【双语】永远不要放弃自己（一个22岁还在上高中的人的建议）
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | hey I'm Adam I'm 23 years old and I'm still trying to finish high school my | 嘿,我是亚当 我23岁了,我还在努力完成高中学业 |
| 0:06 | family has always been caring and loving but we've barely made enough money for a | 家人一直很关心和爱人 但我们没赚到足够的钱 |
| 0:10 | comfortable living my dad worked several jobs just to keep us afloat and my mom | 活得舒服 我爸爸做过好几份工作 只是为了让我们和我妈一起活 |
| 0:16 | worked a lot too I didn't even have enough time to think about my grades or | 工作很多,我甚至没有 足够的时间思考我的成绩或 |
| 0:19 | school I decided to find some unofficial work I still went to school and | 学校我决定找一些非正式的工作 我仍然去上学, |
| 0:25 | afterwards I would work small jobs like loading crates or helping my mom with | 之后我会做一些小工作,比如装箱或帮我妈 |
| 0:30 | her janitorial work I tried a lot of different jobs during this time all the | 她的清洁工 我在这期间尝试了很多不同的工作 |
| 0:34 | while my teachers would get angry at me for being so far behind with my grades | 老师会因为我成绩落后而生我的气 |
| 0:38 | and assignments so I decided to not bother with them anymore and to just | 和任务,所以我决定不再 打扰他们了,只是 |
| 0:43 | drop out of school I had enough money to help my family and I even had a little | 我有足够的钱来帮助我的家人 我甚至有一点 |
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| 1 | hey I'm Adam I'm 23 years old and I'm still trying to finish high school my | 嘿,我是亚当 我23岁了,我还在努力完成高中学业 |
| 2 | family has always been caring and loving but we've barely made enough money for a | 家人一直很关心和爱人 但我们没赚到足够的钱 |
| 3 | comfortable living my dad worked several jobs just to keep us afloat and my mom | 活得舒服 我爸爸做过好几份工作 只是为了让我们和我妈一起活 |
| 4 | worked a lot too I didn't even have enough time to think about my grades or | 工作很多,我甚至没有 足够的时间思考我的成绩或 |
| 5 | school I decided to find some unofficial work I still went to school and | 学校我决定找一些非正式的工作 我仍然去上学, |
| 6 | afterwards I would work small jobs like loading crates or helping my mom with | 之后我会做一些小工作,比如装箱或帮我妈 |
| 7 | her janitorial work I tried a lot of different jobs during this time all the | 她的清洁工 我在这期间尝试了很多不同的工作 |
| 8 | while my teachers would get angry at me for being so far behind with my grades | 老师会因为我成绩落后而生我的气 |
| 9 | and assignments so I decided to not bother with them anymore and to just | 和任务,所以我决定不再 打扰他们了,只是 |
| 10 | drop out of school I had enough money to help my family and I even had a little | 我有足够的钱来帮助我的家人 我甚至有一点 |
| 11 | left over for myself as soon as I turned 18 I found a job at a metal factory and | 我一满18岁就离开这儿 在一家金属工厂找到工作 |
| 12 | since I've already had two years of work experience under my belt I learned a job | 因为我已经有两年的工作经验了 |
| 13 | I worked hard and didn't talk much a perfect worker soon I got so useful | 我努力工作,没有说多少 一个完美的工人很快,我得到了如此有用的 |
| 14 | that my boss let me browse through my phone while there was nothing to do it | 我老板让我浏览我的电话 却又没什么可做的 |
| 15 | was a big privilege during my free time I'd hang out with my friends many of | 在我的空闲时间里 我很荣幸能和我的朋友们一起玩 |
| 16 | whom were musicians so a lot of the time it was at concerts and well bars my only | 音乐家经常参加音乐会 唱我唯一的歌 |
| 17 | passion was soccer I would watch every game and championship very closely and | 激情是足球 我会非常密切地看每个比赛和冠军 |
| 18 | that was my escape from my life's troubles sadly my father passed away we | 那是我从我生命的烦恼中逃脱的不幸 我父亲去世了 |
| 19 | were at the hospital me my mum and my siblings we were all crying and trying | 在医院里,我的母亲和我的兄弟们 我们都在哭泣和尝试 |
| 20 | to make sense of everything I promised to bring in as much money as I could but | 我答应尽可能多地带钱来 |
| 21 | my mum suddenly stopped me and said Adam don't ruin your life this is not what | 我妈妈突然阻止了我 说亚当不要毁了你的生活 这不是什么 |
| 22 | your father would have wanted for you go back to school I'm begging you I didn't | 你爸爸会希望你回学校的 我求你了 我没有 |
| 23 | want to but I realized that my mum was right so I returned to school reducing | 我想,但我意识到 我妈妈是对的,所以我回到学校减少。 |
| 24 | my hours at the factory instead of quitting altogether my first day at | 我在工厂的时间 而不是完全退出 我的第一天在 |
| 25 | school was weird the teacher introduced me in front of the entire class and | 学校很奇怪 老师在全班同学面前介绍我 |
| 26 | everyone was just staring at me like I was an alien she asked me to tell | 大家都在盯着我 就像我是个外星人 她让我告诉你 |
| 27 | everyone a little bit about myself and I said hi I'm Adam and I'm old some people | 每个人 关于我自己的一点点,我说你好 我是亚当,我老了一些人 |
| 28 | giggled but most of them were just staring weirded out during my first days | 笑了,但大部分人只是 盯着怪怪的在我第一天 |
| 29 | nobody would talk to me and I was okay with that I would just stare at the | 没人会跟我说话 我同意我只盯着她 |
| 30 | window during breaks one day a group of guys and girls came up to me and started | 一天休息的时候 一群男男女女来找我 开始 |
| 31 | asking me why I was going to school at my age I answered with cheesy jokes like | 问我为什么我这个年纪要上学 我用俗笑话回答 |
| 32 | oh I just forgot about school one day and then was like oh yeah school I | 哦,我只是忘记了上学的一天 然后就像哦是啊学校我 |
| 33 | should go there people giggled and started asking a lot of questions about | 应该去那里 人们笑了起来 开始问了很多关于 |
| 34 | my jobs and stuff I guess I got kind of popular too popular one girl in | 我的工作和东西 我想我得到了一种 流行太受欢迎 一个女孩在 |
| 35 | particular liked me and tried to sit with me during any subject we had | 特别喜欢我 并试图坐在我 任何我们的主题 |
| 36 | together or in the cafeteria she was asking a lot about me and I answered | 一起或者在自助餐厅 她问我很多关于我的事 我回答 |
| 37 | with my usual cheesy jokes and she'd laugh way too hard at them I didn't want | 和平常的俗笑话, 她会笑得太狠了,我不希望 |
| 38 | any problems so I tried to sit away from her and limit her chats without hurting | 所以我试着不理她 限制她聊天而不伤害她 |
| 39 | her feelings but every time I sat away she would find me and sit right next to | 她的感受,但每次我坐远时 她会找到我,坐在旁边 |
| 40 | me like a yo-yo work sent me a little curveball too and my usual late shift my | 我就像一个优雅的工作 送我一个小曲线球太 我通常晚班我的 |
| 41 | boss came to me patted me on the shoulder and said Adam how about a raise | 老板来找我拍我的肩膀,说亚当加薪怎么样? |
| 42 | I said yeah that would be nice and he told me how much I could earn and then | 我说是的,这将是很好的 他告诉我,我可以挣多少钱,然后 |
| 43 | he ended with of course you'd have to return to work full-time I said I | 他最后当然要回到全职工作 |
| 44 | couldn't do that because I had school his smile immediately changed to a frown | 我不能这么做 因为我有学校 他的笑容立刻变成了皱眉 |
| 45 | okay then you can't use your phone during your shifts anymore | 好吧,你不能再在轮班时用手机了 |
| 46 | oh my grades at school weren't great because I had to balance it with work so | 我在学校的成绩不好,因为我不得不平衡工作 |
| 47 | I was feeling everywhere at school and at my work I was waking up going to | 我在学校和工作时都觉得 我醒来时想 |
| 48 | school then to work right afterwards and I only slept for like three to five | 之后我只睡了3到5个 |
| 49 | hours every day even on the weekends I couldn't pay attention in school or at | 每天几小时,即使在周末, 我无法在学校和在 |
| 50 | work teachers were understanding of my situation but they also noticed how much | 老师了解我的处境,但他们也注意到了 |
| 51 | this girl was cleaning to me and they were suspiciously looking at us every | 这个女孩在帮我打扫 他们都怀疑我们 |
| 52 | time we sat together also every time I saw my boss at work he would say | 我们坐在一起的时候 每次我看到我的老板在工作 他都会说 |
| 53 | something like you're getting slower Adam you should be grateful that I'm | 亚当,你应该感激我 |
| 54 | still letting you work here after the hundredth time of him saying something | 在他说了一百遍之后,还让你在这里工作 |
