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今天练习的材料是史蒂夫·乔布斯2005年在斯坦福大学的演讲。下方是原视频，方便大家观看。视频总时长14分24秒左右，将会分成多次完成学习注解。
几点说明：
- 观看视频，注意语言的节奏感以及发音技巧(包括重音、连读，省读)以及意群的划分。
- 根据英文原文，学习熟词发音和生词的音和意。
- 本文不会给出完整的中文译文。尽量在英语情景下，感知语言本身传达的含义。这也就是为什么有的生僻单词(于我而言)用英文解释。
- 今天没有跟读录音。
史蒂夫·乔布斯-斯坦福大学演讲视频：(见公众号：傻孩子也有春天)
原文：
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents's garage when I was 20. We worked hard and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.
We just released our finest creation—the Macintosh a year earlier. And I had just turned 30 and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started. Well as apple grew we hired someone ,who I thought was very talented to run the company with me. And for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge. And eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30, I was out and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone. And it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generations of entrepreneurs down. That I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Nonce. And tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
注解：
- garage [gəˈrɑʒ] n. 车库
- release v. 发布
- diverge v. [daɪˈvɜrdʒ] If one opinion or idea diverges from another, they contradict each other or are different. You can also say that two opinions or ideas diverge. 意见观点等存在分歧
- fall out v. 解散
- side with sb. to support one person or group in an argument. (在争论中)支持(某人或某方)，站在(某人)一边
- e.g. If ever there was any sort of argument, she'd always side with my father aganist me.只要有争论，她就总是站在我父亲一边反对我。
- devastate v. [ˈdɛvəˌstet] 毁坏，破坏
- entrepreneur [ˌɑntrəprəˈnɜ(r)] n. 企业家
- baton [bəˈtɑn] n. 接力棒
- screw up a situation in which you do something badly or make a big mistake.把事情搞砸了，犯了大错
I didn't see it then. But it turned out that getting fired from Apple, was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next 5 years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar. And fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film "Toy Story". And is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT. And I returned to Apple. And the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurence and I have a wonderful family together.
注解：
- heaviness ['hevɪnəs] n. the quality of being done or happening to a great degree.严重性
- e.g. We were delayed by the heaviness of the traffic.我们被拥堵的交通耽误了。
- animated [ˈænəˌmetɪd] 卡通片
- renaissance [ˈrenəsɑns] n. a new growth of activity or interest in something, especially art, literature, or music. (尤指艺术、文学或音乐的)复兴
- e.g. Opera is enjoying a long-awaited renaissance.歌剧正在复兴，这是人们期待已久的好事。
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened, if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is gonna fill a large part of your life. And the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.
注解：
- brick [brɪk] n. 砖
- keep looking and don't settle 继续寻找，不要放弃
- As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle. 只要倾听你的心声，当你找到后你就会知道。就像任何伟大的感情一样，随着时间的推移，这份感情会越来越浓烈。所以不要放弃，要继续寻找。
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史蒂夫·乔布斯-斯坦福大学演讲(一)
史蒂夫·乔布斯-斯坦福大学演讲(二)
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