スティーブン・ジョブスのスピーチ英文 その１

2008年9月21日 01:14 トラックバック(0)
どうしても小生には成し遂げたいことがあります。
ジョブスのスピーチを完全に生で聞き取りたいのです。
というわけで、最近意味不明に頭おかしくなるくらいジョブスのスピーチをipodで再生しています。
既にスピーチの再生回数が300回を越えていますが、何度聞いても胸にくる言葉ですね。

さて、下記は有名なジョブススピーチの三章の内の一章です。翻訳文は腐るほどあるけど、subtitle的な物は無かったので掲載。間違ってないと思うのだけどな。

I'm honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.
Truth be told, I never graduated from college.In now, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 month, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.
So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born.
My biological mother was a young unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.
She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.
Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.
So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking:"We've got an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?"
They said:"Of course."
My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.
She refused to sign the final adoption papers.
She only relented a fer months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.
This was the start in my life.
And 17 years later I did go to college.
But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parent's savings were being spent on my college tuition.
After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.
I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.
So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.
It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I've ever made.
The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friend's rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5￠ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.
I loved it.
And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.
Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.
I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combination,s about what makes great typography great.
It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of the had even a hope of any practical application in my life.
But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all come back to me.
And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography.
If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.
And since Windows fast copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.
If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.
But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something? Your get, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
Because believe in the dot connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that would make all the difference.
honore：光栄に思って、名誉ある（形）
commencement：開始、始め、卒業式、学位授与式（形）
close：終り、終結（名）閉じる、閉まる、完結する（自動）近い、惜しい（形）
unwed：未婚の（形）
adoption：採用、選択、採択、導入、乗り換え（名1）養子縁組（名2）
drop out：～の中から落ちる、脱落する、引退する、退学する、中退する、落ちこぼれる（句動）
adopt：養子にする（動）
all set for：～の準備が整っている
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