An Inconvenient Truth
穆罕默德·尤努斯 / Muhammad Yunus
穆罕默德·尤努斯（1940— ），孟加拉穷人银行家、经济学家、格拉明银行（又称孟加拉乡村银行）创始人。曾留学美国，获得经济学硕士和博士学位。回国后执教于吉大港大学，创办格拉明银行。该银行开创和发展了“微额贷款”的服务，专门提供给因贫穷而无法获得传统银行贷款的创业者，因此使数百万人受益，为消除世界贫困做出了重要贡献。
Ace in the Hole
Understand these new words before you read this article.
1. confront v. 遭遇；比较；面对
2. extinction n. 消灭；消失；废止
3. forge v. 伪造；做锻工；锻造
4. conceit n. 自负；狂妄；幻想
Your Majesties， Your Royal Highnesses， honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee， Excellencies， Ladies and Gentlemen，
I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it.
Sometimes， without warning， the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be. One hundred and nineteen years ago， a wealthy inventor read his own obituary， mistakenly published years before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died， a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life， s work， unfairly labeling him “The Merchant of Death” because of his invention—dynamite. Shaken by this condemnation， the inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace.
Seven years later， Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.
Seven years ago tomorrow， I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken—if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious if painful gift： an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose.