公众人物毕业演讲第192期:苏珊沃西基2014在约翰霍普金斯大学(5)

 　　Or let's go Excite that?

　　或是说 让我们Excite一下这个

　　You guys should be grateful that Larry and Sergey for the name alone

　　不说别的 就冲谷歌这个名字 你们就该感谢拉里和谢尔盖

　　So I was working at Intel at the time

　　我当时在因特尔工作

　　and I think I can say this now

　　我想我可以告诉你们

　　I thought they were crazy

　　我觉得他们很疯狂

　　But then one day, something funny happened at work

　　不过之后有一天 有趣的事情发生了

　　I opened up my browser¹ to look something up

　　我打开自己的浏览器 使用搜索功能

　　And it turned out that Google was down

　　结果我发现谷歌无法登陆

　　There was an error page

　　出现了一个错误页

　　And I sat there and I couldn't get my work done

　　我坐在那里 工作无法继续

　　because I realized that no other search service could find the information

　　这时我发现 其它搜索服务都无法找到我要的信息

　　I had become dependent on Google for doing my day-to-day work

　　我在日常工作中开始对谷歌产生了依赖性

　　And then it hit me

　　这让我恍然大悟

　　If Google had become so indispensable to me

　　谷歌对我如此必不可少

　　then maybe the vision that Larry and Sergey had wasn't so crazy

　　这或许意味着拉里和谢尔盖的理想并不疯狂

　　Maybe there were people all over the world

　　也许世界各地现在有很多人

　　sitting at their computers upset right now

　　都坐在电脑前不知所措

　　because they couldn't get what they needed done

　　他们的手头工作完不成

　　because the site developed by those two dudes in my garage was down

　　仅仅因为我车库里办公的那两个伙计的网站登陆不上

　　It turns out that finding information matters

　　毫无疑问 搜寻信息是很重要的

　　It matters a lot to a lot of people

　　很多人都需要它

　　And accessing that information could instantly empower people across the globe

　　信息获取能够立刻让世界各地的人拥有更大力量

　　I decided² I wanted to work for Google

　　这时 我决定为谷歌工作

　　which at the time also was crazy

　　当时看起来 这也是一个疯狂的决定

　　with a mortgage to pay, student loans

　　我有房贷要还 还有学生贷款

　　I'd have to leave a comfortable job and a Fortune 500 company

　　我不得不从财富500强企业的舒适岗位上辞职

　　and work for the guys who lived in my garage at a startup with no revenue

　　为两个住在我车库的没有收入来源的伙计卖命

　　a handful of male employees

　　谷歌当时都是男员工

　　and also -- did I mention? -- I was pregnant

　　而且我当时还有孕在身

　　Now people thought I was a crazy one

　　人们觉得我也疯了

　　So looking back on this, I've learned that

　　回头看看这个 我了解到

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。