第一篇：蓋茨演講稿

pursuing that goal starts the four-step cycle again.This is the pattern.The crucial thing is to never stop thinking and working--and never do what we did with malaria and tuberculosis in the 20th century--which is to surrender to complexity and quit.要實現(xiàn)這個新的目標，又可以采用新的四步循環(huán)，蓋茨演講稿。這是一種模式。關鍵的東西是永遠不要停止思考和行動。我們千萬不能再犯上個世紀在瘧疾和肺結(jié)核上犯過的錯誤，那時我們因為它們太復雜，而放棄了采取行動。

The final step--after seeing 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 your efforts.在發(fā)現(xiàn)問題和找到解決方法之后，就是最后一步——評估工作結(jié)果，將你的成功經(jīng)驗或者失敗經(jīng)驗傳播出去，這樣其他人就可以從你的努力中有所收獲。

You have to have the statistics, of course.You have to be able to show that a 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, but also to help draw more investment From business and government.當然，你必須有一些統(tǒng)計數(shù)字。你必須讓他人知道，你的項目為幾百萬兒童新接種了疫苗。你也必須讓他人知道，兒童死亡人數(shù)下降了多少。這些都是很關鍵的，不僅有利于改善項目效果，也有利于從商界和政府得到更多的幫助。

But if you want to inspire people to participate, you have to show more than numbers;you have to convey the human impact of the work ? so people can feel what saving a life means to the families affected.但是，這些還不夠，如果你想激勵其他人參加你的項目，你就必須拿出更多的統(tǒng)計數(shù)字；你必須展示你的項目的人性因素，這樣其他人就會感到拯救一個生命，對那些處在困境中的家庭到底意味著什么。

The defining and ongoing innovations of this age--biotechnology, the computer, the Internet--give us a chance we've never had before to end extreme poverty and end death From preventable disease.這個時代無時無刻不在涌現(xiàn)出新的革新——生物技術，計算機，互聯(lián)網(wǎng)——它們給了我們一個從未有過的機會，去終結(jié)那些極端的貧窮和非惡性疾病的死亡。

The emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed opportunities for learning and communicating.低成本的個人電腦的出現(xiàn)，使得一個強大的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)有機會誕生，它為學習和交流提供了巨大的機會。

The magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and makes everyone your neighbor.It also dramatically increases the number of brilliant minds we can have working together on the same problem--and that scales up the rate of innovation to a staggering degree.網(wǎng)絡的神奇之處，不僅僅是它縮短了物理距離，使得天涯若比鄰，演講稿《蓋茨演講稿》。它還極大地增加了懷有共同想法的人們聚集在一起的機會，我們可以為了解決同一個問題，一起共同工作。這就大大加快了革新的進程，發(fā)展速度簡直快得讓人震驚。

At the same time, for every person in the world who has access to this technology, five people don't.That means many creative minds are left out of this discussion--smart people with practical intelligence and relevant experience who don't have the technology to hone their talents or contribute their ideas to the world.與此同時，世界上有條件上網(wǎng)的人，只是全部人口的六分之一。這意味著，還有許多具有創(chuàng)造性的人們，沒有加入到我們的討論中來。那些有著實際的操作經(jīng)驗和相關經(jīng)歷的聰明人，卻沒有技術來幫助他們，將他們的天賦或者想法與全世界分享。

We need as many people as possible to have access to this technology, because these advances are triggering a revolution in what human beings can do for one another.They are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, corporations, smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches, and measure the impact of their efforts to address the hunger, poverty, and desperation George Marshall spoke of 60 years ago.我們需要盡可能地讓更多的人有機會使用新技術，因為這些新技術正在引發(fā)一場革命，人類將因此可以互相幫助。新技術正在創(chuàng)造一種可能，不僅是政府，還包括大學、公司、小機構(gòu)、甚至個人，能夠發(fā)現(xiàn)問題所在、能夠找到解決辦法、能夠評估他們努力的效果，去改變那些馬歇爾六十年前就說到過的問題——饑餓、貧窮和絕望。

Members of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the world.哈佛是一個大家庭。這個院子里在場的人們，是全世界最有智力的人類群體之一。

What for?

我們可以做些什么？

There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and the benefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people here and around the world.But can we do more? Can Harvard dedicate its intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name?

