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1、2022乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿【双语】史蒂夫乔布斯（Steve Jobs，1955年2月24日20xx年10月5日），诞生于美国加利福尼亚州旧金山，美国独创家、企业家、美国苹果公司联合创办人。乔布斯被认为是计算机业界与消遣业界的标记性人物，他经验了苹果公司几十年的起落与兴衰，他深刻地变更了现代通讯、消遣、生活方式。下面第一范文网带您看一下他在斯坦福高校毕业典礼讲话。乔布斯斯坦福高校毕业典礼演讲稿I am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in t

2、he world. Truth be told， I never graduated from college. And 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.今日，我很荣幸能和你们一起参与毕业典礼，斯坦福高校是世界上的高校之一。说实话，(虽然)我从来没有从高校中毕业，但今日是我生命中离高校毕业最近的一天了。今日我想向你们讲

3、解并描述我生活中的三个故事。不说大道理，就是三个故事而已。The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 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?我在里德学院读了六个月之后就退学了，但是在十八个月以后，我还常常去学校。我为

4、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. Ex

5、cept 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 m

6、other 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. This was the start in my life.故事要从我的诞生说起。我的亲生母亲是一名年轻未婚的高校毕业

7、生。她确定让别人收养我，她非常想让高校毕业生收养我。所以在我诞生前，她已经打算一切，让一位律师和他的妻子收养。但是她没有料到，在我诞生后，律师夫妇突然确定要一个女孩。所以，我的养父养母(他们当时还在候选名单上)突然在半夜接到了一个电话：“我们有一个意外降生的男婴，你们想收养他吗?他们回答说： “当然! 但是我亲生母亲随后发觉，我的养母从未上过高校，我的养父中学没毕业。于是她拒绝签订收养合同。但在几个月以后，因为我的养父养母答应她肯定要让我上高校，她才心软同意了。And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a colle

8、ge 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 couldnt 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

9、spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and would all work out OK. It was pretty 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 didnt interest

10、me， and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.在十七岁那年，我的确上高校了。但我天真地选择了一个几乎和斯坦福高校一样贵的学校，我父母还处于工薪阶层，为了交学费，他们几乎耗光全部积蓄。六个月后，我几乎看不到在学校的价值。我不知道(我生命中)要追求什么，我也不知道学校是否能帮我找到答案。但在学校，我将花光我父母这一辈子的积蓄。所以，我确定退学，并且我信任车到山前必有路。(不行否认)，我当时特别胆怯，但现在回头来看，这个确定是我一生中最明智确定之一。在我做出退学确定后，我再也不用去上那些我丝毫没有爱好的必

11、修课，我起先去听那些看起来好玩的课程。It wasnt all romantic. I didnt 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. A

12、nd much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:这一点也不罗曼蒂克。没了宿舍，所以我要到挚友家睡地板;为了填饱肚子，我捡过值5美分的可乐罐;为了每周一顿的好一点的饭，每个星期天晚上，我穿街过巷，步行7英里到Hare Krishna教堂。我喜爱那里的饭菜。在新奇和直觉的引导下，我跌跌撞撞地遇到许多东西，这些后来被证明是无价珍宝。我给你们举一个例子吧：Reed College

13、 at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster， every label on every drawer， was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didnt have to take the normal classes， I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how t

14、o do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces， about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations， about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful， historical， artistically subtle in a way that science cant capture， and I found it fascinating.那时候，里德学院的书法课程或许

15、是全美的。学校里的每个海报，抽屉上的每个标签，上面全都是美丽的书法。因为我退学了，没有了正常的课程，所以我确定去上/书法课，去学学怎样写出美丽的字。我学到了san serif 和serif字体，我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变间距，还有怎么样做的版式。那种美感、真实感和艺术感，是科学恒久不能捕获到的，(我发觉)那实在是太迷人了。None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later， when we were designing the first Macintos

16、h computer， it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college， the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the

17、Mac， its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out， I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class， and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in c

18、ollege. But it was very， very clear looking backwards ten years later.当时这些东西好像在我生命中没什么可用之处。但十年之后，当我们在设计第一台Macintosh计算机的时候，就全部派上用场。我把当时我学的那些东西全都融入到Mac。那是拥有美丽字体的第一台计算机。假如我当时没有退学，我没机会沉迷于书法课程，Mac就不会有种类繁多或的行距整齐的字体。假如Windows没有抄袭Mac，个人电脑很可能就不会这么多字体。假如我没有退学，我不会沉迷于书法课程，个人电脑很可能就不会这么多字体。当然了，我在学校的时候不行能把这些点点滴滴提前

