比爾蓋茨致青年的黃金準(zhǔn)則
1. Life is not fair, get used to it.
2. The world wont care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
3. You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You wont be a vice president with a car, until you earn both.
4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesnt have tenure.
5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
6. If you mess up, its not your parents fault, so dont whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
7. Before you were born, your parents werent as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to your talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
8. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; theyll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesnt bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
9. Life is not divided into semesters. You dont get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
10. Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
參考譯文：
1. 生活是不公平的，你要去適應(yīng)它。
2. 這個(gè)世界并不會(huì)在意你的自尊，而是要求你在自我感覺良好之前先有所成就。
3. 剛從學(xué)校走出來的時(shí)候不可能一年掙4萬美元，更不會(huì)成為哪家公司的副總裁，還擁有一部汽車，直到你將這些都掙到手的那一天。
4. 如果你認(rèn)為學(xué)校里的老師過于嚴(yán)厲，那么等你有了老板再回頭想一想。
5. 賣漢堡包并不會(huì)有損于你的尊嚴(yán)。你的祖父對(duì)賣漢堡包有著不同的理解，他們稱之為機(jī)遇。
6. 如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的過錯(cuò)，不要將你理應(yīng)承擔(dān)的責(zé)任轉(zhuǎn)嫁給他人，而要學(xué)著從中吸取教訓(xùn)。
7. 在你出生之前，你的父母并不像現(xiàn)在這樣乏味。他們變成今天這個(gè)樣子是因?yàn)檫@些年來一直為你付賬單，給你洗衣服，聽你談你有多酷。所以，在對(duì)父母喋喋不休之前，還是先去打掃一下你自己的屋子吧。
8. 你所在學(xué)校也許已經(jīng)不再分優(yōu)等生和劣等生，但生活并不如此。在某些學(xué)校已經(jīng)有了不及格的概念，學(xué)校會(huì)不斷地給你機(jī)會(huì)讓你進(jìn)步，然而現(xiàn)實(shí)生活完全不是這樣的。
9. 走出學(xué)校后的生活不像在學(xué)校一樣有學(xué)期之分，也沒有暑假之說。沒有幾位老板樂于幫你發(fā)現(xiàn)自我，你必須依靠自己去完成。
10. 電視中的許多場景決不是真實(shí)的生活。在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中，人們必須埋頭做自己的工作，而并不像電視里演的那樣天天泡在咖啡館里。
1. Life is not fair, get used to it.
2. The world wont care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
3. You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You wont be a vice president with a car, until you earn both.
4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesnt have tenure.
5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
6. If you mess up, its not your parents fault, so dont whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
7. Before you were born, your parents werent as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to your talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
8. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; theyll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesnt bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
9. Life is not divided into semesters. You dont get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
10. Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
參考譯文：
1. 生活是不公平的，你要去適應(yīng)它。
2. 這個(gè)世界并不會(huì)在意你的自尊，而是要求你在自我感覺良好之前先有所成就。
3. 剛從學(xué)校走出來的時(shí)候不可能一年掙4萬美元，更不會(huì)成為哪家公司的副總裁，還擁有一部汽車，直到你將這些都掙到手的那一天。
4. 如果你認(rèn)為學(xué)校里的老師過于嚴(yán)厲，那么等你有了老板再回頭想一想。
5. 賣漢堡包并不會(huì)有損于你的尊嚴(yán)。你的祖父對(duì)賣漢堡包有著不同的理解，他們稱之為機(jī)遇。
6. 如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的過錯(cuò)，不要將你理應(yīng)承擔(dān)的責(zé)任轉(zhuǎn)嫁給他人，而要學(xué)著從中吸取教訓(xùn)。
7. 在你出生之前，你的父母并不像現(xiàn)在這樣乏味。他們變成今天這個(gè)樣子是因?yàn)檫@些年來一直為你付賬單，給你洗衣服，聽你談你有多酷。所以，在對(duì)父母喋喋不休之前，還是先去打掃一下你自己的屋子吧。
8. 你所在學(xué)校也許已經(jīng)不再分優(yōu)等生和劣等生，但生活并不如此。在某些學(xué)校已經(jīng)有了不及格的概念，學(xué)校會(huì)不斷地給你機(jī)會(huì)讓你進(jìn)步，然而現(xiàn)實(shí)生活完全不是這樣的。
9. 走出學(xué)校后的生活不像在學(xué)校一樣有學(xué)期之分，也沒有暑假之說。沒有幾位老板樂于幫你發(fā)現(xiàn)自我，你必須依靠自己去完成。
10. 電視中的許多場景決不是真實(shí)的生活。在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中，人們必須埋頭做自己的工作，而并不像電視里演的那樣天天泡在咖啡館里。
