啪！

砖来了。

the man knows to spend appropriately->knows how to ...? or is known to ...
dispise->despised
Afterwards, the pressure from mortgage, college tuition, etc, gradually changes the spending habits.觉得有点歧义，the spending habits是不是换成his spending habits更清楚些.
advancing better->advancing faster, or climbing the corporate ladder faster
get things done well带着well觉得怪
Nice is an extra but not essential;-->"Being nice" is something extra, maybe?

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• 收到--看来咱们的住处也可以考虑抗震加固了 :D -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (38 bytes) () 09/04/2011 postreply 00:21:04

• My responses -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (1392 bytes) () 09/04/2011 postreply 04:05:14

• 关于know to do something，I am not very convinced -非文学青年- ♀ (354 bytes) () 09/04/2011 postreply 08:50:20

• The example I found comes from this dictionary: -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (125 bytes) () 09/04/2011 postreply 17:55:53

• 恩，估计是不怎么常用的用法。 -非文学青年- ♀ (101 bytes) () 09/04/2011 postreply 21:33:09

• 英国人编的，一堆的人翻译的 -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (138 bytes) () 09/04/2011 postreply 21:56:05

• 确实跟我很象，喜欢搞蹩脚的文字游戏，哈哈。 -非文学青年- ♀ (81 bytes) () 09/04/2011 postreply 23:36:41

• 天，谁像谁呀？ -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (135 bytes) () 09/04/2011 postreply 23:55:07

• haha, 踩着猫尾巴了。 -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/05/2011 postreply 00:00:40