2013.2.22
Reed College
Seventeen years earlier, Jobs’s parents had made a pledge when they adopted him: He would go to college. So they had worked hard and saved dutifully for his college fund, which was modest but adequate by the time he graduated. But Jobs, becoming ever more willful, did not make it easy. At first he toyed with not going to college at all. “I think I might have headed to New York if I didn’t go to college,” he recalled, musing on how different his world—and perhaps all of ours—might have been if he had chosen that path. When his parents pushed him to go to college, he responded in a passive-aggressive way. He did not consider state schools, such as Berkeley, where Woz then was, despite the fact that they were more affordable. Nor did he look at Stanford, just up the road and likely to offer a scholarship. “The kids who went to Stanford, they already knew what they wanted to do,” he said. “They weren’t really artistic. I wanted something that was more artist ic and interesting.”
?dutifully ['dju:tifuli;'dju:tif?li]
adv. 忠实地, 忠贞地
?toy [t?i]
n. 玩具,小玩意儿adj. 供玩耍的,体型小的vi. 漫不经心地做,戏弄
?pledge [pled?]
n. 保证,誓言,抵押,抵押品vt. 保证,誓言,举杯祝...健康
?muse [mju:z]
vi. 沉思，冥想vt. 沉思默想n. 沉思，（希腊神话）缪斯，指引方向的神，诗歌，
?fund [f?nd]
n. 基金v. 资助vt. 为...提供资金
?reed [ri:d]
n. 芦苇, 芦笛,簧片Reed：里德（姓氏）
?adequate ['?dikwit]
adj. 足够的, 充足的, 适当的, 能胜任的
?affordable [?'f?:d?bl]
adj. 支付得起的, 不太昂贵的
?consider [k?n'sid?]
vt. 考虑, 思考, 认为
?passive ['p?siv]
adj. 被动的,消极的n. 被动性
?state [steit]
n. 州, 国, 情形adj. 国家的, 州的, 正式的vt. 说, 陈述, 声明, 规定
?artistic [ɑ:'tistik]
adj. 艺术的
?berkeley ['b?:kli]
n. 伯克利(男子名，美国加州西部城市)
?aggressive [?'gresiv]
adj. 侵犯的,攻击性的,有进取心的,强烈的,迅速生长的
Instead he insisted on applying only to Reed College, a private liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, that was one of the most expensive in the nation. He was visiting Woz at Berkeley when his father called to say an acceptance letter had arrived from Reed, and he tried to talk Steve out of going there. So did his mother. It was far more than they could afford, they said. But their son responded with an ultimatum: If he couldn’t go to Reed, he wouldn’t go anywhere. They relented, as usual.
?ultimatum [??lti'meit?m]
n. 最后通牒
?liberal ['lib?r?l]
n. 自由主义者, 宽容大度的人, (Liberal)自由党人adj. 无偏见的, 慷慨的, 不拘泥的, 宽大的, 开明的
?afford [?'f?:d]
vt. 提供,负担得起的(后果,损失等),给予
?acceptance [?k'sept?ns]
n. 接受（礼物、邀请、建议等），同意，认可
?oregon ['?rig?n]
n. 俄勒冈(美国州名)
?portland ['p?:tl?nd]
n. 波特兰(美国城市名)
?relent [ri'lent]
v. 变宽厚, 变温和, 动怜悯之心
Reed had only one thousand students, half the number at Homestead High. It was known for its free-spirited hippie lifestyle, which combined somewhat uneasily with its rigorous academic standards and core curriculum. Five years earlier Timothy Leary, the guru of psychedelic enlightenment, had sat cross-legged at the Reed College commons while on his League for Spiritual Discovery (LSD) college tour, during which he exhorted his listeners, “Like every great religion of the past we seek to find the divinity within. . . . These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of the present—turn on, tune in, drop out.” Many of Reed’s students took all three of those injunctions seriously; the dropout rate during the 1970s was more than one-third.
