比尔盖茨的11条人生箴言 for college graduates

In Bill Gates' Book for high school and college graduates, there is a list of 11 things they did not learn in school. In his book, Bill Gates talks about how feelgood, politically-correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this education set them up for failure in the real world.

 

The 11 things are:

 

1. Life is not fair, get used to it.

get used to 习惯

2. The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

self-esteem 自尊

 

injure one's self-esteem 伤害一个人的自尊

 

gain / get the esteem of 赢得……的尊敬

 

hold sb in high / great esteem 极其尊敬某人

 

hold sb in low esteem 不尊重某人

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 phone, until you earn both.

vice-president 副总裁

4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

during one's tenure of office 在职期间

 

teacher tenure 教师任期

 

a teacher granted tenure 一位有终身职位的老师

5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

beneath one's dignity 不合身份

 

stand on one's dignity 保持尊严

 

Although she is very poor, she has not lost her dignity. 她虽然很穷，但没有失去她的尊严。

6. If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about our mistakes, learn from them. 

mess up 陷入困境

 

whine about 发牢骚

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 you 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.

Bad customs should be abolished. 坏的风俗应当废除。

 

bear a resemblance to 与……相象

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. 

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