Most of the evils of life arise from a desire of present enjoyment that outruns itself.

生活中的大多数罪恶都源于对当下享乐的渴望，这种渴望超越了自身。

He is said to spend when he seeks to obtain present enjoyment from the services and commodities which he purchases.

当他试图从他购买的服务和商品中获得当下的享受时，他被称为花费。

Everything honourable and soothing, every present enjoyment, and every future hope was contained in it; and her acceptance, with only the saving clause of Papa and Mamma's approbation, was eagerly given.

一切尊贵和舒缓的事物，现在的每一种享受，以及未来的每一种希望都包含在其中；她欣然接受了，只是爸爸妈妈同意的保留条款。

And that tribes of men, like flocks of sheep, should quietly follow such a leader, is a solecism that only a desire of present enjoyment and narrowness of understanding can solve.

而人类的部落，就像羊群一样，应该安静地跟随这样的领导者，这是一种唯有当下享乐的欲望和狭隘的理解才能解决的问题。

With regard to profusion, the principle which prompts to expense is the passion for present enjoyment; which, though sometimes violent and very difficult to be restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional.

关于挥霍，导致消费的原则是对当下享乐的热情；这种情绪虽然有时很猛烈而且很难克制，但通常只是暂时的和偶然的。