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    1. Get out of the library. You can have a degree and a huge GPA and not be ready for the workplace. A student should plan that college is four years of experience rather than 120 credits," says William Coplin, professor at Syracuse University and author of the book, 10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College."

    第一,走出图书馆。就算有了学位和很高的GPA你也不见得就为工作做好了准备。大学是四年人生经验,不是高学分。在美国的大学,课外活动常常和功课一样重要。

    2. Start a business in your dorm room. It's cheap, Google and Yahoo are dying to buy your website, and it's better than washing dishes in the cafeteria. Note to those who play poker1 online until 4 a.m.: Gambling2 isn't a business. It's an addiction3.

    第二,从宿舍开始做生意。这很便宜,雅虎、谷歌都会争先恐后地买你弄出来的网站,这比餐馆里洗盘子好多了。至于那些通宵在线玩扑克的人,记住赌博不是生意,赌博是瘾。

    3. Don't take on debt that is too limiting. This is not a reference to online gambling, although it could be. This is about choosing a state school over a pricey private school. Almost everyone agrees you can get a great education at an inexpensive school. So in many cases the debt from a private school is more career-limiting than the lack of brand name on your diploma.

    第三,别债务缠身。这和在线赌博关系不大,虽然可能有关系。这是关于应该选择一所州立大学而不是昂贵的私立学校的问题。几乎所有人都同意在不那么贵的学校里也能得到良好的教育。所以从个人前途上看,无债一身轻比花钱买个名牌要有利得多。

    4. Get involved on campus. When it comes to career success, emotional intelligence -- social skills to read and lead others -- get you farther than knowledge or job competence4, according to Tiziana Casciaro, professor at Harvard Business School. Julie Albert, a junior at Brandeis University, is the director of her a capella group and head of orientation5 this year. She hones her leadership skills outside the classroom, which is exactly where to do it.

    第四,积极参加校园的活动。通过这种活动,可以学会怎么理解、帮助别人,满足别人的需要和别人沟通。这在美国文化中,是所谓“领袖素质”的基础。找工作时会被别人另眼相看。千万不要认为自己的生活只有校园而已。

    5. Avoid grad school in the liberal arts. One in five English Phd's find stable university jobs, and the degree won't help outside the university: "Schooling6 only gives you the capacity to stand behind a cash register," says Thomas Benton, a columnist7 at the Chronicle of Higher Education (who has an English degree from Yale and a tenure-track teaching job.)

    第五,不要读文科博士。五分之一的英语博士能找到大学里的稳定的工作,如果走出校门,学位没什么用处。除非你离了学术不能活。读博士对实际工作毫无帮助。

    6. Skip the law-school track. Lawyers are the most depressed8 of all professionals. Stress itself does not make a job bad, says Alan Kreuger, economist9 at Princeton University. Not having control over one's work does make a bad job, though, and lawyers are always acting10 on behalf of someone else. Suicide is among the leading causes of premature11 death among lawyers.

    第六,别上法学院。律师是所有职业中最压抑的。律师总是代表别人去争利,压力奇大。自杀是律师中第一号非正常死亡的原因。

    7. Play a sport. People who play sports earn more money than couch potatoes, and women executives who played sports attribute much of their career success to their athletic12 experience, says Jennifer Cripsen of Sweet Briar College in Virginia. You don't need to be great at sports, you just need to be part of a team.

    第七,参加体育运动。调查表明,大学从事体育的人,毕业后比那些不沾体育的同学明显收入高。美国人从事体育不仅是锻炼身体,而且是培养竞争的才能和领袖素质。一个大学运动队的队长到华尔街找工作,优势不可限量。

    8. Separate your expectations from those of your parents. "Otherwise you wake up and realize you're not living your own life," says Alexandra Robbins, author of the popular new book "The Overachievers." (Note to parents: If you cringe as you read this list, then you need to read this book.)

