11 Things That School Doesn't Teach You

　　比尔盖茨告诉你11个学校没教给你的道理(中英对照)

　　Bill Gates used these eleven rules for a high school speech. His honesty is commendable.

　　比尔盖茨在一次中学演讲中提到了这11条规则，发人深省。

　　Rule 1 Life is not fair - get used to it.

　　第一条 人生是不公平的，习惯接受吧。

　　Rule 2 The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

　　第二条 这个世界并不在乎你的自尊，只在乎你做出来的成绩，然后再考虑你是否感觉良好。

　　Rule 3 You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with car phone, until you earn both.

　　第三条 你不会一离开高中就有四万美元年薪，你不会马上就是拥有公司配属手机的副总裁，二者你都必须靠努力赚来。

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

　　第四条 如果你觉得你的老师很凶，等你有了老板就知道，老板不像老师，他没有任期。

　　Rule 5 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping they called it Opportunity.

　　第五条 在快餐店打工煎汉堡并不可耻，你的祖父母对煎汉堡有不同的看法：那是机会。

　　Rule 6 If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

　　第六条 如果你一事无成，不是你父母的错，所以不要对自己犯的错发牢骚，从错误中去学习。

　　Rule 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 parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

　　第七条 在你出生前，你的父母并不像现在这般无趣，他们变成这样是因为忙着付你的开销、洗你的衣服、听你吹嘘你有多了不起。所以在你拯救被父母这代人破坏的热带雨林前先整理自己的房间吧。

　　Rule 8 Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and 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.

　　第八条 在学校里可能有赢家输家，在人生中却还言之过早。学校会不断给你机会找到正确答案，真实人生却完全不是这么回事。

　　Rule 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.

　　第九条 人生没有寒暑假，人生不是学期制，没有哪个雇主有兴趣帮你寻找自我，请用自己的时间来寻找自我吧。

　　Rule 10 Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

　　第十条 电视上演的并非真实人生，现实生活每个人都要离开咖啡馆去工作。

　　Rule 11 Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

　　第十一条 对学校的书呆子好一点，你未来很可能就为其中一个工作。

　　Bill Gates spoke before a group of high school students and gave them his eleven rules of life. The rules are taken from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by educator Charles Sykes. It is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school and directed at high school and college grads.

　　这是比尔盖茨在一群高中生中演讲提出的人生11条规则。这11条规则引自教育家Charles Sykes的《Dumbing Down our Kids》一书。这恐怕是你在中学没学到的11件事，可以用作指导高中和大学教育。