比尔盖英文大致小故事

1、比尔盖英文大致小故事【篇一：比尔盖英文大致小故事】when bill gates was 11, the priest at church announced that whoever can memorize chapters 5 to 7 of gospel of matthew in the new testame nt will be in vited to the restaura nt located in seattle s space n eedle. eve n though everybody wan ted to go, only bill gates was able

2、to memorize this secti on with over ten thousand words. when he recited the section in front of the whole class, the priest was shocked. even for adults, there were only a few who can recite this section. therefore, the priest asked bill how did he do it. he said: i tried my best!【篇二：比尔盖英文大致小故事】will

3、iam (bill) h.gates is the worlds lead ing pers onal computer software ven dors - microsofts foun der,former chairma n and chief executive officer.gates was born october 28,1955,he and two sisters grew up in seattle.gates atte nded public eleme ntary school in seattle and the private lakeside school,

4、where he started his own pers onal computer software,professi onal experie nce,13-year-old bega n to write computer programs.i n 1973,gates en tered harvard uni versity a year.third grade,gates dropped out of harvard and threw himself into it with childhood partners,together with paul allen founded

5、microsoft in 1975.i n additi on to computers outside the complex,gates is also very in terested in biotech no logy.gatesja nuary 1,1994 and married melinda french gates,they have a child jennifer kathari ne gates,1996 was born .bill gates is a read ing fan ,but liked to play golf and bridge.威廉(比尔)h.

6、盖茨是全球个人计算机软件的领先供应商-微软公司的创始人、前任董事长和首席执行 官.盖茨岀生于1955年10月28日，他和两个姐妹一起在西雅图长大.盖茨曾就读于西雅图的公立小学和私立湖滨中学，在那里,他开始了自己个人计算机软件的职业经历,13岁就开始编写计算机程序 .1973年,盖茨进入哈佛大学一年级.三年级时，盖茨从哈佛退学，全身心投入其与童年伙伴paul allen 起于1975年组建的微软公司.除计算机情结之外，盖茨对生物技术也很感兴趣 .盖茨1994年1月1日与mel in da french gates 结婚，他们有一个孩子 jennifer katharine gates,1996年

7、岀生.盖茨是一个读书迷,而且很喜欢打高尔夫和桥牌.【篇三：比尔盖英文大致小故事】比尔盖茨的英语故事篇一比尔盖茨成长的故事spend time with the family of bill gates, and eventually some one will men tio n the water in cide nt.the future software mogul was a headstr ong 12-year-old and was hav ing a particularly n asty argume nt with his mother at the dinner tabl

8、e. fed up, his father threw a glass of cold water in the boy s face.thanks for the shower, the young mr. gates sn apped. the incident lives in gates family lore not just for its drama but also because it was a rare time that bill gates sr., father of his famous n amesake, lost his cool. the argume n

9、t presaged a turning point in the life of a tempestuous boy that would set him on course to become the bill gates whom the public knows as co-fo un der of microsoft corp. and the world s richest man. beh ind the bill gates success story is the other william gates. the senior mr. gates bala need a fa

10、mily throw n off kilter by a boy who appeared to gain the in tellect of an adult almost over ni ght. he served as a quiet coun sel as his son jumped into and thrived in the cutthroat bus in ess world. whe n huge wealth put new pressure on the son, the elder gates stepped in to start what is now the

11、world s largest private philanthropy. bill gates sr., 83 years old, is now co-chair of his son s $30 billio n phila nthropy, the bill meli nda gates foun dati on. he has avoided the spotlight. the public details of his life in clude little bey ond his official biography at the foun dati on, which sa

12、ys he was a seattle lawyer, world war ii vetera n, non profit volun teer and father of three. he has compiled his thoughts on life in a short book to be published n ext week.in in terviews with the wall street jour nal, bill gates sr., bill gates and their family shared many details of the family s

13、story for the first time, including bill gates jr. s experience in coun seli ng and how his early in terest in computers came about partly as a result of a family crisis. the sometimes collid ing forces of discipli ne and freedom with in the cla n shaped the en trepre neur s character.the relatio ns

