比爾蓋茨在清華大學(xué)的演講

1、bill gates speech to tsinghua university(12 december, 1997)1 its great to be here and have a chance to share some of my excitement with you.2 i got involved with computers at 18, and the computer was a very limited teletype that had to be connected through a phone line up to a mainframe-like compute

2、r but my friends and i became fascinated with understanding what the computer can do, what was the future, and how would it be used. when we found out about chip technology, and the miracle of being able to improve the power of the chip exponentially, we realized that computers had a very bright fut

3、ure. we spent a lot of our time writing software because we loved writing software, because we thought that the software being written by a lot of big hardware companies wasnt as good as what we could do.3 i was 19 when i realized that if i wanted to be the first to do a software company for these n

4、ew cheap computers, i needed to get my friends, together and start right away, so microsoft became the first company doing software for these new machines. our vision was a computer on every desk and in every home. in the last 20 years, that vision is certainly becoming a reality. if we had to chang

5、e it today, we would simply add that now we also want to have a computer in every pocket, every carmany other places that we had not thought about when we first started doing development. i believe software is the key element that really unlocks the power of all this technology, and the idea of maki

6、ng it easy to find information, easy to create information, easy to communicate with other people. software is at the center of that, and so software will be the fastest growing industry in the world and, one that will create lots and lots of great jobs. certainly here in china the opportunity for h

7、undreds of thousands of great jobs should be very exciting because there is a global shortage in terms of computer skills.4 the personal computer revolution got started in 1975, thats when i left college and started microsoft. these last 22 years have really been amazing, every prediction weve made

8、about improvements have all come true. as we look ahead, that pace of innovation is not slowing down, in fact if anything its speeding up. very high speed processors like 300 mhz pentiums, or new 64-bit processors that we re already developing windows nt for; incredible storage capacity, which will

9、let us store, not just data, but also digital video as well; great screen technology to create a tablet-like device that would be good enough for reading and writing; advanced graphics and now the ability to connect computers together at very high speed.5 the internet is the way that all these machi

10、nes can be connected together. and those standards and the improvement of those standards, is very very important. some people like to think about how the computer industry compares to other industries. ive shown before what the cost of the typical car was in 1980 in us, and that rose up to be about

11、 from 8, 000 to 19, 000 today, and likewise cereal has increased in price. how does that compare to pcs? if the same model was followed for pcs, you can buy a car for 27 cents and cereal for less than one cent, so theres no other area of the economy that has this rapid improvement, and people just a

12、rent used to it. you almost have to tell people, “what would you do if internet computing power was free, “ because thats what well be able to deliver with all these improvements.6 microsofts vision of computing is global computing. we see pcs connected to the internet making the world a smaller pla

13、ce, and thats positive in so many ways: to build understanding between people, to share research in key science areas, including medicine, to allow world commerce to work very well. and the internet is driving this already. microsoft has set up operations around the world, and we are very pleased wi

14、th the success were having here in china. we are doing significant software development on products here, and that will continue to increase, and key for us is having very very high quality software people, and weve been lucky to hire a great number of people from this university. really id say that

15、 the core of the teams weve put together have come from here, and ive listed some of those employees here, and we certainly hope that in the future this list will increase dramatically, and the quality of our work continues to rise.7 microsoft believes in doing a lot of research because the software

16、 of today is not adequate for tomorrow. its come a long way, such as the graphics interface, the application, and the way we deal with linguistics; its much better than it was a year ago. building the internet into the software has come a long way. some of the more ambitious things, like teaching th

17、e computer to speak or listen or see, still require a lot of software work. that s not yet done, and so weve been investing in research, and building the number of research locations which will be increasing in the years ahead. one advance is teaching the computer to pick up sentences and understand

18、 them, and not just think of them as a series of characters.8 here we have an example where the word processor is looking at an english sentence, and suggesting that the grammar is not correct, and showing exactly how the grammar might be fixed. that kind of thing has proven to be extremely popular,

19、 and its just a step on the road to getting computers to actually understand whats going on, in the same way that humans do. that pursuit of artificial intelligence is the most exciting thing in computer science. although the progress in that has been fairly slow, im confident that that will be acce

20、lerating quite a bit.9 another interesting area that i think people arent expecting is computer vision. the actual digital cameras that allow you to have an image and scan, that image are going down in cost, and software to recognize users, see what theyre looking at, what kind of gestures theyre ma

21、king; that kind of software is coming along quite well. in fact i brought a short little film of a demonstration that someone from our vision group did, so lets take a quick look at some of the progress thats been made.demo video10 that just gives you a glimpse of one area that is expected to make t

22、he personal computer really disappear into the environment and connect up in a rich way. tomorrows pc will be quite different from what we have today, tomorrows internet will be much better than what we have today, but it will all evolve out of this technology that we have right now.11 its clear tha

23、t the reason we refer to this as the information age is that the capabilities available in the information age will let people reach out and get what they need, whether its business, learning, or for entertainment. microsoft feels in a very lucky position to be helping to drive these things, and key

24、 for us is working with other software companies so that they can build other applications on top of the system. every industry needs a lot of software work there, and so i talk about the software industry creating so many great jobs in the years ahead. i think you picked a great field to be in, and

25、 we look forward to working with you.?thank you.language points and chinese translations第二十六單元比爾蓋茨在清華大學(xué)的演講(1997年12月12日）1great(口語中指)美妙的，好極了/to share sth. with sb.與某人分享本句中it是形式主語，后面的動(dòng)詞不定式短語to be here and.是真正的主語（我）非常高興有機(jī)會(huì)來到這里，與你們一起分享我的激動(dòng)與快樂。2to get involved with原意指卷人，陷人，本文中指開始接觸，專注于/mainframe（尤指外部輔助裝置的

