In his play Macbeth Shakespeare has his three witches hovering over their mystical brew chanting “double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.”

在莎翁的戏剧《麦克白》中，他写到有三个巫婆围着她们的魔药，并且吟唱着：“不惮辛劳不惮烦，釜中沸沫已成澜”。

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Trouble springs from Idleness; Toil from Ease.

麻烦来自闲散，辛苦源于安逸。

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The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

对于一个人来说， 天下无论什么东西的真正价格只是努力得到它们的辛苦和麻烦。

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It doesn't take much imagination to see where Macbeth's Three Witches of Eastwick, casting toil and trouble from their hill, might have come from.

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