公眾人物畢業(yè)演講第25期:比爾蓋茨夫婦于斯坦福大學(xué)(6)

But the next day I went to Soweto,

第二天 我去了索韋托

the poor town just southwest of Johannesburg,

約翰內(nèi)斯堡西南面一個(gè)很貧窮的城鎮(zhèn)

that had been the center of the antiapartheidmovement.

曾經(jīng)反種族隔離運(yùn)動(dòng)的中心

It was a short distance from the city into thetownship,

這座城鎮(zhèn)離約翰內(nèi)斯堡主城區(qū)并不遠(yuǎn)

but the entry was sudden, jarring and harsh.

但進(jìn)入索韋托后 我立刻感受到了強(qiáng)烈的視覺(jué)沖擊

I passed into a world completely unlike the one I came from.

它和我之前看到的完全是兩個(gè)世界

My visit to Soweto became an early lesson in how naive I was.

到索韋托后 我才剛開(kāi)始意識(shí)到 原來(lái)自己有多天真

Microsoft was donating computers and software to a community center there.

微軟當(dāng)時(shí)將計(jì)算機(jī)和軟件捐給當(dāng)?shù)氐纳鐓^(qū)中心

The kind of thing we did in the United States.

這同我們?cè)诿绹?guó)所做的一樣

But it became clear to me, very quickly, that this was not the United States.

但我很快意識(shí)到 南非并不是美國(guó)

I had seen statistics on poverty,

我之前看過(guò)關(guān)于貧困的統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)字

but I had never really seen poverty.

但卻從沒(méi)真正看過(guò)什么叫貧困

The people there lived in corrugated tin shacks

當(dāng)?shù)厝俗≡诤?jiǎn)陋的金屬棚里

with no electricity, no water, no toilets.

沒(méi)有電 沒(méi)有水 沒(méi)有廁所

Most people didn't wear shoes.

大多數(shù)人連鞋都沒(méi)有穿的

They walked barefoot along the streets,

赤腳在街上走

except there were no streets, just ruts in the mud.

其實(shí)那里根本就沒(méi)有街 不過(guò)只有一些泥巴路

The community center had no consistent source of power.

社區(qū)中心連持續(xù)的電力供應(yīng)都沒(méi)有