英文灌水日记190602(3)

就拿钢琴课来说吧。如果你想从一个音乐学院的学生那里学习技能你需要花每小时两百元的课时费，音乐学院的讲师则收取每小时三百元，副教授六百元，正教授八百元。通常罗马不是一天建成的，你需要花好几年和数以年记的可观金钱才能从老师身上套取足够的技能和知识。为了学到真本事，我们班上的很多同学甚至花数千块钱去找大师指点迷津。更有甚者，一些人为了让他们被南艺录取打包票，他们变相地贿赂考官，他们通常会在离考试不到一年的时间里拜在考官的门下，用课时费这种方式贿赂他们。有时候老师会建议你：你的乐器不行，我推荐你到某个指定的琴行去买一件新乐器，你只需要告诉他我介绍你来的就行了，这样老师就能从中抽取回扣。当你充分“喂饱”了他们，你就有很大的可能性在入学考试当中名列前茅并被音乐学院录取。
As I was totally ignorant of it from the beginning, I suffered terribly from those sanctimonious teachers even if NAI admitted me. My life faith is to get everything OK by my wits and ability and I never acted as a opportunist. In my world view, it is only when a person with no skills that he acts as an opportunist. Therefore I never bribe anyone, and I have no idea of what ‘bribe philosophy’ is. As I am an exception among most of my schoolmates offering bribes to teachers, I was treated differently from them by the head teacher. It pains me that good luck seemed to be wholly denied to me and everyone looked coldly upon me. Even so I insisted on my principle: do everything with my real learning, as long as I am a piece of gold, I will shine no matter what situation is. Yet frustratingly, till I left school, I was never seriously considered. 
因为刚开始我对这种东西一无所知，所以尽管我被南艺录取了，我还是在那些道貌岸然的老师那里吃尽了苦头。我的人生信条是做什么事都凭自己的真本事，我从来都不会投机取巧。在我的世界观里，只有那种没本事的人才会投机取巧。所以我从来不贿赂任何人，我对于“贿赂的哲学”一点概念都没有。当学校里面除了我之外的绝大部分同学都贿赂老师时，我被班主任区别对待了。让我痛苦的是所有好机会都与我无缘，所有人都对我冷眼相看。尽管如此我还是坚持着我的原则：用自己的真本事把所有事都搞定，只要我是块金子不管到哪里都会发光。但是令人沮丧的是，直到我离校都没有得到任何人的重用。