比尔.盖茨的11条金玉良言
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
You won't be a vice president with a car
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。
Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it
他们称它为机遇。
so don't whine about our mistakes, learn from them.
如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的过错，所以不要尖声抱怨错误，而要从中吸取教训。
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，你的父母并非像他们现在这样乏味。
他们变成今天这个样子是因为这些年来他们一直在为你付账单，给你洗衣服，听你大谈你是如何得酷。所以，如果你想消灭你父母那一辈中的寄生虫来拯救雨林的话，还是先去清除自己房间衣柜里的虫子吧。
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
某些学校已经废除不及格的分数；只要你想找到正确答案，学校就会给你无数的机会。这和现实生活中的任何事情没有一点相似之处。
自己找时间去做那些事情吧。
In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
电视并不是真实的生活。在现实生活中，人们实际上得离开咖啡屋去干自己的工作。