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【自我介绍的基本知识】：
    “如何作自我介招？”这个问题看上去似乎很简单，人人都会。其实并不然，有很多人说的并不是很理想的。主要的现象有几下几点：
    1、 不知从何说起。有很多同学当听到老师问：“Can you make a self-introduction?”时，首先迟疑几秒，然后怔怔的看着：“老师说什么呀？”这一类算是“无准备型”。自我介绍是你与人打交道，参加各类口语考试，职场面试不可或缺的一部分，同时也是非常重要的一部分。在面试时，我们经常会被要求自我介绍，所谓自我介绍，就是把自已介绍给出别人，以使别人认识自已，所以恰到好处的自我介绍，可以大大提高面试的好感。
    2、缺乏逻辑性。还有一些同学在作自我介绍时，要么只说两句话名字，年龄；要么夸夸其谈但缺乏逻辑性。别看简简单单的一个自我介绍有时也能反映出一个人的逻辑思维和做事态度。
    3、缺乏幽默感。幽默的开场除了可以营造出活泼和睦的气氛外，还能给对方留下深刻的第一印象，即使对象是以建立了朋友关系或同事关系的外国人，在酒会或聚餐等各式场合，同样可以用诙谐的方式来表现自我，使你和他们之间的关系达到更圆满的程度。
    面试自我介绍应大体包括本人的姓名、工作、籍贯、学历、兴趣以及与交往对象的某些熟人的关系等。如：“我的名字叫王光，是里润公司副总裁。10年前，我和您先生是大学同学。” 其中本人姓名、供职的单位及部门、担负的职务或从事的具体工作等三项，又叫工作式自我介绍内容的三要素，通常缺一不可。
     ①姓名。应当一口报出，不可有姓无名，或有名无姓。
     ②单位。单位及部门，如可能最好全部报出，具体工作部门有时可以暂不报出。
     ③职务。担负的职务或从事的具体工作，有职务最好报出职务，职务较低或者无职务，则可报出目前所从事的具体工作。
    举个例子，可以说：“我叫唐果，是大秦广告公司的公关部经理。”
【应聘者具体应注意以下几点】： 
    1、接到面试通知后，最好在家打个自我介绍的草稿，然后试着讲述几次，感觉一下。  
    2、自我介绍时首先应礼貌地做一个极简短的开场白，并向所有的面试人员（如果有多个面试考官的话）示意，如果面试考官正在注意别的东西，可以稍微等一下，等他注意转过来后才开始。  
    3、 注意掌握时间，如果面试考官规定了时间，一定要注意时间的掌握，既不能超时太长，也不能过于简短。  
    4、介绍的内容不宜太多的停留在诸如姓名、工作经历、时间等东西上，因为这些在你的简历表上已经有了，你应该更多的谈一些跟你所应聘职位有关的工作经历和所取得的成绩，以证明你确实有能力胜任你所应聘的工作职位。  
    5、在作自我简介时，眼睛千万不要东张西望，四处游离，显得漫不经心的样子，这会给人做事随便、注意力不集中的感觉。眼睛最好要多注视面试考官，但也不能长久注视目不转睛。再就是尽量少加一些手的辅助动作，因为这毕竟不是在作讲演，保持一种得体的姿态也是很重要的。  
    6、在自我介绍完后不要忘了道声谢谢，有时往往会因此影响考官对你的印象。
    初学英语的各位人士，可以学着用一下；对于自认为用英语作自我介绍已经易如反掌的英语高手，不妨在平时也试试使自我介绍增添一些新意:)
    1、 以星座为话题做自我介绍

    I’m an Aries. Arians are supposed to be courageous leaders but troublesome followers. Half true. I’m definitely a troublesome. follower. 我是牧羊座的。 牧羊座的人据说是很有胆识的领导人物，但同时也是很会惹麻烦的部属。说对了一半，我的确是个麻烦的部属。
    I’m a Leo. Some good Leo traits are: broad-minded, loving, faithful. Bad traits are: bossy, patronizing. I’m a typical Leo. I’m faithful but patronizing. 6park.com 我属狮子座。狮子座的优点是心胸宽阔、有爱心，以及忠诚；缺点则是专横、自以为是。我就是典型的狮子座，忠诚却又自负。
    2、以性格、职业为话题做自我介绍

    I’m a person of principle. I do not compromise. Because I don’t smoke , I do not wear a T-shirt with a Marlboro logo, even if somebody gives one to me free. 我是个有原则的人，绝对不会妥协。因为我不抽烟，所以我也不会穿印有万宝路字样的T恤，即使有人免费送给我。
    I’m a great salesman. I could sell a knockoff Windows 2000 to Bill Gates. 我是一个很棒的推销员，我能把盗版的Windows 2000卖给比尔*盖茨。
    3、以幽默、爱好为话题

    I love shopping! My mom(friends) says, I should become a legislator ‘cause I bring so many bills into the house. 我酷爱买东西！所以我妈（朋友）说我应该当国会议员的。因为，我把那么多的bill(账单/请愿书/法案)带进了the house(家里/议院)。
    以上一些简单自我介绍只是个参考，希望想学英语的同学或是想把英语说得更漂亮的人士能够举一反三做出更具魅力符合自己个性的自我介绍。
【英语面试常用句型】：

