同样地,如果有人买了东西,问你有何看法时,你就没必要告诉他你认为他是在浪费钱,因为这样的实话只有在买东西之前有帮助。
Similarly, if someone buys something and then asks for your opinion, there is no need to tell him that you think he wasted his money. The truth would only have been helpful before the purchase.
如果你告诉一个建筑工程师使用蓝图对于他来说是浪费时间的,相反应该从金属材料开始工作的话,他将认为你在胡说。
If you told a construction engineer that it was a waste of time for him to use blueprints and to go start banging on metal instead, he'd think you were nuts.
小镇上一个名叫亚伯拉罕的朋友,曾经告诉他永远不要让任何人知道他的钱:“如果有什么人看到你有两块钱,他就会认为你有二十块。”
The one friend he had in town, a man by the name of Abrahim, had told him never to let anyone know how much money he had: "If someone sees you have two dollars, he will think you have twenty."
Off he went to the northeast Peloponnesus to the site where he thought it might be, Mycenae, from Homer's account-- I wouldn't be telling you this story, and you know the outcome.
因此他奔向伯罗奔尼撒半岛东北部,根据荷马的叙述,他认为迈锡尼城在那里,我想不用告诉你这个故事的结局,你们也能猜出来
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