财富精英励志演讲第8期:谷歌创始人母校演讲之请追随自己的梦(3)
日期:2013-07-22 11:00

(单词翻译:单击)

演讲文本

I have a story about following dreams.Or maybe more accurately, it's a story about finding a path to make those dreams real.

我给大家讲个追梦的故事,确切地说是一个将梦想变为现实的故事。

You know what it's like,to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream?And you know how, if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed it will be completely gone by the next morning.I had one of those dreams when I was 23.When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking:what if we could download the whole web,and just keep the links and… I grabbed a pen and started writing!Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming.I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work.

想想看:午夜你从美梦中醒来,然后躺下接着睡回笼觉,第二天早上准会把昨晚的美梦忘个精光。我23岁时,就做过这样的美梦。我猛然惊醒,想把所有的网络内容下载下来,通过链接的方式保存。于是,我抓起笔就开始写。还好我把握住机会,从梦里及时醒来,花了一整晚研究出实现方案,自信满满。

Soon after, I told my advisor, Terry Winograd,it would take a couple of weeks for me to download the web -he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wise enough to not tell me.The optimism of youth is often underrated!Amazingly, at that time,I had no thought of building a search engine.The idea wasn't even on the radar.Much later we happened upon a better way of rankingand we made a really great search engine,and Google was born.When a really great dream shows up, grab it!When I was here at Michigan,I had actually been taught how to make dreams real!

我对导师Terry Winograd说:下载整个网络需要几周时间。他点点头,其实心里清楚需要更久。但他很明智,没打击我。年轻人的激情不可小视!不过那时,创造一个搜索引擎,对我而言是天方夜谭。我从没动过这个念头。很久以后,我们偶然找到了更好的排序方式。做出了一级棒的搜索引擎,谷歌就这么诞生了。所以,当梦想闪现时,抓住它吧!我在这儿念书时,曾学过如何梦想成真。

I know it sounds funny,but that is what I learned in a summer camp converted into a training program called Leadershape.Yes, we've got a few out there.Their slogan is to have a "healthy disregard for the impossible".That program encouraged me to pursue a crazy idea at the time.I wanted to build a personal rapid transit system on campus to replace the buses.Yeah, you're still working on that I hear.It was a futuristic way of solving our transportation problem.I still think a lot about transportation you never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.Many things that people labor hard to do now,like cooking, cleaning, and driving will require much less human time in the future.That is, if we "have a healthy disregardfor the impossible and actually build new solutions.

听起来有点扯,但我确实从 "塑造领导力"夏令营中得到了启发。看,真的有人参加过的吧。我们的口号是“世上无难事只怕有心人“!我们被要求去实现自己看似疯狂的梦想。我想建立个人快速交通系统来替代公交,我知道你们还在研究。没准是今后解决交通问题的好方法。我时不时还在考虑交通问题,梦想不会消失,会变成习惯!我们现在花费精力做的事情,比如做饭、打扫、开车,今后占用的时间会越来越少,这不是天方夜谭。世上无难事,只怕有心人!

人物介绍

人物介绍:

拉里·佩奇(劳伦斯·爱德华·“拉里”·佩奇 Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page),拉里·佩奇出生在美国密歇根州东兰辛市的一个犹太家庭,为美国密歇根大学安娜堡分校的毕业生,拥有理工科学士学位;因其出色的领导才能获得过多项荣誉,以奖励他对工学院的贡献。他曾担任密西根大学Eta Kappa Nu 荣誉学会的会长。其指导教授是 Terry Winogad 博士。Google 就是由 Page 在斯坦福大学发起的研究项目转变而来的。


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重点单词
  • replacevt. 取代,更换,将物品放回原处
  • vividadj. 生动的,鲜艳的,栩栩如生的
  • accuratelyadj. 准确地 adv. 精确地,准确地
  • optimismn. 乐观,乐观主义
  • disregardn. 不理会,漠视 vt. 忽视,不顾
  • slogann. 标语,口号
  • impossibleadj. 不可能的,做不到的 adj. 无法忍受的
  • transportationn. 运输,运输系统,运输工具
  • pursuev. 追捕,追求,继续从事
  • convincingadj. 使人信服的,有力的,令人心悦诚服的 vbl.