財(cái)富精英勵(lì)志演講第12期:亞馬遜國(guó)王杰夫·貝索斯母校演講(1)

[00:00.52]As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. 在我還是一個(gè)孩子的時(shí)候，我的夏天總是在德州爺爺奶奶的農(nóng)場(chǎng)中度過(guò)。 [00:10.17]I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially "Days of our Lives." 我?guī)兔π蘩盹L(fēng)車(chē)，為牛接種疫苗，也做其它家務(wù)。每天下午，我們都會(huì)看肥皂劇，尤其是《我們的歲月》。 [00:24.74]My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S. and Canada. 我的爺爺奶奶參加了一個(gè)房車(chē)俱樂(lè)部，那是一群駕駛氣流拖掛型房車(chē)的人們，他們結(jié)伴遍游美國(guó)和加拿大。 [00:37.03]And every few summers, we'd join the caravan. 每隔幾個(gè)夏天，我也會(huì)加入他們。 [00:42.44]We'd hitch up the Airstream trailer to my grandfather's car, and off we'd go, in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers. 我們把房車(chē)掛在爺爺?shù)男∑?chē)后面，然后加入300余名氣流房車(chē)探險(xiǎn)者們組成的浩蕩隊(duì)伍。 [00:55.86]I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked forward to these trips. 我愛(ài)我的爺爺奶奶，我崇敬他們，也真心期盼這些旅程。 [01:04.33]On one particular trip, I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car. 那是一次我大概十歲時(shí)的旅行，我照例坐在后座的長(zhǎng)椅上， [01:17.02]My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the smell. 爺爺開(kāi)著車(chē)，奶奶坐在他旁邊，吸著煙。我討厭煙味。 [01:36.90]At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. 在那樣的年紀(jì)，我會(huì)找任何借口做些估測(cè)或者小算術(shù)。 [01:44.32]I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. 我會(huì)計(jì)算油耗還有雜貨花銷(xiāo)等雞毛蒜皮的小事。 [01:51.52]I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. 我聽(tīng)過(guò)一個(gè)有關(guān)吸煙的廣告。 [01:55.81]I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. 我記不得細(xì)節(jié)了，但是廣告大意是說(shuō)，每吸一口香煙會(huì)減少幾分鐘的壽命，大概是兩分鐘。 [02:08.95]At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. 無(wú)論如何，我決定為奶奶做個(gè)算術(shù)。 [02:14.17]I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. 我估測(cè)了奶奶每天要吸幾支香煙，每支香煙要吸幾口等等， [02:20.92]When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, 然后心滿(mǎn)意足地得出了一個(gè)合理的數(shù)字。接著，我把頭探到車(chē)前排，拍了拍奶奶的肩膀， [02:30.81]and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!" 然后驕傲地宣稱(chēng)，“每天吸兩分鐘的煙，你已經(jīng)少了九年活頭了!”

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