英语名篇诵读 比尔·盖茨的11条准则

Bill Gates' 11 Rules

比尔·盖茨的11条准则

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

2. The world won't care about your self- esteem¹. 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 vice² president with a car phone, until you earn both.

4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure³ .

5. Flipping⁴ burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they call it opportunity.

6. If you mess up , it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine⁵ 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 you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites⁶ 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 helping⁷ you find yourselves. 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.

1. 生活是不公平的，习惯它吧。

2. 这个世界不会在乎你的自尊心。这个世界指望你自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。

3. 你不可能中学刚毕业就能一年搞到四万美元。你不会成为公司的副总裁，并拥有一部装有电话的汽车，直到你将此职位和汽车电话都挣到手。

4. 如果你认为你的老师严格难对付，等你有了老板再看。他可没有任职期满的限制。

5. 烙牛肉饼并不有失你的尊严。你的祖父母用另外一个词说烙牛肉饼：他们称之为机会。

6. 如果你把事情搞砸了，那不是你父母的过错，所以不要哀叹自己的错误，要从中汲取教训。

7. 在你出生之前，你父母可没有现在这样乏味。他们之所以这样，是因为他们为你付账单，为你洗衣服，听你大谈你是怎样的酷。所以如果你想消除你父母那一辈中的“寄生虫”来拯救雨林的话，还是先清除你自己房间壁橱里的虫子吧。

8. 你的学校也许不再以考试成绩来分优生、差生，但是生活不是这样。有些学校已经废除了不及格，你想尝试多少次都可以，直到得到正确答案。这同现实生活没有丝毫相似之处。

9. 生活是不分学期的。你没有暑假，很少有雇主有兴趣帮你找到自我。你自己花时间找到自我吧。

10. 电视并非真实的生活。在真实生活中，人们必须得离开咖啡厅去工作。

11. 善待卑微的人。有可能到头来你会为其中一个你认为卑微的人打工。

1 esteem   

n.尊敬，尊重；vt.尊重，敬重；把…看作

参考例句：

• I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
• The veteran worker ranks high in public love and esteem.那位老工人深受大伙的爱戴。

2 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

3 tenure   

n.终身职位；任期；(土地)保有权，保有期

参考例句：

• He remained popular throughout his tenure of the office of mayor.他在担任市长的整个任期内都深得民心。
• Land tenure is a leading political issue in many parts of the world.土地的保有权在世界很多地区是主要的政治问题。

4 flipping   

讨厌之极的

参考例句：

• I hate this flipping hotel! 我讨厌这个该死的旅馆！
• Don't go flipping your lid. 别发火。

5 whine   

v.哀号，号哭；n.哀鸣

参考例句：

• You are getting paid to think,not to whine.支付给你工资是让你思考而不是哀怨的。
• The bullet hit a rock and rocketed with a sharp whine.子弹打在一块岩石上，一声尖厉的呼啸，跳飞开去。

6 parasites   

寄生物( parasite的名词复数 )； 靠他人为生的人； 诸虫

参考例句：

• These symptoms may be referable to virus infection rather than parasites. 这些症状也许是由病毒感染引起的，而与寄生虫无关。
• Kangaroos harbor a vast range of parasites. 袋鼠身上有各种各样的寄生虫。

7 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。