I was born and raised in Hoffman, North Carolina.

我在北卡罗来纳州的霍夫曼市出生长大。

That was Beverly Sills performing a song from the opera The Tales of Hoffman by the French composer Jacques Offenbach.

下面这首是贝弗利·希尔斯表演的由法国作曲家雅克·奥芬巴赫创作的歌剧中的一首歌。

REID HOFFMAN: My central interest was how we, as people, as humans, think, speak, reason, communicate and understand each other.

我的主要兴趣是，作为人类，我们如何思考、说话、推理、沟通和理解彼此。

REID HOFFMAN: I knew there was a very high probability I was right because I was close enough to it to know.

我知道有很大的可能性我是对的，因为我已经很接近了。

The names I have given them are, beginning with the northern-most, Yosemite Creek, Hoffman, Tenaya, South Lyell, and Illilouette Glaciers.

我给它们起的名字是， 从最北端开始， 优胜美地溪、霍夫曼、特纳亚、南莱尔和伊利卢埃特冰川。

Hilltop Inn in Elmira, Warfield Inn, Jack's Oyster House in Albany, Hoffman House in Kingston… With Scotch and Sirloin; I've heard of this place.

埃尔迈拉的 Hilltop Inn、沃菲尔德旅馆、奥尔巴尼的 Jack's Oyster House、金斯顿的 Hoffman House… … 提供苏格兰威士忌和沙朗牛排；我听说过这个地方。

REID HOFFMAN: One of the metaphors I use for entrepreneurship is: You jump off a cliff, and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

你从悬崖上跳下去，然后在下落的过程中组装一架飞机。

REID HOFFMAN: Well, we got a lot of criticism for being boring, over the years, and there's both some fairness and some unfairness to that criticism.

好吧，这么多年来，我们因为产品无聊而受到了很多批评，这些批评既有公平的一面，也有不公平的一面。

Oh, the birthplace of Joseph Smith… then Newark, the rose capital of the world, the Hoffman Clock Museum with clocks dating back a hundred years.

哦，约瑟夫·史密斯的出生地… … 然后是世界玫瑰之都纽瓦克，霍夫曼钟表博物馆，里面的钟表可以追溯到一百年前。

REID HOFFMAN: Well, SocialNet was, in Silicon Valley parlance, a failure. We did return our capital to our investors, but we didn't actually make an ongoing company.

用硅谷的话说，SocialNet 是个失败的网站。我们确实把本金还给了投资者，但我们并没有建立一个持续发展的公司。