Not everyone wins the genetic lottery like he did!并非人人都是他这类天造之才，相信你也会有同感。提供一小篇关于比尔.盖茨生活轶事短文，附上英语原文供学习。

1. 你了解现代世界最富有的人吗?

2. 在未来，你认为现代社会最富有的人会如何作为呢?

1. Do you know anything about the richest man in the modern world?

2. In the future, do you think how to act as the richest man in the modern society?

世界上最富有的人

比尔·盖茨是一个普通的世界公民。没有他负担不起的东西。每天早上，当他的闹钟响起时，这位软件大亨比他上床睡觉时还要更富有2000万美元。他的财富来自他的微软公司，他拥有微软39%的股份。据估计，他拥有180亿英镑的个人财富，这比100多个国家的年经济产出还要多。

The Richest Man in the World

Bill Gates is a private citizen in the world.There is nothing he can’t afford.Every morning, when his alarm clock goes off,the software tycoon is $20 million richer than when he went to bed. His wealth is based on his company-Microsoft， of which he owns 39% of the shares. He has a personal fortune estimated at £18 billion which is more than the annual economic output of over a hundred countries.

比尔花钱毫不吝啬。他建造了一座俯瞰华盛顿湖的豪宅，里面塞满了高科技设备和电视显示器，有些占据了一整面墙。来访者会拿到一张智能卡，上面记录着其的个人嗜好，当他们从一个房间走到另一个房间时，他们喜欢的图片就会出现在屏幕上，喜欢的音乐也会播放出来。这张卡片已被编程设定，只有最亲密的朋友才能打开所有的门。

He is not shy about spending it.He has built a mansion overlooking Lake Washington that he’s packed with high-tech gadgetry and TV monitors,some taking up an entire wall.Visitors are given a smart card encoded with their personal preferences so that,as they wander from room to room,their favorite pictures will appear on the screens,and the music they like will play. The card is programmed so that only the most intimate friends can open all the doors.

这种对待人际关系的冷血方式似乎也适用于他的感情生活。当他和他的前女友安·温布莱德(Ann Winblad)～（现在是一位非常成功的女商人）约会，这对情人的大部分相恋都是通过虚拟约会来进行的。每个人都会在不同的城镇同时分别开车去看同一部电影，然后他们用手机谈论这部电影，讨论情节，交换意见。当他最终涉入结婚时，他和他的妻子梅里达(Melida)签署了一份协议，允许他和他的前情人安(Ann)每年一次度假，而把妻子甩在其后。

This cold-blooded approach to human relationships also seems to be true of his love life. When he went out with his ex-girlfriend, Ann Winblad,who is now a very successful businesswoman,the couple conducted much of their relationship by going on virtual dates. Each would drive alone to the same movie at the same time in different towns, and then talk about it afterwards on their mobiles,discussing the plots and exchanging opinions.When finally he got married, he and his wife, Melida, signed an agreement that allows him to go on an annual holiday with his ex-lover,Ann, leaving his wife behind.

盖茨被称为“书呆子之王”，但这不算公平。在学校上九年级时，他的所有科目都是A，这使他排名全美前十。后来，盖茨进入了哈佛大学。在那里，他通过在学校的计算机中插入一款软件，使自己能够和自己心仪的女孩们成为同班同学。但他从未完成过大学学业。当他离开时，他知道该怎么做。他自己开了一家电脑公司。

Gates has been called“King of the Nerds", but this simply isn’t fair. In the ninth grade a school, he got A’s in all the subjects he took, which put him among the top ten students in nation. Gates went on to Harvard University where he managed to be in the same class as the girls he fancied by inserting a piece of software into the college computer. But he never finished college. When he left, he knew exactly what to do.He started up his own computer company.

微软之所以如此成功，是因为盖茨看到他的财富在于软件，而不是硬件。他在31岁时成为亿万富翁，从那时起，微软创建了Windows系统，该系统可以通过鼠标点击图标方便运行。

The reason why Microsoft has been so successful is because Gates saw that his fortune lay software, not hardware. He became a billionaire at 31, and since then Microsoft has create Windows,which is a system that can be run by clicking on icons with a mouse.

如今，这位亿万富翁正在开发掌上个人电脑(HPC)。全球三分之二的电脑都在使用他的软件。

Now the multi-billionaire, whose software is used in two-thirds of the world’s computers, is developing the HPC,or hand-held personal computer.

他希望全世界每个人的口袋里都装有一台电脑。

It is his intention that there should be a computer in the pocket of everybody in the whole world.

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Useful Words and Phrases

lottery（ticket）彩票 中彩

genetic 基因的

tycoon大亨

gadgetry 小机器

monitor 显示器

encode 译成密码

wander 漫步

intimate亲密的，亲近的

conduct 经营;处理

nerd 呆子， 讨厌的人，电脑迷

inserting 插入， 嵌入

software软件 hardware硬件 billionaire亿万富翁

icon 图标，图示

be based on 以……为基础

go off 响起;消失

lie in 在于