看美國人如何勵志

我們經常可以看到新聞：某人如何成功，多么厲害，取得多高的成就！如果你看到這篇寫給美國年輕人的勵志文章，或許，得到的不是一點點震撼……

If you’re one in a million in China， there are 1300 people just like you.

在中國，如果你是萬里挑一的精英，那么仍有1300個和你一樣優秀的人。

China will soon become the Number One English-speaking country in the world.

中國將很快成為世界上說英語人數最多的國家。

25% of India’s population with the highest IQ is greater than the total population of the United States.

擁有高智商的印度人，占其人口的25%，這一人群比美國的總人口數還多。

There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace. If MySpace were a country， it would be the 5th largest in the world.

社交網站MySpace有超過2億注冊用戶。如果MySpace是一個國家的話，它將是世界第五大國。

There are about 540，000 words in English language， about 5 times as many as those during Shakespeare’s time.

現今的英文單詞約有54萬個，是莎士比亞時代的五倍。

The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years. For students starting a-4-year technical degree this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

新科技的資訊量每兩年就增長一倍，這對于4年制理工學生的意義是：一年級學的知識到了三年級有一半就過時了。

Predictions are that by 2049， a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.

預測到2049年，一部1000美元的電腦將超越全球人腦運算能力的總和。