公众人物毕业演讲(MP3+字幕)第191期:苏珊沃西基2014在约翰霍普金斯大学(4)
日期:2015-11-30 15:11

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演讲文本

Thanks to a mutual friend, we rented our garage to two graduate students at Stanford

经朋友介绍 我们将车库租给了两个斯坦福研究生

who had just started a company, who were looking for office space

他们刚开了一家公司 正在寻找办公场所

They seem nice

他们看起来很棒

There ideas sounded kind of crazy

他们的想法听起来有些疯狂

Back then

当时

no one had heard of Larry Page and Sergey Brin

没人听说过拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布林

or the new company with the funny name

或是他们开的那家名字滑稽的公司

Google?

谷歌?

What?

什么

What does that mean?

这是什么意思

It doesn't really matter

这没关系

As long as you guys pay the rent on time, you guys can build your Google anything here

只要你们能够按时交房租 管你们是谷歌还是别的什么

Wednesday moved in, we have late night

一个周三的深夜

together in the garage, eating pizza and M&M's

我们一起坐在车库吃批萨和M&M

when they talked to me about how their technology could change the world

他们跟我讲 说自己的技术能够改变世界

But then they would go on equally excited

之后他们同样兴奋地告诉我

about the fact that my house had a washer and dryer

说我家有洗衣机和烘干机真是太好了

They made bold proclamations

他俩很大胆地宣布说

We are going to organize the entire World Wide Web

我们将把全球网络组织到一起

followed by -- which day is recycling day?

说完之后 他们问我 垃圾回收日是哪一天来着

And when I asked them how much experience they had to back their ambitious plan

我问他们 你们有多少经验来支持这一雄心壮志

they would say well our combined age is almost 50

他们说 我们的年龄合起来可有将近50岁

and they were entering a competitive area

他们进入是一个竞争性极强的领域

There were many well-funded search engines

当时有很多资金充裕的搜索引擎公司

famous at the time, although you probably never heard of them

当时这些公司都很有名 只是你们可能没听说过

AltaVista, Lycos, Excite

比如AltaVista Lycos Excite

Can you imagine if you wanted to search for something online

想象一下 要搜索东西的时候你要说

and you had to say I'm going to AltaVista?

我要去AltaVista一下 这会是什么感觉

The answer, that would be kinda awkward

肯定会显得非常笨拙

人物简介和演讲视频

人物简介

Youtube首席执行官苏珊·沃西基在约翰霍普金斯大学2014年毕业典礼上的演讲。苏珊·沃西基是谷歌旗下全球最大视频网站Youtube的CEO,在2014年福布斯全球权势女性榜中排名第12。演讲中,她讲解了自己人生中的三个故事,包括谷歌两位创始人是如何在她家车库中开始创业的,包括谷歌视频的失败以及谷歌对Youtube的兼并。她从自己的这些亲身经历中,给学生提出了一些饱含哲理的建议。


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重点单词
  • boldadj. 大胆的,粗体的,醒目的,无礼的,陡峭的
  • organizev. 组织
  • competitiveadj. 竞争的,比赛的
  • awkwardadj. 笨拙的,尴尬的,(设计)别扭的
  • ambitiousadj. 有雄心的,有抱负的,野心勃勃的