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My educated dad believed in the same dogma. That is why he was thrilled when he eventually achieved his doctorate.
我那受到良好教育的爸爸也信奉同樣的教條，因此，當(dāng)他最終獲得博士學(xué)位時(shí)非常激動(dòng)。
He often admitted that schools reward people who study more and more about less and less.
不過他也承認(rèn)，社會(huì)越來(lái)越少獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)那些學(xué)得多的人了。
Rich dad encouraged me to do exactly the opposite.
富爸爸則鼓勵(lì)我去做恰好相反的事情。
“You want to know a little about a lot” was his suggestion. That is why for years I worked in different areas of his companies.
“對(duì)許多知識(shí)你只需知道一點(diǎn)就夠了”，這是他的建議。所以，這些年來(lái)我曾在他的公司的不同部門工作過。
For a while, I worked in his accounting department.
有一段時(shí)間我在他的會(huì)計(jì)部工作。
Although I would probably never have been an accountant, he wanted me to learn via osmosis.
雖然我從來(lái)不想成為會(huì)計(jì)，但他仍希望我借助這種滲透作用學(xué)習(xí)一些會(huì)計(jì)方面的常識(shí)。
Rich dad knew I would pick up jargon and a sense of what is important and what is not.
富爸爸知道我會(huì)明白那些“行話”，而且懂得哪些東西重要，哪些東西不重要。
I also worked as a bus boy and construction worker as well as in sales, reservations, and marketing.
我也曾做過公共餐廳服務(wù)員、建筑工人、推銷員、倉(cāng)庫(kù)保管員和市場(chǎng)營(yíng)銷人員。
He was grooming Mike and me. That is why he insisted we sit in on the meetings with his bankers, lawyers, accountants, and brokers.
富爸爸一直在培養(yǎng)我和邁克，堅(jiān)持讓我們列席他與銀行經(jīng)理、律師、會(huì)計(jì)師和經(jīng)紀(jì)人的會(huì)議。
He wanted us to know a little about every aspect of his empire.
希望我們對(duì)他的商業(yè)帝國(guó)的每一部分都能有所了解。
Educated dad thought I went to school to learn to be a ship’s officer.
受過良好教育的爸爸認(rèn)為我去學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)就是要做一名船員。
Rich dad knew that I went to school to study international trade.
而富爸爸則知道我去學(xué)校是為了學(xué)習(xí)國(guó)際貿(mào)易。
So as a student, I made cargo runs, navigating large freighters, oil tankers, and passenger ships to the Far East and the South Pacific.
因此，在我做學(xué)生時(shí)就跑過貨運(yùn)，駕駛過去遠(yuǎn)東及南太平洋的大型運(yùn)輸船、油輪和客輪。
Rich dad emphasized that I should stay in the Pacific instead of taking ships to Europe because he knew that the emerging nations were in Asia, not Europe.
富爸爸強(qiáng)調(diào)我應(yīng)該乘船去太平洋而不是去歐洲，因?yàn)樗J(rèn)為“新興國(guó)家”是在亞洲而不是歐洲。
While most of my classmates, including Mike, were partying at their fraternity houses,
當(dāng)我的大多數(shù)同班同學(xué)，包括邁克，在搞聯(lián)誼的時(shí)候，
I was studying trade, people, business styles, and cultures in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Korea, Tahiti, Samoa, and the Philippines.
我卻在日本、泰國(guó)、新加坡、越南、韓國(guó)、菲律賓以及中國(guó)臺(tái)灣和中國(guó)香港等地學(xué)習(xí)貿(mào)易、人際關(guān)系、商業(yè)類型和當(dāng)?shù)匚幕?/p>
