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1、精品文档比尔盖茨英语演讲稿我天生乐观,坚信人类凭创造力和聪明才智可以让世界 日益美妙,这一设想一直根植于我的内心深处.For as long as I can remember, I ' ve loved learning new things and solving problems. So when I sat down at a computer for the first time in seventh grade, I was hooked. It ' s was a clunky and teletype machine that barely do anythin

2、g compared to the computer we have today. But it changed my life.自从记事起,我就热衷于接触新事物、挑战难题.可想 而知,我上七年级时第一次坐在计算机前是何等着迷,如入 无我之境.那是一台锵锵作响的旧牌机器,和我们今天拥有 的计算机相比,它相当逊色几乎一无所用,但正是它改变了 我的生活.When my friend Paul Allen and I stared Microsoft 30 years ago, we had a vision of“a computer on everydesk and in every home,

3、 " which probably sounded a little too optimistic at a time when most computers were the size of refrigerators. But we believe that personal computer would change the world. And they have.30 年前,我和朋友保罗艾伦创办微软时,我们梦想 实现在每个家庭、在每张办公桌上都有一台计算机,这2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创1 / 16精品文档在大多数的计算机体积如同冰箱的尺寸的年代

4、,听起来有点 异想天开.但是我们相信个人电脑将改变世界.今天看来果 真如此.And after 30 years, I ' m still as inspired by computers as I was back in seventh grade. 30年后,我仍然象上七年级的时候那样为计算机而狂热着迷.I believe that computers are the most incredibletool we can use to feed our curiosity and inventiveness-to help us solve problems that even t

5、he smartest people couldn ' t solve on their own. Computer have transformed how we learn, giving kids everywhere a window into all of the w orld ' s knowledge. They ' re helping us build communicates around the things we care about and to stay close to the people who are important to us,

6、 no matter where they are.我相信计算机是我们用来满足好奇心及创造创造的最神奇的工具-有了它们的帮助,甚至是最聪明的人凭自身力 量无法应对的难题都将迎刃而解.计算机已经改变了我们的 学习方式,为全球各地的孩子们开启了一扇通向大千世界知识的窗户.它可以帮我们围绕我们关注的事物建立 群,让我们和那些对自己重要的人保持密切联系,不管他 们身处何方.2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创2 / 16精品文档Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every

7、 day I love to do. He calls it “tap - dancing to work . My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what makes me “tap -dancing to the work" is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognize your handwriting or your speech, or one that can st ore a lifetime ' s

8、 worth of photos, and the say:"I didn ' t know you can do thatwith a pc! 就像我的朋友沃伦布非一样,我为每天都能做自己热 爱的事情而感到无比幸运.他称之为"踢踏舞工作.我在微软的工作永远充满挑战,但使我一直坚持踢踏舞工 作的是我们向人们展示莫些新成果的那些时刻,当他们看 到计算机能识别笔迹、语音或者能存储值得保存一辈子的照片时就会赞不绝口： "我不敢相信个人电脑竟如此万 能.But for all the cool things that a person can do with a

9、pc, there are lots other ways we can put our creativity and intelligence to work to improve our world. There are still far too many people in the world whose most basic needs go unmet. Every year, for example, millions of people die from diseases that are easy to2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创3 / 16精品文

10、档prevent or treat in the developed world.但是,除了能用电脑做由很酷的事情之外,我们还能通过许多别的方 式在工作中发挥自己的创造力和聪明才智,以改善我们的世 界.全球仍有许许多多的人连最根本的生存需求都未能解 决.举例来说,每年仍有数以万计的人死于那些在兴旺国家 易于预防和治疗的疾病.I believe that my own good fortune brings with it a responsibility tp give back to the world. My wife, Melinda, and I have committed to i

11、mproving health and education in a way that can help as many people as possible.我认为,我所拥有的大量财富也使我负有回馈社会的责 任.我的妻子梅林达和我致力于为尽可能多的人改善健康和 教育.As a father, I believe that the death of a child in Africa is no less poignantor tragic than the death of a child anywhere else. And that doesn ' t take much to

12、make an immense difference in these children ' s lives.作为一个父亲,我认为,非洲孩子死去所引起的痛苦和 悲伤丝毫不亚于任何其他的孩子的死亡；我认为,使这些孩子们的命运发生翻天地覆的变化并不费太大力气.2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创4 / 16精品文档I ' m still very optimist, and I believe that progresson even the world ' s toughestproblems ispossible- and it ' s ha

13、ppening every day. We' re seeingnew drugs for deadly diseases, new diagnostic tools, and new attention paid to the health problems in the developing world.我仍是一个坚决的乐观主义者,我坚信即使世界级难题取得进展都是有可能的-其实每天也都在发生着这种事情.我们看到治疗致命疾病的新药、新的诊 断器械不断由现,而且,开展中国家的健康问题进入了人们 的视野并日益得到重视.I ' m excited by the possibilit

14、ies I see for medicine, for education and, of course, for technology. And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, we re going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.我为医药、教育,当然还有技术开展的诸多前景而欢欣 豉舞.我相信,凭借人类与生俱来的创造创

15、造水平和不畏艰 难、坚忍不拔的品格,在我的有生之年里我们将在所有这些 领域都创造由可喜的成就.比尔盖茨英语演讲稿篇2president bok, former president rudenstine,2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创5 / 16精品文档incoming president faust, members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers, members of thefaculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:尊敬的bok校长,r

16、udenstine 前校长,即将上任的faust 校长,哈佛集团的各位成员,监治理事会的各位理事,各位 老师,各位家长,各位同学：i ' ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this:“dad, i always told you i ' d come back and get my degree. 有一句话我等了三十年,现在终于可以说了： “老爸, 我总是跟你说,我会回来拿到我的学位的！i want to thank harvard for this timely honor. i ' ll be changing my

17、 job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉.明年,我 就要换工作了注：指从微软公司退休我终于可以在 简历上写我有一个本科学位,这真是不错啊.i applaud the graduates today for taking a muchmore direct route to your degrees. for my part, i' m justhappy that the crimson has called me aharva

18、rd ' s most successful dropout. " i guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class -i did the best2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创6 / 16精品文档of everyone who failed.我为今天在座的各位同学感到快乐,你们拿到学位可比 我简单多了.哈佛的校报称我是“哈佛大学历史上最成功的 辍学生".我想这大概使我有资格代表我这一类学生发 言在所有的失败者里,我做得最好.but i also want to be r

19、ecognized as the guy who got steve ballmer to drop out of business school. i' m abad influence. that ' s why i was invited to speak at your graduation. if i had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.但是,我还要提醒大家,我使得 steve ballmer 注： 微软总经理也从哈佛商学院退学了.因此,我是个有着恶 劣影响力的人.这就是为什

20、么我被邀请来在你们的毕业典礼 上演讲.如果我在你们入学欢送仪式上演讲,那么能够坚持 到今天在这里毕业的人也许会少得多吧.harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me.academic life was fascinating. i used to sit in on lots of classes i hadn ' t even signed up for. and dorm life was terrific. i lived up at radcliffe, in currier house. there were always l

21、ots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew i didn ' t worry about getting up in the morning. that ' s2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创7 / 16精品文档how i came to be the leader of the anti-social group.we clung to each other as a way of validating our rejectio

22、n of all those social people.对我来说,哈佛的求学经历是一段非凡的经历.校园生 活很有趣,我常去旁听我没选修的课.哈佛的课外生活也很 棒,我在radcliffe过着逍遥自在的日子.每天我的寝室里总有很多人一直待到半夜,讨论着各种事情.由于每个人都 知道我从不考虑第二天早起.这使得我变成了校园里那些不 安分学生的头头,我们互相粘在一起,做由一种拒绝所有正 常学生的姿态.radcliffe was a great place to live. there were more women up there, and most of the guys were scienc

23、e-math types. that combination offered me the best odds, if you know what i mean. this is where i learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn' t guarantee success.radcliffe是个过日子的好地方.那里的女生比男生多,而且大多数男生都是理工科的.这种状况为我创造了最好的 时机,如果你们明白我的意思.可惜的是,我正是在这里学 到了人生中悲伤的一课：时机大,并不等于你就会成功.one of my bigge

24、st memories of harvard came in january 1975, when i made a call from currier house to2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创8 / 16精品文档a company in albuquerque that had begun ma-ki-ng the world ' s first personal computers. i offered to sell them software.我在哈佛最难忘的回忆之一,发生在 1975年1月.那 时,我从宿舍楼里给位于albuquerque的一家

25、公司打了一个 ,那家公司已经在着手制造世界上第一台个人电脑.我 提由想向他们由售软件.i worried that they would realize i was just astudent in a dorm and hang up on me. instead they said: “we' re not quite ready, come see us in a month, which was a good thing, because we hadn ' t written the software yet. from that moment, i worked d

26、ay and nighton this little extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with microsoft.我很担忧,他们会觉察我是一个住在宿舍的学生,从而 桂断 .但是他们却说：“我们还没准备好,一个月后你 再来找我们吧.这是个好消息,由于那时软件还根本没有 写由来呢.就是从那个时候起,我日以继夜地在这个小小的 课外工程上工作,这导致了我学生生活的结束,以及通往微 软公司的不平凡的旅程的开始.what i

