Steve-Jobs-斯坦福大学演讲稿中英文对照
The commencement speech Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University in 2005
Thank you. I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the clost I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.
谢谢。今天来参加世上最好大学之一的毕业典礼让我感到荣幸。老实说，我大学从未毕业而现在是我离大学毕业最近的时刻。
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.
今天我想告诉你我生命的 3 个故事。就这样。没有什么。只有 3 个故事。第一个故事是关于把点连接起来。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed 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 t 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, “We’ve got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?” They said, “Of cour.” My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated
