正文翻譯

Is over 50 too old to be an entrepreneur?

50多歲創(chuàng)業(yè)會太晚嗎？

評論翻譯

Angela Birch, BA from Pepperdine University (1974)
Nope, but you would need to realize it takes a fair amount of hard work and long hours. It likely means sinking every single penny you can scrape together and living in what would politely be called poverty for years until the business is successful enough to actually pay you a wage. I started at 24 and I paid myself minimum wage till I was about 40. My husband was a bit more successful he started his business at 35 when he got his doctorate and by the time he was 47 he could increase his wage above minimum wage. I have been in business now for roughly 48–49 years, I now make a nice income and the business is doing very well but it takes time, hard work, patience, and the ability to defer gratification. You have to literally be willing to live on almost nothing for a lot longer than you think.

不晚，超過50還能創(chuàng)業(yè)，但你需要意識到這需要大量的艱苦且長時間的工作。 這可能意味著把你能攢下的每一分錢都攢起來，在委婉地稱為貧窮的情況下生活多年，直到生意成功，足以支付你實際的工資。我從 24 歲開始，一直給自己最低生活費，直到我大約 40 歲。我丈夫比較成功，他在 35 歲獲得博士學位時開始創(chuàng)業(yè)，到 47 歲時，他的工資已經(jīng)超過最低工資。 我已經(jīng)做了約四十八九年的生意，現(xiàn)在收入不錯，生意做得很好，但這需要時間、努力工作、耐心和推遲滿足的能力。你必須愿意在幾乎一無所有的情況下生活比你想象中還要更長的時間。
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Bhupinder Nayyar
Oprah - at 62 years old - jumped from the 5th to 2nd richest self- made women in Forbes’ 2016 US Rich List -- by turning her problem into her profit.
Throughout Oprah’s rise to fame, she has had a lifetime battle, played out publicly.?
"I was raped at 9 years old by a cousin, then again by another family member, and another family member," Oprah has said. As a result of the abuse, she was pregnant with a baby son at 14, who she lost.
"I went back to school, and nobody knew. Because had anybody known at that time, I wouldn't have been able to be head of the student council, I wouldn't have been chosen as one of the two teenagers in the state of Tennessee to go to the White House conference on youth. None of those things would have happened, and the entire trajectory of my life would have been different.”

62歲的奧普拉在2016年《福布斯》美國富豪榜上從第五名躍升至第二名，她將她的問題轉(zhuǎn)化為利潤。
在奧普拉成名的過程中，她經(jīng)歷了一生的奮斗，并在公眾面前表現(xiàn)出來。
奧普拉說:“我9歲時被一個表兄強奸，然后又被另一個家庭成員強奸，再一次又是另一個。”由于虐待，她14歲時懷上了一個兒子，但她失去了這個兒子。
“沒人知道這件事的情況下我回到學校。因為當時如果有人知道，我不可能成為學生會主席，我也不會被選為田納西州參加白宮青年會議的兩名青少年之一。這些事情也都不會發(fā)生，我的人生軌跡也會完全不同?！?/p>

Oprah then got into a series of abusive relationships, saying “The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me because I didn't like myself much.”
"So I'd end up with these cruel self-absorbed guys who'd tell me how selfish I was, and I'd say 'Oh thank you, you're so right' and be grateful to them. Because I had no sense that I deserved anything else. Which is also why I gained so much weight later on. It was the perfect way of cushioning myself against the world's disapproval.”
She has grown her TV career while increasing in size. In 1988 she lost 67 pounds to get into a pair os size 10 Calvin Klein jeans, saying “I had literally starved myself for four months - not a morsel of food.” Just two days later, she began putting the pounds back on and could no longer fit in the jeans.