19、串连起来。但在十年之后回顾过去，这些东西历历在目。Again， you cant connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut， destiny， life， karma， whatever. This approach has never let me down

20、， and it would made all the difference.再说一次，你不行能把这些点点滴滴提前串连起来;你只能在回顾的时候把它们串连起来。所以你必需信任这些点点滴滴是和你的将来项链的。你必需要信任某些东西：直觉、命运、生命、因缘等等。这个方法从未让我悲观过，它让我别出心裁。My second story is about love and loss.我的其次个故事是关于爱和失去。I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage

21、when I was 20. We worked hard， and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier， and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a c

22、ompany you started? Well， as 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 went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did， our Board of Directors sided with

23、him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone， and it was devastating.我特别幸运，因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。我在二十岁的时候，沃兹和我在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们努力工作，十年之后，苹果从只有两个的穷小子的车库公司，发展到了员工超过四千名、市值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年，我们刚刚发布了的产品Macintosh。我也快要到而立之年了。后来，我被炒鱿鱼了。你怎么可能被你自己创立的

24、公司炒了鱿鱼呢? 在苹果快速成长的时候，我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司，在最初的几年风调雨顺。但是后来我们对公司将来的看法有了分歧，最终我们吵了起来。当吵的不行开交的时候，董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候，我被炒鱿鱼了。公开地把我扫地出门了。曾经是我整个生命的中心已经不再有了，这让我不知所措。I really didnt know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down that I had dropped the

25、 baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure， and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Ap

26、ple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected， but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.有几个月，我真是不知道该做些什么。我觉得我很令上一代的企业家们很悲观，因为我把他们交给我的接力棒弄丢了。我把事情搞砸了，我和(创办HP的)David Packard和(创办Intel的)Bob Noyce见面，并试图向他们致歉。在公众面前，我是个失败者，我甚至想过逃离硅谷。但我后来渐渐看到了曙光，我仍旧宠爱我从事的一切。在苹果发生的风波，并没有丝毫变更这一点。虽然我被驱除了，

27、但是我仍旧钟爱我所做的事情。所以我确定从头再来。I didnt see it then， but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again， less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the

28、most creative periods of my life.我当时没有觉察，但是事后证明，被苹果扫地出门是我这一生经验的的事。因为，作为一个创业者的轻松感觉重新替代作为一个胜利者的负重感，不要把每件事情都看得那么重。它(扫地出门)把我释放出来，让我进入了我生命中最有创建力的一个阶段。During the next five years， I started a company named NeXT， another company named Pixar， and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. P

29、ixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film， Toy Story， and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events， Apple bought NeXT， I returned to Apple， and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apples current renaissan

30、ce. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.在接下来的五年里，我创立了一个名叫NeXT的公司，还有一个叫Pixar的公司，还有和一位魅力女士相识并相爱，她后来成为我的妻子。Pixar 制作了全球第一部由电脑制作的动画电影“玩具总动员，Pixar现在也是全球上最胜利的电脑制作工作室。在随后一系列运作中，苹果收购了NeXT，我重返苹果。我们在NeXT研发的技术是苹果重焕朝气的关键。而且，我还和Laurence共同建立了一个华蜜完备的家庭。Im pretty sure none of this would have happened

31、if I hadnt been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine， but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Dont lose faith. Im convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. Youve got to find what you love. And that is as true

32、 for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life， and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you havent found it yet， keep looking. And dont settle. As with

33、all matters of the heart， youll know when you find it. And， like any great relationship， it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Dont settle.假如苹果没有开除我的话，我可以特别确定，这其中的任何一件事情都不会发生的。虽然这剂良药的味道特别苦涩，但我这个病人须要它。虽然命运有时候会拿起板砖，猛拍你的脑袋。但你不要失去信仰。我很清晰，使我始终走下去的，就是我钟爱着我从事的事。你必需去找到你所钟爱的东西

34、。对于你的工作是如此，对于你的爱人亦如此。你的工作将会占据你的大部分生活时间，你惟一获得成就感方法就是信任你从事工作是高尚的;做高尚工作的惟一方法就是钟爱你的事业。假如你还没有找到，那么你要接着找寻，不要半途而废。心中有信念，你就会找到的。而且，这和其他任何事情一样，随着岁月消逝，它会越来越好。所以，不要半途而废，接着找寻。My third story is about death.我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。When I was 17， I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was yo

35、ur last， someday youll most certainly be right. It made an impression on me， and since then， for the past 33 years， I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life， would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been “No

36、 for too many days in a row， I know I need to change something.在我十七岁的时候，我曾看过一句名言：“假如你把每一天看成是生命中的最终一天，那么有一天你会发觉你是正确的。这句话我印象颇深。从那时起先已有33年了，每个早晨，我都会对着镜子问自己：“假如今日是我生命中的最终一天，你会不会完成你今日想做的事情呢?假如连续几天的答案都是“不的时候，我知道我要做些变更了。Remembering that Ill be dead soon is the most important tool Ive ever encountered to he

37、lp me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations， all pride， all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death， leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the t

38、rap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.谨记我随时死去，这是我一生中遇到的最有帮助的工具，它帮我做出了生命中重要的选择。因为几乎全部的事情，包括全部的荣誉、全部的傲慢、来自尴尬和失败全部的恐惊，这些在死亡面前统统消亡，剩下的爱是真正重要的东西。谨记我随时死去，这是我所知道的，来避开将要失去的一些东西的陷阱的方法。人生不带来，死不带去，我们没有理由不随心而安。About a year ago I was diagno

39、sed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning， and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didnt even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable， and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor

40、advised me to go home and get my affairs in order， which is doctors code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought youd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible

41、for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.也许一年以前，我被诊断出癌症。早晨七点半，我做了一个检查，检查结果清晰地显示我胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时甚至都不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生告知我这是很可能一种无法治愈的癌症，我仅剩三到六个月的时间活在世上。我的医生建议我回家打理后事，这是医生对临终病人的标准程序。这也就是说，我必需在短短几个月之内，要把将来十年对你小孩说的话全部交待完;这也就是说，我要把事情支配妥当，让你的家人会尽可能轻松的生活;这也就是说，我要和他们说“再见了。I lived with that diagnosis all day. La

42、ter that evening I had a biopsy， where they stuck an endoscope down my throat， through my stomach and into my intestines， put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated， but my wife， who was there， told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctor

43、s started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and Im fine now.我拿着那个诊断书过了一成天。那天晚上，我又作了一个活切片检查，医生把一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去，穿过我的胃，进入我的肠道，在我的胰腺上的肿瘤上，用一根针取了一些细胞。我当时打了麻醉/药，不醒人事，但是我的妻子始终在那里。她后来告知我，当医生在显微镜下视察这些细胞，最终他们发觉这些细胞竟然是一种特别罕见的可

44、以用手术治愈的胰腺癌症细胞，于是他们都大叫起来。我做了这个手术，现在我痊愈了。This was the closest Ive been to facing death， and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it， I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:那是我和死神距离最近的一次，我也希望这

45、是以后几十年中的最近一次。以前我只把死亡看作是个概念，但经验此事后，我可以更确定地对你们说：No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven dont want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be， because Death is very likely the single best invention of Lif

46、e. It is Lifes change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you， but someday not too long from now， you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic， but it is quite true.没人想死，即便人们想上天堂，也是想活着去那里。但是人必有一死，你我都无法逃脱。这也本该如此，因为“死亡很可能就是“生命中最杰

47、出的独创。它是生命的轮回，它为新生事物清理道路。现在你们是新生的，但终有一天，你们将渐渐变老，直至谢幕。很愧疚，我讲的这么戏剧化，但这就是现实。Your time is limited， so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And mos

48、t important， have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.人生有限，所以不要把时间奢侈在重复其他人的生活上;不要被教条束缚，那意味着你的思维和其他人没什么不一样;不要被其他人喧嚣的观点掩盖你真正的内心的声音。还有最重要的是，你要有志气去跟随你直觉和心灵，因为它们在某种程度上已经知道你想要成为什么样子。全部其他的事情都是次要的。When I was yo

49、ung， there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog， which was one of the bibles of my generation. 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. This was in the late 1960s， before personal computers and desktop publishing， so it was all made with typewriters， scissors， and polaroid cameras. I