被神秘笼罩着的比尔·盖茨

山东省淄博市临淄区皇城镇第一中学 闫全国供稿

Bill Gates is the founder,former president and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation.He was widely known as a computer genius since he began to write computer programs at the age of 13.He set up Microsoft with his friend when he was only 20 years old.Considered as the greatest computer giant of the computer industry in the 20th Century,he has revenues of 56.4 billion and is the richest man in the world.According to his memory,the following good habits make him become so successful.

比尔·盖茨是全球个人计算机软件的领先供应商——微软公司的创始人、前任董事长和首席执行官。他被誉为电脑奇才,在13岁时就开始编写计算机程序，20岁时与伙伴一起创办了微软公司。他被称为20世纪最伟大的计算机软件行业巨人，个人资产净值564亿美元，是世界上最富有的人。据他回忆，以下几个好习惯使他取得了成功。

A Kid Who Loves Reading 爱读书的小孩

Little Bill liked to play games,especially some riddles with his grandmother.Under the guidance of his grandmother,he became a passionate reader.He was interested in different kinds of books and reading was a good way to kill time for him.He liked the summer reading competition very much,which was held by a library next to his house.He always got the first prize among boys and sometimes won the first place among all children.In his parents’eyes,no child in the neighbourhood loved reading as much as him.A heavy World Book Encyclopedia was his favourite when he was 8 years old.He often spent a few hours reading this big book,which weighed as much as 1/3 of him,and read every word and sentence from start to finish.He often fell into meditation and felt strongly that what a wonderful and magical world was in the book.When he was a little older,he began to read famous people’s biography,like Roosevelt,Napoleon,Edison and so on.Bill Gates once said when he was only a child,he had already decided to think above his age.

小时候，比尔特别喜欢与外祖母一起做游戏，尤其是智力游戏。他在外祖母的帮助与指导下，成了兴趣广泛、废寝忘食的读者——读书成了他打发时间的好方式。他十分喜欢他家附近一个图书馆举行的夏季阅读比赛，他在男孩子中总获得第一名，偶尔也会勇夺总冠军。父母从未在周围其他孩子中看到有比他更热衷于阅读的。一本大部头《世界图书百科全书》是他8岁时的最爱。他经常几个小时连续地阅读这本几乎有他体重1/3的大书，一字一句地从头看到尾。他常常陷入沉思，冥冥之中似乎强烈地感觉到，小小的文字和巨大的书本里面蕴藏着多么神奇和魔幻般的一个世界啊！稍大一点，他又一头扎进罗斯福、拿破仑、爱迪生等名人传记中。比尔·盖茨对此回忆说，孩提时他心中就有一个想法：让思想走在年龄前面。

A Kid Who Loves Thinking 爱思考的小孩

Little Bill is not only fond of reading,but also of thinking.The more books he read,the more questions he had.When he was in his fourth year,once he suddenly told his friend Carl Edmund,“I would like to become an oak tree standing on the barren land instead of a grass in the lawn because all the grasses are the same,but the oak tree is so huge and stands so high in the sky.”He insisted on keeping a diary to write down his ideas and usually,he thought as deeply as an adult.

At a very early age,he realized that life was previous and we should cherish it.Through thinking,he made a conclusion that the most important thing in life was to make a world-shaking business.One night in his sixth school year,he stayed in the bedroom and didn’t want to go outside for dinner.His mother asked what he was doing.He answered,“I’m thinking,mom.Don’t you think?”You see,he really loved reading very much!

小比尔不仅酷爱阅读，也十分喜欢思考。盖茨读的书越多，想的问题就越多。一次，他忽然对他四年级的同学卡尔·爱德蒙德说：“与其做一棵草坪里的小草，还不如成为一株耸立于秃丘上的橡树”。因为小草千篇一律，毫无个性，而橡树则高大挺拔，昂首苍穹。他坚持写日记，随时记下自己的想法，小小的年纪常常如大人般地深思熟虑。

他很早就感悟到人的生命来之不易，要十分珍惜来到人世的宝贵机会。他经过思考得出人生最重要的就是要干出一番惊天动地的事业。六年级的一个傍晚，他呆在房间不肯出来吃晚饭，妈妈问他在干什么，他的回答是：“妈妈，我在思考。你们难道从来就不思考吗？”由此可见，小比尔是多么地热爱思考啊！

A Resolute and Dedicated Child 坚持专注的小孩>

Little Bill did everything very resolutely.He would insist on doing a thing when other kids had already given up.When he worked in a library and tried to find those books which were placed at the wrong place,he would look for it until he found it.As for any homework made by the school or teacher,whether it was playing music instruments,writing composition or sports competition,he would try his best to finish it very successfully.Once the teacher asked the whole class to write a four-page composition about the special function of human body.Gates looked through Encyclopedia and other medical,phylogical,psychological books and finally wrote a composition of more than 30 pages.Another time,the teacher asked students to write a story of less than 20 pages.Gates imagined a lot and wrote a 100-page story full of wonders and twists and turns,which surprised his teacher and classmates.

Those good habits help Bill Gates make progress continuously,and finally succeeded.

小比尔做任何事情都很专注。他会在别的孩子早就放弃目标时仍然坚持。在学校图书馆查找放错位置的书时，他会毫不松懈地寻找而顾不得休息。对于学校的任何功课和老师布置的作业，无论是演奏乐器，还是写作文，或者体育竞赛，他都会倾其全力，花上所有的时间去最出色地完成。有一次，老师给他们布置了一篇有关人体特殊功用的作文，要求四页的篇幅。结果，盖茨查阅百科全书和其他医学、生理、心理方面的书籍，一气呵成最终写成了30多页的文章。又有一次，老师布置同学写篇不超过20页的故事，盖茨浮想联翩，竟写出长达100页的神奇而又曲折无比的故事，使老师和同学都十分惊讶！

就是这些好习惯使比尔·盖茨不断取得进步，最后获得了巨大的成功。

比尔·盖茨的名言

1.Life is not fair,get used to it.生活是不公平的，要去适应它。

2.If you think your teacher is too strict,wait till you get a boss.He doesn’t have tenure.如果你认为你的老师严厉，等你有了老板再这样想。老板可是没有任期限制的。

3.If you mess up,it’s not your parents’ fault,so don’t complain about our mistakes,learn from them.如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的过错，所以不要尖声抱怨我们的错误，要从中吸取教训。

4.Be nice to nerds.Chances are you’ll end up working for one.善待乏味的人。有可能到头来你会为一个乏味的人工作。

5.Television is NOT real life.In real life,people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to work.电视并不是真实的生活。在现实生活中，人们实际上得离开咖啡厅去做自己的工作。

6.The world won’t care about your self-esteem.The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.这世界并不会在意你的自尊。这世界期望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。

7.Life is not divided into terms.You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.Do that on your own time.生活不分学期。你并没有暑假可以休息，也没有哪位雇主乐于帮你发现自我。自己找时间做吧。