Name: "每當我身處谷底，我就會聽這段講話"【喬布斯在斯坦福大學畢業典禮上的演講】中英大字幕/英語長句快語速 史蒂夫-喬布斯的斯坦福演講 ("每当我身处低谷，我就会听这段讲话”【乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲】中英大字幕/英语长句快语速 Steve Jobs' Stanford Speech)
Uploaded: 2025-06-19T07:16:15.000Z
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I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.

今天，我很榮幸能和你們一起參加世界上最好的大學之一的畢業典禮。

過去簡單式

Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.

說實話，我從未大學畢業過，這是我最接近大學畢業的一次。

Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life that's it, no big deal, just three stories.

今天，我想給你們講三個我生活中的故事，就這樣，沒什麼大不了的，就三個故事。

The first story is about connecting the dots.

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.

頭六個月後，我從裡德學院退學了，但在真正退學前，我又以臨時工的身份待了 18 個月左右。

My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.

我的生母是一位年輕的未婚研究所學生，她決定把我送人收養。

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.

她非常強烈地認為，我應該被大學畢業生收養，所以一切都準備就緒，我一出生就被一對律師夫婦收養了。

Except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.

只是當我呱呱墜地時，他們在最後一刻決定，他們真的想要一個女孩。

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.

我的父母在等待名單上，半夜接到一個電話，問我們有了一個意外的男嬰。

My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.

我的生母后來發現，我的母親從未大學畢業，我的父親也從未高中畢業。

She refused to sign the final adoption papers.

她拒絕在最後的收養文件上簽字。

She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.

幾個月後，我父母答應讓我上大學，她才鬆了口。

And 17 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' savings were being spent on my college tuition.

17 年後，我真的上了大學，但我天真地選擇了一所幾乎和斯坦福一樣昂貴的大學，我工薪階層父母的所有積蓄都花在了我的大學學費上。

After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.

六個月後，我看不到它的價值了。

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.

我不知道自己這輩子想做什麼，也不知道上大學能幫我找到答案。

And here I was, spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.

而我卻在這裡花光了父母一輩子積攢下來的錢。

So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay.

所以我決定退學，相信一切都會好起來的。

It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

當時我很害怕，但現在回想起來，這是我做過的最好的決定之一。

The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.

一退學，我就可以不再選那些我不感興趣的必修課，而開始選那些看起來有趣得多的課。

I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms.

我沒有宿舍，就睡在朋友房間的地板上。

I wrote a book about it, and I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with.

我為此寫了一本書，還把可樂瓶退了回去，用五分錢的押金買食物。

And I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.

每個星期天晚上，我都會步行 7 英里穿過小鎮，去克利須那神廟（Hare Krishna temple）吃一頓豐盛的晚餐。

And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

後來，我因好奇心和直覺而偶然發現的許多東西都是無價之寶。

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.

裡德學院當時提供的書法教學可能是全國最好的。

Throughout the campus, every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed.

在整個校園裡，每一張海報、每一個抽屜上的標籤都是精美的手工書法。

Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.

因為我退學了，不用上正常的課程，所以我決定去上書法課，學習如何寫書法。

I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.

我瞭解了有襯線和無襯線字體，瞭解了不同字母組合之間的空隙變化，瞭解了優秀的字體設計之所以優秀的原因。

It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture.

它是美麗的、歷史的、藝術的，是科學無法捕捉的。

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.

這一切在我的生活中甚至沒有任何實際應用的希望。

But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

但 10 年後，當我們設計第一臺 Macintosh 電腦時，這一切又回到了我的腦海中。

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 typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.

如果我沒有在大學裡選修那門課程，Mac 就不會有多種字體或按比例間隔排列的字體。

And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

由於 Windows 剛剛複製了 Mac，是以很可能沒有個人電腦會有這些功能。

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class.

如果我沒有退學，我就不會去上書法課。

And personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

而個人電腦可能沒有現在這麼好的排版。

Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.

當然，在我上大學的時候，不可能把這些點聯繫起來向前看。

But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

但 10 年後回頭看，一切都非常非常清晰。

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward.

