:破刀文集--比尔·盖茨送给年轻人的十一条忠告（原文及评论）[网摘]

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
1.生活是不公平的，你要去学会适应它；

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.
2.这世界并不会在意你的自尊，这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就；

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won‘t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
3.高中刚毕业后你不会一下就拿到年薪六万美金的职位，你也不会很快成为拥有车载电话的公司副总，直到你将此职位挣到手；

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
4.如果你认为你的老师严厉，等你当了老板再这样想；

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
5.不要因为（自以为）尊严而蔑视琐碎。你的长辈们有另一个词汇来描述这些琐碎和繁杂的事物，他们称之为机遇；

Rule 6: If you mess up, it‘s not your parents‘ fault, so don‘t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
6.如果你陷入困境，不要只会发牢骚抱怨错误（那不是你父母的错），要学会从中吸取教训；

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 thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent‘s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
7.在你出生之前，你的父母并非像现在这样乏味。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，听你大谈你是如何的酷；

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.
8.你的学校也许已经不再分优等生和劣等生，但生活却仍在作出类似区分；许多学校已经废除了留级制度并给予你很多机会得到正确的答案。但在现实生活中，这种机会却很少得到；

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.
9.生活不分学期，你并没有暑假可以休息，也没有几个人乐于帮你发现自我。你得用你自己的时间去发现；

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

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you‘ll end up working for one.
11.善待那些看似卑微或者极度乏味的人，有可能到头来你有可能会不得不为他们而打工。