再翻譯這種雞湯文我就要變成雞湯小王子了。。。
What are some important, but uncomfortable truths that many people learn when transitioning into adulthood?
在成長過程中會發(fā)現(xiàn)那些重要卻又讓人不適的真相？
Every person is responsible for their own happiness -- not their parents, not their boss, not their spouse, not their friends, not their government, not their deity.
每個人的幸福都只能依靠自己——不是父母，不是老板，不是伴侶，不是朋友，不是他們的政府，不是上帝。One day we will all die, and 999 out of 1,000 people will be remembered by nobody on earth within a hundred years of that date.
終有一天我們都將死去，但一百年后 1000人 之中的 999 人都被被遺忘。Practically all of the best opportunities (in business, in romance, etc) are only offered to people who already have more than they need.
大約所有最好的機(jī)遇（商業(yè)上，感情上等）都只會降臨在那些做好充足準(zhǔn)備的人身上。The idea that you will be happy after you make X amount of dollars is almost certainly an illusion.
那些當(dāng)你掙了多少多少錢之后就會感到開心的想法只是個幻象。The idea that you will be happy after you meet [some amazing person] is almost certainly an illusion.
那些當(dāng)你遇見[某個了不起的人]之后機(jī)會開心的想法差不多也是個幻象。For most people, death is pretty messy and uncomfortable.
對大多數(shù)人來說，死亡往往是混亂而又讓人不適的。When you don't possess leverage (go look up "BATNA"), people will take advantage of you, whether they mean to or not.
當(dāng)你沒有足夠的力量時（查閱"BATNA"），往往會成為別人的工具，不論他們是不是有意的。Almost everybody is making it up as they go along. Also, many (most?) people are incompetent at their jobs.
幾乎所有人都在偽裝。并且，許多（大部分？）人并不能勝任他們的工作。When talking about their background and accomplishments, almost everybody is continually overstating their abilities, impact, relevance, and contributions.
當(dāng)談到自己的背景與成就時，幾乎所有的人都會夸大自己的能力，影響力，重要性，以及貢獻(xiàn)。Physical beauty decays.
容顏會隨時間逝去。Compared to others, certain ethnicities and races (and genders, and sexual orientations, and so on) are just plain royally f*cked from the day they're born.
相較于其他，種族（性別，性取向等）只是天生的。Bad things constantly happen to good people. Good things constantly happen to bad people.
好人不長命，壞人活千年。Very few people will ever give you 100% candid, honest feedback.
極少有人會給你100%真誠的反饋。People are constantly making enormous life decisions (marriage, children, etc) for all of the wrong reasons.
人們常常因?yàn)殄e誤的原因而做出重大的人生決定（婚姻，孩子等）。Certain people -- some of whom are in positions of enormous power -- just do not give a damn about other human beings. A certain head of state in Syria comes to mind.
有些人——有些是掌握著巨大權(quán)力的——從來不會關(guān)注他人。想象敘利亞。Often, the most important and consequential moments of our lives (chance encounter, fatal car accident, etc) happen completely at random and seemingly for no good reason.
常常，人生中許多重大而又決定性的時刻（機(jī)遇，車禍）的發(fā)生時隨機(jī)而又沒有原因的。Your sense of habitating a fully integrated reality is an illusion, and a privilege. Take the wrong drug, suffer a head injury, or somehow trigger a latent psychotic condition like schizophrenia -- and your grip on reality can be severed in an instant. Forever.
你對于現(xiàn)實(shí)的完整感是一種幻象和特權(quán)。吃了錯誤的藥品，頭部受傷，或者觸發(fā)了潛在的精神分裂，你對于現(xiàn)實(shí)的把握將立即中斷，直到永遠(yuǎn)。
