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Mark Twain is Advice to Youth

馬克 吐溫給年青人的建議

Always obey your parents, when they are present.

一定要聽父母的話，

This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don’t, they will make you.

長遠來講這是最聰明的做法，如果你不聽話，他們就會逼著你聽話。

Most parents think they know better than you do,

大多數父母認為他們知道得比你們多，

and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting>在這種情況下，與其基于自己的判斷行事，還不如迎合他們的想法，這樣你會收獲更多。

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others.

如果你有上級的話，請尊重他們，對陌生人和他人也是如此。

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not,

如果某個人得罪了你，而你也不知道他是否是故意的，

do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient.

那就不要采用極端做法，而要等待時機，給他當頭一棒，這就夠了。

If you shall find that he had not intended any offense, come out frankly and confess yourself in the wrong when you struck him;

如果發現他并非有意傷害你，那么，你就應該站出來，坦白承認教訓他的事;

acknowledge it like a man and say you didn’t mean to. Yes, always avoid violence;

要像一個男子漢一樣承認錯誤并說明自己并非有意。還有就是，切勿使用暴力。

in this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

在這個和平友好的年代， 暴力已經過時了。讓我們譴責這些低俗的舉止、粉碎暴力吧!

Go to bed early, get up early- this is wise.

早睡早起——這是十分明智的。

Some authorities say get up with the sun; some say get up with>有些人主動起床，也有些人被迫起床。當然在百靈鳥的歌聲中起床是最愜意不過了。

It gives you a splendid reputation with everybody to know that you get up with the lark;

當人人都知道你與百靈鳥同迎清晨，你便會備受稱贊，

and if you get the right kind of lark, and work at him right, you can easily train him to get up at half past nine, every time—it’s no trick at all.

如果你得到一只中意的百靈鳥，并按自己的意愿訓練它，讓他九點半，甚至是任何時候起床都不是件難事——當然，這并不是說要耍詭計。