【原】巴菲特最后的慈善午餐？

Amber看世界 2022-06-19 发布于重庆

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1.An anonymous bidder has shelled out a record $19 million for a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffet at a steakhouse in New York City.

一位匿名买家以破纪录的1900万美元的天价拍下了与亿万富翁沃伦·巴菲特在纽约市一家牛排餐厅共进私人午餐的机会。

2.The meal with the Berkshire Hathaway CEO was offered on an eBay auction to benefit the San-Francisco-based charity GLIDE, which helps homeless people and those in poverty.

与伯克希尔哈撒韦公司首席执行官的这顿饭是在eBay上进行的拍卖，以捐赠给旧金山的慈善机构GLIDE，该机构旨在帮助无家可归者和贫困人群。

3.The winner can bring up to seven guests.

拍到的赢家可以带七名客人随行。

4.Buffett has raised $53 million for GLIDE since the auction began in 2000.

自2000年开始拍卖以来，巴菲特已经为GLIDE筹集了5300万美元。

5.The charity earned the philanthropist billionaire's support when his first wife, Susie, introduced him to it after she started volunteering there.

当他的第一任妻子苏茜开始在那里做志愿者后，向他介绍了这家慈善机构，从而赢得了这位慈善家亿万富翁的支持。

6.She died in 2004.

她于2004年去世。

7.This year's event will be the first private lunch offered with the 91-year-old billionaire since the previous record-setting bid of $4.5 million by cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun in 2019.

今年的活动将是自加密货币企业家贾斯汀·孙在2019年创下450万美元的纪录以来，这位91岁的亿万富翁首次提供私人午餐。

8.The past two auctions were called off due to COVID-19 concerns and Buffett has said this will be the last.

由于对新冠疫情的担忧，过去的两次拍卖都被取消了，巴菲特说这将是最后一次。

9.“It’s been nothing but good,” Buffett said of the charity lunch in a news release.

巴菲特在新闻发布会上谈到这场慈善午餐时说:“这真是太棒了。”

10.“I’ve met a lot of interesting people from all over the world. The one universal characteristic is that they feel the money is going to be put to very good uses.”

“我遇到了很多来自世界各地的有趣的人。一个普遍的特点是，他们觉得这笔钱将被用于非常好的用途。”

11.Like the winner this year, some other past winners have chosen to remain anonymous.

和今年的获奖者一样，其他一些过去的获奖者也选择了匿名。

12.One past winner, Ted Weschler, received a job offer from Buffett's company after he spent nearly $5.3 million on two auctions in 2010 and 2011.

韦施切勒曾是巴菲特公司的一名中奖者，他在2010年和2011年的两次拍卖中花费了近530万美元，后来获得了这家公司的工作机会。