【正文】 alue 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 trusted 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 didn39。 rooms. I returned coke bottles for the fivecent 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. 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. 4 Because I had dropped out and didn39。t connect the dots looking forward。 說實(shí)話，現(xiàn)在是我最接近大學(xué)畢業(yè)的時刻。 她覺得我必須由有大學(xué)學(xué)歷的人收養(yǎng)?！钡牵业纳鸽S后發(fā)現(xiàn)我母親大學(xué)沒有畢業(yè)，我父親甚至連高中也沒畢業(yè)，因此拒絕在最后幾份領(lǐng)養(yǎng)文件上簽字。但是出于無知，我選了一所幾乎與斯坦福一樣昂貴的學(xué)校，因此，工薪階層的父母把所有積蓄都花在了我的學(xué)費(fèi)上。這在當(dāng)時看來非?？膳拢F(xiàn)在回頭看看，那是我做過的最棒的決定之一。我喜歡這樣。4 因?yàn)槲乙呀?jīng)輟學(xué)，不用參加正規(guī)的課程，所以我決定去上這門課，學(xué)習(xí)書法。直到10年后，當(dāng)我們在設(shè)計第一臺麥金托什電腦時，我想起了這些東西。如果我從未退學(xué)，我就絕不會旁聽那門書法課，而個人電腦可能也不會有現(xiàn)在這樣美妙的字體排版。你們要相信，這些片斷會在未來以某種方式連接起來。We will get our diplomas at the mencement in May or June. 我們將會在五、六月份舉行的畢業(yè)典禮上拿到畢業(yè)證書。[U] [C] a film or movie in which drawings of people and animals seem to move to leave your job, school, etc. t get a pay raise, I39。(informal) to stop doing sth. s biological parents 孩子的親生父母a.生物學(xué)The school has a large biological laboratory. 這所學(xué)校有一個很大的生物實(shí)驗(yàn)室。adoption n.收養(yǎng)，領(lǐng)養(yǎng)He was pleased with the adoption of a little girl. 他很高興收養(yǎng)了一個小女孩. n.采納，采用The adoption of this policy would relieve the unions of a tremendous burden. 采用這一政策將會減輕工會沉重的負(fù)擔(dān)。s child into your family and bee its legal parent(s) to formally accept a suggestion or policy by voting to start to use a particular method or to show a particular attitude towards sb./sth. to finally agree to sth. after refusing naivelyad.無知地；天真地They naively assume things can only get better. 他們天真地以為情況肯定會好轉(zhuǎn)。1) to move or walk in an unsteady way vi.1) [U] the ability to know sth. by using your feelings rather than considering the facts Intuition told me you were an honest man. 直覺告訴我你是個誠實(shí)的人。m considering studying calligraphy or Chinese painting. 我正在考慮要學(xué)書法還是國畫。to produce by means of calligraphy [U] a short line at the top or bottom of some styles of printed letters [U] [C] [U] 2) based on the study of history s a historical fact. 這是歷史事實(shí)。a.proportionallyad.成比例地，相應(yīng)地Crime rate is proportionally much higher in the north of the country. 就比例而言，犯罪率在這個國家的北部要高得多。[C] [C, usu. pl.] 1) [U] the power believed to control events karman.因緣，因果報應(yīng)Phrases and Expressions be honored (to do sth.) =to feel proud and happym honored to meet you. 很榮幸見到您。stumble into sth. to bee involved in sth. by chance to make sb. feel better 喬布斯t have to take the required classes and he had the opportunity to take classes that interested him. Much of what he learned in this way proved priceless later on.6. Why did Steve Jobs say his life as a dropin in the college was not all he returned coke bottles for the fivecent deposits to buy food with。[biological mother] 收養(yǎng)某人 s curiosity and intuition] 實(shí)際用途 Reporter: Hello, Mr. Jobs. Can I have an interview with you about your speech?喬布斯：好的。 一方面是因?yàn)閷W(xué)費(fèi)太貴，我父母一生的積蓄都花在了我的學(xué)費(fèi)上；另一方面，我看不出讀大學(xué)的價值所在。Reporter: What do you think of your decision of dropping out?喬布斯：就像我剛才演講中所提到的，這或許是我所做的最棒的決定之一。謝謝您接受我的采訪。2. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. 5. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. 這一切在我的生活中是否實(shí)用，我不抱希望。[quit his/her wellpaid but demanding position] (辭去那份工資高但要求也高的工作) recently.Summary outline:1. The start of Steve Jobs39。4. The effect of what he learned in the calligraphy class in his life。t see the value of attending it, so he dropped out six months later. Then he dropped in on a calligraphy class which he found fascinating. He learned serif and sanserif typefaces and many other things, of which he found an application 10 years later—they were all designed into the first Macintosh puter. It made all the difference in Jobs39。s the problem? Customer: Well, first of all, the machine always freezes and has crashed at least a zillion times. Clerk: Uh, madam... Customer: And I think the puter39。 end trying to get this thing working. Clerk: Madam. I have to put you on hold. Customer: What? Clerk: It39。職員：啊，很抱歉，但您的電腦已不在保修期內(nèi)。職員：呃，女士……顧客：而且我認(rèn)為這臺電腦感染了間諜軟件和大香蕉木馬病毒，這是我最擔(dān)心的。顧客：什么？職員：我們需要一些時間來判斷這些問題。您的等候號碼是84號。[U, C] a written agreement in which a pany selling sth. promises to repair or replace it if there is a problem within a particular period of time [U, C] an extremely large number t you understand it now? 關(guān)于問題的癥結(jié)，我已經(jīng)跟你講了無數(shù)遍了。to be bound by a written promise by a pany to fix or replace one of its products 1) (of an agreement or a document) to bee no longer validbe at one39。智窮計盡；全然不知所措To tell the truth, I39。3. TextA Doanything Pen May Change the Face of Computing萬能筆革新計算機(jī)技術(shù) 1 At a conference in California yesterday, the audience of 500some technology veterans watched in fascination as a pany called Livescribe introduced its brilliant invention: a pen. 2 Well, not just a pen—a puter that looks like a pen. The pen does have ink and it makes lines on paper, but it also records a digital file of whatever you write—both text and sketches—by using an infrared camera to read a code of tiny, nearly invis