【正文】 ek 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 have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。3 17年后，我確實上了大學。beginning If I don39。to take sb. else39。 The police will not relent in their fight against crime. 警方在跟犯罪分子的斗爭中決不手軟.vi.我純粹是憑直覺找到你的。in an artistic manner 天數(shù)，天命It was his destiny to die in a foreign country. 他注定要客死異國。The new strategy may not work out well. 新戰(zhàn)略也許不會產(chǎn)生令人滿意的效果。皮克斯動畫工作室Reed College里德學院Hare Krishna國際克利須那覺悟會 life experience? They might learn to trust in something—their gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. They might also learn to have the confidence to follow their heart even when off the beaten path.4. Working with words and phrasesA. Put the following Chinese expressions into English.生母 Reporter: Your parents did do what they had promised. They sent you to college.喬布斯：是的，17年后，我考進了里德學院。我在里德學院讀了6個月就退學了，但是作為旁聽生又在那里待了18個月左右，然后才真正離開學校。Steve Jobs was adopted several months after birth since his biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student. As his parents had promised, Jobs did go to college 17 years later. However, he found the college was much too expensive and he couldn39。到底是什么問題呢？顧客：首先，它總是死機，而且癱瘓了無數(shù)次。隊，行列Phrases and Expressionsbe under warranty fascinationn.（拳擊的）鉤拳n.hook sth. up to sth.n.回收利用，再利用This envelope is made from recycled paper. 這個信封是用再生紙制作的。草圖；素描，速寫His sketch of the suspect helped the police capture the murderer. 他畫的嫌犯素描幫助警方抓到了謀殺犯。例如，Livescribe給我展示了一本印在那種特殊紙張上的《圣經(jīng)》，輕擊紙上的文字就能看到像腳注一樣的注釋，或能聽到《圣經(jīng)舊約》里那些稀奇古怪的名字的發(fā)音。這只鋼筆確實有墨水，能在紙上留下筆劃，同時也能把你寫的任何東西錄為數(shù)碼文件——文本和草圖都可以——利用紅外攝像機讀入代碼，即一種在紙上幾乎看不見的小灰點。用完，耗盡Time is running out for the trapped miners. 被困礦工的時間正在一點點流失。queuen.請問有什么需要幫忙？顧客：是的，大約三個星期前我買了一臺你們的手提電腦，但是它運行總是不正常。3. What he learned in the calligraphy class after dropping out of college。Jobs: Just as I mentioned in my speech, that was probably one of the best decisions I ever made. Since I had dropped out of Reed College, I took a calligraphy class and learned about serif and sanserif typefaces which were designed into the Mac 10 years later. Otherwise, personal puters might not have the wonderful typography that they do.記者：您的故事讓我們學到了很多東西。我的養(yǎng)父母都不是大學畢業(yè)生，但他們答應會供我上大學，所以我的母親才最終同意讓他們收養(yǎng)我。 rooms。史蒂夫work out1) to develop in a successful way n. It39。書法；書法藝術(shù)I39。causing fear or alarm 生物的；與生命過程有關(guān)的a child39。學位授予典禮，畢業(yè)典禮He made a speech at the mencement. 他在畢業(yè)典禮上作了演講。如果我沒有在大學旁聽那門課程，Mac就不會有多種字體以及間距分配合理的字型，很可能現(xiàn)在的微軟PC也不會有這些字型——你們要知道，Windows也只是抄襲Mac，并非獨創(chuàng)。園里的每一張海報、每一個抽屜的每張標簽上都有漂亮的書法。我大學沒有畢業(yè)。 savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn39。t connect the dots looking forward。她覺得我必須由有大學學歷的人收養(yǎng)。這在當時看來非常可怕，但現(xiàn)在回頭看看，那是我做過的最棒的決定之一。你們要相信，這些片斷會在未來以某種方式連接起來。[U] (informal) to stop doing sth. adoption n.to formally accept a suggestion or policy by voting naivelyad.vi.[U] a short line at the top or bottom of some styles of printed letters a.[C, usu. pl.] 因緣，因果報應Phrases and Expressions be honored (to do sth.) =to feel proud and happystumble into sth. to bee involved in sth. by chance s curiosity and intuition] 實際用途 一方面是因為學費太貴，我父母一生的積蓄都花在了我的學費上；另一方面，我看不出讀大學的價值所在。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用，我不抱希望。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。顧客：什么？職員：我們需要一些時間來判斷這些問題。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。1) (of an agreement or a document) to bee no longer valid3. TextA Doanything Pen May Change the Face of Computing萬能筆革新計算機技術(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 invisible gray dots on the paper. It can also read bar codes. To make it work, you need to either buy a recycled paper notepad from Livescribe, or roll your own by downloading a graphics file that prints on most laser printers. 3 It also records the sound around you and links it to what you were writing at the time. Tap the pen to that text again, it reads the little dots, and you get an audio playback from that time. As a journalist with lousy handwriting and no shorthand skills, I could use that. Just write an outline of what someone is saying in an interview, and tap on the notes to hear again what the person said. 4 That in itself would be very cool, but the Livescribe folks have bigger plans. Here are some other things the pen can do: 5 Create 3D audio files The Livescribe headphones include microphones, so you can record the sound exactly how and when it hits each of your ears. Play it back through any headphones, and you get the same effect as if you were hearing sounds around you. 6 Create flash animations Whatever you write or draw can be captured as a flash movie. Play it back and you see the drawings take form on your screen. Click on parts of the text in the animation and launch any linked items, such as web pages, audio files, or videos. 7 Access mentary in a book The pen works for reading as well as writi