奧普拉隨后陷入了一系列受虐的戀情，她說:“我最初之所以長這么胖，之所以有這么糟糕的受虐史，是因為我太需要別人的認可了?！蔽倚枰總€人都喜歡我，因為我不太喜歡自己?！?br>“所以最后我遇到了這些殘忍、自私的家伙，他們告訴我我有多自私，我會說‘哦，謝謝你，你太對了’，并感激他們?！币驗槲矣X得我配不上其他任何東西。這也是我后來長胖的原因。這是讓自己免受世界非議的最好方式?！?br>她在增加體重的同時也發(fā)展了自己的電視事業(yè)。1988年，為了穿上一條10號的Calvin Klein牛仔褲，她減掉了67磅，她說:“我真的餓了自己4個月—一點食物也沒吃?！眱H僅兩天后，她的體重又開始增加，牛仔褲穿不下了。
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Ten years later she had put on so much weight she was skipping photoshoots saying “I felt like a cow”. She published her weight gain numbers in her magazine, ‘O’: she wrote. "I was so frustrated I started eating whatever I wanted - and that's never good."
By 1992 she was up to 237 pounds and has bounced 60 pounds up and down in the twenty years since.
Then, 7 months ago, Oprah decided to put her money where her mouth was, and invested $43 million for a 10% stake in Weight Watchers, to be a part-owner, board member, and spokesperson.

十年后，她長胖了很多，以至于她不拍照片，她說“我感覺自己像一頭母?！?。她在她的雜志《奧普拉》上發(fā)表了她的體重增加數(shù)據(jù):“她寫道?！拔姨趩柿?，我開始想吃什么就吃什么—但這從來都不是好事?！?br>到1992年，她的體重達到了237磅，在此后的20年里，她的體重波動空間在60磅左右。
7個月前，奧普拉決定言出必行，她投資4300萬美元購買了慧儷輕體10%的股份，成為該公司的合伙人、董事會成員和發(fā)言人。

When you’ve built a personal brand like Oprah, you can earn through book sales and advertising, or you can earn through the value of the businesses you invest in. The second way leads to far bigger results.
In January she tweeted “Eat bread, Lose weight. Whaaattt?" with a video of her losing 26 pounds since she began Weight Watcher's program 3 months earlier. As a result, Weight Watchers’ stock price jumped from $11.35 to $15.62 and Oprah made a $12.5 million gain in a day.
Her “Oprah Effect” has brought over 1 billion new impressions to the company, and the company has doubled in value, to $1 billion, since she invested.
That means, in the 27 weeks since she invested, she has lost one pound in weight, and she has gained $2 million in profit, week after week.

當你建立了像奧普拉這樣的個人品牌后，你可以通過圖書銷售和廣告來賺錢，或者你可以通過投資的企業(yè)價值來賺錢。第二種方法會帶來更大的結(jié)果。
今年1月，她在推特上寫道:“吃面包，減肥。這段視頻是她在3個月前開始執(zhí)行減肥中心的減肥計劃后減掉了26磅。結(jié)果，慧儷輕體的股價從11.35美元飆升至15.62美元，奧普拉一天之內(nèi)就賺了1250萬美元。
她的“奧普拉效應(yīng)”給公司帶來了超過10億的新客戶，自她投資以來，公司價值翻了一番，達到10億美元。
這意味著，在她投資后的27周內(nèi)，她體重每周減輕1磅，每周獲得200萬美元的利潤。

In the April 2016 issue of O, Oprah put herself on the front cover together with her Weight Watcher’s group and featured the weight loss progress they have made. It's the first time the magazine has featured readers on the cover. Oprah said: "It was my idea to share the cover with other women who are on the same journey that I am.”
"My own struggles with the scale are well known. I’ve never believed in hiding them. Gone, for me, are the days of wanting to be thin to fit into anything other than my best body and best life. What I do believe in strength in numbers.”

在2016年4月的《奧普拉》雜志上，奧普拉與她的體重觀察小組一起登上封面，介紹了他們在減肥方面取得的進展。這是該雜志第一次以讀者為封面人物。奧普拉說：“這是我的想法，與其他和我有同樣經(jīng)歷的女性分享封面?！?br>“我自己與體重的斗爭是眾所周知的。我從來都不相信要把它們藏起來。對我來說，想要苗條以適應(yīng)最好的身體和生活的日子已經(jīng)一去不復(fù)返了，我相信人多力量大。”
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What can you do to turn your problems to profit? Who can you bring along for the journey?
And how can you make sure they’re with you for the purpose, not just the profit?
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

你能做些什么來將你的問題轉(zhuǎn)化為利益呢? 你能帶誰去旅行?
你如何確保他們和你在一起是有目的的，而不僅僅是為了利潤?
奧普拉溫弗瑞說“很多人都想和你一起坐豪華轎車，但你想要的是有人在豪華轎車壞了的時候陪你坐公交車?！?/p>