| 55 | like that I stood up and said okay bye then as I was walking away he followed | 我站起来说再见 当我走的时候 他跟着我 |
| 56 | me and saying come on Adam you know you won't find anything better you should be | 我和说,来吧,亚当 你知道你不会找到任何更好的,你应该 |
| 57 | grateful for what you have at this point I snapped and shouted at him with | 感谢你现在的帮助 我对他大喊大叫 |
| 58 | some not very nice words but his words stuck with me like how he said you know | 有些话不是很好听,但他的话却坚持在我身边 就像他说你知道的一样 |
| 59 | you won't find anything better I took it too close to heart and stopped going to | 你不会找到更好的 我把它太靠近心脏,停止去 |
| 60 | school too instead I was spending a lot of time alone and I'm shameful to say | 学校也一样,我花了很多时间 独自一人,我很羞耻地说 |
| 61 | that most of this time was at bars my friends started trying to get a hold of | 这大部分时间是在酒吧 我的朋友开始试图得到一个联系 |
| 62 | me because at one point I disappeared for an entire week one day they came to | 我因为有一天我失踪了整整一周 他们来到 |
| 63 | one of the bars I frequented I guess I was pretty predictable it was the best | 我经常去的酒吧之一 我想我可以预测这是最好的 |
| 64 | bar for watching soccer they started asking what I was doing and why I | 他们开始问我在做什么,为什么我 |
| 65 | wasn't answering my phone I told him everything I said that I didn't see any | 我没接电话 我告诉他我说过的 我什么都没看见 |
| 66 | future for myself they showed me the screen and said how about that I said | 将来他们给我看屏幕,然后说: |
| 67 | what do you mean they said that I know soccer better than anyone else and maybe | 你是什么意思 他们说我比任何人都更懂足球 也许 |
| 68 | I could make a career out of it somehow I thought about it and remembered that I | 我可以做一个事业 以某种方式,我想起它,并记得我 |
| 69 | decided that I wanted to finish school and study journalism and I wanted to | 决定我想完成学业和学习新闻 |
| 70 | specialize in sports I talked about this with my mom and she was so happy to hear | 我和我妈谈过这个 她很高兴听到 |
| 71 | that I finally saw a path in my life and that dad would be really proud of me the | 我终于在人生中看到了一条路 爸爸会以我为荣 |
| 72 | only thing he wanted for me was to be happy and to not have a life like he did | 他只希望我快乐,不象他那样生活 |
| 73 | when I returned to school my teachers were mad at me and I was called to the | 当我回到学校时 我的老师生我的气 我被叫去 |
| 74 | principal's office she asked me to just not disappear like that again I told her | 校长的办公室,她叫我不要再那样消失 我告诉她 |
| 75 | the only thing about work and my sleep cycle and even about that girl that was | 唯一关于工作和睡眠循环的事 甚至关于那个女孩 |
| 76 | making it difficult for me she listened and was very understanding she said that | 她听了,很明白 她说 |
| 77 | I could work as a janitor at her school after study hours and that everybody | 我可以在她学校做清洁工 学习时间过后 每个人都可以 |
| 78 | would help me with it but I had to show up and actually study I agreed it wasn't | 会帮我的 但我不得不出现 并且实际上学习 我同意这不是 |
| 79 | easy but I studied hard and cleaned the school afterwards I got much more sleep | 很简单,但是我努力学习,打扫学校 之后,我有更多的睡眠 |
| 80 | and kept okay grades I kept doing it for two years with mixed results but I never | 并保持好成绩 我一直做两年 成绩参差不齐 但我从来没有 |
| 81 | missed a day of school even when I was sick and I I'm almost finished with | 即使我生病了,我差点没上一天课 |
| 82 | school now I can't believe it everyone's so supportive of me and are trying to | 现在的学校,我不能相信,每个人都这么支持我 并试图 |
| 83 | help me find a good college my message to you is to keep believing that | 帮我找个好大学 我给你的讯息是 继续相信 |
| 84 | everything will be alright even if it's really bad at the moment don't give up | 就算现在真的不好 也没什么大不了的 |
| 85 | on your life share this story with anyone who's ever given up on themselves | 和曾经放弃自己的人分享这个故事 |
| 86 | nobody should ever give up | 任何人都不应该放弃 |
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