英文万花筒 | 当我们谈毕业典礼时，我们都讲些什么？

爱死你2011

据说每一个热爱英语的孩子
都关注了“航大英语随身学”

       对于2017届毕业的学长学姐们来说，时光真的如白驹过隙，看似漫长的四年大学生活，就这么在上周五的毕业典礼正式结束了。


       每一年的毕业季，最庄重最严肃的活动便是毕业典礼了，它不如拍毕业照那样有趣，但却同样是必不可少的一个环节。
       而在所有的毕业典礼中，最引人关注的想必还是毕业典礼演讲了，好的毕业典礼演讲，不仅能够表达出学校对毕业生们的期待，还能启迪学生自己对未来的思考。
       今天，就有小编带大家一起来看看几个精彩的毕业典礼演讲吧。

1       6月16日上午，中国民航大学2017届本科生毕业典礼暨学位授予仪式在学校体育馆举行。在毕业典礼上，董健康校长发表了题为“勇挑担当，与祖国和行业发展同向同行”的演讲。

董健康
中国民航大学校长
勇挑重担 与祖国和行业发展同向同行
       嘿嘿嘿，还是让我们先一起来看看董校长对这一届的学长学姐们有什么想说的吧。

敬业精神
       敬业精神是每个人在工作中应该遵循的最基本价值。同学们，你们中的绝大多数都找到了工作，应聘到了一个具体的岗位。工作岗位是我们每个人赖以生存和发展的基础保障，但是我们要清楚，工作岗位的存在不是为我们设置的，而是社会存在和发展的需要，是社会需要表现为不同的岗位，要求应聘者来完成的。岗位既能给我们带来好处和快乐，同时也会让我们经历痛苦。既然选择了这个岗位，那就要全部接受他，用敬业的精神对待他。

担当意识
       民航在永暑礁试飞中提炼出了“忠诚担当的政治品格、严谨科学的专业精神、团结协作的工作作风、敬业奉献的职业操守”的当代民航精神。非常明确的指出了民航行业为祖国、为人民担当的政治特征和职业要求。我们说，民航是安全行业，责任担当对于民航人来说不仅是素质，更是一种美德。每一班次的安全运行是飞行、空管、机务、机场和地面其他工作人员团结协作的结果，是每个班组、每个岗位员工尽职尽责的结果。民航是窗口单位，真情服务是民航的底线要求。民航一线员工常年无私奉献在生产的第一线，抛家舍业、加班加点、任劳任怨。这种对行业、对单位忠诚担当的精神是我们效仿的榜样。

诚信品格
       诚信品格是立身处世之道。“诚”是尊重事实、真诚待人，不自欺也不欺人，“信”是忠于良心、信守诺言，诚信就是真实无欺、践行约定。诚信是人之为人的道德规定，不说谎、说话算数的诚信规则是我们每个人最早接受的规则教育。诚信是一种勇气。现实工作和生活中，永远一帆风顺是不存在的，过错会始终相伴我们成长。总为自己找借口开脱是缺乏承认错误的勇气、是缺乏百折不挠的志气。只要我们始终保持旺盛的斗志，诚实勇敢地面对工作生活中的困难与挫折，便会激发自己的潜能、产生巨大的力量，从而超越自我、取得成功。对不畏艰难、永不放弃的人而言，往往最困难的时候，也是离成功最近的时候。

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       6月9号，“南京姑娘毕业演讲惊艳美国”登上了国内各家主流媒体的标题上。没错，蔡语婧，这位来自南京的中国姑娘，在她六分钟的毕业典礼演讲中，结合自身的求学经历告诉了大家坚持学习以及拥抱多元文化的重要性。她自信从容的微笑也成为了祖国的最好名片。

Yujing Cai
Graduate from BU
终生学习、拥抱多元文化



       整场演讲看下来，小编心里感慨万千，同样都是留学生，有的人却只关注到了“美国的空气是如此的清新甜美”。蔡语婧学姐的演讲让我们看到了什么是“视野”和“格局”的不同。好了，话不多说让小编带看看演讲的精彩部分吧!

多元文化初体验
One of the things I always enjoyed doing while waiting for classes was looking at the different country flags in our atrium（建筑的中庭）……and it often amazed me how many different cultures and nationalities are represented in our community.

在等待上课时，我最喜欢做的事情之一就是看着我们商学院大厅挂着的不同的国旗……而我时常惊讶于我们的学生群体里有这么多不同的文化和民族的代表。

Soon, I felt so content with（对…感到满足） this progress and I gradually built a cozy nest（舒适圈） with people of my culture, my age, and who thought and acted exactly like I did.  

很快，我满足于自己的进步，于是我逐渐建立一个充满了与我的文化背景，年龄相仿的人的舒适的窝。他们的所思所想都与我相似。

      我们的学姐相当的可爱，除了爱在等待上课的时候和同学数国旗，还说自己很快的适应了这种多元环境，尤其是自己的食量哈哈哈哈……不过她也渐渐地发现自己生活在了一个舒适圈里面，她周围的人都是和她观点相同的人，慢慢地，她开始做出来一些改变。


我要跳出舒适圈
What a waste it was for me to ignore the diversity of experience and opinions that the Questrom community had to offer !

我意识到，忽略Questrom这样多元化群体提供给我的多样的经验和观点是多大的浪费！

I experienced the awkwardness of having to explain a joke that no one understood, the nervousness of asking questions about other cultures that seemed so obvious and silly, and the anger of defending my beliefs（捍卫自己的信念） only to get suspicion（受到怀疑） and aloofness（冷漠） in return.

我经历了不得不解释一个没有人理解的笑话的尴尬，对于别的文化提出问题但担心问题过于明显和愚蠢的紧张感，以及捍卫我自己的信念却只得到怀疑和厌恶时的愤怒。

Fortunately, these discomforts were soon taken over by（替代） things like the amusement of teaching my classmates to pronounce my last name, Cai, using a part of their tongue that they didn’t know existed.

幸运的是，这些不舒适的感受很快就被别的事情替代了：比如当我教会我的同学们发音我的姓氏“蔡”，他们使用到了自己以前都没注意到的小部分舌头的时候的快乐。

        活在一个周围人都认同你的环境固然舒服，但是这样你的格局就会被限制住，只有不断的在多元的文化中去理解那些不同的文化，我们才能获得全新的体验。


不断学习，拥抱多元文化
To cope with（应对…） that amount of uncertainty, we will need a diverse set of skills and knowledge, and most important of all, an open mind to learn.

为了应对如此大的不确定性，我们需要储备多样化的技能和知识，而更重要的是，要有一颗开放和包容的思想去学习。

学姐让小编想到了乔布斯说的那句话：“Stay hungry，stay foolish.”


       在此，小编为大家挑选了一些比较实用的表达，希望大家可以结合演讲内容学会它们，为自己所用。

felt so content with（对…感到满足）
a cozy nest（舒适圈）
defending my beliefs（对…感到满足）
get suspicion（受到怀疑）
be taken over by（替代）
to cope with（应对…）

以下是蔡学姐的演讲全文，大家可以配合着演讲稿边看视频边学习英语哦~


Cai's Speech
Greetings! Friends, family,faculty and staff. Welcome to Boston University on such a beautiful Fridaynight.

问候！朋友，家人，教职员工。欢迎大家在这样一个美丽的星期五晚上来到波士顿大学 。

My name is Yujing Cai, and I am agraduate from the Master of Mathematical Finance program. I come from Nanjing,China, one of the oldest cities in the world. Right now, my family is sitting somewhere over there. They travelled, literally across half of the world to see their baby girl graduate and talk in a language they don’t understand.Therefore, I am tremendously honored to share my perspective of 6 years at theQuestrom School of Business.

