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Jerry Yang! Inc.
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杨致远与他的雅虎公司 |
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| If there is a 1)fairy tale in the dog-eat-dog world of business, it would have to be the story of Jerry Yang, 2)founder of Yahoo!
如果在狗咬狗的商业世界里还有童话，那么一定会是雅虎创办人杨致远的故事。
【标题】
Inc. (a.) 公司的，为 incorporated 的缩写
【本段单词】
1) fairy tale (n.) 童话故事
2) founder (n.) 创立者
In 1994, Yang 1)put up a 2)Web page with his name in Chinese 3)characters, his golf 4)scores, and a list of his favorite Internet 5)sites. Six months later, he and his friend David Filo had the idea for Yahoo!, an Internet site where people could go to find the Internet sites they were interested in. By mid-1995, Yang was a 6)graduate student in engineering, and had received one million dollars in venture capital to make Yahoo! a 7)reality. Yang's idea for Yahoo! was that it would be to the Internet what a telephone 8)directory is to the phone system.
杨致远于一九九四年设立一个网页，里面包括他的中文姓名、高尔夫球分数，以及他最喜欢的的网站名单。六个月之后，他与朋友戴维菲洛想出了雅虎的点子，这是个网站，人们可以上来找寻他们有兴趣的网站。到了1995年中，杨致远已是一名工科研究生，并且收到一百万美元的创投资本来实现雅虎。杨致远对雅虎的构想是：它之于因特网，正如电话簿之于电话系统。
【本段单词】
1) put up (v.) 设立
2) Web page (n.) 网页
3) character (n.) （中文）方块字
4) score (n.) 得分，比数
5) site (n.) 网址，地点
6) graduate student (n.) 研究生
7) reality (n.) 事实，真实的东西
8) directory (n.) 指南，目录
Just ten years after he put up his 1)humble little personal Web page and still in his 30s, Yang is now a 2)billionaire. The 3)Website he created is now a 4)household word around the 5)globe, and is used every day by 250 million people. In addition to the 6)original English-language Yahoo! Website, the Yahoo! name can now be found on foreign-language directories, 7)local 8)guides, print magazines, and more. Like most fairy tales, Yang's story seems to have a happy ending.
杨致远设立简陋的个人网页至今不过十年，年纪也才三十多岁，他今日已成为一名亿万富翁。他所创设的网站现在已是全球家户喻晓的名字，每天有两亿五千万人使用。除了原来的英语版雅虎网站之外，雅虎的名字现在也可以在外语目录、地方性指南与平面杂志等当中找到。就像大多数的童话故事一样，杨致远的故事似乎也有幸福的结局。
【本段单词】
1) humble (a.) 谦虚的，卑微的
2) billionaire (n.) 亿万富翁，财产超过十亿(one billion)的人
3) Website (n.) 网站
4) household (a.) 家庭的
5) globe (n.) 球，地球
6) original (a.) 原来的
7) local (a.) 地方性的，本地的
8) guide (n.) 指南 |