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Dear Max亲爱的麦克斯
Your mother and I don’t yet have the words to describe the hope yougive us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you willbe happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You’ve already given us areason to reflect on the world we hope you live in.
Like all parents, we want you to grow up in a world better than ourstoday.
While headlines often focuson what’s wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Health is improving.Poverty is shrinking. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting.Technological progress in every field means your life should be dramaticallybetter than ours today.
你的降生给我们带来了莫大的希望，我和你母亲一时找不到合适的词语言说。你有一个美好的新生活，我们希望你健康、快乐，充实地度过一生。你的到来已经成为了我们反思的原因，反思什么样的世界才是我们希望你生活的世界。
和天下所有的父母一样，我们希望你成长的世界，好过我们今天的世界。
虽然新闻总是报道哪里出了问题，但从很多方面看，世界正在往好的方向发展。卫生水平在改善、贫困人口在减少、知识在积累、人与人彼此联通，各领域的技术进步意味着你的生活会大大好于我们今天的生活。

We will do our part to make this happen, not only because we loveyou, but also because we have a moral responsibility to all children in thenext generation.
We believe all lives have equal value, and that includes the manymore people who will live in future generations than live today. Our societyhas an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming intothis world, not just those already here.
But right now, we don’t always collectively direct our resources atthe biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face.
我们会尽自己的职责让这一切发生，这不光是因为我们爱你，也是因为我们对所有下一代的孩子负有道义上的责任。
我们相信，人人都具有同样的价值，未来增加的人口也是一样。我们的社会有义务投资今日，改善那些所有将降生在这个世界上人的生活，而不仅仅是现在这些人。
不过就现在来说，我们有时候没有齐心协力将资源用在解决你们这一代将面临的问题上，没有给你们创造最大的机遇。

Consider disease. Today we spend about 50 times more as a societytreating people who are sick than we invest in research so you won’t get sickin the first place.
Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, andwe’ve already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress forothers. As technology accelerates, we have a real shot at preventing, curing ormanaging all or most of the rest in the next 100 years.
以疾病为例，我们在治疗患者上的投入是预防疾病研发投入的50倍。
药物成为真正科学的历史还不到100年，有些病症能彻底治愈，有些则取得了积极的治疗进展。随着科技加速发展，我们在未来100年里，有机会预防、治愈或控制所有或绝大部分其余的病症。

Today, most people die from five things — heart disease, cancer,stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases — and we can make fasterprogress on these and other problems.
如今，心脏病、癌症、中风、神经退化疾病与传染病导致了多数人的死亡。我们完全可以加速解决这些和其他问题。

Once we recognize that your generation and your children’sgeneration may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have aresponsibility to tilt our investments a bit more towards the future to makethis reality. Your mother and I want to do our part.
一旦我们意识到，你们这一代和你们的下一代或许可以不再患病，我们大家就有责任把投资倾向未来，让这一切变成现实。我和你母亲想尽自己的一份力。

Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or tenyears, it may not seem like we’re making much of a difference. But over thelong term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, you or your children willsee what we can only imagine: a world without suffering from disease.
There are so many opportunities just like this. If society focusesmore of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation amuch better world.
治疗疾病要花费时间。在5到10年的短期时间里，或许并不会有太大变化。但从长远来看，今天的播种会有收获。总有一天，你或你的孩子将看到一个我们这辈人只能想象的世界：一个没有疾病困扰的世界。
类似这样的机会还有很多。如果社会将精力放在处理这类重大挑战上，我们就能给你们这一代留下一个更好的世界。

For your generation to live in a better world, there is so much moreour generation can do.
Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing oursmall part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve asFacebook’s CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too importantto wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a youngage, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.
为了让你们这一代生活在更好的世界，我们这一代能做的事情还有很多。
今天，我和你母亲承诺，用我们毕生的精力，为解决这些挑战尽微薄之力。在今后多年里，我还将继续担任Facebook首席执行官一职，但上面这些问题是不能等到你长大了，或是我们变老了在着手解决的。早早开始，我们希望在我们这辈子中看到一些复合收益。

We’ll share more details in the coming months once we settle intoour new family rhythm and return from our maternity and paternity leaves. Weunderstand you’ll have many questions about why and how we’re doing this.
As we become parents and enter this next chapter of our lives, wewant to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible.
We can do this work only because we have a strong global communitybehind us. Building Facebook has created resources to improve the world for thenext generation. Every member of the Facebook community is playing a part inthis work.
We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing onthe shoulders of experts — our mentors, partners and many incredible peoplewhose contributions built these fields.

当我们成为家长，掀开人生崭新一页时，我们想要对那些让这一切变为现实的人致以深深的谢意。
我们能做这样一种工作，完全是因为身后有一个强大的全球性社区。打造Facebook为改善下一代的环境提供了资源。Facebook社区的每位成员，都是这份工作的一份子。
只有站在专业人士的肩上，我们才能在这些机遇上取得进展——这里包括我们的导师、合伙人以及众多在相关领域上付出的杰出人士。

And we can only focus on serving this community and this missionbecause we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazingcolleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in yourlife too.
我们只能专注于服务这一社区以及这一使命，因为在身边陪伴我们的是有爱的家庭、相互支持的朋友以及了不起的同事。我们希望在你的人生中，也能出现这样深刻且积极的人际关系。

Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the worlda better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with thesame love, hope and joy you give us. We can’t wait to see what you bring tothis world.
麦克斯，我们爱你，并且把为你和所有孩子留下一个更好的世界当成一个重任。我们希望你的人生中也充满爱、希望与喜悦——就如同你赠与我们的一样。我们已经等不及要看看你会为这个世界带来些什么。

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