我的名字是蔡语婧，我毕业于数学金融硕士项目。我来自中国南京，世界上最古老的城市之一。现在，我的家人坐在那里。他们旅行跨越了半个地球来看他们的宝贝孩子毕业，并用他们不明白的语言演讲。因此，我非常荣幸能够在此分享我在Questrom商学院六年的感悟。

One of the things I always enjoyed doing while waiting for classes was looking at the different country flags inour atrium. Sometimes my friends and I even have silly competitions going on to see who knew more flags, and it often amazed me how many different cultures and nationalities are represented in our community.

在等待上课时，我最喜欢做的事情之一就是看着我们商学院大厅挂着的不同的国旗。有时我还会和朋友们傻傻地比赛，看谁认得出更多的国旗。而我时常惊讶于我们的学生群体里有这么多不同的文化和民族的代表。

In a community, so diverse, mutual understanding doesn’t come easily, so I tried hard to be adaptive from the beginning.Soon, I found myself adjusting to the bigger food portion, and railways in the middle of the road. I even tried fortunes cookies for the first time in mylife! Soon, I felt so content with this progress and I gradually built a cozy nest with people of my culture, my age, and who thought and acted exactly like Idid. Why bother talking to anyone else? The coursework and job-hunting were already so tiring, and meeting people outside my circle just seemed so scaryand unnecessary.

在这样一个多元化的群体里，相互理解并不容易，所以我从一开始就努力地让自己适应。很快，我发现自己适应了这里更大的食量，和马路正中间的铁路。我甚至人生中第一次品尝了幸运饼干！（幸运饼干Fortune Cookie:美式中餐馆提供的打开后有祝福纸条的饼干）很快，我满足于自己的进步，于是我逐渐建立一个充满了与我的文化背景，年龄相仿的人的舒适的窝。他们的所思所想都与我相似，我又何必再和任何其他人交流？学校的课业和找工作的过程已经让人疲惫不堪，跨出我自己的圈子去和其他人交往看起来是那么的不必要甚至可怕。

Then one day something changed. It was a normal school day, and I was in the atrium looking at the flags as always. Isaw that the flag of China was surrounded nicely by the flags of Canada, Chile,Colombia, and DR Congo, and suddenly it struck me that I didn’t know anyone of  those nationalities. What a waste it was for me to ignore the diversity of experience and opinions that the Questrom community had to offer! I was determined to change, but it wasn’t easy.

而这一天一切改变了。这是一个正常的上课日，我一如既往地在大厅里看着不同的国旗。我看到中国的国旗被加拿大，智利，哥伦比亚和刚果民主共和国的国旗很好看地包围着，突然间我惊觉到我并不认识任何这些国籍的人。我意识到，忽略Questrom这样多元化群体提供给我的多样的经验和观点是多大的浪费！我决心要改变，但这并不容易。

I experienced the awkwardness of having to explain a joke that no one understood, the nervousness of asking questions about other cultures that seemed so obvious and silly, and the anger of defending my beliefs only to get suspicion and aloofness in return.Fortunately, these discomforts were soon taken over by things like the amusement of teaching my classmates to pronounce my last name, Cai, using a part of theirtongue that they didn’t know existed, the excitement of promoting our Math Finance cultureawareness events in the Questrom Graduate Council, the satisfaction of knowingall the secret authentic restaurants around Boston and the astonishment of seeing the world and myself in a way that I could never have imaged before.

我经历了不得不解释一个没有人理解的笑话的尴尬，对于别的文化提出问题但担心问题过于明显和愚蠢的紧张感，以及捍卫我自己的信念却只得到怀疑和厌恶时的愤怒。幸运的是，这些不舒适的感受很快就被别的事情替代了：比如当我教会我的同学们发音我的姓氏“蔡”，他们使用到了自己以前都没注意到的小部分舌头的时候的快乐; 当我向Questrom研究生学生会宣传我们金融数学项目的文化活动的时候的兴奋，当我知道波士顿周围所有最地道正宗的餐馆的时候的满足，以及当我以自己从未想象过的视角去看这个世界，和自己的时候的惊奇。

During the past 2 years of graduateschool and 4 years of undergraduate before that, I have been so proud to see that our school grew fromSchool of Management to Questrom School of Business,and that our community is growing stronger and more vibrant each year, and this couldn’thave happened without the effort of everyone here to share, to inspire, and to embrace each other.

