比尔·盖茨免费赠送美国大学毕业生新书

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates said he'll pick up the tab for all US college graduates to download a copy of Hans Rosling's book, "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World -- and Why Things Are Better Than You Think".

微软联合创始人比尔·盖茨近日表示，美国所有的大学毕业生都可以免费下载汉斯·罗斯林的书《事实真相：我们错误看待世界的10个理由，以及为什么事情比你想象的要好》，费用由他来支付。

The book was released in April, offering advice on how to think about the world and how personal instincts can impact our interpretation of information.

此书于今年4月出版，书中就如何思考世界，以及个人的直觉如何影响人们对信息的解读等提供了建议。

It debuted at No 5 on the New York Times Best Seller List for hardcover nonfiction.

上市后，此书立即登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜单精装版非小说类图书的第五名。

"When we have a fact-based worldview we can see that the world is not as bad as it seems -- and we can see what we have to do to keep making it better," Rosling writes in the book.

作者罗斯林在该书中写道：“当我们有一个基于事实的世界观时，我们可以看到世界并不像看上去的那么糟糕--我们可以看到我们必须做些什么才能让世界变得更好。”

It is the book Gates thinks every college graduate should read. In a YouTube video posted in April, Gates called it "one of the most educational books I've ever read."

盖茨认为每个大学生都应该读这本书。他在4月发布的一个YouTube视频中称此书是“他读过的最具教育意义的书籍之一”。

"It covers a space that isn't easy to go learn about," Gates said. "The world would be a better place if literally millions of people read the book."

盖茨表示：“这本书涵盖了一个不容易了解的领域。如果真的有数百万人阅读这本书，世界将变得更美好。”

Last year, Gates recommended Steven Pinker's book "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" to graduates, saying it was the "most inspiring" book he's ever read.

去年，盖茨将史蒂芬·平克的《人性中的善良天使：为什么暴力在下降》推荐给了毕业生，并称该书是他读过的“最鼓舞人心的”书。