【跟着演讲学英语】乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼致辞 |
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:01 | Thank you, I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world | 谢谢,我很荣幸今天能与你同在 成为世界上最优秀的大学之一 |
| 0:16 | truth be told I | 说实话 |
| 0:19 | never graduated from college and | 从大学毕业, |
| 0:22 | This is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation | 这是我最接近大学毕业的时候 |
| 0:28 | Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. | 今天我想告诉你三个故事 从我的生活。 |
| 0:31 | That's it. | 就这样 |
| 0:32 | No big deal. | 没什么大不了的 |
| 0:33 | Just three stories | 就三个故事 |
| 0:36 | the first story is about connecting the dots I | 第一个故事是连接点一 |
| 0:41 | Dropped out of Reed College after the first six months | 前6个月后从里德学院退学 |
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| 1 | Thank you, I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world | 谢谢,我很荣幸今天能与你同在 成为世界上最优秀的大学之一 |
| 2 | truth be told I | 说实话 |
| 3 | never graduated from college and | 从大学毕业, |
| 4 | This is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation | 这是我最接近大学毕业的时候 |
| 5 | Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. | 今天我想告诉你三个故事 从我的生活。 |
| 6 | That's it. | 就这样 |
| 7 | No big deal. | 没什么大不了的 |
| 8 | Just three stories | 就三个故事 |
| 9 | the first story is about connecting the dots I | 第一个故事是连接点一 |
| 10 | Dropped out of Reed College after the first six months | 前6个月后从里德学院退学 |
| 11 | But then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit | 但是在我真的戒烟之前 再待了18个月 |
| 12 | So why'd I drop out? | 我为什么要退学? |
| 13 | It started before I was born | 我出生前就开始了 |
| 14 | My biological mother was a young unwed graduate student and she decided to put me up for adoption | 我亲生母亲是个年轻未婚的研究生 她决定收养我 |
| 15 | She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates | 她强烈地认为我应该被大学毕业生收养 |
| 16 | So everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife | 所以一切都安排好了 我一出生就被律师和他的妻子收养 |
| 17 | Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl | 除了我出来的时候 他们最后一刻决定 他们真正想要一个女孩 |
| 18 | So my parents who were on a waiting list got a call in the middle of the night asking | 我父母在等待名单上 半夜接到电话 |
| 19 | We've got an unexpected baby boy. | 我们有一个意外的男孩。 |
| 20 | Do you want him? | 你想要他吗? |
| 21 | They said of course | 他们当然说 |
| 22 | My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school | 我亲生母亲后来发现,我母亲从未从大学毕业,父亲也从未从高中毕业. |
| 23 | She refused to sign the final adoption papers | 她拒绝签署最后收养文件 |
| 24 | She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college | 几个月后我父母答应我上大学 她才松口气 |
| 25 | this was the start in my life and | 这是我人生的开始 |
| 26 | 17 years later, I did go to college | 17年后,我确实上过大学 |
| 27 | but I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford and | 但我天真地选择了一所 几乎和斯坦福一样昂贵的大学 |
| 28 | All of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition | 我所有工人阶级父母的储蓄 都花在我的大学学费上 |
| 29 | After six months, I couldn't see the value in it | 半年后,我看不见里面的价值 |
| 30 | I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out | 我不知道自己想做什么 也不知道大学会怎样帮助我 |
| 31 | And here I was spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life | 我花了我父母救过他们一辈子的钱 |
| 32 | So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out. | 所以我决定退学 相信一切都会好的 |
| 33 | Okay | 还好 |
| 34 | It was pretty scary at the time. | 当时很恐怖 |
| 35 | But looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made | 但回头看 这是我做过的最好的决定之一 |
| 36 | the minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and | 我辍学的那一刻,我可以停止 需要的课,我不感兴趣, |
| 37 | Begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting | 开始拜访那些看起来更有趣的人 |
| 38 | It wasn't all romantic. | 这不是所有的浪漫。 |
| 39 | I didn't have a dorm room. | 我没有宿舍 |
| 40 | So I slept on the floor in friends rooms | 所以我睡在地板上的朋友房间 |
| 41 | I returned coke bottles for the five cent deposits to buy food with and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night | 我拿五美分的储金还了可卡因瓶 用来买食物 我每周日晚上走七英里的路 |
| 42 | To get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. | 每周在克利须那神庙吃一顿好饭 |
| 43 | I | 一、导 言 |
| 44 | Loved it and much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on | 喜欢它和很多我偶然发现的东西 跟着我的好奇心和直觉 发现在后来变得无价 |
| 45 | Let me give you one example | 让我举个例子 |
