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.精品文档 . 亚马逊 CEO杰夫·贝索斯英语演讲稿 Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they're given after all. Choices canbe hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probablybe to the detriment of your choices. 聪明是一种天赋，而善良是  一种选择。天赋得来很容 易——毕竟它们与生俱来。而选择却颇为艰难。如果一不小 心， 你可能被天赋所诱惑， 这可能会损害到你做出的选择。 As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fixwindmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. Wealso watched soap operas everyafternoon, especially "Days of our Lives." My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a groupof Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the and Canada. And every fewsummers, we'd join the caravan. We'd hitch up the Airstream trailer to my grandfather's car,and off we'd go, in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers. I loved and worshipped mygrandparents and I really looked forward to these trips. On one particular trip, I was about 10years old. I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back 2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 –独家原创 1 / 12 .精品文档  . of  the  car.  My  grandfather  wasdriving.  And  my grandmother  had  the  passenger  seat.  She  smoked throughout these trips, andI hated the smell. 在我还是一个孩子的时候，我的夏天总是在德州祖父母 的农场中度过。我帮忙修理风车，为牛接种疫苗，也做其它 家务。每天下午，我们都会看肥皂剧， 尤其是《我们的岁月》 。我 的 祖 父 母 参 加 了 一 个 房 车 俱 乐 部 ， 那 是 一 群 驾 驶 Airstream 拖挂型房车的人们， 他们结伴遍游美国和加拿大。每隔几个夏天，我也会加入他们。我们把房车挂在祖父的小 汽车后面，然后加入 300 余名 Airstream 探险者们组成的浩荡队伍。我爱我的祖父母，我崇敬他们，也真心期盼这些旅 程。那是一次我大概十岁时的旅行，我照例坐在后座的长椅上，祖父开着车，祖母坐在他旁边，吸着烟。我讨厌烟味。 At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate ourgas mileage figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing anad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puffof a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been twominutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my