Bill Gates给中学生的忠告（摘录）

看看咱这世界首富Bill Gates是如何教育中学生的。他又直接，又实际，可不是跟你说教而已----这成功者就是不一样，连说话都很成功哪。那每一句话，都是对你人生的一次启迪。

1。 Life is not fair, get used to it.
　　生活是不公平的。你要去适应它。

2。The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
　　这个世界从来不在意你的自尊。这个世界只指望你在自我感觉良好之前先做点什么。

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.
　　高中一毕业，你不会一年挣4万美元。你也不可能成为一个公司的副总裁，并且车里还有电话，除非你把两者（职位和带电话的汽车）都挣到了手。

4。If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
　　如果你认为你的老师严厉，等你有了老板再这么说吧。那老板可是没有任期期限的。

5。Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
　　干翻烙牛肉夹饼这活，可没扫你的威风。你的祖父母对烙牛肉饼可有着不同的定义；那就叫：机遇。

6。If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about our mistakes, learn from them。
　　如果你陷入了困境，那可不是你父母的错。所以啊，你不要尖叫抱怨自己的错误，从中吸取教训吧。

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.
　　在你出生之前，你的父母可不像现在这般无聊乏味。他们变成今天这样子，那完全是因为这些年来一直在为你付账单，给你洗衣服，听你大谈你是如何的了不起(酷）。所以呀，你想要消灭你父母那一辈的"寄生虫"来拯救雨林的话，你还是先去清除一下你房间衣储里的虫子吧。

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.
　　也许你的学校已经不再分什么优等生和劣等生，但生活可不是这样。某些学校已经废除了不及格留级；学校会给你n-次机会，只要你想找到正确答案。这可和现实生活中的任何事都没有一丁点相似之处。

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.
　　生活可没有分什么学期。你没有那暑假可以休息，也没有那个雇主想要帮你发现你的自我。你自个的事，得自个来。

10。Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
　　电视里演的可不是真实的生活。现实中的人，可都得离开咖啡屋，去干活。

11。Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
      你要善待那些呆头呆脑的人（书虫）。在现实中那可是太有可能了---到头来啊，你得在一个极其乏味的人手下工作也不一定。

[林贝卡]

well-said.

[melly]

Not only for high school students but also me, an adult, who needs to be reminded from time to time. Thanks a lot.