核聚英语背诵 第20篇 2020 Compound interest公号: 英语能量圈

20复利法则：Compound interest
Warren Buffett沃伦·巴菲特(2008年世界首富)

【1】And very early, probably when I was seven or so, I took this book out of the Bensen Library, called “A thousand ways to make a $ 1,000.”
很早的时候，大概7岁时，我从本森图书馆借出一本书，《赚一千美元的一千种方法》。
【2】And one of the ways in this book was having penny weighing machines.
书中的方法之一，就是拥有一台投币体重计。
【3】And I sat and calculated how much it would cost to buy the first weighing machine, and how long it would take for the profit from that to buy another one.
我坐下算了算我要花多少钱去购买第一台体重计, 第一台体重计赚得的利润能购买另外一台需要花多长时间。
【4】And I would sit there and create these compound interest tables to figure out how long it would take me to have a weighing machine for every person in the world.
我会坐在那里做复利表,去计算让世界上每个人都拥有一台体重秤需要多长时间。

【5】I had everybody in the country weighing themselves ten times a day, and me just sitting there like John D.Rockefeller of weighing
machines.我要让所有美国人每天称十次体重，我只要坐在那里，像体重计行业的洛克菲勒。
【6】The allowance when I was a little boy was a nickel a week.
我小时候每个星期的零花钱是一个星期五美分
【7】But I liked the idea of having a little more than a nickel a week to work with.
但我想让我一个星期的零花钱不止五美分
【8】And I went into business very early. 我很早就进入商业领域了。
【9】I started to sell Coca-Cola door to door. 我挨家挨户卖可口可乐。
【10】I sold gum door to door. 我挨家挨户卖口香糖。
【11】I sold “Saturday Evening Post”, “Liberty” Magazine, “Ladies Home Journal”, you name it.
我卖《星期六晚报》，卖《自由杂志》，《妇女家庭杂志》，凡是你想到的。
【12】I think I enjoyed the game almost right from the start.
我觉得我从一开始就很喜欢这项游戏。
【13】But I like being my own boss. 但我喜欢做我自己的老板。
【14】That’s one thing I liked about delivering papers.
这是我喜欢投递报纸的原因之一。
【15】I could arrange the route I wanted. 我可以安排我喜欢的路线。
【16】Nobody was bothering me at 5.00 or 6.00 in the morning.
在早上五六点钟没人打扰我。
【17】I was delivering 500 papers a day. 我一天投递500份报纸。
【18】And I made a penny a paper, but in terms of compounding, that penny has turned into something else.
一份报纸赚一便士，但是通过复利法则，那一便士便换成了其他东西。