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👏🏻【外刊文章好句欣赏】

✍🏻 今天的外刊阅读文章讲的是天才华裔创业家谢家华意外去世。

🖌 Having sold his first company, LinkExchange, an online advertising network, to Microsoft in 1998 for $265 million, Mr. Hsieh became a venture capitalist and invested in a San Francisco-based retail shoe start-up, then called ShoeSite.com.
1998年,谢家华以2.65亿美元的价格将自己的第一家公司——在线广告网络LinkExchange卖给了微软。之后,他成为了风险投资家,投资了一家总部位于旧金山的鞋类零售初创企业,当时名为ShoeSite.com。

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🖌 In the nascent period of internet commerce, Mr. Hsieh was a visionary who realized that getting customers to feel comfortable and secure buying online was the key to success and growth.
在互联网商务发展初期,谢家华极具远见,他意识到,让顾客在网上购物时感到舒适和安全是成功和发展的关键。

👩🏻‍🏫单词解释:
nascent:[adj.][[ˈnæ.sənt]]新生的;萌芽的

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Mr. Hsieh, a soft-spoken and introspective executive, developed a philosophy of business built around the idea that happy employees were the conduit to satisfied customers who would return again and again.
谢家华是一位说话温和、性格内敛的企业家,他创立了一种经营哲学,其核心理念是,快乐的员工是令客户满意、成为回头客的渠道。

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In a 2009 profile in Briefings magazine, Mr. Hsieh described himself as a lifelong skeptic who sneered at psychology and philosophy. But his computer science background led him to believe that happiness could be studied as a science. Rather than assuming happiness is achieved haphazardly, he began to read about the distinct characteristics that made people happy.
2009年,《简报》(Briefings)杂志上发表了一篇对谢家华的人物特写,他说自己一生都是怀疑论者,对心理学和哲学嗤之以鼻。但他的计算机科学背景使他相信,幸福可以作为一门科学来研究。他不认为幸福获之偶然,而是开始研究使人们幸福的独特特征。

👩🏻‍🏫单词解释:
sneer at:怠慢;对...嗤之以鼻
haphazardly:[adv. ] [ˌhæpˈhæz.ɚd.li] 偶然地;意外地

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People assume that achieving a certain goal or winning the lottery will bring lasting happiness, he said, but it rarely does. “Most of the frameworks for happiness conclude that there are four things required: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (meaning the depths of relationships) and being part of something bigger than yourself.”

他说,人们认为实现某个目标或中彩票会带来持久的幸福,但事实并非如此。“大多数关于幸福的框架都认为,幸福需要具备四件事:可感知的控制力,可感知的进步,与外界联系紧密(指人际关系的深度),以及成为比自己更重要的事物的一部分。”

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