Microsoft has chosen its next CEO and may remove Bill Gates as chairman, Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg says Microsoft's next CEO will be Satya Nadella, an executive vice president at the company. Nadella is in charge of Microsoft's lucrative cloud and enterprise group. The news backs up an earlier report from Recode's Kara Swisher that Microsoft will pick Nadella as its CEO. Nadella has been at Microsoft for 20 years and his name has been consistently floated around as one of the top internal candidates for the CEO job. Before Microsoft's recent executive reorganization, Nadella was in charge of the company's server and tools business. He also worked in research and development for online services and was vice president of the business division. It would make sense if Gates stepped down as chairman of the board. In theory, Microsoft's new CEO probably wouldn't want two of his or her predecessors (Gates and current CEO Steve Ballmer) watching everything from the board. Microsoft began its CEO search in August 2013, when Ballmer announced he planned to retire within a year. Since then, people began throwing around several names for Ballmer's replacement, including Ford CEO Alan Mulally. Mulally later came out and publicly stated he would not take the CEO job at Microsoft. Other potential internal candidates were Tony Bates, VP of business development, and Stephen Elop, the former CEO of Nokia who joined the company after it sold to Microsoft. Early reactions to the potential Nadella appointment seem to be pretty positive. Aaron Levie, CEO of cloud storage startup Box, tweeted: "Satya is a very strong pick for CEO. [He] understands how to build platforms, gets the cloud, and has a solid vision for the future." 【新闻快讯】 据彭博社报道，有知情人士透露，微软董事会正在就提名内部高管、企业及云业务负责人萨蒂亚·纳德拉（Satya Nadella）为公司下一任CEO进行筹备。同时，董事会也在就替换比尔·盖茨（Bill Gates）董事长职位的事宜开展讨论。 该名知情人士指出，董事会目前在考虑的一位董事长人选是公司当下独立董事约翰·汤普森（John Thompson）。盖茨未来或仍会在微软管理层中担任重要角色，但这将取决于董事会及新CEO的意向。 纳德拉大约从数周前开始在CEO的竞争中显现优势。但知情人士也指出，对其的最终提名方案如今尚未完成。

Bill Gates on mosquitos, malaria and education 每年的TED(TED为：科技technology、娱乐entertainment、设计design的缩写)大会都会聚集全球卓越的思想家，就科学、艺术、政治、全球性问题、建筑、音乐等各个领域的问题进行交流。今年比尔·盖茨也受到了大会的邀请，在"重启(Rebooting)"环节进行了精彩的演讲。有意思的是，盖茨在大会会场上散播了一些蚊子，他称，"没有理由只是让穷人体验被蚊子攻击的滋味"。  Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them. Bill Gates is founder and former CEO of Microsoft. A geek icon, tech visionary and business trailblazer, Gates' leadership -- fueled by his long-held dream that millions might realize their potential through great software -- made Microsoft a personal computing powerhouse and a trendsetter in the Internet dawn. Whether you're a suit, chef, [w]quant[/w], artist, media [w]maven[/w], nurse or gamer, you've probably used a Microsoft product today. In summer of 2008, Gates left his day-to-day role with Microsoft to focus on [w]philanthropy[/w]. Holding that all lives have equal value (no matter where they're being lived), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has now donated staggering sums to HIV/AIDS programs, libraries, agriculture research and disaster relief -- and offered vital guidance and creative funding to programs in global health and education. Gates believes his [w]tech-centric[/w] strategy for giving will prove the killer app of planet Earth's next big upgrade. "When Gates looks at the world, a world in which millions of preventable deaths occur each year, he sees an irrational, inefficient, broken system, an application that needs to be [w]debugged[/w]. It shocks him -- his word -- that people don't see this, the same way it shocked him that nobody but he and [Paul] Allen saw the [w]microchip[/w] for what it was." -Time 【四级班点击这里报名】 【六级班点击这里报名】 盖茨在演讲中呼吁人们重视非洲。疟疾每年造成了大量的儿童死亡，二十世纪初时，疟疾曾经是一种全球性的疾病，后来人们发现用奎宁可以治疗疟疾，到了二十世纪70年代，这一疾病在温带地区基本被消灭。但是，非洲国家对此没有引起应当的重视，也没有足够的资金来开展这样的项目。  每年全世界大约有超过270人死于疟疾，其中75%是非洲儿童。尽管疟疾已经在大多数国家绝迹，不过这种病毒仍然在贫穷的非洲及亚洲国家蔓延；这些国家主

