英語美文賞析：比爾蓋茨的十大人生定律
Life is not fair, get used to it.
生活是不公平的;要去適應(yīng)它。
The world won"t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
這世界并不會在意你的自尊。這世界指望你在自我感覺良好之前先要有所成就。
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.
高中剛畢業(yè)你不會一年掙4萬美元。你不會成為一個公司的副總裁，并擁有一部裝有電話的汽車，直到你將此職位和汽車電話都掙到手。
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn"t have tenure.
如果你認(rèn)為你的老師嚴(yán)厲，等你有了老板再這樣想。老板可是沒有任期限制的。
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
烙牛肉餅并不有損你的尊嚴(yán)。你的祖父母對烙牛肉餅可有不同的定義;他們稱它為機(jī)遇。
If you mess up, it"s not your parents" fault, so don"t whine about our mistakes, learn from them.
如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的過錯，所以不要尖聲抱怨我們的錯誤，要從中吸取教訓(xùn)。
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.
在你出生之前，你的父母并非像他們現(xiàn)在這樣乏味。他們變成今天這個樣子是因?yàn)檫@些年來他們一直在為你付賬單，給你洗衣服，聽你大談你是如何的酷。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蟲子吧。
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.
你的學(xué)校也許已經(jīng)不再分優(yōu)等生和劣等生，但生活卻仍在作出類似區(qū)分。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)校就會給你無數(shù)的機(jī)會。這和現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中的任何事情沒有一點(diǎn)相似之處。
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.
生活不分學(xué)期。你并沒有暑假可以休息，也沒有幾位雇主樂于幫你發(fā)現(xiàn)自我。自己找時間做吧。
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
電視并不是真實(shí)的生活。在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中，人們實(shí)際上得離開咖啡屋去干自己的工作。
gs are tough.
愛幫助我們在時事艱難的時候保持沉著，平靜的心態(tài)。
It can carry us through the hard times.
它能幫我們度過苦難的時光。
Love looks for ways to be of service.
愛會自己尋找助人的途徑。
Love is enjoying the surprises of life,
愛是享受生命中的諸多驚喜，
and being totally delighted with what life gives you.
愛是完全滿足于生活的給予。
Love is the key to happiness
愛是幸福生活的鑰匙，
and it is a real blessing to others.
愛是對他人真摯的祝福。
People who love make the world a kind and gentle place and other people feel safe around them.
心中有愛的人讓世界充滿仁慈和儒雅之風(fēng)，讓周圍的人感到安全。
They appreciate differences instead of making them a cause for prejudice or fighting.
他們求同存異，而不是把分歧作為成見或者爭執(zhí)的理由。
Life is not fair, get used to it.
生活是不公平的;要去適應(yīng)它。
The world won"t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
這世界并不會在意你的自尊。這世界指望你在自我感覺良好之前先要有所成就。
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.
高中剛畢業(yè)你不會一年掙4萬美元。你不會成為一個公司的副總裁，并擁有一部裝有電話的汽車，直到你將此職位和汽車電話都掙到手。
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn"t have tenure.
如果你認(rèn)為你的老師嚴(yán)厲，等你有了老板再這樣想。老板可是沒有任期限制的。
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
烙牛肉餅并不有損你的尊嚴(yán)。你的祖父母對烙牛肉餅可有不同的定義;他們稱它為機(jī)遇。
If you mess up, it"s not your parents" fault, so don"t whine about our mistakes, learn from them.
如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的過錯，所以不要尖聲抱怨我們的錯誤，要從中吸取教訓(xùn)。
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.
在你出生之前，你的父母并非像他們現(xiàn)在這樣乏味。他們變成今天這個樣子是因?yàn)檫@些年來他們一直在為你付賬單，給你洗衣服，聽你大談你是如何的酷。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蟲子吧。
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.
你的學(xué)校也許已經(jīng)不再分優(yōu)等生和劣等生，但生活卻仍在作出類似區(qū)分。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)校就會給你無數(shù)的機(jī)會。這和現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中的任何事情沒有一點(diǎn)相似之處。
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.
生活不分學(xué)期。你并沒有暑假可以休息，也沒有幾位雇主樂于幫你發(fā)現(xiàn)自我。自己找時間做吧。
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
電視并不是真實(shí)的生活。在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中，人們實(shí)際上得離開咖啡屋去干自己的工作。
gs are tough.
愛幫助我們在時事艱難的時候保持沉著，平靜的心態(tài)。
It can carry us through the hard times.
它能幫我們度過苦難的時光。
Love looks for ways to be of service.
愛會自己尋找助人的途徑。
Love is enjoying the surprises of life,
愛是享受生命中的諸多驚喜，
and being totally delighted with what life gives you.
愛是完全滿足于生活的給予。
Love is the key to happiness
愛是幸福生活的鑰匙，
and it is a real blessing to others.
愛是對他人真摯的祝福。
People who love make the world a kind and gentle place and other people feel safe around them.
心中有愛的人讓世界充滿仁慈和儒雅之風(fēng)，讓周圍的人感到安全。
They appreciate differences instead of making them a cause for prejudice or fighting.
他們求同存異，而不是把分歧作為成見或者爭執(zhí)的理由。
