经典谚语:时间与金钱-M

Make hay while the sun shines.
［注解］比喻要善于把握时机。
［译］晒草要趁太阳好。
Many a little (or pickle) makes a mickle. (or Penny and penny laid up will be many.)
［注解］mickle指“多”。pickle指“少量”。这两个词皆为苏格兰语。
［译］积少成多。
Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
［译］人们不仅希望富有，而且希望比他人更富有。
Money burns a hole in his pocket.
［译］钱到袋里留不住。
Money calls, but does not stay: It is round and rolls away.
［译］金钱会上门，不会留下来，因为是圆的，所以会滚开。
Money makes the mare to go. (or Money can move even the gods.)
［注解］此谚语中make后可用to go或go。布留沃（Brewer）的注释是：只要有钱，什么事都能办成。
［译］有钱能使鬼推磨。
Money has no smell.
［注解］源于拉丁语。出自公元1世纪罗马皇帝韦斯巴芗（Titus Vepasian）。本句常用做取得金钱的口实，不顾来源是否肮脏。
［译］金钱无所谓香臭。
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned.
［译］金钱是无底的海洋，荣誉、良心和真理都可以淹没在其中。
Money is a good servant, but a bad master.
［译］金钱是好的仆役，坏的主人。
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
［译］如果只从金融方面讲，有钱是比没钱好。
Money is neither good nor bad, but all depends on what use is made of it.
［译］金钱本身无好坏，要看怎样利用它。
Money is often lost for want of money.
［译］往往由于缺乏金钱而丧失金钱。
Money is the root of all evil.
［译］金钱是万恶之源。
Money is the sinews of war.
［译］无钱莫打仗。
Money often unmakes the men who make it.
［注解］比喻为富不仁。
［译］赚得了金钱，损了德行。
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
［译］智力投资，绝非虚掷。
Money talks.
［译］有钱能讲话。