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1.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.

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1.我很榮幸來到全球第一流大學的畢業典禮。

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  1. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.
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2.我沒從大學畢業

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  1. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
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3.今天我只說三個故事

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  1. The first story is about connecting the dots.
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4.人生的點點滴滴如何串在一塊

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  1. 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?
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5.我在里德學院念了六個月就辦休學了

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  1. 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.
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6.故事要從我出生前談起。

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  1. 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.
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7.她相信應該讓擁有大學學歷的夫婦收養我

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  1. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.
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8.他們想要女孩

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  1. 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.
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9.在等待收養名單上的一對夫妻

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  1. ” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.
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10.她拒絕在認養文件上簽名同意

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  1. 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.
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11.我的養父母同意將來一定讓我上大學

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  1. 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.
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12.十七年後，我真的上大學了

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  1. 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.
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13.六個月後，我看不出念大學的價值到底在哪裡。

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  1. 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.
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14.我決定休學，相信船到橋頭自然直

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  1. 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.
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15.在那時候，這是個讓人害怕的決定

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  1. 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.
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16.這一點兒也不浪漫

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  1. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
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17.現在看來都成了無價之寶

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  1. Let me give you one example:

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

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18.全國最好的英文書法課程

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  1. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.
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19.都是美麗的手寫字

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  1. 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.
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20.我休學去學書法了

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  1. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.
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21.學了serif 與san serif 字體

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  1. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
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22.書法的歷史與藝術

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  1. 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.
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23.我從沒想過這些字，會在將來影響我的人生

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  1. 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.
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24.這是第一台能印出漂亮字體的電腦

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  1. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.
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25.Windows抄襲了麥金塔

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  1. 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.
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26.個人電腦將無漂亮字型

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  1. 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.
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27.不可能把這些點點滴滴先串在一起

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  1. 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.
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28.惟有將來回顧時，你才會明白這些點點滴滴是怎麼串聯的

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  1. 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.
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29.你得信任某個東西，直覺、命運，或是因果也好

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  1. 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.
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30.第二個故事，是愛與失去

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  1. 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 4000 employees.
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31.蘋果十年內從一間車庫、兩個年輕小夥子

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  1. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.
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32.結果是我被開除了

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  1. 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.
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33.自己創辦的公司，怎麼會開除自己？

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  1. 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.
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34.但我們對願景有很不同的想法

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  1. 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.
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35.公開把我請出公司

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  1. 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.
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36.在這幾個月裡，我實在不知該如何是好

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  1. 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.
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37.我找了創辦HP的派克

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  1. 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.
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38.但我的想法逐漸變了

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  1. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
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39.我發現我仍然愛著曾做過的事業

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  1. 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.
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40.蘋果開除我卻是我人生最好的經歷

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  1. 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.
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41.從頭來過的輕鬆替代了成功的沉重

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  1. 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.
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42.接著的五年，我創辦了NeXT，也墜入了情網

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  1. 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.
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43.皮克斯製作世上第一部全電腦動畫電影

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  1. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance.
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44.接著我的人生大轉彎，蘋果購併了NeXT

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  1. 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.
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45.我敢打包票，蘋果沒開除我的話，這些事絕不會發生

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  1. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.
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46.這是帖苦藥，可是我需要這個苦

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  1. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
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47.不要失去信心

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  1. 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.
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48.你得找到你的最愛，工作是如此，愛情也是如此。

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  1. 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.
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49.愛你所做的工作

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  1. 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.
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50.全力尋找，不停息

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  1. 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.”
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51.第三個故事是死亡

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  1. 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?”
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52.過去三十三年，每天早上我都會攬鏡自問

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  1. And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
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53.當我多天都得到「沒事做」的答案

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  1. 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.
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54.提醒自己快死了，是我在判斷重大決定時，最重要的工具

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  1. 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.
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55.所有名譽、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼，在面對死亡時，全都消失了

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  1. 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.
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56.用死亡提醒自己，是避免陷入害怕失去的欲望陷阱，最好的方法

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  1. 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.
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57.一年前，我被判定得了癌症。

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  1. 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.
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58.醫生告訴我，幾乎確定是不治之症

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  1. 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.
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59.醫生要我回家，好好跟家人相聚

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  1. 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.
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60.你得在幾個月內，把將來十年想跟小孩說的話講完

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  1. 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.
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61.我滿腦子都是這個判我死刑的診斷

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  1. 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.
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62.當醫生查看癌細胞後喜極而泣

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63.This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s 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:

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63.那是我最靠近死神的一刻

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  1. 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.
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64.沒有人想死，即使那些想上天堂的人

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  1. 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.
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65.死，更是生命最偉大的發明

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  1. 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.
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66.現在新生代是你們，但不久的將來，你們也會年華老去

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  1. 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.
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67.生命短暫，不要浪費時間活在別人的陰影裡

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  1. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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68.不要讓他人的噪音壓過自己的心聲

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  1. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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69.最重要的，有勇氣跟著自己的內心與直覺

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  1. When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation.
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70.有本神奇雜誌

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  1. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch.
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71.以詩的筆觸

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  1. This was in the late 1960’s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.
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72.在個人電腦以前

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  1. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
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73.類似google

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  1. Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age.
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74.The Whole Earth Catalog

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  1. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.
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75.a photograph of an early morning country road

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  1. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
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76.求知若渴，虛心若愚

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  1. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
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77.現在你們畢業了，我也以此期許你們

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