Life is not fair, get used to it.
生活是不公平的,习惯就好
The world won"t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
世界不会关心你的自尊,世界会希望你在自满之前成功.
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.
你不会刚出高中一年就赚4万美元,你不会成为一个有汽车电话的副总统,直到你都赚到.(?不明白.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn"t have tenure.
如果你觉得你的老师很坏(难相处),就等着直到你有了老板.他没有稳定职位.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
翻汉堡(一种低等的工作)不在你的高贵之下.你的祖父母对翻汉堡有不同的说法,他们叫它机遇.
If you mess up, it"s not your parents" fault, so don"t whine about our mistakes, learn from them.
如果你搞砸了,不是你爸妈的错,所以不要为自己的错误牢骚,吸取教训.
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,你父母不像他们现在这样无聊.他们如同支付你的账单那样,洗净你的衣服,还有听你说你有多酷.所以,在从你前辈中的蠹虫们手中解救雨林之前,先试试扫除以下自己屋里壁橱中的虱子.
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.
你的学校也许废除了胜利者和输家,但是生活不会.在一些学校里他们废除了降级,他们会给你足够的得到正确答案的机会.但这在现实生活中根本不可能.
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.
人生不会被分成学期.你不会有暑假而且很少人会有兴趣帮你找回自己.用你自己的时间做那个吧.
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
电视不是真的生活.人生中人们其实必须离开咖啡店去工作.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are youll end up working for one.
对书呆子好点.机会就是你要结束工作的那个.
加分.