（1） 开场白

    1. Let me introduce myself. / Let me do some introduction. 让我来介绍一下自己。
    2. Which aspect do you want to know about me? 您想知道我哪方面的情况？
    3. What do you want to know about myself? 您想知道我哪方面的情况？

    4. Good morning/afternoon/evening, my name is …… . It is really a great honor to have this opportunity/chance to introduce myself. I would like to answer whatever you may raise, and I hope I can make a good performance today.
    上午好/下午好/晚上好！我的名字叫……。今天有机会进行自我介绍深感荣幸。我乐意回答你们所提出来的任何问题。我希望我今天能表现的非常出色。

（2） 关于职位、工作

    1. I noticed that you advertised a job in this morning’s paper. 我看到你们在今早的报纸上刊登的招聘广告。
    2. I’m coming for your advertisement for …. 我是来应聘你们广告上的……职位的。
    3. I have applied for the position of …. 我申请了贵公司的……职位。

    4. I haven’t done anything like that before. 我以前没有做过这种工作。
    5. I think I’m quite fit for assistant’s job. 我觉得我很适合做助理的工作。
    6. I used to work as a sale’s manager. 我以前做销售经理。
    7. I’m quite familiar with editing. 我做过很多编辑工作。
    8. I want a job with a vacation every year. 我想找个每年都能度假的工作。
    9. I was thinking of a job in a school. 我打算到学校找份工作。
    10. I worked in the accounting section of a manufacturer of electrical products.  我曾在电子产品制造商的会计组工作。

    11. I have been for over five years in teh employ of an exporting company. 本人曾经前后五年被受雇于出口贸易公司。
    12. I have been in the business for the last ten years, and worked as the superintendent in the personnel department. 本人在过去十年在商界担任人事部主任迄今。
    13. I have had five years‘ experience with a company as a salesman. 本人曾在某一公司担任推销员，前后有五年之久。
    14. For the past three years, I have been in the office of the Brothers Trading Co., where I have been ad still am an accountant. 本人曾经在兄弟贸易公司服务三年，担任会计工作，现仍在职中。
    15. I am twenty years of age, and have been employed for the last two years by the Green Trees Co., in teh general clerical work of the office. 我今年20岁，曾于绿林公司服务两年，担任一般文员工作。
    16. I am 25 years of age, and have had two years‘ experience in my present post, which I am leaving to better myself. 我今年25岁，已在目前的职位工作两年，兹为寻找更上一层楼，准备离开此职位。
    17. I am nineteen years of age, female and have had two years‘ experience in a company‘s delivery office. 我今年19岁，女性。曾在某家公司担任收发工作两年。
    18. I am just leaving school, and am eighteen years of age. 本人18岁，不久即可毕业。
    19. I am twenty years of age, and am anxious to settle down to office work. 本人20岁，希望能找到一个公司，以便安定下来。
    20. Since my graduation from the school two years ago, I have been employed in teh Green Hotel as a cashier. 两年前，自从离校后，在格兰酒店担任出纳员。 

（3）关于个人基本情况

    1. I am…… ­years old, born in…… province/Beijing, northeast/southeast/southwest…… of china, and I am currently a freshman（大一新生）/sophomore（大二学生）/junior（大三学生）/senior（大四学生） student at Capital Institute of Physical Education.
    我今年……岁，出生在……省/北京，它位于中国的东北/东南/西南……等部。我目前是首都体育学院大一/大二/大三/大四的学生。
    2. My major is sports training of basketball/voellyball/football/badminton/pingbang/tennis/  I’ll get a bachelor degree after graduation.
    我主修篮球/排球/足球/羽毛球/乒乓球/网球/田径/游泳/跆拳道等运动训练专业。在我毕业以后，我将会获得学士学位。
    3. In the past 1/2/3 years, I spend most of my time on study. I have passed CET3/4/6 and I have acquired basic knowledge of sports training both in theory and in practice.
    在过去的1/2/3年中，我把大量的时间用在学习上。我已经通过了大学英语2/3/4/6级。而且，我已经从理论和实践二方面对运动训练专业的基础知识有了一个大致的了解。

    4. I got a degree in Literature and took a course in typing.

    我获得了文学学士学位，还学过打字。
    5. Besides, I have attended several sports meetings held in Beijing. I am also the volunteers of China Tennis Open, Chinese Badminton Masters…… . Through these I have a deeply understanding of my major—sports training.
    除此以外，我还参加了在北京举行的许多运动会。我还是中国网球公开赛，羽毛球大师赛……的志愿者。通过这些，我对运动训练专业有了一个更深刻的了解。
    6. I have lots of interest, such as singing, dancing, drawing and so on.
    我有很多兴趣爱好，如唱歌、跳舞、画画等。

    7. I love playing tennis.

    我喜欢打网球。
【面试英语自我介绍范文】：

（一）

    Q： Can you sell yourself in two minutes？ Go for it. （你能在两分钟內自我推荐吗？大胆试试吧！）
    A： With my qualifications and experience, I feel I am hardworking, responsible and diligent in any project I undertake. Your organization could benefit from my analytical and interpersonal skills.（依我的资格和经验，我觉得我对所从事的每一个项目都很努力、负责、勤勉。我的分析能力和与人相处的技巧，对贵单位必有价值。)

（二）
    Good morning !
    It is really my honor to have this opportunity for an interview, I hope I can make a good performance today. I’m confident that I can succeed.
    Now I will introduce myself briefly.I am 26 years old,born in shandong province . (General Introduction)

    I was graduated from Qingdao university. my major is electronic.and I got my bachelor degree after my graduation in the year of 2003. During university, I spent most of my time on study so that I have passed CET4/6 . and acquired basic knowledge of my major.(Education background)

    In July 2003, I began work for a small private company as a technical support engineer in QingDao.Because I’m capable of more responsibilities, so I decided to change my job. And in August 2004,I left QingDao to BeiJing and worked for a foreign enterprise as an automation software test engineer.Because I want to change my working environment, I’d like to find a job which is more challenging. Moreover Motorola is a global company, so I feel I can gain the most from working in this kind of company ennvironment. That is the reason why I come here to compete for this position. (Research experience and academic activity)

    I think I’m a good team player and I’m a person of great honesty to others. Also I am able to work under great pressure.
    That’s all. Thank you for giving me the chance.

（三）

    Good morning, my name is jack, it is really a great honor to have this opportunity for an interview, I would like to answer whatever you may raise, and I hope I can make a good performance today, eventually enroll in this prestigious company in September.
    Now I will introduce myself briefly,I am 21 years old,born in heilongjiang province ,northeast of china,and I am curruently a senior student at Beijing XX University.My major is packaging engineering.and I will receive my bachelor degree after my graduation in June.In the past 4 years,I spend most of my time on study,I have passed CET4/6 with an ease. and I have acquired basic knowledge of packaging and publishing both in theory and in practice.
    Besides, I have attend several packaging exhibition held in Beijing, which is our advantage studying here, I have taken a tour to some big factories and companies. Through these I have a deeply understanding of domestic packaging industry. Compared to developed countries, unfortunately, although we have made extraordinary progress since 1978,our packaging industry are still underdeveloped, mess, unstable, the situation of employees in this field is awkward. But I have full confidence in a bright future if only our economy can keep the growth pace still.
    I would like to tell you that pursuing the major is one of my lifelong goal,I like packaging and I won’t give up. If I can pursue my dream here, I will combine practice with my former education. I will work hard in these fields.
    I cannot describe my character well, but I know I am optimistic and confident. sometimes I prefer to stay alone, reading, listening to music, but i am not lonely, i like to chat with my classmates, almost talk everything ,my favorite pastime is valleyball,playing cards or surfing on line. Through college life,I learn how to balance between study and entertainment. By the way, i was a actor of our amazing drama club. I had a few glorious memories on stage .They are my pride.

    注：这三篇范文不见得就是很好，只是表达的比较清楚而已，大家在面试之前可以效仿此类文章把自我介绍提前准备好，流利的表达出来，效果最佳。

    转载自：每日英语

Ten things we know to be true（Google 的十大价值观）

"The perfect search engine," says co-founder Larry Page, "would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want." When Google began, you would have been pleasantly surprised to enter a search query and immediately find the right answer. Google became successful precisely because we were better and faster at finding the right answer than other search engines at the time.

（Google 联合创始人拉里·佩奇说，“完美的搜索引擎需要做到确解用户之意，切返用户之需”。Google 推出搜索服务之初，您可能惊喜地发现输入搜索查询后就能迅速得到正确答案。Google 之所以取得成功，正是因为我们当时能比其他搜索引擎更快更好地找到合适的结果。）

But technology has come a long way since then, and the face of the web has changed. Recognizing that search is a problem that will never be solved, we continue to push the limits of existing technology to provide a fast, accurate and easy-to-use service that anyone seeking information can access, whether they’re at a desk in Boston or on a phone in Bangkok. We’ve also taken the lessons we’ve learned from search to tackle even more challenges.

（但在那之后，技术一路发展，网络的面貌已经发生了翻天覆地的变化。我们意识到搜索是一个不可能完全解决的问题，因此，我们不断挑战现有技术的极限，努力提供快速、准确且易于使用的服务。无论搜索用户是在波士顿使用计算机，还是在曼谷街头拿着手机漫步，他们都能获得这样的服务。我们始终从搜索的过程中吸取经验，从而应对更多的挑战。）

As we keep looking towards the future, these core principles guide our actions.

（在继续向未来迈进之际，我们会遵循以下核心原则，规范自己的行动。）

1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.（以用户为中心，其他一切水到渠成。）

Since the beginning, we’ve focused on providing the best user experience possible. Whether we’re designing a new Internet browser or a new tweak to the look of the homepage, we take great care to ensure that they will ultimately serve you, rather than our own internal goal or bottom line. Our homepage interface is clear and simple, and pages load instantly. Placement in search results is never sold to anyone, and advertising is not only clearly marked as such, it offers relevant content and is not distracting. And when we build new tools and applications, we believe they should work so well you don’t have to consider how they might have been designed differently.

(创建伊始，Google 就以提供最佳的用户体验为中心任务。不管是设计新的互联网浏览器，还是采用新的首页外观，我们都非常谨慎，确保它们最终可以满足“用户”的需求，而不是达到我们自己的内部目标或底线。我们的首页界面简单明了，网页载入十分迅速。我们从不对外出售搜索结果中的展示位置。对于广告，我们不仅清楚地将它们标记出来，而且广告内容也与搜索结果相关，从而确保不会分散用户的注意力。在构建新的工具和应用程序时，我们秉持这样一种理念，设计出来的产品应该非常出色，用户无需再去考虑如果采用其他设计会是怎样。)

2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well.（心无旁骛、精益求精。）

We do search. With one of the world’s largest research groups focused exclusively on solving search problems, we know what we do well, and how we could do it better. Through continued iteration on difficult problems, we’ve been able to solve complex issues and provide continuous improvements to a service that already makes finding information a fast and seamless experience for millions of people. Our dedication to improving search helps us apply what we’ve learned to new products, like Gmail and Google Maps. Our hope is to bring the power of search to previously unexplored areas, and to help people access and use even more of the ever-expanding information in their lives.

