当今中国,如果要问哪位大佬的英语令人惊艳,那一定非 Jack Ma 莫属了。作为阿里巴巴的掌门人,马云经常收到国内外各种活动的邀请,发表英文演讲。
而且呢,演讲力爆表的马总金句频出,外媒也忍不住常常报道。所以呢,今天我们就来个完整版中英双语对照大全,看看马云到底爆过哪些金句,赶快来学习吧。
Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueler. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful. Most people die when it is "tomorrow evening", and don't get a chance to see the sunrise.
今天很残酷、明天更残酷、后天很美好 -- 但绝大部分人死在明天傍晚,无法看到后天的日出。
Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
帮助年轻人,扶持弱小者,因为他们总会长大,你会在他们心里埋下种子。他们长大后,将改变世界。
Reform when you are in your best shape and before the downturn sets in. It will be too late to fix the roof once it starts raining. Borrow an umbrella while the sun is still shining.
需在事业如日高升时,着手改革创新,等到走下坡路时,就迟了。晴天时,就该修补屋顶,否则到下雨天就来不及了。艳阳天时,就要提前借好伞。
Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.
哪里有抱怨,哪里就有商机。
Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.
如今,赚钱是很容易的。但是如何有道义地赚钱,并且同时能造福于社会和整个世界,却是很难的。
I don’t want people (in China) to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
我不希望中国人财大气粗,思想浅薄。
The dark days at Alibaba: If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
熬过阿里巴巴黯淡日子后的总结:只要不放弃,就还有希望。当你还是小虾米的时候,要非常专注,靠脑袋而非武力存活下来。
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.
领导需要有更强大的勇气和毅力,能忍受普通员工所不能忍。
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
向竞争对手学习,但不要山寨别人,山寨意味着凉凉。
We’re never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, (people) who can die for those dreams.
我们从来不缺少钱,我们缺的是有梦想的人才,那些秉持朝闻道,夕死可矣精神的人。
Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.
聪明的人需要蠢人来领导他们,如果一个团队全是科学家,最好找个农民来当领导。因为,农民和科学家的思维方式不一样。一个团队里,必须有人能从不同的角度看待问题,这样,团队才会成功。
It doesn’t matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don’t succeed, someone will succeed.
如果我失败了,那没什么关系,至少我把理念传给了别人。即使我没有成功,那总有人会成功的。
No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It' ll keep you motivated and rescue you ( from any weak thoughts ).
不管追赶有多难,永远要记得你第一天的梦想。它会让你永葆斗志,在你思想脆弱的时候,解救你。
It’s very difficult to know the outside world, but you know yourself. You know your need and what you want. If I know myself better, I can change myself to meet the outside world.
人很难了解外部世界,但可以了解自己。你该知道自己需要什么,想要什么。如果我们能更了解自我,那么就能改变自己,让自己适应外部世界。
You need the right people with you, not the best people.
我们要找最合适的人,而不是最优秀的人。
I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
我并不是个懂技术的人,我只是以消费者、以普通人的眼光来看技术。
Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.
一生之中,总要有一两次,尝试点什么,努力做些什么。努力去改变,不会有什么坏事发生的嘛。
When people think too highly of you, you have the responsibility to calm down and be yourself.
如果人们都在捧你,那么你需要冷静下来,努力做自己。
We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
我们应该坚持全球化,全球化是好的。如果全球贸易停止了,那么战争就要来了。
The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.
现在最重要的事是让科技更具包容性--去改变世界。此外,还要关注30岁以下的年轻人,因为这些人是互联网一代。他们将会改变世界,他们是世界的缔造者。
Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
香港人说香港需要保持独特性。但要我说,香港的独特性就在于它的多元性,它对不同文化的包容性。中国不希望香港衰落,我对香港有信心。
Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.
我们的宗旨是建立一个生态系统。我们的宗旨是为别人赋能,让他们轻松卖东西,做服务,我们要让别人都比我们强大。借助科技、创新和1000合作伙伴,中小型生意人能够和微软、IBM这样的巨型公司一起竞争。
My relationship with the government is: Be in love with the governments, but do not marry them.
我和政府的关系是这样的:和政府谈恋爱,但不能结婚。
The business schools teach a lot of skills about how to make money and how to run a business. But I want to tell people that if you want to run a business, you have to run the value first, to serve the others, to help the others - that’s the key.
商科学校的确能教人很多赚钱的技能,运营生意的办法。但我想告诉那些想要做生意的人,你必须确定价值观,学会为他人服务,帮助其他人,这才是关键。
I think crazy is good! We are crazy but not stupid! If everyone agrees with me and if everybody believes in our idea is good - we will have no chance.”
我觉得疯狂挺好的。我们虽然疯狂,但并不蠢。如果每个人都同意我的看法,相信我们的想法,那我们就没有机会了。
In this world, if you want to win in the 21st century, you have to be making sure that making other people become powerful, empower others; making sure the other people are better than you are, then you will be successful.
在当今21世纪,你必须学会帮助他人,让别人更强大。只有别人都过好了,你才能真正成功。
If eBay are the Sharks in the Ocean - We (Alibaba) are the Crocodiles in the Yangtze River. Never fight in the Ocean, let’s fight in the Yangtze River.
如果说eBay是海中的鲨鱼,那么阿里巴巴就是长江中的鳄鱼。我们不想在海里大战,要战一场来长江啊。
Today, people write about the successful stories of Alibaba. And I really don’t think we were so smart, we made so many mistakes and we were so stupid at times. So, someday, the book I personally really will want to write about is Alibaba’s 1001 mistakes. These are the things people should remember and people should learn.
今天,人们会写阿里巴巴成功的故事。但我真不觉得我们是聪明的,我们时不时也会犯错。没准哪天,我会写本书,讲讲阿里巴巴1001个失败的故事。这些才是人们应该记住的,可以学到经验的所在。
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