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FT2013年度人物评选奖项得主马云

在参加高考两次落第之后，他最终进入了杭州师范学院，并于1988年毕业。

He worked as an English teacher at a local university making $12 a month but in 1994 he started a translation business that took him to the US, where he was introduced to the internet. At the time, China’s state media were not allowed even to mention its existence.

此后他在杭州当地的一所高校担任英语老师，每月的工资相当于12美元。但1994年他成立了一家翻译公司，这使他有机会去美国出差，在那里接触到了互联网。那时中国的官方媒体甚至不能提及互联网的存在。

After a failed attempt to start an online Chinese version of the Yellow Pages, Mr Ma went to work for the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, where one day he was assigned to take an American visitor on a tour of the Great Wall.

在创办中国黄页(China Yellow Pages)失败之后，马云进入中国对外经济贸易部工作。有一天，他被指派陪同一位美国游客游览长城。

The visitor was Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo. The meeting would turn out to be transformative for both men.

这位游客就是雅虎(Yahoo)的联合创始人杨致远(Jerry Yang)。事实证明，这次的见面将成为两人事业生涯的转折点。

Early in 1999, Mr Ma gathered 17 friends and founded Alibaba in his apartment in Hangzhou, giving rousing lectures that revealed his ambition, his vision and his fighting spirit.