    第八,别按着父母的期待生活。“否则你醒来后会发现你过的不是自己的日子。”

    9. Try new things that you're not good at. "Ditch the superstar mentality13 that if you don't reach the top, president, A+, editor in chief, then the efforts were worthless. It's important to learn to enjoy things without getting recognition," says Robbins.

    第九,干一些你并不擅长的新事物。你对自己未必了解,这是苏格拉底给人类的教诲。所以,请给自己一个机会。

    10. Define success for yourself. "Society defines success very narrowly. Rather than defining success as financial gain or accolades14, define it in terms of individual interests and personal happiness," says Robbins.

    第十,以自己为中心来定义成功。别以外在的东西(比如金钱)来定义成功。

    11. Make your job search a priority. Jobs do not fall in your lap, you have to chase them. Especially a good one. It's a job to look for a job. Use spreadsheets to track your progress. And plan early. Goldman Sachs, for example, starts its information sessions in September.

    第十一,好工作要自己去找。不要等着天上掉馅饼。

    12. Take a course in happiness. Happiness study is revolutionizing how we think of psychology15, economics, and sociology. How to be happy is a science that 150 schools teach. Preview: Learn to be more optimistic. This class will show you how.

    第十二,选修关于“幸福”的心理课程。在哈佛,这一课程是最热门的课之一。

    13. Take an acting course. The best actors are actually being their most authentic16 selves, says Lindy Amos of communications coaching firm TAI Resources. Amos teaches executives to communicate authentically17 so that people will listen and feel connected. You need to learn to do this, too, and you may as well start in college.

    第十三,上表演课。美国社会整个就是个舞台。从教授、政治家、企业总裁,到律师、将军、记者,不会表演就很难出头。

    14. Learn to give a compliment. The best compliments are specific, so ``good job" is not good, writes Lisa Laskow Lahey, psychologist at Harvard and co-author of ``How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work." Practice on your professors. If you give a good compliment the recipient18 will think you're smarter: Big payoff in college, but bigger payoff in the work world.

    第十四,学会赞美别人。在生活中,既要当好演员,也要当好观众。很多时候我总是感觉和别人有距离,其实就是缺那简单的几句问候和一个拥抱。

    15. Use the career center. These people are experts at positioning you in the workforce19 and their only job is to get you a job. How can you not love this place? If you find yourself thinking the people at your college's career center are idiots, it's probably a sign that you really, really don't know what you're doing.

    第十五,使用职业咨询服务机构。美国大学一个重要部门就是求职咨询机构。专业人员帮你分析自己的长短,以及就业市场,帮助你准备面试,修改申请信。

    16. Develop a strong sense of self by dissing colleges that reject you. Happy people have ``a more durable20 sense of self and aren't as buffeted21 by outside events," writes Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California-Riverside. When bad things happen, don't take it personally. This is how the most successful business people bounce back quickly from setback22.

    第十六,被拒后应该坦然以对。要自己定义自己,不要用外在指标定义自己。

    17. Apply to Harvard as a transfer student. Sure people have wild success after going to an Ivy23 League school but this success is no more grand than that of the people who applied24 and got rejected. All people who apply to Ivy League schools seem to have similar high self-confidence and ambition, even if they don't get in, according to a study by Kreuger.

    第十七,以转校生的身份申请哈佛。人们从常春藤名校毕业无疑会取得巨大的成功,但是那些申请后被拒的学生也不差。所有申请常春藤名校的人都有同样的自信和野心,即使不能入校就读。

    18. Get rid of your perfectionist streak25. It is rewarded in college, but it leads to insane job stress and an inability to feel satisfied with your work. And for all of you still stuck on number 6, about ditching the law school applications: The Utah Bar Journal says that lawyers are disproportionately perfectionists.

    第十八,不要过分追求完美,不要给自己不必要的压力。生活不止是工作,学习,它还有很多很多。

    19. Work your way though college. Getting involved in student organizations counts, and so does feeding children in Sierra Leone or sweeping26 floors in the chemistry building. Each experience you have can grow into something bigger. Albert was an orientation leader last year, and she turned that experience into a full-time27 summer job that morphed into a position managing 130 orientation leaders. A great bullet on the resume for a junior in college.

