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                     比尔·盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲 
    President  Bok,  former  President  Rudenstine,  incoming  President  Faust,  members  of  the 
Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, 
the graduates: 
    尊敬的Bok 校长，Rudenstine 前校长，即将上任的Faust 校长，哈佛集团的各位成员， 
监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位同学： 
    president  n. 
    a) elected head of state in the US and many modern republics 总统; 国家主席: the 
President of the United States 美国总统 
    b) (also President) head of some colleges, government bodies or departments, societies, etc 
 （学院的）院长﹑ （政府部门或机构的）首长﹑ （社会团体等的）会长等: the President of 
the Board of Trade 贸易委员会主席 
    c) (US) head of a bank, business firm, etc （银行的）行长﹑（公司等的）总经理﹑总裁 
﹑ 董事长等. 
    former  adj.  [attrib  作定语] 
    a) of an earlier period or time 以前的: the former world champion 前世界冠军 
    b) being the first mentioned of two things or people 前者的（两者中先提到的）: 
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     The former option favours the married man.  前一种选择对已婚男子有利. 
    incoming   adj. [attrib  作定语] 
    a) coming in 正来临的: incoming telephone calls  打进来的电话 
    b) recently elected or appointed; new or succeeding 新选的;  新任的;  新来的;  继任的: the 
incoming president 新任总裁. 
    board n. 
    a)  group   of   people   controlling   a   company   or   some   other   organization;   committee;   council 
 （公司或其他机构的）主管人员;  委员会;                   理事会;     董事会:  the    board  of  governors  (of  a 
school)  （学校的）董事会 
    faculty n. 
    a) [C] any of the powers of the body or mind 官能;  才能; 能力: the faculty of sight 视力 
    b) [sing] ~ of/for doing sth particular ability for doing sth 做某事物的特殊才能: have a 
great faculty for learning languages 有学习语言的才能. 
    C) [C] department or group of related departments in a university, etc （大学的）系,  科, 院: 
the Faculty of Law, Science, etc  法律学院﹑ 理学院. 
    d)[CGp] all the lecturers, etc in one of these （大学的某系﹑科﹑ 院的）全体教员: [attrib 
作定语] a faculty meeting   （大学的某系﹑科﹑ 院的）全体教员会议. 
    I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and 
get my degree." 
    有一句话我等了三十年，现在终于可以说了："老爸，我总是跟你说，我会回来拿到我 
的学位的！" 
    I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I'll be changing my job next year ... and it will 
be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume. 
    我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。明年，我就要换工作了......我终于可以在 
简历上写我有一个大学学位，这真是不错啊。 
     【背景提示】比尔?盖茨在 1973 年考进了哈佛大学，在和现在微软的首席执行官史蒂夫·鲍尔默结成了 
好朋友。1975 年，比尔盖茨离开了哈佛并把全部精力投入到他与孩童时代的好友Paul Allen 在1975 年创建 
的微软公司中。在计算机将成为每个家庭、每个办公室中最重要的工具这样信念的引导下，他们开始为个 
人计算机开发软件。这篇是2007 年6 月7  日比尔盖茨在哈佛大学上得毕业演讲，换工作指的是比尔盖茨决 
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定退休，不再管理微软的日常事务，全心投入比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会。毕业典礼时，比尔盖茨获得而来 
荣誉法学博士学位。 
    I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degree

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