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Bill Gates was her secret Santa, and it was as awesome as you'd think
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著名社交網(wǎng)站Reddit的網(wǎng)友Aerrix可能是這個(gè)圣誕假期最開心的人:她在神秘禮物傳遞網(wǎng)上偶遇的神秘圣誕老人居然是比爾·蓋茨!而且,還從蓋茨那里收到了一大堆禮物!Aerrix和網(wǎng)友分享了收到禮物的經(jīng)歷。
Be prepared. Your Secret Santa will probably disappoint you this year, cause your Secret Santa isn't Bill Gates.
準(zhǔn)備好啦。今年,你的神秘圣誕老人可能會(huì)讓你失望了,因?yàn)樗皇潜葼?蓋茨。
A Reddit user named Aerrix says the world's richest man -- worth a cool $75 billion, in case you've forgotten -- sent her gifts last week through Reddit's Secret Santa Gift exchange.
紅迪網(wǎng)的用戶Aerrix稱,這位世界上最富有的人上周通過(guò)紅迪網(wǎng)“神秘圣誕老人的禮物”傳遞活動(dòng)給她送了禮物——以防你不記得,提醒一下比爾?蓋茨的身價(jià)高達(dá)750億美元。
The gifts were awesome, and she was a little bit excited about it. We know this because about half of the words in a post she wrote about it were in all caps.
比爾?蓋茨的禮物棒極了,Aerrix因此有點(diǎn)激動(dòng)。我們之所以會(huì)知道這點(diǎn),是因?yàn)樗奶又薪话氲膯卧~都是大寫的。
Aerrix wrote of getting a mysterious box -- a "freakin' HUGE BOX," she called it -- of opening it and seeing a picture of Gates in a Santa hat on top, of calling her husband and blurting out the news -- "BILL GATES IS MY FREAKIN SANTA!!!!!!!" -- and of course, going through and unwrapping these gifts of pure joy.
Aerrix在帖子中描寫了她得到的神秘盒子——她稱之為一個(gè)“大得驚人的盒子”,她還寫道打開盒子后看到一張蓋茨戴著圣誕帽的照片,她立即叫來(lái)老公告訴他這個(gè)消息——“比爾?蓋茨居然是我的圣誕老人!!!!”當(dāng)然帖子里還寫了他們非常開心地拆禮物。
She loved them, because Gates, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist, did his homework. You see, Aerrix loves stuff like video games and the Legend of Zelda. It says so on her Reddit Gifts profile page, which Gates obviously read, because he loaded her up with all kinds of goodies like:
因?yàn)檫@位微軟創(chuàng)始人兼慈善家蓋茨做足了功課,所以Aerrix非常喜愛這些禮物。Aerrix的紅迪網(wǎng)禮物資料頁(yè)上寫著,她喜歡電子游戲和《賽爾達(dá)傳說(shuō)》這類東西。蓋茨肯定讀過(guò)她的資料,因?yàn)樗徒oAerrix的各式各樣的禮物包括:
the matching Zelda mittens for her and her dog ...
為Aerrix和她的狗狗準(zhǔn)備的同款賽爾達(dá)手套……
and the Minecraft edition Xbox One (with three wireless controllers) ...
一臺(tái)Minecraft版的Xbox One游戲機(jī)(配有三個(gè)無(wú)線游戲控制器)……
and the Harry Potter slippers ...
哈利?波特款拖鞋…
and the Cajun cookbooks (because she's from southern Louisiana and hasn't forgotten her roots) ...
法餐食譜(因?yàn)锳errix來(lái)自路易斯安納州南部,而她一直思念著自己的故鄉(xiāng))…
and a Legend of Zelda master sword (it's made out of paper) ...
《賽爾達(dá)傳說(shuō)》中的大師劍(用紙做的)……
and the photoshopped picture of Aerrix, her husband and Gates in a cute as pie Zelda frame.
以及一張將Aerrix和丈夫以及蓋茨P在一起的照片,而且照片被放在了一個(gè)可愛的賽爾達(dá)相框里。
But Gates wasn't done, she wrote. He also made a donation in her name to code.org, which helps students learn about computer science.
Aerrix寫道,但這還沒(méi)完事兒。蓋茨還以她的名字向code.org捐款,這家網(wǎng)站幫助學(xué)生了解計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)。
"Which is AWESOME because it's something near and dear to my heart as my husband is a programmer and my brother has a degree in computer science!" she wrote.
她稱,“這個(gè)禮物太棒了,它對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)是非常親密的禮物,因?yàn)槲业恼煞蚴且幻绦騿T,而我弟弟擁有計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)學(xué)位!”
This Secret Santa stuff is nothing new for Gates though. He's has been doing this since at least 2013.
“神秘的圣誕老人”活動(dòng)對(duì)蓋茨并不是什么新鮮事兒。至少?gòu)?013年起,他就在做這件事了。
And he's not the only celebrity doing the Santa thing. Other celebs like Alyssa Milano and Snoop Dogg have also taken part in Reddit's Secret Santa exchange.
而他也不是唯一一個(gè)當(dāng)圣誕老人的名人。艾莉莎?米蘭諾、史諾普?道格等其他名人也參加了紅迪網(wǎng)的“神秘圣誕老人”傳遞活動(dòng)。
So it makes you wonder for next year ... is Warren Buffett on Reddit?
人們因此好奇明年沃倫?巴菲特會(huì)來(lái)紅迪網(wǎng)嗎?
Vocabulary
Cajun: 法人后裔
英文來(lái)源:CNN
翻譯:董靜
編審:yaning
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