财富精英励志演讲21：拉里·佩奇：梦想的力量(4)-英语课

时间：2019-01-18 作者：英语课 分类：财富精英励志演讲

英语课

　　I had one of those dreams when I was 23.

　　我23岁的时候,就做过一个那样的梦。
　　When I suddenly woke up,
　　我猛然惊醒,
　　I was thinking: What if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links?
　　想着:如果我们能把整个网络下载下来,但仅保存链接会怎样?
　　And I grabbed a pen andstarted writing!
　　然后我抓起一支笔写了起来。
　　Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming.
　　有时候别做梦,及时醒来是非常重要的。
　　I spent the middle of that night scribbling 1 out the details and convincing myself it would work.
　　我花了一个午夜描画出细节,并确信那是可以做得到的。
　　Soon after, I told my advisor 2, Terry Winograd,
　　不久后,我告诉我的导师特里·温诺格拉德
　　it would take a couple of weeks for me to download the web
　　那要花几周时间来下载整个网络——
　　he nodded knowingly, fully 3 aware it would take much longer but wise enough not to tell me.
　　他只是会意地点点头,他完全知道要花的时间其实长得多,但他很睿智,并没有告诉我。
　　The optimism of youth is often underrated!
　　年轻人的乐观精神通常不可低估!
　　Amazingly, at that time, I have no thoughts of building a search engine.
　　令人惊讶的是,我当时没有想过要造一个搜索引擎。
　　The idea wasn’t even on the radar 4.
　　这一概念甚至没有进入我脑海。
　　But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking and we made a really great search engine,
　　但很久以后,我们突然找到更好排列网页的方法,并造出一个非常好的搜索引擎
　　and Google was born.
　　谷歌就这样诞生了。
　　When a really great dream shows up, grab it!
　　当伟大的梦想闪现时,抓住它吧!
　　When I was here at Michigan, I had actually been taught how to make dreams real!
　　我在密歇根大学上学时,其实就学过如何实现梦想。
　　I know it sounds funny,
　　我知道这听起来很可笑,
　　but that is what I learned in a summer camp converted into a training program called Leadershape.
　　但那是我从一个由夏令营转化而来的名为“塑造领袖”的培训项目中学到的。
　　Their slogan is to" have a healthy disregard for the impossible”.
　　该项目的口号就是“理性地藐视不可能”。
　　That program encouraged me to pursue a crazy idea at the time:
　　那个项目激励着我追寻那时一个疯狂的想法:
　　I wanted to build a personal rapid transit 5 system on campus to replace the buses.
　　我想在校园内建立一套个人快速交通系统以代替公交。
　　You're still working on that I heard.
　　听说你们正在考虑这个？
　　It was a futuristic way of solving our transportation problem.
　　这是未来解决交通问题的方式。
　　I still think a lot about transportation—you never loose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
　　我直到现在还在思考很多有关交通的问题—你永不要放走梦想,而要把它当作一种习惯去培育。
　　Many things people labor 6 hard to do now,
　　现在人们花很大力气干的很多事情,
　　like cooking, cleaning, and driving will require much less human time in the future.
　　如做饭、清洁、驾驶,以后只会占用人们更少的时间。
　　That is, if we “have a healthy disregard for the impossible” and actually build the solutions.
　　也就是说,如果我们“理性地藐视不可能”,并确实找到新的解决方案的话。