如何解决这个世界最严重的不平等-Part2

MT英语（ID:mtkouyu）
专辑：【世界名人英文演讲合集】
文本整理：Doris

Harvard was a phenomenal experience for me.

对我来说，哈佛的求学经历是一段非凡的经历。

Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes that I hadn't even signed up for.

校园生活很有趣，我常去旁听许多我没选修的课。

And dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House.

哈佛的宿舍生活也很棒，我当时住在雷迪夫的柯里尔公寓。

There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning.

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。因为每个人都知道我从不考虑第二天早起，

That'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.

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，做出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 science-math types.

雷迪夫是个生活的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多数男生都是理工科的。

That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. That is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn't guarantee success.

这种状况为我创造了最好的机会，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教训：机会大，并不等于你就会成功。

One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the world's first personal computers.

我在哈佛最难忘的回忆之一，是发生在1975年1月的一件事。那时，我从宿舍楼里给位于阿尔伯克基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。

I offered to sell them software. I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me.

我提出想向他们出售软件。我很担心，他们会发觉我是一个住在大学宿舍里的学生，从而挂断电话。

Instead they said:"We're not quite ready, come to see us in a month," which was a good thing, because we hadn't written the software yet.

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，因为那时软件还根本没有写出来呢。

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

就是从那个时候起，我夜以继日地在这个小小的课外项目上工作，这标志着我大学教育的结束，

以及通往微软的不平凡的旅程的开始。