盖茨夫妇的一封信（双语）
时间：2013-01-28 06:44:16
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Letter from Bill and Melinda GatesMore than a decade ago, the two of us read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that were long ago eliminated in this country. One disease we had never even heard of—rotavirus—was killing1 literally2 half a million kids each year. We thought: That's got to be a typo. If a single disease were killing that many kids, we would have heard about it, because it would have been front-page news. But it wasn’t a typo.
We couldn't escape the
brutal3 conclusion that—in our world today—some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."We sent the article to Bill's father, Bill Gates Sr., with a note attached that said, "Dad, maybe we can do something about this." And he helped us get started.
We created the Gates Foundation in 2000 because we believe in the principle that every human life has equal worth. The life of an
impoverished4 child in a developing country is as precious as the life of a middle-class kid in a developed one. A family struggling to make ends meet in an American inner city matters as much as a family thriving in a safe,
suburban5 neighborhood. Today, billions of people never even have the chance to live a healthy, productive life. We want to help all people get that opportunity.
We know it can be done because this is a unique moment in history: Scientific and
technological6 advances are making it possible to solve big, complicated problems like never before. If these advances are focused on the problems of the people with the most urgent needs and the fewest champions, then within this century billions of people will grow up healthier, get a better education, and gain the power to lift themselves out of poverty. Warren Buffett shares our sense of optimism, and we are deeply
humbled7 by his decision to give a significant portion of his resources to the foundation.
We're so hopeful about the potential for rapid progress that we've
decided8 the foundation will spend all its money in the next 100 years. In this century, our world has the opportunity to
fulfill9 the great human promise that all lives have equal value.
Bill and Melinda Gates' signatureBill Gates and Melinda F. Gates
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