?core [k?:]
n. 果心,核心,要点vt. 挖去(水果的)果心=Congress of Racial Equality 争取种族平等大会
?hippie ['hipi]
n. 嬉皮, 嬉皮模样的年青人=hippy
?Timothy ['tim?θi]
n. 梯牧草，猫尾草(牧草之一种) Timothy n. [圣经]提摩太
?curriculum [k?'rikjul?m]
n. 课程，全部课程curricula(复数) curriculum vitae:履历表
?spirited ['spiritid]
adj. 精神饱满的, 活泼的, 英勇的
?academic [??k?'demik]
n. 教学人员,学术人员adj. 学院的,理论的,学术性的
?combine [k?m'bain]
n. 集团,联合收割机v. 化合,结合,联合vi. 结合,联合vt. 使结合,使联合?rigorous ['rig?r?s]
adj. 严厉的,严酷的,严格的,细致的
?homestead ['h?umsted;'h?um?sted]
n. 家园, 田产
?spiritual ['sp?r?t???l]
adj. 精神的, 心灵的n. (尤指美国南部黑人的)圣歌
?guru ['guru:;'gu?u:]
n. 古鲁(指印度教等宗教的宗师或领袖), 领袖, 专家
?exhort [ig'z?:t]
v. 劝诫, 忠告
?common ['k?m?n]
adj. 共同的, 平常的, 普通的n. 平民, 普通, 公地, 公园
?enlightenment [in'laitnm?nt]
n. 启蒙n.【佛教】开悟
?psychedelic [?saiki'delik]
adj. 引起幻觉的n. 迷幻药
?spiritual ['sp?r?t???l]
adj. 精神的, 心灵的n. (尤指美国南部黑人的)圣歌
?guru ['guru:;'gu?u:]
n. 古鲁(指印度教等宗教的宗师或领袖), 领袖, 专家
?exhort [ig'z?:t]
v. 劝诫, 忠告
?common ['k?m?n]
adj. 共同的, 平常的, 普通的n. 平民, 普通, 公地, 公园
?enlightenment [in'laitnm?nt]
n. 启蒙n.【佛教】开悟
?psychedelic [?saiki'delik]
adj. 引起幻觉的n. 迷幻药
When it came time for Jobs to matriculate in the fall of 1972, his parents drove him up to Portland, but in another small act of rebellion he refused to let them come on campus. In fact he refrained from even saying good-bye or thanks. He recounted the moment later with uncharacteristic regret:
It’s one of the things in life I really feel ashamed about. I was not very sensitive, and I hurt their feelings. I shouldn’t have. They had done so much to make sure I could go there, but I just didn’t want them around. I didn’t want anyone to know I had parents. I wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere, with no roots, no connections, no background.
?matriculate [m?'trikjuleit]
v. 准许入学,录取
?regret [ri'gret]
n. 遗憾, 后悔, 抱歉v. 为...感到遗憾, 后悔, 惋惜
?uncharacteristic
adj. 不典型的, 无典型特征的
?rebellion [ri'belj?n]
n. 谋反, 叛乱, 反抗
?refrain [ri'frein]
n. 重复, 叠句, 副歌v. 节制, 避免, 克制
?recount [ri'kaunt]
vt. 详述,列举,重新计算n. 重新计算
?portland ['p?:tl?nd]
n. 波特兰(美国城市名)
?orphan ['?:f?n]
n. 孤儿adj. 无双亲的,孤儿的vt. 成孤儿
?sensitive ['sensitiv]
adj. 敏感的,灵敏的,易受伤害的,感光的,善解人意的n. 敏感的人
?connection [k?'nek??n]
n. 联系,关系,连接,亲戚
?background ['b?kgraund]
n. 背景,幕后,配音vt. 提供背景
?root [ru:t]
n. 根,根源,祖先vt. &vi. 生根,扎根,翻寻,起源于
?bummed [b?md]
adj. 不高兴的, 烦恼的动词bum的过去式和过去分词形式
?ashamed [?'?eimd]
adj. 感到惭愧,感到害臊,因为羞耻或勉强作某事
?bum [b?m]
n. 游荡者, 流浪汉, 懒鬼,闹饮,屁股adj. 没有价值的, 不灵光的, 不合理的vt. 令人失望, 乞讨vi. 混日子, 以乞讨为生
