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The Time Account
時間賬戶
Say there is a bank that credits your account each morning with RMB86,400. Every evening, the bank deletes whatever remains of this sum that you have failed to use during the day. It does not carry over any balance from day to day.
假設有一家銀行每天早上往你的帳戶里存入86,400元，每天晚上刪除你當天沒有用完的錢，而不會把民賬目轉入下一天。
What would you do if you had such an account?
如果你有這么一個賬戶，你會怎么做？
Draw out every cent, every day, of course!
當然是每天取出所有的錢。
Well, each of us has such an account. Its name is TIME.
每個人都有這樣的一個帳戶，賬戶名是“時間”。
Every morning, time credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever you have failed to put to use. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.
每天早上，時間給你存入86,400秒，每晚消除你沒有利用上的時間，不會自動轉入第二天，也不允許透支。
Each day, time opens a new account for you. Each night, it burns whatever remains in the account. If you fail to use up all of the day's deposits, you can't keep them for tomorrow. Neither can you draw from what you will be put in the next morning.
每一天，時間為你開辦一個新賬戶，每天晚上，把賬戶里的所有余額當作損失消掉。如果沒有用完當天的存款，你不能保存到明天。也不能動用第二天的積蓄。
Time's clock runs non-stop.
時鐘在不停地奔跑。
