英语名人堂：谢尔盖·米哈伊洛维奇·布林

谢尔盖·布林，全名谢尔盖·米克哈伊洛维奇·布林（Sergey Brin）（俄语： Сергей Михайлович Брин）是Google公司的创始人之一。是一位美国籍俄罗斯裔企业家。他出生在俄罗斯，在他与拉里·佩奇合作建立Google之前，他一直学习计算机科学和数学。谢尔盖目前是Google董事兼技术部总监，近年来在《福布斯》全球亿万富豪排行榜上始终名列前茅，2011年他以198亿美元位列第24位。

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin is famous for revolutionizing the world of Internet search engines. He co-founded Google with his research partner Larry Page. The whole world knows about Google, but perhaps knows little about Sergey Brin. He is the President of Technology at Google and takes an active role in shaping the company’s future. He is the fourth youngest billionaire in the world.

 

Brin was born in Moscow in 1973. Both his mother and father were mathematicians¹, which might explain Sergey’s genius for numbers and formulae. Brin and his family emigrated² to the United States when he was six. He attended a Montessori school and his father developed his interest in maths. He graduated from university in 1993 with a degree in maths and computer science.

 

Brin finished his master’s degree in computer science at America’s prestigious³ Stanford University. He started his Ph.D. on the processes and calculations that search engines use. He teamed up with Larry Page and they wrote a paper that became the blueprint⁴ for Google. He put his studies aside to focus on his new business project. It made him rich beyond his wildest dreams.

 

Although Brin’s ‘official’ salary is just over $43,000 a year, he has a personal fortune of  $18.5 billion. He has expanded his business interests into other areas of technology and movie production. In 2008, he invested $5 million in a space tourism company. He is also an investor⁵ in Tesla Motors, which is developing a long-range electric car.

1 mathematicians   

数学家( mathematician的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? 你以为我们的数学家做不到这一点吗？ 来自英汉文学
• Mathematicians can solve problems with two variables. 数学家们可以用两个变数来解决问题。 来自哲学部分

2 emigrated   

移居国外( emigrate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He's emigrated to the USA and gone completely native. 他已移居美国且完全成了美国人。
• He emigrated to Belgium. 他移民到比利时。

3 prestigious   

adj.有威望的，有声望的，受尊敬的

参考例句：

• The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
• You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。

4 blueprint   

n.蓝图，设计图，计划；vt.制成蓝图，计划

参考例句：

• All the machine parts on a blueprint must answer each other.设计图上所有的机器部件都应互相配合。
• The documents contain a blueprint for a nuclear device.文件内附有一张核装置的设计蓝图。

5 investor   

n.投资者，投资人

参考例句：

• My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
• The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。