Footprints on the sand of time are not made by sitting down.

时光沙滩上的脚印是走出来的，不是坐出来的。

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We should work hard to achieve greatness. Then we may say that we haven't wasted our time, and we may leave our footprints on the sand of time.

我们应当努力奋斗，有所作为。这样，我们就可以说，我们没有虚度年华，并有可能在时间的沙滩上留下我们的足迹。

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Buffington says he found a soda bottle half buried in the sand that "looked like it had been there since the beginning of time."

布芬顿说，他发现了一个半埋在沙子里的汽水瓶，“看起来就像是从一开始就在那里一样。”

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One of its latest additions, the Sands of Time, is an oral history of the sand industry in Leighton Buzzard.

BBC: Sand memories a first at Bedfordshire archive

And while it used to require a certain set of characteristics to thrive as a bully, the internet makes it simple for almost anyone to graduate from cowering weakling to kicking virtual sand in the face of friends and strangers in no time.

FORBES: Jimmy Wong Saves the Internet

She did not tell anyone that she spent much of her time looking out at the Pacific from empty beaches, some of them narrow with coarse sand, though farther north many of the beaches were rocky, desolate in the falling dusk, when seagulls circled hungrily and waves deposited dead seaweed.

NEWYORKER: Alone