蓋茨夫婦的一封信
蓋茨這個名字相信不少人都有聽說過,接下來，小編給大家準備了蓋茨夫婦的一封信,歡迎大家參考與借鑑。
Letter from Bill and Melinda Gates
More than a decade ago, the two of us read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that were long ago eliminated in this country. One disease we had never even heard of—rotavirus—was killing literally half a million kids each year. We thought: That's got to be a typo. If a single disease were killing that many kids, we would have heard about it, because it would have been front-page news. But it wasn’t a typo.
We couldn't escape the brutal conclusion that—in our world today—some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."
We sent the article to Bill's father, Bill Gates Sr., with a note attached that said, "Dad, maybe we can do something about this." And he helped us get started.
We created the Gates Foundation in 2000 because we believe in the principle that every human life has equal worth. The life of an impoverished child in a developing country is as precious as the life of a middle-class kid in a developed one. A family struggling to make ends meet in an American inner city matters as much as a family thriving in a safe, suburban neighborhood. Today, billions of people never even have the chance to live a healthy, productive life. We want to help all people get that opportunity.
We know it can be done because this is a unique moment in history: Scientific and technological advances are making it possible to solve big, complicated problems like never before. If these advances are focused on the problems of the people with the most urgent needs and the fewest champions, then within this century billions of people will grow up healthier, get a better education, and gain the power to lift themselves out of poverty. Warren Buffett shares our sense of optimism, and we are deeply humbled by his decision to give a significant portion of his resources to the foundation.
We're so hopeful about the potential for rapid progress that we've decided the foundation will spend all its money in the next 100 years. In this century, our world has the opportunity to fulfill the great human promise that all lives have equal value.
Bill and Melinda Gates' signature
Bill Gates and Melinda F. Gates
擴展：分類詞彙之教育
campus：學校的全部場址園地
primary school：小學
coeducational：男女合校教育的
certificate：畢業證書(指中學的)
school term：學期
good grades：好分數
Freshman：大學一年級學生(美語)
Junior：大學三年級學生(美語)
middle school：中學
Secondary school：中學
graduate school：研究院
undergraduate：大學畢業生
college of arts：文學院
board and room：膳宿
credits：學分
kindergarten：幼稚園
public school：公立學校
diploma：文憑(指大學的)
school year：學年
semester：學期(美語)
full marks：滿分
laboratory fee：實驗費
to go to college：入學院讀書
to majOr in literature：主修文學
college Of engineering：工程學院
degree of bachelor(master，doctor)：學士學位(碩士學位，博士)
application for entrance examination：申請入學考試
matriculation：大學入學考試(英語)
Sophomore：大學二年級學生(美語)
Senior：大學四年級學生(美語)
high school：中學(美語)
college：學院，大學
graduate：畢業生
flunk：不及格
tuition：學費
