【正文】 r: What? Clerk: It39。s my biggest concern. Clerk: Oh, uh, madam... Customer: And plus there are a ton of preinstalled thirdparty applications that just clutter the puter. I39。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。t working properly. Clerk: Well, sorry to say, but your puter is no longer under warranty. It ran out yesterday. Customer: What? A threeweek warranty? Clerk: Yes, I39。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。 story.Reference answer：4. The effect of what he learned in the calligraphy class in his life。2. The reason why he dropped out of college。[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。m honored to attend the closing ceremony of the conference] (我很榮幸能參加大會(huì)閉幕式) and give you a speech. 4. Bill Clinton has helped to get the two American journalists released and he seems to 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。3. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. 這在當(dāng)時(shí)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。2. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. Reporter: We learn a lot from your story. Thanks for granting my interview.7. Practice: translationA. Put the following sentences in the text into Chinese. Pay special attention to the italicized expressions.1. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a dropin for another 18 months or so before I really quit. 謝謝您接受我的采訪。 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。 Jobs: OK. I dropped out six months after I started my studies in Reed College. On the one hand, the tuition was so expensive that all my parents39。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(jià)值所在。Reporter: But you didn39。 Reporter: Can you tell your story to us again?喬布斯：就像我剛才說的，我的生母是一個(gè)年輕未婚的研究生，所以她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。Reporter: Hello, Mr. Jobs. Can I have an interview with you about your speech?喬布斯：好的。t have children of your own, why not consider a(doption)? 3. She sensed something wrong by i(ntuition). 4. She went to Cambridge on a scholarship but d(ropped) out a year later. 5. I fail to see what women find so f(ascinating) about him.6. Practice: interpretingAfter the speech, a reporter interviewed Steve Jobs. The following is the conversation between the reporter and Steve Jobs. Interpret it into English with your partner.記者：您好，喬布斯先生。s curiosity and intuition] 實(shí)際用途 [stumble into acting] 憑好奇心與直覺 [biological mother] 收養(yǎng)某人 He learned about serif and sanserif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter binations, about what makes great typography great. 8. What do you think the graduating students can learn from Steve Jobs39。 he returned coke bottles for the fivecent deposits to buy food with。t have a dorm room, so he slept on the floor in friends39。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 savings were being spent on his tuition. 5. What did Steve Jobs think about his decision of dropping out? Why? narration about his biological mother? 斯坦福大學(xué)Pixar Animation Studios喬布斯有很大影響，使大不相同A few kind words at the right time make all the difference. 在適當(dāng)?shù)臅r(shí)候說幾句體貼話能產(chǎn)生很大的影響.Proper Nouns Steve Jobs to make sb. feel better 無意間涉足某事The urge to wider voyages caused men to stumble into New America. 擴(kuò)大航行范圍的緊迫要求使人類意外地發(fā)現(xiàn)了新美洲。stumble into sth. to bee involved in sth. by chance t wok out. 我的第一份工作干得不好。Harrison put up for the secretaryship. 哈里森自薦秘書一職。m honored to meet you. 很榮幸見到您。（做某事）感到榮幸I was honored to have been mentioned in his speech. 他在講話中提到了我，真是榮幸。因緣，因果報(bào)應(yīng)Phrases and Expressions be honored (to do sth.) =to feel proud and happy[U] karman.命運(yùn)Destiny drew us together. 命運(yùn)把我們連在了一起。1) [U] the power believed to control events 內(nèi)心，直覺，本能destinyn.[C, usu. pl.] 字型，字體；鉛字gutn.[C] fontn.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(gè)國家的北部要高得多。corresponding in size or amount proportionallyad.a.The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. 這個(gè)房間裝飾得十分豪華雅致。s a historical fact. 這是歷史事實(shí)。有關(guān)歷史研究的，歷史學(xué)的We have no historical evidence for it. 我們?nèi)狈梢宰C明這一點(diǎn)的史學(xué)依據(jù)。2) based on the study of history a.印刷術(shù)，排版，版面設(shè)計(jì)historicala.[U] （印刷用的）字體typographyn.[C] 無襯線字體typefacen.[U] 襯線，截線sanserifn.[U] a short line at the top or bottom of some styles of printed letters 用美術(shù)體書寫serifn.to produce by means of calligraphy calligraphvt.m considering studying calligraphy or Chinese painting. 我正在考慮要學(xué)書法還是國畫。I had an intuition that we would win at last. 我有一種直覺，那就是我們最終會(huì)成功。Intuition told me you were an honest man. 直覺告訴我你是個(gè)誠實(shí)的人。直覺力Nobody told me where to find you. It was sheer intuition. 沒有人告訴我到哪兒去找你。1) [U] the ability to know sth. by using your feelings rather than considering the facts He stumbled on the staircase and hurt his leg. 他在樓梯上絆了一跤，傷了腿.intuitionn.2) to hit one39。vi.跌跌撞撞地走，蹣跚而行A drunk stumbled past us. 有個(gè)喝醉的人跌跌撞撞地從我們身邊走過。1) to m