在过去两年的研究生院和再之前四年的本科生活中，我很自豪地看到，我们的学院从管理学院成长为Questrom商学院，而且我们的学生群体每一年都越来越强大，愈发有活力。而这样的进步，如果没有这里的每个人努力地去分享，激励和接纳彼此，是不可能发生的。

Let’s now think about the future. 20 yearsfrom now, what kind of challenges are we going to face, as family members, asbusiness owners, as human beings? Nobody knows.To cope with that amount of uncertainty, we will need a diverse set of skills and knowledge, and most importantof all, an open mind to learn. That’s why we have been so lucky to be part of the Questrom community that cultivated such freedom of an open mind.

现在我们来思考未来。 20年后，作为家庭成员，作为企业总裁，作为人类，我们将面临什么样的挑战？没有人知道。为了应对如此大的不确定性，我们需要储备多样化的技能和知识，而更重要的是，要有一颗开放和包容的思想去学习。这就是为什么我们非常幸运地成为Questrom群体的一部分，因为它培养了开放思想的自由。

So, congratulations, class of 2017!Forwhen you walk outside that door today, you are already equipped with one of the most critical skills to succeed in the future, the ability to embrace diversity. Thank you so much!

所以，恭喜在场的2017届毕业生！因为当你们今天走出那扇门时，你已经具备了未来成功的关键竞争力之一，即拥抱文化多样性的能力。非常感谢！


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        美国当地时间6月9日，麻省理工学院（MIT）举行了毕业典礼，苹果公司CEO蒂姆·库克发表了毕业演讲。他鼓励毕业生们寻找超越自身生活的方向和目标。演讲中，他提到了自己寻找使命感的多年经历以及第一次见到乔布斯进入苹果公司的感受。

Tim Cook
CEO of APPLE
科技终须服务人性




       库克在这场演讲中有许多精彩的地方，比如关于未来的目标、科技应为人类服务、人文科学的重要性等等。
       但是！这么多的观点有一样论述深得小编之心，论述的实在是太深刻，尤其在这个AI告诉发展的时代。小编认为我们都应该好好思考库克说的这句话。

人工智能取代人类？别怕！
I’m not worried about artificial intelligence（人工智能） giving computers the ability to think like humans. I’m more concerned about（我更担忧的是） people thinking like computers without values or compassion, without concern for consequences. That is what we need you to help us guard against（阻止、避免）. Because if science is a search in the darkness, then the humanities are a candle that shows us where we’ve been and the danger that lies ahead.

我并不担心人工智能，我不担心电脑和人一样思考。我更担忧人们像电脑一样思考，缺少激情和价值判断的能力，无法分辨后果的严重性，做出危害社会的行为。我希望你们可以阻止这样的事情发生。当科技走入黑暗的角落时，人性是照亮黑暗的蜡烛。只有科技，是远远不够的。科技应该和人文、艺术并存。当你真的投入进去，你会发现你所做的事情可能会改变人类社会。iPhone、iwatch、ipad都在改变世界，比如帮助自闭症儿童重新建立与世界的联系。这些都将取决于你们对应用科学的态度。

怎么样，听完以后是不是大受启发？还敢说humanity是out of date么？

artificial intelligence（人工智能）
I’m more concerned about（我更担忧的是）
guard against（阻止、避免）


Cook's Speech
Hello, MIT!
麻省理工学院的同学们，你们好！
Thank you. Congratulations class of ’17. I especially want to thank Chairman Millard, President Reif, distinguished faculty, trustees, and the members of the class of 1967. It is a privilege to be here today with your families and your friends on such an amazing and important day.
谢谢。祝贺2017届毕业生。我要特别感谢麻省理工学院董事长罗伯特·米兰德（Robert
Millard）、校长拉尔夫·赖夫（L. Rafael Reif）、杰出的全体教员、学院董事以及1967届校友们。今天，在这个极不平凡和重要的日子里，能够和你们的家人和好友共同在这里庆祝，我感到十分荣幸。

