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94. The Big Plan 大计划

Emily Baker was visiting Hollywood. A new movie was being filmed. Her favorite actor was starring in it. Emily wanted to meet him. She had a plan. She was going to sneak onto the set. Then, she would look for him inside. Emily knew that once they met, she could get him to fall in love with her.

艾米丽贝克正在参观好莱坞，这里正在拍摄一部新电影。她最喜欢的演员是里面的主演，艾米丽想去见他。她有一个主意，她准备偷偷溜进拍摄现场，然后就到里面去找他。艾米丽知道一旦他们见面，她就能让他爱上她。

Emily arrived at the set. There were hundreds of girls standing around outside. All of them were dressed in black. Apparently, they had all come up with the same plan. It was time for a new plan. They didn't have to sneak in anymore. They could now fight past security together. Inside, they would find the handsome actor. Then, all the girls would start fighting each other.

艾米丽到了拍摄现场，那里有上百个女孩站在外面。她们都穿着黑衣服，显然她们都想到了同样的主意。是时候换个新计划了，她们不必再溜进去了，她们可以直接一起冲破安保的防线。到了里面，她们就能找到那个帅气的演员。然后，所有的女孩就可以开打了。

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I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I&`&ve ever gotten to a college graduation. 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.

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?

It started 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 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 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 months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

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. After six months, I couldn&`&t 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 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 trust 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 the required classes that didn&`&t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn&`&t all romantic. I didn&`&t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends&`& rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5￠ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 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 example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. 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. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, 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 can&`&t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application 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 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. 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 course 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.

Again, you can&`&t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, 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. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn&`&t know what to do for a few months. 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. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

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. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

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. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple&`&s current renaissance. And Laurene 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. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don&`&t lose faith. I&`&m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You&`&ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to 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. If you haven&`&t found it yet, keep looking. Don&`&t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you&`&ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don&`&t settle.

My third story is about death.

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." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have 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?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I&`&ll be dead soon is the most important tool I&`&ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn&`&t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor&`&s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you&`&d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I&`&m fine now.

This was the closest I&`&ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don&`&t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life&`&s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don&`&t waste it living someone else&`&s life. Don&`&t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people&`&s thinking. Don&`&t let the noise of other&`&s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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93. Read the Sign 看那告示牌

Justin Harris and his friends were going to the beach. When they arrived, they were disappointed. A big sign was posted in front of the water. It read, "No Swimming Today". His friends noticed the waves looked very big. "It's probably too dangerous to go in," said one of Justin's friends.

贾斯汀哈里斯和他的朋友要去海滩。当他们到达的时候，他们很失望，一个大的告示牌正立在水前。上面写着，“今日禁止游泳”他的朋友注意到海浪很大。“可能下海游泳太危险了”贾斯汀的一个朋友说。

Justin decided to ignore the sign. He had been looking forward to swimming all week. The big waves looked fun. "Come in, guys!" said Justin. He jumped in. Then a huge wave took him under. His friends ran to find a lifeguard. The lifeguard had to rescue Justin. "Can't you read?" he yelled.

贾斯汀决定忽略那个告示，他整周都在盼望着来游泳。那些大海浪看起来很有趣，“来吧，伙计们！”贾斯汀说着跳进了海里。然后一个巨浪将他吞下。他的朋友们赶紧跑去找救生员。那个救生员只好去救贾斯汀，他喊道：“你不会看告示吗？”

35.Did You Say Something?

A: I have to go to the bathroom.

B: You drink too much coffee.

A: But I love coffee.

B: Well, it's your life.

A: You eat too much chocolate.

B: I don't think so.

A: Have you looked in the mirror?

B: Do you think I'm getting fat?

A: I didn't say that.

B: What did you say?

A: I said I have to go to the bathroom.

B: That's what I thought you said.

35.你说了什么吗？

我要去洗手间。

你喝太多咖啡了。

但是我喜欢咖啡。

好吧，那是你的生活。

你吃太多巧克力了。

我不觉得。

你照镜子了吗？

你觉得我变胖了吗？

我可没这么说。

那你说了什么？

我说我要去洗手间。

我也觉得你说了这个。

Lesson 102:The Same First Name

molly ：how come you have the same first name as your father?
Junior： I was named after him．
Molly ：What about your sister?
Junior：She was named after my grandmother．

同名
莫莉：为什么你和你父亲同名呢?
二世：因为我是以他的名字命名的。
莫莉：那么你的妹妹呢?
二世：她是依照我祖母的名字来命名的。

Lesson 104:We Need Fresh Air

Joan : Boy, it's really stuffy in here.
Drake : You're right. We need some fresh air.
Joan : Let's turn on the air-con.
Drake : Why not just open the window?
Joan : That's even better.

我们需要新鲜空气
琼 ：乖乖，这里面可真闷啊。
德雷克：你说的对。我们需要些新鲜空气。
琼 ：咱们打开空调吧。
德雷克：为何不干脆打开窗户呢?
琼 ：那就更好了。

Lesson 103:Air Pollution

Why do people get headaches in a crowded, stuffy room? Because they are
breathing bad air. People who breathe bad air for a long time can get really sick. They may even get lung cancer and die. People need fresh air. Fresh air cleans the blood. For our health's sake, we should all, therefore, do our part to fight against air pollution.

空气污染
为什么人们在又挤又闷的房间中会头疼呢?因为他们呼吸着恶劣的空气。凡是长时间呼吸恶劣空气的人可能会生重病。他们甚至可能得肺癌死去。人们需要新鲜空气。新鲜空气能净化血液。为了健康起见，我们每个人都应该尽一己之力为反对空气污染而努力。

Lesson 105:Recycling

Garbage disposal is a major problem in most cities around the world. Finding places for garbage is getting more and more difficult. Recycling is, therefore, becoming very popular. In other words, more and more people are treating used material so that it can be reused. There is no doubt that recycling helps save our precious natural resources. It is in our own best interest to recycle.

资源回收再利用
垃圾处理在世界各地的大部分城市里是个大问题。寻找垃圾处理场越来越困难了。因此，资源回收变得很普遍。换言之，越来越多人在处理使用过的东西以便重新加以利用。毫无疑问，资源回收有助于节省珍贵的自然资源。资源回收对我们是最有利的。