27、 remember above all about harvard was being2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创9 / 16精品文档in the midst of so much energy and intelligence. it could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging. it was an amazing privilege and though i left early, i was transformedby my y

28、ears at harvard, the friendships i made, and the ideas i worked on.不管怎样,我对哈佛的回忆主要都与充分的精力和智力 活动有关.哈佛的生活令人愉快,也令人感到有压力,有时 甚至会感到泄气,但永远充满了挑战性.生活在哈佛是一种 吸引人的特殊待遇虽然我离开得比拟早,但是我在这里 的经历、在这里结识的朋友、在这里开展起来的一些想法, 永远地改变了我.but taking a serious look back i do have one big regret.但是,如果现在严肃地回忆起来,我确实有一个真正的 遗憾.i left har

29、vard with no real awareness of the awfulinequities in the world-the appalling disparities ofhealth, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.我离开哈佛的时候,根本没有意识到这个世界是多么的 不平等.人类在健康、财富和机遇上的不平等大得可怕,它2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创10 / 16精品文档们使得无数的人们被-迫生活在绝望之中Oi left camp

30、us knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country. and i knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.我离开校园的时候,根本不知道在这个国家里,有几百 万的年轻人无法获得接受教育的时机.我也不知道,开展中 国家里有无数的人们生活在无法形容的贫

31、穷和疾病之中.it took me decades to find out.我花了几十年才明白了这些事情.you graduates came to harvard at a different time. you know more about the world ' s inequities than the classes that came before. in your years here, i hope you' ve had a chance to think about how -in this age of accelerating technology-w

32、e can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.在座的各位同学,你们是在与我不同的时代来到哈佛 的.你们比以前的学生,更多地了解世界是怎样的不平等. 在你们的哈佛求学过程中,我希望你们已经思考过一个问 题,那就是在这个新技术加速开展的时代,我们怎样最终应 对这种不平等,以及我们怎样来解决这个问题.2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创11 / 16精品文档imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week

33、and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause-and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. where would you spend it?为了讨论的方便,请想象一下,假设你每个星期可以捐 献一些时间、每个月可以捐献一些钱一一你希望这些时间和 金钱,可以用到对拯救生命和改善人类生活有最大作用的地 方.你会选择什么地方？for melinda and for me,

34、 the challenge is the same:how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.对melinda 注：盖茨的妻子和我来说,这也是我们 面临的问题：我们如何能将我们拥有的资源发挥由最大的作 用.during our discussions on this question, melindaand i read an article about the millions of childrenwho were dying every year in poor coun

35、tries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country. measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis b, yellow fever. one disease i had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year ?2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创12 / 16精品文档none of them in the united states.在讨论过程中

36、,melinda和我读到了一篇文章,里面说 在那些贫穷的国家,每年有数百万的儿童死于那些在美国早 已不成问题的疾病.麻疹、疟疾、肺炎、乙型肝炎、黄热病、 还有一种以前我从未听说过的轮状病毒,这些疾病每年导致 50万儿童死亡,但是在美国一例死亡病例也没有.we were shocked. we had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover anddeliver the medicines

37、 to save them. but it did not. for under a dollar, there were interventions that couldsave lives that just weren ' t being delivered.我们被震惊了.我们想,如果几百万儿童正在死亡线上 挽扎,而且他们是可以被挽救的,那么世界理应将用药物拯 救他们作为头等大事.但是事实并非如此.那些价格还不到 一美元的救命的药剂,并没有送到他们的手中.if you believe that every life has equal value, it ' s revo

38、lting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. we said to ourselves:“this can ' t be true. but if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.如果你相信每个生命都是平等的,那么当你发现莫些生2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创13 / 16精品文档命被挽救了,而另一些生命被放弃了,你会感到无法接受. 我们对自己说：“事情不可能如此.如果这是真的

39、,那么它 理应是我们努力的头等大事.so we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it. we asked:“how could the world letthese children die? 所以,我们用任何人都会想到的方式开始工作.我们问：“这个世界怎么可以眼睁睁看着这些孩子死去？the answer is si-mp-le, and harsh. the market didnot reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did no

40、t subsidize it. so the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no powerin the market and no voice in the system.答案很简单,也很令人难堪.在市场经济中,拯救儿童 是一项没有利润的工作,政府也不会提供补助.这些儿童之 所以会死亡,是由于他们的父母在经济上没有实力,在政治 上没有水平发生声音.but you and i have both.但是,你们和我在经济上有实力,在政治上能够发生声 音.we can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism ? if we2021全新精品资料-全新公文范文-全程指导写作法家原创14 / 16精品文档can stretch the reach of market forces so that mor