Commncement address by Steve Jobs.doc

Commencement address by Steve Jobs ,delivered on June 12, 2005 苹果CEO斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲 (Applause) (掌声) Thank you. 谢谢 Im uh...honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. 今天我非常荣幸来参加你们的毕业典礼，斯坦福是世界上最好的大学之一 Truth be told, er...I never graduated from college and uh...this is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. Ha... 说实话，我自己从来没有从大学毕业，所以今天应该是我距离毕业典礼最近的一刻。呵…… Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. 今天我只想给你们讲三个我生活中的真实故事 Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories. 仅此而已，没有什么长篇大论，就是三个故事 The first story is about connecting the dots. 第一个故事是关于聚点成线 I dropped out of Reed College 我在里德学院待了六个月就办理休学了。后来我又回到学校呆了大概十八个月就彻底退学了。 So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. 那么我为什么退学？这得从我出生前讲起。 My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. 我的生母是一个大学肄业生，也是一个年轻未婚妈妈，她决定让别人收养我 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. 她强烈觉得应该让有大学教育背景的人收养我，所以我就能出生在一个律师家庭。但是这对夫妻到最后一刻反悔了，因为他们想收养女孩 So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, Weve got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him? They said, Of course. 在等待收养名单上的一对夫妻，也就是我的养父母，在一天半夜里接到电话问他们要不要认养一个刚出生的男孩，而他们的回答是：“当然要。” My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. 后来我的生母发现，我现在的母亲从来都没有从大学毕业过，而父亲则连高中也没毕业。 She refused to sign the final adoption papers. 于是她拒绝在最后的供养文件上签字。 She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college. 直到几个月后我的养父母保证一定会让我上大学，她才软化态度。 This was the start in my life. 这就是我一生的起点。 And seventeen 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