创业成功人士访谈录 第70期:吉米韦尔我们将为世界带来积极的改变(5)

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　　2009年募集600万美元经费的任务，实现起来会更难还是更容易？

　　Since traffic is growing (according to Comscore) by 4% per month still,I think it will be easier to reach $6 million dollars

　　根据康姆斯克的数据，我们的访问量每个月大概增长4%，所以我想应该更容易一些吧。

　　since we will be 66% larger in terms of reach by next fundraiser as compared to last fundraiser.

　　因为下一次开始募集的时候，从访问量上看，我们的规模比上一次大了66%。

　　On the other hand, I suppose everyone is watching with nervousness about the financial crisis!

　　另一方面，我怀疑每个人都在为金融危机而担忧！

　　You've set a tone that Wikipedia has a much deeper responsibility to the world than to act, simply, as a encyclopedia¹.

　　你为维基百科设定了宏伟的目标，远远超过了百科全书本来的角色。

　　In what ways do you think Wikipedia will permanently² change the fabric³ of humanity?

　　你觉得维基百科会通过什么方式永久地改变人性呢？

　　Well，if we do our job right, we will be a positive change for the world. Wikipedia will be a little bit dry, a little bit uncontroversial,

　　如果我们做好这个项目，我们就为世界带来了一些积极的变化。维基百科可能有一点枯燥并且不会引起争端，

　　but a place where people of all stripes turn for clear explanations and information that allows them to have more difficult debates in a rational and evidence-based manner.

　　但是人们从维基百科上得到了清晰的解释和足够的信息，这使得他们可以更理性和客观地探讨更难的问题。

　　Did you catch this CollegeHumor.com satire⁴ of Wikipedia? Did you find it amusing?

　　你看过大学幽默网站关于维基百科的讽刺漫画了吗？你觉得好笑吗？

　　Hilarious⁵!

　　非常有趣！

　　I’d like to see a roundtable discussion involving you, Andrew Keen, Jason Calacanis，Noam Chomsky, and Ron Paul.

　　我希望你和安德鲁基恩，贾森卡拉卡尼斯，诺姆乔姆斯基以及罗恩保罗可以进行一次圆桌讨论。

　　55 minutes into the discussion，a thunderous gong would go off and a mystery guest would emerge and immediately inject himself into the conversation.

　　讨论进行55分钟，响亮的铜锣声响起，这时神秘嘉宾登场并立即融入对话当中。

　　As odd as this sounds，I am 100% serious about one day setting this up.

　　这听起来很奇怪，但是我100%肯定有一天我一定会把这件事儿办成。

　　There’s no doubt a video of the event would serve as tremendous linkbait~quite an interesting collection of people.

　　毫无疑问，这次会议的视频会吸引很多人点击.这是非常有趣的一伙人。

　　Would you participate in this roundtable discussion if your airfare was paid for?

　　如果我们支付你的机票的话，你愿意加入到这次圆桌讨论中来吗？

　　Yes, gladly. What an interesting set of characters.

　　好的，很高兴有机会参加。这会是个有趣的会议。

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