偶像勵志英語演講 92:如何解決這個世界最嚴重的不平等(2)
對我來說，哈佛的求學(xué)經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。
[00:03.48]Academic life was fascinating.
校園生活很有趣，
[00:06.27]I used to sit in on lots of classes that I hadn't even signed up for.
我常去旁聽許多我沒選修的課。
[00:11.50]And dorm life was terrific.
哈佛的宿舍生活也很棒，
[00:14.03]I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House.
我當時住在雷迪夫的柯里爾公寓。
[00:19.49]There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things,
每天我的寢室里總有很多人一直待到半夜，討論著各種事情。
[00:24.42]because everyone knew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning.
因為每個人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起，
[00:30.49]That's how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group.
這使得我變成了校園里那些不安分學(xué)生的頭頭，
[00:34.32]We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.
我們互相粘在一起，做出一種拒絕所有正常學(xué)生的姿態(tài)。
[00:41.07]Radcliffe was a great place to live.
雷迪夫是個生活的好地方。
[00:43.54]There were more women up there,
那里的女生比男生多，
[00:45.47]and most of the guys were science-math types.
而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。
[00:49.11]That combinaton offered me the best odds,
這種狀況為我創(chuàng)造了最好的機會，
[00:52.03]if you know what I mean.
如果你們明白我的意思。
[00:52.58]That is where I learned the sad lesson that
可惜的是，我正是在這里學(xué)到了人生中悲傷的教訓(xùn)：
[00:59.41]improving your odds doesn't guarantee success.
機會大，并不等于你就會成功。
[01:02.44]One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975,
我在哈佛最難忘的回憶之一，是發(fā)生在1975年1月的一件事。
[01:10.52]when I made a call from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque
那時，我從宿舍樓里給位于阿爾伯克基的一家公司打了一個電話，
[01:16.28]that had begun making the world's first personal computers.
那家公司已經(jīng)在著手制造世界上第一臺個人電腦。
[01:22.00]I offered to sell them software.
我提出想向他們出售軟件。
[01:24.58]I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me.
我很擔心，他們會發(fā)覺我是一個住在大學(xué)宿舍里的學(xué)生，從而掛斷電話。
[01:31.00]Instead they said:"We're not quite ready, come to see us in a month,"
但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準備好，一個月后你再來找我們吧。”
[01:35.35]which was a good thing,
這是個好消息，
[01:37.14]because we hadn't written the software yet.
因為那時軟件還根本沒有寫出來呢。
[01:41.25]From that month, I worked day and night on that extra credit project
就是從那個時候起，我夜以繼日地在這個小小的課外項目上工作，
[01:46.44]that marked the end of my college education
這標志著我大學(xué)教育的結(jié)束，
[01:50.03]and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.
以及通往微軟的不平凡的旅程的開始。
