英语名人堂：马克·扎克伯格

马克·艾略特·扎克伯格（Mark Elliot Zuckerberg），1984年05月14日生于美国纽约州白原市。社交网站Facebook的创始人兼首席执行官[1]  ，被人们冠以“第二盖茨”的美誉。哈佛大学计算机和心理学专业辍学生。据《福布斯》杂志保守估计，马克·扎克伯格拥有135亿美元身家，是2008年全球最年轻的巨富，也是历来全球最年轻的自行创业亿万富豪。

2015年10月21日，扎克伯格造访清华大学，并于22日晚做客清华大学经济管理学院“顾问委员走进清华经管课堂”，全程用中文作了演讲。

2016年3月19日，中共中央政治局常委、中央书记处书记刘云山在北京会见了扎克伯格。

 

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May the 14th, 1984. He is the creator of the social media site Facebook. He was a star student at school, winning prizes in astronomy, maths and physics. He also excelled in Classical studies. He studied Psychology¹ and Computer Science at Harvard University, which is where he created Facebook. His invention led to his becoming Time magazine’s Person Of The Year for 2010.

 

Zuckerberg excelled in everything he did in his youth. He was captain of the school fencing team, spoke² many languages and was a highly skilled computer programmer. While other kids played computer games, he designed them. He created his first network while in high school to connect all of the computers in his father’s dental surgery. He also built a media player which attracted the interest of Microsoft and AOL.

 

Zuckerberg started at Harvard in September 2002. In his first year, he created Facemash, a Facebook predecessor³, that let students select the college’s best looking people from a selection of photos. He launched Facebook from his Harvard room in February 2004. It was the start of a rollercoaster ride that would connect half a billion people worldwide and make him the world’s youngest billionaire.

 

Mark Zuckerberg is now one of the most influential⁴ people on the planet. He has dined with the president of the USA and regularly attends global economic summits and technology forums⁵. He stated: "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open." In 2010, Zuckerberg signed a promise called the "Giving Pledge", in which he promised to donate at least half of his life wealth to charity.

1 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 predecessor   

n.前辈，前任

参考例句：

• It will share the fate of its predecessor.它将遭受与前者同样的命运。
• The new ambassador is more mature than his predecessor.新大使比他的前任更成熟一些。

4 influential   

adj.有影响的，有权势的

参考例句：

• He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
• He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。

5 forums   

讨论会； 座谈会； 广播专题讲话节目； 集会的公共场所( forum的名词复数 )； 论坛，讨论会，专题讨论节目； 法庭

参考例句：

• A few of the forums were being closely monitored by the administrators. 有些论坛被管理员严密监控。
• It can cast a dark cloud over these forums. 它将是的论坛上空布满乌云。