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.
你们的聪明才智必定会派上用场，因为你们将在一片充满奇迹的土地上行进。我们人类尽管跬步前行，却终将令自己大吃一将。我们能够想方设法制造清洁能源，也能够一个原子一个原子地组装微型机械，使之穿过细胞壁，然后修复细胞。这个月，有一件非凡而不可避免的事情发生了，那就是人类终于合成了生命。在未来几年，我们不仅会合成生命，还会按说明书驱动它们。我相信你们甚至会看到我们弄明白了人类的大脑。儒勒·凡尔纳、马克·吐温、伽利略、牛顿——所有那些充满好奇之心的人都希望能够活到现在。作为文明人，我们拥有如此之多的天赋，就像是坐在我面前的你们，每一个生命个体都拥有许多独特的天赋。
How will you use these gifts? And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?
你们要如何运用这些天赋呢？你们会为自己的天赋感到骄傲，还是会为自己的选择感到骄傲？
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，我萌生了创办亚马逊的想法。那时我面对的现实是互联网使用量以每年2300%的速度增长，我从未看过或听说过任何增长如此快速的东西，创建涵盖几百万种书籍的网上书店的想法令我兴奋异常——因为这个东西在现实世界里根本无法存在。那时我刚刚30岁，结婚才一年。
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