Source Code 《源代码》比尔·盖茨自传 （一）

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Billionaire memoirs

In "Source Code", the first of a planned three-volume series, Mr Gates recounts his origin story, from his birth in 1955 to the early years of Microsoft in the late 1970s. Folk tales abound about the childhoods of American innovators such as Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin. This book seems to be an effort to define the mythology around the young Mr Gates.

《源代码》是比尔·盖茨自传三部曲的第一部，盖茨在自传报告了，从1955年出生到20世纪70年代末微软公司建立初期的发展履历。有关托马斯·爱迪生和本杰明·富兰克林等美国创新者童年的民间故事触目皆是，而这部自传好像在积极把年轻的盖茨打造为神话。

It is no rags-to-riches tale: Mr Gates freely admits that his was a middle-class upbringing. A crucial event in his life was gaining access to a computer at school for the first time at 13. But he also describes his love of hiking with friends in the mountains round Seattle, sometimes for days at a time—a counter to the stereotype of the lonely nerd who never goes outdoors. In these passages you can sense the presence of a ghostwriter.

这部自传不是一个白手发迹的故事：盖茨坦白地认可，他发展于中产阶层家庭，人生中的一个紧张变乱是，13岁时第一次在学校打仗到电脑。但他也形貌了本身喜好与朋侪在西雅图附近的山区徒步观光，偶然一走就是好几天——这与人们刻板印象形成的他从不出门、没有朋侪的书白痴的形象完全差别。在这些段落中，你大概感到这是代笔作家所为。