金钱Finance/Money[英语名人名言] |
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The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite1 tax tip is that you should print neatly2. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes... -- Dave Barry
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton
A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford3
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate4, 1989
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery5 whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben
We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely6 precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings
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dynamite
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| n./vt.(用)炸药(爆破) |
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- The workmen detonated the dynamite.工人们把炸药引爆了。
- The philosopher was still political dynamite.那位哲学家仍旧是政治上的爆炸性人物。
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neatly
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| adv.整洁地，干净地，灵巧地，熟练地 |
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- Sailors know how to wind up a long rope neatly.水手们知道怎样把一条大绳利落地缠好。
- The child's dress is neatly gathered at the neck.那孩子的衣服在领口处打着整齐的皱褶。
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Ford
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| n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过 |
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- They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
- If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。
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inmate
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| n.被收容者；(房屋等的)居住人；住院人 |
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- I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
- The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。
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lottery
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| n.抽彩；碰运气的事，难于算计的事 |
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- He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
- They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。
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infinitely
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| adv.无限地，无穷地 |
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- There is an infinitely bright future ahead of us.我们有无限光明的前途。
- The universe is infinitely large.宇宙是无限大的。
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