section apportion its task,
以一天為例，你就把它分成幾份，每份鐘規(guī)定好任務(wù)，
leave no stray unemployed quarters of an hour, ten minutes, five minutes -- include all.
全部時(shí)間都包括在內(nèi)，不留一刻鐘、十分鐘、五分鐘的零星空閑時(shí)間。
Do each piece of business in its turn with method, with rigid regularity.
干每一件事都應(yīng)當(dāng)井然有序，有條不紊。
The day will close almost before you are aware it has begun,
這樣，一天的日子，你幾乎沒有覺察它開始，就已經(jīng)結(jié)束了
and you are indebted to no one for helping you to get rid of one vacant moment.
你就不欠誰的情，幫你消磨片刻空閑。
You have had to seek no one's company, conversation, sympathy, forbearance.
你不必找人作伴和交談，不必請求別人的同情和忍耐。
you have lived, in short, as an independent being ought to do.
總之，你像一個(gè)獨(dú)立的人該生活的那樣生活。
Take this advice. The first and last I shall offer you.
聽從我的勸告吧，我給你的第一個(gè)，也是最后一個(gè)忠告。
Then you will not want me or any one else, happen what may.
那樣，無論出什么事，你就不需要我，也不需要?jiǎng)e人了。
Neglect it -- go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling
要是你置之不理，一意孤行，還是那樣想入非非，嘰嘰咕咕，懶懶散散，
and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be.
你就得吞下你愚蠢行為的苦果，不管怎么糟糕，怎么難受。
I tell you this plainly. And listen.
我要明白告訴你。你好好聽著。
For though I shall no more repeat what I am now about to say, I shall steadily act on it.
盡管我不會(huì)再重復(fù)我要說的話，但我會(huì)堅(jiān)定不移地去做。
After my mother's death, I wash my hands of you.
母親一死，你的事我就撒手不管了。
From the day her coffin is carried to the vault in Gateshead Church,
從她的棺材抬進(jìn)蓋茨黑德教堂墓地那天起，
you and I will be as separate as if we had never known each other.
你我便彼此分手，仿佛從來就是陌路人。
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents,
你不要以為我們碰巧攤著同一個(gè)爹娘，
I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim.
我會(huì)讓你以絲毫站不住腳的理由拖累我。
I can tell you this -- if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away,
我可以告訴你--就是除了你我，整個(gè)人類毀滅了，
and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to the new.
獨(dú)有我們兩人站在地球上，我也會(huì)讓你留在舊世界，自己奔往新世界去。
