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- My second story is about love and loss.
- 我的第二个故事是关于热爱和得失
- I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life.
- 我很幸运，因为我早早便发现了自己喜欢做什么。
- Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20.
- 我在20岁的时候和沃兹（Steve Wozniak）一起在我父母的车库里开创了苹果公司。
- We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a 2 billion dollars company with over 4000 employees.
- 我们工作十分努力，十年里后，苹果从车库里只有我们两人发展成为一家拥有4,000多名员工、市值20亿的公司。
- We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.
- 在第九年的时候，我们刚刚发布了我们最棒的产品——麦金托什电脑，而我刚到30岁。然后我被炒了鱿鱼。
- How can you get fired from a company you started?
- 你怎么能被自己创办的公司炒鱿鱼呢？
- Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me,
- 是这样的，随着苹果的发展，我们聘用了一个我认为颇有才能的人来和我一起运营公司，
- and for the first year or so things went well.
- 最初的一年里，一切进展顺利。
- 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.
- 但之后我们对未来的看法开始出现了分歧，最终我们吵翻了，这时，我们的董事会站在了他那边。
- 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.
- 于是，我在30岁的时候离开了，而且弄得人人皆知。我成年后全部生活的重心不复存在，这对我是一个毁灭性的打击。
- I really didn't know what to do for a few months.
- 有几个月我都真的不知道该做些什么。
- 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.
- 我觉得，我让创业先辈们失望了——我丢掉了传到我手上的接力棒。
- I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.
- 我去见了戴维·帕卡德（David Packard）和鲍勃·诺伊斯（Bob Noyce），试图为我把事情搞砸而道个歉。
- I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.
- 这个失败弄得满城皆知，我甚至想过逃离硅谷。
- But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did.
- 但我渐渐地开始有了明确的想法——我仍然热爱我做过的一切。
- The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.
- 苹果公司发生的变故并没有丝毫改变这一点。
- I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
- 我被驱逐了，但我仍然热爱我的事业。所以我决定重新开始。
- 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.
- 那时候我还没有意识到，但后来事实却证明，被苹果炒鱿鱼是发生在我身上的最好的事情。
- The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.
- 我放下了已有成就的重担，取而代之的是重新创业、探索未来的轻松。
- It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
- 这使我轻装上阵，进入了我一生中最富创造力的时期之一。
- During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar,
- 在接下来的五年之中，我创办了NeXT公司，还有皮克斯（Pixar）公司，
- and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
- 我爱上了一位了不起的女人，她后来成为我的妻子。
- Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story,
- 皮克斯公司制作了世界第一部用电脑制作的动画片《玩具总动员》，
- and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
- 它现在是世界上最成功的动画工作室。
- In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple,
- 接下来峰回路转，苹果在一个特殊的机遇下收购了NeXT，我又回到了苹果公司，
- and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.
- 我们在NeXT开发的技术是让苹果现在起死回生的核心技术。
- And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
- 并且，劳伦（Laurence）和我共同拥有一个幸福的家庭。
- I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple.
- 我十分确定，如果我没有被苹果解雇，这一切都不会发生。
- It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
- 这是一剂苦药，但是我认为对病人有好处。
- Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
- 有时候，生活会给你当头一棒，但是不要失去信心。
- I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
- 我相信促使我一往无前的唯一动力就是我热爱我所做的一切。
- You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
- 你们一定要找到你们的所爱。对爱人是如此，对工作亦如此。
- Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
- 你的工作将占据你的大部分生活，
- and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
- 真正令人满意的唯一办法就是做你认为伟大的工作。
- And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
- 而做伟大的工作的唯一途径就是热爱你的工作。如果你还没有找到你喜欢做的事情，请继续寻找。
- Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship,
- 不要停顿。用你全部身心去寻找，当你找到的时候你会有所感知。而且，正如任何美好的事物一样，
- it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
- 日久弥新。
- So keep looking. Don't settle.
- 因此要不断地寻找，不要放弃。不要半途而废。
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名人简介：
史蒂夫·乔布斯（1955-2011），世界著名发明家、企业家、美国苹果公司联合创办人、前行政总裁。1976年4月1日乔布斯和朋友斯蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克和Ron Wayn成立苹果公司，他陪伴了苹果公司数十年的起落与复兴，先后领导和推出了麦金塔计算机、iMac、iPod、iPhone等风靡全球亿万人的电子产品，深刻地改变了现代通讯、娱乐乃至生活的方式。2011年10月5日他因病逝世，享年56岁。乔布斯是改变世界的天才，他凭敏锐的触觉和过人的智慧，勇于变革，不断创新，引领全球资讯科技和电子产品的潮流，把电脑和电子产品变得简约化、平民化，让曾经是昂贵稀罕的电子产品变为现代人生活的一部分。
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