| 46 | Read college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country | 当时读大学也许提供了全国最好的书法教学 |
| 47 | Throughout the campus every poster every label on every drawer was beautifully hand calligraphed | 整个校园的每一张海报 每个抽屉的标签 都用漂亮的手书写 |
| 48 | Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes. | 因为我退学了,不用上课 |
| 49 | I | 一、导 言 |
| 50 | Decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this | 决定选一个书法课来学习怎么学 |
| 51 | I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations | 我学会了serif和sans serif 类型面 关于不同字母组合间空间的不同 |
| 52 | About what makes great typography great. | 关于什么让伟大的打字很棒。 |
| 53 | It was beautiful historical | 这是美丽的历史 |
| 54 | artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture and I found it fascinating | 艺术微妙的方式 科学无法捕捉 我发现它迷人 |
| 55 | None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life | 这一切都没有希望 任何实际应用在我的生活中 |
| 56 | But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer | 但十年后,我们设计了第一台Macintosh电脑 |
| 57 | It all came back to me and we designed it all into the Mac. | 这一切都回到我身边,我们设计了所有的麦克。 |
| 58 | It was the first computer with beautiful typography | 这是第一台有漂亮打字机的电脑 |
| 59 | If I had never dropped in on that single course in college | 如果我在大学里从未上过单项课程 |
| 60 | The Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts and since Windows just copied the Mac | 由于Windows只是复制了Mac,Mac将永远不会有多个类型面或比例化的字体 |
| 61 | It's likely that no personal computer would have them | 很可能没有个人电脑能拥有他们 |
| 62 | If I had never dropped out | 如果我从来没有退学 |
| 63 | I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personal computers might not have the wonderful | 我绝对不会上书法课的 个人电脑可能不会有好东西 |
| 64 | Typography that they do of course. | 他们当然会打字 |
| 65 | It was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college | 我大学的时候 无法连接那些向前看的点 |
| 66 | But it was very very clear looking backwards ten years later | 但十年之后的回顾非常清楚 |
| 67 | Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. | 再说一遍,你不能把点连接到前面 |
| 68 | You can only connect them looking backwards | 你只能把它们往后看 |
| 69 | So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future | 所以,你必须相信,这些点 会在某种程度上连接到你的未来 |
| 70 | You have to trust in something your gut destiny life karma, whatever | 你必须相信某件事 你的直觉命运 生活因果报应,无论什么 |
| 71 | Because believing that the dots will connect down the road | 因为相信这些点会连接在路上 |
| 72 | Will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference | 使你自信地顺从你的心,即使它引导你走出了漫长的道路,那将使你改变一切。 |
| 73 | My second story is about love and loss. | 我的第二个故事是关于爱和损失。 |
| 74 | I | 一、导 言 |
| 75 | Was lucky I found what I love to do early in life | 幸好我早年找到喜欢做的事 |
| 76 | Was and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20 | 我20岁时在父母的车库里 开了苹果店 |
| 77 | We worked hard and in ten years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage | 我们辛勤工作,在十年里 苹果从我们两个在车库里长大 |
| 78 | Into a two billion dollar company with over 4,000 employees | 进入20亿美元的公司 员工超过4000人 |
| 79 | We just released our finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier, and I just turned 30 and | 我们刚刚发布了我们最好的创造 麦金托什一年前, 我刚刚30, |
| 80 | Then I got fired | 后来我被解雇了 |
| 81 | How can you get fired from a company you started? | 你怎么能被你创办的公司解雇? |
| 82 | Well as | 说得好 |
| 83 | Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me and for the first year or so things | 苹果长大了,我们雇了个人 我认为他非常有才华 和我一起经营公司 第一年左右的事情 |
| 84 | Went well, but then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out | 进展顺利,但后来我们对未来的展望开始分歧,最终我们发生了滑落 |
| 85 | When we did our board of directors sided with him and so at 30 I was out and very publicly out | 当我们做我们的董事会 站在他一边,所以30岁 我出门,非常公开退出 |
| 86 | What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. | 我整个成年生活的重点已经消失,而且具有毁灭性。 |
| 87 | I | 一、导 言 |
| 88 | Really didn't know what to do for a few months | 几个月前真的不知道该怎么办 |
| 89 | I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me | 我觉得我让前一代的企业家失望了 我放弃了指挥棒 因为它正在传递给我 |
| 90 | 我和David Packard和Bob吵了一架 想为我搞砸了道歉 | |
| 91 | Was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley, but something slowly began to dawn on me I | 是一个非常公开的失败, 我甚至想着逃离山谷, 但我慢慢地开始发现一些事情 |
| 92 | Still loved what I did | 仍然喜欢我所做的 |
| 93 | The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit | 苹果的转折并没有改变 |
| 94 | I'd been rejected, but I was still in love and | 我被拒绝了,但我仍然爱着 |
