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1、A speech by Steve JobsTruth 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.说实话，我不曾大学毕业，这是我首次近距离的感受大学典礼。今天，我想告诉大家我人生中的三个故事，就那么多，没什么大不了，只是三个故事。The
2、first story is about 1. the dots.第一个故事是关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串联在一起。I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So whyd I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate
3、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. S
4、o 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. My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school
5、. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.我在里德学院待了六个月就退学了。之后我一共旁听了大约十八个月才真正离开学校，那么，我为什么退学呢？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。但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学，我的养父甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签这个收养合同。只是
6、在几个月以后，我的养父母答应她一定要让我上大学，那个时候她才同意。This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college.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 couldnt see the 2.
7、 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 going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.十七岁那年，我天真的选了一所学费几乎跟斯坦福一样贵的大学，我那靠打工挣钱的父母把所有积蓄都花在我的学费上。六个月后，
8、我看不出念这个书的价值何在。那时候，我不知道这辈子要干什么，也看不到大学将如何帮我解决这个问题，而且我为了念这个书，花光了我父母这辈子的所有积蓄。So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all 3. 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
9、didnt interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.所以我决定退学，并相信船到桥头自然直。当时这个决定看起来相当可怕，可是现在看来，那是我所做过的最好决定之一。退学后，我再也不用上我不感兴趣的必修课，并开始旁听那些在我看来更加有趣的课程。It wasnt all romantic. I didnt have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends rooms. I returned Coke bottles for th
10、e five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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 my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one
11、 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，我需要走七英里的路程，穿过这个城市去印度教的哈尔.克利须神庙，只是为了能吃上饭这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。但是我喜欢这样。我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走，遇到的很多东西，此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧：Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus eve
12、ry 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 to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between diff
13、erent 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. 里德学院在那时提供也许是全美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海报，每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。我决定去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字因为我休学了，可以不照正常选课程序来，所以我跑去上书写课。 我学了 serif 与 sanse
14、rif 字体，学到在不同字母组合间变更字间距，学到活字印刷伟大的地方。书写的美好、历史感与艺术感是科学所无法掌握的，我觉得这很迷人。None of this had even a hope of any practical 4. in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautif
15、ul typography. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear 5. ten years later.我没期待过学的这些东西能在我的生活中起些什么实际作用。不过十年后，苹果公司设计第一台麦金塔是，我想起了当时所学的东西，我们把这些东西都融入了麦金塔的设计中。这是第一台具有美妙的图形界面的计算机。我在大学的时候，不可能把这些点点滴滴预先串在一起，但是在十年后回顾这一切，就显得非常清晰。Words & p
16、hrase: drop out 退出，中途退学 drop-in n. 旁听生 naively ad. 天真烂漫地、无邪地 tuition n. 学费 figure out 断定，领会到 typography n. 版面，排版式样 stumble into 同相碰Macintosh computer 麦金塔电脑，又称 Mac。是苹果公司所生产的一种型号的计算机，乔布斯利用在大学旁听书法所学到的知识，设计出丰富的电脑字体和赏心悦目的字体间距。My second story is about 6. .我的第二个故事，是有关爱和失去。I was lucky-I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage
