被神秘籠罩著的比爾·蓋茨

山東省淄博市臨淄區皇城鎮第一中學 閆全國供稿

Bill Gates is the founder,former president and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation.He was widely known as a computer genius since he began to write computer programs at the age of 13.He set up Microsoft with his friend when he was only 20 years old.Considered as the greatest computer giant of the computer industry in the 20th Century,he has revenues of 56.4 billion and is the richest man in the world.According to his memory,the following good habits make him become so successful.

比爾·蓋茨是全球個人計算機軟件的領先供應商——微軟公司的創始人、前任董事長和首席執行官。他被譽為電腦奇才,在13歲時就開始編寫計算機程序，20歲時與伙伴一起創辦了微軟公司。他被稱為20世紀最偉大的計算機軟件行業巨人，個人資產凈值564億美元，是世界上最富有的人。據他回憶，以下幾個好習慣使他取得了成功。

A Kid Who Loves Reading 愛讀書的小孩

Little Bill liked to play games,especially some riddles with his grandmother.Under the guidance of his grandmother,he became a passionate reader.He was interested in different kinds of books and reading was a good way to kill time for him.He liked the summer reading competition very much,which was held by a library next to his house.He always got the first prize among boys and sometimes won the first place among all children.In his parents’eyes,no child in the neighbourhood loved reading as much as him.A heavy World Book Encyclopedia was his favourite when he was 8 years old.He often spent a few hours reading this big book,which weighed as much as 1/3 of him,and read every word and sentence from start to finish.He often fell into meditation and felt strongly that what a wonderful and magical world was in the book.When he was a little older,he began to read famous people’s biography,like Roosevelt,Napoleon,Edison and so on.Bill Gates once said when he was only a child,he had already decided to think above his age.

小時候，比爾特別喜歡與外祖母一起做游戲，尤其是智力游戲。他在外祖母的幫助與指導下，成了興趣廣泛、廢寢忘食的讀者——讀書成了他打發時間的好方式。他十分喜歡他家附近一個圖書館舉行的夏季閱讀比賽，他在男孩子中總獲得第一名，偶爾也會勇奪總冠軍。父母從未在周圍其他孩子中看到有比他更熱衷于閱讀的。一本大部頭《世界圖書百科全書》是他8歲時的最愛。他經常幾個小時連續地閱讀這本幾乎有他體重1/3的大書，一字一句地從頭看到尾。他常常陷入沉思，冥冥之中似乎強烈地感覺到，小小的文字和巨大的書本里面蘊藏著多么神奇和魔幻般的一個世界啊！稍大一點，他又一頭扎進羅斯福、拿破侖、愛迪生等名人傳記中。比爾·蓋茨對此回憶說，孩提時他心中就有一個想法：讓思想走在年齡前面。

A Kid Who Loves Thinking 愛思考的小孩

Little Bill is not only fond of reading,but also of thinking.The more books he read,the more questions he had.When he was in his fourth year,once he suddenly told his friend Carl Edmund,“I would like to become an oak tree standing on the barren land instead of a grass in the lawn because all the grasses are the same,but the oak tree is so huge and stands so high in the sky.”He insisted on keeping a diary to write down his ideas and usually,he thought as deeply as an adult.

At a very early age,he realized that life was previous and we should cherish it.Through thinking,he made a conclusion that the most important thing in life was to make a world-shaking business.One night in his sixth school year,he stayed in the bedroom and didn’t want to go outside for dinner.His mother asked what he was doing.He answered,“I’m thinking,mom.Don’t you think?”You see,he really loved reading very much!

小比爾不僅酷愛閱讀，也十分喜歡思考。蓋茨讀的書越多，想的問題就越多。一次，他忽然對他四年級的同學卡爾·愛德蒙德說：“與其做一棵草坪里的小草，還不如成為一株聳立于禿丘上的橡樹”。因為小草千篇一律，毫無個性，而橡樹則高大挺拔，昂首蒼穹。他堅持寫日記，隨時記下自己的想法，小小的年紀常常如大人般地深思熟慮。

他很早就感悟到人的生命來之不易，要十分珍惜來到人世的寶貴機會。他經過思考得出人生最重要的就是要干出一番驚天動地的事業。六年級的一個傍晚，他呆在房間不肯出來吃晚飯，媽媽問他在干什么，他的回答是：“媽媽，我在思考。你們難道從來就不思考嗎？”由此可見，小比爾是多么地熱愛思考啊！

A Resolute and Dedicated Child 堅持專注的小孩>

Little Bill did everything very resolutely.He would insist on doing a thing when other kids had already given up.When he worked in a library and tried to find those books which were placed at the wrong place,he would look for it until he found it.As for any homework made by the school or teacher,whether it was playing music instruments,writing composition or sports competition,he would try his best to finish it very successfully.Once the teacher asked the whole class to write a four-page composition about the special function of human body.Gates looked through Encyclopedia and other medical,phylogical,psychological books and finally wrote a composition of more than 30 pages.Another time,the teacher asked students to write a story of less than 20 pages.Gates imagined a lot and wrote a 100-page story full of wonders and twists and turns,which surprised his teacher and classmates.

Those good habits help Bill Gates make progress continuously,and finally succeeded.

小比爾做任何事情都很專注。他會在別的孩子早就放棄目標時仍然堅持。在學校圖書館查找放錯位置的書時，他會毫不松懈地尋找而顧不得休息。對于學校的任何功課和老師布置的作業，無論是演奏樂器，還是寫作文，或者體育競賽，他都會傾其全力，花上所有的時間去最出色地完成。有一次，老師給他們布置了一篇有關人體特殊功用的作文，要求四頁的篇幅。結果，蓋茨查閱百科全書和其他醫學、生理、心理方面的書籍，一氣呵成最終寫成了30多頁的文章。又有一次，老師布置同學寫篇不超過20頁的故事，蓋茨浮想聯翩，竟寫出長達100頁的神奇而又曲折無比的故事，使老師和同學都十分驚訝！

就是這些好習慣使比爾·蓋茨不斷取得進步，最后獲得了巨大的成功。

比爾·蓋茨的名言

1.Life is not fair,get used to it.生活是不公平的，要去適應它。

2.If you think your teacher is too strict,wait till you get a boss.He doesn’t have tenure.如果你認為你的老師嚴厲，等你有了老板再這樣想。老板可是沒有任期限制的。

3.If you mess up,it’s not your parents’ fault,so don’t complain about our mistakes,learn from them.如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的過錯，所以不要尖聲抱怨我們的錯誤，要從中吸取教訓。

4.Be nice to nerds.Chances are you’ll end up working for one.善待乏味的人。有可能到頭來你會為一個乏味的人工作。

5.Television is NOT real life.In real life,people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to work.電視并不是真實的生活。在現實生活中，人們實際上得離開咖啡廳去做自己的工作。

6.The world won’t care about your self-esteem.The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.這世界并不會在意你的自尊。這世界期望你在自我感覺良好之前先要有所成就。

7.Life is not divided into terms.You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.Do that on your own time.生活不分學期。你并沒有暑假可以休息，也沒有哪位雇主樂于幫你發現自我。自己找時間做吧。