关于美国人的时间观念的英语短文

What is time? Is it a thing to be saved or spent or wasted, like money? Or is it something we have no control over, like the weather? Americans see time as a valuable resource. Maybe that‘s why they are fond of the expression, "Time is money."

The early American hero Benjamin Franklin expressed this view best: "Do you love life? Then do not waste time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

American lifestyles show how much people respect the time of others. When people plan an event, they often set the time days or weeks in advance. once the time is fixed, it takes almost an emergency to change it.

Even Americans would admit that no one can master time. Time-like money-slips all too easily through our fingers. And time-like the weather-is very hard to predict. Nevertheless, time is one of life‘s most precious gifts. And unwrapping it is half the fun.