这篇文章是我在国外网站看到的，虽然说比较偏向美国的文化，但是我认为有些 部份其实值得去想一想。 就我个人来说，有些还满受用的。虽然说再过几年我就又过另一个18岁了。这些 事，对我现在来说已经是老生常谈，但对於当年18岁的我来说，这些概念其实懵 懵懂懂的。大人杂念的台词而已。 当然现在真的经历过後，有些道理其实不变的。但老实说，如果我再活一次，我 想我还是会选择用身体力行去学习一次，才会真的知道「原来，以前大人说的还 是满有道理的嘛。」 所以我到现在还是不断在尝试，还是想问：为什麽不可以？ 这篇文章就当作是闲话看一看，顺便也帮我订正一下翻译的错字就好。 "18岁时，你该知道的50件事" 1) "If you are buying something that you will use often and for a long time, never go cheap. You'll end up replacing it sooner or paying more in maintenance costs than if you had spent more on good quality in the beginning. Plus, you'll enjoy the nicer product throughout its lifetime, rather than cringing every time you use something that is falling apart." -- bretts 如果你要买个常用而要用比较久的东西，不要买便宜的。因为很快就要换新或要支付额 外的维修的费用，那还不如一开始就选好一点的。而且你还会因为好的产品而享受到比较 好的生活品质，而不会老是用的时候坏掉而生气。 2) Don't spend money on a credit card that you can't afford to pay back. The interest and late payments can put you in a hole that can take you years to pay back. 不要用信用卡支付你付不起的费用，利息及分期付款会把你拖进一个好几年才能还完的 大洞里。 3) Compound interest is your friend. Saving even a relatively small percentage of your income each year, starting at 18, can leave you in much better shape by the time you're ready to retire. 存款利息是你的好朋友，从18岁开始把自已收入的一部分存入银行，是对自已退休生活的 良好规划。 4) If you're working with someone who can be bargained down on a price, it seldom hurts to try. The exceptions may be someone of exceptional talent, someone you're going to have to work with on a regular basis, or someone whose help you're going to need in a timely manner. 如果可以和别人讲价的话，尽量试着讲看看，一般都不会有什麽损失。除非是你要跟 对方长期合作或有特别的技能 5) Try to keep enough cash to pay your bills for at least six months in reserve. It will make your life immeasurably easier if your car breaks down, you have a surprise medical expense, or you get an opportunity to get a fantastic bargain. 试着保有足够支付你6个月生活的现金，当你的车子坏了或是其他紧急的医疗支出还是临 时需要一笔钱以得到一个好机会时，你的生活不会为了这些事陷入困难。 6) Dogs are fantastic animals. They deserve to be called man's best friend. But, if you are under the impression that you just need to buy a collar and a bag of dry dog food every month and you're set, you're in for a rude awakening. Dogs tend to be much more expensive and time consuming than you'd think. 狗是神奇的动物，可以说是人类最好的朋友，但是你得每个月帮他买饲料、定期带他去打 预防针或买其他相关用品，宠物其实每月的花费比你想像的多很多。 7) "Don't have any children or get married until you can support and love yourself first." -- D-Vega 在学会如何爱自已之前，不要结婚或有任何的孩子 8) "Don't trade your vehicle in on a new one just a couple of years after buying it. Pay it off and ride it until (the wheels fall off), all while putting that car payment in the bank." -- The_Muck_Man 不要把才买几年的车子又卖掉换新的，尤其是大部分的贷款都还在银行里的时候，把贷款 付完，然後开到不能开为止(大概是轮胎会掉出来的程度吧 xd) 9) College is a lot more work than high school and your job will be a lot more work than college was. 大学的功课比高中多，出社会时功课也比大学多 10) Start looking for a new job BEFORE you quit your old job. 找到新的工作後再辞掉旧工作 11) Don't take any job that only pays commission unless you're either an expert salesman or ready to spend months working without pay to gain the skills you need to become an expert salesman. 不要接受任何只有佣金(奖金)的工作，除非你是超级业务员或是你愿意好几个月没有收入 ，只为了学习如何成为超级业务员。 12) Ideally, you should choose something you love to do so much that you'd do it for free and find a way to make it into a career. 如果可以的话，找一件你热爱而且你愿意免费去作的事，然後试着把这件事加入到你的人 生事业中。 13) When asking for a salary, always have a figure you want in mind -- and then ask for significantly more than that number. That way, you may get more than what you want and even if you don't, you have a better chance of getting the amount you had in mind than if you had blurted it out right off the bat. 如果你想要求更多的薪水，不要不经大脑的说出来，记得心里有个数字，然後加上一些就 是你要开口的数字。这样的话 你会有机会得到比你想的更多，或至少有机会达你心里的 那个数字。 14) There's no shame in taking any honest job. 作正当而且诚实的工作没有什麽好丢脸的。 15) Getting fired or laid off isn't the end of the world. To the contrary, a lot of people, myself included, have moved on to bigger and better things after being laid off or fired. 被解雇或是裁员了不是世界末日，反过来想，很多人，也包括我自已都离开自已的工作准 备接受更好的未来。 16) If you're not happy with the job market, the government, or the schools in your area, remember that you can always move to another city or another state. Lots of Americans do just that every year. 如果你不满意这个地方的工作市场、政府或是学校，记住，每年都有许多美国人都跟你一 样，你永远可以搬去别的地方或是其他的州， 17) "I wish that I had known to check the oil in my vehicles and to have changed it regularly. It would have saved a lot of money that I spent on repairs -- directly due to my lack of changing the oil per the mechanic." -- Ann H. 「早知道我就会经常检查车子的机油而且记得去换它们，这样我就可以省下那些因为我没 换机油而导致故障的维修费用了」Ann H 18) Lefty loosey, righty tighty. Turn it to the left to loosen it and to the right to tighten it. 左松右紧，向左转松，向右就是转紧 19) Don't ever open a hot radiator cap or you can get seriously burned. 绝对不要在水箱散热器还是热的时候打开盖子否则你会严重的烫伤 20) Here are 3 keys to keeping a reasonably clean house: don't leave any dishes in the sink overnight; every time you have a full load of clothes, wash 'em, and take out the trash every time the can is full. You do those things, wipe up your messes, and vacuum when the floor gets filthy, and you'll keep things reasonably neat. 要保持你的房子乾净，有3个重要的关键：不要把碗盘留到明天才洗。洗衣篮满了就马上 拿去洗，垃圾满了马上拿出去倒。记得，把脏的地方擦乾净，地板脏了就用吸尘器吸，这 样你就有个整齐生活环境了。 21) If you use a computer even semi-regularly, it's worth your time to take a typing class. 如果你使用电脑或经常需要使用，那麽去上打字课是值得的。 22) It's not enough to buy a gun and stick it in a drawer like a lucky talisman. You need to learn to use the gun. 买把抢放在抽屉当你的护身符是不够的，你还要学会怎麽用它 23) When you move, sell, throw away, and give away as much as possible or you'll just end up moving boxes from one closet, where they have been sitting for five years, to another closet, where they'll be sitting for the next five years. 当你要搬家的时候，尽可能的把东西，丢掉卖掉或是给别人，这些东西已经在柜子里放了 五年了，你只从柜子里放进搬家箱子然後在放到另一个柜子再放个好几个五年。 24) Don't ever loan your friends money if you want to keep them as friends. After all, if they were good with money and were likely to pay you back in a timely manner, they probably wouldn't need the loan in the first place. If they really need the money, you want to help them, and you can afford it -- just give it to them. 如果你要保持你的友谊，那就不要借给他们钱。毕竟，如果他们懂得用钱而且也会准时还 钱，那也不需要马上就要借钱。如果他们真的需要钱，而你也想帮助他，你也负担得起。 就把钱送他吧。 25) Women should never allow a boyfriend to take naked pictures. If it's on film, you shouldn't be surprised if it goes public in one form or fashion after a break-up. 绝对不要让你的男友帮你拍裸照，如果还被拍成影片。那当你们分手时，小心这些东西出 现在网路论坛或大众媒体。 26) When men have a problem and they tell you about it, they want to know how to fix it. When women have a problem and they tell you about it, they just want you to listen. 当男人向你谈他们的问题时，他们需要的解决的方法，当女人向你谈她们的问题时，她们 需要的只是你的倾听。 27) If you ever get arrested, don't say anything until you talk to a lawyer. 如果你被逮补了，在和律师谈过以前，不要说任何事。 28) If you don't know the agenda of the people you're getting your news from, then you don't have the information you need to know if what they're telling you is true. 如果你无法确定现在别人跟你说的消息是从那里来的，即便是真实的消息，其实你没有得 到任何有效的资讯。 29) Government is a necessary evil. It's best to keep its tentacles out of your life and out of our society as much as possible. 政府是必要之恶，最好把你的生活及社交圈远离它们的触角。 30) "When you're 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you're 40, you don't give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you're 60, you realize nobody's been thinking about you at all." -- Daniel Amen 当你18岁时，你烦恼为什麽人们总是想到你该怎麽作。当你40岁时，你才不管别人怎麽想 你要作什麽。当你60岁时，你才明白其实从来就没有人想你怎麽样。 31) Trust your instincts. They're usually right. 