[en]The world's richest man might seem to have it all, but Bill Gates has one regret. The self-made [w]billionaire[/w] said he felt stupid for not knowing any foreign languages.[/en][cn]世界首富比尔·盖茨看上去似乎是坐拥万千，但是他有一个遗憾。这名白手起家的亿万富翁坦言，他觉得自己不会一门外语真是大大的失策。[/cn] [en]Speaking in his third Ask Me Anything question-and-answer session for online forum Reddit, the Microsoft founder revealed that he wished he spoke French, Arabic or Chinese.[/en][cn]在在线论坛Reddit上的“随便问我点啥”的问答环节，他回答了这第三个问题，这名微软创始人坦言，他希望他会说法语、阿拉伯语或是汉语。[/cn] [en]He said: 'I took Latin and Greek in high school and got A's and I guess it helps my vocabulary.[/en][cn]他说：“我在高中的时候选修过拉丁文和希腊语，并拿盖茨到了A的好成绩，我猜这对我的词汇量很有帮助。[/cn] [en]'I keep hoping to get time to study one of these - probably French because it is the easiest. I did Duolingo for a while but didn't keep it up.'[/en][cn]我希望继续有时间学习其中一门语言——可能是法语，因为法语最好学。我有一阵子用Duolingo语言学习应用学过，但是没坚持下去。”[/cn] [en]Gates, who is worth $79.3billion, praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stunning an audience in Beijing when he spoke fluent Mandarin.[/en][cn]身价793亿美金的盖茨，赞扬了脸书的创始人马克·扎克伯格——用一口流利的汉语让北京的观众惊艳四座。[/cn] [en]He said: 'Mark Zuckerberg amazingly learned Mandarin and did a Q&A with Chinese students - incredible.'[/en][cn]他说：“马克·扎克伯格学习了汉语真是太惊奇了，而且难以置信，他还和中国学生进行问答。”[/cn] [en]During the session yesterday, the 59-year-old said that he loves BBQ sauce but avoids it before TV appearances because he tends to spill it, his biggest splurge is having a private jet and he enjoys Indian and Thai food.[/en][cn]在昨天的问答环节，59岁的盖茨说，他很喜欢烧烤酱，但是在电视上露面之前他不会吃，因为他会洒出来，他最值得炫耀的就是有一架私人飞机，而且他喜欢印度菜和泰国菜。[/cn]

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起到了领头羊的作用。 Throughout the site, Mr. Gates's opinions show his overarching belief that more t[w]echnological[/w] innovation, some of it government-led, can cure many of the world's ills. 相关阅读： 比尔•盖茨:写在年度信之前>>

有的贫困阶层。 本书的作者 J.D. Vance 是耶鲁法学院的高材生，不过他的出身却很贫寒：从小被父母抛弃，跟着祖父母长大，生活环境极其艰难。 这本书不光是本传记，它通过故事这个媒介，探讨了“贫穷”这整个概念背后的文化背景。 ~   好，这就是比尔·盖茨今年给出的5本书， 可以看出，这里面即使是传记书也将重点放在了哲学层面，而不单单只是故事。   OK，今天就借这个机会来讲讲 philosophical 这个词 当我们在中盖茨文中谈到“哲学”这个概念的时候，大部分人都觉得它讲的就是“生、死、人生的终极意义”之类的。 其实这样的认识不太准确，放在英语环境中就更是如此。 英语中 philosophy 最根本的意思是：对本质的探讨。 the study of general and fundamental problems 而这并不仅仅局限于生死大义什么的；对一门学科的存在价值的探讨、对教育的意义的探讨，都是“哲学”的范畴。 即使你只是写了一篇文章来探讨自己为什么需要学习，那这篇文章也是哲学文章，是 philosophical 的。   那么，我们来造个句子吧~ [en]It's nice to study something philosophical once in a while. But if you keep talking about it everywhere, usually it only shows people how [w]shallow[/w] you are.[/en][cn]学点哲学的东西是不错，但如果你走到哪都要拿出来谈，那通常只能让人明白你有多么肤浅。[/cn]   声明：本文系沪江英语原创内容，转载请注明出处。本文仅代表作者个人观点，仅供参考。如有不妥之处，欢迎指正。

比尔·盖茨夫妇日前出席斯坦福大学第123届毕业典礼并致辞，他们在致辞中鼓励毕业生，不管是在逆境还是在顺境，都要保持乐观的心大胆往前走，和创造自己的人生。 Stanford University. BILL GATES: Congratulations, class of 2014! (Cheers). Melinda and I are excited to be here. It would be a thrill for anyone to be invited to speak at a Stanford commencement, but it's especially

给我的圣诞卡片。顺便说，那个时候我还没有明白过来，这就是比尔·盖茨本人。”[/cn] [en]That was until she noticed the photo of Gates in front of a Christmas tree with the book, cow, and note.[/en][cn]后来她发现了一张照片，照片中比尔·盖茨手持着送给瑞秋的游记、玩具奶牛和卡片，这时她才明白比尔就是比尔·盖茨本人。[/cn] [en]" ... and then it finally hit me.  I went back to all the gifts completely shocked."[/en][cn]“这时我才恍然大悟。我又回头看那些礼物，震惊不已。”[/cn] [en]Rachel realized she had committed something of a faux par on her Christmas list that was sent to the Microsoft [w]billionaire[/w].[/en][cn]瑞秋发现自己在那份送给微软大亨比尔·盖茨的圣诞愿望清单上犯了一个小小的错误。[/cn] [en]"ps: Sorry for the Apple iPad on my wishlist, that was really awkward," she wrote.[/en][cn]“顺便说，抱歉我在愿望清单上写了‘一部苹果iPad平板电脑’，真是很尴尬。”[/cn] [en]Rachel said the gift given from Gates was "the gift perfect for anyone" and said she was "sincerely very appreciative that you took the time to find something so fitting for me."[/en][cn]瑞秋说盖茨送给她的礼物“对任何人来说都是非常完美的礼物”，并说“对盖茨费心找到如此好的礼物，她表示真诚的谢意。”[/cn]