刘强东在上市酒会上的英文演讲 中英文对照演讲稿
Ladies and gentlemen, good evening.
I'd rather use English, not Mandarin. During the road show, I felt so sorry. When I opened my mouth, I have to speak Chinese, and then my colleagues Sidney or Haoyu will translate for me. They are right, but still I believe 20 to 30 percent were lost. So every time I felt very anxious, I gave a word to myself. Sooner or later I will speak English, so today is a good time. It is really a big day. It is a successful day. It is an exciting day. And it is also a day full of love. Because it is May 22 and in Chinese it means "I love love". It is the most loved day of the whole year, right?
Too many people did not applaud. Because I knew you can not understand me. It is not because my English is Chinglish, it is because my English is Suqian-English.
There are two steps to me. One is that I walked from a small village Suqian to Beijing which spent years. And I spent another 20 years to walk from Beijing to New York. What is our new target and what is our new goal? I hope in the next 20 years, in every city and every country in the world, there must be our customers or our partners. It is like a Thanksgiving day. Please allow me to represent JD and our team to thank everyone here. First of all our shareholders, in about eight years ago, when I first met Kathy, founder and CEO of Capital Today. We met at around 10 o'clock in the evening. After talking she wrote a letter to me, just three letters: Chollima(person with outstanding talents and
stigma). She was worried that other investors would come and talk to me. So she said, go to Shanghai tomorrow morning. And I will buy a ticket for you. I got it. It is free, which is the most important. So when I got to Kathy's office at 10 in the morning. Just two hours of negotiation, and said Richard, “please sign it”. So I got my first 10 million US dollars on that day. She said, Richard I hope you can at least make 10 times for me. I said no, because 10 times is nothing. I can see some brightness in her eyes,"Oh, how many times will I get?" I said it is top secret. Five years later I will let you know. And in five years she once joined our Board meeting. She said Richard I remember your word. Five years ago, I knew it is a hundred times. I made it.
Today, three of our long-time colleagues. And Qi Ge(Zhang Qi) is our first colleagues. He worked for this company for over 15 years. At that time he was only 16 years old. It is legal. When they joined the team, I said,"Here would be your family." So they worked here, fell in love here, married here and they got kids here. They are called the JD family and JD baby, our second generation. For this IPO I want to thank Sidney very much. He really did a very great job, and uncountable days and nights working with his team. A lot of times worked till 4 o'clock or even 5 o'clock. When back home for one or two hours to rest and came back to the office again. A lot of nights, days and weekends, before the road show I only spent one percent of my time on the IPO. I just did a lot of signatures. Yeah, sure, so I did nothing and thank you Sidney. He is the hero of our IPO process.
Another hero is Haoyu. He said he missed his step at home Playing with his kids. A joke. With his kids means he is a little old. I spent 20 years to walk from Beijing to here, but this guy only spent two weeks from Beijing to New York, Boston, San Francisco and Chicago, just with his walking sticks. He is the hero of our roadshow. They are heros.
I think resources are limited at anywhere and anytime. For governments, for countries even for the world, resources are limited. But one thing is unlimited. That is heros at JD. I mean every colleague is a hero. We are a team. We work together and we fight together. So, thank you to our team and cheers.
女士们先生们晚上好!
今天我想说英语不说中文，因为在路演的时候，我感到很遗憾，我用中文演讲，我的同事黄宣德或者皓瑜会帮我翻译，他们翻译的很对，但至少20%-30%的内容被漏掉了，所以每次我都倍感焦虑，我给我自己定下目标，迟早有一天我要用英语演讲，就是今天。今天是个大日子，是个意味着成功的日子，令人兴奋的日子，同时也是充满爱的日子，因为今天是5月22号，中文谐音是“我爱爱”。今天是全年最有爱的一天，是不是。
这么多人没鼓掌，没鼓掌的我知道你们都没听懂，不是因为我说的是中式英语，而是因为我说的是宿迁英语。
在我过去的四十年里，有两个重要的人生阶段，第一阶段，我花了xx年时间从宿迁走到了北京，在第二个xx年，我从北京走到了纽约。我们下一个二十年目标是什么，我希望在全世界每个国家每个城市，都有我们的顾客或者合作伙伴。今天好像是感恩节，请允许我代表京东，代表我的团队，感谢在座的各位，首先感谢我们的投资人。大概8年前，我第一次见到Kathy徐新，今日资本的创始人CEO,我们晚上10点见面，聊过之后，她写了一
封信给我，上面只有三个字，千里马。她很担心其他的投资人跟我约谈，所以让我明天一早去上海，她会给我买票，所以我得到了一张免费的票。这是整件事情里最重要的部分。我第二天一早10点到了Kathy的办公室，只谈了2小时，她打印了一个文件，说Richard，签字吧。在那天，我就这样得到了我的第一个1000万美金投资。他说，Richard，我希望你能给我至少10倍的报酬，我说不，10倍那都不是事。我看见她两眼放光，追问，哦那会是多少。我说这事头等机密，五年后我会让你知道。五年后，她出席京东董事会的时候跟我说，Richard，我还记得你五年前说的话，我现在知道了，是百倍。我做到了。
今天有三个老同事在现场。张奇是我们的第一个同事，他为京东工作了超过xx年的时间，刚开始他只有16岁，这是合法的啦。我想要他们加入我的团队，我说，这里是你的家，他们在这工作，在这找到真爱，在这结婚，生小孩。他们组建了“京东家庭',迎来了“京东宝宝”，我们的第二代。在这次IPO 的过程中，我想要特别感谢Sidney，他和他的团队做的非常出色，（也很辛苦）不计其数的日日夜夜的工作，很多时候工作到凌晨四五点，休息一两个小时又继续投入工作，许许多多的日日夜夜和周日。在路演之前，我只花了1%的时间在IPO 这件事上，只要签字就行了，真的，啥都不用我操心，谢谢Sidney。他是我们的英雄。
另一个IPO的英雄是皓瑜，他说他在家和孩子玩的时候失足摔断了腿，一耳光玩笑，有孩子说明他有点老了啊。我花了xx年的时间从北京到了纽约，但这家伙拄着拐杖，只花了2周，从北京到纽约，波士顿，旧金山，芝加哥，他是我们路演的英雄。他们都是英雄。
我认为在任何时候任何地方，资源都是非常有限的。对于政府，国家甚至整个世界来说，但有一个东西是无线的，那就是京东的英雄，每一个同事都是英雄，我们是一个团队，我们一起工作，并肩作战。感谢我们的团队，谢谢你们，干杯。
1. IPO abbr. 首次公开募股（Initial Public Offerings）
初次公开发行（Initial Public Offering）
例：Prior to the IPO, Goldman relied on its partners' equity for capital, and the partners basically had to keep their money in the company until they left.
在首次公开募股之前，高盛依赖于它的合作伙伴的股本，并且这些合作伙伴基本上都把 他们的钱存在银行直到他们破产。
2. I make it.
我做到了。（我成功了）
例：My family was told that, if I made it, I’d probably have severe
brain damage.
我的家人被告知，即使我活过来了，也很可能有严重的脑损伤。
3. target n. 目标；靶子& vt. 把……作为目标；规定……的指标；瞄准某物
例：Republicans targeted her as vulnerable in her bid for reelection this year. 共和党人认为她在今年的再次参选中是不堪一击的攻击目标。