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。
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。
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。
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)。
For the past two decades, Mr Schmidt, 54, has pursued a vision for computing very different from Mr Gates.
施密特今年54岁。过去20年来，他一直在追求一种与盖茨非常不同的计算机愿景。
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 complained that "while every alliance member voted for the Libya mission…fewer than a third have been willing to participate in the strike mission."
盖茨先生抱怨道“虽然所有盟国都投票支持利比亚任务，但只有三分之一不到的国家愿意参与空袭任务。”
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。
Mr Allen eventually walked out of the company in 1983 (although he kept his stake in the business), leaving Mr Gates in sole charge of Microsoft, which then went on to turn both men into billionaires.
艾伦最终于1983年离开了微软公司（不过他保留了在公司的股份），让盖茨独揽微软的管理大权，此后微软令两人都成为了亿万富翁。
The family support was one reason Mr. Gates decided to move Microsoft to Seattle, where he settled into a house not far from his parents.
家人的支持是盖茨决定将微软搬到西雅图的原因之一，他在距离父母家不远的一座房子里安顿下来。
There is no doubt that Mr. Gates has been the greatest American philanthropist since John D. Rockefeller Jr.
毫无疑问，盖茨已经成为了自小约翰•D•洛克菲勒(John D. Rockefeller Jr.) 之后最伟大的美国慈善家。
The Twitter updates and new Web site are part of an effort to increase communication about a broader range of topics that Mr. Gates has focused on since leaving full-time work at Microsoft in 2008.
盖茨之所以更新Twitter并推出新网站，为的是加大和公众的交流，将人们的注意力引向他2008年离开微软全职工作之后所关注的一系列涵盖更广的议题。
The Twitter updates and new Web site are part of an effort to increase communication about a broader range of topics that Mr. Gates has focused on since leaving full-time work at Microsoft in 2008.
盖茨之所以更新Twitter并推出新网站，为的是加大和公众的交流，将人们的注意力引向他2008年离开微软全职工作之后所关注的一系列涵盖更广的议题。
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