TED中英官方演讲稿-JacquelineNovogratz_2007G耐心资本主义.docxVIP

1.I really am honored to be here, and as Chris said, its been over 20 years since I started working in Africa. 我今天很荣幸地站到这里，正如克里斯（Chris Anderson）所说， 我在非洲至少有20年工作经验。2.My first introduction was at the Abidjan airport on a sweaty Ivory Coast morning. 我对非洲的第一印象是在科特迪瓦阿比让机场体验的闷热早晨。3.I had just left Wall Street, cut my hair to look like Margaret Mead, given away most everything that I owned, and arrived with all the essentials -- 那时我刚刚离开华尔街，并且把我的头发剪成玛格丽特·米德的样式， 以及把我的东西几乎全部赠送出去， 然后带着我需要的必需品——4.some poetry, a few clothes, and, of course, a guitar -- because I was going to save the world, and I thought I would just start with the African continent. 几本诗集，一些衣服和理所当然的一把吉它—— 来到这里，因为我要来拯救世界， 于是我第一站就来到非洲。5.But literally within days of arriving I was told, in no uncertain terms, by a number of West African women, that Africans didnt want saving, 但自从我到达这里，就不断有西非妇女 明确地告诉我非洲人不需要被拯救，6.thank you very much, least of all not by me. 尤其是被我这样的人拯救，非常感谢你。7.I was too young, unmarried, I had no children, didnt really know Africa and besides, my French was pitiful. 那时我还很年轻，并且没有结婚生子， 而且对非洲的情况不太了解，除此之外，我的法语说的很不好。8.And so, it was an incredibly painful time in my life, and yet it really started to give me the humility to start listening. 因此，那时候是我一生中最痛苦的一段时光， 但也使我不再自大以及开始去聆听人们的心声。9.I think that failure can be an incredibly motivating force as well, so I moved to Kenya and worked in Uganda, and I met a group of Rwandan women, who asked me, in 1986, 我认为失败可以成为一股极大激励人心的力量， 所以我搬到了肯尼亚并且在乌干达工作， 在1986年，我与一群来自卢旺达的妇女见面，10.to move to Kigali to help them start the first microfinance institution there. 她们请求我搬至基加利（卢旺达首都）去帮助开设第一家小额信贷机构。11.And I did, and we ended up naming it Duterimbere, meaning to go forward with enthusiasm. And while we were doing it, I realized that there werent a lot of businesses that were viable 而我照做了，并且叫它作Duterimbere， 它意味着“热情地前进”。当我在这所信贷机构工作时， 我意识到很多切实可行的事务妇女们是没有涉足的，12.and started by women, and so maybe I should try to run a business too. 因此我应尝试运营一所