PH_campus+culture11_graduation_乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲1

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲[ 2011-08-25 10:11 ] 来自“英语点津”

这是苹果公司和 Pixar 动画工作室的 CEO Steve Jobs 于 2005 年 6 月 12 号在斯坦

福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。

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 closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.

谢谢大家。很荣幸能和你们，来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们，一块儿参加毕

业典礼。老实说，我大学没有毕业，今天恐怕是我一生中离大学毕业最近的一次

了。

drop-in for another 18 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 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. 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 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. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few