Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

一下子考中金榜题名，但没有十年的努力不可能官至宰相。

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

阅读的行为是对世界喧嚣的一种反抗。