苹果公司CEO乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲-中英文.docVIP

苹果公司CEO乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲 摘要:这是苹果公司CEO乔布斯2005年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲，大 学途中退学，创业，被解雇，东山再起，死亡威胁，这些他都一一经历了 。经营自己与众不同的人生要从了解别人的经历开始。以下是英文原版以 及翻译的版本：Tag: 英语 演讲???? ??? This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. 　　I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories. 　　很荣幸和大家一道参加这所世界上最好的一座大学的毕业典礼。我大 学没毕业，说实话，这是我第一次离大学毕业典礼这么近。今天我想给大 家讲三个我自己的故事，不讲别的，也不讲大道理，就讲三个故事。 　　The first story is about connecting the dots. ? I dropped out of Reed then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? 　　第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。我在里德学院（Reed College ）只读了六个月就退学了，此后便在学校里旁听，又过了大约一年半，我 彻底离开。那么，我为什么退学呢？ 　　It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him? They said: Of course. My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. 　　这得从我出生前讲起。我的生母是一名年轻的未婚在校研究生，她决 定将我送给别人收养。她非常希望收养我的是有大学学历的人，所以把一 切都安排好了，我一出生就交给一对律师夫妇收养。没想到我落地的霎那 间，那对夫妇却决定收养一名女孩。就这样，我的养父母——当时他们还 在登记册上排队等著呢——半夜三更接到一个电话: “我们这儿有一个