解放军文职招聘考试Treasure your time

 Treasure your time

    "Time," says the proverb, "is money". This means that every moment well-spent may put some money into our pockets.

    If our time is usefully employed, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. Let those, who think nothing of wasting time, remember this.

    Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life.

   But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Our life is a brief span measuring some seventy or eighty years in all.

    But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merry-making; some in watching over the sick-beds of our nearest and dearest relatives.

    Now if all these years were to be deducted from the term over which our life extends, we shall find about twenty or thirty years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly waste a single moment of his life.

    All time is precious; but the time of our childhood and of our youth is more precious than any other portion of our existence. For those are the periods when alone we can acquire knowledge and develop our capacities.

    If we allow these morning hours of life to slip away, we shall never be able to recoup  the loss. Just as money laid out at interest doubles and trebles itself in time, so the precious hours of childhood and youth, if properly used, will yield us incalculable advantages.

一、生词注解

1.capacity [kəˈpæsiti] n.容量；才能，能力；身份，职位

2. indifferent  [inˈdifrənt] a.冷漠的，不关心的，不积极的；一般的

3. forfeit  [ˈfɔ:fit] vt.(因犯罪等而)丧失 n.没收物

4. deduct [diˈdʌkt] vt.扣除，减去

5. disposal [disˈpəuzəl] n.丢掉，清除；排列，布置

6. portion  [ˈpɔ:ʃən] n.一部分，一份 vt.分配，把…分给

7. recoup [riˈku:p] v.重获，补偿

8. treble [ˈtrebəl] a.三倍(重)的

9. incalculable  [in'kælkjuləbl] adj. 不可数的，无数的，无法预料的

二、词汇拓展

1.waste

【导学】

1)n. 浪费，废物，荒地

  a waste of time(money)

2)v. 浪费，滥用，消耗

  waste…on sth.

      waste…in doing sth.

    3)adj. 浪费的，无用的，荒芜的

      waste gases    废气

【例句】

    1) All his efforts were wasted. 

              他的所有努力都白费了。

    2) It's only a waste of time to speak to her. 

              和她说话纯粹是浪费时间。

【随练】

    1) 不要浪费太多的时间在网终上聊天。（waste time in doing sth.）

    ____________________________________________________.

    2) 你本不应该浪费太多钱在这本小说书上的。（waste time on sth.）

    ____________________________________________________.

2. single

【导学】

    1)adj. 单个的，单一的

      single parent family            单亲家庭

      a single ticket                 一张单程票

      single 未婚                  married 已婚

    2)n. 单个，单独

【例句】

    1) I want a single ticket.

          我要一张单程票。

    2) Would you reserve a single for me?

            请给我预订一间单人房好吗?

    3) The child was the single survivor of the air-crash.

        这孩子是那次飞机坠毁事故的唯一幸存者。

【随练】

    1) 她终身未嫁。(remain single)

    ____________________________________________________.

    2) 屋子里一个人都没有。(not a single person)

    ____________________________________________________.

三、短语辨析

1. turn out

【辨析】turn out, turn down,turn away ,和turn up

    turn out     结果是;证明是

    turn down   拒绝，调低，关小

    turn away   把…打发走

    turn up     开大，调大；出现，来到

【例句】

    1)The party turned out to be very successful.

             晚会结果开得很成功。

    2) She asked her neighbor to turn down the radio.

              她请求邻居把收音机关小点声。

    3) Some refugees were turned away. There were too many hungry mouths to feed already.

              一些难民们被打发走了，因为需要提供食物的饥民太多了。

    4) Do you want me to turn up the heat.

              你要我把暖气调高吗?

【随练】

    1)你们的聚会搞得怎么样?（turn out）

    ____________________________________________________.

    2)他的请求被老板拒绝了，但他并没有放弃。(turn down)

    ____________________________________________________.

    3) 我们请她吃饭,但她没露面。(turn up)

    ____________________________________________________.

2.add to

【辨析】add up, add up to, add to, 和add… to

    add up      加起来，总计

    add up to    合计达，总括起来、意味着

    add to       加；增加

    add… to…   在…里增加…

【例句】

    1) Add up 3, 4 and 5 and you'll get 12.

             把三、四、五相加,总数是十二。

    2) I don't think these facts will add up to anything.

              这些事实我看不说明任何问题。

    3) In addition, urban migrants add to the supply of labor.

              此外,城市移民还增加了劳动的供应。

    4) You may add some sugar to the coffee if you like.

              喜欢的话可以在咖啡里加些糖。

【随练】

    1)积小胜为大胜。(add up to)

    ____________________________________________________.

    2)我对我先前说的话，没有什么补充的。( add to)

    ____________________________________________________.

四、语法点拨

【例句】

1. Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide.

【归纳】nothing more than表示“仅仅，只是”。又如： It was nothing more than a shower.

    只不过下了场阵雨。

    To kill time为动词不定式作主语的用法。可以用it 作形式主语：It is therefore a form of    

suicide to kill time. 又如：To learn a foreign language well is not easy.学好外语不是件容易

的事。此外，动词不定式还有如下用法：

    1) My wish is to become a teacher．我的愿望是当一名教师。（表语）

    2) I have no pen to write with．我没有钢笔写字。(定语)

    3) When to start has not been decided. 什么时候出发还没定下来。（和疑问词连用，  此 

    处为主语）

【随练】

1. It is____________________________________（只不过是杜撰的故事而已）.

2.____________________________ （说是一回事），to do it is another．

3. The question is______________________ (怎样做好这项工作). 

 

 

 

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二、词汇拓展

【随连】

1. 1)Don’t waste too much time talking on the Internet.

  2)You shouldn’t have wasted so much money on the novel.

2. 1)She remained single till the end of her days.

  2)There was not a single person in the house.

三、短语辨析

【随连】

1. 1)How did your party turn out?

  2)His request was turned down by the boss, but he didn’t give up.

  3)We invited her to dinner but she didn't turn up.

2. 1)Many small victories add up to a big one.

  2) I have nothing to add to my earlier statement.

四、语法点拨

【随连】

1. nothing more than a made-up story

2. To say something is one thing

3. how to do the job well