乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲（第五部分） 难点注释

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: It was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲（第五部分） 难点注释

• be closest to sth离某事最近

• decade十年

• live through经历…而未死

• certainty确定性

• purely纯粹地

• intellectual头脑中的，脑力的

• concept概念

• go to Heaven上天堂

• destination目的地

• escape逃脱

• that is as it should be死亡本该如此。

• single（特指某人或事物）唯一的; 单独的

• invention发明

• change agent变革的推动者

• clear out 清除

• make way for让路给，为…开路

• clear out the old to make way for the new革故鼎新

• someday将来有一天

• gradually渐渐地

• clear away把…清除掉（以留出空间）

• dramatic--striking in appearance or effect 此指刺耳的，扎心的

• live someone esle’s life按照别人的意愿和别人的人生轨迹而生活

• trap使受限制；困住

• dogma教条

• live with 忍受，容忍（不快的事）

• live with the results of others' thinking逆来顺受地接纳别人的理念

• drown out （指一声音）淹没（另一声音）

• inner voice心声

• have the courage to do sth勇于做某事

• follow heart and intuition跟着感觉走，随心所欲

• somehow不管怎么着

• secondary次要的

• amazing令人惊喜（或惊羡、惊叹）的

• publication出版物;

• Whole Earth Catalogue《全球概览》(国家图书奖)

• Bible圣经

• generation一代人

• fellow男人；家伙

• Stuart Brand斯图尔特·布兰德，毕业于斯坦福大学生物学专业。今日永存（Long Now）基金会的联合创始人兼总裁，也是全球商业网络(Global Business Network)的联合创始人。创建并编辑了《全球概览》。

• Menlo Park门洛帕克，自称“创新之家”，北加旧金山湾区的城市,在旧金山湾的西南面,位于圣马迪奥县。

• bring sth to life使....焕发生机

• poetic有诗意的

• touch风格

• late接近末期

• personal computer个人电脑

• desktop publishing桌面出版，桌上排版（用微型电脑和打印机进行出版业务）

• typewriter打字机

• scissor剪刀

• Polaroid camera宝丽来照相机(即拍即得)；拍立得照相机

• in paperback form 平装本形式的

• come along出现

• idealistic理想主义的

• overflowing with 充满的，挤满的

• neat灵巧的

• notion理念 

• put out出版

• issue（报刊的）期

• run one's course跑完人生路程，喻指完成使命

• I was your age.那时我和你们差不多大。

• back cover封底

• photograph照片

• hitchhike搭便车（旅行）

• adventurous爱冒险的

• beneath在下面; 在底下

• stay hungry渴求知识

• stay foolish大智若愚

• farewell告别的

• message信息

• sign off(在信的结尾)写结束语

• wish that for myself希望我自己如此

• anew重新

• wish that for you希望你们如此