the median contribution that got you invited

按能受邀在林肯卧室留宿一夜
to stay a night in the Lincoln bedroom,

所需捐款额的中位数计算
Bill Gates could afford to stay in the Lincoln bedroom every night

比尔·盖茨完全付得起在林肯卧室
for the next sixty six thousand years.

住上6万6千年
Somebody else figured out,

还有人算出了
how much does he get paid on an hourly basis?

他一个小时能挣多少钱
And so they figured out, since he began Microsoft,

他们算出自从他创立了微软
I suppose he worked, what 14 hours per day, reasonable guess,

假设他每天工作14个小时合理的猜测
and you calculate this net wealth,

然后你算算他的净资产
it turns out that his rate of pay is over 150 dollars,

结果算出他的工资率在150美元以上
not per hour, not per minute

不是每小时也不是每分钟
150 dollars, more than 150 dollars per second

而是每秒钟150美元以上