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深深，深深地，在这粪土和黑夜里。 Deep in the dung and the dark! | ||
“金钱，”百老汇音乐剧《你好，多莉》里的著名角色说道，“如粪土，若不分发出去，不名一钱。” "Money," a character famously said in the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly, "is like manure.It's not worth a thing unless it's spread about. | ||
孔子说：“朽烂的木头，不可能雕刻出精美的饰物；粪土筑的墙壁，不可能粉刷出好样子。” Confucius said: "Neither a piece of rotten wood nor a wall of dried dung can be turned into something beautiful." | ||
金钱对贪婪财富的人来说具有很大的诱惑力，但对视物质财富如粪土的人来说诱惑力却很小。 The lure of money is strong for those who are greedy for wealth, but weak for those who regard material wealth as dung. | ||
在南海东岛牛塘海鸟粪土沉积层中发现一岩性明显不同于上、下层位的珊瑚砂夹层。 The sediment cores from "Cattle Pond" on Dongdao Island of South China Sea contain a coral sand sediment layer embedded by ornithogenic sediments with sharp stratigraphic contacts. | ||
这些常识，在寂寞的旷野中鲜活起来，面对仔细侍弄粪土，像土地一样单纯的爹，王奋发多少有点感动。 These common senses about dung become alive in the lonely desert. In the face of his father being careful for the dung like soil, Wang Feifa is touched. | ||
一个人到了越穷困的时候，对于金钱便越视为粪土，我常常奇怪一钱如命的守财奴，为什么要这样刻苦自己，半文钱也不肯花。 The poorer one is, the more he looks upon money as dirt. I often wonder why a miser should be so rigid in self-denial, even grudging to spend every single cent for himself. | ||