MIT and Apple share so much. We both love hard problems. We love the search for new ideas, and we especially love finding those ideas, the really big ones, the ones that can change the world. I know MIT has a proud tradition of pranks or as you would call them, hacks. And you have pulled off some pretty great ones over the years. I’ll never figure out how MIT students sent that Mars rover to the Kresge Oval, or put a propeller beanie on the great dome, or how you’ve obviously taken over the president’s Twitter account. I can tell college students are behind because most of the Tweets happen at 3:00 a.m.
麻省理工学院和苹果有许多共同点。我们都喜欢攻克难题，追求新想法，尤其是喜欢找到能够改变世界的伟大创意。我知道，麻省理工拥有恶作剧的自豪传统，也就是你们所称的“黑”（hacks）。在麻省理工学院就读的这几年，你们肯定完成了不少非常棒的恶作剧。我永远想不明白你们是如何把火星漫游车送到演讲厅的。显然，你们也接管了总统的Twitter账号，因为在凌晨3点发布那么多推文只有你们才干得出来。
I’m really happy to be here. Today is about celebration. And you have so much to be proud of. As you leave here to start the next leg of your journey in life, there will be days where you ask yourself, ‘Where is this all going?’ ‘What is the purpose?’ ‘What is my purpose?’ I will be honest, I asked myself that same question and it took nearly 15 years to answer it. Maybe by talking about my journey today, I can save you some time.
能够出席你们的毕业典礼，我由衷地感到高兴。今天是一个值得庆祝的日子，你们有许多值得骄傲的成就。当你离开这里，开启人生下一个篇章时，你会扪心自问，“下一步发展方向是什么？”、“目标是什么”、“自己的目标又是什么”。老实说，我问过自己相同的问题，花了近15年时间才找到答案。今天，通过分享我的人生旅程，我或许能够帮助你们节省一些寻找答案的时间。

The struggle for me started early on. In high school, I thought I discovered my life’s purpose when I could answer that age-old question, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ Nope. In college I thought I’d discover it when I could answer, ‘What’s your major?’ Not quite. I thought that maybe I’d discovered it when I found a good job. Then I thought I just needed to get a few promotions. That didn’t work either.
我的困惑很早就已经出现。上高中时，当我以为能够回答那个老生常谈的问题：你长大了想做什么时，我就找到了自己的人生目标。但其实不然。上大学时，我曾以为自己知道想学什么专业就找到了目标。也不完全如此。在我找到一份好工作，认为自己只需要几次晋升后，我又有了这样的想法，但都不对。
I kept convincing myself that it was just over the horizon, around the next corner. Nothing worked. And it was really tearing me apart. Part of me kept pushing ahead to the next achievement. And the other part kept asking, ‘Is this all there is?’ I went to grad school at Duke looking for the answer. I tried meditation. I sought guidance in religion. I read great philosophers and authors. And in a moment of youthful indiscretion, I might even have experimented with a Windows PC, and obviously that didn’t work.
我不断安慰自己：谜团即将解开，就在不久之后。但这些都不奏效。这让我伤心欲绝。我把自己的一半精力放在了奋斗争取下一个成就上，另一半精力则在不断问自己，“一切就这样了吗？”。于是，我到杜克大学读研寻找答案。我尝试过冥想，从宗教中寻找指引，读了许多伟大哲学家和作家的书。在那个年少轻狂的年龄，我甚至还尝试过使用Windows PC，但显然它无法为我解惑。
After countless twists and turns, at last, 20 years ago, my search brought me to Apple. At the time, the company was struggling to survive. Steve Jobs had just returned to Apple, and had launched the ‘Think Different’ campaign. He wanted to empower the crazy ones—the misfits, the rebels and the troublemakers, the round pegs, and the square holes—to do the best work. If we could just do that, Steve knew we could really change the world.
经过了无数次迂回曲折后，我的这颗搜寻答案的心终于在20年前把我带到了苹果公司。那时，苹果濒临倒闭。史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs）刚刚重返苹果，并推出了“非同凡想”广告宣传活动。他想驱动着那些疯狂者、厌世者、叛逆者、麻烦制造者做出最好的产品。乔布斯知道，只要我们能够做到这些，我们就能真正改变世界。
Before that moment, I had never met a leader with such passion or encountered a company with such a clear and compelling purpose: to serve humanity. It was just that simple. Serve humanity. And it was in that moment, after 15 years of searching, something clicked. I finally felt aligned. Aligned with a company that brought together challenging, cutting edge work with a higher purpose. Aligned with a leader who believed that technology which didn’t exist yet could reinvent tomorrow’s world. Aligned with myself and my own deep need to serve something greater.
在加入苹果之前，我从未遇到过这么有激情的领导者，也没有碰到过一家公司有如此清晰并且难以抗拒的目标：为人性服务。就这么简单——为人性服务。就在那一刻，经过了15年的苦苦搜寻后，我恍然大悟。我终于找到了人生方向，那就是与一家把更高目标与具有挑战性、前沿工作融合在一起的公司共同奋斗，与一位相信新技术会改变未来世界的领导者并肩作战，追随自己的内心让世界变得更美好。

