名人演講-口語練習(xí)：庫克演講01
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原文及翻譯
Stanford is near to my heart, not least because I lived just a mile and a half from here - of course, if my accent hasn't given it away. For the first part of my life, I had to admire this place from a distance. I went to school on the other side of the country at Auburn University, in the heart of landlocked eastern Alabama.
斯坦福大學(xué)在我心中占據(jù)著重要地位，這不僅是因為我住的地方離這里只有一英里半——當(dāng)然，如果我的口音沒有泄露我的秘密的話。在我生命的最初階段，我不得不遠遠地欣賞這個地方。我在美國另一邊的奧本大學(xué)上學(xué)，那里位于阿拉巴馬州東部內(nèi)陸的中心地帶。
You may not know this, but I was on the sailing team all four years. It wasn't easy. Back then, the closest Marina was a three-hour drive. For practice, most of the time, we had to wait for a heavy rainstorm to flood the football field. And tying knots is hard - who knew? Yet somehow, against all odds, we managed to beat Stanford every time. We must have gotten lucky with the wind. Kidding aside, I know the real reason I'm here, and I don't take it lightly.
你可能不知道，我四年來一直在帆船隊。這并不容易。那時，最近的碼頭要開三個小時的車才能到達。為了練習(xí)，大多數(shù)時候，我們不得不等待暴雨淹沒足球場。而且打結(jié)很難——誰知道呢？然而，不知何故，盡管困難重重，我們每次都設(shè)法擊敗了斯坦福大學(xué)。我們一定是幸運地遇到了風(fēng)。玩笑歸玩笑，我知道我來這里的真正原因，我不會掉以輕心。
Stanford and Silicon Valley's roots are woven together. We're part of the same ecosystem. It was true when Steve stood on the stage 14 years ago, it's true today, and presumably, it'll be true for a while longer still. The past few decades have lifted us together, but today, we gather at a moment that demands some reflection. Fueled by caffeine and code, optimism and idealism, conviction and creativity, generations of Stanford graduates and dropouts have used technology to remake our society.
斯坦福和硅谷的根源交織在一起。我們是同一生態(tài)系統(tǒng)的一部分。 14 年前史蒂夫站在舞臺上時，情況就是如此，今天也是如此，而且可能還會持續(xù)一段時間。過去的幾十年讓我們團結(jié)在一起，但今天，我們聚集在一個需要反思的時刻。在咖啡因和代碼、樂觀和理想主義、信念和創(chuàng)造力的推動下，一代又一代斯坦福畢業(yè)生和輟學(xué)者利用技術(shù)重塑了我們的社會。
But I think you would agree that lately, the results haven't been neat or straightforward. In just the four years that you've been here, at the farm, things feel like they've taken a sharp turn. Crisis has tempered optimism, consequences have challenged idealism, and reality has shaken blind faith.
但我想你會同意，最近，結(jié)果并不完美或直接。就在你來到農(nóng)場的四年里，事情似乎發(fā)生了急劇轉(zhuǎn)變。危機削弱了樂觀情緒，后果挑戰(zhàn)了理想主義，現(xiàn)實動搖了盲目的信念。
And yet, we are still drawn here for good reason. Big dreams live here, as do the genius and passion to make them real. In an age of cynicism, this place still believes that the human capacity to solve problems is boundless, but so it seems is our potential to create them.
然而，我們?nèi)匀挥谐浞值睦碛杀晃竭@里。偉大的夢想在這里，實現(xiàn)夢想的天才和激情也在這里。在這個憤世嫉俗的時代，這個地方仍然相信人類解決問題的能力是無限的，但我們創(chuàng)造問題的潛力似乎也是如此。
That's what I'm interested in talking about today, because if I've learned one thing, it's that technology doesn't change who we are; it magnifies who we are - the good and the bad. Our problems, in technology, in politics, wherever - our human problems, from the garden of Eden to today, it's our humanity that got us into this mess, and it's our humanity that's going to have to get us out.
這就是我今天想談的，因為如果我學(xué)到了一件事，那就是技術(shù)不會改變我們，而是會放大我們的本性——好的和壞的。我們的問題，無論是在技術(shù)上、政治上還是其他任何地方——我們的人類問題，從伊甸園到今天，都是我們的人性讓我們陷入了困境，也需要我們的人性讓我們擺脫困境。
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