相信你的直觉，通常都是对的 32) If you think a doctor's wrong, don't hesitate to ask for a second opinion. Your health is vitally important and doctors make mistakes just as often as anyone else. 你的健康非常重要，你觉得医生的判断有问题，不用迟疑马上去看别的医生，医生就跟其 他的一样时常会出错。 33) Don't ever say anything that may offend someone who is going to be serving you food. You never know what they may stick in it when you're not looking. 绝对不要对帮你上菜的人不礼貌，因为你不知道他会不会在你没看到时恶搞你的食物。 34) If you get into a business deal with someone who goes to unusual lengths to convince you of how honest or Christian they are, watch your wallet and make sure you have an iron clad contract. They "doth protest too much." 如果和别人谈生意时，对方一直说自已多诚实或是他是教徒不会骗人，那最好看紧自已钱 包并且再三确认合约内容，因为他们发太多誓了。 35) "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." - Jim Rohn 你的个性会被你最常接触的5个人所影响 36) If you want to do something exceptional, don't expect anyone to believe you can do it until you've done it. Unless you're already perceived as exceptional, most people won't believe in you. That's doubly true for the people who know you best and have therefore seen you at your most mediocre, like your parents, family, and friends. 如果你要作一件特别的事，除非你已经完成了，否则别期望别人会相信你作得到。尤其是 你的父母、家人、朋友哪些知道你有多普通的人。 37) If you don't feel like you're being treated fairly by a company, don't hesitate to ask for a manager. Oftentimes, a manager has gotten to where he is in a company because he is good at pleasing customers like you in the first place. 如果你觉得你在公司没有被公平地对待，马上去找经理谈。因为大部分经理在公司除了 应付难搞的客户还有像是你的问题都是他们的主要工作。 38) "You are not invulnerable and you are not going to live forever. You can (make) mistakes at 18 that you will have to live with for the rest of your life." -- Don_cos 你不是无敌的，你也不会永生不死，你18岁时犯的错，会跟着你活下去。 39) Nobody owes you a living. 你得自已负责自已的生活，别人没有欠你什麽。 40) You are not a victim. 你不是受害者 41) If you just assume that every conspiracy theory is wrong without even examining it, you will be right 99.99% of the time. 如果你想不都想就认为那些阴谋论都是错的，那麽你有99.99%的机会是对的。 42) "It's likely that whatever challenges you have faced in your life currently could have been avoided but some better decisions upstream." -- Tony Robbins 不管你现在生活面对着什麽着的难题，其实你可以避免的，只要早些时候作了好一 点的决定 43) At a minimum, keep a basic "to do" list, a schedule, and a budget. 至少写下一个简单愿望清单、设下行程跟保留预算。 44) "Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." -- Pat Riley 卓越是因为不断向更好挑战 45) "If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?" -- Rick Warren 如果你要你的生活紧缩一点，那就专心一点。不要再闲晃或去玩，最好想都不要想。就算 是有益的事也不用去作，只要作工作上的事就好。只要是有关工作的事就不要迟疑去做就 对了。然後你就会忙碌又没有目的。不过 ，这又有什麽意义呢？ 46) Ironically, successful people tend to fail a lot more than unsuccessful people. They also tend to ask a lot more questions. 讽刺的是，成功的人其实比不成功的人失败更多次，他们也问了更多问题 47) When you consider Christianity, keep in mind this classic quotation from C.S. Lewis, "If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?" 当你思考基督教教义时，想想C.S Lewis的经典格言「如果我以现在的情况自认对於基督 的教义有点认识，如果我觉得别人的信仰看起来只不过是伪善跟肓从那我和别人有何 不同？」 48) You beat 50% of the people by just showing up. You beat another 40% by working hard. The last 10% is a dogfight in the free enterprise system. 多表现一点你就打败了百分之50的人了，再工作认真就打败剩下百分之40的人，接下来的 百分之10是自由企业体系里的恶斗。 49) There are at least six key areas of your life: health, career, romantic, social, money, and religion. If you neglect any one of those areas, it will harm you in the other areas and keep you from being as happy as you can be otherwise. 你的生命中有6个重要关键领域：健康、事业、爱情、友情、金钱、信仰。如果你忽视任 何一项，那就会在其他领域里受伤，同样的，某个领域的成功或满足也会帮助到其他的领 域。 50) When trying to decide between two closely matched alternatives, always have a bias towards action. In the long run, it'll lead to your having a lot more experience, great stories, and a richer, fuller life. 当处在两难时，永远选择偏向行动的那一边，长远来看，你会得到更多经验、更多故事、 更丰富、满足的人生。 --

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