4.If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

如果你認為你的老師嚴厲，等你有了老板再這樣想。老板可是沒有任期限制的。

5.Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

烙牛肉餅并不有損你的尊嚴。你的祖父母對烙牛肉餅可有不同的定義；他們稱它為機遇。

6.If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about our mistakes, learn from them.

如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的過錯，所以不要尖聲抱怨我們的錯誤，要從中吸取教訓。

7.Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.

在你出生之前，你的父母并非像他們現在這樣乏味。他們變成今天這個樣子是因為這些年來他們一直在為你付賬單，給你洗衣服，聽你大談你是如何的酷。所以，如果你想消滅你父母那一輩中的"寄生蟲"來拯救雨林的話，還是先去清除你房間衣柜里的蟲子吧。