【正文】 ed me the best odds, if you know what I is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn39。t guarantee 。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。這種狀況為我創(chuàng)造了最好的機會，如果你們明白我的意思?？上У氖牵艺窃谶@里學到了人生中悲傷的一課：機會大，并不等于你就會成功。One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a pany in Albuquerque that had begun making the world39。s first personal offered to sell them ，發(fā)生在1975年1月。那時，我從宿舍樓里給位于Albuquerque的一家公司打了一個電話，那家公司已經(jīng)在著手制造世界上第一臺個人電腦。我提出想向他們出售軟件。I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on they said: “We39。re not quite ready, e see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn39。t written the software that moment, I worked day and night on this little extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with ，他們會發(fā)覺我是一個住在宿舍的學生，從而掛斷電話。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準備好，一個月后你再來找我們吧。”這是個好消息，因為那時軟件還根本沒有寫出來呢。就是從那個時候起，我日以繼夜地在這個小小的課外項目上工作，這導致了我學生生活的結束，以及通往微軟公司的不平凡的旅程的開始。What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always 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 ，我對哈佛的回憶主要都與充沛的精力和智力活動有關。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有壓力，有時甚至會感到泄氣，但永遠充滿了挑戰(zhàn)性。生活在哈佛是一種吸引人的特殊待遇??雖然我離開得比較早，但是我在這里的經(jīng)歷、在這里結識的朋友、在這里發(fā)展起來的一些想法，永遠地改變了我。But taking a serious look back … I do have one big ，如果現(xiàn)在嚴肅地回憶起來，我確實有一個真正的遺憾。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 ，根本沒有意識到這個世界是多么的不平等。人類在健康、財富和機遇上的不平等大得可怕，它們使得無數(shù)的人們被迫生活在絕望之中。I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and got great exposure to the advances being made in the humanity39。s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce 。我也了解了很多科學上的新進展。但是，人類最大的進步并不來自于這些發(fā)現(xiàn)，而是來自于那些有助于減少人類不平等的發(fā)現(xiàn)。第三篇：比爾蓋茨 哈佛演講 中英Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world’s worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty … the prevalence of world hunger … the scarcity of clean water …the girls kept out of school the children who die from diseases we can cure?哈佛是否應該鼓勵教授解決世界上存在的嚴重不平等？哈佛的學生是不是應該多關注一些全球貧富不均、糧食短缺、水資源稀缺、女童輟學的問題？以及那些因無法接受有效治療而死亡的孩子？Should the world’s most privileged people learn about the lives of the world’s least privileged?世界上最衣食無憂的人是否應該了解那些掙扎在死亡邊緣的人們的生活？These are not rhetorical questions – you will answer with your ，這些問題只能用行動回答。My mother, who was filled with pride the day I was admitted here – never stopped pressing me to do more for few days before my wedding, she hosted a bridal event, at which she read aloud a letter about marriage that she had written to mother was very ill with cancer at the time, but she saw one more opportunity to deliver her message, and at the close of the letter she said: ―From those to whom much is given, much is expected.‖我的母親一直為我考上哈佛而自豪，也一直督促我回報社會。我結婚的前幾天的儀式上，她高聲朗讀自己寫給我妻子的信。當時我母親已經(jīng)是癌癥晚期，但她堅持要用這個機會表達自己的觀點。信的最后 她念道：―獲益越多，責任越大?！琖hen you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given – in talent, privilege, and opportunity – there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from ——天賦，特權，機遇——世界寄予殷切的期望。In line with the promise of this age, I want to exhort each of the graduates here to take on an issue –a plex problem, a deep inequity, and bee a specialist on you make it the focus of your career, that would be you don’t have to do that to make an a few hours every week, you can use thegrowing power of the Internet to get informed, find others with the same interests, see the barriers, and find ways to cut through —— 參與解決人類不平等的問題，如果你獻身這項事業(yè)，你的影響力將會是驚人的。既便不打算以此為業(yè)，你一樣可以有所作為。每周只需要花幾個小時，就可以利用互聯(lián)網(wǎng)獲取信息、找到志同道合的朋友、設法解決一兩個問題。Don39。t let plexity stop on the big will be one of the great experiences of your ，盡管放手去做。它將是你生命中最寶貴經(jīng)歷。You graduates are ing of age in an amazing you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never have awareness of global inequity, which we did not with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little have more than we had。you must start sooner, and carry on 。今天的科技是我年輕時不曾體驗的。你們對不平等現(xiàn)象的認識遠遠超過我們這代人。面對這種不平等，你們更容易受良心的譴責。行動起來，時不我待。And I hope you will e back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional acplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world’s deepest inequities … on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in mon with you but their ，我希望看到你用自己的天賦和精力做了哪些事。不僅用專業(yè)成就來衡量成功，還要看你是如何解決人類根深蒂固的不平等問題。你是怎樣對待那些與你相隔萬里、迥然不同的人的。Good ，祝你們好運！第四篇：比爾蓋茨哈佛畢業(yè)演講Bill Gates鈥? Commencement address at Harvard University,2007(extract)Members of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the greatcollections of intellectual talent in the for?There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and thebenefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people here and around the can we do more? Can Harvard dedicate its intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name?Let me make a request of the deans and the professors鈥攖heintellectual leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please askyourselves:Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world鈥檚 worstinequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty鈥he prevalence of world hunger鈥he scarcity of clean water鈥he girls kept out of school鈥he children who die from diseases we can cure?Shou