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I'll give you some advice about life.
给你生活的忠告
Eat more roughage;
多吃些粗粮；
Do more than others expect you to do and do it pains;
给别人比他们期望的更多，并用心去做；
Remember what life tells you;
熟记生活告诉你的一切；
Don't take to heart every thing you hear.
Don't spend all that you have.
Don't sleep as long as you want;
不要轻信你听到的每件事，不要花光你的所有，不要想睡多久就睡多久；
Whenever you say" I love you", please say it honestly;
无论何时说"我爱你"，请真心实意；
Whevever you say" I'm sorry", please look into the other person's eyes;
无论何时说"对不起"，请看对方的眼睛；
Fall in love at first sight;
相信一见钟情；
Don't neglect dreams;
请不要忽视梦想；
Love deeply and ardently, even if there is pain, but this is the way to make your life complete;
深情热烈地爱，也许会受伤，但这是使人生完整的唯一方法；
Find a way to settle, not to dispute;
用一种明确的方法解决争议，不要冒犯；
Never judge people by their appearance;
永远不要以貌取人；
Speak slowly, but think quickly;
慢慢地说，但要迅速地想；
When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, simle and say, "Why do you want to
know?"
当别人问你不想回答的问题时，笑着说："你为什么想知道？"
Remember that the man who can shoulder the most risk will gain the deepest love and the supreme
accomplishment;
记住：那些敢于承担最大风险的人才能得到最深的爱和最大的成就；
Call you mother on the phone. If you can't, you may think of her in your heart;
给妈妈打电话，如果不行，至少在心里想着她；
When someone sneezes say, "God bless you";
当别人打喷嚏时，说一声"上帝保佑"；
If you fail, don't forget to learn your lesson;
如果你失败了，千万别忘了汲取教训；
Remember the three " respects" .Respect yourself, respect others, stand on dignity and pay attention
to your behavior;
记住三个"尊"： 尊重你自己； 尊重别人； 保持尊严， 对自己的行为负责；
Don't let a little dispute break up a great friendship;
不要让小小的争端损毁了一场伟大的友谊；
Whenever you find your wrongdoing, be quick with reparation!
无论何时你发现自己做错了，竭尽所能去弥补；动作要快！
Whenever you make a phone call smile when you pick up the phone, because someone feel it!
无论什么时候打电话，摘起话筒的时候请微笑，因为对方能感觉到！
Marry a person who likes talking; because when you get old, you'll find that chatting to be a great
advantage;
找一个你爱聊的人结婚；因为年纪大了后，你会发觉喜欢聊天是一个人最大的优点；
Find time for yourself.
找点时间，单独呆会儿；
Life will change what you are but not who you are;
欣然接受改变，但不要摒弃你的个人理念；
Remember that silence is golden;
记住：沉默是金；
Read more books and watch less television;
多看点书，少看点电视；
Live a noble and honest life. Reviving past times in your old age will help you to enjoy your life again;
过一种高尚而诚实的生活。当你年老时回想起过去，你就能再一次享受人生。
Trust God, but don't forget to lock the door;
相信上帝，但是别忘了锁门；
The harmonizing atmosphere of a family is valuable;
家庭的融洽氛围是难能可贵的；
Try your best to let family harmony flow smoothly;
尽你的能力让家平顺和谐；
When you quarrel with a close friend, talk about the main dish, don't quibble over the appetizers;
当你和你的亲近的少吵嘴时候，试着就事论事，不要扯出那些陈芝麻、烂谷子的事；
You cannot hold onto yesterday;
不要摆脱不了昨天；
Figure out the meaning of someone's words;
多注意言下之意；
Share your knowledge to continue a timeless tradition;
和别人分享你的知识，那才是永恒之道；
Treat our earth in a friendly way,don't fool around with mother nature;
善待我们的地球，不要愚弄自然母亲；
Do the thing you should do;
做自己该做的事；
Don't trust a lover who kisses you without closing their eyes;
不要相信接吻时从不闭眼的伴侣；
Go to a place you've never been to every year.
每年至少去一个你从没去过的地方。
If you earn much money,the best way to spend it is on charitable deeds while you are alive;
如果你赚了很多钱，在活着的时候多行善事 ... (全文...)

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become.

You never know who these people may be - a roommate, a neighbor, a professor, a friend, a lover, or even a complete stranger - but when you lock eyes with them, you know at that very moment they will affect your life in some profound way.

Sometimes things happen to you that may seem horrible, painful, and unfair at first, but in reflection you find that without overcoming those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, willpower, or heart.

Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, whatever they may be, life would be like a smoothly paved straight flat road to nowhere. It would be safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless.

The people you meet who affect your life, and the success and downfalls you experience, help to create who you are and who you become. Even the bad experiences can be learned from. In fact, they are sometimes the most important ones.

If someone loves you, give love back to them in whatever way you can, not only because they love you, but because in a way, they are teaching you to love and how to open your heart and eyes to things.

If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart.

Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from those moments everything that you possibly can for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people that you have never talked to before, and listen to what they have to say.

Let yourself fall in love, break free, and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe in yourself, it will be hard for others to believe in you.

You can make anything you wish of your life. Create your own life and then go out and live it with absolutely no regrets.

And if you love someone tell them, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

~ Author Unknown ~
　

A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and lay around it everyday. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow... He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by... the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree everyday. One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad. "Come and play with me," the tree asked the boy. "I am no longer a kid, I don't play around trees anymore." The boy replied,"I want toys. I need money to buy them." "Sorry, but I don't have money...but you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money." The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad.

One day, the boy returned and the tree was so excited. "Come and play with me" the tree said. "I don't have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?" "Sorry, but I don't have a house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house." So the boy cut all the branches off the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.

One hot summer day, the boy returned and the tree was delighted. "Come and play with me!" the tree said. "I am sad and getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?" "Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy." So the boy cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time. Finally, the boy returned after he left for so many years. "Sorry, my boy But I don't have anything for you anymore. No more apples for you..." the tree said."I don't have teeth to bite" the boy replied. "No more trunk for you to climb on" "I am too old for that now" the boy said. "I really can't give you anything ... the only thing left is my dying roots" the tree said with tears. "I don't need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years." The boy replied. "Good! Old tree roots is the best place to lean on and rest. Come, Come sit down with me and rest." The boy sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears.......

This is a story of everyone. The tree is our parent. When we were young, we loved to play with Mom and Dad... When we grown up, we left them, and only came to them when we need something or when we are in trouble. No matter what, parents will always be there and give everything they could to make you happy. You may think that the boy is cruel to the tree but that's how all of us are treating our parents.

　

Be honest with yourself by paying attention to your actions. Actions speak louder than words, and they always tell the truth. What do your actions say about you? If you say you
love your job, but your actions say otherwise, which do you think is more true - your words or your actions? On the other hand, if you say you're not good at a certain job, but your
actions say otherwise, that's also important. What do you do with this insight? You can use it to make more beneficial choices in your life. By being honest with yourself based on your previous actions, your actions moving forward will be based on truth instead of just what you tell yourself.
　

Take time out during the day for quiet time to listen to your inner voice. I call this inner voice the voice of God. This is similar to point number one, but it takes it a step further - beyond the natural mind to the supernatural heart. You may want to use your quiet time to meditate or pray. However you use this time, the key is to shut out all of the noise around you by focusing deep within yourself. Breathing deeply during quiet time will also help you focus. I know it's hard to find quiet time during a particularly busy day, but it's so important - even if it's just 10 minutes a day and you have to sneak away to get it. Quiet time can really make a difference in your life. It enables you to hear God speaking to your heart reminding you of His perfect love for you.
　

Despite what your subconscious may be telling you, you can have love with no limits. The key is to unconditionally love yourself first.

Several years ago, while attending a communications course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list anything in our past that we felt ashamed of, guilty about, regretted, or incomplete about. The next week he invited participants to read their lists aloud. This seemed like a very private process, but there's always some brave soul in the crowd who will volunteer. As people read their lists, mine grew longer. After three weeks, I had 101 items on my list. The instructor then suggested that we find ways to make amends, apologize to people, or take some action to right any wrongdoing. I was seriously wondering how this could ever improve my communications, having visions of alienating just about everyone from my life.
The next week, the man next to me raised his hand and volunteered this story:

"While making my list, I remembered an incident from high school. I grew up in a small town in Iowa. There was a sheriff in town that none of us kids liked. One night, my two buddies and I decided to play a trick on Sheriff Brown. After drinking a few beers, we found a can of red paint, climbed the tall water tank in the middle of town, and wrote, on the tank, in bright red letters: Sheriff Brown is an s.o.b. The next day, the town arose to see our glorious sign. Within two hours, Sheriff Brown had my two pals and me in his office. My friends confessed and I lied, denying the truth. No one ever found out.

