If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
如果你认为老师太严厉的话,那等你有了老板就知道了。而且老板会一直存在的。
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
烙牛肉饼这不会有损你的尊严。你的父辈们对烙牛肉饼有着不同的理解;他们称这是机遇。
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about our mistakes, learn from them.
如果你深陷困境,那不是你父母的错,所以呢就不要抱怨了,吸取教训吧!
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.
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
生活没有上下学期。你的暑假也不会再有,只有很少的老板乐意帮你寻找真实的你。找个时间就好好干吧!
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.