奧巴馬寫給女兒的信:停止在做的17件事(3)
Stop Being Wasteful
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)。如果你浪費了,那就趕緊停止這一惡習。
14、不要亂扔垃圾
Stop Littering
The only thing I hate more than wasteful people are litterbugs. Litterbugs are my least favorite bug, and there are more than you’d think. If you’ve ever thrown even one piece of gum, paper, candy wrapper, cigarette butt, etc on the ground, you’re a disgusting litterbug, and you should be ashamed of yourself. There are over 7 billion people in the world– if each person only throws one “innocent” piece of garbage on the ground, that’s 7 billion pieces of garbage littering a world in which nobody “did it”。
唯一一個讓我覺得比浪費的人更可惡的就是垃圾蟲。垃圾蟲最讓我厭惡,而且數量比你想的多很多。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。你應該感到羞愧。世界上有超過70億的人——如果每個人都“無辜的”扔一點垃圾,那么全世界就會變成70億垃圾場,而找不到“罪魁禍首”。
15、別把每件事太往心里去
Stop Taking Everything Personally
People get offended about the strangestthings. Take Kendrick Lamar’s now-infamous verse on “Control” thissummer:he called out a list of a dozen rappers he thinks he’s betterthan (and he’s right)。 The internet went crazy, and rappers all over the industry rushedto their mics to record a response. The thing is, all K-Dot said is he’s thebest rapper. Everyone took it personally, and that’s exactly what he was goingfor. The lesson to learn from this is that not everything is about you, and ifyou’re easily upset, someone will use that to their advantage.
人們會因為一些奇怪的事情感到被侵犯。就拿Kendrick Lamar這個夏天備受爭議的歌曲《Control》為例:他在歌詞中挑釁了一些他認為比他弱的說唱歌手(的確是這樣),一石激起千層浪,整個說唱界的歌手都蜂擁錄歌作為回擊。重點在于,所有的人都認為自己是最好的說唱者,每個人都更看重自己,這就是他的目的所在。這件事教給我們的無非就是不是所有的事都要圍著你轉,如果你是玻璃心,有人會利用這一點。
16、不要再說話了
Stop Talking
Sometimes it’s best to just STFU –especially in relationships. I can’t even count how many times I created anissue that didn’t need to be an issue simply because I opened my mouth. Even ifwhat you want to say is important, just shut up and ride it out. You can saymore with your actions than words, and you can’t listen when you’re talking.
有時候沉默是金——特別在情侶關系里。我都記不清到底多少次因為說錯話引發了本可以避免的爭端。即使你想說的非常重要,那也閉嘴,自行消化。你可以用行動證明一切,畢竟你自己說話的時候是聽不見的。
17、停一下,深呼吸吧
Just Stop, and Breathe…
No matter what you’re doing in life or howyour day is going, there’s always room to just stop for a moment and justbreathe. Try it right now to celebrate getting through this list of everythingyou’re doing wrong.
無論你現在在干什么,這一天過得怎么樣,你都需要好好停一下深呼吸。不如現在就歇一歇,犒賞自己總算挺過了一些錯事。