名人演讲-口语练习：比尔盖茨演讲02

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There were always a lot of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew that I didn't worry about getting up in the morning. That's how I came to be the leader of the antisocial group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people. 

晚上总是有很多人在我的宿舍里讨论事情，因为大家都知道我早上起床不用操心。这就是我成为反社会团体领袖的原因。我们紧紧依偎在一起，以此来证明我们拒绝了所有那些社交人士。

Radcliffe was a great place to live; there were more women up there, and most of the guys were math and science types. The combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. That's where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn't guarantee success.

拉德克利夫是一个居住的好地方；那里有更多的女性，大多数男性都是数学和科学类型的。如果你明白我的意思，这种组合为我提供了最好的机会。在那里我学到了一个悲伤的教训，那就是提高你的成功率并不能保证成功。

One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Career House to a company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that had begun making the world's first personal computer. I offered to sell them software. I worried they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me. 

我对哈佛最深刻的记忆之一是 1975 年 1 月，当时我从职业之家打电话给新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基的一家公司，该公司已经开始制造世界上第一台个人电脑。我提出向他们出售软件。我担心他们会意识到我只是一个住在宿舍里的学生，然后挂断我的电话。

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 day and night on the extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.

相反，他们说：“我们还没准备好。一个月后再来找我们吧。”这是一件好事，因为我们还没有编写软件。从那一刻起，我日夜不停地致力于这个额外的学分项目，它标志着我大学教育的结束，以及与微软一起开启的一段非凡旅程。

What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence. It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging. 

我对哈佛印象最深的是置身于如此多的精力和智慧之中。这可能令人兴奋，也可能令人生畏，有时甚至令人沮丧，但总是充满挑战。

It was an amazing privilege, and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships I made, and the ideas I worked on. But taking a serious look back, I do have one big regret. 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 millions of people to lives of despair.

这是一项令人惊叹的特权，虽然我早早离开了，但在哈佛的岁月、我结交的朋友和我研究的想法改变了我。但认真回想起来，我确实有一个很大的遗憾。我离开哈佛时并没有真正意识到世界上可怕的不平等，健康、财富和机会的巨大差距使数百万人陷入绝望的生活。

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