14、hip betwee n father and son en tered a new phase whe n the software mogul bega n worki ng full-time seve n mon ths ago at the gates foun dati on. for the past 13 years, the father has been the sole gates family member with a daily prese nce at the foun dati on, starti ng it from the baseme nt of his

15、 home and minding it while his son finished up his final decade running microsoft. they now work directly together for the first time.at six-foot-six, bill gates sr. is n early a full head taller tha n his son. he s known to be more social tha n the youn ger bill gates, but they share a sharp in tel

16、lect and a bluntn ess that can come across to some as curt. he isn t prone to in trospecti on and he plays dow n his role in his son s life.as a father, i never imagined that the argumentative, young boy who grew up in my house, eati ng my food and using my n ame would be my future employer, mr. gat

17、es sr. told a group of non profit leaders in a 2005 speech. but that s what happe ned. the first stage - argume ntative young boy - started about the time he was 11, mr. gates sr. says in one of a series of in terviews. that s about whe n young bill became an adult, says bill sr., and an increasing

18、headache for the family.until that time, the gates home had been peaceful. bill sr. and his wife, mary, had three childre n: kristi; the n bill, bor n in 1955; and libby. it was a close family that thrived on competiti ons -board games, cards, pin g-p ong. and on rituals: sun day dinn ers at the sam

19、e time every week, and at christmas, match ing pajamas for every family member.while very in volved in his kids lives, mr. gates sr. was somewhat dista nt emotio nally, which his childre n say probably reflects his gen erati on. his stature, comb ined with a lawyerly bent for carefully choos ing his

20、 words, also made him intimidating at times. he d come home and he d sit in a chair and eat dinner, but there was n ever any kind of warm, give-me- a-hug kind of thing, says kristi blake, his oldest daughter.mr.gates sr. left much of the day-to-day pare nting to his wife while he was building his ca

21、reer at a seattle law firm. daughter of a seattle banker, ms. gates had been an athlete and top stude nt in high school and college, where she met bill sr. she became a full-time volun teer and served on corporate boards.ms.gates en couraged her kids to study hard, play sports and take music lessons

22、. (bill gates tried the trombone with little success.) and she imparted a discipli ne that reflected her upbri nging in a well-to-do family. she expected her kids to dress n eatly, be pun ctual and socialize with the many adults who visited their home. for the most part, young bill dutifully abided.

23、she was the most en gaged pare nt and she had high expectati ons of all of us, says libby armin trout, bill s youn ger sister. no t just grades and that sort of thing, but how we behaved in public, how we would be socially.bill gates at an early age became a diligent learner. he read the world book

24、en cyclopedia series start to fini sh. his pare nts en couraged his appetite for read ing by pay ing for any book he wan ted.still, they worried that he seemed to prefer books to people. they tried to temper that streak by forcing him to be a greeter at their parties and a waiter at his father s pro

25、fessi onal fun cti ons.then, at age 11, bill sr. says, the son blossomed in tellectually, peppering his parents with questions about international affairs, bus in ess and the n ature of life.it was interesting and i thought it was great, mr. gates sr. says. no w, i will say to you, his mother did no

26、t appreciate it. it bothered her.the son pushed aga inst his mother s in sti net to con trol him, spark ing a battle of wills. all those things that she had expected of him - a clea n room, being at the dinner table on time, not bit ing his pen cils - sudde nly tur ned into a big source of friction.

27、 the two fell into explosive arguments.he was n asty, ms. arm in trout says of her brother.mr. gates sr. played the role of peacemaker. he d sort of break them apart and calm things down, says ms. blake, the eldest sibli ng.the battles reached a climax at dinner one ni ght whe n bill gates was aroun

28、d 12. over the table, he shouted at his mother, i n what today he describes as utter, total sarcastic, smart-ass kid rude ness.that s when mr. gates sr., in a rare blast of temper, threw the glass of water in his son s face.he and mary brought their son to a therapist. i m at war with my parents ove

29、r who is in control, bill gates recalls telling the coun selor. report ing back, the coun selor told his pare nts that their son would ultimately win the battle for in depe nden ce, and their best course of acti on was to ease up on him.mr. gates sr. un derstood that coun sel because of his own chil