毫無疑問，哈佛的老師、校友、學生和資助者，已經(jīng)用他們的能力改善了全世界各地人們的生活。但是，我們還能夠再做什么呢？有沒有可能，哈佛的人們可以將他們的智慧，用來幫助那些甚至從來沒有聽到過“哈佛”這個名字的人？

Let me make a request of the deans and the professors--the intellectual leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please ask yourselves:

請允許我向各位院長和教授，提出一個請求——你們是哈佛的智力領袖，當你們雇用新的老師、授予終身教職、評估課程、決定學位頒發(fā)標準的時候，請問你們自己如下的問題：

Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?

我們最優(yōu)秀的人才是否在致力于解決我們最大的問題？

第二篇：蓋茨教育

蓋茨教育簡介：

蓋茨教育隸屬于捷才教育集團。捷才教育集團是一所專門從事各類考前輔導的專業(yè)輔導機構(gòu)，從創(chuàng)立至今已經(jīng)有十多年之久。從創(chuàng)辦之初一直從事各類考試輔導，多年以來秉承“誠實守信、學員至上”的服務理念，讓學員最終以優(yōu)異的成績通過考試為我們的服務宗旨。十多年來，捷才教育集團用踏實的行動向社會證明出自己真正的實力，各項教育成果均在同行中名列前茅。捷才教育的成功首先源于學員的成功，口碑是最好的廣告。捷才將繼續(xù)在建立并完善培訓行業(yè)體系過程中，走出一條培訓行業(yè)特色之路。

蓋茨教育秉承捷才教育的優(yōu)良傳統(tǒng)，首創(chuàng)“管家一站式”服務理念，旨在打造高端、高品質(zhì)、“貴族”式教育，在保證孩子學習成績的同時加強對其綜合能力的提升，承諾決不向社會輸送高分低能的人才！

蓋茨教育基地基礎設施齊全，包括教學、休閑、圖書館等多個模塊，讓您的孩子輕松快樂地學習。此外，整個培訓過程采用先進的電子科技，確保家長全面掌握教學流程及效果。蓋茨教育擁有全國最權威、最雄厚的師資力量（實行末位淘汰制），能結(jié)合多種培訓模式，切實擔負起對培訓內(nèi)容進行規(guī)劃、指導、管理等職能。蓋茨教育擁有專業(yè)的教育顧問團隊針對每個孩子的具體情況，制定專屬于他們自己的科學有效的教學規(guī)劃。我們的師生配比高效合理，實行1：N的師生配比模式，做到真正的一對一教育模式，我們的老師將全天候二十四小時待機，隨時解決孩子的學習問題。我們注重家長和孩子一起成長，實現(xiàn)零距離溝通。針對不同階段的孩子，我們還會開展各種豐富的課外活動，讓孩子享受貴族式的教育，同時對家長開展家庭教育系列專題講座，切實的強化家長的家庭教育理念和方法。

蓋茨承諾：所有培訓套餐均簽訂保證協(xié)議，在提高孩子學習成績的同時，我們也會培養(yǎng)孩子的綜合能力，真正實現(xiàn)孩子全面發(fā)展。我們鄭重承諾：若教學規(guī)劃沒有達到預期效果，將重新制定教學規(guī)劃，直到滿意為止。

通過“蓋茨”人長久以來的努力，蓋茨教育已經(jīng)進入了一個高速發(fā)展的階段，我們在常州、蘇州、天津、成都、西安、泰州、南京等城市的多所分校已在籌建中。未來，蓋茨教育仍將不斷開拓進取、提升品質(zhì)，傾力打造高端、高品質(zhì)、“貴族”式教育。為社會輸送更多的有理想、有文化、有道德、有紀律、有技能的五有人才！

第三篇：英文演講稿 了不起的蓋茨比

The Great Gatsby Night falls, I stood in this same place, I thought of Gatsby, Daisy Terminal showed me the green light, he has been waiting for so long, once the dream is so palpable, he hugged her.Gatsby believed that green light, believed long lost hope.Hope finish further away from us, but that is not important.Tomorrow we will run faster, and put our arms farther.One day, we can continue to do sailing, riding, was constantly pushed back till, past.----Fitzgerald The introduction of the Writter The Great Gatsby, is the United States 20th century an important novelist made by Fitzgerald, he was a “l(fā)ost generation” writers, is the “jazz age” poet laureate.Fitzgerald of novel vivid of reflect has in the 1920 of the 20th century “United States dream” of burst, show has big depression period United States upper social of spirit, its life experience and he of works are can description, he is United States “Jazz times” of spokesman, is in the 1920 of the 20th century has representative of writer, he has success and brilliant of side, also has bitter and frustrated of side, had was called “failed of authority”.His life is intertwined with ambition and reality, success and failure, triumph and a dog, indulgence and decadence, love and pain, United States and civilized Europe clash of civilizations, conflict between East and West, dreams and disillusionment......It's all in the performance of most of his novels, the most representative of the Great Gatsby, it lays the author in the modern United States status of literature.The introduction to the story Story takes place in the modern United States social class on the white circle, and described by Cab Calloway.Cab Calloway was born in the United States Midwest and later to the United States in New York learning to run a stock business, and want to get rich.He lives on Long Island, and the story of Gatsby-o, and make friends with them.Gatsby was originally called the gates, and Cab Calloway as from the Midwest, he was born normal but ambitious, due to bootlegging and riches.He used to hold a Grand party at home, dayanbinke, to display its rich, objective is to attract the lovers Daisy five years ago and win back his heart.Five years ago, Gatsby's Daisy when military service was his lover, Gatsby overseas during the first world war, because of greed was born wealthy family married dudes Tom.However, desire and carnal meet Daisy has not filled the spiritual void and emptiness.In Cab Calloway's help, the share closed with gates after rekindling.But Daisy is not the original one was Daisy, she no longer is Gatsby's idea of the innocent girl, but a stupid, selfish, vulgar and beautiful body.Gatsby's beautiful dream has finally been shattered, but he did last fight, there is a hint of fantasy to Daisy, which suffered a more tragic and sad ending.Later, Daisy, in a drink driving Gatsby's car killed Tom's mistress, but plotted together with Tom and Gatsby are cruel referred to, lead to deceased husband burst into Gatsby's home, shot Gatsby and then committed suicide, Gatsby ultimately become selfish and cruel victim of Daisy.Delicate and accurate display of the Great Gatsby in the 1920 of the 20th century United States social style, makes a detailed depiction of the sort that glamorous, feasting frenzy scenes.World War I, United States is undoubtedly the biggest winner, surging economic strength, the spirit world was facing a huge crisis.On the ruins of the old morality, ideals, beliefs, the post-war United States youth slipped into the pursuit of consumption life to enjoy.Money is considered above all gods in the world.Challenges to traditional moral values, and the new value has not been formed.Thus, the Americans in the age of moral turpitude, spiritual emptiness.People dreaming of riches, the pursuit of material to meet and enjoy a social fashion The reasons I love the Great Gatsby There are many reason to love the Great Gatsby: like opening that his father's advice: when you comment on other people's, keep in mind that not all people are like you superior conditions.Like Gatsby, standing on the beach looking at Daisy's Dock Green, looked at him like “stretched out his arms in a strange way”, like the kind of surprise and keen;unknown like Gatsby's mansion on the night of lights, and wind from the garden to the music and laughter, sensual pleasures, horny.Gatsby hiding in this bustling behind the lonely and repressed desire.Love after the death of that human well-being, like looking at the car from another end of the world came to the door of the mansion, but have not found a better dinner had ended.Also like the book's language, metaphor and story-telling way, and delicate but rigorous structure.Only after repeated reading, you will find everyone in the book not only full, independent and invisible and taper up in an episode of the snare, becomes part of the plot.This conclusion, however, in front of the Great Gatsby back into an indefinable weak and dull.In the face of love, Gatsby is always waiting, he found Daisy at the end terminals of the shadows behind her the green light to start, he was caught in a strong pain and guarding, although this watch for seemingly smart people, in many cases, is simply stupid.When we encounter an eyeful only money but tenderness in front of you to say I love you girls how to respond? scarier is that she does not intend to, sincere look in her eyes and you can't shy away from you that nothing in your wallet when maybe we, in response to the speculation can only be embarrassed and silent.But Gatsby realized that she loved him, but he had no money.Thus, Gatsby's tragedy began.Fitzgerald is great that we have so many words to express but also had to shut his mouth, looked at Gatsby irreparable gradually fell to the later built his own love in the backyard garden.

第四篇：比爾·蓋茨夫婦2014斯坦福大學畢業(yè)演講稿

比爾蓋茨夫婦2014斯坦福大學畢業(yè)演講稿

Stanford University.BILL GATES: Congratulations, class of 2014!(Cheers).Melinda and I are excited to be here.It would be a thrill for anyone to be invited to speak at a Stanford commencement, but it's especially gratifying for us.Stanford is rapidly becoming the favorite university for members of our family, and it's long been a favorite university for Microsoft and our foundation.Our formula has been to get the smartest, most creative people working on the most important problems.It turns out that a disproportionate number of those people are at Stanford.(Cheers).Right now, we have more than 30 foundation research projects underway here.When we want to learn more about the immune system to help cure the worst diseases, we work with Stanford.When we want to understand the changing landscape of higher education in the United States, so that more low-income students get college degrees, we work with Stanford.This is where genius lives.There's a flexibility of mind here, an openness to change, an eagerness for what's new.This is where people come to discover the future, and have fun doing it.MELINDA GATES: Now, some people call you all nerds and we hear that you claim that label with pride.(Cheers and Applause).BILL GATES: Well, so do we.(Cheers and Applause).BILL GATES: My normal glasses really aren't all that different.(Laughter).There are so many remarkable things going on here at this campus, but if Melinda and I had to put into one word what we love most about Stanford, it's the optimism.There's an infectious feeling here that innovation can solve almost every problem.That's the belief that drove me in 1975 to leave a college in the suburbs of Boston and go on an endless leave of absence.(Laughter).I believed that the magic of computers and software would empower people everywhere and make the world much, much better.It's been 40 years since then, and 20 years since Melinda and I were married.We are both more optimistic now than ever.But on our journey, our optimism evolved.We would like to tell you what we learned and talk to you today about how your optimism and ours can do more for more people.When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft, we wanted to bring the power of computers and software to the people, and that was the kind of rhetoric we used.One of the pioneering books in the field had a raised fist on the cover, and it was called “Computer Lib.” 1

At that time, only big businesses could buy computers.We wanted to offer the same power to regular people and democratize computing.By the 1990s, we saw how profoundly personal computers could empower people, but that success created a new dilemma.If rich kids got computers and poor kids didn't, then technology would make inequality worse.That ran counter to our core belief.Technology should benefit everyone.So we worked to close the digital divide.I made it a priority at Microsoft, and Melinda and I made it an early priority at our Foundation.Donating personal computers to public libraries to make sure that everyone had access.The digital divide was a focus of mine in 1997, when I took my first trip to South Africa.I went there on business so I spent most of my time in meetings in downtown Johannesburg.I stayed in the home of one of the richest families in South Africa.It had only been three years since the election of Nelson Mandela marked the end of apartheid.When I sat down for dinner with my hosts, they used a bell to call the butler.After dinner, the women and men separated and the men smoked cigars.I thought, good thing I read Jane Austen, or I wouldn't have known what was going on.(Laughter).But the next day I went to Soweto, the poor township southwest of Johannesburg, that had been the center of the anti-apartheid movement.It was a short distance from the city into the township, but the entry was sudden, jarring and harsh.I passed into a world completely unlike the one I came from.My visit to Soweto became an early lesson in how naive I was.Microsoft was donating computers and software to a community center there.The kind of thing we did in the United States.But it became clear to me, very quickly, that this was not the United States.I had seen statistics on poverty, but I had never really seen poverty.The people there lived in corrugated tin shacks with no electricity, no water, no toilets.Most people didn't wear shoes.They walked barefoot along the streets, except there were no streets, just ruts in the mud.The community center had no consistent source of power.So they rigged up an extension cord that ran 200 feet from the center to the diesel generator outside.Looking at this setup, I knew the minute the reporters left, the generator would get moved to a more urgent task.And the people who used the community center would go back to worrying about 2

challenges that couldn't be solved by a personal computer.When I gave my prepared remarks to the press, I said Soweto is a milestone.There are major decisions ahead about whether technology will leave the developing world behind.This is to close the gap.But as I read those words, I knew they weren't super relevant.What I didn't say was, by the way, we're not focused on the fact that half a million people on this continent are dying every year from malaria.But we are sure as hell going to bring you computers.Before I went to Soweto, I thought I understood the world's problems but I was blind to many of the most important ones.I was so taken aback by what I saw that I had to ask myself, did I still believe that innovation could solve the world's toughest problems? I promised myself that before I came back to Africa, I would find out more about what keeps people poor.Over the years, Melinda and I did learn more about the pressing needs of the poor.On a later trip to South Africa, I paid a visit to a hospital for patients with MDR-TB, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, a disease with a cure rate of under 50%.I remember that hospital as a place of despair.It was a giant open ward, with a sea of patients shuffling around in pajamas, wearing masks.There was one floor just for children, including some babies lying in bed.They had a little school for kids who were well enough to learn, but many of the children couldn't make it, and the hospital didn't seem to know whether it was worth it to keep the school open.I talked to a patient there in her early 30s.She had been a worker at a TB hospital when she came down with a cough.She went to a doctor and he told her said she had drug-resistant TB.She was later diagnosed with AIDS.She wasn't going to live much longer, but there were plenty of MDR patients waiting to take her bed when she vacated it.This was hell with a waiting list.But seeing this hell didn't reduce my optimism.It channeled it.I got into the car as I left and I told the doctor we were working with I know MDR-TB is hard to cure, but we must do something for these people.And, in fact, this year, we are entering phase three with the new TB drug regime for patients who respond, instead of a 50% cure rate after 18 months for $2,000, we get an 80% cure rate after six months for under $100.(Applause).Optimism is often dismissed as false hope.But there is also false hopelessness.That's the attitude that says we can't defeat poverty and disease.We absolutely can.3

MELINDA GATES: Bill called me that day after he visited the TB hospital and normally if one of us is on an international trip, we will go through our agenda for the day and who we met and where we have been.But this call was different.Bill said to me, Melinda, I have been somewhere that I have never been before.And then he choked up and he couldn't go on.And he finally just said, I will tell you more when I get home.And I knew what he was going through because when you see people with so little hope, it breaks your heart.But if you want to do the most, you have to go see the worst, and I've had days like that too.About ten years ago, I traveled with a group of friends to India.And on last day I was there, I had a meeting with a group of prostitutes and I expected to talk to them about the risk of AIDS that they were facing, but what they wanted to talk to me about was stigma.Many of these women had been abandoned by their husbands.That's why they even went into prostitution.They wanted to be able to feed their children.They were so low in the eyes of society that they could be raped and robbed and beaten by anyone, even the police, and nobody cared.Talking to them about their lives was so moving to me, but what I remember most was how much they wanted to be touched.They wanted to touch me and to be touched by them.It was if physical contact somehow proved their worth.And so before I left, we linked arms hand in hand and did a photo together.Later that same day, I spent some time in India in a home for the dying.I walked into a large hall and I saw rows and rows of cot and every cot was attended to except for one, that was far off in the corner.And so I decided to go over there.The patient who was in this room was a woman in her 30s.And I remember her eyes.She had these huge, brown, sorrowful eyes.She was emaciated and on the verge of death.Her intestines were not holding anything and so the workers had they put a pan under her bed, and cut a hole in the bottom of the bed and everything in her was just pouring out into that pan.And I could tell that she had AIDS.Both in the way she looked and the fact that she was off in this corner alone.The stigma of AIDS is vicious, especially for women.And the punishment is abandonment.When I arrived at her cot, I suddenly felt completely and totally helpless.I had absolutely nothing I could offer this woman.I knew I couldn't save her.But I didn't want her to be alone.4

So I knelt down with her and I put my hand out and she reached for my hand and grabbed it and she wouldn't let it go.I didn't speak her language and I couldn't think of what I should say to her.And finally I just said to her, it's going to be okay.It's going to be okay.It's not your fault.And after I had been with her for sometime, she started pointing to the roof top.She clearly wanted to go up and I realized the sun was going down and what she wanted to do was go up on the roof top and see the sunset.So the workers in this home for the dying were very busy and I said to them, you know, can we take her up on the roof top? No.No.We have to pass out medicines.So I waited that for that to happen and I asked another worker and they said, No no no, we are too busy.We can't get her up there.And so finally I just scooped this woman up in my arms.She was nothing more than skin over bones and I took her up on the roof top, and I found one of those plastic chairs that blows over in a light breeze.I put her there, sat her down, put a blanket over her legs and she sat there facing to the west, watching the sunset.The workers knew--I made sure they knew that she was up there so that they would bring her down later that evening after the sun went down and then I had to leave.But she never left me.I felt completely and totally inadequate in the face of this woman's death.But sometimes, it's the people that you can't help that inspire you the most.I knew that those sex workers I had met in the morning could be the woman that I carried upstairs later that evening.Unless Also we found a way to defy the stigma that hung over their lives.Over the past ten years, our Foundation has helped sex workers build support groups so they could empower one another to speak up and demand safe sex and that their clients use condoms.Their brave efforts have helped to keep HIV prevalence low among sex workers and a lot of studies show that's the big reason why the AIDS epidemic has not exploded in India.When these sex workers gathered together to help stop AIDS transmission, something unexpected and wonderful happened.The community they formed became a platform for everything.Police and others who raped and robbed them couldn't get away with it anymore.The women set up systems to encourage savings for one another and with those savings, they were able to leave sex work.This was all done by people that society considered the lowest of the low.Optimism, for me, is not a passive expectation that things are going to get better.For me, it's a conviction and a belief that we can make things better.So no matter how much suffering we see, no matter how bad it is, we can help people 5

