I am happily turning in my assignment:

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From Chinese to English:

无论何事,只要对它有无限的热情,你就能取得成功。

Once your gusto knows no bounds, the sky's the limit.

From English to Chinese:

All time is no time when it is past.

* In my neck of the woods, we have the following proverb that conveys the same message:

"There's no time like the present." (The best time to do something is right now.)

1. 坐言起行。

2. 把握现在,时机不失。

3. 港粤俗谚:蘇州過後冇艇搭。

(据老香港说,广东商贾喜到江南做丝绸生意,利润甚丰,不免随俗风月一番。苏州乃温柔水乡,以船艇作为舞榭歌台。错过苏州,即错过江南风月也。)

Idioms

1. I slept like a baby the moment I hit the hay.

2. The hypersonic SR-72 may boast 6 times the speed of sound, but its birth is still up in the air.