30、dhood, an hour s ferry ride from seattle in the work ing- class town of bremerton. there wasn t a lot of structure to my grow ing up, he says. i had an awful lot of discreti on about where i went, what i did, who i did it with.his mother was doting and easygoing. his sister, his only sibling, was se

31、ven years older. and his father was a workaholic who sacrificed child-rearing to work at a furniture store he owned with a partner. his complete focus was on the store, bill sr. says.mr. gates sr. early on built a life outside of his home. n ext door, the braman family had two boys for him to play w

32、ith and a father who would become his most importa nt role model. that man, dorm brama n, had built his bus in ess and would later become a naval officer, mayor of seattle and a u.s. assistant secretary of tran sportati on. in the late 1930s, mr. brama n brought bill sr. on family road trips across

33、the coun try. he was scoutmaster of bill sr. s boy scout troop, lead ing the boys on hikes through the olympic mountains and driving them in a beat-up bus to yellowst one and glacier n ati onal parks. the troop spe nt two years build ing a log house from douglas firs they felled themselves. mr. bram

34、a n had no sense of pers onal limitati ons whatsoever, says mr. gates sr.bill sr. and mary ultimately took a page from that upbringing: they backed off. they en rolled their son in a school that they thought would give him more freedom. that was the private lakeside school, now known as the place wh

35、ere bill gates discovered computers.mr. gates says he bega n to realize, hey, i don t have to prove my position relative to my parents. i just have to figure out what i m doing relative to the world.his pare nts played support ing roles. they acquiesced whe n bill quit harvard and the n moved to alb

36、uquerque, new mexico, to start microsoft. it was a tough decision to back.mary and i were both concerned about it - i think she a bit more tha n i, bill sr. says. her expectatio ns and mine were very ordin ary expectatio ns of people who have kids in college -that they get a degree.the family suppor

37、t was one reason mr. gates decided to move microsoft to seattle, where he settled into a house not far from his pare nts. ms. gates arran ged to have a maid clea n her son s house, and made sure he had clea n shirts for his big meeti ngs. she also insisted he kept observing the family traditions, in

38、 clud ing the weekly sun day dinner at his pare nts house. mr. gates sr., draw ing from his own experie nee as a lawyer guid ing small compa ni es, helped find seattle bus in esspeople to serve on the microsoft board .in 1980, bill gates brought his father along to dinner to help persuade college fr

39、ie nd steve ballmer - now microsoft s chief executive - to quit graduate school and join microsoft. the father s law firm would also end up represe nting microsoft, which became the firm s biggest clie nt.bill sr. eased his son s worries about taking microsoft public when bill fretted that it would

40、be a distraction for employees. the offeri ng would turn bill gates into a billi on aire. it also spaw ned the n ext challe nge for the family.after the win dfall, ms. gates pressed her son to get into phila nthropy. at his father s law office late one ni ght, some one prese nt recalls, bill quarrel

41、ed with his mother as she urged him to give money away.i m just trying to run my compa ny! he sn apped, says the person in the office at the time. mr. gates says that at the time he wasn t opposed to philanthropic work, he just didn t want to be distracted from his duties at microsoft.eve ntually, s

42、he got her son to start a program at microsoft to raise money for the united way. he also followed his mother onto the national united way board in the 1980s.but as bill gates s wealth grew, letters from seattle-area non profits ask ing for don atio ns piled up. he says he pla nned to get serious ab

43、out phila nthropy after retiri ng from microsoft, or at about 60 years old.that pla n would be fast-tracked after ms. gates was diag no sed with a rare form of breast can cer. as she battled the disease, she con ti nued to urge her son to do more phila nthropy. ms. gates passed away in june 1994.the

44、 day of her funeral, the gates family had dinner at home. bill sr. told his childre n not to worry about him, say ing that he had about 10 good years left in him. he was 70 at the time. still, after his wife died he was listless.about six mon ths later, sta nding in a line for a movie with his son a

45、nd daughter- in-law, meli nda, the elder mr. gates aga in broached the idea of phila nthropy. he suggested he could start sift ing through the requests for money and give some out.a week later, the software mogul set aside about $100 milli on to create a foundation that his father could run. bill gates sr. later sat at his kitche n table and wrote the first check, $80,000 to a local can cer program.in the early days, mr. gates sr., who soon remarried, would scribb