金钱观念
金钱观念
01 wisdom in the mind is more important than money in the hand.
脑中的智慧比手中的金钱更重要。
常用单词
wisdom ['w?zd?m] n. 智慧,才智,明智
学学这样说
1. money can't buy happiness. 金钱买不到幸福。
2. money will come and go. 金钱乃身外之物。
3. time is money, but money can not buy time. 时间就是金钱,但金钱换不来时间。
4. better without gold than without friends. 宁可没有金钱,不可没有朋友。
5. money does not always bring happiness. 金钱并不总是带来快乐。
随机测验
hope is ______ any money.
a. worth of b. worth c. worthy d. worthy of
翻译
希望的价值大于金钱。
答案:b
提示:be worth...意为“价值……”,也可以用作be worth doing,意为“值得做某事”。
02 money in banks will accrue to us with interest.
钱存在银行会给我们带来。
解析 ▲ 当词组accrue to sb的主语为利润、好处等词汇时,意为“累积,带来,归于”。
常用单词
bank [b??k] n. 银行,岸
interest ['?ntr?st] n. 利息,兴趣,爱好
学学这样说
1. fair gaining makes fair spending. 堂堂正正地赚钱,才能堂堂正正地花钱。
2. no one should receive a coim unless that has been fairly earned.
倘不是正当所得,一枚硬币也不能拿。
3. take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
金钱积少便成多。
03 don't value money for its own sake, but for what you can do with it.
金钱的价值不在其本身,而在于你用它做什么。
解析 ▲ for one's sake为惯用搭配,指“为……起见,为了……好”,与之相类似的表达还有on one's account和for the sake of...等。
学学这样说
1. money is neither good nor bad. it all depends on how it is used.
金钱本身无好坏,要看怎样利用它。
2. it is easier to get money than to keep it. 挣钱容易,攒钱难。
3. we often focus on borrowing money to get the things we want instead of creating money.
我们常常是借钱来获得我们想要的某种东西,而不是把注意力集中在为自己创造金钱上。
补充短语
in fear 害怕,在恐惧中
focus on 致力于,集中
04 money can cure hunger, but it cannot cure unhappiness.
金钱可以治疗饥饿,它却不能治疗苦恼。
学学这样说
2. money will buy medicine, but it won't buy health.
金钱能买到药物,但是买不到健康。
3. the two men are rather possessed by their money than possessors of it.
那两个男人与其说是金钱的占有者,不如说是被金钱所占有。
4. money is a good servant, but a bad master. 金钱是一个好奴仆,却又是一个坏主人。
随机测验
money can be useful, but it is not ______.
a. thing b. things c. nothing d. everything
翻译
金钱可能是有用的,但它不是万能的。
答案:d
提示:but连接两个并列的句子,表示语意的转折结合句意可知,d项符合。