(Google 要做的就是搜索。我们拥有世界上最大的研究队伍之一，可以心无旁骛地攻克搜索问题，我们知道自己擅长什么，也知道如何可以做得更好。我们会对难题持之以恒地反复研究，因此，我们能够解决复杂的问题，即使我们的搜索服务已经在为数百万用户提供快捷、流畅的信息搜索体验，我们仍能不断对其进行改进。我们在不断地改善搜索服务，这也有助于我们将掌握到的知识技术应用于 Gmail 和 Google 地图等新产品。我们希望将强大的搜索功能应用于未曾探索过的领域，并帮助用户更多地获取和使用生活中不断增加的信息。)

3. Fast is better than slow.（快比慢好。）

We know your time is valuable, so when you’re seeking an answer on the web you want it right away – and we aim to please. We may be the only people in the world who can say our goal is to have people leave our homepage as quickly as possible. By shaving excess bits and bytes from our pages and increasing the efficiency of our serving environment, we’ve broken our own speed records many times over, so that the average response time on a search result is a fraction of a second. We keep speed in mind with each new product we release, whether it’s a mobile application or Google Chrome, a browser designed to be fast enough for the modern web. And we continue to work on making it all go even faster.

(我们知道您的时间非常宝贵，因此，在遇到问题时，您一定希望能通过网络迅速地找到解决方案，而这正是我们的目标。我们希望用户在首页上花费的时间越短越好，这样的理念可能在世界上也是独一无二的。我们不断精简网页并提高服务环境的效率，一次次地打破自己创造的速度纪录，现在的平均搜索结果响应时间仅为几分之一秒。我们推出的每种新产品都非常注重速度，无论是移动应用程序还是谷歌浏览器（一种旨在跟上现代网络速度的高速浏览器）都是如此。而且，我们始终致力于提高所有产品的运行速度。)

4. Democracy on the web works.（网络的民主作风。）

Google search works because it relies on the millions of individuals posting links on websites to help determine which other sites offer content of value. We assess the importance of every web page using more than 200 signals and a variety of techniques, including our patented PageRank™ algorithm, which analyzes which sites have been "voted" to be the best sources of information by other pages across the web. As the web gets bigger, this approach actually improves, as each new site is another point of information and another vote to be counted. In the same vein, we are active in open source software development, where innovation takes place through the collective effort of many programmers.

(Google 搜索之所以成功，是因为它有数百万在网站上发布链接的用户；他们帮助我们确定出哪些网站提供了有价值的内容。在评估每个网页的重要性时，我们采用了 200 多个指标以及各种技术，其中包含我们的专利算法 PageRank™，它可以分析出哪些网站被网络中的其他网页“票选”为最佳信息来源。随着网络规模的扩大，这一评估方法也会越来越完善，因为每个新网站在提供信息的同时，也是另一张待统计的选票。我们还使用同样的思路，积极地进行开源软件的开发，并在许多编程人员的共同努力下，不断推出各种创新产品。)

5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.（获取信息的方式多种多样，不必非要坐在台式机前。）

The world is increasingly mobile: people want access to information wherever they are, whenever they need it. We’re pioneering new technologies and offering new solutions for mobile services that help people all over the globe to do any number of tasks on their phone, from checking email and calendar events to watching videos, not to mention the several different ways to access Google search on a phone. In addition, we’re hoping to fuel greater innovation for mobile users everywhere with Android, a free, open source mobile platform. Android brings the openness that shaped the Internet to the mobile world. Not only does Android benefit consumers, who have more choice and innovative new mobile experiences, but it opens up revenue opportunities for carriers, manufacturers and developers.

(今天的世界已变得越来越“移动化”，因为人们希望随时随地都能获得所需的信息。我们不断开创新的移动服务技术，推出新的移动服务解决方案，帮助全球用户在自己的手机上执行各种各样的任务，比如查看电子邮件和日历活动以及观看视频，更别说在手机上通过多种不同的方式使用 Google 搜索功能。此外，我们希望通过 Android 激起全球各地移动用户更强的创新意识。Android 是一个免费的开放源代码移动平台，它将开放性这一塑造互联网不可缺少的因素带入了移动世界。Android 不仅能为客户带来利益，让他们拥有更多选择余地和更富创意的移动体验，也为运营商、制造商和开发人员创造了营收机会。)

6. You can make money without doing evil.（不做坏事也能赚钱。）

Google is a business. The revenue we generate is derived from offering search technology to companies and from the sale of advertising displayed on our site and on other sites across the web. Hundreds of thousands of advertisers worldwide use AdWords to promote their products; hundreds of thousands of publishers take advantage of our AdSense program to deliver ads relevant to their site content. To ensure that we’re ultimately serving all our users (whether they are advertisers or not), we have a set of guiding principles for our advertising programs and practices:

• We don’t allow ads to be displayed on our results pages unless they are relevant where they are shown. And we firmly believe that ads can provide useful information if, and only if, they are relevant to what you wish to find – so it’s possible that certain searches won’t lead to any ads at all.
• We believe that advertising can be effective without being flashy. We don’t accept pop-up advertising, which interferes with your ability to see the content you’ve requested. We’ve found that text ads that are relevant to the person reading them draw much higher clickthrough rates than ads appearing randomly. Any advertiser, whether small or large, can take advantage of this highly targeted medium.
• Advertising on Google is always clearly identified as a "Sponsored Link," so it does not compromise the integrity of our search results. We never manipulate rankings to put our partners higher in our search results and no one can buy better PageRank. Our users trust our objectivity and no short-term gain could ever justify breaching that trust.

(作为一家公司，Google 的收入来源分以下两种：一是向其他公司提供搜索技术，另一个则是向广告客户提供在 Google 和其他网站上投放广告的服务。在世界各地，成千上万的广告客户使用 Google AdWords 推广他们的产品；无数出版商通过 Google AdSense 投放与自己网站内容相关的广告。为了确保最终能够服务所有用户（无论他们是否属于广告客户），我们制定了一系列有关我们广告服务和做法的指导原则：

• 除非广告内容与搜索结果页的内容是相关的，否则，我们不允许在搜索结果页上显示广告。我们坚信，只有广告与您要查找的内容相关时，它提供的信息才能为您所用。因此，您可能会发现，某些搜索结果中完全不包含任何广告。
• 我们相信，无需采用花哨的广告也能取得应有的效果。所以，我们拒绝弹出式广告，因为这会妨碍用户阅读所请求的内容。我们还发现，如果文字广告表现出极高的受众相关性，那么，点击率会远远高于随机显示的广告。任何广告客户（无论规模大小）都可以从这种针对性极强的广告媒介中受益。
• 在 Google 上刊登的广告总是明确地标记为“赞助商链接”，因此，这些广告不会破坏搜索结果的完整性。我们绝对不会通过操纵排名将我们的合作伙伴放在搜索结果中排名靠前的位置，也没有任何人可以购买到更高的 PageRank。我们的用户信任 Google 的客观公正性，Google 也不会因为任何短期利益而去破坏这种信任。

7. There’s always more information out there.（信息永无止境。）

Once we’d indexed more of the HTML pages on the Internet than any other search service, our engineers turned their attention to information that was not as readily accessible. Sometimes it was just a matter of integrating new databases into search, such as adding a phone number and address lookup and a business directory. Other efforts required a bit more creativity, like adding the ability to search news archives, patents, academic journals, billions of images and millions of books. And our researchers continue looking into ways to bring all the world’s information to people seeking answers.

(一旦 Google 索引中的互联网 HTML 网页数量超过任何其他搜索服务，我们的工程师就会将精力转到那些以前不太容易获得的信息上。为此，我们有时只需将新的数据库集成到搜索中即可（例如添加电话号码和地址查询以及企业目录），但有时还需要进行更多富于创造性的努力（例如增加更多的搜索功能，包括资讯存档搜索、专利搜索、学术期刊搜索以及对数十亿图片和数百万图书的搜索）。我们的研究人员会继续研究如何将世界上所有的信息提供给有需要的人们。)

8. The need for information crosses all borders.（信息需求，没有国界。）

Our company was founded in California, but our mission is to facilitate access to information for the entire world, and in every language. To that end, we have offices in dozens of countries, maintain more than 150 Internet domains, and serve more than half of our results to people living outside the United States. We offer Google’s search interface in more than 110 languages, offer people the ability to restrict results to content written in their own language, and aim to provide the rest of our applications and products in as many languages as possible. Using our translation tools, people can discover content written on the other side of the world in languages they don’t speak. With these tools and the help of volunteer translators, we have been able to greatly improve both the variety and quality of services we can offer in even the most far-flung corners of the globe.

(虽然 Google 是在加利福尼亚州创立的，但我们的宗旨是帮助全世界使用各种语言的用户获得信息。为了实现这一目标，我们在几十个国家/地区设立了办事处，维护了 150 多个互联网域，而且在我们所提供的搜索结果中，有一半以上是提供给美国境外用户的。我们提供 110 多种语言的 Google 搜索界面，能让用户搜索以他们自己的语言撰写的内容；对于 Google 的其他应用程序和产品，我们也计划推出尽可能多的语言版本。有了我们的翻译工具，哪怕是在地球的另一端用您完全不懂的语言所撰写的内容，您也可以找到。在这些工具和志愿译者的帮助下，我们大大增加了向用户提供的服务种类，提高了质量，同时涵盖了世界上最偏远地区的用户。)

9. You can be serious without a suit.（没有西装革履也可以很正经。）

Our founders built Google around the idea that work should be challenging, and the challenge should be fun. We believe that great, creative things are more likely to happen with the right company culture – and that doesn’t just mean lava lamps and rubber balls. There is an emphasis on team achievements and pride in individual accomplishments that contribute to our overall success. We put great stock in our employees – energetic, passionate people from diverse backgrounds with creative approaches to work, play and life. Our atmosphere may be casual, but as new ideas emerge in a café line, at a team meeting or at the gym, they are traded, tested and put into practice with dizzying speed – and they may be the launch pad for a new project destined for worldwide use.

