小故事

The Time Account
时间账户
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.
假设有一家银行每天早上往你的帐户里存入86,400元，每天晚上删除你当天没有用完的钱，而不会把民账目转入下一天。
What would you do if you had such an account?
如果你有这么一个账户，你会怎么做？
Draw out every cent, every day, of course!
当然是每天取出所有的钱。
Well, each of us has such an account. Its name is TIME.
每个人都有这样的一个帐户，账户名是“时间”。
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，时间给你存入86,400秒，每晚消除你没有利用上的时间，不会自动转入第二天，也不允许透支。
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，时间为你开办一个新账户，每天晚上，把账户里的所有余额当作损失消掉。如果没有用完当天的存款，你不能保存到明天。也不能动用第二天的积蓄。
Time's clock runs non-stop.
时钟在不停地奔跑。

重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. carry over
（使）延续；（使）延伸；推广到；
eg. Priestley's rational outlook in science carried over to religion.
普里斯特利在科学上的理性世界观延伸到了宗教思想上。
eg. Springs and wells were decorated, a custom which was carried over into Christian times in Europe.
泉眼和水井都进行装饰，这个习俗在欧洲一直延续到基督教时代。
2. from day to day
每天；天天；逐日；
eg. Your needs can differ from day to day.
你的需要每天可能都会不同。
eg. From day to day the town changes.
这座城镇的面貌天天在发生变化。
3. write off
勾销，注销（债务或已花费的款项）；
eg. The president persuaded the West to write off Polish debts.
总统说通西方免除波兰的债务。
eg. He had long since written off the money.
他很早就将那笔钱勾销了。
4. use up
耗尽；耗掉；
eg. That will use up a lot of time.
那会耗费很多时间。
eg. We can't use up all the natural energy and leaving nothing to our offspring.
我们不能用光所有的自然资，一点也不留给子孙后代。