讀雙語(yǔ)故事,看百味人生。閱讀是一生的功課,無論順境逆境,我們總能在文字里找到共鳴。以下是小編整理的比爾蓋茨致青年的黃金準(zhǔn)則/The golden rules for youth from Bill Gates的內(nèi)容,讀一下吧,也許恰好是你喜歡的那一篇。
1. Life is not fair, get used to it.
2. The world won’t 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 won’t 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 doesn’t 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, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
7. Before you were born, your parents weren’t 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; they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
9. Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t 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.
11. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
【助讀詞匯】
◇self-esteem n. 自尊,自負(fù),自大,自尊心
◇accomplish vt. 完成,達(dá)到,實(shí)現(xiàn)
◇tenure n. (官職等的)保有,任期, (土地)使用期限
◇flip vt. 急速地翻動(dòng),使翻轉(zhuǎn)
◇burger n. 漢堡包,牛肉餅
◇whine v. 發(fā)牢騷,哀訴
◇parasite n. 寄生生物,寄生植物,寄生蟲
◇delouse vt. 除去(身上、衣服上的)虱子
◇nerd n. 乏味的人
【參考譯文】
比爾蓋茨致青年的黃金準(zhǔn)則
1. 生活是不公平的,要適應(yīng)它。
2. 這個(gè)世界并不會(huì)在乎你的自尊,只是要求你在自我感覺良好之前先有所成就。
3. 剛從中學(xué)畢業(yè)你不會(huì)1年掙4萬美元,你不會(huì)成為一名擁有汽車的公司副總裁,直到你汽車和副總裁的職位都掙到手。
4. 如果你認(rèn)為你的老師很嚴(yán)厲,那么等你有了老板再回頭想一想,老板可是沒有任期限制的。
5. 烙牛肉餅并不會(huì)有損于你的尊嚴(yán)。你的祖父對(duì)烙牛肉餅有著不同的理解,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),不要埋怨你的錯(cuò)誤,而要從中吸取教訓(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,聽你大談你有多酷。所以,如果你想消滅你父母那一輩中的“寄生蟲”來拯救雨林的話,還是先去清除你房間衣柜里的虱子吧。
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)廢除不及格分;只要你想找到正確答案,學(xué)校就會(huì)給你機(jī)會(huì)。然而跟現(xiàn)實(shí)生活相比,這并沒有絲毫的相似之處。
9.生活不像在學(xué)校一樣有學(xué)期之分,你也不會(huì)有暑假,并且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. 電視里并不是真實(shí)的生活。在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中,人們必須離開咖啡館而埋頭做自己的工作。
11. 善待乏味的人。有可能到頭來你會(huì)為一個(gè)乏味的人工作。
【人生啟迪】
我們?cè)谀贻p的時(shí)候總是抱怨學(xué)校的作業(yè)太多,父母給的壓力太大,老師太過嚴(yán)厲,還有考試太難,但是一旦有一天當(dāng)我們走上了社會(huì),才發(fā)現(xiàn)原來學(xué)生時(shí)代的生活是最美好的,我們卻沒有珍惜。作為學(xué)生的你,還在怨天尤人嗎?從現(xiàn)在開始珍惜你所擁有的一切吧,這樣當(dāng)你有一天走上工作崗位的時(shí)候,你才不會(huì)為學(xué)生時(shí)代的你感到懊悔!