Advice to Youth Mark Twain给青年人忠告马克吐温.docVIP

Advice to Youth Mark Twain 给青年人的忠告马克吐温??????A gifted raconteur(健谈者, 善于讲故事的人), distinctive(出众的,与众不同的) humorist, and irascible([ir?sibl] 易怒的,暴躁的) moralist, Mark Twain transcended(超越) the apparent limitations of his origins to become a popular public figure and one of America’s best and beloved writers.??????马克吐温，天才的演说家，与众不同的幽默作家，暴躁的卫道者，他超越了出身的表面限制，成为了一个受欢迎的公众人物，美国最优秀、大家最喜爱的作家之一。????Advice to Youth by Mark Twain is a short little composition that he was asked to write to the youth of America. Basically it was just meant to be something educational and useful in life. What he said back then is just as true today as it was when he wrote it. We can see his view on life from that.????马克吐温的《给青年人的忠告》是他应邀写给美国青年的一篇小短文。主要是关于生活中的一些有教育性的有益的的建议。他那时所说的话拿到今天来看，也如当时一样正确，从中我们也可以管窥到的人生观。????Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic（[did?ktik, dai-]教诲的,说教的）, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed（渴望）to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in ones tender（未成熟的）early years that such things will best take root（扎根）and be most enduring（持久的耐久的）and most valuable. First, then. I will say to you my young friends — and I say it beseechingly（恳求地）, urgently（迫切地）— ?? “我接到通知将到这里来做演说时，我就询问我应该讲些什么。他们说应该讲些适合年轻人的 -- 有教育性的，有意义的，或者一些好的建议。非常好！我头脑中确实有一些事情，常常渴望对年轻人讲讲，作为对于他们的指导因为在一个人稚嫩的少年时期，这样的事情会深深扎根，会成为最持久的最有价值的事。那么首先，我要迫不及待地对你们，我的年轻朋友们恳切地讲述 -- ”　　Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you dont, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring（迎合,迁就.顺应）that superstition(迷信,盲目跟从) than you can by acting on your own better judgment. ????“当你们的父母在的时候，要顺从他们。这从长远看来是最好的办法，因为如果你不这样，他们也会让你这样做。大部分的父母都认为他们知道得比你们更加清楚，比起执行你们自己认为更好的判断，顺应他们，通常可以得到更多。”　　Be respectful to your superio