財富精英勵志演講 第25期:拉里·佩奇：夢想的力量(2)

[00:00.15]Everyone in my family went here to Michigan: my brother, my Mom, my Dad—all of them. 我們家的所有成員都畢業(yè)于密歇根大學:我哥哥、我媽媽和爸爸——我們?nèi)摇? [00:06.47]My Dad actually got the quantity discount :he got all three and a half of his degrees here. 我的父親在學位數(shù)量上可能要打個折：他從密歇根大學拿到了三個半學位。 [00:13.00]His Ph.D. was in Communication Science because they thought Computers were just a passing fad, when he earned it 44 years ago. 他的博士學位是通信科學，而當時人們認為計算機只是一時熱門，他是在44年前獲得的博士學位。 [00:22.56]He and Mom made a big sacrifice for that degree. 他與我母親為此做出了巨大的犧牲。 [00:25.48]They argued at times over pennies, while raising my newborn brother. 在撫養(yǎng)我剛出生的哥哥時，他們經(jīng)常因為缺錢而爭吵。 [00:31.03]Mom typed my Dad’s dissertation by hand. 母親自己用手敲出了父親的論文。 [00:34.15]Kind of ironic for a Communication Science dissertation. 這對于一篇通訊論文來說具有諷刺意義。 [00:39.03]This velvet hood I'm wearing, this was my Dad’s. 今天我戴的這頂天鵝絨帽是我父親的。 [00:44.30]And this diploma that I have here just like the one you're about to get, that was my Dad’s. 這張畢業(yè)證書，和你們即將拿的一樣，也是我父親的。 [01:05.56]And my underwear... oh never mind. 我的內(nèi)衣也是的...好了，大家別介意。 [01:09.46]My father’s father worked in the Chevy plant in Flint, Michigan. 我的祖父在密歇根州弗林特的雪佛蘭汽車工廠工作, [01:18.33]He was an assembly line worker. 他是裝配線上的一名工人。 [01:21.25]He drove his two children here to Ann Arbor, and told them: That is where you’re going to college. 他曾開車把兩個孩子送到安娜堡這兒,并告訴他們:這是你們今后要上的大學。 [01:29.02]I know it sounds funny now. 我知道現(xiàn)在聽起來很好笑。 [01:32.26]Both of his kids actually did graduate from Michigan. 他的兩個孩子也的確從密歇根大學畢業(yè)。 [01:35.51]That was the American dream. 這就是“美國夢”。 [01:38.41]His daughter, Beverly, also with us today. 他的女兒，貝芙麗，幾天也在場。 [01:42.09]My Grandpa used to carry an “Alley Oop’ hammer--a heavy iron pipe with a big hunk of lead melted on the end. 我的祖父經(jīng)?？钢粋€大鐵錘，實際上是一根末端有大鉛塊、很重的鐵管 [01:49.44]The works made them during the sit-down strikes to protect themselves. 那時工人們靜坐罷工時常會用它來自衛(wèi)。 [01:53.34]When I was growing up, 當我再大一些的時候， [01:54.22]we used that hammer whenever we needed to pound a stake or something into the yard. 一遇到砸樹樁一類動土的活兒，我們就會用那個大鐵錘。 [01:59.30]It is wonderful that most people don't need to carry a heavy blunt object for protection anymore. 現(xiàn)在大多數(shù)人不再需要扛著笨重的大家伙來保護自己了，這很好。 [02:05.43]But just in case, I brought it with me. 但為了以防萬一，我把它帶來了。

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