句子使用了'reduced'结构作为主语，'but'在此作副词表示‘仅仅’，提升了表达的文学性。
Today, I begin a new life. I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will hinder the growth of this new existence. I shall not lose a single day to these readings, for a lost day cannot be retrieved, nor can it be substituted by another. I must not, and I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls. In truth, The few moments spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.
As I read and re-read the words in the scrolls to follow, I will never allow the brevity of each scroll or the simplicity of its words to cause me to treat the message lightly. Just as thousands of grapes are pressed to fill a single jar with wine, while the skins and pulp are tossed to the birds, so it is with these grapes of wisdom from the ages. Much has been filtered out and cast to the wind. Only pure truth remains, distilled in the words to come. I will drink as instructed, spilling not a drop, and I will swallow the seed of success.
Today, my old skin has become dust. I will walk tall among men, and they will not recognize me, for today I am a new man with a new life.
今天，我开始了全新的人生。我向自己庄严宣誓，绝不让任何事物阻碍我新生的成长。我将不浪费阅读这些篇章中的任何一天，因为逝去的日子无法追回，也无法用其他日子来替代。我绝不能、也绝不会打破每日阅读这些卷轴的习惯。诚然，每天在这新习惯上花费的片刻时光，对于我将获得的幸福与成功而言，不过是微小的代价。
当我反复诵读后续卷轴中的文字时，我绝不允许每篇卷轴的简短篇幅或言辞的简洁，让我轻视其中蕴含的信息。正如千颗葡萄被压榨以酿满一罐葡萄酒，而葡萄皮与果肉则被丢弃给鸟儿。这些历经岁月沉淀的智慧之葡萄亦是如此。大量杂质已被过滤并随风而去，唯有纯粹的真知，才浓缩在即将到来的文字之中。我将遵照指引饮用这智慧之酒，不洒漏一滴；并将成功的种子吞入腹中。
今天，我旧日的皮囊已化为尘埃。我将昂首挺胸地走在人群中，他们认不出我，因为今天，我已是一个新人，拥有崭新的人生。
"Excellence is a habit; if excellence is a habit, so is laziness."
"It takes a moment to fall into bad habits, but a year to break them."
"From birth, various habits gradually take root in our minds."
"Success is actually simple once it becomes a habit."
"Cultivating good habits and discarding bad ones is the key to success."