时间:2019-01-18 作者:英语课 分类:财富精英励志演讲


英语课

   Four years ago ,on the TED’s stage,I annouced a company as working with at the time called Odeo.And because of that announcement we got a big article in the New York Times which led to more press ,which led to more attention , and me deciding to become the CEO of that company ,whereas I was just an adviser 1 and raising around venture captital and ramping 2 up a hiring .


  四年前,我在TED上,介绍了当时工作的公司Odeo。由于那次演讲,纽约时报为我们写了一大篇文章,然后它又带来了更多媒体的报道,吸引了更多关注。之后我决定要当这家公司的CEO——那之前我只是个顾问——并成功获得风险投资 同时招聘更多人才。
  One of the guys I hired was engineer named Jack 3 Dorsey,and a year later,we were trying to decide which way to go with Odeo .Jack presented an idea that he had been thinking around with for a number of years based around sending simple status and updates . So we kind of put the two into together .in the eraly 2006,we launched Twitter as a side project to Odeo.
  我招了一名叫Jack Dorsey的工程师,当一年后我们商量Odeo的发展方向时,Jack提出了一个他捉摸了好几年的点子基本上就是个能向朋友们发送简单消息的想法。Odeo当时也在探索短信服务,所以我们差不多是想将他们两结合在一起。2006年初,作为Odeo的一个业余项目,Twitter项目开始进行。
  Now,it is hard to justify 4 doing a side project at a start up where focus is so critical .But I had actuallly launched Blogger as a side projet to my previous company thinking that it was so little thing we do on the side .And it ended up taking over not only the company but my life for the next five or six years .So i learned to kind of follow hunches 5 even though you cant 6 necessarily justify them or know where they are going to go .And that 's kind of what is happenking with twitter time after time .SO for those of you unfamiliar 7 ,Twitter is based around very simple .seemingly trivial concept:you say what you are doing in 140 characters or less .And people who are interested in you get those updates .If they are really interested,they get the updated as a text message on their cell phone .
  现在很难说搞业余项目是不是个好主意,因为对于初创型企业,专注是至关重要的。 但事实上,我在前一家公司推出的Blogger服务,也是一个业余项目。我当时想这只不过是个随便搞一下的小玩意。结果它不但占据了整个公司 也占据了我之后五、六年的生活。从中我学会了跟随直觉,尽管你不知道它是否正确,也不知道它会发展成什么样子。 这种情况又一次发生在了Twitter身上。那么,对于那些不熟悉Twitter的人,它基于一个非常简单,甚至微不足道的概念。你用不超过140个字说自己在做什么,对你感兴趣的人就会收到这些消息。如果真的十分感兴趣,他们甚至可以通过短信在手机上获得这些信息。
  重点讲解:
  1. at the time
  在那时,那时候
  eg. What were you feeling at the time?
  你那时是怎么感觉的呢?
  eg. It was hard for me to comprehend at the time, but now I do.
  那个时候我还太难以领会这一切,不过现在我知道了。
  2. because of
  adv. 因为;由于
  eg. Many motorists were forced to stop over in that town because of floods.
  由于发大水, 许多开车旅游的人被迫停留在那个镇上了。
  eg. His business went under because of competition from the large corporations.
  由于大公司的竞争,他的生意陷入了困境。
  3. end up
  结束;死亡
  eg. She fled with her children, moving from neighbour to neighbour and ending up in a friend's basement.
  她和她的孩子们逃走了,从一家邻居转到另一家,最终来到一个朋友家的地下室。
  eg. Then you end up alone.
  接着你一个人结束了。
  背景资料[qh]
  威廉姆斯和梅格·休利汉共同创立的Pyra实验室,研发项目管理软件。笔记记录功能分拆为Blogger,第一个Web应用程序,用于创建和管理博客。威廉姆斯研发出了“blogger” ,并且有效地在博客使用中普及了它 。尽管休利汉和其他雇员先后离职,但Pyra仍然存活了下来,并最终在2003年2月17日被谷歌收购。
  威廉姆斯于2004年10月离开谷歌,与他的一位朋友Noah Glass开办了一家播客公司Odeo。在2006年年底,威廉姆斯与Biz Stone及其他前Odeo员工共同创立了Obvious Corp公司。Obvious Corp公司已经拥有了Odeo公司先前的所有性能,包括Odeo和另一个由威廉姆斯创办的项目Twitter。
  在2007年4月,埃文·威廉姆斯将Twitter剥离成一个独立的公司,而Sonic Mountain于2007年5月收购了Odeo。
  2004年PC Magazine杂志将Blogger小组的成员埃文威廉姆斯、保罗·博士伦和梅格·休利汉, 评为该年的年度人物。
  在2010年将推特CEO的位置交出去后,不甘寂寞的他,又在今年创办了另一家出版平台网站Medium。目前只开放给部分有兴趣的民众,明年才会正式对公众开放。
  过去十多年来,艾文·威廉创办的多家公司改变了全球网民沟通的方式,他在自己的网站上表示,自己创造鼓励书写与思考的系统。

n.劝告者,顾问
  • They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
土堤斜坡( ramp的现在分词 ); 斜道; 斜路; (装车或上下飞机的)活动梯
  • The children love ramping about in the garden. 孩子们喜欢在花园里追逐嬉戏,闹着玩。
  • Have you ever seen a lion ramping around? 你看到过狮子暴跳吗?
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
vt.证明…正当(或有理),为…辩护
  • He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.他想用站不住脚的借口为自己的缺席辩解。
  • Can you justify your rude behavior to me?你能向我证明你的粗野行为是有道理的吗?
预感,直觉( hunch的名词复数 )
  • A technical sergeant hunches in a cubicle. 一位技术军士在一间小屋里弯腰坐着。
  • We often test our hunches on each other. 我们经常互相检验我们的第六感觉。
n.斜穿,黑话,猛扔
  • The ship took on a dangerous cant to port.船只出现向左舷危险倾斜。
  • He knows thieves'cant.他懂盗贼的黑话。
adj.陌生的,不熟悉的
  • I am unfamiliar with the place and the people here.我在这儿人地生疏。
  • The man seemed unfamiliar to me.这人很面生。
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