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5. (问答题)Directions: Translate the following English passages into Chinese.
Americans believe no one stands still. If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind. This attitude results in a nation of people committed to researching, experimenting and exploring. Time is one of the two elements that Americans save carefully, the other one being labor.
“We are slaves to nothing but the clock,” it is been said. Time is treated as if it were something real. We budget it, save it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we also charge for it. It is a precious resource. Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime. Once the sands have run out of a person’s hourglass, they cannot be replaced. We want every minute to count.
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