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乔布斯英语演讲稿乔布斯 2005 年斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文对照版乔布斯 2005 年斯坦福大学毕业演讲乔布斯 2005 年斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文完整版'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says This is the text of mencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of puter and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at mencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten toa college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. 你必须要找到你所爱的东西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 College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around asa 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 bya 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:“我们这儿有一个没人要的男婴, 你们要么?”“当然要”他们回答。但是,我的生母后来发现