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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos had a cushy job in finance.

亞馬遜創始人兼首席執行官傑夫-貝索斯有一份金融行業的美差

At 24, the future Amazon founder and CEO went to work at Bankers Trust developing revolutionary software for banking institutions at that time, according to "Jeff Bezos: The Founder of " by Ann Byers.

根據安-拜爾所撰寫的《亞馬遜創始人傑夫-貝索斯》一書,傑夫-貝索斯24歲時就已經在美國信孚銀行工作了,當時的工作是爲金融機構研發革命性的軟件。

Two years later, he became the company's youngest vice president.

兩年後,他成爲這家公司最年輕的副總裁。

President Trump took over his father's real-estate-development company.

美國總統特朗普接管了父親的房地產開發公司

Trump grew up the wealthy son of a real-estate mogul.

特朗普的父親是一位房地產大亨,所以他是個富二代。

At 25, the young real-estate developer was given control of his father's company, Elizabeth Trump & Son, which he later renamed the Trump Organization, according to bio.

根據自傳,25歲時,特朗普接管了父親的公司,之後他把公司名稱從“特朗普母子公司”改爲“特朗普集團”。

Shortly thereafter he became involved in large, profitable building projects in Manhattan.

其後不久,他開始參與曼哈頓的大型盈利建築項目。

Actress Jennifer Lawrence was an Oscar-winner raking in millions.

詹妮弗-勞倫斯已經斬獲奧斯卡獎,收入數百萬美元

Twenty-six-year-old Lawrence is Hollywood's highest-paid actress, raking $46 million pretax over 12 months in 2016, and closer to $52 million in 2015, according to Forbes.

詹妮弗-勞倫斯26歲時就已經成爲好萊塢收入最高的女星。《福布斯》數據顯示,她在2016年全年稅前收入4600萬美元,2015年收入接近5200萬美元。

By the time she was 25, Lawrence had starred in the box-office hit "Hunger Games" trilogy and worked alongside a star-studded cast in the "X-Men" series.

25歲時,勞倫斯已經出演《飢餓遊戲》三部曲,票房大賣,並在《X戰警》中與一衆明星合作。

At 22, she became the second-youngest winner of the best actress Oscar for her performance in "Silver Linings Playbook," and she has won many more awards for her work.

22歲時,她因出演《烏雲背後的幸福線》成爲史上第二年輕的奧斯卡最佳女主角。現在她已經獲得了多個獎項。

Apple cofounder Steve Jobs took his company public and became a millionaire.

蘋果公司創始人史蒂夫-喬布斯公司上市,成爲百萬富翁

By the end of its first day of trading, in December 1980, Apple Computer had a market value of $1.2 billion, making its cofounders rich men. Jobs, one of the three cofounders, was 25.

1980年12月,蘋果公司上市首日封盤時,市值達到12億美元,其共同創始人都成爲富豪。三位創始人之一的喬布斯當時25歲。

He later told biographer Walter Isaacson that he made a pledge at that time to never let money ruin his life.

他隨後告訴傳記作家沃爾特-艾薩克森,他當時就發誓絕不讓錢毀了他的生活。

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook was cash positive for the first time and hit 300 million users.

馬克-扎克伯格創建的臉書公司開始盈利,用戶人數達到3億

Zuckerberg had been hard at work on Facebook for five years by the time he turned 25. In that year — 2009 — the company turned cash positive for the first time and hit 300 million users. He was excited at the time, but said it was just the start.

扎克伯格25歲時,已經在臉書公司辛苦工作了五年。當年(2009年),臉書公司首次開始盈利,用戶人數達到3億。他當時很興奮,但說這只是開始。

The next year, he was named Person of the Year by Time magazine.

第二年,他成爲《時代》雜誌年度人物。

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein was an unhappy lawyer.

高盛首席執行官勞埃德-布蘭克費恩做律師做得不開心

The Goldman Sachs CEO didn't take the typical route to finance. He actually started out as a lawyer. He got his law degree from Harvard at 24, then took a job as an associate at law firm Donovan Leisure.

勞埃德-布蘭克費恩走上財經的道路不同尋常。最初他是一名律師,24歲時獲得哈佛大學法律學位,之後在Donovan Leisure律師事務所擔任助理。

"I was as provincial as you could be, albeit from Brooklyn, the province of Brooklyn," Blankfein told William Cohen at Fortune magazine.

布蘭克費恩接受《財富》雜誌採訪時告訴威廉-科恩:“雖然我來自布魯克林區,但我曾和你一樣不諳世事。”

At the time, he was a heavy smoker and occasional gambler. Despite the fact that he was on the partner track at the firm, he decided to switch to investment banking, joining J. Aron at the age of 27.

當時他煙癮很大,還偶爾賭博。儘管在律所他有希望當上合夥人,但他還是決定跳槽去投行,在27歲時加入傑潤公司。

Author J.K. Rowling came up with the idea for the 'Harry Potter' series on a train.

作家JK羅琳在火車上想出了“哈利波特”系列的創意

Rowling was 25 when she came up with the idea for "Harry Potter" during a delayed four-hour train ride in 1990.

