Lesson 10 Silicon valley

'We're got more garages with smart people,' Mead observes.

“我們有更多的汽車間，那里有許多聰明人，”米德說。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

'We really thrive on anarchy. '

“我們確實是靠這種無政府狀態發展起來的。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

And on Asians.

” 靠的是亞洲人。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

Already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms.

硅谷許多公司中工程技術人員的大多數是東方人和亞裔美國人。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

And Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California's colleges.

中國、韓國、菲律賓和印度的工程師一批批地從加州的大學畢業。

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As the heads of next-generation start-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge righter links with crucial Pacific Rim markets.

作為新掘起一代的帶頭人，亞裔發明家可以憑借他們在習慣和語言上的優勢，與關鍵的太平洋沿岸市場建立起更加牢固的聯系。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph.D.from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan's near lock on the memory-chip market.

比如說，亞歷克斯。奧，一位來自香港的斯坦福大學博士，已經在臺灣建廠，對日本在內存條市場上近似壟斷的局面提出了挑戰。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

Before it becomes a retirement village,

在硅谷變成一個退休村之前，

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business.

它很可能成為建立全球商業的一個教學場地。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.

有些老年人因為怕死而感到煩惱。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

In the young there is a justification for this feeling.

青年人有這種感覺是情有可原的。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have cheated of the best things that life has to offer.

有理由害怕自己會死在戰場上的年輕人，想到自己被剝奪了生活所能給予的最美好的東西時，感到痛苦，這是可以理解的。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows,

可是老年人已經飽嘗了人間的甘苦，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do,

一切能做的都做了，

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the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.

如果怕死；就有點兒可憐又可鄙。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

The best way to overcome it----so at least it seems to me---

克服怕死的最好辦法--至少在我看來是這樣--

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is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal,

就是逐漸使自己的興趣更加廣泛，逐漸擺脫個人狹小的圈子，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede,

直到自我的圍墻一點一點地倒塌下來，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

自己的生活慢慢地和整個宇宙的生活融合在一起。

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An individual human existence should be like a river----

個人的存在應該像一條河流，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

small at first, narrowly contained within its banks,

開始很小，被緊緊地夾在兩岸中間，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.

接著熱情奔放地沖過巨石，飛下瀑布。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede,

然后河面漸漸地變寬，兩岸后撤，

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the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break,

河水流得平緩起來，最后連綿不斷地

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they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.

匯入大海；毫無痛苦地失去了自我的存在。

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The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way,

上了年紀的人這樣看待生命，

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will not suffer from the fear of death,

就不會有懼怕死亡的心情了，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

since the things he cares for will continue.

因為自己關心的一切事物都會繼續下去。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases,

再者，隨著精力的衰退，老年人的疲憊感會增長，

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the thought of rest will be not unwelcome.

有長眠的愿望未嘗不是一件好事。