if we don't lose hope help and if we don't look away.(Applause).BILL GATES: Melinda and I have described some devastating scenes, but we want to make the strongest case we can for the power of optimism.Even in dire situations, optimism fuels innovation and leads to new approaches that eliminate suffering.But if you never really see the people that are suffering, your optimism can't help them.You will never change their world.And that brings me to what I see is a paradox.The modern world is an incredible source of innovation and Stanford stands at the center of that, creating new companies, new schools of thought, prize-winning professors, inspired art and literature, miracle drugs, and amazing graduates.Whether you are a scientist with a new discovery, or working in the trenches to understand the needs of the most marginalized, you are advancing amazing breakthroughs in what human beings can do for each other.At the same time, if you ask people across the United States is the future going to be better than the past, most say no.My kids will be worse off than I am.They think innovation won't make the world better for them or their children.So who is right? The people who say innovation will create new possibilities and make the world better? Or the people who see a trend toward inequality and a decline in opportunity and don't think innovation will change that? The pessimists are wrong, in my view.But they are not crazy.If innovation is purely market driven, and we don't focus on the big inequities, then we could have amazing advances and in inventions that leave the world even more divided.We won't improve cure public schools, we won't cure malaria, we won't end poverty.We won't develop the innovations poor farmers need to grow food in a changing climate.If our optimism doesn't address the problems that affect so many of our fellow human beings, then our optimism needs more empathy.If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the poverty and the disease and the poor schools.We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.Over the next generation, you, Stanford graduates, will lead a new wave of innovation.Which problems will you decide to solve? If your world is wide, you can create the future we all want.If your world is narrow, you may create the future the pessimists fear.I started learning in Soweto, that if we are going to make our optimism matter to everyone, and empower people everyone, we have to see the lives of those most in need.6

If we have optimism, without empathy, then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science.We are not really solving problems.We are just working on puzzles.I think most of you have a broader world view than I had at your age.You can do better at this than I did.If you put your hearts and minds to it, you can surprise the pessimists.We are eager to see it.(Applause).MELINDA GATES: So let your heart break.It will change what you do with your optimism.On a trip to south Asia, I met a desperately poor Indian woman.She had two children and she begged me to take them home with me.And when I begged her for her forgiveness she said, well then, please, just take one of them.On another trip to south Los Angeles, I met with a group of the students from a tough neighborhood.A young girl said to me, do you ever feel like we are the kids' whose parents shirked their responsibilities and we are just the leftovers? These women broke my heart.And they still do.And the empathy intensifies if I admit to myself, that could be me.When I talk with the mothers I meet during my travels, there's no difference between what we want for our children.The only difference is our ability to provide it to our children.So what accounts for that difference? Bill and I talk about this with our own kids around the dinner table.Bill worked incredibly hard and he took risks and he made sacrifices for success.But there's another essential ingredient of success, and that is luck.Absolute and total luck.When were you born? Who are your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earn these things.These things were given to us.So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege and we consider where we would be without them, it becomes someone much easier to see someone who is poor and say, that could be me.And that's empathy.Empathy tears down barriers and it opens up whole new frontiers for optimism.So here is our appeal to you all.As you leave Stanford, take all your genius and your optimism and your empathy, and go change the world in ways that will make millions of people optimistic.You don't have to rush.You have careers to launch and debts to pay and spouses to meet and marry.That's plenty enough for right now.But in the course of your lives, perhaps without any plan on your part, you will see suffering that's going to break your heart.And when it happens, don't turn away from it.That's the moment that change is born.Congratulations and good luck to the class of 2014!7

