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A jobless man applied for the position of "office boy" at Microsoft.
有一个失业的男人申请微软公司的办公室文员职位。
The manager interviewed him and asked him to clean the floor as a test. The man did it excellently.
经理对他进行了面试，让他以打扫地板作为测试，他做得很好。
"Give me your e-mail address," said the manager. "I'll send you the application to fill in ."
“把你的电子邮件地址给我一下，”经理说。“我会把申请表寄给你填。”
The man replied that he didn't have a computer, nor an e-mail account.
男人回答说他没有电脑，也没有电子邮件帐户。
"I'm sorry," said the manager. "If you don't have an e-mail account, that means you do not exist. So you can't have the job."
“抱歉，”经理说。“没有电子邮件账户就说明你不存在，所以你得不到这份工作。”
The man left disappointed. He didn't know what to do as he only had $10 in his pocket.
男人失望地离开了，他不知道该怎么办，因为他口袋里只有10美元。
Then he decided to buy 10 kilos of tomatoes and sell them from door to door.
他决定买10公斤西红柿，然后挨家挨户地卖。
In less than two hours, he made 20 dollars. He repeated the operation several times.
在不到两个小时的时间里他赚了20美元，之后他又重复这样做了几次。
Soon he earned enough to buy a cart, then a truck, and later his own fleet of delivery vehicles.
很快他就赚够钱买了一辆手推车，后来是一辆卡车，再后来又买了自己的送货车队。
Within five years he became one of the biggest food retailers in the United States.
五年内，他成为了美国最大的食品零售商之一。
One day, a friend asked him for his e-mail address.
一天，一个朋友问他要电子邮件地址。
He said, "I haven't got one." His friend couldn't believe his ears.
他说：“我没有。”他的朋友不敢相信。
"You don't have an e-mail account, and yet have succeeded in building an empire! Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail account?"
你没有电子邮件账户却成功打造了一个帝国！你能想象如果你有一个电子邮件账户你会怎么样吗？”
The man thought for a while and replied, "Yes, I'd be an office boy at Microsoft."
男人想了一会儿然后回答道，“是的，我会成为一名微软的办公室文员。”
