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1、I am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finestuniversities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college. And this is theclosest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three storiesfrom my life. That's it. No big dea
2、l. Just three stories.今天，很荣幸来到各位从世界上最好的学校之一毕业的毕业典礼上。我从来没从大学毕业。说实话，这是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。今天，我只说三个故事，不谈大道理，三个故事就好。The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事，是关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一起。I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-infor another 18 months or
3、so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?我在里德学院待了六个月就办休学了。到我退学前，一共休学了十八个月。那么，我为什么休学？It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduatestudent, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should beadopted by college grad
4、uates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyerand his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they reallywanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking:"We have an unexpecte
5、d baby boy; do you want him?" They said:"Of course." My biologicalmother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father hadnever graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relenteda few months later when my parent
6、s promised that I would someday go to college. This was thestart in my life.这得从我出生前讲起。我的亲生母亲当时是个研究生，年轻未婚妈妈，她决定让别人收养我。她强烈觉得应该让有大学毕业的人收养我，所以我出生时，她就准备让我被一对律师夫妇收养。但是这对夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他们想收养女孩。所以在等待收养名单上的一对夫妻，我的养父母，在一天半夜里接到一通电话，问他们“有一名意外出生的男孩，你们要认养他吗？”而他们的回答是“当然要”。后来，我的生母发现，我现在的妈妈从来没有大学毕业，我现在的爸爸则连高中
7、毕业也没有。她拒绝在认养文件上做最后签字。直到几个月后，我的养父母同意将来一定会让我上大学，她才软化态度。And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost asexpensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on mycollege tuition. After six mo