"Nearly 20 years later, Sheriff Brown's name appears on my list. I didn't even know if he was still alive. Last weekend, I dialed information in my hometown back in Iowa. Sure enough, there was a Roger Brown still listed. I dialed his number. After a few rings, I heard: `Hello?' I said: `Sheriff Brown?' Pause. `Yup.' `Well, this is Jimmy Calkins. And I want you to know that I did it.' Pause. `I knew it!' he yelled back. We had a good laugh and a lively discussion. His closing words were: `Jimmy, I always felt badly for you because your buddies got it off their chest, and I knew you were carrying it around all these years. I want to thank you for calling me...for your sake.'"

Jimmy inspired me to clear up all 101 items on my list. It took me almost two years, but became the springboard and true inspiration for my career as a conflict mediator. No matter how difficult the conflict, crisis or situation, I always remember that it's never too late to clear up the past and begin resolution.

　

By Marilyn Manning

No. 1
Michael: You and me…It's real…
我和你。。。是真的
深情而含蓄的表白。

No. 2
Michael/Lincoln: Just have a little faith.
活得有信念点！
逆境中的精神支柱。

No. 3
Abruzzi: I kneel only to God. Don't see him here.
我只向上帝下跪。他可不在这！
带着尊严与骄傲离去，以及自己的信念。从容赴死前轻吻十字架的样子，像是这一生都已获得救赎。

No. 4
Abruzzi: Take my hand so we can put all this behind us.
握手言和，把以前的一切一笔勾销吧。
Does not a warm hand feel better than a cold shark?
温暖的手不比冷酷的人好得多吗？
渡尽劫波兄弟在，相逢一笑泯恩仇。

No. 5
Friend of Sucre: You look like hell.
Sucre: I'm man from hell, puppy. Now, I just gotta go to Vegas.
-你看起来像是去拼命的。
-我可是从地狱逃出来的！我现在就要去维加斯。
Sucre对爱的执著让我感动。就像他说的，"She is the love of my life". 此生挚爱。

No. 6
Sucre's GF: What do you want from the future?
Sucre: Would you run if I said you?
Sucre's GF: Would you chase me if I did?
女友：你将来想得到什么？
Sucre: 如果我说是你，你会逃开吗？
女友：如果我逃开了，你会来追我吗？
又一条Sucre的。。没办法，无情不似多情苦啊。入狱的原因是为爱抢劫，傻的不行了。

No. 7
Veronica: Michael, you are where you are because of your brother.
Michael: You are telling me he's where he is because of me.
-Michael, 你能有今天都是因为你哥哥。
-也就是说，他有今天也是因为我。
获悉真子儿媳，不过，他们去南京工作了，楼上则是她一个人照看两个孙女的地方。本分工作外，我有个习惯——收集容器，这非职相，内心暗潮汹涌。越狱计划之萌芽。

No. 8
T-bag: You think you are the only one who feels betrayed? I…loved you, Susan. Real love. For the first time in my life... And then…and then what you do to me like that just throw me back into the dark and toss me out of the back door...I have sins in the past. But when I met you, the person, that one who did all the terrible things, he died. And I was reborn. By the grace of your love I was a new man, a better man. When you sent me here to this place with these people, you bring that dirty bastard right home.
你认为只有你觉得被人背叛了吗？我。。。曾经爱过你，Susan. 我生命中的第一次真爱。而你。。而你所做的，却是把我扫地出门，重新赶回黑暗之中。我过去是有过罪恶，但当我遇见你的那一刻，那个做尽坏事的人就已经死了，而我则获得了重生。在你爱情的光辉中，我成了一个新的人，一个更好的人。当你把我送进这里，与这些人为伍时，过去那个肮脏的罪人又将复活。
天堂与地狱的一线之隔，原来是爱。

No. 9
Sucre: Why do you want to see him so hard anyway?
Michael: Because he's my brother.
-你为什么这么想见他？
-因为他是我哥哥。
总觉得He's my brother更像是一种宣誓，一种对责任的声明与承受，一种对生命的分担，背负与战斗。所以他们的战斗就此打响。

No. 10
T-bag: How about getting us to somewhere cooler, say, Africa?
把我们丢到凉快点的地方去怎么样，比如，非洲？
Hey, this man was still white this morning!
嘿，早上这哥们还是个白人呢！
T-bag其实够幽默的，哈哈。。

No. 11
Sara: I believe in being part of the solution, not the problem.
我的信条是成为解决问题的方法，而不是问题本身。
也找条Sara的。。。在毒品的阴影下，不知她是怎样艰难地平衡在天使的职责与魔鬼的诱惑之间的。