第五篇：蓋茨的北大演講稿臨時修改了什么

蓋茨的北大演講稿臨時修改了什么

3月24日晚，作為此次中國行的重要一站，比爾？蓋茨來到北京大學發(fā)表題為《中國的未來：慈善、創(chuàng)新與全球領導力》的演講。

蓋茨在演講中贊賞中國在過去幾十年間取得的重大成就，認可和鼓勵中國對世界穩(wěn)定發(fā)展做出的卓越努力，并詳細闡述中國如何能在健康、農(nóng)業(yè)、能源和技術等四大領域內(nèi)推動全球進步。作為全球規(guī)模最大的慈善基金會的創(chuàng)立者和領袖，他肯定中國成功企業(yè)家在慈善方面的行動，并呼吁中國青年以多種形式投入公益，回饋社會，甚至改變世界。

3月25日凌晨，記者獲取了前一晚蓋茨的演講稿，并與蓋茨現(xiàn)場實際發(fā)言作比較。耐人尋味的是，除了將“Peking University”這樣的英譯名直接替換成“北大”的中文發(fā)音以顯親切外，蓋茨還對演講稿中的多處細節(jié)描述進行了臨時修改。

經(jīng)分析，這些修改既有蓋茨團隊的建議，也有蓋茨本人的臨場發(fā)揮。其中，半數(shù)以上的修改都是為了使蓋茨基金會的工作描述更加具象、清晰，其余的修改則是圍繞蓋茨本人在此次訪華之前和之中的最新動向。

將部分修改簡要分析如下：

第一類修改，肯定北大貢獻，迎合在場北大師生

在開場的第一段，蓋茨就將北大的成就從“高等教育領域”升格至“為中國做出了難以置信的貢獻（incredible contributions）”。并且，演講稿中原本用意譯的方式稱呼“北大”和后來出現(xiàn)的“小冰”等名稱，現(xiàn)場一律被蓋茨用中文發(fā)音代替。

第二類修改，贊賞中國的成就

在提及中國的部分，蓋茨多次在演講稿中加入“非?！薄凹铀佟薄爸袊摹钡刃揎椪Z，肯定中國在過去幾十年中取得的成就。尤其在提到他本人和習近平的多次會面時，蓋茨將原稿中的“他在巴黎氣候大會上做出的承諾和領袖風范令我深受鼓舞”改成“他在眾多領域內(nèi)的承諾都令我深受鼓舞，其中就包括他在巴黎氣候大會上的領袖風范（encouraged by his commitment in a number of areas，including his leadership at the Paris Climate talks）”。

第三?修改，具化基金會工作

蓋茨對基金會工作內(nèi)容描述的修改極為細致，臨場加入大量定語體現(xiàn)基金會工作深度和廣度。此外，他將基金會“消除貧困”的說法具象為“將貧困消滅至‘零’（down to zero）”，再次呼應上個月基金會年信中的這一最新提法。

另外，為了使現(xiàn)場的新聽眾清晰了解基金會“樂天行動派”的概念，他并沒有直接使用該詞，而是采用“急于見證世界的改善并對此充滿樂觀”的說法。

第四類修改，圍繞最近動態(tài)

一周前，蓋茨在美國《時代》網(wǎng)站撰寫長文批駁美國總統(tǒng)特朗普大幅削減2018財年對外援助預算以擴大規(guī)模和提高邊界安全的做法。蓋茨認為：“一個更穩(wěn)定的世界會惠及全球每一個人，也使美國人尤為受益，如果美國減少對外援助規(guī)模，不僅會造成更多犧牲，更會將領導位置拱手讓于其他國家。”

雖然3月21日兩人在白宮進行了會見，但從此次北大演講稿的一處修改中，我們還是能看到蓋茨對于這一觀點的表態(tài)，蓋茨將“中國正逐步展現(xiàn)其全球領導力”改為“中國正逐步致力于向其他國家提供更多援助”。

此外，在北大之行的前一天，蓋茨以美國泰拉能源公司（TerraPower）董事長的身份與中核集團簽署合作文件，共同開發(fā)第四代核電技術。據(jù)了解，比起傳統(tǒng)核電技術，這個名為“行波堆”的最新一代核電技術能夠“更大規(guī)模、更安全地”提供能源。為此，蓋茨已往中國跑了至少6次。

基于這一合作的進展，蓋茨對演講稿中所涉及的部分也有大幅度的修改。

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