史蒂夫乔布斯2005年6月在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Com puter and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. 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. 你必须要找到你所爱的东西 很荣幸和大家一道参加这所世界上最好的一座大学的毕业典礼。我大学没毕业，说实话，这是我第一次离大学毕业典礼这么近。今天我想给大家讲三个我自己的故事，不讲别的，也不讲大道理，就讲三 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? 第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。我在里德学院（Reed College）只读了六个月就退学了，此后便在学校里旁听，又过了大约一年半，我彻底离开。那么，我为什么退学呢？ It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college gra duate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly t hat 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. 这得从我出生前讲起。我的生母是一名年轻的未婚在校研究生，她决定将我送给别人收养。她非常希望收养我的是有大学学历的人，所以把一切都安排好了，我一出生就交给一对律师夫妇收养。没想到我落地的霎那间，那对夫妇却决定收养一名女孩。So my parents, who were on a waiting list, g ot 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
一天突破英文中定语从句的翻译（一） 4 英文中的介词可以翻成中文里的方位副词的动词 There is a book on the desk. 桌上有本书。 The teacher came into the classroom with a book and a dog.老师带着一本书和一只狗…… 6 一般8个单词以下定语从句前置，多于8个单词后置。定语从句翻译后置方法中，需要译出关系词。 63 非限制性定语从句需要后置译法，且翻译关系词。 7 循环套用1： 中心词+定语1+定语1的定语2+定语2的定语3+…… 翻译方法看长度： 定语1+2=3 前两者放在一起翻译 定语1=2+3 后两者放在一起翻译 14 循环套用2： 中心词+定语1+定语1的定语2 翻译时：2+1+含有中心词的句子 注： 10 which有时指前面整个句子； 14 有时定语从句远离先行词； where“在那里” 11 prior to（主张多用）=before 11 “其”是中文专门用来表示第三人称的词。 13 定语从句一般不可放在句首 13 被动语态：用“为”代替“被” 英汉差异： 13 英文中多用代词；中文多用名词，不怕重复 15 英文多用长句，不注重标定符号的使用；中文多用断句且多用标点 23 英文多用名词；中文多用动词（动词的过渡） 英译汉： 9 适时断句，避免长句 12 重要的句子在后面翻译，不重要的先翻译 15 适时增加表示逻辑关系的词，使句子更具逻辑性 第二天突破英文中定语从句的翻译（二） 18 并列套用：多个并列定语修饰一个中心词 后置译法，关系词只需译一次 18 本位词&外位词
本位词：这，这样，这些 外位词：被本位词所替代的部分 一般用定语从句的which/of来翻译本位词 ...women in novels were stereotype of lacking any features... 小说中的妇女都是这样一种模式，她们缺少…… This assumption rests on the fallacy of the ... 假设是基于这样一种谬论：…… 19 There are not a few of people. 有不少人。 There are very few people who would not like to do it. 没有多少人愿意做这件事情。 20 abnormally 不正常地；病态地；特别，尤其 21 短句翻译：剥洋葱 先次后主，有逗号 21 中文：事实+评论 英文：评论+事实 22 It is often said that...人们常说 it is believed that...人们相信 It is guessed that...人们猜测 It is thought that...人们认为 It is supposed that...人们推测 It is reported that...据报道 插入语 23 表示观点时，提到句首翻译 27 不表示观点时，保留在原来位置，用破折号连接 23 谓语动词的过渡 英译汉 keep one informed current events keep是过渡词，本身动词性很弱，它的存在是为了informed的存在，因此翻译时直接忽略keep翻译inform 汉译英 中文“副词+动词”——英文“副词变动词，动词变名词” 28 West Bejing人为划分的行政区域，西北京 Western Beijing自然地理意义上的范围，北京的西部 the West of Beijing不在北京范围内，北京的西边 29 一般英文的人名和地名都要求固定中文译法 White 怀特 Watt 瓦特 Walt 沃尔特
乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿英文原稿 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. 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 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 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 months later when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I na?vely 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 of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all 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 far more 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 five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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 sans-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.
