Kendall Jenner | Exclusive Full Forbes Interview · Forbes
Kendall Jenner分享她从模特转型为企业家的经历，以及为何选择推出818龙舌兰酒。适合练习商务、成长、生活类词汇与表达。
Kendall it is so wonderful to be here with you today.
肯德尔，今天能和你在一起真是太棒了！
Thank you for joining me.
感谢您与我一起参与这次活动。
Thanks for having me, I'm happy to be here.
感谢邀请我，我很高兴能来到这里。
Of course, so you are a household name.
当然，因此你已经成为家喻户晓的人物了。
Everyone I think knows you've had a successful modeling career.
我想大家都知道，你拥有一段非常成功的模特生涯。
What made you want to take the leap into entrepreneurship?
是什么促使你决定投身创业的呢？
I think I always felt a really strong passion for it.
我想我一直都对它怀有一种非常强烈的热情。
Obviously I come from a family of a bunch of entrepreneurs.
显然，我来自一个由许多企业家组成的家庭。
So I think it felt really natural for me.
所以我觉得，对我来说，这一切都显得非常自然。
I felt like I was in a
我感觉自己仿佛置身于一个……（此处原文未完成，具体情境需根据上下文补充。）
place in my modeling career as it
在我模特生涯中，这件事具有非常重要的意义（或：它在我模特生涯中占据了重要的地位）。
was like coming up on maybe nine
差不多有九个人吧。
now almost 10 years where I was just really ready for something new and kind of to take control of my own business in a way.
如今，已经过去了将近10年的时间。在这段时间里，我终于做好了迎接新变化的准备，并且希望能够以某种方式掌控自己的事业。
And so I was really excited for it.
因此，我对此感到非常兴奋。
I always felt really drawn to it.
我一直都对它有一种强烈的吸引力。
I just wanted to be really intentional with what I was going to go for.
我只是想对自己的选择更加慎重、更加有目的性（即确保自己的决定是基于深思熟虑的结果）。
And I honestly think it was nice
说实话，我觉得这真的很不错。
to take the time and to kind
愿意花时间、并且态度友善（或体贴）
of mature within myself and grow and get older and realize what I wanted to do and where I wanted to be and
在我内心深处，那些成熟的想法正在逐渐形成；我会不断成长、变老，最终明白自己真正想做什么、想成为什么样的人。
feel like I was ready for that step.
我觉得自己已经为迈出那一步做好了准备。
So I felt really ready and it's almost indescribable.
因此，我觉得自己已经做好了充分的准备；这种感觉几乎无法用语言来形容。
I think I gave you some words, but it's kind of a moment where you just wake up and you're like,
我想我确实跟你说过一些话，但那时候你就像刚从睡梦中醒来一样，心里想着……
okay, I feel like I'm really ready for this point in my life.
好吧，我觉得自己真的已经为人生中的这个阶段做好了准备。
So that's so cool.
那真是太酷了！
And going along with that, I've always thought like out of every single product or thing that you could have chosen,
基于这一点，我一直认为：在所有你可以选择的产品或事物中，
why did you decide to start with Tequila?
你为什么决定从龙舌兰酒开始呢？
And I love Tequila.
而且我非常喜欢龙舌兰酒。
Yeah.
是的。
Well, there you go.
好了，就是这样。
I feel like it was it was a lot of that.
我觉得情况确实就是这样。
Obviously, I was a fan as a consumer of Tequila.
显然，作为一名龙舌兰酒的消费者，我一直是它的忠实粉丝。
And so I really loved it.
所以我真的很喜欢它。
And when I kind of, I mean, it's to make a long story short, I guess,
总之，长话短说吧……
it was it was something that was always my mom and my dad drank it all the time growing up.
这是我从小就经常看到的事情：我的爸爸妈妈总是喝这种饮料。
I always heard about it.
我一直都听说过这件事。
And then you know, as I got older and I would start drinking it, I kind of was like loving playing around with as a consumer,
然后你知道的，随着我年龄的增长，开始饮用这种饮品后，我发现自己很享受作为消费者去尝试各种不同的产品或饮用方式。
tasting different Tequila is loving different Tequila is kind of just loving the space again, as a consumer,
品尝不同的龙舌兰酒，其实就是在重新体验作为消费者的那种愉悦感。这种体验，某种程度上，就如同重新探索和享受生活中的各种可能性一样。
not knowing too much about the ins and outs of it and found myself really excited about it and really passionate about it.
虽然对其中的细节了解得并不多，但我却对此感到非常兴奋，并且充满热情。
For I call it destiny.
因为我认为这就是命运的安排。
I'm just like, I don't know why, but it all all of a sudden kind of I fell in love with it.
我就是觉得……不知道为什么，但突然之间我就喜欢上了它。