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　　2015年職稱英語考試衛(wèi)生類B級閱讀訓練(2)

　　Bill Gates: Unleashing Your Creativity

　　I've always been an optimist and I suppose that is rooted in1 my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place.

　　For as long as I can remember, I've loved learning new things and solving problems. So when I sat down at a computer for the first time in seventh grade, I was hooked. It was a clunky old Teletype machine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today. 2 But it changed my life.

　　When my friend Paul Allen and I started Microsoft 30 years ago, we had a vision of “a computer on every desk and in every home,” which probably sounded a little too optimistic at a time when most computers were the size of refrigerators. But we believed that personal computers would change the world. And they have.

　　And after 30 years, I'm still as inspired by computers as I was back in seventh grade.

　　I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we ean use to feed our curiosity and inventiveness- to help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldn't solve on their own.

　　Computers have transformed how we learn, giving kids everywhere a window into all of the world's knowledge. They're helping us build communities around the things we care about and to stay close to the people who are important to us, no matter where they are3

　　Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it “tap-dancing to work” 4. My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what makes me “tap-dance to work” is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognize your handwriting or your speech, or one that can store a lifetime's worth of photos, and they say, “I didn't know you could do that with a PC5 !'

　　But for all the cool things that a person can do with a PC, there are lots of other ways we can put our creativity and intelligence to work to improve our world6. There are still far too many people in the world whose most basic needs go unmet7. Every year, for example, millions of people die from diseases that are easy to prevent or treat in the developed world.

　　I believe that my own good fortune brings with it a responsibility to give back to the world. My wife, Melinda, and I have committed to8 improving health and education in a way that can help as many people as possible.

　　As a father, I believe that the death of a child in Africa is no less poignant or tragic than“the death of a child anywhere else, and that it doesn't take much to make an immense difference in these children's lives10

　　I'm still very much an optimist, and I believe that progress on even the world's toughest problems is possible―and it's happening every day. We're seeing new drugs for deadly diseases, new diagnostic tools, and new attention paid to the health problems in the developing world.

　　I'm excited by the possibilities I see for medicine, for education and, of course, for technology. And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, we're going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.

　　詞匯：

　　unleash/5Qn5li:F/vt.釋放,解開;放縱;使自由

　　optimist/`CptImIst/n..樂觀主義者

　　ctunky(=clonky)/klAnkI/adj.發(fā)出沉悶金屬聲的

　　teletype/5teli7taip/n.電傳打字機

　　vision/5viVEn/n.想象;幻想;美景

　　inspire/in5spaiE/vt.鼓舞

　　incredible/in5kredEbl/adj.難以置信的

　　curiosity/7kjuEri5Csiti/n.好奇心

　　inventiveness n.發(fā)明創(chuàng)造的能力

　　poignant/5pCinEnt/adj.令人悲痛的，可憐的

　　tragic/5trAdVik/adj.悲慘的, 悲劇的

　　immense/i5mens/adj.巨大的

　　注釋：

　　1.be rooted in：扎根于;深深地存在于

　　2.It was a clunky old Teletype machine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today.那是一臺像舊式電傳打字機那樣笨重的金屬機器，跟我們今天的電腦相比幾乎干不了什么事。本句中，barely意為almost not;compare to在美國英語中也可以=compare with(與……相比)。

　　3.They're helping us build communities around the things we care about and to stay close to the people who are important to us，no matter where they are.電腦幫助我們就我們所關(guān)心的事情建立一個交流的場所，并且與那些我們認為對我們有重要意義的人蜜切相處，不管他們住在何處。Care about指不管喜歡或不喜歡的事情都很關(guān)心、介意、在乎、計較。

　　4.“tap-dancing to work”：“跳著踢踏舞工作”。tap原意是“叩擊、輕敲”;tap dance是“踢踏舞”。這里實際意思是“(手指)輕輕敲擊鍵盤的工作”。

　　5.PC(personal computer)：個人計算機

　　6.But for all the cool things that a person can do with a PC，there are lots of other ways we can put our creativity and in telligence to work to improve our world.要不是每個人利用個人電腦創(chuàng)造出如此多的美好事物，那我們也會有許許多多的其他方法將我們的創(chuàng)造性和智慧投入到工作中去改善我們的世界。本句中but for的意思是“要不是;若非”;com是美國俚語(=great;excellent)，意為“美妙的;很好的”，現(xiàn)在我國有人直接將其音譯為“酷”。

　　7.go unmet：得不到滿足。在這里go是系動詞，unmet是過去分詞作表語。

　　8.commit(oneself)to do sth..:致力于……

　　9.no less…than：和……一樣，不亞于….”

　　10.and that it doesn't take much to make an immense difference in these children's lives：而且要將這些兒童的生命分出個三、六、九等來也是沒有什么意義的。本句中take，的意思是“獲得”，doesn't take much就是“得不到什么”的意思。此處it是形式主語，真正的主語是不定式短語 to make an immense difference in these children's lives。