1. We want every minute to count.
    我们应当让每一分钟都过得有意义。

2. This was a great lesson to me, and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
    这事给了我很大教训。尽管为时太晚，我现在明白了：在开始做一件事之前，不先估计一下代价，不先正确地估计自己是否有做完这件事的力量，那真是太愚蠢了！

3. Here we are, all by ourselves, all 22 million of us by recent count, alone in our rooms, some of us liking it that way and some of us not.
    事实如此，我们孤独无伴地生活着。据最近的统计，共有2,200万人独自生活在自己的屋里。其中有些人喜欢这种生活，有些却不是。

4. "You are full of surprises," he said to her. "Even I can never count upon how you are going to act under given conditions.
    "你可真让人吃惊，" 他说，"我都说不准你什么时候会怎么做。

5. Probably the first way of keeping time was to count days.
    最初可能就是用计算天的方法来记录时间的。

6. I have lost count of the times we have been filming police officers on the street when local residents have come up to us and told us it is the first time in weeks they have seen police in the area.
    不知多少次，当我们在街上拍摄警察镜头时，总有当地居民向我们走来告诉我们说这是几周以来他们在此地第一次看到警察。