(我们的创始人秉承着“工作赋予挑战，挑战带来快乐”的理念创建了 Google。我们相信，正确的企业文化更容易创造出绝妙的、富有创意的产品，而这并不仅仅意味着设置一些熔岩灯和橡胶球。我们重视团队成绩，并以促成公司全面成功的个人成就为荣。我们非常赏识那些精力充沛、充满热情的员工，他们具有不同的背景，用极富创意的方式工作、玩乐和生活。我们的工作氛围非常轻松，但正是在排队等咖啡时、小组会议上或健身房中，新的想法不断涌现，并以令人目眩的速度在彼此之间交流、经过测试，然后投入实际应用，这些新想法往往会催生出在全世界得以广泛使用的新项目。)

10. Great just isn’t good enough.（没有最好，只有更好。）

We see being great at something as a starting point, not an endpoint. We set ourselves goals we know we can’t reach yet, because we know that by stretching to meet them we can get further than we expected. Through innovation and iteration, we aim to take things that work well and improve upon them in unexpected ways. For example, when one of our engineers saw that search worked well for properly spelled words, he wondered about how it handled typos. That led him to create an intuitive and more helpful spell checker.

Even if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, finding an answer on the web is our problem, not yours. We try to anticipate needs not yet articulated by our global audience, and meet them with products and services that set new standards. When we launched Gmail, it had more storage space than any email service available. In retrospect offering that seems obvious – but that’s because now we have new standards for email storage. Those are the kinds of changes we seek to make, and we’re always looking for new places where we can make a difference. Ultimately, our constant dissatisfaction with the way things are becomes the driving force behind everything we do.

(我们始终将自己在某方面的优势视为继续发展的起点，而不是终点。我们为自己设定目前还不能达到的目标，因为我们知道，通过不断地向这些目标努力，我们可以做得比预期更好。Google 的目标就是通过创新和反复探索得到合理的结果，再以非比寻常的方式地改进这些结果。例如，我们的一位工程师发现，用拼写正确的字词进行搜索时会得到很好的效果，于是他就开始思考搜索应当如何处理错别字。正是这种思考促使他创建了一种直观且更加实用的拼写检查工具。

即使您不太清楚自己要查找的确切内容，在网络上寻找答案也不是您的问题，而是要由我们来解决的问题。我们会尽力预测全球用户尚不明确了解的需求，并开发各种可能会成为日后新标准的产品和服务满足这些需求。以我们发布 Gmail 时的情况为例，与当时的其他电子邮件服务相比，Gmail 拥有的容量存储空间最大。但现在看来，提供如此大的存储空间似乎是理所应当的，这是因为我们现在对电子邮件的存储有了新的标准。这些都是我们所追求的改变，并且我们一直在探索能够标新立异的新领域。归根结底，我们所做的一切正是来源于永不满足于现状的态度。) 

来源Google官网

值得记住的18件事情

1．没有你的允许，没有任何人能破坏你的生活。

2．绝大多数人能够像他们所希望的那样快乐。

3．其他人能够暂时地阻止你，唯有你自己可以永久地阻止自己。

4．你愿意忍受的恰是你将能够拥有的。

5．当你的船到达时，请确保你愿意把货从上面卸下来。

6．你永不可能拥有一切。

7. 生活是一趟旅程……而不是目的地。享受这段旅程！

8．世上最大的谎言是当我得到我想要的我会快乐。

9. 逃避问题的最好的办法是解决它。

10. 我已经认识到：最终，索取者将失败而施予者将成功。

11．生命的珍贵时刻如没有被分享，那也毫无价值。

12．如果你没有启程，势必你将无法到达。

13．我们对最想要的东西常常会心生敬畏与担忧。

14．昨日是停止所有抱怨的期限。

15．生活是将要到来的，而不是过往。

16．成功是爬起来更多一次。

17．最有趣的时间即是此刻。

18．当事情出错，请别放任它而去。

 

Eighteen Things To Remember

1.  No one can ruin(v.破坏) your day without YOUR permission.

2.  Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be

3.  Others can stop you temporarily(adv.暂时地), but only you can do it permanently(adv.永久地).

4.  Whatever you are willing to put up with（忍受）, is exactly what you will have.

5.  When your ship comes in…. make sure you are willing to unload it.

6.  You will never have it all together.

7.  Life is a journey…not a destination(n.目的地). Enjoy the trip!

8.  The biggest lie on the planet When I get what I want I will be happy.

9.  The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.

10.  I’ve learned that ultimately(adv.最终最后), ‘takers’ lose and ‘givers’ win.

11.  Life’s precious moments don’t have value, unless they are shared.

12.  If you don’t start, it’s certain you won’t arrive.

13.  We often fear the thing we want the most.

14.  Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.

15.  Life is what’s coming….not what was.

16.  Success is getting up one more time.

17.  Now is the most interesting time of all.

18.  When things go wrong…..don’t go with(伴随) them.

 

Post by Mr.Johnson  转载自：译言

如果将英文字母A到Z分别编上1—26的分数,(A=1,B=2,…Z=26)那么:

知识(knowledge)得到96分(11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96)             
努力(hardwork)也只得98分(8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98)             
态度(attitude)才是左右生命的全部(1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100)

SO,时刻提醒自己,态度决定一切!