No. 12
Michael: There is a plan to make all of this right.
有个计划可以让所有事情顺利。
从一墙错综复杂的蓝图，到七零八散的剪报；从起初的细微积累，到后来的步步为营；从队友的背景研究，到出逃的严谨布局；从Michael玄妙精巧的纹身，到所有的一切一切。。。yeah, there is a plan to make all of this right.
觉得Michael真是天才！

No. 13
All: Utah~~
犹他！
当所有人的行踪以犹他为中心聚拢时，它已成为毋庸置疑的第二季中心词，以奇高无比的出现频率与"众口一词"的特殊效果荣登经典。
偏爱T-bag慵懒地坐上车时，甩出的那一句Utah~，散漫不羁，玩世不恭，又带着那么点桀骜不驯。此人乃雅痞之流。

No. 14 Haywire

- What's your problem?
- I got a neuroanatomic lesion affecting my reticular activating system.
- What does that mean?
- It means I don't sleep.
- 你有什么问题吗？
- 我有神经管能上的损伤，影响了我 ... (全文...)

Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all repaired their boats and left.

Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment. When the island was almost sinking, Love decided to ask for help. Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, "Richness, can you take me with you?" Richness answered, "No, I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you."

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel, "Vanity, please help me!" "I can't help you Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat." Vanity answered.

Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, "Sadness, let me go with you." "Oh....Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"

Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her!

Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come Love, I will take you." It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder his name. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went his own way.

Love realizing how much he owed the elder and asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who helped me?" "It was Time," Knowledge answered. "Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?" Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because, only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."

At a young and tender age, Patti Wilson was told by her doctor that she was an epileptic. Her father, Jim Wilson, is a morning jogger. One day she smiled through her braces and said, "Daddy what I'd really love to do is run with you every day, but I'm afraid I'll have a seizure."

Her father told her, "If you do, I know how to handle it, so let's start running!"

That's just what they did every day. It was a wonderful experience for them to share and there were no seizures at all while she was running. After a few weeks, she told her father, "Daddy, what I'd really love to do is break the world's long-distance running record for women."

Her father checked the Guiness Book of World Records and found that the farthest any woman had run was 80 miles. As a freshman in high school, Patti announced, "I'm going to run from Orange County up to San Francisco." (A distance of 400 miles.) "As a sophomore," she went on, "I'm going to run to Portland, Oregon." (Over 1500 miles.) "As a junior I'll run to St. Louis." (About 2000 miles) "As a senior I'll run to the White House." (More than 3000 miles away.)

In view of her handicap, Patti was as ambitious as she was enthusiastic, but she said she looked at the handicap of being an epileptic as simply "an inconvenience." She focused not on what she had lost, but on what she had left.

That year, she completed her run to San Francisco wearing a T-shirt that read, "I Love Epileptics." Her dad ran every mile at her side, and her mom, a nurse, followed in a motor home behind them in case anything went wrong.

In her sophomore year, Patti's classmates got behind her. They built a giant poster that read, "Run, Patti, Run!" (This has since become her motto and the title of a book she has written.) On her second marathon, en route to Portland, she fractured a bone in her foot. A doctor told her she had to stop her run. He said, "I've got to put a cast on your ankle so that you don't sustain permanent damage."

"Doc, you don't understand," she said. "This isn't just a whim of mine, it's a magnificent obsession! I'm not just doing it for me, I'm doing it to break the chains on the brains that limit so many others. Isn't there a way I can keep running?" He gave her one option. He could wrap it in adhesive instead of putting it in a cast. He warned her that it would be incredibly painful, and he told her, "It will blister." She told the doctor to wrap it up.

She finished the run to Portland, completing her last mile with the governor of Oregon. You may have seen the headlines: "Super Runner, Patti Wilson Ends Marathon For Epilepsy On Her 17th Birthday."

After four months of almost continuous running from West Coast to the East Coast, Patti arrived in Washington and shook the hand of the President of United States. She told him, "I wanted people to know that epileptics are normal human beings with normal lives."

I told this story at one of my seminars not long ago, and afterward a big teary-eyed man came up to me, stuck out his big meaty hand and said, "Mark, my name is Jim Wilson. You were talking about my daughter, Patti." Because of her noble efforts, he told me, enough money had been raised to open up 19 multi-million-dollar epileptic centers around the country.

If Patti Wilson can do so much with so little, what can you do to outperform yourself in a state of total wellness?

~ Mark V. Hansen ~

In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the price―five dollars―was far beyond Reuben Earle's means. Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries for his family.

　　Reuben couldn't ask his father for the money. Everything Mark Earle made through fishing in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, Canada. Reuben's mother, Dora, stretched like elastic to feed and clothe their five children.

