伯恩斯在华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校2015毕业典礼上的演讲

Chancellor Wrighton, members of the Board of Trustees and the Administration, distinguished faculty, Class of 1965, hard-working staff, my fellow honorees, proud and relieved parents, calm and serene grandparents, distracted but secretly pleased siblings, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, graduating students, good morning. I am deeply honored that you have asked me here ...

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蒂姆·库克乔治·华盛顿大学演讲 4

Who upended all of my assumptions in the very best way. That was Steve Jobs. 他以最好的方式颠覆了我所有的假设。他就是史蒂夫·乔布斯。 Steve had built a successful company. He had been sent away and he returned to find it in ruins. 史蒂夫曾建立一个成功的公司。他被炒过,然后又临危受命。 He didn't know it at the time, but he was about to dedicate the rest of his life to resc...

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蒂姆·库克乔治·华盛顿大学演讲 2

Typewriters were very expensive and my family could not afford one. 打字机非常昂贵,我的家庭负担不起。 I was one of two kids from Baldwin County that was chosen to go to Washington along with hundreds of other kids across the country. 我是鲍德温县两个被选中的孩子之一,和全国数以百计的其他孩子被选去华盛顿。 Before we left, the Alabama delegation took a trip to our state capit...

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蒂姆·库克乔治·华盛顿大学演讲 3

I was one of the lucky ones, who got to shake his hand. 我是和他握手的幸运者之一。 Carter saw Baldwin County on my name tag that day and stopped to speak with me. 卡特看见在我的名字标签上写着鲍德温县,于是停下来和我说话。 He wanted to know how people were doing after the rash of storms that struck Alabama that year. 他想知道人们在阿拉巴马州的风暴袭击后怎样了。 Carter was kin...

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蒂姆·库克乔治·华盛顿大学演讲 1

Ladies and gentlemen, our commencement speaker Dr. Tim Cook. 女士们先生们,有请我们的毕业典礼发言人蒂姆·库克博士。 Hello GWer. 乔治华盛顿的同学们你们好。 Thank you very much President Knapp for that kind intro. Alex, trustees, faculty and deans of the university, my fellow honorees, and especially you the class of 2015. Yes. 非常感谢克纳普校长的热情介绍。感谢亚历克斯,理事会...

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蒂姆·库克乔治·华盛顿大学演讲 6

Maybe that's just the world we live in. But graduates, this is your world to change. 也许我们生存于此的世界就是这样。但是毕业生们,这个世界将由你们来改变。 As I said, I am a proud son of the South. It's my home, and I will always love it. 正如我所说的,我是一个骄傲的南方孩子。那里是我的家,我将永远爱它。 But for the last 17 years I've built a life in Silicon Vall...

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蒂姆·库克乔治·华盛顿大学演讲 5

People who witness injustice and want to expose it, and now they can because they have a camera in their pocket all the time. 目睹不公正想揭露它的人们现在可以做到了,因为他们的口袋里现在一直都装着一部相机。 Our commitment goes beyond the products themselves to how they're made. 我们的承诺超出了产品本身,延伸到了它们的制作方法。 To our impact on the environment. To the ro...

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蒂姆·库克乔治·华盛顿大学演讲 7

The idea that great progress is possible, whatever line of work you choose. 这个信念:无论你从事哪个行业,给它带去伟大的进步是可能的事情。 There will always be cynics and critics on the sidelines tearing people down, and just as harmful are those people with good intentions who make no contribution at all. 总会受到局外愤世嫉俗者和批评家想要击溃我们,他们对社会的毒害与那些有...

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蒂姆·库克2015华盛顿大学毕业演讲(8)

As I said, I am a proud son of the South. It’s my home, and I will always love it. 正如我所说的,我是一个骄傲的南方孩子。那里是我的家,我将永远爱它。 But for the last 17 years I’ve built a life in Silicon Valley; it’s a special place. 但17年来,我已经在硅谷建立了生活,这是一个特别的地方。 The kind of place where there’s no problem that ca...

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蒂姆·库克2015华盛顿大学毕业演讲(4)

From Montgomery we flew to Washington. 我们从蒙哥马利飞往华盛顿。 It was the first time I had ever been on an airplane. 那是我第一次乘飞机。 In fact it was the first time that I traveled out of the South. 事实上那是我第一次离开南部。 On June 15, 1977, I was one of 900 high schoolers greeted by the new president, President Jimmy Carter 1977年6月15日,我...

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蒂姆·库克2015华盛顿大学毕业演讲(6)

I knew who I was in my personal life, and I kept my eye on my North Star, 我知道我个人生活的目标是什么,我让我的眼睛一直望着我的北极星, my responsibility to do good for someone else, other than myself. 履行为别人做些好事的责任,而非为我自己。 But at work, well I always figured that work was work. 但在工作中,我一直认为工作就是工作。 Values had their place...

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蒂姆·库克2015华盛顿大学毕业演讲(1)

Hello GW. Thank you very much President Knapp for that kind intro. 乔治华盛顿的同学们你们好。非常感谢克纳普校长的热情介绍。 Alex, trustees, faculty and deans of the university, my fellow honorees, and especially you the class of 2015. Yes. 感谢亚历克斯、理事会、全体教员和院长、我的宾客们,尤其是你们,2015届的毕业生们。是的。 Congratulations to you, to your famil...

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蒂姆·库克2015华盛顿大学毕业演讲(3)

My heroes in life were Dr. Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy, 我生命中的英雄是马丁·路德·金博士和罗伯特·肯尼迪, who had fought against the very things that Wallace stood for. 他们与华莱士的立场针锋相对。 Keep in mind, that I grew up, or, when I grew up, 你需要知道的是,成长的过程中, I grew up in a place where King and Kennedy were not exactly held...

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蒂姆·库克2015华盛顿大学毕业演讲(7)

Our commitment goes beyond the products themselves to how they’re made. 我们的承诺超出了产品本身,延伸到了它们的制作方法。 To our impact on the environment. 到我们对环境的影响。 To the role we play in demanding and promoting equality. And in improving education. 到我们在要求、促进平等方面所发挥的作用,到改善教育。 We believe that a company that has v...

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蒂姆·库克2015华盛顿大学毕业演讲(2)

In the summer of 1977, yes, I’m a little old, 在1977年的夏天,是的,我有点老, I was 16 years old and living in Robertsdale, the small town in southern Alabama that I grew up in. 我16岁,住在罗伯茨代尔,我在美国阿拉巴马州南部的小镇长大。 At the end of my junior year of high school I’d won an essay contest sponsored by the National Rural Electric Asso...

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蒂姆·库克2015华盛顿大学毕业演讲(5)

My own journey in life was just beginning. 在生活中,我自己的旅程才刚刚开始。 I hadn’t even applied for college yet at that point. 在那时我还没申请大学。 For you graduates, the process of discovering yourself, of inventing yourself, of reinventing yourself is about to begin in earnest. 对于你们毕业生而言,发现自己,开发自己,改造自己的进程正急不可待。 ...

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