還是那句話，你不能把這些點聯繫起來向前看。

You can only connect them looking backwards.

So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

所以，你必須相信，在你的未來，這些點會以某種方式連接起來。

You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

你必須相信一些東西，你的直覺、命運、生活、因果報應，等等。

Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path.

因為相信在未來的道路上，點點滴滴都會連接起來，這將使你有信心追隨自己的內心，即使它將你帶離老路。

我的第二個故事是關於愛與失去的。

我很早就找到了自己喜歡做的事情。

Waz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20.

20 歲時，我和 Waz 在父母的車庫裡創辦了蘋果公司。

We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.

我們努力工作，10 年後，蘋果公司從只有我們兩個人的車庫，發展成為擁有 4000 多名員工、市值 20 億美元的公司。

We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned 30.

一年前，我們剛剛發佈了我們最出色的產品 Macintosh，那時我剛滿 30 歲。

How can you get fired from a company you started?

你怎麼能被自己創辦的公司解僱呢？

Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me.

隨著蘋果公司的發展，我們聘請了一位我認為非常有才華的人和我一起管理公司。

And for the first year or so, things went well.

But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out.

但後來，我們對未來的看法開始出現分歧，最終鬧翻了。

When we did, our board of directors sided with him.

當我們這樣做時，我們的董事會支持他。

And so at 30, I was out, and very publicly out.

於是，30 歲那年，我出櫃了，而且是公開出櫃。

What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

我整個成年生活的重心已不復存在，這對我的打擊是毀滅性的。

I really didn't know what to do for a few months.

有幾個月我真的不知道該怎麼辦。

I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.

我覺得自己辜負了上一代企業家的期望，在接力棒傳到我手中時，我卻掉了鏈子。

I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.

我會見了大衛-帕卡德和鮑勃-諾伊斯，試圖為自己的失誤道歉。

I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the Valley.

我是一個非常失敗的公眾人物，我甚至想過逃離山谷。

But something slowly began to dawn on me.

但是，我慢慢開始明白了一些事情。

The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.

蘋果公司發生的變化絲毫沒有改變這一點。

I'd been rejected, but I was still in love.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.

我當時並沒有意識到，但事實證明，被蘋果公司解僱是發生在我身上最好的事情。

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.

成功的沉重感被重新成為初學者的輕鬆感所取代，對一切都不那麼確定了。

It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

它解放了我，讓我進入了人生中最具創造力的時期之一。

During the next five years, I started a company named Next, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.

在接下來的五年裡，我創辦了一家名為 "Next "的公司，另一家名為 "Pixar "的公司，並愛上了一位了不起的女士，她後來成為了我的妻子。

Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.

皮克斯隨後創作了世界上第一部電腦動畫長片《玩具總動員》，現在已成為世界上最成功的動畫工作室。

In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought Next, and I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at Next is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.

我們在 Next 開發的技術是蘋果目前復興的核心。

And Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple.

如果我沒有被蘋果公司解僱，我敢肯定這一切都不會發生。

It was awful-tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.

藥的味道很難聞，但我想病人需要它。

Sometimes life's gonna hit you in the head with a brick.

有時候，生活會給你當頭一棒。

I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

我深信，讓我堅持下來的唯一原因就是我熱愛我的工作。

You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.

你必須找到自己的所愛，這對工作和夫妻都是如此。

Your work is gonna fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

你的工作將佔據你生活的大部分時間，而真正讓你滿意的唯一方法就是做你認為偉大的工作，而做偉大工作的唯一方法就是熱愛你所做的工作。

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle.

如果您還沒有找到，請繼續尋找，不要將就。

As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

就像所有的心事一樣，找到了就會知道。

And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

就像任何偉大的關係一樣，隨著歲月的流逝，我們的關係會越來越好。

我的第三個故事是關於死亡的。

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like, if you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.

在我 17 歲的時候，我讀到過這樣一句話：如果你把每一天都當做最後一天來過，那麼總有一天你一定會是對的。

It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself if today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?

它給我留下了深刻的印象，從那時起，在過去的 33 年裡，我每天早上都會對著鏡子問自己，如果今天是我生命中的最後一天，我還想做今天要做的事情嗎？

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