跟读练习: What Makes a Great Commencement Address? - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility,
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Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility,
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or so I thought, until I cast my mind back to my own graduation.
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The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher, Baroness Mary Warnock.
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Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one,
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because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said.
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Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.
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How do I know this?
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I don't, but I'm making sound and that's the important thing.
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Sometimes I think that's the only thing that's important really, you know?
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It's just letting each other know we're here.
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Reminding each other that we're part of a larger self.
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Please stay connected.
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Please never lose eye contact.
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This may not be a lesson you want to hear from a person who creates media,
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but we are spending more time looking down at our devices than we are looking in each other's eyes.
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My mom was driving through this town of Ann Arbor.
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It was the mid-1960s.
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She was a newcomer to this town and to this country.
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Her car breaks down.
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Now let me paint you a picture.
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She is an immigrant from the other side of the world.
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He went to the closest phone booth,
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phone booth, and decided to randomly call someone,
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an Indian person whose name began in the A's.
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Someone answered the phone after the first ring.
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Now as it turns out the person she was trying to call wasn't home,
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but his roommate, her future husband, my father, was.
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Many of you here today are getting your diploma at this Ivy League school
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because you have committed yourself to a dream and worked hard to achieve it.
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And there is no greater cliche in a commencement address than follow your dream.
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Well, I'm here to tell you that whatever you think your dream is now,
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it will probably change.
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And that's okay.
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From 1998, while I was still at Penn,
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to early 2004, I spent each of those six years always thinking
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that I would get that big record deal within the next few months.
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I always thought my moment was just around the corner,
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but I was rejected by all the major labels.
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Some of them rejected me multiple times.
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But I did find a young producer from Chicago named Kanye West who believed in me.
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I found what I loved to do early in life.
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Waz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20.
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We worked hard, and in 10 years,
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Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.
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We'd just released our finest creation,
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the Macintosh, a year earlier,
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and I'd just turned 30.
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And then I got fired.
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How can you get fired from a company you started?
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What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone.
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But something slowly began to dawn on me.
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I still loved what I did.
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And so I decided to start over.
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I didn't see it then,
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but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
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It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
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During the next five years,
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I started a company named Next,
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another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
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Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film,
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Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
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In a remarkable turn of events,
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Apple bought Next, and I returned to Apple,
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and the technology we developed at Next is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
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and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
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And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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If you haven't found it yet,
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keep looking, and don't settle.
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I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African Research Department of Amnesty International's headquarters in London.
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I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was to live in
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a country with a democratically elected government where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.
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Every day I saw more evidence about the evils humankind would inflict on their fellow humans to gain or maintain power.
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And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.
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Amnesty mobilizes thousands of people who have never been tortured
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or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have.
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The power of human empathy leading to collective action saves lives.
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Finally, graduates, our greatness has never,
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ever come from sitting back and feeling entitled to what we have.
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It's never come from folks who climb the ladder of success
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or who happen to be born near the top and then pull the ladder up after themselves.
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No, uh-uh.
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Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted.
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Folks who work hard for what they have then reach back and help others after them.
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While you may one day forget this moment, I never ever will.
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Blue.
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Love ya.
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通过看YouTube学英语，你不仅能够练习听力，更能够深入理解如何用自然流畅的文本表达自己的思想。在社交场合中，能够有效的沟通是相当重要的，而这段演讲示范了如何在情感和理智上与他人连接。
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- 条件句：如“Whatever you think your dream is now, it will probably change.” 这让我们明白如何表达假设和不确定性，这在日常对话中非常有用。
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在这段演讲中，一些单词和短语可能会让英语学习者感到棘手：
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- “therapist”：注意这个词的重音位置，正确的发音是“ther - a - pist”，确保在每个音节上都发清楚。
- “connected”：在连读时可能会出现音节的模糊，以至于很难听清楚，建议逐渐加快速度练习。
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