职场生存法则--献给即将毕业的学生（双语）

    现如今，你并不需要一直顺从父母、老板、或者是其他一些权威人士。你可以更自由地表达自己，让他们知道“你的真实想法”。 Nowadays, you don’t always have to agree with your parents, your boss, or other authority figures. You have more freedom to express yourself, letting them know “how you really feel”.

    但在发表武断言论或做出鲁莽行为之前，请你三思！在下文中，一位将军和一名足球运动员的遭遇将提醒你，不要忘了适时保持沉默。 But think twice before you say or do anything rash–in the following, “incidents” of a general and a soccer player may remind you just when to shut your mouth.

    言语之失 丢掉工作 There goes a career

    在《滚石》杂志的专访中，前美军驻阿富汗最高指挥官斯坦利•麦克里斯特尔将军强烈谴责了自己的老板，美国总统巴拉克•奥巴马，之后他告别了自己34年的军旅生涯。 General Stanley A McChrystal, once the US military chief in Afghanistan, ended his 34-year Army career after criticizing his boss, US President Barack Obama, in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

    在该报道中，他评价美国总统“胆小懦弱且过于闲散”； 称美国国家安全顾问是“小丑”；反驳美国副总统乔•拜登的主张并大肆抨击外交高官及其同盟。 In the story, he is quoted as calling the president “timid” and “disengaged”. He called the national security adviser “a clown”, dismissed the words of US Vice President Joe Biden and also trashed top diplomats and allies.

    这已经不是该将军第一次公然藐视白宫了。去年9月，《华盛顿邮报》就曾刊登过《麦克里斯特尔备忘录》，麦克里斯特尔将军在文中表示阿富汗战争至少还需要超过4万名的增兵，否则将会面临“功亏一篑”的危险。尽管麦克里斯特尔及其部下一再宣称他们并没有泄露这份本应送达五角大楼的报告，但白宫方面还是大为光火。 This wasn’t the first time the general publicly defied the White House. Last September, The Washington Post cited a McChrystal memorandum in which the general said he needed at least 40,000 more troops for the war in Afghanistan or risk “mission failure”. McChrystal and his staff said they did not leak the report, which was sent to the Pentagon, but it angered the White House nonetheless.

    当月，麦克里斯特尔还现身伦敦，表示拜登主张的阿富汗军事行动收编提案将会导致“阿富汗乱作一团”。