考研翻译重点词汇 Abstract n.摘要，概要，抽象 adj.抽象的，深奥的，理论的 Accelerate vt.&vi.（使）加快，（使）增速， n.接受速成教育的学生 Account (1)看法,认识 (2)解释,说明 Account for 占…(多大)比重; 解释, 说明 Achievement n.成就；成绩；功绩，达到；完成 Acquire vt.得到，养成，vt 获得；招致，学得（知识等），求得，养成（习惯等），捕获， Action n.作用，动[操]作，行动，机械装置[作用]，（小说等中的）情节 Activity n.活动，活动的事物，活动性，机能，功能 Actually adv.现实的，实际的；目前的；明确的，有效的 Additional adj.增加的，额外的，另外的 Advance vt.&vi.（使）前进，（使）发展；促进， vt.提出 Advantage n.利益，便利，有利方面，有利条件；优点；优势， （网球等）打成平手（deuce ）而延长比赛后一方先得的一分（攻方所得称 advantage in ，守方所得则称 advantage out ） Agree vi.一致；相合同意，赞成约定，允诺，答应，相宜，调和，符合，和睦相处 Almost adv.几乎，差不多，差一点；将近 Amount n.量，数量，数额，总额，总数 vi.合计，共计 An immense amount of … 大量 An amount of … 一些 A certain amount of … 某些 Analogous 与…类似, 与…相似 And 而, 然而 Apply … to … ≈ lie with 存在于,发生于 Approach vt.&vi.接近，走近，靠近； vt.接洽，交涉；着手处理； n.靠近，接近，临近 Appropriate adj.适当的，恰当的； vt.挪用；占用；盗用 Argue vt.&vi.争吵，辩论； vt.坚决主张，提出理由证明，说服，劝说 Arise vi.&link v.呈现；出现；发生； vi.起身，起来，起立 As 译为 (1) 像, 如 ; (2) 作为 As … as (比较的两者要一致) = not so … as 译成:“… 和 … 一样 ” As is mentioned above 如上所述, (如上所示,如图所示---作文可以写) Aspect n.方面，方位，朝向 Assert vt.声称，断言，维护，坚持 Assume vt.假设，认定, 臆断，猜想，假装，担，担任，就职 Attempt n.尝试，企图vt.尝试，企图 Augment vt.增加，提高，扩大； n.增加，提高，扩大 Availability n.可用性，有效性，实用性 Base n.基础，底座，基地，根据地 vt.把…建立在，以…为基础 Behavioral adj.动作的，行为方面的 Big bang 大爆炸理论 Branch n.树枝，枝条，支，分科，分系； vi.出枝，树叉 Breakthrough : 突破 Break prison (监狱)越狱 Break out v. 爆发 Out break: n. 爆发
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 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 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 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 months later when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life. 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 tuit ion. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. 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. It 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
English—Chinese Translation and Extensive Knowledge 第一讲（四课时）翻译的历史起源以及各大著名理论和概论 2012/09/18 第一节：翻译起源以及翻译大家（一） 1.1翻译事业在我国有着悠久的历史。 最早的佛经翻译是西汉哀帝元寿元年（公元前2年）贵霜帝国大月氏王遣使者伊存来中国口授佛经，博士弟子秦景宪协助使伊存得以记录的《浮图经》。 中国历史上出现过三次翻译高潮：东汉至唐宋的佛经翻译、明末清初的科技翻译和鸦片战争至“五四”的西学翻译。佛经翻译是中国翻译事业的起点。中国的翻译活动可以追溯到春秋战国时代。中国真正称得上语际翻译的活动应该说是始于西汉的哀帝时期的佛经翻译。这一时期的佛经翻译活动还只是民间私人事业到了符秦时代，佛经翻译活动就组织有序了。当时主要的组织者是释道安。因此他主张严格的词对词、句对句（word for word, line for line）的直译。道安在此期间请来了著名的翻译家天竺（即印度）人鸠摩罗什。他翻译了三百多卷佛经文献，如《金刚经》、《法华经》、《十二门论》、《中观论》、《维摩经》等。其译文神情并茂、妙趣盎然，堪称当时的上乘之译作，至今仍被视为我国文学翻译的奠基石。 Representative：唐玄奘（西元600-664年）主要生活在初唐时期，一生共翻译了佛教大小乘经论75部1335卷，共计一千多万；玄奘的译著从数量和品质上都达到了中国佛经翻译史上的高峰；堪称：翻译家中的第一人；其成就主要在于是“新译”的创始人。他提出的著名的“五不翻”原则及“既须求真，又须喻俗”的标准，对我国翻译事业有很大影响。 ↓↓ （所谓“求真”就是指翻译必须忠实于原文内容并保持原文风貌；所谓“须喻俗”，就是指译文语言必须通顺易懂并符合其语言规范。玄奘将“须求真”和“须喻俗”有机地结合，使两者相辅相成，） （所谓“不翻”，不是不翻译，而是指“音译”。玄奘列举了5种应该音译的情况，即“五不翻”。其“五不翻”具体为：（1）秘密之，故不翻。佛经中有许多咒语，有其秘密的意思和作用，应该音译，如“陀罗尼”。（2）含多义，故不翻。即一词多义的梵文，在汉语中找不到合适的词汇来表达，因此保留原文，只作音译。如“薄伽梵”，在梵文里便有六层意思。（3）此方所无，故不翻。“此方”即“中国”，指在中国文化中没有的事物应该音译。如“阎浮”树，由于产于印度等地，而我国没有这种树，故保留原意。（4）顺于古例，故不翻。指有些约定俗成的词语应该遵循习惯采取音译。例如“阿耨多罗三藐三菩提”，本来意“指无上正等正觉”，但由于自东汉以来，历代译经家用“音译”翻译，因此保留前人翻译模式，不再翻译成“无上正等正觉”。（5）为生善，故不翻。指具有特殊意义或功能的词语也应当音译。如“般若”虽可意译为智慧,但却是佛教文化中蕴含着特殊意义的一种智慧,一旦把意思直接译出来,则会韵味尽失。“五不翻”原则对我国翻译事业影响极其巨大，直到现在，仍然具有深远的影响。） 1.2文学翻译阶段及其代表人物 文学翻译阶段大致在19世纪60年代到20世纪80年代
乔布斯传读书笔记 ——以组织行为学的视野解读对苹果的用户而言，乔布斯无疑是一个伟大的教主，哪怕你不是苹果的用户，你也不能不承认，乔布斯改变了世界，这是一个伟大而天才的人物。而沃尔特·艾萨克森所著的《史蒂夫·乔布斯传》，是乔布斯唯一授权的官方传记。 沃尔特·艾萨克森在传记中并没有将乔布斯作为神来膜拜，相反，他为我们展现个是一个立体真实全面的乔布斯。作者对于乔布斯小时候和少年时代的事情写的特别仔细，希望告诉我们，乔布斯不是一天炼成的，而是从小形成的独特性格。 乔布斯的成长颇有亮点，从小被亲生父母抛弃，被养父母呵护备至，超出自己经济能力的把他送到了俄勒冈州波特兰里德学院，而他却在一个学期之后退了学(但之后他开始去“蹭”那些感兴趣的课程)，他吸毒(年轻时候很多人都会尝试大麻)、印度之旅(旅行时美国人了解世界的途径之一，建立了自己的信仰)、参禅(学会让自己的心灵平静)——这些看起来很cool 的经历，雅皮士的作风，都为他的人生增添了些许色彩，让整个故事更加传奇。但在他年轻不羁的生活轨迹中我们可以看到，他并不是一个颓废青年，相反，凭借自己的兴趣和热情，在知识和思想上都进行了学习和提高，这为他今后的成功奠定了坚实的基础。 乔布斯最让人钦佩的一点是学文科(哲学+书法)的来干工程师的活，还取得了巨大的成就!他改变了六大产业：一是个人电脑，开创了个人电脑时代;二是动画电影，他带领皮克斯在动画领域挑战迪斯尼，并带领了动画电影的进入新领域;三是音乐，ipod的问世改变了人们收听音乐的方式，改变了音乐行业的发展方向;四是个人电话，iphone横空出世，带给人们极大的震撼，改变了人们对手机的概念;五是平板电脑ipad的发布，使苹果公司达到了空前的高度;六是数字出版业。他引领了六大产业向前进步，带给这六大产业所在领域前所未有的发展。 乔布斯特立独行，一生都在追求完美。他有一段话被广泛传播：“有些人说：…消费者想要什么就给他们什么。?但那不是我的方式，我们的责任是提前一步搞清楚他们将来想要什么。我记得，亨利福特说过如果我最初问消费者他们想要什么，他们应该是会告诉我，要一匹更快的马!人们不知道想要什么，直到你把它摆在他们面前。正因如此，我从不依靠市场研究。我们的任务是读懂还没有落到纸面的东西。” 纵观全书，给我印象最深刻的还是乔布斯的性格以及他评价事物的方式。他的性格中对简约和完美近乎偏执的追求成就了他，他信奉“少就是多”的理念，所以iPod简单的甚至没
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 a n 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’ sa vings 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 cl asses that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
About Steve Jobs Many people know Apple----the most popular cellphone in the world.And the people who know Apple,they must know Steve Job,a man who established the Apple Company. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs was also a successful business man in the recent time.Every year,.the Apple Company releases new products,the Apple fans from all over the world will buy new products,though the Apple products are more exspensive than other electronic products,especially in China.Jobs successfully built up a good brand and a huge business empire. What makes Jobs be a succeful man.I think that is his creativity.Without creativity, the Apple products would be just the same as other products in this market, and would have never achieved such a great success. Also,his hard work plays in an important part on his way to success. Jobs has his unique sense of smell, so much so that he
