舌尖上的智慧：美国名校毕业演说（第4辑）pdf/doc/txt格式电子书下载

书名：舌尖上的智慧：美国名校毕业演说（第4辑）pdf/doc/txt格式电子书下载

推荐语：2015年美国各大名校震撼人心的毕业演说，是英语学习的优选材料！

作者：《新东方英语》编辑部著

出版社：北京新东方大愚文化传播有限公司

出版时间：2015-11-01

书籍编号：30287050

ISBN：9787553638867

正文语种：中英对照

字数：190444

版次：1

所属分类：外语学习-英语读物

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书名：舌尖上的智慧：美国名校毕业演说（第4辑）

作者：《新东方英语》编辑部

ISBN：9787553638867

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——Tim Cook\'s 2015 Commencement Address at George Washington University

—— 蒂姆·库克在乔治·华盛顿大学2015届毕业典礼上的演讲

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苹果CEO　蒂姆·库克(Tim Cook)

2015年5月，苹果CEO蒂姆·库克在乔治·华盛顿大学发表了毕业演讲。在演讲中，库克鼓励毕业生们寻找自己的“北极星”，指引自己的人生道路，树立正确的价值观并为之奋斗，以实现自我发现、自我创造以及自我重塑的过程。

库克说，他有两颗启发他人生的北极星。第一颗是致力于对抗种族歧视的马丁·路德·金。他引导库克学会探索自我，明辨是非黑白，树立正确的价值观。而第二颗就是乔布斯。他坦言，乔布斯颠覆了他之前的认知，让他开始质疑一切。库克形容乔布斯是一个理想主义的人。第一次会面，乔布斯就让库克相信了，只要努力工作，创造出伟大的产品，就可以改变世界。库克于是欣然接受了乔布斯提供的工作，至今从未回头。库克建议毕业生们也要找到工作的意义，否则，工作就只是工作，人生太短，不应如此。

除此之外，库克还鼓励毕业生们要合理质疑：只要刨根问底，谎言就会被揭露。

最后，库克鼓励毕业生们不要只做旁观者，而要勇于迎接挑战，相信自己可以改变世界。他说：“在台下观望并不是你们想要的生活，世界需要你们登上舞台。还有许多问题需要解决，还有许多不公需要终结。仍然有许多人在遭受迫害，仍然有许多疾病需要治愈。不管你们下一步将要做什么，这个世界都需要你们的能量，需要你们的激情，需要你们迫切想要进步的心情。不要在风险面前退缩，不要理会那些批评者和愤世嫉俗的人。”

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Hello GW[1]. Thank you very much, President Knapp for that kind intro. Alex, trustees, faculty and deans of the university, my fellow honorees, and especially you, the class of 2015. Yes.

Congratulations to you, to your family, to your friends that are attending today\'s ceremony. You made it. It\'s a privilege, a rare privilege of a lifetime to be with you today. And I can\'t thank you enough for making me an honorary Colonial[2].

Before I begin today, they asked me to make a standard announcement. You\'ve heard this before. About silencing your phones. So, those of you with an iPhone, just place it in silent mode. If you don\'t have an iPhone, please pass it to the center aisle. Apple has a world-class recycling program.

You know, this is really an amazing place. And for a lot of you, I\'m sure that being here in Washington, the very center of our democracy, was a big draw when you were choosing which school to go to. This place has a powerful pull. It was here that Dr. Martin Luther King challenged Americans to make real the promises of democracy, to make justice a reality for all of God\'s children. And it was here that President Ronald Reagan called on us to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds.

I\'d like to start this morning by telling you about my first visit here. In the summer of 1977——yes, I\'m a little old——I was 16 years old and living in Robertsdale, the small town in southern Alabama that I grew up in. At the end of my junior year of high school I\'d won essay contest sponsored by the National Rural Electric Association. I can\'t remember what the essay was about, but what I do remember very clearly is writing it by hand, draft after draft after draft. Typewriters were very expensive and my family could not afford one.

I was one of two kids from Baldwin County that was chosen to go to Washington along with hundreds of other kids across the country. Before we left, the Alabama delegation took a trip to our state capitol in Montgomery for a meeting with the governor. The governor\'s name was George C. Wallace. The same George Wallace who in 1963 stood in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama to block African Americans from enrolling. Wallace embraced the evils of segregation[3]. He pitted[4]whites against blacks, the South against the North, the working class against the so-called elites. Meeting my governor was not an honor for me.

My heroes in life were Dr. Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy, who had fought against the very things that Wallace stood for. Keep in mind, that I grew up, or, when I grew up, I grew up in a place that where King and Kennedy were not exactly held in high esteem. When I was a kid, the South was still coming to grips with its history. My textbooks even said the Civil War was about states\' rights. They barely mentioned slavery.

So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It drew on the moral sense that I\'d learned from my parents, and in church, and in my own heart, and led me on my own journey of discovery.

I found books in the public library that they probably didn\'t know they had. They all pointed to the fact that Wallace was wrong, that injustices like segregation had no place in our world, that equality is a right.

As I said, I was only 16 when I met Governor Wallace, so I shook his hand as we were expected to do. But shaking his hand felt like a betrayal of my own beliefs. It felt wrong, like I was selling a piece of my soul.

From Montgomery we flew to Washington. It was the first time I had ever been on an airplane. In fact it was the first time that I ever traveled out of the South. On June 15, 1977, I was one of 900 high schoolers greeted by the new president, President Jimmy Carter on the south lawn of the White House, right there on the other side of the Ellipse[5].

I was one of the lucky ones, who got to shake his hand. Carter saw Baldwin County on my name tag that day and stopped to speak with me. He wanted to know how people were doing after the rash of storms that struck Alabama that year. Carter was kind and compassionate; he held the most powerful job in the world but he had not sacrifi

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