华尔街的赚钱经 第53期:马云谈创业(1)

 　　How I Did It: The Unlikely Rise of China's Hottest Internet Tycoon¹

　　我是如何做到的——马云谈创业

　　"I rode my bike for 40 minutes every morning to a hotel with a lot of foreign tourists. I showed them around and practiced my English. Those eight years deeply changed me."

　　“每天早上我都会骑上40分钟的自行车，来到一家住着许多外国游客的宾馆。我带着他们到处逛，同时还锻炼了我的英语口语。那8年彻底地改变了我。”

　　Jack² Ma hit pay dirt when his Chinese business-to-business Stavt-up, Alibaba.com, went public, in November, 2007. The offering raised more than $1.5 billion and gave the company a valuation of $26 billion. Ma, 43, grew up during China's Cultural Revolution. He taught himself English, then caught the Internet wave as China's economy opened in the 1990s. Today, Alibaba is China's largest B2B site and a favorite among American and European companies that are buying from Chinese suppliers. The site earned $39 million on revenues of $129 million in the first half of 2007. Ma has also taken Alibaba into search, engines through a joint³ venture with Yahoo (NASDAO:YHOO), and his Taobao online auction⁴ site has become bigger than eBay(NASDAO:EBAY) in China.

　　中国首家企业与企业间电子商务公司阿里巴巴网络有限公司于2007年11月挂牌上市，其创办者马云终获成功。本次上市融资超过15亿美元，并使得该公司市值达到260亿美元。43岁的马云在中国的文化大革命时期长大，他曾自学英语。恰逢20世纪90年代中国经济逐步开放，马云赶上了互联网时代兴起的大潮。如今，阿里巴巴网站已成为中国最大的企业间电子商务平台，并受到许多需要从中国供应商那里购买商品的欧美公司的青睐。该公司 2007年上半年总收入达到1.29亿美元，利润3，900万美元。马云还通过和雅虎进行战略合作（纳斯达克上市名称：YHOO)，使得阿里巴巴进军搜索引擎领域。旗下的个人网上拍卖平台“淘宝网”在中国的规模也超过易趣网（纳斯达克上市名称EBAY）。

1 tycoon   

n.有钱有势的企业家，大亨

参考例句：

• The tycoon is on the verge of bankruptcy.那名大亨濒临破产的边缘。
• The tycoon has many servants to minister to his needs.那位大亨有很多人服侍他。

2 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

3 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

4 auction   

n.拍卖；拍卖会；vt.拍卖

参考例句：

• They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
• They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。