英語美文名人勵(lì)志故事05:Andrew Carnegie為慈善事業(yè)做貢獻(xiàn)的故事
5. Andrew Carnegie and His Philanthropy
5. 安德魯·卡內(nèi)基和他的慈善事業(yè)
Carnegie spent almost twenty years left to him giving his wealth away. He believed that those who became rich should return what they did not need to society. He had said that a rich man "dies disgraced" if he does not use the ability he has shown ingathering money to give away his money for the public good during his lifetime.
卡內(nèi)基花了將近二十年的晚年歲月來分散自己的財(cái)富。他認(rèn)為那些發(fā)了財(cái)?shù)娜藨?yīng)該把他們不需要的錢都?xì)w還給社會。他曾經(jīng)說過，一個(gè)富人在他活著的時(shí)候不把他在積累財(cái)富上所顯示的才能用來為公共利益，將他的錢財(cái)分散出去的話，他死也“死得不光彩”。
He began to use his money to build free public libraries. In 1919 it was said that his money had built almost 3,000 libraries, valued altogether at over sixty million dollars. Most of these were in the United States, but some of them were in Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, and even as far as the Fiji Islands.
他開始把他的錢用來興建免費(fèi)的公共圖書館。1919年，據(jù)說他的錢已經(jīng)興建了差不多三千座圖書館，總共估價(jià)大約六千萬美元以上。這些圖書館大多數(shù)都在美國，但其中一部分在加拿大、英國、新西蘭，甚至遠(yuǎn)在斐濟(jì)群島。
A gift of four million dollars was made to Carnegie's hometown, Dunfermline, Scotland. It was used to build parks and playgrounds for the people of the town. Pittsburgh, where he made his fortune, was given a music hall, a museum, an art gallery, and a public library.
一份四百萬美元的饋贈被送給了卡內(nèi)基的故鄉(xiāng)蘇格蘭鄧費(fèi)爾姆林。那筆款是用來為該鎮(zhèn)人民修建公園和運(yùn)動場的。匹茲堡是他發(fā)邊的地方，他為該市興建了一座音樂廳、一個(gè)博物館、一個(gè)美術(shù)館和一座公共圖書館。
Andrew Carnegie's public gifts amounted to almost three hundred and thirty million dollars. He gave one million, five hundred thousand dollars to the Peace Palace at the Hague in the Netherlands. After the war began in Europe in 1914, he gave his home, Skibo Castle in Scotland, to the British Government for use as an army hospital.
安德魯·卡內(nèi)基的熱心公益的饋贈達(dá)到三億三千萬美元左右。他贈給荷蘭海牙和平官一百五十萬美元。1914年戰(zhàn)爭在歐洲爆發(fā)后，他把自己在蘇格蘭斯基波城堡的住宅贈給英國政府用作陸軍醫(yī)院。