英语和汉语的差异 Synthetic vs．Analytic 综合与分析 English is a synthetic language marked with inflections(曲折变化形式)，while Chinese is an analytic language without any inflection，which is usually implied in the context or explicitly shown in such words as“着、了、过”etc． Thus encouraged, they made a still bolder plan for the next year． 由于受到这样的鼓励，他们为第二年制订了一个更大胆的计划。 Compact vs．Diffusive 紧凑与松散 English sentences are compact tightly combined with connectives or prepositions，while Chinese is diffused，that is，loose in structure． Now the integrated circuit has reduced by many times the size of the computer of which it forms a part，thus creating a new generation of portable minicomputer．现在集成电路成了计算机的组成部分，使计算机的体积大大缩小，从而产生了新一代的便携式微型计算机。 A notion has taken hold in the US to the effect that the only people who should be encouraged to bring children into the world are those who can afford them．在美国有一个根深蒂固的观点，说是只有对那些抚养得起子女的人，才应鼓励其生育。 Hypotactic vs．Paratactic 形合与意合 In English．clauses or phrases are coordinated with or subordinated to one another syntactically while in Chinese theY are placed one after another without coordinating connectives．The many colors of a rainbow range from red on the outside to violet on the inside．彩虹有多种颜色，外圈红，内圈紫。 He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in rapid succession．他有一种令人难堪的习惯：一会儿一个看法，自相矛盾，变化无常。 Complex vs. Simplex 繁复与简单 English sentences are long and complex，while Chinese sentences are short and simple．For example： Many man-made substances are replacing certain natural materials because either the quality of the natural product cannot meet our ever-increasing requirement，or，more often，because the physical properties of the synthetic substance．which is the common name for man．made materials，have been chosen．and even emphasized，so that it would be Of the greatest use in the fields in which it is to be applied．人造材料通称为合成材料。许多人造材料正在代替某些天然材料，这或者是由于天然物产的数量不能满足日益增长的需要，或者是由于人们选择了合成材料的一些物理性质并加以突出而造成的。因此，合成材料在其应用领域将具有极大的用途。 Impersonal vs．Personal 物称与人称 There are more impersonal structures in English than in Chinese，as shown in the following examples： ·What has happened to you? 你出了什么事儿啦? ·An idea suddenly struck me．我突然想到一个主意。 ·A strange peace canle over her when she was alone 她独处时感到一种特别的安宁。 ·Not a sound reached our ears．我们没有听到任何声音。 ·A great elation overcame them．他们欣喜若狂。 ·The truth finally dawned on her．她最终明白了真相。 Passive vs．Active 被动与主动