商业报道:比尔·盖茨转身投入慈善事业

Bill Gates begins new career 盖茨投身慈善事业

Bill Gates begins a new full-time¹ career in philanthropy. Ali Velshi spoke² with him.

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An interesting article that you’ve written for TIME and you start/ed/ off for the reference to Bono about how when you sort of first encountered him you thought maybe he is a little nuts. And yet now he is an example which you're calling creative capitalism³. Tell us a bit about that story.

Well, Bono came up the idea of this red project where you’d have products we branded, cool products and knowing that those products are contributing to buying life saving medicine.

And I / think it's part of the overall idea that companies view their mission as helping⁴ not just their richest customers but also being agents of change to help / those most in need. And that the umbrella for that is what I am calling a creative capitalism. It’s about saying stretch for the poorest. Go out of your way do way more than you might think about the ways for those. And it will reward you in the long run in terms of broader markets and hiring the best people and a great reputation.

Let’s talk a little about a crisis that we're all facing right now. And you’ve mentioned a lot of them. But one of them that seem to be facing people immediately is this energy crisis. How could you see creative capitalism being applied⁵ to this energy crisis that we're in?

Well, whenever you have a strong price signal, / you’re gonna draw in, a lot of innovation and I see today in the scientific community, a lot of very bright people not only doing research but also being involved in startup companies. And there's a lot of wild ideas that will lead to energy that’s lower cost, securer and environmentally friendly. Many of them will be dead ends, but here you have the normal profit motive⁶, and the desire to help out the people who are suffering the most from these high energy costs /are/ coming together.

Now that Americans are facing the possibility of 5 dollars a gallon for gasoline, a very expensive hitting law. Our corn prices are up all of sudden. It sounds like a crisis that has just popped up in the last year.

When energy prices are high, what that means for us is maybe taking a shorter trip. What it means in these countries is buying less fertilizer and having less food. We are literally⁷ on the edge of starvation.

You've basically just started this new job full-time. You’ve been working on the foundation for a long time. But You’ve made this your full-time job now. What does that mean for you, how is life different for you?

Well, it's been less than a month/s/ since I switched to being full-time for foundation. I’m thrilled at the interesting and important problems that we’re working on. I'm very optimistic that we will come up with the breakthrough, so you know, I love this job just like I love my previous full-time work and, you know, I think I’m adapting even faster than I expected.

1 full-time   

adj.满工作日的或工作周的，全时间的

参考例句：

• A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
• I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何对付的。

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 capitalism   

n.资本主义

参考例句：

• The essence of his argument is that capitalism cannot succeed.他的论点的核心是资本主义不能成功。
• Capitalism began to develop in Russia in the 19th century.十九世纪资本主义在俄国开始发展。

4 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

5 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

6 motive   

n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的

参考例句：

• The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
• He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。

7 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。