Like my friend Warren Buffet,就像我的朋友沃伦·布非一样，I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do.我为每天都能做自己热爱的事情而感到无比幸运。He calls it &quottap-dancing to work.&quot他称之为“踢踏舞工作”。My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever,我在微软的工作永远充满挑战，but what makes me &quottap-dance to work&quot is wh

So here’s my final story:以下是我要说的最后一个故事：On a day like today,就像今天的某一日，you might feel exhilarated—like you’ve just been shot out of a cannon at the circus—and even invincible.你们可能感到欣喜若狂,就像你刚从马戏团的大炮口被射了出来——甚至更加所向无敌。Don’t ever forget that incredible feeling.绝不要忘了那种难以名状的美妙感觉。But also: always remember that

My third story is about death.我的第三个故事是关于死亡When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: &quotIf you live each day as if it was your last, someday you&#39ll most certainly be right.&quot It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every mo

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&#39ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That&#39s it. No big deal. Jus

I&#39ve always been an optimist我天生乐观，and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place.坚信人类凭创造力和聪明才智可以让世界日益美妙，这一设想一直根植于我的内心深处。For as long as I can remember, I&#39ve loved learning new things and solving problems.自从记事起，我就热衷于接触新事物

My Dad became a professor at uh... Michigan State,我的父亲后来成了···密歇根州立大学的教授，and I was an incredibly lucky boy.我是一个非常幸运的孩子。A professor’s life is pretty flexible,教授的生活安排是非常有弹性的，and he was able to spend oodles of time raising me.父亲能有大量的时间来培养我。Could there be a better upbringing than university brat?还有比大学校园更

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams.我认为,通常追寻雄心万丈的梦想更容易些。I know that sounds completely nuts.我知道这听起来完全是一派胡言。But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.不过,既然没有别的人疯狂到会做这件事情,你就没有竞争对手了。In fact,there are so few people this crazy that I feel

I had one of those dreams when I was 23.我23岁的时候,就做过一个那样的梦。When I suddenly woke up,我猛然惊醒,I was thinking: What if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links?想着:如果我们能把整个网络下载下来,但仅保存链接会怎样?And I grabbed a pen andstarted writing!然后我抓起一支笔写了起来。Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreami

Everyone in my family went here to Michigan: my brother, my Mom, my Dad—all of them.我们家的所有成员都毕业于密歇根大学:我哥哥、我妈妈和爸爸——我们全家。My Dad actually got the quantity discount :he got all three and a half of his degrees here.我的父亲在学位数量上可能要打个折：他从密歇根大学拿到了三个半学位。His Ph.D. was in Communication Science because they thoug

My second story is about love and loss.我的第二个故事是关于热爱和得失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 2 billion dollars company with over 4000

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog,当我年轻的时候, 有一本叫做“整个地球的目录”振聋发聩的杂志，which was one of the bibles of my generation.它是我们那一代人的圣经之一。It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park,它是一个叫Stewart Brand的家伙在离这里不远的Menlo Park书写的,and he

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&#39 savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn&#39t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life

My Dad was valedictorian of Flint Mandeville High School class of 1956 for about 90 kids.我的父亲1956年从弗林特曼德维尔高中毕业，这届大约有90 个学生，他发表了毕业演讲。I happened across his graduating speech recently, and it blew me away.最近我有幸读到了这段演讲，并被其折服。53 years ago my Dad said: “···we are entering a changing world,父亲在他53年前的毕业典礼上这样

And 17 years later I did go to college.在十七岁那年 ，我真的上了大学。But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford,但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校,and all of my working-class parent‘s savings were being spent on my college tuition.我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。After six months, I couldn&#39

Again, you can&#39t connect the dots looking forward再次说明的是,你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些片断串连起来；you can only connect them looking backwards.你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.所以你必须相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串连起来。You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, ka

