奧巴馬寫給女兒的信：停止在做的17件事

­　　Stop Making Promises

­　　別再做承諾

­　　Always under-promise and over-deliver. Whenyou make a promise, you’re adding responsibility to your plate that, despiteall your best intentions, you may not be able to deliver on. More often thannot, your promise is an absolute (i.e “I promise I’ll always love you”)， and onlySith deal in absolutes. Instead of making a promise with your words, simply bethere when people need you, and exceed their expectations with your actions.

­　　總是做承諾，總是做不到。每次做承諾都是不禁給自己增添了責(zé)任，無論你的出發(fā)點(diǎn)有多好，你都不可能完成所有的部分。大部分時(shí)候，你的承諾都太過絕對(duì)(比如“我發(fā)誓我永遠(yuǎn)愛你”)，也只能在絕對(duì)環(huán)境中才能實(shí)現(xiàn)。與其用語言許下承諾，不如在別人需要你的時(shí)候出現(xiàn)，然后用行動(dòng)達(dá)到他們的期望吧。

­　　Stop Being a Pushover

­　　不要做老好人

­　　We live in a capitalistic society in whicheveryone’s trying to sell us something. Everyone’s looking out for themselvesin one way or another, and you need to do the same. Stop putting yourself outbecause you’re too shy to say no.

­　　我們所處的社會(huì)，每個(gè)人都試圖告知我們一些事情。每個(gè)人都從不同的角度去找尋著自己，你也需要，你要做的就是在合適的時(shí)候說不。

­　　Stop Listening to Haters

­　　不要聽討厭的人說話

­　　No matter what you want to do in life,there’s always someone around to tell you why it can’t and won’t work. I cancome up with millions of reasons Twitter won’t work, and yet it’s one of themost popular social media sites on the web. My opinion didn’t stop Twitter’ssuccess any more than it convinced Kobe Bryant to quit the NBA or Josh Hartnettto stop acting. Why would you let someone’s opinion stop you?

­　　無論你想干什么，總會(huì)有人告訴你不要這么做，沒有用的。我可以想出成百萬條推特不實(shí)用的理由，但它還是互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上最流行的社交網(wǎng)站之一。我的想法不會(huì)阻止推特的成功，就像你無法勸科比退出NBA或喬什·哈奈特不要當(dāng)演員了一樣，都毫無意義。那么為什么要讓別人的想法阻止你呢?

­　　Stop Being Wasteful

­　　停止浪費(fèi)

­　　You don’t finish your meals,and away food instead. You leave the faucet running when you brush your teeth,pouring precious water down the drain. You drive places you could easily walk,burning gasoline (a non-renewable resource)。 You are wasteful,and it needs to stop.

­　　你飯沒吃完，然后扔掉食物;刷牙的時(shí)候還開著水龍頭，就讓寶貴的水嘩嘩的流走;明明可以走到的地方你偏要開車，燃燒汽油(無法再生資源)。如果你浪費(fèi)了，那就趕緊停止這一惡習(xí)。

­　　Stop Littering

­　　不要亂扔垃圾

­　　The only thing I hate more than wastefulpeople are litterbugs. Litterbugs are my least favorite bug, and there are morethan you’d think. If you’ve ever thrown even one piece of gum, paper, candywrapper, cigarette butt, etc on the ground, you’re a disgusting litterbug, andyou should be ashamed of yourself. There are over 7 billion people in the world– if each person only throws one “innocent” piece ofgarbage on the ground, that’s 7 billion pieces of garbage littering a world in which nobody “did it”。

­　　唯一一個(gè)讓我覺得比浪費(fèi)的人更可惡的就是垃圾蟲。垃圾蟲最讓我厭惡，而且永遠(yuǎn)多的讓你數(shù)不清。如果你曾扔過一塊口香糖，一張紙、糖果包裝、煙蒂，那么你就是惡心的垃圾蟲。你應(yīng)該感到恥辱。世界上有超過70億的人——如果每個(gè)人都無意識(shí)的扔一點(diǎn)垃圾，那么全世界就會(huì)變成70億垃圾場，哪怕沒有罪魁禍?zhǔn)住?/p>

­　　Your one decision makes a HUGE difference,and I will not allow you to blow it off and walk around with your head heldhigh. You’re a litterbug, and it needs to stop immediately. You don’t get alifehack for this one, you filthy animal. Just stop – you already know how.

­　　你的一個(gè)決定會(huì)產(chǎn)生深遠(yuǎn)的影響，我不贊成你去大馬路大聲高呼。如果你是垃圾蟲，那么就需要馬上停止了，也許不會(huì)救命，但能讓你不那么惹人厭。停止這一舉動(dòng)吧，你知道該怎么做的。