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第192期:苏珊沃西基2014在约翰霍普金斯大学(5)

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Or let's go Excite that?

或是说 让我们Excite一下这个

You guys should be grateful that Larry and Sergey for the name alone

不说别的 就冲谷歌这个名字 你们就该感谢拉里和谢尔盖

So I was working at Intel at the time

我当时在因特尔工作

and I think I can say this now

我想我可以告诉你们

I thought they were crazy

我觉得他们很疯狂

But then one day, something funny happened at work

不过之后有一天 有趣的事情发生了

I opened up my browser to look something up

我打开自己的浏览器 使用搜索功能

And it turned out that Google was down

结果我发现谷歌无法登陆

There was an error page

出现了一个错误页

And I sat there and I couldn't get my work done

我坐在那里 工作无法继续

because I realized that no other search service could find the information

这时我发现 其它搜索服务都无法找到我要的信息

I had become dependent on Google for doing my day-to-day work

我在日常工作中开始对谷歌产生了依赖性

And then it hit me

这让我恍然大悟

If Google had become so indispensable to me

谷歌对我如此必不可少

then maybe the vision that Larry and Sergey had wasn't so crazy

这或许意味着拉里和谢尔盖的理想并不疯狂

Maybe there were people all over the world

也许世界各地现在有很多人

sitting at their computers upset right now

都坐在电脑前不知所措

because they couldn't get what they needed done

他们的手头工作完不成

because the site developed by those two dudes in my garage was down

仅仅因为我车库里办公的那两个伙计的网站登陆不上

It turns out that finding information matters

毫无疑问 搜寻信息是很重要的

It matters a lot to a lot of people

很多人都需要它

And accessing that information could instantly empower people across the globe

信息获取能够立刻让世界各地的人拥有更大力量

I decided I wanted to work for Google

这时 我决定为谷歌工作

which at the time also was crazy

当时看起来 这也是一个疯狂的决定

with a mortgage to pay, student loans

我有房贷要还 还有学生贷款

I'd have to leave a comfortable job and a Fortune 500 company

我不得不从财富500强企业的舒适岗位上辞职

and work for the guys who lived in my garage at a startup with no revenue

为两个住在我车库的没有收入来源的伙计卖命

a handful of male employees

谷歌当时都是男员工

and also -- did I mention? -- I was pregnant

而且我当时还有孕在身

Now people thought I was a crazy one

人们觉得我也疯了

So looking back on this, I've learned that

回头看看这个 我了解到

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fortune ['fɔ:tʃən]

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n. 财产,命运,运气

 
grateful ['greitfəl]

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adj. 感激的,感谢的

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indispensable [.indis'pensəbl]

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adj. 不可缺少的

 
empower [im'pauə]

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vt. 授与权力,增加自主权

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mortgage ['mɔ:gidʒ]

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n. 按揭,抵押贷款
vt. 抵押

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dependent [di'pendənt]

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adj. 依靠的,依赖的,从属的
n.

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upset [ʌp'set]

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adj. 心烦的,苦恼的,不安的
v. 推翻,

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