1.It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel。
只有付出的爱是痛苦的，但比这更痛苦是爱一个人却没有勇气让那人知道你的感情。

2.A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you，only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go。
生命中令人悲伤的一件事是你遇到了一个对你来说很重要的人，但却最终发现你们有缘无份，因此你不得不放手。

3.The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with，never say a word，and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had。
最好的朋友就是那种能和你促膝而坐，彼此不说只字片语，分别时却感到这是你有过的最好的一次交流！

4.It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives。
的确只有当我们失去时才知道曾拥有的是什么，同样，只有当我们拥有了才知道曾经失去了什么。

5.It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone，an hour to like someone，and a day to love someone- but it takes a lifetime to forget someone。
迷上某人只需一分钟，喜欢上某人需要一小时，爱上某人则要一天，然而，忘记某人却是一辈子的事情。

6.Don’t go for looks；they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth；even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright。
别倾心于容貌，因为它具有欺骗性，也别倾心于财富，它也会消散，倾心于那个能带给你笑容的人吧，因为一个笑容能使漫漫长夜如白昼般明亮。

7.Dream what you want to dream；go where you want to go；be what you want to be，because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do。
做你想做的梦吧，去你想去的地方吧，成为你想成为的人吧，因为你只有一次生命，一个机会去做所有那些你想做的事。

8.Always put yourself in the other’s shoes. If you feel that it hurts you，it probably hurts the person too。
要设身处地的为别人着想， 如果一双鞋你穿着夹脚， 别人的感觉可能也一样。

9.A careless word may kindle strife；a cruel word may wreck a life；a timely word may level stress；a loving word may heal and bless。
无心快语可能引发争执，无情之词可能折损生命，适时温语可能消弭压力，而关爱之声可能治愈心灵。

10.The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way。
幸福之人并非拥有一切，只是尽力享受生活的赐予。

11.Love begins with a smile，grows with a kiss，ends with a tear. When you were born，you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die，you’re the one smiling and everyone around you is crying。
爱情以笑开始，以吻转浓，以泪结束。当你哭着降临人世时，身边的每个人都在为此欢笑，好好生活吧，这样你就能含笑离开人世，而身边的每个人都在为此哭泣。

    本文选自《小颖》的博客，转自新浪教育

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, 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 months, 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 have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out 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 few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

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 parents’ 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 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 interesting.

It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ 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 combinations, 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 this 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 came 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 just 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 gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

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 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 had 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 generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce 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.

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 five 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 worlds 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, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

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 hits 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 going to 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. 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 until you find it. Don’t settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its 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 1960’s, 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.

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我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。我从来没有从大学中毕业。说实话，今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。不是什么大不了的事情，只是三个故事而已。

第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。

我在里德学院读了六个月之后就退学了，但是在十八个月以后——我真正的作出退学决定之前，我还经常去学校。我为什么要退学呢？

故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的，没有结婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我，她十分想让我被大学毕业生收养。但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学，我的养父甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签这个收养合同。只是在几个月以后，我的养父母答应她一定要让我上大学，那个时候她才同意。

在十七岁那年，我愚蠢的选择了一所几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校。我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。在六个月后，我已经看不到其中的价值所在。但是在这里，我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。所以我决定要退学。不能否认，我当时确实非常的害怕，但是现在回头看看，那的确是我这一生中最棒的一个决定。

但是这并不是那么罗曼蒂克。我失去了我的宿舍，所以我只能在朋友房间的地板上面睡觉，我去捡 5美分的可乐瓶子，仅仅为了填饱肚子，在星期天的晚上，我需要走七英里的路程，穿过这个城市，只是为了能吃上饭——这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。但是我喜欢这样。我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走，遇到的很多东西，此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧：

里德学院在那时提供也许是全美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海报，每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。我决定去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。

当时看起来这些东西在我的生命中，好像都没有什么实际应用的可能。但是十年之后，当我们在设计第一台Macintosh电脑的时候，就不是那样了。我把当时我学的那些东西全都设计进了Mac。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。如果我当时没有退学，就不会有机会去参加这个我感兴趣的美术字课程，Mac就不会有这么多丰富的字体，以及赏心悦目的字体间距。那么现在个人电脑就不会有现在这么美妙的字型了。当然我在大学的时候，还不可能把从前的点点滴滴串连起来，但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候，真的豁然开朗了。

你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些片断串连起来；你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所以你必须相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串连起来。你必须要相信某些东西：你的勇气、目的、生命、因缘。这个过程从来没有令我失望，只是让我的生命更加地与众不同而已。

我的第二个故事是关于爱和损失的。

我非常幸运，因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。斯蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克和我在二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。十年之后，这个公司从那两个车库中的穷光蛋发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年，我们刚刚发布了最好的产品，那就是Macintosh。我也快要到三十岁了。在那一年，我被炒了鱿鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司炒了鱿鱼呢？嗯，在苹果快速成长的时候，我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司，在最初的几年，公司运转的很好。但是后来我们对未来的看法发生了分歧。当争吵不可开交的时候，董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候，我被炒了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱离自己远去。

在最初的几个月里，我真是不知道该做些什么。我把从前的创业激情给丢了，我觉得自己让与我一同创业的人都很沮丧。但是我渐渐发现了曙光，我仍然喜爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有改变这些。我被驱逐了，但是我仍然钟爱它。所以我决定从头再来。

我当时没有觉察，但事后证明，从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。因为，作为一个成功者的极乐感觉被作为一个创业者的轻松感觉所重新代替：对任何事情都不那么特别看重。这让我觉得如此自由，进入了我生命中最有创造力的一个阶段。

