Remember
my son
you have to work.
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,
不管你揮灑鋤頭亦或筆墨
不論你是推車的或是統計帳薄的

digging ditches or editing a paper,
ringing an auction bell
or writing funny things,
you must work.
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
你就會發現
足夠努力才能積累以后
享受天倫之樂的資本

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

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.
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

It's the interval that kills, my son.
或許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.
這世界
不會為不工作的年輕人遲疑一刻

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 或是 某某某”

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
擼起袖子，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
這樣你會發覺自己生活更幸福
夢鄉更甜美、生活更富足
這世界也因你的努力讓自己更加明媚

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