| 95 | So I decided to start over I | 所以我决定重新开始 |
| 96 | Didn't see it then but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me | 那时候没看到 但后来发现 从苹果公司被炒鱿鱼 对我来说是最好的 |
| 97 | The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again less sure about everything | 成功的重心被轻而易举地 取代了 重新成为初学者 |
| 98 | It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life | 它让我进入了我生命中最有创意的时期之一 |
| 99 | During the next five years I started a company named next | 在接下来的五年里 我创办了一家公司 |
| 100 | Another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife | 还有一家叫皮克斯的公司 爱上了一位了不起的女人 她将成为我的妻子 |
| 101 | Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film Toy Story and is now the most successful | Pixar继续创作了世界上第一部电脑动画故事片"玩具故事",现在是最成功的作品. |
| 102 | animation studio in the world | 世界动画工作室 |
| 103 | in a remarkable turn of events | 在一个令人瞩目的转折中 |
| 104 | Apple bought next and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at next is at the heart of Apple's current Renaissance and | 苹果买下下一个,我回到苹果 我们开发的技术 下一步是苹果当前文艺复兴的核心 |
| 105 | Loreen and I have a wonderful family together | 罗琳和我有一个美好的家庭 |
| 106 | I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple | 我敢肯定,如果我没被苹果公司开除, 这一切都不会发生 |
| 107 | It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it | 这药太难吃,不过我猜病人需要 |
| 108 | Sometime life sometimes life's gonna hit you in the head with a brick | 有时候生活有时会用砖头砸你的头 |
| 109 | Don't lose faith | 别失信了 |
| 110 | I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did | 我深信唯一让我坚持下去的是 我爱我所做的 |
| 111 | You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers | 你一定要找到所爱的东西 工作上也一样 |
| 112 | Your work is gonna fill a large part of your life | 你的工作会填满你一生的大部分 |
| 113 | And the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work | 真正满意的唯一方法 就是做你认为伟大的工作 |
| 114 | And the only way to do great work is to love what you do if you haven't found it yet | 做伟大的工作的唯一方法就是 爱你做的事 如果你还没有找到它 |
| 115 | Keep looking and don't settle as with all matters of the heart | 继续寻找,不要像解决所有的事情一样 |
| 116 | You'll know when you find it and like any great relationship. | 你会知道 当你找到它 喜欢任何伟大的关系。 |
| 117 | It just gets better and better as the years roll on | 随着岁月的流逝,它变得越来越好 |
| 118 | So keep looking don't settle | 所以,继续找,不要解决 |
| 119 | My third story is about death | 我的第三个故事是关于死亡 |
| 120 | When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like if you live each day as if it was your last | 我17岁的时候,我读了一篇引文, 它去的东西一样,如果你每天生活 仿佛它是你的最后 |
| 121 | Someday, you'll most certainly be right | 总有一天,你肯定是对的 |
| 122 | It made an impression on me. | 这让我印象深刻 |
| 123 | And since then for the past 33 years | 从那以后的33年 |
| 124 | I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself if today were the last day of my life | 我每天早上都照镜子 问自己今天是不是生命的最后一天 |
| 125 | What I want to do what I am about to do today and whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row | 今天我要做的事 每当答案连续多日不响 |
| 126 | I know I need to change something | 我知道我需要改变一些事情 |
| 127 | Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life | 记得我快死了 是我遇到的最重要的工具 帮助我做出人生中的重大选择 |
| 128 | Because almost everything all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure | 因为几乎所有的外部期望 都为尴尬或失败感到骄傲 |
| 129 | These things just fall away in the face of death | 这些东西在死亡面前掉下来 |
| 130 | Leaving only what is truly important | 只留下真正重要的东西 |
| 131 | Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose | 记住你即将死去 是最好的方法,我知道 避免陷阱 认为你有 失去的东西 |
| 132 | You are already naked there is no reason not to follow your heart | 你已经脱光了 没有理由不跟随你的心 |
| 133 | About a year ago. | 大约一年前。 |
| 134 | I was diagnosed with cancer. | 我被诊断患有癌症。 |
| 135 | I | 一、导 言 |
| 136 | Had a scan at 730 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. | 早上7点30分做了一次扫描 并清楚地显示我的胰腺上有肿瘤 |
| 137 | I didn't even know what a pancreas was | 我都不知道什么是胰脏 |
| 138 | The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable and that I should expect to live no longer | 医生告诉我,这几乎肯定是一种癌症,是无法治愈的,我应该期待不再活着 |
| 139 | than three to six months | 三至六个月以上 |
| 140 | My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors code for prepare to die | 我的医生建议我回家把事情处理好 这是准备死的医生密码 |
| 141 | It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them in just a few months | 意思是试着告诉你的孩子 接下来的10年里 你都想告诉他们 |
