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美版“男人必做的17件事” 1. Approach and engage a pretty girl in conversation with no prompting from anyone. She might not want to talk. She might even tell you to go jerk yourself a soda. But she might not. 邂逅并邀请一个漂亮的姑娘，在每人鼓励的前提下与之交谈。她也许不想开口。她甚至可能告诉你哪凉快哪呆着去。但是她也许不会。
2. Be debt-free. Compounding interest is like a sorority girl on Ecstasy. She'll go both ways, but you get a hell of a lot more out of it when she's going your way.
还清债务。复利（循环利息）就像吃了迷幻药的女生联谊会女孩。她有两面性，但一旦粘上你就会越弄越多。
3. Try the sport that you ridicule most. Golfers and skateboarders wouldn't be so friggin' smug if they knew how difficult the other guy's favorite activity really is.
尝试你最鄙夷的运动。打高尔夫球的和溜冰板的要是知道其他人的爱好有多困难就不应该嘲笑他们。
4. Finish something early.
尽早完成某事。
5. Let someone else brag about that cool thing you did.
让别人去吹你做的事有多酷。
6. How 'bout a mercy flush?
上过厕所要冲水，如何？
7. Disagree with the person you fear most.
与你最害怕的人发生分歧。
8. Read a novel with more than 300 pages, written before 1950, set somewhere other than the United States.
阅读超过300页的写于1950年前，设定在美国以外的小说。
9. Eat brussels sprouts. To make it easier, pretend a gun is pointed at your temple and you have a choice: Take them orally or another way.
吃芽甘蓝。放松，假装有一把枪指着你太阳穴让你选：吃还是不吃。
10. You think you're tough? Say exactly what's on your mind when you're at your most vulnerable. We'll see how tough you are.
觉得你很彪悍？说说到底你认为自己经历过什么最危险的时刻。好让我们明白你有多么彪悍。
11. Say "Cool tat" the next time you see intricate tribal art on the small of a woman's back. She knows what you're really saying, but verbal subtleties like this can mean the difference between receiving an amused smile and waking up in the ICU wearing a diaper packed with ice.
下次你见到女人后腰上难懂的部落艺术时，要说“好酷的编织品”。她知道你想说什么，但是用词恰到好处会意味着不同的收获：愉快地微笑或者敷着冰袋进特护病房。
12. Embrace the male carpe diem death cliché. You will die, friend, and dozens of bungee-jumping, skydiving, scuba diving, rock-climbing, boxing, surfing, and motocross outfits are depending on your "holy crap" realization of mortality to make a living. Why wait? Fix your roof when it's sunny.
拥抱男人的“今朝有九今朝醉”活动。你会死，朋友，还有一堆蹦极跳，跳伞，潜水，攀岩，拳击，冲浪和摩托越野装备则依赖于你的“垃圾的”必死觉悟而存活。等什么？ 13. Leave work early for a midweek afternoon ball game. Tell no one. Go alone. Strive to notice the subtleties TV doesn't show: the third baseman cheating a step before the pitch; where the center fielder sets up; whether that sweet creature two rows over really likes baseball or is just there for her boyfriend. Toss the ticket stub on the way out; you were never there. We guarantee you'll remember this game longer than if you got permission from the wife and went with five buddies. 早早收工（在非周末的日子）看下午场球赛。不告诉任何人。自己独往。
14. Go a week without quoting anyone. When you consider movies, late-night monologues, sportscasters, bosses, wives, kids, founding fathers, regular fathers, Shake-speare, philosophers, and Homer Simpson, this suddenly becomes a lot harder than you thought, huh?
一周内不要引用任何人的话。
15. Pursue a woman not because she's so hot but because she's so cool.
追求一个女人，不为她热辣，而因她酷之缘故。
16. Buy a stock based on research you did all by yourself, from scratch. Restaurant crowds won't fall silent when you speak, but nailing a six-bagger on your own beats Maria Bartiromo's sloppy seconds any trading day.
根据自己的从头研判买支股票。
17. Ask questions first. Save your bullets for later.
首先提问题。弹药留在后面。 继续阅读 | 
发表于 2006-11-7 19:52:31
