巴基斯坦16岁电脑天才少女去世：分享人生哲学

Arfa Karim Randhawa, the computer programming prodigy who became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at 9 years old, has passed away at the age of 16, according to reports out of her native Pakistan this weekend.

电脑程序天才少女Arfa Karim Randhawa，9岁就成为了世界上最年轻的微软认证专家，本周，据其家乡巴基斯坦方面报道，其于16岁去世。

She had been in the hospital for nearly a month after reportedly suffering an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest. Two weeks ago her outlook appeared to improve. In recent weeks, Microsoft had stepped in to help provide expert medical care.

在被曝出受癫痫折磨后，她在医院住了将近一个月。2周前，她的身体状况似乎还有所好转。在最近几周，微软公司已经介入为其提供专业的药物照顾。

As explained in this earlier post, I met Arfa and wrote a story about her in 2005 as a newspaper reporter covering her visit to the Microsoft campus in Redmond, when she was 10 years old. After seeing the reports this weekend, I went back and found some of the audio clips from my interview with her, including her talking about meeting Bill Gates, learning to program and what she planned to do when she grew up.

如在早期的报道中提到的，在2005年，作为资讯记者的我结识了Arfa，并且写了她10岁踏入雷德蒙德微软大学的故事。这周末，看到这则消息后，我回头在与她的采访中找到一些音频资料，其中包括她谈起和比尔•盖茨的会面，学习编程序还有她计划长大后做什么的片段。

I’ve pieced together the highlights in this audio file, to provide a better sense for what she was like. One of the most remarkable parts, apart from her recounting the conversation with Gates, is hearing her talk with such authority about developing Windows applications.

我在这份音频文件中将其中的集锦进行拼凑，为大家献上她更好的一面。其中最精彩的一部分，且不说她与比尔•盖茨的谈话，便是听她讲起发展Windows应用如此权威的论断。

As you’ll hear at the end, Arfa at 10 years old had also settled on her philosophy of life, and committed it to memory. She told me about it after our interview, when she was having her picture taken outside, so I turned my recorder back on and asked her to repeat it for me on tape.

就像你在最后会听到的，Arfa在10岁的时候就已经有了她自己的人生哲学，并在记忆中永远铭记。在我们采访结束后，她拿到在户外拍的照片时，她告诉我了这些，所以我重新打开了录音机，要求她为我再重复一遍。

“If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind,” she said. “If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.”

“如果想要你的人生成就辉煌，你必须记住，羞怯关乎所有，”她说，“如果你想着害羞，你就会表现得害羞。如果你觉得自信，你就会表现得自信。因此绝对不要让羞怯攻破你的意志。”