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Laurene Powell had been born in New Jersey in 1963 and learned to be self-sufficient at an early age.
勞倫·鮑威爾1963年出生在新澤西，很小就學會了自立。
Her father was a Marine Corps pilot who died a hero in a crash in Santa Ana, California;
她父親是海軍陸戰隊的飛行員，是在圣安娜一次墜機事件中犧牲的英雄；
he had been leading a crippled plane in for a landing,
他當時在引領一架受損的飛機著陸，
and when it hit his plane he kept flying to avoid a residential area rather than ejecting in time to save his life.
兩機相撞后，他堅持飛行避開居民區，而沒有及時跳傘逃生。
Her mother's second marriage turned out to be a horrible situation,
她母親再次結婚，結果那個男人是個酒鬼和虐待狂。
but she felt she couldn't leave because she had no means to support her large family.
但她母親覺得自己不能放棄這段婚姻，因為她沒有經濟來源養活一大家子人。
For ten years Laurene and her three brothers had to suffer in a tense household,
有10年的時間，勞倫和她的3個兄弟只好忍受著家里的緊張氣氛，
keeping a good demeanor while compartmentalizing problems. She did well.
循規蹈矩，自己解決問題。
"The lesson I learned was clear, that I always wanted to be self-sufficient," she said. "I took pride in that.
“我學會了一個很明確的道理：永遠要自立?！彼f，“我為此而驕傲。
My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is part of who I am."
我跟金錢的關系是，它是實現自立的一種工具，但是它不是我這個人的一部分?！?/div>
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, she worked at Goldman Sachs as a fixed income trading strategist,
從賓夕法尼亞大學畢業后，她在髙盛做固定收益交易策略師，
dealing with enormous sums of money that she traded for the house account.
接觸數目巨大的資金，為公司作自營交易。
Jon Corzine, her boss, tried to get her to stay at Goldman, but instead she decided the work was unedifying.
她的老板喬恩·科爾津想說服她留在高盛，可她最終覺得這份工作沒有啟發性。
"You could be really successful," she said, "but you're just contributing to capital formation."
“你可以變得真正成功，”她說，“但你只是在為資本的積聚作貢獻。”
So after three years she quit and went to Florence, Italy, living there for eight months before enrolling in Stanford Business School.
因此3年后，她辭職去了意大利佛羅倫薩，在那里住了8個月，然后來到了斯坦福商學院。