Class of 2009!2009届的同学们，I don&#39t think I hurt you.我不认为这伤害了你们。First I’d like you to stand up, and wave and cheer your supportive family and friends!首先我希望大家都站起来，向支持你们的亲朋好友挥手致意！I’m sure you can find them out there.我相信你们都能在人群中找到他们。Show your love!把你们的爱表现出来吧!It is a great honor for me to be here today.今

I didn&#39t see it then,我当时没有觉察,but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.但是事后证明，从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again,less sure about everything.尽管前景为卜，但从头开始的轻松感取代了保

My third story is about death.我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: &quotIf you live each day as if it was your last, someday you&#39ll most certainly be right.&quot当我十七岁的时候, 我读到了一句话:“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话,那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。”It made an impression on me,这句话给我留下了深刻的印象and

I lived with that diagnosis all day.我整天和那个诊断书一起生活。Later that evening I had a biopsy,后来有一天晚上我作了一个活切片检查，where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines,医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去,通过我的胃, 然后进入我的肠子,put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.用一根针在我的胰腺上的肿

This was the closest I&#39ve 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:这是我距离死亡最近的一次，我希望它也是未来几十年里我离死亡最近的一次。经历了这件事，死亡对我而言已经不再只是

A plan involves answering这个计划是能包含了回应的straightforward questions about the end you want.直接了当关于你想如何结束的问题Where do you want to be when you&#39re no longer independent?如果你不能再独立，你希望自己在哪里？What do you want in terms of medical intervention?你希望医疗保护的干预么？And who&#39s going to make sure your plan is followed?谁能让你

What would be a good end of life?什么是一个生活美好的结尾？And I&#39m talking about the very end.我所说的是最终的结尾I&#39m talking about dying.我所说的是死亡We all think a lot about how to live well.我们都在想如何更好的生活I&#39d like to talk about increasing our chances of dying well.而我想要谈的是，如何更美好地告别人生I&#39m not a geriatrician.我并不是老年病学家I

Though there is much to be concerned about, there is far, far more for which to be thankful. Though life&#39s goodness can at times be overshadowed, it is never outweighed.尽管有很多事让人忧虑，但相比而言，值得感激的是要多得多。尽管生命的美好又是被蒙上阴影，但它的价值却永远不会被超越。For every single act that is senselessly destructive, there are thousan

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air.想象生命是一场不停丢掷五个球于空中的游戏。You name them-work, family, health, friends and spirit and you&#39re keeping all of these in the air.这五个球分别是工作、家庭、健康、朋友和心灵，你很努力地掷着这五个球，不让它们落地。You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball.很快你就会了解工作

Change Makes Life Beautiful生命美于变化To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.将所有事物和事物的原则统统归结为经常变化着的形态或风尚，这已日益成为近代思想界的一个趋势。Let us begin with that which is without-our physical life.我们可以从我们的生理活动等表面的事情说起。Fix upon

In a university commencement address several years ago, Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, spoke of the relation of work to one&#39s other commitments:几年前，在一所大学的开幕典礼中,可口可乐的首席执行官布赖恩?戴森讲到工作与其他义务的关系：Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them work,

Once a circle missed a wedge.The circle wanted to be whole，so it went around looking for its missing piece.But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly，it admired the flowers along the way.It chatted with worms.It enjoyed the sunshine.It found lots of different pieces，but

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there,to serve some sort of purpose,teach you a lesson,or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become.You never know who these people may be(possibly your roommate,neighbor,coworker,long lost fri

Day 19第19天The Woman in My Life赐予我生命的女人The woman in my life Catches me when I&#39ve fallen And holds me like a baby when I&#39m hurt我生命中的这位女性，总能在我堕落时 将我接住 当我受伤时 视我如婴孩般的拥抱No matter how high I climb She guides me safely back to Earth无论我爬得多高，都能引导我平安落地当我需要她时，And she&#39s there when I need her My guardian

Part 6 I Will Live This Day as if It Is My Last第六部分 我会把今天当成生命的最后一天去过I will live this day as if it is my last.我会把今天当成生命的最后一天去过。And what shall I do with this last precious day which remains in my keeping? First, I will seal up its container of life so that not one drop spills itself upon the sand. I w