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1、精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -比尔盖茨在哈佛高校毕业时的演讲稿（20XX 年 6 月 7 日）President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members ofthe HarvardCorporationand theBoard of Overseers,members of the faculty,parents, and especially, the graduates:1 敬重的 Bok 校长， Rudenstine前校长，即将上任的

2、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：Ivebeen waitingmore than30 yearstosay this:Dad,I alwaystoldyou Idcome back and get my degree.2 有一句话我等了三十年，现在最终可以说了：“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. Ill be changing my job next yearand it will be nice to finally have a

3、 college degree on my resume.3我要感谢哈佛高校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）我最终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 much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, Imjust happy that the Crimson has called me Harvards most successful dropout. Iguess that makesme valedic

4、torian of my own special classI did the best of everyone who failed. 4我为今日在座的各位同学感到兴奋，你们拿到学位可比我简洁多了。哈佛的校报称我是 “哈佛高校历史上最胜利的辍同学”。我想这大致使我有资格代表我这一类同学发言.在全部的失败者里，我做得最好。But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school. Im a bad influence. Thats why Iwas invit

5、ed to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.5 但是，我仍要提示大家，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。这就是为什么我被邀请来在你们的毕业典礼上演讲。假如我在你们入学欢迎仪式上演讲，那么能够坚持到今日在这里毕业的人或许会少得多吧。Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fas

6、cinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadnt even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House. There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didnt worry about getting up in the morning. That

7、s how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.6 对我来说，哈佛的求学经受是一段特殊的经受。校内生活很好玩，我常去旁听我没选修的课。哈佛的课外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe过着逍遥悠闲的日子。每天我的寝室里总有很多人始终待到半夜，争论着各种事情。由于每个人都知道我从不考虑其次天早起。这使得我变成了校内里那些担心分同学的头头，我们相互粘在一起，做出一种拒绝

8、全部正常同学的可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 1 页，共 11 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -姿势。Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That combination offered me t

9、he best odds, if you know what I mean. This is Where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesntguarantee success.7Radcliffe是个过日子的好的方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多数男生都是理工科的。这种状况为我制造了最好的机会，假如你们明白我的意思。惋惜的是，我正是在这里学到了人生中哀痛的一课：机会大，并不等于你就会胜利。One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I

10、 made a call From Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the worlds firstpersonal computers. I offered to sell them software.8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的一家公司打了一个电话，那家公司已经在着手制造世界上第一台个人电脑。我提出想向他们出售软件。I worried that theywould realize I was just a stude

11、nt in a dorm and hang up on me. Instead they said: Were not quite ready, come see us in a month, which was a good thing, because we hadnt written the software yet. From that moment, I worked day and night on this little extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginni

12、ng of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.9我很担忧，他们会发觉我是一个住在宿舍的同学，从而挂断电话。但是他们却说：“我们仍没预备好，一个月后你再来找我们吧。”这是个好消息，由于那时软件仍根本没有写出来 了。就是从那个时候起，我日以继夜的在这个小小的课外项目上工作，这导致了我同学生活的终止，以及通往微软公司的不平凡的旅程的开头。What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence. It could be exh

13、ilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, butalways challenging. It was an amazing privileged thoaungh I left early, I wastransformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships I made, and the ideas I workedon. 10不管怎样，我对哈佛的回忆主要都与充足的精力和智力活动有关。哈佛的生活令人开心， 也令人感到有压力，有时甚至会感到泄气，但永久布满了挑战性。生活在哈佛是一种吸

14、引人的特别待遇虽然我离开得比较早，但是我在这里的经受、在这里结识的伴侣、在这里进展起来的一些想法，永久的转变了我。But taking a serious look backI do have one big regret.11但是，假如现在庄重的回忆起来，我的确有一个真正的遗憾。I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world-the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millio

15、ns of people to livesof despair. 12我离开哈佛的时候，根本没有意识到这个世界是多么的不公平。人类在健康、可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 2 页，共 11 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -财宝和机遇上的不公平大得可怕，它们使得很多的人们被迫生活在失望之中。I left campus knowing little about the millions of

16、young people cheated out of educationalopportunities here in this country. And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.13我离开校内的时候，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训练的机会。我也不知道， 进展中国家里有很多的人们生活在无法形容的贫困和疾病之中。It took me decades to find out.14