在接下来的五年里，我创立了一个名叫NeXT的公司，还有一个叫Pixar的公司，然后和一个后来成为我妻子的优雅女人相识。Pixar现在是世界上最成功的电脑制作工作室。在后来的一系列运转中，苹果收购了NeXT，我又回到了苹果公司。我们在NeXT发展的技术在苹果的复兴之中发挥了关键的作用。我还和Laurence一起建立了一个幸福的家庭。

我可以非常肯定，如果我不被苹果开除的话，这其中一件事情也不会发生的。这个良药的味道实在是太苦了，但是我想病人需要这个药。有些时候，生活会拿起一块砖头向你的脑袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信心。我很清楚唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我无比钟爱。你需要去找到你所爱的东西。对于工作是如此，对于你的爱人也是如此。你的工作将会占据生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是伟大的工作，你才能怡然自得。如果你现在还没有找到，那么继续找、不要停下来、全心全意的去找，当你找到的时候你就会知道的。就像任何真诚的关系，随着岁月的流逝只会越来越紧密。所以继续找，直到你找到它，不要停下来！

我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。

当我十七岁的时候, 我读到了一句话:“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话,那么有一天你会发现自己是正确的。”这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那时开始,过了 33年,我在每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你会不会完成你今天想做的事情呢？”当答案连续很多次被给予“不是”的时候, 我知道自己需要改变某些事情了。

“记住你即将死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它帮我指明了生命中重要的选择。因为几乎所有的事情, 包括所有的荣誉、所有的骄傲、所有对难堪和失败的恐惧,这些在死亡面前都会消失。我看到的是留下的真正重要的东西。

你有时候会思考你将会失去某些东西，“记住你即将死去”是我知道的避免这些想法的最好办法。你已经赤身裸体了，你没有理由不去跟随自己的心一起跳动。

大概一年以前，我的一次体检结果清楚的显示在我的胰腺有一个肿瘤。医生告诉我那很可能是一种无法治愈的癌症，我还有三到六个月的时间活在这个世界上。我的医生叫我回家，然后整理好我的一切，那就是医生准备死亡的程序。那意味着你将要把未来十年对你小孩说的话在几个月里面说完；那意味着把每件事情都搞定， 让你的家人会尽可能轻松的生活；那意味着你要说“再见了”。

我整天和那个诊断书一起生活。后来有一天早上医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去，通过我的胃，然后进入我的肠子，用一根针在我的胰腺上的肿瘤上取了几个细胞。我当时很镇静，因为我被注射了镇定剂。但是我的妻子在那里，后来告诉我，当医生在显微镜地下观察这些细胞的时候他们开始尖叫，因为这些细胞最后竟然是一种非常罕见的、可以用手术治愈的胰腺癌细胞。我做了这个手术，现在我痊愈了。

那是我最接近死亡的时候，我还希望这也是以后的几十年最接近的一次。从死亡线上又活了过来，死亡对我来说，只是一个有用但是纯粹是知识上的概念的时候，我可以更肯定一点地对你们说：

没有人愿意死，即使人们想上天堂，人们也不会为了去那里而死。但是死亡是我们每个人共同的终点。从来没有人能够逃脱它，也应该如此。因为死亡就是生命中最好的一个发明。它将旧的清除以便给新的让路。你们现在是新的，但是从现在开始不久以后，你们将会逐渐的变成旧的然后被清除。我很抱歉这很具有戏剧性，但是这十分的真实。

你们的时间很有限，所以不要将他们浪费在重复其他人的生活上。不要被教条束缚，那意味着你和其他人思考的结果一起生活。不要被其他人喧嚣的观点掩盖你真正的内心的声音。还有最重要的是，你要有勇气去听从你直觉和心灵的指示——它们在某种程度上知道你想要成为什么样子，所有其他的事情都是次要的。

当我年轻的时候，有一本叫做“整个地球的目录”振聋发聩的杂志，它是我们那一代人的圣经之一。它是一个叫Stewart Brand的家伙神奇地将这本书带到了这个世界。那是六十年代后期，所以这本书全部是用打字机、剪刀还有偏光镜制作的。

Stewart和他的伙伴出版了几期的“整个地球的目录”，当它完成了自己使命的时候，他们做出了最后一期的目录。那是在七十年代的中期，你们的时代。在最后一期的封底上是清晨乡村公路的照片（如果你有冒险精神的话，你可以自己找到这条路的），在照片之下有这样一段话：“保持饥饿，保持愚蠢。”这是他们停止了发刊的告别语。“保持饥饿，保持愚蠢。”我总是希望自己能够那样，现在，在你们即将毕业，开始新的旅程的时候， 我也希望你们能做到这样：保持饥饿，保持愚蠢。

1) I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。

2) No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won‘t make you cry.

没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。

3) The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can‘t have them.

失去某人，最糟糕的莫过于，他近在身旁，却犹如远在天边。

4) Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

纵然伤心，也不要愁眉不展，因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。

5) To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

对于世界而言，你是一个人；但是对于某个人，你是他的整个世界。

6) Don‘t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn‘t willing to waste their time on you.

不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。

7) Just because someone doesn‘t love you the way you want them to, doesn‘t mean they don‘t love you with all they have.

爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式来爱你，那并不代表他们没有全心全意地爱你。

Don‘t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.

不要着急，最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。

9) Don‘t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.

不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，为你的曾经拥有。