呆英语背诵部分

2021年1月24日发(作者：倒嗓)
Unit 2








“
今天能做的事情决不要推到明天。
”
切斯特菲尔德伯爵在
1794
年劝告儿子说。


That
the
elegant
earl
never
got
around
to

marrying
his
son's
mother
and
had
a
bad
habit
of
keeping
worthies
like

cooling
their
heels
for
hours

in
an
anterroom
attests
to
the
fact
that

even
the
most
well- intentioned men have been postponers ever.
但是这 位高雅的伯爵一直没有抽出时间来与孩子母亲举行婚礼，
还有让约翰逊博士等名士在
接待室久等 的坏习惯。这足以证明，用心最善之人亦可是拖沓之士。


Quintus Fabius Maximus, one of great Roman generals ,
was dubbed
罗马的一位大将军昆塔斯
·
费边
·
马 克西姆斯为了有尽可能多的机会喝酒消闲，
常常推迟战斗，
被人起了
“
拖延者
”
的绰号；


Moses pleaded
a speech defect
to rationalize his reluctance to deliver Jehovah's edict to Pharalh.
摩西不愿向法老传达耶和华的法令，便借口说自己语言有缺陷；


Hamlet ,of course, raised procrastination to an art form.
当然哈姆雷特更是把拖延上升为一种艺术形式。


The world is probably about evenly divided between

delayers and do-it-nowers.
世上的人基本上可以平均地分成两类：拖延者和马上行动者。


There are those who prepare their income taxes in February,
prepay mortgages and serve precisely planned dinners

at an ungodly 6:30 p.m. < br>有些人二月份就准备好交个人所得税，
预先偿还抵押借款，
按计划准时在常人难以忍受的 六
点半开饭；


The other half dine happily on leftovers at 9 or 10 ,misplace bills and file for an extension of the
income tax deadline.
另一些人则乐于在九点或十点时吃些剩饭剩菜、错放账单和文件以延长缴税的期限。


They
seldom
pay
credit-card
bills
until
the
apocalyptic
voice
of
Diners
threatens
doom
from
Denver.
他们非要等到信用卡总部警告他们后果自负才肯去付信用卡上的帐。


They postpone, as Faustian encounters ,visits to barbershop, dentist or doctor.
就像浮士德遇见魔鬼一样，他们推迟去理发店、去看牙医或看医生。