17、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 worlds inequities than the classes that came before. In your years here, I hope youve had a chance to think about how-in this age of accelerating technology-we can finally take on these inequities, and we can s

18、olve them.15在座的各位同学，你们是在与我不同的时代来到哈佛的。你们比以前的同学，更多的明白世界是怎样的不公平。在你们的哈佛求学过程中，我期望你们已经摸索过一个问题，那就是在这个新技术加速进展的时代，我们怎样最终应对这种不公平，以及我们怎样来解决这 个问题。Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause-and you wanted to spend that time and money W

19、here it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spendit.16为了争论的便利，请想象一下， 假如你每个星期可以捐献一些时间、每个月可以捐献一些钱 你期望这些时间和金钱，可以用到对挽救生命和改善人类生活有最大作用的的方。你会挑选什么的方？For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can wedo the most good for the greatest number with the resour

20、ces we have.17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出最大的作用。During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries From diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country. Measles, malari

21、a, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever.One disease I had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year .none of them in the United States. 18 在争论过程中， Melinda 和我读到了一篇文章， 里面说在那些贫困的国家， 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、仍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

22、亡病例也没有。可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 3 页，共 11 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -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 discove

23、r and deliver the medicines to save them. But it did not. For under a dollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just werent being delivered.19我们被震动了。我们想，假如几百万儿童正在死亡线上挣扎，而且他们是可以被挽救的，那么世界理应将用药物挽救他们作为头等大事。但是事实并非如此。那些价格仍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 va

24、lue, its revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: This cant be true. But if it istrue, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.20假如你信任每个生命都是公平的，那么当你发觉某些生命被挽救了，而另一些生命被舍弃了，你会感到无法接受。 我们对自己说：“事情不行能如此。假如这是真的，那么它理应是我们努力的头等大事。”So we began ou

25、r work in the same way anyone here would begin it. We asked: How could the world letthese children die.21所以，我们用任何人都会想到的方式开头工作。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 simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children

26、 died because their mothersand their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.22答案很简洁，也很令人难堪。 在市场经济中，挽救儿童是一项没有利润的工作，政府也不会供应补助。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，在政治上没有才能发出声音。But you and I have both.23但是，你们和我在经济上有实力，在政治上能够发出声音。 We can make market forces work better for the poor if we ca

27、n develop a more creative capitalism . if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering From the worst inequities. We also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better

28、 reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.24我们可以让市场更好的为穷人服务，假如我们能够设计出一种更有创新性的资本主义制度 假如我们可以转变市场，让更多的人可以获得利润，或者至少可以维护生活 那么，这就可以帮到那些正在极端不公平的状况中受苦的人们。我们仍可以向全世界的政府施 压，要求他们将纳税人的钱，花到更符合纳税人价值观的的方。If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business a

29、nd votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort toanswer this challenge will change the world.25假如我们能够找到这样一种方法，既可以帮到穷人， 又可以为商人带来利润，为政治家带来选票，那么我们就找到了一种削减世界性可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总

30、结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 4 页，共 11 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -不公平的可连续的进展道路。这个任务是无限的。它不行能被完全完成，但是任何自觉的解决这个问题的尝试，都将会转变这个世界。I am optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics who claim there is no hope. They say: Inequity has been wi

31、th us since the beginning, and will be with us till the end .because people justdontcare. I completely disagree. 26在这个问题上， 我是乐观的。但是，我也遇到过那些感到失望的怀疑主义者。他们说：“不公平从人类产生的第一天就存 在，到人类灭亡的最终一天也将存在。 由于人类对这个问题根本不在乎。”我完全不能同意这种观点。I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.27我信任，问题不是我们不在乎，而是我们不知道怎么

32、做。All of us here in this Yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts, and yet we did nothing-not because we didnt care, but because we didntknow what to do. If we had known how to help, we would have acted.28此刻在这个院子里的全部人，生命中总有这样或那样的时刻，目睹人类的悲剧，感到万分难过。但是我们什 么也没做， 并非我们

33、无动于衷，而是由于我们不知道做什么和怎么做。假如我们知道如何做是有效的，那么我们就会实行行动。The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.29转变世界的阻碍，并非人类的冷漠，而是世界实在太复杂。To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.30为了将关怀转变为行动，我们需要找到问题，发

