学习笔记2008-4-16

(2008-4-16)

Vividly (adv.) She vividly demonstrated how her invention works.

Negative (adj.) He gave me a negative answer.

Communal (adj.) The apartment has four separate bedrooms and a communal kitchen.

Turn over (v.) John has turned his business over to his son.

Lead off (phr.) I’d like to lead off my speech with a story.

Well, thanks, and let me welcome everybody to this fifth CEO summit that we’ve done. It’s our pleasure to have a chance to host you today.

We do this session as an opportunity for all of us to share feedback, to brainstorm, to prompt some ideas and hopefully leave you with some thoughts that are useful.

We’re going to have a chance to hear from Bill Gates about that and then have a chance to share some communal thoughts.

It is a pleasure to host this kind of event.

And without further ado, I’m going to turn things over to Bill Gates. Bill is going to lead us off with…