世界首富也有遺憾 蓋茨后悔沒學二外
作者:滬江英語
來源:每日郵報
2015-01-30 14:09
The world's richest man might seem to have it all, but Bill Gates has one regret. The self-made billionaire said he felt stupid for not knowing any foreign languages.
世界首富比爾·蓋茨看上去似乎是坐擁萬千,但是他有一個遺憾。這名白手起家的億萬富翁坦言,他覺得自己不會一門外語真是大大的失策。
Speaking in his third Ask Me Anything question-and-answer session for online forum Reddit, the Microsoft founder revealed that he wished he spoke French, Arabic or Chinese.
在在線論壇Reddit上的“隨便問我點啥”的問答環(huán)節(jié),他回答了這第三個問題,這名微軟創(chuàng)始人坦言,他希望他會說法語、阿拉伯語或是漢語。
He said: 'I took Latin and Greek in high school and got A's and I guess it helps my vocabulary.
他說:“我在高中的時候選修過拉丁文和希臘語,并拿到了A的好成績,我猜這對我的詞匯量很有幫助。
'I keep hoping to get time to study one of these - probably French because it is the easiest. I did Duolingo for a while but didn't keep it up.'
我希望繼續(xù)有時間學習其中一門語言——可能是法語,因為法語最好學。我有一陣子用Duolingo語言學習應用學過,但是沒堅持下去?!?/div>
Gates, who is worth $79.3billion, praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stunning an audience in Beijing when he spoke fluent Mandarin.
身價793億美金的蓋茨,贊揚了臉書的創(chuàng)始人馬克·扎克伯格——用一口流利的漢語讓北京的觀眾驚艷四座。
He said: 'Mark Zuckerberg amazingly learned Mandarin and did a Q&A with Chinese students - incredible.'
他說:“馬克·扎克伯格學習了漢語真是太驚奇了,而且難以置信,他還和中國學生進行問答?!?/div>
During the session yesterday, the 59-year-old said that he loves BBQ sauce but avoids it before TV appearances because he tends to spill it, his biggest splurge is having a private jet and he enjoys Indian and Thai food.
在昨天的問答環(huán)節(jié),59歲的蓋茨說,他很喜歡燒烤醬,但是在電視上露面之前他不會吃,因為他會灑出來,他最值得炫耀的就是有一架私人飛機,而且他喜歡印度菜和泰國菜。
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