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I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country. And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.
我離開校園的時候，根本不知道在這個國家有數百萬年輕人無法獲得接受教育的機會。我也不知道，發展中國家里有無數的人們生活在無法形容的貧窮和疾病中。
It took me decades to find out.
我花了幾十年才明白了這些事情。
You graduates came to Harvard at a different time. You know more about the world's inequities than the classes that came before. In your years here, I hope you've had a chance to think about how—in this age of accelerating technology—we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.
在座的各位同學，你們是在與我不同的時代來到哈佛的。你們比以前的學生更了解世界的不平等。你們在哈佛求學的幾年里，我希望你們已經思考過一個問題：在這個新技術加速發展的時代，我們如何最終應對這種不平等，如何解決這個問題。
Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause—and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it
為了便于討論，假想你每個星期可以捐獻一些時間、每個月可以捐獻一些錢——你希望這些時間和金錢可以用到對拯救生命和改善人類生活有最大作用的地方。你會選擇什么地方？
For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.
我和美琳達也面臨著這樣的問題：我們如何能將我們擁有的資源發揮出最大的作用，為最多的人做有益的事情。
During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country. Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever. One disease I had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year—none of them in the United States.
在討論這個問題的過程中，我和美琳達讀到了一篇文章，說在那些貧窮的國家，每年有數百萬的兒童死于那些在美國早已不成問題的疾病。麻疹、瘧疾、肺炎、乙型肝炎、黃熱病、還有一種我以前從未聽說過的輪狀病毒，這些疾病每年導致50萬兒童死亡，但是在美國沒有一例死亡。
