【演讲】马云在纽约：第三次世界大战那些事儿（中英文稿）

全部文稿放不进来，请大家自己跑去看我们今天的微信头条：搜索英语环球 NEWSPlus非常荣幸，从来没想到会有这多人来听我的演讲。I’m so honored. I never expect there are so many people coming here to listen to my talk.我站在这里的时候，感觉自己如此重要，如此责任重大。谢谢你们！And when I sitting there I feel so important. Thank you, thank you very much.正式开始演讲之前，我想请问一下在座有多少人在使用阿里巴巴的服务？好的，不是非常多。那么，你们当中有多少人从来没有去过中国？好的。Before my talk I would like to ask how many people here have used Alibaba services. Good, not many. [Laughs]. And how many of you here have never been to China? Never been, never been to China. Good, thank you very much.20年前，我第一次踏上美国，美国之旅的第一站是西雅图。来到美国之前，我从课本、老师、学校和父母那里了解美国，我以为自己已经非常了解美国。但是，当我踏上这片土地的时候，我才发现我完全错了，美国这个社会和我从课本学到的根本不一样。在西雅图，我平生第一次认识了互联网。Well, 20 years ago I came to America. My first trip to America, to Seattle. Before that I learned so much about America, from my books, from my teachers, from my school, and my parents. And I think I know enough about America. But when I came to America I thought totally wrong. America is not what I learned from the books. And in Seattle I found the Internet.回到中国之后，我告诉朋友们，我打算开一家互联网公司。我邀请了24位好友，讨论了两个小时。到了最后，还是没有人理解我想要做的东西，我们进行了投票，23人选择反对。我的朋友们劝我说：“忘了它吧！根本就不存在这么一个叫做互联网的东西，千万不要去尝试。”只有一个人对我说：“马云，我相信你，虽然我不知道你想要做什么，如果你想做，就大胆去做吧，因为你还年轻。”那年，我30岁。And then I came back and tell my friends that I’m going to open a company called Internet. I invited 24 of my friends, had a two-hour discussion. And finally we had a vote. 23 of them against me. “Forget about it. There’s no such kind of network called Internet. Don’t do it.” There’s only one person who said “Jack, I trust you. I don’t know what that is, but if you want to try it, go ahead, try it. Because you’re still young.” At that time I was 30 years old.没有任何的计算机知识、商业知识，我开始了创业之路。我开办了第一家公司，和我的妻子，还有一位同学。我们东拼西凑了1000美元，创业之路非常艰难。当时，我觉得自己是骑在盲虎背上的盲人（成语：盲人摸象，又骑虎难下）。20年风雨过去，我存活了下来。但是创业前三年，生活真的非常糟糕。我清楚地记得，我想向银行贷款3000美元，这花去了我整整三个月时间，我动用了所有的关系，还是没拿到贷款。每个人都认为马云在撒谎，因为1996的时候他们不相信有互联网这个东西的存在。So I started my business, without knowing anything about computer, without knowing anything about business. I started my first company, my wife and I and a school mate. We borrowed [start] from US $1,000 we start the business. It was so difficult. I called myself like a blind man riding on the back of blind tigers. Jumping around for the past 20 years I survive today. For the first three years life was really bad. I remember I tried to borrow US $3,000 from the banks. It took me three months asking any friends I know to borrow the money.Still failed, coz verybody said “Jack is telling a lie, because there’s no such network called Internet in 1996.”有一天，1996下半年，中国正式接入了互联网。于是，我邀请了10位媒体朋友到我家里来，想告诉他们我没有撒谎，确实存在互联网这个东西。为了下载一张照片，我们当时花了三个半小时。大家说，“那东西真的能行得通吗？”我说，“是的，行得通的，不是现在，是在未来十年之内。”不管怎样，这至少证明了我没有撒谎。So one day, later 1996, China was connected to the Internet. I invited ten media friends to my apartment. I want to tell them I’m not telling a lie. There is a network called Internet. We waited three hours and a half to see the first – to download the first picture. And people said “Is that thing going to work?