Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook is joining the roster of the very rich who are giving away their wealth. 苹果公司的CEO蒂姆·库克日前也加入到了愿意捐出全部财富的富豪行列。 Fortune magazine cited the head of the world's largest technology corporation as saying he planned to donate his estimated $785 million fortune to charity - after paying for his 10-year-old nephew's college education. 据《财富》杂志称,作为世界上最大科技公司的CEO,库克表示他计划在供养10岁的侄子上大学后将约为7.85亿美元的个人资产全部捐给慈善组织。 "You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change," Cook told the magazine. 库克在接受该杂志采访时说:“你会想要成为投入池塘的一颗卵石,带来改变的层层涟漪。” Fortune estimated Cook's net worth, based on his holdings of Apple stock, at about $120 million. He also holds restricted stock worth $665 million if it were to be fully vested. 据估计,库克的净财富约为1.2亿美元,另外还有价值约6.65亿美元的限制股。 The 54-year-old CEO's revelation in Fortune's lengthy profile of him is an example of the increasingly public philanthropy of the world's richest people. 今年54岁的库克在接受《财富》杂志采访时作出这样的承诺意味着他跟上了其他一些知名富豪慈善家的脚步。 |