Of course, at that moment I don’t know all of that. I was just grateful to have psychological burden lifted. But with the help of hindsight, my breakthrough makes a lot more sense. I was never going to find my purpose working some place without a clear sense of purpose of its own. Steve and Apple freed me to throw my whole self into my work, to embrace their mission and make it my own. How can I serve humanity? This is life’s biggest and most important question. When you work towards something greater than yourself, you find meaning, you find purpose. So the question I hope you will carry forward from here is how will you serve humanity?
当然，那时的我还没有领悟一切，只是对移除这个心理负担感到高兴。但是回过头来看，一切变得明朗。如果我供职的公司没有一个清晰的目标，那么我也就不会找到自己的目标。乔布斯和苹果解放了我，让我全身心投入工作中，拥抱他们的使命，并把它当成我的使命。我该如何服务于人性？这是我一生中最大的一个课题，也是最重要的一个。当你向着一个比自身更有价值的目标奋斗时，你就会从中找到意义，找到目标。因此，我希望你们今天能够带上这个问题：该如何服务于人性？
The good news is since you are here today you are on a great track. At MIT you have learned how much power that science and technology have to change the world for the better. Thanks to discoveries made right here, billions of people are leading healthier, more productive and more fulfilling lives. And if we’re ever going to solve some of the hardest problems facing the world today, everything from cancer to climate change to educational inequality, then technology will help us to do it. But technology alone isn’t the solution. And sometimes it’s even part of the problem.
好消息是，你们今天正处在一个非常好的发展轨道上。在麻省理工学院，你们已经了解到科技在推动世界发展上发挥了多大的作用。得益于在这里实现的发明成果，数十亿人的生活因此变得更健康，更具价值，也更有意义。如果我们要去解决当前世界面临的一些最为艰巨的挑战——从癌症、气候变化到教育不平等——科技会帮助我们实现这一目标。但是，科技本身不是解决问题的办法，有时甚至会演变成为问题的一部分。
Last year I had the chance to meet with Pope Francis. It was the most incredible meeting of my life. This is a man who has spent more time comforting the inflicted in slums than with heads of state. This may surprise you, but he knew an unbelievable amount about technology. It was obvious to me that he had thought deeply about it. Its opportunity. Its risks. Its morality. What he said to me at that meeting, what he preached, really, was on a topic that we care a lot about at Apple. But he expressed a shared concern in a powerful new way: Never has humanity had such power over itself, yet nothing ensures it will be used wisely, he has said.
去年，我有幸见到了教皇，这是我一生中最难忘的一次会面。他花在贫民窟慰问不幸之人的时间，超过了与国家元首会面的时间。这可能让你们感到惊讶，他对科技的了解到了令人难以置信的程度。对我来说，有一点很明显，那就是教皇对科技有过深层次的思考——无论是它的机遇和风险，还是道德层面的东西。在那次会面中，他告诉我，他一直在宣扬一个我们苹果非常关心的话题。但他从一种深远的新视角来表达我们共同的关切：人类对科技的掌控力从未如现在这般大，但没有任何东西能确保科技会得到明智地使用。