| 142 | It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that will be as easy as possible for your family | 意思是保证一切被扣住 这样你的家人就尽可能容易了 |
| 143 | It means to say your goodbyes. | 意为说别. |
| 144 | I | 一、导 言 |
| 145 | Live with that diagnosis all day | 整天接受这个诊断 |
| 146 | Later that evening I had a biopsy | 那天晚上我做了一次活检 |
| 147 | Where they stuck an endoscope down my throat through my stomach and into my intestines | 他们把内镜插进我的喉咙 穿过我的胃和肠子 |
| 148 | Put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. | 把针插进我的胰腺里 从肿瘤里得到一些细胞 |
| 149 | I | 一、导 言 |
| 150 | Was sedated but my wife who was there told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctor started crying | 被镇定了,但我老婆告诉我 当他们用显微镜看细胞时,医生开始哭 |
| 151 | Because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery | 因为这是非常罕见的胰腺癌 可以通过手术治愈 |
| 152 | I had the surgery and thankfully I'm fine now | 我做了手术 幸好我现在没事了 |
| 153 | Hmm | 垛 |
| 154 | This was the closest I've been to facing death and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades | 这是我面对死亡最亲近的一次 我希望这更近几十年 |
| 155 | Having lived through it. | 经历了它。 |
| 156 | I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept | 我现在可以肯定地说,比起死亡是一个有用但纯粹是知识的概念 |
| 157 | No one wants to die | 没有人想死 |
| 158 | even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there and | 即使是想上天堂的人 也不愿为了到那里而死 |
| 159 | Yet death is the destination. | 但死亡才是目标 |
| 160 | We all share | 我们都一样 |
| 161 | No one has ever escaped it and | 没人能逃脱它 |
| 162 | That is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life | 这是应该的 因为死亡很可能是生命中最好的发明 |
| 163 | It's life's change agent. | 是人生变化的代理人. |
| 164 | It clears out the old to make way for the new | 清出旧的让路给新人 |
| 165 | Right now the new is you | 现在新的是你 |
| 166 | But someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away | 但不久以后 你会逐渐变老 被清除 |
| 167 | Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true | 对不起,这么戏剧化,但这是相当真实的 |
| 168 | Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life | 你的时间有限,不要浪费它 生活别人的生活 |
| 169 | Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking | 别被教条所困 教条和别人思想的结果在一起 |
| 170 | don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice and | 别让别人的声音 淹没你内心的声音 |
| 171 | Most important have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. | 最重要的是有勇气跟随你的心和直觉 |
| 172 | They somehow already know what you truly want to become | 他们已经知道你真正想要成为什么 |
| 173 | Everything else is secondary | 其他东西都是次要的 |
| 174 | When I was young | 我年轻的时候 |
| 175 | There was an amazing publication called the whole earth catalog, which was one of the Bibles of my generation | 有一个惊人的出版物,叫做"整个地球目录", 它是我这一代人的圣经之一 |
| 176 | It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park and he brought it to life with his poetic touch | 是一个叫斯图尔特·布兰德的人在门洛公园不远的地方创造的 他用诗意的触觉把它带回了生活 |
| 177 | This was in the late 60s before personal computers and desktop publishing | 这是在60年代末个人电脑和桌面出版之前 |
| 178 | So it was all made with typewriters scissors and Polaroid cameras | 所以都是用剪刀和Polaroid相机做的 |
| 179 | It was sort of like Google and paperback form 35 years before Google came along it was idealistic | 在Google出现之前的35年里,它有点像Google和纸质背面的形式,是理想主义的。 |
| 180 | overflowing with neat tools and great notions | 充满了整洁的工具和伟大的概念 |
| 181 | Stewart and his team put out several issues of the whole earth catalog and then when it had run its course | 斯图尔特和他的团队 提出了几个问题 整个地球目录 然后当它运行了它的路线 |
| 182 | They put out a final issue. | 他们发表了最后一期。 |
| 183 | It was the mid 1970s and I was your age on | 那是1970年代中期,我和你一样大 |
| 184 | The back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road | 他们最后一期的封面是一张照片, |
| 185 | The kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous | 如果你这么冒险,你可能会发现自己搭便车 |
| 186 | Beneath it were the words stay hungry stay foolish. | 在下面是那些饿得要死要死 |
| 187 | It was their farewell message as they signed off | 这是他们的告别信 当他们签了 |
| 188 | stay hungry stay foolish and I have always wished that for myself and | 忍饥挨饿 忍饥挨饿 我一直都希望这样 |
| 189 | Now as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you | 现在,当你毕业 重新开始,我希望你 |
| 190 | Stay hungry stay foolish | 忍饥挨饿,忍饥挨饿 |
| 191 | Thank you all very much | 谢谢大家 |
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