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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Unit 1 The Story of Steve Jobs This is the text of the Commencement Address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, at Stanford University, delivered on June 12, 2005. 1 I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universiti
2、es in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. 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? 2 It start
3、ed 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
4、 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 gr
5、aduated 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. 3 And 17 years later I did go to college. But
6、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 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
7、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 trusted that it 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 th
8、e required classes that didnt interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting. 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 five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles
9、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 example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy
10、 instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. 4 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 sanserif ty
11、pefaces, 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. 5 None of this had even a hope of any practical application in
12、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 beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typef
13、aces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the 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 cours
14、e it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. 6 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 yo
15、ur future. You have to trust in somethingyour gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. 本文是苹果计算机公司和皮克斯动画工作室的首席执行官史蒂夫?乔布斯于2005年6月12日在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿。 1 今天，我很荣幸能来到这所世界顶尖大学参加你们的毕业典礼。我大学没有毕业。说实话，现在是我最接近大学毕业的时刻。我在里德学院读了6个月就退学了，
16、但是作为旁听生又在那里待了18个月左右，然后才真正离开学校。那么我为什么要退学呢？ 2 这要从我还没有出生的时候说起。我的生母是个年轻未婚的研究生，因此她决定把我送给别人收养。她觉得我必须由有大学学历的人收养。于是，她安排好了一切，只要我一出生，就把我交给一位律师和他的妻子收养。但是我出生之后，他们在最后一刻决定他们还是想要一个女孩。当时我父母还在候补名单上，一天半夜他们接到一个电话，问他们：“有个新生儿，是意外怀上的，是个男孩，你们要吗？”他们回答：“当然要。”但是，我的生母随后发现我母亲大学没有毕业，我父亲甚至连高中也没毕业，因此拒绝在最后几份领养文件上签字。直到几个月后，我父母承诺将来一
17、定让我上大学，她才同意了。这就是我生命的开始。 3 17年后，我确实上了大学。但是出于无知，我选了一所几乎与斯坦福一样昂贵的学校，因此，工薪阶层的父母把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上。6个月过去了，我看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我的人生定位，也不知道大学将如何帮我找到答案，而我正在这里耗尽父母一生的积蓄。所以我决定退学，并相信一切都会顺利。这在当时看来非常可怕，但现在回头看看，那是我做过的最棒的决定之一。从退学的那一刻起，我就不用再上那些不感兴趣的必修课，而开始去学那些看上去更有意思的课程。但一切也不全是这么美妙。我没有自己的宿舍，只有在朋友的房间里打地铺；我拣可乐瓶子，把退来的5美分押金攒起来
18、去买吃的；而到了每个周日晚上，我都会步行7英里，穿过城镇去克利须那觉悟会的庙宇饱餐一顿。我喜欢这样。我依照好奇心和直觉做事，大多事后证明是非常值得的。让我给你们举个例子：当当时里德学院开设可能在全国是最好的书法课程。园里的每一张海报、每一个抽屉的每张标签上都有漂亮的书法。 4 因为我已经辍学，不用参加正规的课程，所以我决定去上这门课，学习书法。我了解了衬线和无衬线字体，学会了如何在不同的字母组合间改变间距，知道了如何让大字体显得很漂亮。这种科学所无法捕捉的、美妙的、充满历史感的微妙艺术，让我心醉神迷。 5 这一切在我的生活中是否实用，我不抱希望。直到10年后，当我们在设计第一台麦金托什电脑时，
19、我想起了这些东西。于是，我们把所有这些都设计进了Mac机。这是第一类拥有漂亮字体排版的电脑。如果我没有在大学旁听那门课程，Mac就不会有多种字体以及间距分配合理的字型，很可能现在的微软PC也不会有这些字型你们要知道，Windows也只是抄袭Mac，并非独创。如果我从未退学，我就绝不会旁听那门书法课，而个人电脑可能也不会有现在这样美妙的字体排版。在大学的时候，我当然不可能把这些点点滴滴都串起来展望未来。但在十年后再回首，一切都变得非常、非常清晰。 6 同样，你们现在也无法预见这类琐碎的经历之间能有什么联系，只有在回首往事时才能发现。你们要相信，这些片断会在未来以某种方式连接起来。你们必须相信一些
20、东西勇气、命运、人生、因缘等等。这个方法从未让我失望，也正是它改变了我的整个人生。New WordscommencementC, usu. sing. a ceremony at which students receive their academic degrees or diplomas学位授予典礼，毕业典礼He made a speech at the commencement. 他在毕业典礼上作了演讲。We will get our diplomas at the commencement in May or June. 我们将会在五、六月份举行的毕业典礼上拿到毕业证书。C, U b
21、eginning 开始，开端The commencement of this year will be better. 今年将会有一个更好的开始。Animationn.U 动画制作n.C a film or movie in which drawings of people and animals seem to move 动画片quitvi/vt.to leave your job, school, etc. 离开；离校He got his present job when he quitted/quit the army. 他退伍后找到了现在这份工作。If I dont get a pay
22、 raise, Ill quit. 如果不给我加薪，我就不干了。vi/vt.(informal) to stop doing sth. 停止，戒掉Quit fooling around! 别胡闹了!You must quit smoking. Most important of all, you should start taking exercise. 你必须戒烟；最重要的是，你该开始运动了。biologicala.connected with the processes that take place within living things 生物的；与生命过程有关的a childs bi
23、ological parents 孩子的亲生父母a.connected with the science of biology生物学The school has a large biological laboratory. 这所学校有一个很大的生物实验室。unwed not married 没有结婚的，未婚的In 1993 alone, 26,270 babies were born to unwed teens. 仅仅在1993年便有26270名婴儿为未婚少女所生。adoption n.C, U the act of adopting a child 收养，领养He was pleased
24、with the adoption of a little girl. 他很高兴收养了一个小女孩. n.U the decision to start using sth. such as an idea, a plan or a name 采纳，采用The adoption of this policy would relieve the unions of a tremendous burden. 采用这一政策将会减轻工会沉重的负担。 adopt vt.to take sb. elses child into your family and become its legal parent(
25、s) 收养，领养 vt.to formally accept a suggestion or policy by voting 正式通过，表决采纳（建议、政策等）vt.to start to use a particular method or to show a particular attitude towards sb./sth. 采用（某方法）；采取（某态度）relentvi.to finally agree to sth. after refusing 终于答应，不再拒绝Afterwards she relented and let the children stay up late
26、 to watch TV. 后来她让步了，让孩子们看会儿电视，晚点再睡。 The police will not relent in their fight against crime. 警方在跟犯罪分子的斗争中决不手软.vi.to become less determined, strong, etc. 减弱，变缓和The pressure on us to finish this task will not relent. 为完成此项任务，我们受到的压力不会减轻。naivelyad.in a naive manner 无知地；天真地They naively assume things ca
27、n only get better. 他们天真地以为情况肯定会好转。scarya.causing fear or alarm 引起恐慌的That movie was too scary. 那部电影太吓人了。stumblevi.1) to move or walk in an unsteady way 跌跌撞撞地走，蹒跚而行A drunk stumbled past us. 有个喝醉的人跌跌撞撞地从我们身边走过。The tired old man stumbled along. 那位疲惫的老人蹒跚而行。vi.2) to hit ones foot against sth. while one i
28、s walking or running and almost fall 绊脚I stumbled over a tree root. 树根绊了我一下。He stumbled on the staircase and hurt his leg. 他在楼梯上绊了一跤，伤了腿.intuitionn.1) U the ability to know sth. by using your feelings rather than considering the facts 直觉力Nobody told me where to find you. It was sheer intuition. 没有人告
29、诉我到哪儿去找你。我纯粹是凭直觉找到你的。Intuition told me you were an honest man. 直觉告诉我你是个诚实的人。n.2) C （一种）直觉I had a sudden intuition about the missing jewels. 我凭直觉突然知道失踪的珠宝的去向。I had an intuition that we would win at last. 我有一种直觉，那就是我们最终会成功。calligraphyn.U (the art of producing) beautiful handwriting 书法；书法艺术Im consideri
30、ng studying calligraphy or Chinese painting. 我正在考虑要学书法还是国画。The graphic arts include calligraphy and lithography. 平面造型艺术包括书法和平版印刷术。calligraphvt.to produce by means of calligraphy 用美术体书写serifn.U a short line at the top or bottom of some styles of printed letters 衬线，截线sanserifn.U 无衬线字体typefacen.C （印刷用的
31、）字体typographyn.U 印刷术，排版，版面设计historicala. 1) connected with the past（有关）历史的Are there any historical sites in this area? 这个地区有什么历史遗迹吗？The book is based on historical events. 这本书是以历史事件为基础的。a.2) based on the study of history 有关历史研究的，历史学的We have no historical evidence for it. 我们缺乏可以证明这一点的史学依据。 Its a hist
32、orical fact. 这是历史事实。artisticallyad.in an artistic manner 艺术性地；在艺术上She is artistically aware. 她艺术感很强。The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. 这个房间装饰得十分豪华雅致。fascinatinga.extremely interesting and attractive 极有吸引力的，迷人的The results of the survey made fascinating reading. 调查结果读起来令人饶有兴趣。proporti
33、onallyad.corresponding in size or amount 成比例地，相应地Crime rate is proportionally much higher in the north of the country. 就比例而言，犯罪率在这个国家的北部要高得多。Families with children spend proportionally less per person than families without children. 有孩子的家庭人均开销比没有孩子的家庭相对要少。fontn.C 字型，字体；铅字gutn.C, usu. pl. 内心，直觉，本能des
34、tinyn.1) U the power believed to control events 命运Destiny drew us together. 命运把我们连在了一起。n.2) C what happens to sb./sth. (thought to be decided beforehand by fate) 天数，天命It was his destiny to die in a foreign country. 他注定要客死异国。karman.U 因缘，因果报应Phrases and Expressions be honored (to do sth.) =to feel pro
35、ud and happy（做某事）感到荣幸I was honored to have been mentioned in his speech. 他在讲话中提到了我，真是荣幸。Im honored to meet you. 很荣幸见到您。put (sb./sth.) up for 提供；推荐，提名We decide to put up the family jewels for auction. 我们决定把家中的珠宝拿去拍卖。Harrison put up for the secretaryship. 哈里森自荐秘书一职。work out1) to develop in a successfu
36、l way 成功地发展My first job didnt wok out. 我的第一份工作干得不好。The new strategy may not work out well. 新战略也许不会产生令人满意的效果。2) to train the body by physical exercise 锻炼身体I work out regularly to keep fit. 我经常做运动以保持健康。stumble into sth. to become involved in sth. by chance 无意间涉足某事The urge to wider voyages caused men t
37、o stumble into New America. 扩大航行范围的紧迫要求使人类意外地发现了新美洲。have a hope of 有的希望make all the difference to have an important effect on sb./sth.; to make sb. feel better 有很大影响，使大不相同A few kind words at the right time make all the difference. 在适当的时候说几句体贴话能产生很大的影响.Proper Nouns Steve Jobs史蒂夫乔布斯Stanford University
38、斯坦福大学Pixar Animation Studios皮克斯动画工作室Reed College里德学院Hare Krishna国际克利须那觉悟会Macintosh麦金托什电脑（苹果电脑中某系列个人电脑）3. Questions on the text1. What did Steve Jobs do after he dropped out of Reed College? He stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before he really quit.2. What can we learn from Stev
39、e Jobs narration about his biological mother? His biological mother was a young college graduate student when she gave birth to Steve Jobs as a single woman. She put up Steve Jobs for adoption, and felt strongly that her son should be adopted by college graduates and sent to college in the future.3.
40、 What kind of people were Steve Jobsadoptive parents? His parents were a working-class couple without a college degree. His mother never graduated from college and his father never graduated from high school. However, they did send their adopted son to college as they had promised, and this cost the
41、m nearly all their savings.4. Why did Steve Jobs drop out of Reed College? Because he had no idea what he wanted to do with his life and no idea how college was going to help him figure it out. Besides, the college was so expensive that all of his parents savings were being spent on his tuition. 5.
42、What did Steve Jobs think about his decision of dropping out? Why? He thought it was one of the best decisions he had ever made as he looked back on his past. After he dropped out, he didnt have to take the required classes and he had the opportunity to take classes that interested him. Much of what
43、 he learned in this way proved priceless later on.6. Why did Steve Jobs say his life as a drop-in in the college was not allromantic? Because he was living a shabby life during the 18 months: he didnt have a dorm room, so he slept on the floor in friends rooms; he returned coke bottles for the five-
44、cent deposits to buy food with; he would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.7. What did Steve Jobs learn in the calligraphy class? He learned about serif and sanserif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different le
45、tter combinations, about what makes great typography great. 8. What do you think the graduating students can learn from Steve Jobs life experience? They might learn to trust in somethingtheir gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. They might also learn to have the confidence to follow their heart even
46、 when off the beaten path.4. Working with words and phrasesA. Put the following Chinese expressions into English.生母 biological mother 收养某人 adopt somebody 签署最终的领养文件 sign the final adoption papers 无意间进入演艺界 stumble into acting 凭好奇心与直觉 follow ones curiosity and intuition 实际用途 practical applicationB. Com
47、plete the following sentences with appropriate words in the text.1. At first she threatened to dismiss us all, but later she r(elented). 2. If you cant have children of your own, why not consider a(doption)? 3. She sensed something wrong by i(ntuition). 4. She went to Cambridge on a scholarship but d(ropped) out a year later. 5. I fail to see what women find so f(ascinating) about him.6. Practice: interpretingAfter the speech, a reporter interviewed Steve Jobs. The following is the conversation between the reporter and