乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英文对照)

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6

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months,

but

then

stayed

around

as

a

drop-in

for

another

18

months

or

so

before

I

really

quit.

So

why

did

I

drop

out?

我在

Reed

大学读了六个月之后就退学了

,

但是在十八

个月以后——我真正的作出退学决定之前

,

我还经常去学校。

我为什么要退学呢？

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:

unexpected baby boy; do you want him?

course.

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.

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故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻

的

,

没有结婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我

,

她十分

想让我被大学毕业生收养。所以在我出生的时候，她 已经做

好了一切的准备工作，能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收

养。但是她没有料到

,

当我出生之后

,

律师夫妇突然决定他们

想要一个女孩。

所以我的生养父母（他们还在我亲生父母

的观察名单上）突 然在半夜接到了一个电话

:

“我们现在这

儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴

,

你们想要他吗？”他们回答< /p>

道

:

“当然！

” 但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从来没有

上过大学

,

我的父亲甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签这个收

养合同。只是在几个月 以后

,

我的父母答应她一定要让我上

大 学

,

那个时候她才同意。

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I

naively chose a college that was almost as expensive

as

Stanford,

and

all

of

my

working-class

parents'

savings were being spent on my college tuition. After

six months, I couldn't see the value in

it. 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.

And

here

I

was

spending

all

of

the

money

my

parents

had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out

and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty

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scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the

best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out

I could stop taking the required classes that didn't

interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that

looked interesting.

在十七岁那年

,

我真的上了大学。但是我很愚蠢的选

择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校< /p>

,

我父母还

处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把 所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。

在六个月后

,

我已经看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我想

要在生命中做什么

,

我也不知道大学能帮助我找到怎样的答

案。

但是在这里，我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的所有积

蓄。所以我决定要退学

,

我觉得这是个正确的决定。不 能否

认

,

我当时确实非常的害怕

,

但是现在回头看看

,

那的确是

我这一生中最棒的一个决定。在我做出退学决定的那一刻

< br>,

我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起丝毫兴趣的课程了。然

< br>后我还可以去修那些看起来有点意思的课程。

It

wasn't

all

romantic.

I

didn't

have

a

dorm

room,

so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned

coke

bottles

for

the

5

￠

deposits

to

buy

food

with,

and

I

would

walk

the

7

miles

across

town

every

Sunday

night

to

get

one

good

meal

a

week

at

the

Hare

Krishna

temple.

I

loved

it.

And

much

of

what

I

stumbled

into

by

following

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my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless

later on. Let me give you one example:

但是这并不是那么罗曼蒂克。 我失去了我的宿舍

,

所

以我只能在朋友 房间的地板上面睡觉

,

我去捡

5

美分的可乐

瓶子，仅仅为了填饱肚子

,

在星期天的晚上

,

我需要走七英