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I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't going to be around long enough for it to matter.
我本來可以把這些話都告訴他，但是很明顯，他不會在大學呆很長時間，說了也沒用。
Nevertheless, I was young and I had a high sense of duty and I tried to put it this way: "For the rest of your life," I said, "your days are going to average out to about twenty-four hours.
但是，由于我當時很年輕而且責任感也很強，我盡量把我的意思這樣表達出來：“在你的余生中，平均每天有24小時左右。
They will be a little shorter when you are in love, and a little longer when you are out of love, but the average will tend to hold. For eight of these hours, more or less, you will be asleep."
談戀愛時，你會覺得它有點短；失戀時，你會覺得它有點長。但平均每天24小時會保持不變。在其中的大約8個小時的時間里，你會處于睡眠狀態。”
"Then for about eight hours of each working day you will, I hope, be usefully employed.
“然后每個工作日8個小時左右的時間，我希望你會用來做一些有用的事情。
Assume you have gone through pharmacy school—or engineering, or law school, or whatever—during those eight hours you will be using your professional skills.
假設你畢業于一所藥科大學——或工程大學、法學院，或者其他什么大學——在那8個小時時間里，你會用到你的專業技能。
You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesn't jump the fence, or that your client doesn't go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence.
你要做的是確保氰化物沒有和阿司匹林混在一起；確保牛不會跳出籬笆；或保證你的當事人沒有因為你的無能而被處以電刑。
These are all useful pursuits. They involve skills every man must respect, and they can all bring you basic satisfactions.
這些都是有用的工作，它們涉及的技能每個人都必須尊重，而且它們都能給你帶來基本的滿足感。
Along with everything else, they will probably be what puts food on your table, supports your wife, and rears your children. They will be your income, and may it always suffice.
除此之外，這些技能會換來你餐桌上的食物，讓你能養活你的妻子，撫養你的子女。它們會成為你的收入來源；但愿你的收入總能夠用?！?/p>