　　Nevertheless, he opened the shop's weathered door and went inside. Standing proud and straight in his flour-sack shirt and washed-out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding, "But I don't have the money right now. Can you please hold it for me for some time?"

　　"I'll try,"the shopkeeper smiled. "Folks around here don't usually have that kind of money to spend on things. It should keep for a while."

　　Reuben respectfully touched his worn cap and walked out into the sunlight with the bay rippling in a freshening wind. There was purpose in his loping stride5. He would raise the five dollars and not tell anybody.

　　Hearing the sound of hammering from a side street, Reuben had an idea.

　　He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site. People built their own homes in Bay Roberts, using nails purchased in hessian sacks from a local factory. Sometimes the sacks were discarded in the flurry of building, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents a piece.

　　That day he found two sacks, which he took to the rambling wooden factory and sold to the man in charge of packing nails.

　　The boy's hand tightly clutched the five-cent pieces as he ran the two kilometers home.

　　Near his house stood the ancient barn that housed the family's goats and chickens. Reuben found a rusty soda tin and dropped his coins inside. Then he climbed into the loft of the barn and hid the tin beneath a pile of sweet smelling hay.

　　It was dinnertime when Reuben got home. His father sat at the big kitchen table, working on a fishing net. Dora was at the kitchen stove, ready to serve dinner as Reuben took his place at the table.

　　He looked at his mother and smiled. Sunlight from the window gilded her shoulder-length blonde hair. Slim and beautiful, she was the center of the home, the glue that held it together.

　　Her chores were never-ending. Sewing clothes for her family on the old Singer treadle machine, cooking meals and baking bread, planting and tending a vegetable garden, milking the goats and scrubbing soiled clothes on a washboard. But she was happy. Her family and their well-being were her highest priority.

　　Every day after chores and school, Reuben scoured the town, collecting the hessian nail bags. On the day the two-room school closed for the summer, no student was more delighted than Reuben. Now he would have more time for his mission.

　　All summer long, despite chores at home weeding and watering the garden, cutting wood and fetching water―Reuben kept to his secret task.

　　Then all too soon the garden was harvested, the vegetables canned and stored, and the school reopened. Soon the leaves fell and the winds blew cold and gusty from the bay. Reuben wandered the streets, diligently searching for his hessian treasures.

　　Often he was cold, tired and hungry, but the thought of the object in the shop window sustained him. Sometimes his mother would ask: "Reuben, where were you? We were waiting for you to have dinner."

　　"Playing, Mum. Sorry."

　　Dora would look at his face and shake her head. Boys.

　　Finally spring burst into glorious green and Reuben's spirits erupted. The time had come! He ran into the barn, climbed to the hayloft and uncovered the tin can. He poured the coins out and began to count.

　　Then he counted again. He needed 20 cents more. Could there be any sacks left any where in town? He had to find four and sell them before the day ended.

　　Reuben ran down Water Street.

　　The shadows were lengthening when Reuben arrived at the factory. The sack buyer was about to lock up.

　　"Mister! Please don't close up yet."

The man turned and saw Reuben, dirty and sweat stained.

"Come back tomorrow, boy."

　　"Please, Mister. I have to sell the sacks now―please."The man heard a tremor in Reuben's voice and could tell he was close to tears.

　　"Why do you need this money so badly?"

　　"It's a secret."

　　The man took the sacks, reached into his pocket and put four coins in Reuben's hand. Reuben murmured a thank you and ran home.

　　Then, clutching the tin can, he headed for the shop.

　　"I have the money," he solemnly told the owner.

　　The man went to the window and retrieved Reuben's treasu ... (全文...)

1.Life is not fair, get used to it.
　　
　　生活是不公平的；要去适应它。
　　
　　2.The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
　　
　　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。
　　
　　3.You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.
　　
　　高中刚毕业你不会一年挣4万美元。你不会成为一个公司的副总裁，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.If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
　　
　　如果你认为你的老师严厉，等你有了老板再这样想。老板可是没有任期限制的。
　　
　　5.Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
　　
　　烙牛肉饼并不有损你的尊严。你的祖父母对烙牛肉饼可有不同的定义；他们称它为机遇。
　　
　　6.If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, 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，所以不要尖声抱怨我们的错误，要从中吸取教训。
　　
　　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 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，听你大谈你是如何的酷。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，还是先去清除你房间衣柜里的虫子吧。
　　
　　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.
　　
　　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。在某些学校已经废除不及格分；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。
　　
　　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.
　　
　　生活不分学期。你并没有暑假可以休息，也没有几位雇主乐于帮你发现自我。自己找时间做吧。
　　
　　10.Television is NOT real life. 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。

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