Be nice to nerds. Chances are you"ll end up working for one.
善待乏味的人。有可能到頭來你在工作中也會變成一個乏味的人。
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
vice1 president with a car phone, until you earn both.
剛畢業(yè)的你不會一年掙4萬美元，在你將此職位和汽車都掙到手以前，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。
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn"t have
tenure2.
你認為你的教師嚴厲，等你在老板手下干活時再這樣想，老板可不像教師那樣有任期限制的。
Life is not fair, get used to it.
生活是不公平的，要去適應(yīng)它。
If you mess up, it"s not your parents" fault, so don"t
whine3 about our mistakes, learn from them.
如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的過錯，所以不要抱怨錯誤，要從中汲取教訓。
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
parasites4 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，是因為這些年來一直在為你付帳單，給你洗衣服，聽你大談如何的酷。所以在對父母喋喋不休之前，還是先去打掃一下你自己的屋子吧。
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.
你的學校也許已經(jīng)不再分優(yōu)等生和劣等生，但生活卻仍在做出類似區(qū)分。某些學校已經(jīng)廢除不及格分，只要你想找到正確答案，學校會給你無數(shù)次機會。這和現(xiàn)實生活中的任何事情沒有一點相似之處。
Life is not divided into semesters. You don"t get summers off and very few employers are interested in
helping5 you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
生活不分學期，你并沒有暑假可以休息，也沒有幾位雇主樂于幫助你發(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.
電視不是真實的生活?，F(xiàn)實生活中，人們實際上得離開咖啡屋去干自己的工作。
| 1 vice | |
| n.壞事；惡習；[pl.]臺鉗，老虎鉗；adj.副的 |
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- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上壞習慣。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他們墮入了罪惡的深淵。
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| 2 tenure | |
| n.終身職位；任期；(土地)保有權(quán)，保有期 |
參考例句： |
- He remained popular throughout his tenure of the office of mayor.他在擔任市長的整個任期內(nèi)都深得民心。
- Land tenure is a leading political issue in many parts of the world.土地的保有權(quán)在世界很多地區(qū)是主要的政治問題。
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| 3 whine | |
| v.哀號，號哭；n.哀鳴 |
參考例句： |
- You are getting paid to think,not to whine.支付給你工資是讓你思考而不是哀怨的。
- The bullet hit a rock and rocketed with a sharp whine.子彈打在一塊巖石上，一聲尖厲的呼嘯，跳飛開去。
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| 4 parasites | |
| 寄生物( parasite的名詞復數(shù) )； 靠他人為生的人； 諸蟲 |
參考例句： |
- These symptoms may be referable to virus infection rather than parasites. 這些癥狀也許是由病毒感染引起的，而與寄生蟲無關(guān)。
- Kangaroos harbor a vast range of parasites. 袋鼠身上有各種各樣的寄生蟲。
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| 5 helping | |
| n.食物的一份&adj.幫助人的，輔助的 |
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- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可憐的孩子們總是要求我把我的漢堡包再給他們一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 這樣一來, 他在某些時候,有助于競爭的加強。
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