    第十九,要靠打工读完大学,积累工作经验。这很重要,大部分中国学生做不到,甚至认为打工没有必要,其实打过工的人才会真正珍惜生活。

    20. Make to do lists. You can't achieve dreams if you don't have a plan to get there.

    第二十,把你的目标列成表,因为你没有计划就不可能成功。不要整天没事干老胡思乱想,只有真正的行动才能拯救你。

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    1 poker [ˈpəʊkə(r)] ilozCG   第10级
    n.扑克;vt.烙制
    参考例句:
    • He was cleared out in the poker game. 他打扑克牌,把钱都输光了。
    • I'm old enough to play poker and do something with it. 我打扑克是老手了,可以玩些花样。
    2 gambling [ˈgæmblɪŋ] ch4xH   第7级
    n.赌博;投机
    参考例句:
    • They have won a lot of money through gambling. 他们赌博赢了很多钱。
    • The men have been gambling away all night. 那些人赌了整整一夜。
    3 addiction [əˈdɪkʃn] JyEzS   第8级
    n.上瘾入迷,嗜好
    参考例句:
    • He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction. 他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
    • Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction, poverty and murder. 贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
    4 competence [ˈkɒmpɪtəns] NXGzV   第7级
    n.能力,胜任,称职
    参考例句:
    • This mess is a poor reflection on his competence. 这种混乱情况说明他难当此任。
    • These are matters within the competence of the court. 这些是法院权限以内的事。
    5 orientation [ˌɔ:riənˈteɪʃn] IJ4xo   第7级
    n.方向,目标;熟悉,适应,情况介绍
    参考例句:
    • Children need some orientation when they go to school. 小孩子上学时需要适应。
    • The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map. 旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。
    6 schooling [ˈsku:lɪŋ] AjAzM6   第7级
    n.教育;正规学校教育
    参考例句:
    • A child's access to schooling varies greatly from area to area. 孩子获得学校教育的机会因地区不同而大相径庭。
    • Backward children need a special kind of schooling. 天赋差的孩子需要特殊的教育。
    7 columnist [ˈkɒləmnɪst] XwwzUQ   第9级
    n.专栏作家
    参考例句:
    • The host was interviewing a local columnist. 节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
    • She's a columnist for USA Today. 她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。
    8 depressed [dɪˈprest] xu8zp9   第8级
    adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的
    参考例句:
    • When he was depressed, he felt utterly divorced from reality. 他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
    • His mother was depressed by the sad news. 这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
    9 economist [ɪˈkɒnəmɪst] AuhzVs   第8级
    n.经济学家,经济专家,节俭的人
    参考例句:
    • He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem. 他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
    • He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers. 他是个经济学家,自以为什么都懂。
    10 acting [ˈæktɪŋ] czRzoc   第7级
    n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
    参考例句:
    • Ignore her, she's just acting. 别理她,她只是假装的。
    • During the seventies, her acting career was in eclipse. 在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
    11 premature [ˈpremətʃə(r)] FPfxV   第7级
    adj.比预期时间早的;不成熟的,仓促的
    参考例句:
    • It is yet premature to predict the possible outcome of the dialogue. 预言这次对话可能有什么结果为时尚早。
    • The premature baby is doing well. 那个早产的婴儿很健康。
    12 athletic [æθˈletɪk] sOPy8   第7级
    adj.擅长运动的,强健的;活跃的,体格健壮的
    参考例句:
    • This area has been marked off for athletic practice. 这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
    • He is an athletic star. 他是一个运动明星。
    13 mentality [menˈtæləti] PoIzHP   第8级
    n.心理,思想,脑力
    参考例句:
    • He has many years' experience of the criminal mentality. 他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
    • Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee. 经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。
    14 accolades [ˈækəˌleɪdz] aa2b8bb076e81bf1e58ecf0d7d369c2b   第10级
    n.(连结几行谱表的)连谱号( accolade的名词复数 );嘉奖;(窗、门上方的)桃尖拱形线脚;册封爵士的仪式(用剑面在肩上轻拍一下)
    参考例句:
    • Unlike other accolades for literature which tend to value style or experimentation. 有别于其他偏重风格活实验性的文学奖项。 来自互联网
    • Build your trophy room while amassing awards and accolades. 建立您的奖杯积累奖项和荣誉。 来自互联网
    15 psychology [saɪˈkɒlədʒi] U0Wze   第7级
    n.心理,心理学,心理状态
    参考例句:
    • She has a background in child psychology. 她受过儿童心理学的教育。
    • He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge. 他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。
    16 authentic [ɔ:ˈθentɪk] ZuZzs   第7级
    adj.真的,真正的;可靠的,可信的,有根据的
    参考例句:
    • This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道,我们相信它。
    • Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。
    17 authentically [ɔ'θentikəli] MOyyR   第7级
    ad.sincerely真诚地
    参考例句:
    • Gina: And we should give him something 2 authentically Taiwanese. 吉娜:而且我们应该送他有纯正台湾味的东西。
    • A loser is one who fails to correspond authentically. 失败者则指那些未能做到诚实可靠的人。
    18 recipient [rɪˈsɪpiənt] QA8zF   第7级
    adj.接受的,感受性强的 n.接受者,感受者,容器
    参考例句:
    • Please check that you have a valid email certificate for each recipient. 请检查是否对每个接收者都有有效的电子邮件证书。
    • Colombia is the biggest US aid recipient in Latin America. 哥伦比亚是美国在拉丁美洲最大的援助对象。
    19 workforce [ˈwɜ:kfɔ:s] workforce   第8级
    n.劳动大军,劳动力
    参考例句:
    • A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture. 劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
    • A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed. 本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。
    20 durable [ˈdjʊərəbl] frox4   第7级
    adj.持久的,耐久的
    参考例句:
    • This raincoat is made of very durable material. 这件雨衣是用非常耐用的料子做的。
    • They frequently require more major durable purchases. 他们经常需要购买耐用消费品。
    21 buffeted [ˈbʌfitid] 2484040e69c5816c25c65e8310465688   第7级
    反复敲打( buffet的过去式和过去分词 ); 连续猛击; 打来打去; 推来搡去
    参考例句:
    • to be buffeted by the wind 被风吹得左右摇摆
    • We were buffeted by the wind and the rain. 我们遭到风雨的袭击。
    22 setback [ˈsetbæk] XzuwD   第8级
    n.退步,挫折,挫败
    参考例句:
    • Since that time there has never been any setback in his career. 从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
    • She views every minor setback as a disaster. 她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。
    23 ivy [ˈaɪvi] x31ys   第10级
    n.常青藤,常春藤
    参考例句:
    • Her wedding bouquet consisted of roses and ivy. 她的婚礼花篮包括玫瑰和长春藤。
    • The wall is covered all over with ivy. 墙上爬满了常春藤。
    24 applied [əˈplaɪd] Tz2zXA   第8级
    adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
    参考例句:
    • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics. 她打算学习应用语言学课程。
    • This cream is best applied to the face at night. 这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
    25 streak [stri:k] UGgzL   第7级
    n.条理,斑纹,倾向,少许,痕迹;v.加条纹,变成条纹,奔驰,快速移动
    参考例句:
    • The Indians used to streak their faces with paint. 印第安人过去常用颜料在脸上涂条纹。
    • Why did you streak the tree? 你为什么在树上刻条纹?
    26 sweeping [ˈswi:pɪŋ] ihCzZ4   第8级
    adj.范围广大的,一扫无遗的
    参考例句:
    • The citizens voted for sweeping reforms. 公民投票支持全面的改革。
    • Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches? 你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗?
    27 full-time [ˈfʊlˈtaɪm] SsBz42   第8级
    adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
    参考例句:
    • A full-time job may be too much for her. 全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
    • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job. 既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。

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