【正文】 ove or walk in an unsteady way stumblevi.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(huì)好轉(zhuǎn)。in a naive manner naivelyad.終于答應(yīng)，不再拒絕Afterwards she relented and let the children stay up late to watch TV. 后來她讓步了，讓孩子們看會(huì)兒電視，晚點(diǎn)再睡。to finally agree to sth. after refusing 采用（某方法）；采?。硲B(tài)度）relentvi.to start to use a particular method or to show a particular attitude towards sb./sth. 正式通過，表決采納（建議、政策等）vt.to formally accept a suggestion or policy by voting 收養(yǎng)，領(lǐng)養(yǎng) vt.s child into your family and bee its legal parent(s) 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(huì)減輕工會(huì)沉重的負(fù)擔(dān)。[U] the decision to start using sth. such as an idea, a plan or a name 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(gè)小女孩. n.[C, U] the act of adopting a child adoption n.生物學(xué)The school has a large biological laboratory. 這所學(xué)校有一個(gè)很大的生物實(shí)驗(yàn)室。connected with the science of biologys biological parents 孩子的親生父母a.停止，戒掉Quit fooling around! 別胡鬧了!You must quit smoking. Most important of all, you should start taking exercise. 你必須戒煙；最重要的是，你該開始運(yùn)動(dòng)了。(informal) to stop doing sth. vi/vt.t get a pay raise, I39。離開；離校He got his present job when he quitted/quit the army. 他退伍后找到了現(xiàn)在這份工作。to leave your job, school, etc. 動(dòng)畫片quitvi/vt.[C] a film or movie in which drawings of people and animals seem to move 動(dòng)畫制作n.[U] Animationn.We will get our diplomas at the mencement in May or June. 我們將會(huì)在五、六月份舉行的畢業(yè)典禮上拿到畢業(yè)證書。這個(gè)方法從未讓我失望，也正是它改變了我的整個(gè)人生。你們要相信，這些片斷會(huì)在未來以某種方式連接起來。但在十年后再回首，一切都變得非常、非常清晰。如果我從未退學(xué)，我就絕不會(huì)旁聽那門書法課，而個(gè)人電腦可能也不會(huì)有現(xiàn)在這樣美妙的字體排版。這是第一類擁有漂亮字體排版的電腦。直到10年后，當(dāng)我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái)麥金托什電腦時(shí)，我想起了這些東西。這種科學(xué)所無法捕捉的、美妙的、充滿歷史感的微妙藝術(shù)，讓我心醉神迷。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。 讓我給你們舉個(gè)例子：當(dāng)當(dāng)時(shí)里德學(xué)院開設(shè)可能在全國(guó)是最好的書法課程。我喜歡這樣。但一切也不全是這么美妙。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。我不知道我的人生定位，也不知道大學(xué)將如何幫我找到答案，而我正在這里耗盡父母一生的積蓄。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。這就是我生命的開始?！钡?，我的生母隨后發(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。但是我出生之后，他們?cè)谧詈笠豢虥Q定他們還是想要一個(gè)女孩。她覺得我必須由有大學(xué)學(xué)歷的人收養(yǎng)。2 這要從我還沒有出生的時(shí)候說起。 那么我為什么要退學(xué)呢？說實(shí)話，現(xiàn)在是我最接近大學(xué)畢業(yè)的時(shí)刻。1 今天，我很榮幸能來到這所世界頂尖大學(xué)參加你們的畢業(yè)典禮。 t connect the dots looking forward。t capture, and I found it fascinating. 5 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 puter, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first puter 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. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it39。 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 all romantic. I didn39。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. 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。 do you want him? They said, Of course. My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. 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. This was the start in my life. 3 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 workingclass parents39。Unit 1 The Story of Steve Jobs This is the text of the Commencement Address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, at Stanford University, delivered on June 12, 2005. 1 I am honored to be with you today at your mencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I39。ve ever gotten to a college graduation. 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. So why did I drop out? 2 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. 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 except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. 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。 savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn39。t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting. It wasn39。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sanserif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter binations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical,