Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University

It is hard to imagine life without amazon.com, even for someone of my advanced age.

即使对于像我这样上了年纪的人来说，很难想象没有亚马逊网站的生活。

After all, where else can a few clicks of a mouse take you from the latest novel by Tony Morrison to an 18th century edition of the works of John Lockach, having

毕竟，除了这里，还有哪里能让你通过几次鼠标点击，从托尼·莫里森的最新小说瞬间跳转到约翰·洛克十八世纪的作品集？

stopped in power tools and women's shoes along the way.

途中还会顺便浏览电动工具和女鞋等商品。

Yet, the founder and chief executive officer of the world's largest retailer, whose net sales surpassed 24.5 billion in 2009, is only 46 years old.

然而，这位全球最大零售商的创始人兼首席执行官年仅46岁，其2009年的净销售额已突破245亿美元。

And Amazon.com has only existed since 1995, making it even younger than the class of 2010.

亚马逊网站直到1995年才成立，甚至比2010届的毕业生还要年轻。

The moral of this story is that the right idea in the right hands at the right time can change the way we lead our lives.

这个故事告诉我们：正确的想法、合适的人选以及恰当的时机，足以改变我们的生活方式。

The idea in this case was harnessing the power of the naent internet to create a virtual bookstore of limitless proportions.

当时的构想是利用互联网的力量，创建一个规模无限的虚拟书店。

The hands were those of our speaker, Jeff Bezos, a self-described nerdy commuter commu computer science and electrical engineering major who graduated from Princeton with highest honors in 1986.

而‘双手’的主人正是演讲者杰夫·贝佐斯，他自称是个书呆子气的通勤者，主修计算机科学和电气工程，于1986年以优异成绩从普林斯顿大学毕业。

And the time was 1994 when he and his wife McKenzie Tuttle Bezos of the class of 1992 exchanged the security of Wall Street where they worked at De Shaun Company for

而那个时机是1994年，当时他和妻子麦肯齐·塔特尔·贝佐斯（1992届毕业生）放弃了在德肖恩公司工作的华尔街安稳生活，

the uncertain prospects of a dotcom startup.

去追求一家初创互联网公司充满不确定性的前景。