英语学习01 Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
A good way to give a speech is to tell stories. Jobs did so when he delivered a speech at Stanford's Graduation Ceremony. He told three stories about connecting the dots, loss and love, and death to express his attitudes towards work, life and love---follow your heart, do what you love, and that will make the difference.
An impressvie beginning or ending is very important for a good speech. Jobs ended his speech with the farewell message of his beloved publication The Whole Earth Catalog, Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Very simple but impressive ending.
Here are some sentences extracted from the speech.
(Click here to watch the speech: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bES7gOcMbYspOU0vUyW9cg)
1.Much of what I stumbled into following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
那些因为听从我内心好奇和直觉而遇到的事，后来都令我收获颇丰。
2. It will all work out okay.
船到桥头自然直。
3.It was beautiful, historical, and artistically subtle in a way that science cannot capture.
（它）优雅，沧桑，科学无法描述它微妙的艺术气息。
4. None of this had been even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later it all came back to me.
这些看上去对我的生活没有什么实际用途，但十年之后都派上了用场。
5. You can't connect the dots looking forwards, and you can only connect looking backwards.
没有谁可以未卜先知，你回头看时才能发现事物的因果联系。
6. You have to believe that the dots will connect down the road because they will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference.
你要相信因果联系，因为它会给你追随自己内心的自信，即便有时离经叛道，也绝不妥协。只有这样，你才会有所成就。
7. When I was 30, I was out and publicly out.
我在而立之年被当众扫地出门。
8. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.
没有了成功时的巨大压力，重新成为了一名新人，反倒一身轻松。
9. It is awful tasting medicine but the patient needs it.
良药苦口利于病。
10. 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.
工作将要占据你生活的大部分时间。要想获得满足感，你要做你觉得有价值的工作。要做有价值的工作，你就必须热爱你的工作。
11. Keep looking and don't settle.
继续寻找，不要放弃。
12. Everything, including all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, falls aways in face of death.
在死亡面前，所有追求、荣耀、惶恐、挫折都不值一提。
13. 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're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
记住你终将会死去，是避免自己被种种担心所羁绊的最好的办法。你已经一无所有，还有什么理由不去追随自己的内心呢？
14. Death is the best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right the new is you, but someday not too long from now you will become the old and be cleared way.
死亡是生命最好的发明。它是生命更迭的媒介，推动着世界的“新陈代谢”。今天你还是“后浪”，不久的将来你就会变成“前浪”，被拍死在沙滩上。
15. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
你要有追随自己内心和直觉的勇气，它们知道你想要成为什么样的人，其余都是次要的。
