Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans, plodding as we are, will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom, we'll assemble small machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years, we'll not only synthesize it, but engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newton--all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization, we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
你們的聰明才智必定會派上用場，因為你們將在一片充滿奇跡的土地上行進。我們人類盡管跬步前行，卻終將令自己大吃一將。我們能夠想方設法制造清潔能源，也能夠一個原子一個原子地組裝微型機械，使之穿過細胞壁，然后修復細胞。這個月，有一件非凡而不可避免的事情發生了，那就是人類終于合成了生命。在未來幾年，我們不僅會合成生命，還會按說明書驅動它們。我相信你們甚至會看到我們弄明白了人類的大腦。儒勒·凡爾納、馬克·吐溫、伽利略、牛頓——所有那些充滿好奇之心的人都希望能夠活到現在。作為文明人，我們擁有如此之多的天賦，就像是坐在我面前的你們，每一個生命個體都擁有許多獨特的天賦。
How will you use these gifts? And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?
你們要如何運用這些天賦呢？你們會為自己的天賦感到驕傲，還是會為自己的選擇感到驕傲？
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online boostore with millions of titles--something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world--was very exciting to me. I just turned 30 years old, and I'd been married for a year.
16年前，我萌生了創辦亞馬遜的想法。那時我面對的現實是互聯網使用量以每年2300%的速度增長，我從未看過或聽說過任何增長如此快速的東西，創建涵蓋幾百萬種書籍的網上書店的想法令我興奮異常——因為這個東西在現實世界里根本無法存在。那時我剛剛30歲，結婚才一年。
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