Technology today is integral to almost all aspects of our lives and most of the time it’s a force for good. And yet the potential adverse consequences are spreading faster and cutting deeper. The threats to security, threats to privacy, fake news, and social media that becomes antisocial. Sometimes the very technology that is meant to connect us divides us. Technology is capable of doing great things. But it doesn’t want to do great things. It doesn’t want anything. That part takes all of us. It takes our values and our commitment to our families and our neighbors and our communities, our love of beauty and belief that all of our faiths are interconnected, our decency, our kindness.
今天，科技已经融入我们日常生活的方方面面，而且大部分时间都是一种积极的推动力量。但是，科技的潜在负面效应正在更为快速地扩散，也变得越来越具威胁。它对安全、隐私、新闻和社交媒体的威胁不利于社会发展。有时，科技可以在不同的人之间建立起联系，可以完成一些伟大的事情，但它并不想要去实现这种目标，不想做任何事情。科技的负面效应对我们所有人都构成威胁，夺去了我们的价值以及我们对家庭、邻居和社会的承诺，夺去了我们的爱美之心，夺去了我们对所有信仰都存在相互联系的笃信，夺去了我们的尊严和友善。
I’m not worried about artificial intelligence giving computers the ability to think like humans. I’m more concerned about people thinking like computers without values or compassion, without concern for consequences. That is what we need you to help us guard against. Because if science is a search in the darkness, then the humanities are a candle that shows us where we’ve been and the danger that lies ahead.
我不担心人工智能让计算机像人类一样思考问题，我更担心的是人类像计算机那样思考问题——摒弃同情心和价值观，并且不计后果。在这种情况下，我们希望你们可以帮助我们预防这样的事情发生。因为如果科技走入黑暗角落的时候，人类就是照亮黑暗的蜡烛，让我们看清自己身处何方以及前面的危险。
As Steve once said, technology alone is not enough. It is technology married with the liberal arts married with the humanities that make our hearts sing. When you keep people at the center of what you do, it can have an enormous impact. It means an iPhone that allows the blind person to run a marathon. It means an Apple Watch that catches a heart condition before it becomes a heart attack. It means an iPad that helps a child with autism connect with his or her world. In short, it means technology infused with your values, making progress possible for everyone.
史蒂夫曾经说过，光有科技是不够的，科技要与人文和人性结合，才能产生让我们的心为之歌唱的结果。当你让人处于你所做一切事情的中心位置时，就可以产生巨大的影响。这意味着，iPhone可以让盲人参加马拉松比赛，让Apple Watch可以在患者心脏病发作前捕捉到异常情况，让iPad帮助自闭症儿童重新建立与世界的联系。简而言之，这意味着科技必须与价值观相融合，给每个人带来积极的进展。
Whatever you do in your life, and whatever we do at Apple, we must infuse it with the humanity that each of us is born with. That responsibility is immense, but so is the opportunity. I’m optimistic because I believe in your generation, your passion, your journey to serve humanity. We are all counting on you. There is so much out there conspiring to make you cynical. The internet has enabled so much and empowered so many, but it can also be a place where basic rules of decency are suspended and pettiness and negativity thrive.
无论你们一生当中做什么，无论我们在苹果做什么，我们都必须把它与我们每个人与生俱来的人性融为一体。这是一份巨大的责任，但机遇同样也是巨大的。我之所以充满乐观，是因为我相信你们这一代人，相信你们的热情以及你们服务人类的旅程。我们如今都在指望着你们。外面的世界有那么多东西会让你们变得愤世嫉俗。互联网赋予了我们太多的能力，让我们能做很多事情，但是它恐怕还是一个基本的行为准则被无视、褊狭和消极情绪滋生的地方。