26、）計(jì)算機(jī)/teletype解電傳打字機(jī)，電傳打字電報(bào)機(jī)/to be（become）fascinated with對著迷了，被強(qiáng)烈地吸引住了/chip technology芯片技術(shù)/miracle奇跡，非凡的事例exponentially adv指數(shù)的，冪的，本文中意指非?？?，迅速地我在18歲時(shí)開始接觸電腦。那時(shí)，電腦是個(gè)非常有限的電傳打字機(jī)，要通過電話線連接到主機(jī)上。但是我和我的朋友們都深深地著迷了，都想了解這電腦能做些什么，前景如何，以及怎樣使用電腦，當(dāng)我們發(fā)現(xiàn)了芯片技術(shù)，以奇跡般不可思議的速度迅速提高芯片的功能時(shí),我們意識(shí)到電腦會(huì)有非常光明的前景。我們花費(fèi)大量時(shí)間編寫軟件，因?yàn)槲覀兒芟矏劬?/p>

27、寫軟件，也因?yàn)槲覀冋J(rèn)識(shí)到許多大型的硬件公司所編寫的軟件沒有我們編寫的那么好。3 vision想象力，眼光，視覺，遠(yuǎn)見/the key element主要因素，關(guān)鍵因素/shortage短缺，缺少/in terms of從觀點(diǎn)出發(fā)，以的措詞我19歲時(shí)意識(shí)到：對于這些新型、便宜的計(jì)算機(jī)，如果我想第一個(gè)成立軟件公司，我就必須把我的朋友們組織在一起，并立刻動(dòng)手。就這樣，微軟公司成為為這些新型的計(jì)算機(jī)制作軟件的首家公司。我們當(dāng)時(shí)所想象的是在每個(gè)辦公臺(tái)、每個(gè)家庭都有一臺(tái)電腦。在過去的20年中，這種想象確實(shí)變成了事實(shí)。如果今天我們要對此作改動(dòng)的話，我們僅簡單地補(bǔ)充一點(diǎn)，即現(xiàn)在我們也想讓每個(gè)人的口袋里，每輛小

28、汽車?yán)镆约拔覀冊诋?dāng)初開始時(shí)沒有考慮到的許多其它地方也都有一臺(tái)電腦。我認(rèn)為軟件是關(guān)鍵因素，它能真正地開發(fā)出電腦技術(shù)的所有潛能，使我們非常容易地查找信息，創(chuàng)造信息，增進(jìn)與別人的交際。軟件是電腦技術(shù)的核心，所以它將是世界上發(fā)展最迅速的工業(yè)，也將創(chuàng)造出大量的工作機(jī)會(huì)。由于目前全球計(jì)算機(jī)技能的缺乏，在中國能有成千上萬個(gè)這樣的工作機(jī)會(huì)無疑將是非常令人興奮的。41amazing令人驚異的/prediction預(yù)言，預(yù)示/processor處理器/digital video數(shù)字視頻screen technology屏幕技術(shù)個(gè)人電腦革命始于1975年，當(dāng)時(shí)我剛離開大學(xué)，創(chuàng)建微軟公司。過去的22年確實(shí)令人驚異，我

29、們對于電腦技術(shù)不斷改進(jìn)的每個(gè)預(yù)言都變成了現(xiàn)實(shí)。展望未來，革新的步伐不是放慢了，而是加速了：對于高速處理器，像300兆赫茲的奔騰處理器，或者新64畢特處理器等，我們已經(jīng)正在為其研制視窗nt(windows nt)操作系統(tǒng)；不可思議的存儲(chǔ)容量，我們不但可以存儲(chǔ)數(shù)據(jù)，而且也可以存儲(chǔ)數(shù)字視頻；屏幕技術(shù)創(chuàng)造出了非常適合于讀、寫的平板式裝置；先進(jìn)的圖像技術(shù)和電腦高速聯(lián)網(wǎng)能力。5 to compare to. 與比較，對照，相比/cereal谷類，谷類植物八兀為個(gè)人電腦，是 personal computers的簡略形式/to be used to習(xí)慣于因特網(wǎng)使所有的電腦都聯(lián)接在一起。其標(biāo)準(zhǔn)及標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的完善提高

30、極其重要。一些人喜歡考慮如何把計(jì)算機(jī)工業(yè)與其它工業(yè)相比較。以前我曾講過在美國1980年購買一輛汽車的費(fèi)用，而在今天價(jià)格已上漲到8，000至19,000美元左右。同樣糧食作物價(jià)格也已上漲，那么怎樣和個(gè)人電腦的價(jià)格比較呢？如果采取與個(gè)人電腦的價(jià)格相同的計(jì)算模式，則現(xiàn)在你用27美分就可以購買一輛汽車，用不到1美分就可以購買糧食作物。因此其它經(jīng)濟(jì)領(lǐng)域根本沒有像計(jì)算機(jī)行業(yè)這么迅速的發(fā)展，只是人們還不習(xí)慣于這種發(fā)展。你幾乎不得不告訴人們：”如果因特網(wǎng)的計(jì)算功能是免費(fèi)的，你會(huì)怎么做？”因?yàn)殡S著電腦的不斷進(jìn)步，我們將能夠提供這種免費(fèi)服務(wù)。6global全球的/commerce商業(yè)，貿(mào)易7adequate足夠的/to come along way取得進(jìn)展，明顯好轉(zhuǎn)/graphics interface圖形界面linguistics二語言學(xué)/t