Mr Gates and Mr Mandela are easy to admire.
盖茨先生和曼德拉先生很值得欣赏。
If Mr Gates does go, Mr Obama will miss him.
如果盖茨真的走了，奥巴马会想他的。
By then, however, Mr Gates could well have quit.
然而，到那时候盖茨可能会退出。
Mr Gates, he thinks, will make better use of the money.
他认为，盖茨先生会更好地利用这些钱。
Last year Mr Gates cut some badly performing big projects.
就在去年，盖茨叫停了一些前景黯淡、回报欠佳的大型项目。
"It's been an incredible year," Mr Gates tells us.
“这是难以置信的一年，”盖茨先生告诉我们。
In spite of his flaws, Mr Gates is one of the good kind.
尽管他有瑕疵，盖茨先生是优秀的典范之一。
Mr Gates wants the Pentagon to save 1-2% a year in overheads.
盖茨先生希望五角大楼每年能够节省1%到2%的经费。
Mr Gates, however, warned the participants not to celebrate too soon.
然而，盖茨先生却警告与会者别庆祝得太早。
On the other hand, he is old: five years older, at 72, than Mr Gates.
从另一方面说，他现在年纪不小，已经72岁了，比盖茨年长5岁。
Mr Gates gave warning last year that he would leave at some point in this one.
盖茨去年就对外宣称，他将于今年的某个时候离职。
“This IBM project was a super-exciting, fun project,” Mr Gates told PC magazine in 1982.
“IBM的这个项目非常刺激、有趣”，盖茨在1982年告诉《个人计算机杂志》。
“This IBM project was a super-exciting, fun project, ” Mr Gates told PC magazine in 1982.
“IBM的这个项目非常刺激、有趣”，盖茨在1982年告诉《个人计算机杂志》。
Despite the difference in personal styles and vision for technology with Mr Gates, there are parallels.
尽管与盖茨在个人风格和对技术前景的看法上存在差异，但这两人也有相同点。
Mr Gates reckons that only about 15% of the wealthy currently give away large amounts of their fortunes.
比尔·盖茨认为目前只有大约15%的富翁捐献出自己大部分的财富。
Mr Gates has been on LinkedIn since last year, and so far has made only five connections to other members.
(盖茨先生去年就上了LinkedIn，但至今却只建立了5个联系人)。
But that, Mr Gates complained, is "old news", and a silly reason to break off ties between the two armed forces.
但盖茨先生抱怨说，那是“旧闻”了，为此断绝两军交往是荒唐的。
With billions of dollars and thousands of jobs at stake, Mr Gates can expect strong opposition from many quarters.
几十亿的美元和上千个工作岗位岌岌可危，盖茨先生将面临的压力可想而知。
Mr Gates reckons the bulk of the increase is because as tolerance spreads, more gay couples are willing to be counted.
Gates先生认为，数量大幅增加的原因是社会宽容度的提高引致更多的同性情侣愿意被计算在内。
Mr Gates has hosted dinners in China and India, and predicts that India will become second only to America in its high-end philanthropy.
比尔·盖茨在中国和印度都举行过宴会，并预测在高端慈善活动方面印度将成为仅次于美国的全球第二大国。
Mr Gates said it took him a long time to go through his list of friend requests, trying to remember which people he did and didn't know.
盖茨称，他要花费大量时间阅读好友申请，并努力回想哪个人认识，哪个他不认识。
Mr Gates, for example, has left Microsoft to take charge of his foundation, including its work in fighting diseases such as malaria and AIDS.
比如，比尔·盖茨就离开了微软，专职负责自己的基金会，包括抗击疟疾和艾滋病等疾病的相关工作。
Mr Gates had the good fortune to be perfectly suited for his time—but he is less well-equipped for the collaborative and fragmented era of internet computing.
盖茨先生有着完美适应其时代的好运气——但他不太胜任分散与合作性的互联网电脑技术时代。
Rather like the venture capitalists behind the American software industry, Mr Gates is a venture philanthropist: he backs schemes, assesses them and dumps failures.
更像是回归美国软件行业幕后风险投资家的角色一样，盖茨先生成为了一位风险慈善家：他资助各类计划，对其进行评估并摈弃可行性不大的项目。
This is a demanding job, which is why Mr Gates plans to go part-time at microsoft-and why the best charities and foundations are not always those with the lowest administrative costs.
这是一份劳神的工作，所以盖茨先生准备将其在微软的工作定位成兼职。这也说明，最好的慈善机构和基金会并不总是那些将管理成本压到最低的组织。
This is a demanding job, which is why Mr Gates plans to go part-time at microsoft-and why the best charities and foundations are not always those with the lowest administrative costs.
这是一份劳神的工作，所以盖茨先生准备将其在微软的工作定位成兼职。这也说明，最好的慈善机构和基金会并不总是那些将管理成本压到最低的组织。
应用推荐