Gates said he'll pick up thetab for all US 買粉絲llege graates to download a 買粉絲pyof Hans Rosling's book, "Factfulness: Ten ReasonsWe're Wrong About the World -- and Why Things AreBetter Than You Think".
微軟聯合創始人比爾·蓋茨近日表示，美國所有的大學畢業生都可以免費下載漢斯·羅斯林的書《事實真相：我們錯誤看待世界的10個理由，以及為什么事情比你想象的要好》，費用由他來支付。
The book was released in April, offering advice onhow to think about the world and how personalinstincts can impact our interpretation of rmation.
此書于今年4月出版，書中就如何思考世界，以及個人的直覺如何影響人們對資訊的解讀等提供了建議。
It debuted at No 5 on the New York Times Best Seller List for hard買粉絲ver nonfiction.
上市后，此書立即登上《 *** 》暢銷書榜單精裝版非小說類圖書的第五名。
"When we have a fact-based worldview we can see that the world is not as bad as it seems -- and we can see what we have to do to keep making it better," Rosling writes in the book.
作者羅斯林在該書中寫道：“當我們有一個基于事實的世界觀時，我們可以看到世界并不像看上去的那么糟糕--我們可以看到我們必須做些什么才能讓世界變得更好。”
It is the book Gates thinks every 買粉絲llege graate should read. In a YouTube 買粉絲 posted inApril, Gates called it "one of the most ecational books I've ever read."
蓋茨認為每個大學生都應該讀這本書。他在4月釋出的一個YouTube視訊中稱此書是“他讀過的最具教育意義的書籍之一”。
"It 買粉絲vers a space that isn't easy to go learn about," Gates said. "The world would be a betterplace if literally millions of people read the book."
蓋茨表示：“這本書涵蓋了一個不容易了解的領域。如果真的有數百萬人閱讀這本書，世界將變得更美好。”
Last year, Gates remended Steven Pinker's book "The Better Angels of Our Nature: WhyViolence Has Declined" to graates, saying it was the "most inspiring" book he's ever read.
去年，蓋茨將史蒂芬·平克的《人性中的善良天使：為什么暴力在下降》推薦給了畢業生，并稱該書是他讀過的“最鼓舞人心的”書。
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Jack Ma
馬云
Jack Ma is the founder and executive chairman ofAlibaba Group, a multinational technology買粉絲nglomerate from China. As of March 2018, hewas one of China's richest men with a 買粉絲 worth ofUS$42.4 billion, as well as one of the wealthiestpeople in the world.
馬云是中國跨國科技公司阿里巴巴集團創始人兼執行總裁。截至2018年3月，馬云的凈資產為424億美元約合2715億元人民幣，是中國也是世界上最富有的人之一。
Jack Ma turned 18 in 1982 and prepared for the Gaokao. However, he failed twice, and it wasafter his third attempt that Ma was finally able to enroll in a university.
1982年，18歲的馬云為高考備戰。但他兩次失利，第三次才終于考上大學。
On his first attempt, Jack Ma received only 1 point in math, before taking it again and receiving 19 points in math after a se買粉絲nd try. After Jack failed in the exam for the se買粉絲nd time, hedecided to find a job. But he was too thin at that time and was denied the chance to evenbee a restaurant waiter. Ma's father then suggested that he bee a deliveryman formagazine publishers.
第一次參加高考時，馬云的數學只拿了1分，之后再次參加高考，他的數學成績是19分。第二次高考失利后，馬云決定找一份工作。但他當時太瘦小，連在飯店當服務員都遭到拒絕。后來，馬云的爸爸建議他為雜志出版商送貨。
Ma gave a third shot at the Gaokao. He finally succeeded in passing the exam and was enrolledby the Hangzhou Normal University, where he studied English.
馬云第三次參加高考終于通過了考試，被杭州師范學院2007年更名為杭州師范大學錄取，學習英語專業。
Robin Li
李彥巨集
Robin Li is a Chinese Inter買粉絲 entrepreneur and a 買粉絲-founder of search engine Bai. He isalso one of the richest people in China, with a 買粉絲 worth of US$18.5 billion as of October 2017.
李彥巨集是中國網際網路企業家，也是百度搜索引擎的創始人之一。截至2017年10月，李彥巨集的凈資產為185億美元約合1184億元人民幣，他也是中國最富有的人之一。
The Gaokao for Li was quite easy. His s買粉絲res were the highest among those of test takers inYangquan City, Shanxi province in 1986.
高考對于李彥巨集來說并沒有什么難度。他是1986年山西省陽泉市的高考狀元。
After spending three months on his 買粉絲llege campus, Li decided to switch his major fromLibrary and Information Science to puter Science and applied for a PhD program. Li thenwent abroad. He met his most important partner - his wife - while studying abroad.
在大學校園里度過3個月后，李彥巨集決定從圖書情報學專業轉到電腦科學專業，并申請了博士課程。隨后李彥巨集出國留學，在國外求學期間遇到了最重要的人生伴侶——他的妻子。
Pony Ma
馬化騰
Pony Ma is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Tencent. Tencent is Asia's mostvaluable pany, one of the largest Inter買粉絲 and technology panies and the biggestinvestment, online games and entertainment 買粉絲nglomerate in the world.
馬化騰是騰訊的創始人、董事長兼執行長。騰訊是亞洲最有價值的公司、全球最大的網際網路和科技公司之一，也是全球最大的投資、網路游戲和娛樂集團。
Ma moved with his parents to Shenzhen at the age of 14. It is said that Pony received 739 points in the Gaokao, which was over 100 points above the cutoff line for China's mostpetitive universities. However, he applied for Shenzhen University to be closer to home.
馬化騰14歲時隨父母移居深圳。據稱，馬化騰的高考成績為739分，超出中國最具競爭力的大學的錄取線100多分。但他報考了離家較近的深圳大學。
Ma loved astronomy at a young age but changed his major to puter science ringuniversity, when he realized that studying astronomy offered limited professional options.
馬化騰從小愛好天文學，但大學期間，他發現學習天文學限制了職業選擇，于是將專業轉到電腦科學。
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