2019最新名校毕业演讲致辞!把这些精彩片段背起来 英语水平提高N个Level
2019-07-04 10:31
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作者:
02Tim Cook 斯坦福大学演讲(2019)
演讲主题:做勇于担当的建设者
苹果公司CEO库克受邀参加了斯坦福大学的毕业演讲。
他肯定了斯坦福大学孕育了伟大的梦想,学生们拥有实现这些梦想的天才与激情;但他也同时指出,雄心壮志要有与之匹配的谦卑。
这种谦卑不代表温顺,更不代表看轻自己,而是应该忘我地投入到一项事业中,成为一个建设者,一步一个脚印地付出,并且坚信所造之物将会超越自身。他鼓励毕业生们要做有担当的建设者:想要创造信誉,就要先承担责任。
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No matter where you go, no matter what you do, I know you will be ambitious. You wouldn’t be here today if you weren’t. Match that ambition with humility – a humility of purpose.
无论你将要去向哪里,无论你从事什么工作,我明白你必定是雄心勃勃。否则,今天你不会在这里。让你的雄心与谦卑相匹配——一种有目标的谦卑。
That doesn’t mean being tamer, being smaller, being less in what you do. It’s the opposite, it’s about serving something greater.
这并不代表着变得循规蹈矩,变得渺小,担负得更少。恰恰相反,它是为了更伟大的事情。
The author Madeleine L’Engle wrote, “Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”
作家玛德琳·恩格尔曾这样写道,“谦卑是把自己扔到一边,把精力全部集中到一件事或一个人身上去。”
In other words, whatever you do with your life, be a builder.
换句话说,无论你怎样生活,请做一个建设者。
You don’t have to start from scratch to build something monumental.
你不需要从零开始,做一些宏伟的事情。
And, conversely, the best founders – the ones whose creations last and whose reputations grow rather than shrink with passing time – they spend most of their time building, piece by piece.
恰恰相反,最好的建设者——那些在时光的冲刷下成就依然留存,名声与日俱增的建设者们——他们一步一个脚印地走过来。
Builders are comfortable in the belief that their life’s work will one day be bigger than them – bigger than any one person. They’re mindful that its effects will span generations.
这些建设者相信,他们的人生作品总有一天会远远超越他们,超越任何一个个体。他们相信,它的影响会代代相传。
That’s not an accident. In a way, it’s the whole point.
这并不是一个偶然。从某种程度上说,它是全部的意义所在。