Don’t let that noise knock you off course. Don’t get caught up in the trivial aspects of life. Don’t listen to trolls and for God’s sake don’t become one. Measure your impact in humanity not in the likes, but the lives you touch; not in popularity, but in the people you serve. I found that my life got bigger when I stopped carrying about what other people thought about me. You will find yours will too. Stay focused on what really matters. There will be times when your resolve to serve humanity will be tested. Be prepared. People will try to convince you that you should keep your empathy out of your career. Don’t accept this false premise.
不要让那种不和谐的声音扰乱你们的正常轨道。不要陷入琐碎的生活不可自拔。不要任凭巨魔的摆布，看在上帝的份上，你们千万不要成为那样的人。衡量你们对人类社会的贡献大小，不在于你们多受欢迎，而在于你们所触及的生活；不在于你们的地位高低，而在于你们服务的人群。我发现，只有在自己不再总是纠结于别人对我的看法的时候，我的生活才更有意义。你会发现你自己也是如此。始终专注于真正重要的东西。有的时候，你服务人类社会的决心会受到考验，要有心理准备。有些人会想要让你相信，为了事业的发展，你不应该去做到感同身受。不要接受这种错误的观点。
At a shareholders meeting a few years back, someone questioned Apple’s investment and focus on the environment. He asked me to pledge that Apple would only invest in green initiatives that could be justified with a return on investment. I tried to be diplomatic. I pointed out that Apple does many things, like accessibility features for those with disabilities that don’t rely on an ROI. We do the things because they are the right thing to d, and protecting the environment is a critical example. He wouldn’t let it go and I got my blood up. So I told him, “If you can’t accept our position, you shouldn’t own Apple stock.”
在几年前的一次股东大会上，有人对苹果在环境方面的投资和专注提出了质疑。他想要我做出某种承诺，苹果只会去投资那些投资回报率高的绿色项目。我努力以得体的方式做出回答。我告诉他，苹果做了很多不以投资回报率（ROI）为衡量标准的事情，比如向残疾人提供辅助功能。我们之所以做这样的事情，是因为这些都是合适的，保护环境就是一个典型例证。但他仍然抓住这个问题不放，我马上火冒三丈。我告诉他，“如果你无法认同我们的立场，就不该持有苹果股票。”
When you are convinced that your cause is right, have the courage to take a stand. If you see a problem or an injustice, recognize that no one will fix it but you. As you go forward today, use your minds and hands and your hearts to build something bigger than yourselves. Always remember there is no idea bigger than this. As Dr. Martin Luther King said, “All life is interrelated. We are all bound together into a single garment of destiny.” If you keep that idea at the forefront of all that you do, if you choose to live your lives at that intersection between technology and the people it serves, if you strive to create the best, give the best, do the best for everyone, not just for some, then today all of humanity has good cause for hope.
当你们相信自己的事业是有益社会的，就要有勇气去维护这种立场。如果你们看到什么问题或是不公平的事情，要知道除了你之外，没有任何人能解决。正如你们今天所做的，要用你们的思想、双手和心灵去创建比你们自己更强大的东西。你们始终要牢记，没有比这更宏伟的想法了。正如马丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King）所说，“所有生命都是相互联系的。我们被绑在一起，同命运共呼吸。”如果你们把这个想法放在自己所做一切事情的最前面，如果你选择在科技和服务人群之间的交汇点过自己的生活，如果你努力去创造最好的东西，给予最好的东西，为每个人而不是某些人提供最好的服务，那么今天人类对未来也就有了更多的期许。
Thank you very much and congratulations class of 2017!
非常感谢大家，祝贺2017届毕业生！


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