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On their third trip. they played 48 times, for a total of 172 hours on stage.
第三次，他們表演了48場，演出的時間總共達到172個小時：
The last two Hamburg gigs, in November and December of 1962, involved another 90 hours of performing.
最后兩次的漢堡演出，是在1962 年的11月和12月，一共表演了90個小時。
All told, they performed for 270 nights in just over a year and a half.
全部加起來，他們在一年半內，就表演了270個夜晚。
By the time they had their first burst of success in 1964, in fact, they had performed live an estimated twelve hundred times.
事實上，在首次取得重大突破的1964年之前，他們已經出演了1200場左右。
Do you know how extraordinary that is?
你知道這有多了不起嗎？
Most bands today don't perform twelve hundred times in their entire careers.
現在很多樂隊在他們全部的演藝生涯中，一般也就表演1200場。
The Hamburg crucible is one of the things that set the Beatles apart.
漢堡嚴酷的考驗讓甲殼蟲樂隊聲名鵲起。
"They were no good onstage when they first went there and they were very good when they came back,"
“在去那里之前，他們很少有表演的舞臺；從那里回來之后，他們的表現變得非常好，”
Norman went on. "They learned not only stamina. They had to learn an enormous amount of numbers,
諾玆接著說道，“他們不僅僅鍛煉了自己的毅力，
cover versions of everything that you can think of. Not just rock-and-roll, a bit of jazz too.
他們還學會了一些必須學會的各種樂曲，不僅僅是搖滾樂，也包括爵士樂，樂曲的類別超過了你的想象。
They weren't disciplined onstage before that. But when they came back, they sounded like no one else. It was the making of them."
在去漢堡之前，他們沒有經歷過任何專業訓練，但是從漢堡回來之后，他們表演的水平絲亳不遜色于專業表演者。是漢堡成就了他們?！?/div>
Let's now turn to the history of Bill Gates. His story is almost as well-known as the Beatles'.
現在，讓我們看看比爾.蓋茨的歷史。他的故事和甲殼蟲的故事一樣廣為人知；
Brilliant, young math whiz discovers computer programming.
一個喜歡開發計算機程序的天才少年。
Drops out of Harvard. Starts a little computer company with his friends called Microsoft.
從哈佛大學退學；與幾個朋友創辦了一家名為微軟的計算機小公司，
Through sheer brilliance and ambition and guts builds it into the giant of the software world.
依靠勃勃雄心和卓越才華，創造了軟件世界的一大巨人，
That's the broad outline. Now let's dig a little bit deeper.
這便是故事的梗概?，F在，讓我們更深入地挖掘這個故事。
Gates's father was a wealthy lawyer in Seattle, and his mother was the daughter of a well-to-do banker.
蓋茨的父親是西雅圖一個有錢的律師，他的母親是一個富裕銀行家的女兒。
As a child, Bill was precautious and easily bored by his studies.
童年的蓋茨比較早熟，常覺得學校的學習生活枯燥無味。
So his parents took him out of public school and, at the beginning of the seventh grade, sent him to Lakeside,
因此，在他七年級的時候，他的父母讓他從公立學校轉學，把他送到湖邊學校，
a private school that catered to Seattle's elite families.
這是一所為西雅圖上層家庭開辦的私立學校。
Midway through Gates's second year at Lakeside, the school started a Computer Club.
在蓋茨進入湖邊學校第二年的中期，學校創辦了一個電腦俱樂部。
"The Mothers' Club at school did a rummage sale every year, and there was always the question what the money would go to,"
“學校的母親俱樂部每年都有一筆開銷，學校每年都會預算這筆開銷到底該花在什么地方，”蓋茨回憶說，
Gates remembers. "Some went to the summer program, where inner city kids will come up to the campus.
“一部分預算會花在夏季項目，讓本市的孩子到學校參觀，
Some of it would go for teachers.
有部分預算會花在教師身上。
That year, they put three thousand dollars into a computer terminal down in this funny little room that we subsequently took control of.
那一年，他們花了3000美元買了一個計算機終端設備，隨后，我們就控制了這間安置計算機終端設備的奇妙小屋。
