A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

  • -- William Feather 费瑟

预算告诉我们什么是我们负担不起的,但它不会阻止我们购买它。

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It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

公平地说,那些努力工作,早上起床,削减他们的衣服-换句话说,“我们只能负担得起一个或两个孩子,因为我们没有足够的收入”。他们交税,他们想知道同样的决策也发生在那些领救济金的人身上。

Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.

老实说,和表演一样难的职业,我认为音乐更难。演戏的时候,你就像一个水蛭,因为别人帮你完成了最困难的部分。他们为你写剧本,然后导演告诉你该怎么做。你只需要知道如何集中注意力,按照指示去做。

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

在预算紧张的时期,必须做出艰难的选择。我们必须确保我们非常有限的资源用于优先事项。我认为,我们的当务之急应该是投资于我们孩子的教室和他们的未来。

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.

一切都回到了最基本的。在一个干净、舒适的餐厅里,为顾客提供物美价廉的美食,他们会不断光顾。

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.

时尚不是一种投资。如果你穿了一件裙子,却没有得到很多赞美,你就不会再穿它了。这不像买债券。

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.

我有一个很大的家庭和很多朋友,买礼物是我最喜欢做的事情之一。

We just did the best we could with quite a limited budget, to be honest, and had a lot of success.

说实话,我们在有限的预算下尽了最大的努力,取得了很大的成功。

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

在社会上,一个人不说真话,一个人说的恰恰相反。

I live in a world of fantasy so keep your reality away from me.

我生活在幻想的世界里,所以请远离现实。

We can't afford to be killing one another.

我们不能互相残杀。

Lying can never save us from another lie.

谎言永远不能把我们从另一个谎言中拯救出来。