Translations:Chapter One Trey/53/zh-cn

In a way, you couldn’t blame him. My grandfather had known poverty as a kid in Nome, Alaska, where his family scraped by while my great-grandfather, the first Bill Gates in our family, sought his fortune in the Gold Rush of the late 1800s. Bill Jr. had to quit school in the eighth grade to support the family. He sold newspapers in the icy streets of Nome and picked up whatever jobs he could while his dad was off prospecting. Eventually they would move back to Seattle, settling into the furniture business. Times got better for the family, but the anxieties of those early experiences never disappeared.

某种程度上，这不是他的错。我祖父在阿拉斯加州诺姆市（Nome）长大，小时候生活很贫困。全家人仅能勉强糊口的同时，我的曾祖父——也就是家族的第一个比尔·盖茨，搭上19世纪末的淘金热，外出寻找发财机会。小比尔不得不在八年级时辍学，开始赚钱养家。他在诺姆寒冷的街道上卖报纸，在父亲离家淘金期间，什么工作都做。后来，他们搬到西雅图开始从事家具业。家里的经济状况逐渐好转，但祖父早年生活经历留下的焦虑从未消失。