34、觉解决方法的方法以及评估后果。但是世界的复杂性使得这三步都难于做到。If we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second step: cutting through the complexity to find a solution.31就算我们真正发觉了问题所在，也不过是迈出了第一步，接着仍有其次步：那就是从复杂的大事中找到解决方法。Finding solutions is essential if we want to make the most of our caring. If we

35、 have clear and proven answers anytime an organization or individual asks How can I help., then we can get action-and we can make sure that none of the caring in the world is wasted. But complexity makes it hard to mark a path of action for everyone who cares-and that makes it hard for their caring

36、to matter.32 假如我们要让关怀落到实处，我们就必需找到解决方法。假如我们有一个清楚的和牢靠的答案，那么当任何组织和个人发出疑问“如何我能供应帮忙”的时候，我们就能实行行动。我们就能够保证不铺张一丁点全世界人类对他人的关怀。但世界的复杂性使得很难找到对全可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 5 页，共 11 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -世界每一个有爱心的人都有效的行动方法，因此人

37、类对他人的关怀往往很难产生实际成效。Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have-whet

38、her its something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler,like a bed-net.33从这个复杂的世界中找到解决方法，可以分为四个步骤：确定目标，找到最高效的方法，发觉适用于这个方法的新技术，同时最聪慧的利用现有的技术，不管它是复杂的药物，仍是最简洁的蚊帐。The AIDS epidemic offers an example. The broad goal, of course, is to end the disease. The highest-leverage approach is prevention

39、. The ideal technology would be a vaccine that gives lifetime immunity with a single dose. So governments, drug companies, and foundations fund vaccine research. But their work is likely to take more than a decade, so in the meantime, we have to work with what we have in hand-and the best prevention

40、 approach we have now is getting people to avoid risky behavior.34艾滋病就是一个例子。总的目标，毫无疑问是毁灭这种疾病。最高效的方法是预防。最抱负的技术是创造一种疫苗，只要注射一次，就可以终生免疫。所以，政府、制药公司、基金会应当资助疫苗争论。但是， 这样争论工作很可能十年之内都无法完成。因此， 与此同时，我们必需使用现有的技术，目前最有效的预防方法就是设法让人们防止那些危急的行为。Pursuing that goal starts the four-step cycle again. This is the pattern.

41、The crucial thing is to never stop thinking and working-and never do what we did with malaria andtuberculosis in the 20th century-which is to surrender to complexity and quit.35要实现这个新的目标， 又可以采纳新的四步循环。这是一种模式。 关键的东西是永久不要停止摸索和行动。我们千万不能再犯上个世纪在疟疾和肺结核上犯过的错误，那时我们由于它们太复杂，而舍弃了实行行动。The final step-after seeing

42、 the problem and finding an approach-is to measure the impact of your work and share your successes and failures so that others learn From yourefforts. 36在发觉问题和找到解决方法之后，就是最终一步 评估工作结果， 将你的胜利体会或者失败体会传播出去，这样其他人就可以从你的努力中有所收成。You have to have the statistics, of course. You have to be able to show that a

43、program is vaccinating millions more children. You have to be able to show a decline in the number of children dying From these diseases. This is essential not just to improve the program, butalso to help draw more investment From business and government.37当然，你必需有一些统计数字。 你必需让他人知道，你的项目为几百万儿童新接种了疫苗。你也

44、必需让他人知可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 6 页，共 11 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -道，儿童死亡人数下降了多少。这些都是很关键的，不仅有利于改善项目成效，也有利于从商界和政府得到更多的帮忙。But if you want to inspire people to participate, you have to show more than numbers; you have

45、to convey the human impact of the work . so people can feel what saving a lifemeans to the families affected.38但是， 这些仍不够， 假如你想勉励其他人参与你的项目，你就必需拿出更多的统计数字。你必需展现你的项目的人性因素，这样其他人就会感到挽救一个生命，对那些处在困境中的家庭究竟意味着什么。The defining and ongoing innovations of this age-biotechnology, the computer, the Internet-give us

46、 a chance weve never had before to end extreme poverty and end death From preventable disease.39 这个时代无时无刻不在涌现出新的革新 生物技术， 运算机， 互联网 它们给了我们一个从未有过的机会，去终结那些极端的贫困和非恶性疾病的死亡。The emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed opportunities for learning and communicating.40 低成本的个人电脑的显现，使得一个强大的互联网有机会产生，它为学习和沟通供应了庞大的机会。The magical thing about this network is not just that it col