1990年,25歲的羅琳乘坐的火車晚點了4個小時,期間她產生了創作“哈利波特”的想法。

She started writing the first book that evening, but it took her years to finish it. While working as a secretary for the London office of Amnesty International, Rowling was fired for daydreaming too much about "Harry Potter," and her severance check would help her focus on writing for the next few years.

她當晚就開始寫第一本書,但寫了幾年才完成。當時她在國際特赦組織倫敦辦公室擔任祕書,因爲總分心想着“哈利波特”思緒神遊被解僱。她的離職補償幫她在接下來的幾年裏專心寫作。

During these years, she got married, had a daughter, got divorced, and was diagnosed with clinical depression before finally finishing the book in 1995. It was published in 1997.

隨後的幾年中,她結婚成家,還生了一個女兒,最終離婚,並被診斷患上了臨牀憂鬱症。1995年她終於寫完了這本書,並在1997年出版。

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had just graduated from Yale Law School.

美國前國務卿希拉里-克林頓剛從耶魯大學法學院畢業

At 23, Clinton began dating fellow Yale Law student Bill Clinton. She ended up staying at school an extra year to be with her boyfriend, and received her law degree in 1973, just before turning 25. Her boyfriend proposed marriage after graduation, but she declined.

23歲時,希拉里開始和耶魯的同系同學比爾-克林頓約會。爲了陪伴男友,她延期畢業一年,在1973年拿到法律學位,當時她快25歲。比爾-克林頓在畢業後求婚,但她拒絕了。

That same year Clinton began working at the Yale Child Study Center. Her first scholarly article, "Children Under the Law," was published in the Harvard Educational Review in late 1973, when she was 25.

同年,希拉里開始在耶魯兒童研究中心工作。她的首篇研究文章《法律下的兒童》於1973年晚些時候發表在《哈佛教育評論》上,當時她25歲。

After moving to Arkansas in 1975, Clinton agreed to marry Bill. She'd go on to become the first lady of Arkansas, the first lady of the US, a US Senator, and Secretary of State.

1975年搬到阿肯色州後,希拉里答應了比爾-克林頓的求婚。後來她成爲阿肯色州州長夫人、美國第一夫人、美國參議員以及美國國務卿。

Fashion designer Ralph Lauren was a sales assistant at Brooks Brothers.

時尚設計師拉夫-勞倫在布克兄弟公司做銷售助理

The former CEO of Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifshitz in the Bronx, New York, but changed his name at the age of 15. He went on to study business at Baruch College and served in the Army until the age of 24 when he left to work for Brooks Brothers.

拉夫-勞倫品牌前首席執行官出生在紐約布朗克斯,他原名拉夫-利夫希茨,在15歲時改名。之後他在伯魯克學院讀商科,並服兵役,24歲時到布克兄弟公司工作。

At 26, Lauren decided to design a wide, European-style tie, which eventually led to an opportunity with Neiman Marcus. The next year, he launched the label "Polo."

26歲時,拉夫-勞倫決定設計一款歐洲風格的寬領帶,這讓他獲得了和高端百貨店內曼-馬庫斯合作的機會。第二年,他創建了品牌“保羅”。

Tesla and SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk was running his first internet company.

特斯拉和SpaceX公司首席執行官和創建人伊隆-馬斯克正經營他的首家互聯網公司

Before turning 25, Musk dropped out of his PhD program at Stanford to join the dot-com boom and launch his first internet company, Zip2, which provided business directories and maps,

25歲前,馬斯克在斯坦福大學讀博期間退學,加入了網絡公司創業熱潮,開辦了他的首家互聯網公司Zip2,提供企業名錄和地圖服務。

Compaq bought the company for $307 million four years later, and Musk used the money to launch his next startup venture, PayPal.

四年後,康柏電腦公司以3.07億美元的價格收購了這家公司。馬斯克用這筆錢開辦了另一家初創企業貝寶。

Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz was a Xerox salesman.

星巴克執行總裁霍華德-舒爾茨在施樂公司做銷售

After graduating from Northern Michigan University, Schultz worked as a salesman for Xerox. His success there led a Swedish company named Hammerplast that made coffeemakers to recruit him at age 26.

在北密歇根大學畢業後,霍華德-舒爾茨在施樂公司做銷售。他的業績很好,瑞典咖啡機制造商Hammerplast僱傭了他,當時他26歲。

人生贏家們25歲時都在幹啥

While working for that company, he encountered the first Starbucks outlets in Seattle, and went on to join the company at age 29.

在這家公司工作時,他接觸到了西雅圖第一家星巴克門店,並在29歲時加入星巴克。

America's first lady of talk shows Oprah Winfrey was co-hosting a local talk show in Baltimore.

美國脫口秀女王奧普拉-溫弗瑞在巴爾的摩與人合作主持當地談話節目

According to the Huffington Post, Winfrey was fired from the 6 pm news slot at Baltimore's WJZ-TV in 1977 at age 23.

據《赫芬頓郵報》報道,1977年溫弗瑞23歲時,被巴爾的摩WJZ-TV電視臺晚間6點檔新聞欄目解僱。

In 1978, a 24-year-old Winfrey was recruited to co-host WJZ's local talk show "People Are Talking." While there, she also hosted the local version of "Dialing for Dollars."

1978年,24歲的溫弗瑞受僱共同主持WJZ的當地談話節目《人們在交談》,在那裏,她還主持了地方版的《打電話贏美元》節目。