财富精英励志演讲21：拉里·佩奇：梦想的力量(4)

 　　I had one of those dreams when I was 23.

　　我23岁的时候,就做过一个那样的梦。

　　When I suddenly woke up,

　　我猛然惊醒,

　　I was thinking: What if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links?

　　想着:如果我们能把整个网络下载下来,但仅保存链接会怎样?

　　And I grabbed a pen andstarted writing!

　　然后我抓起一支笔写了起来。

　　Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming.

　　有时候别做梦,及时醒来是非常重要的。

　　I spent the middle of that night scribbling¹ out the details and convincing myself it would work.

　　我花了一个午夜描画出细节,并确信那是可以做得到的。

　　Soon after, I told my advisor², Terry Winograd,

　　不久后,我告诉我的导师特里·温诺格拉德

　　it would take a couple of weeks for me to download the web

　　那要花几周时间来下载整个网络——

　　he nodded knowingly, fully³ aware it would take much longer but wise enough not to tell me.

　　他只是会意地点点头,他完全知道要花的时间其实长得多,但他很睿智,并没有告诉我。

　　The optimism of youth is often underrated!

　　年轻人的乐观精神通常不可低估!

　　Amazingly, at that time, I have no thoughts of building a search engine.

　　令人惊讶的是,我当时没有想过要造一个搜索引擎。

　　The idea wasn’t even on the radar⁴.

　　这一概念甚至没有进入我脑海。

　　But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking and we made a really great search engine,

　　但很久以后,我们突然找到更好排列网页的方法,并造出一个非常好的搜索引擎

　　and Google was born.

　　谷歌就这样诞生了。

　　When a really great dream shows up, grab it!

　　当伟大的梦想闪现时,抓住它吧!

　　When I was here at Michigan, I had actually been taught how to make dreams real!

　　我在密歇根大学上学时,其实就学过如何实现梦想。

　　I know it sounds funny,

　　我知道这听起来很可笑,

　　but that is what I learned in a summer camp converted into a training program called Leadershape.

　　但那是我从一个由夏令营转化而来的名为“塑造领袖”的培训项目中学到的。

　　Their slogan is to" have a healthy disregard for the impossible”.

　　该项目的口号就是“理性地藐视不可能”。

　　That program encouraged me to pursue a crazy idea at the time:

　　那个项目激励着我追寻那时一个疯狂的想法:

　　I wanted to build a personal rapid transit⁵ system on campus to replace the buses.

　　我想在校园内建立一套个人快速交通系统以代替公交。

　　You're still working on that I heard.

　　听说你们正在考虑这个？

　　It was a futuristic way of solving our transportation problem.

　　这是未来解决交通问题的方式。

　　I still think a lot about transportation—you never loose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

　　我直到现在还在思考很多有关交通的问题—你永不要放走梦想,而要把它当作一种习惯去培育。

　　Many things people labor⁶ hard to do now,

　　现在人们花很大力气干的很多事情,

　　like cooking, cleaning, and driving will require much less human time in the future.

　　如做饭、清洁、驾驶,以后只会占用人们更少的时间。

　　That is, if we “have a healthy disregard for the impossible” and actually build the solutions.

　　也就是说,如果我们“理性地藐视不可能”,并确实找到新的解决方案的话。

1 scribbling   

n.乱涂[写]胡[乱]写的文章[作品]v.潦草的书写( scribble的现在分词 )；乱画；草草地写；匆匆记下

参考例句：

• Once the money got into the book, all that remained were some scribbling. 折子上的钱只是几个字！ 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
• McMug loves scribbling. Mama then sent him to the Kindergarten. 麦唛很喜欢写字，妈妈看在眼里，就替他报读了幼稚园。 来自互联网

2 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

3 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

4 radar   

n.雷达，无线电探测器

参考例句：

• They are following the flight of an aircraft by radar.他们正在用雷达追踪一架飞机的飞行。
• Enemy ships were detected on the radar.敌舰的影像已显现在雷达上。

5 transit   

n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过

参考例句：

• His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
• The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。

6 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。