財(cái)富精英勵(lì)志演講 07：谷歌創(chuàng)始人母校演講之請(qǐng)追隨自己的夢(mèng)(2)

[00:00.75]My father's father worked in the Chevy plant in Flint, Michigan. 我的爺爺在密歇根州弗林特的雪弗蘭汽車(chē)廠工作。 [00:05.21]He was an assemblyline worker. 他是裝配線上的一名工人。 [00:08.21]He drove his two children here to Anna Arbor,and told them: That is where you're going to go to college. 他曾開(kāi)車(chē)帶兩個(gè)孩子來(lái)到安娜堡。告訴他們：你們以后要上這所大學(xué)! [00:16.52]I know it sounds funny now. 我知道現(xiàn)在聽(tīng)起來(lái)很好笑。 [00:19.24]Both of his kids actually did graduate from Michigan. 他的兩個(gè)孩子也確實(shí)從密歇根大學(xué)畢業(yè)了。 [00:22.65]That was the American dream. 這就是美國(guó)夢(mèng)。 [00:25.44]His daughter, Beverly, is also with us today. 我姑姑貝弗利今天也來(lái)了。 [00:28.85]My Grandpa used to carry an "Alley Oop" hammer,a heavy iron pipe with a big hunk of lead melted on the end. 爺爺以前經(jīng)?？钢粋€(gè)大鐵錘，鐵管上鑄著大鉛坨的那種。 [00:36.49]The workers made them during the sit-down strikes to protect themselves. 那是用來(lái)在靜坐罷工時(shí)，保護(hù)自己的武器。 [00:40.33]When I was growing up, we used that hammer whenever we needed to pound a stake or something into the yard. 小時(shí)候，我們常用它在后院打樁子。 [00:46.20]It is wonderful that most people don't need to carry a heavy blunt object for protection anymore. 現(xiàn)在世道好了，大家不需要鐵錘保護(hù)自己了。 [00:52.50]But just in case, I brought it with me. 但以防萬(wàn)一，我還是把它帶來(lái)了。 [01:05.23]Alright.My Dad became a professor at uh…Michigan State,and I was an incredibly lucky boy. 后來(lái)我的父親成為了一名教授，密歇根州立大學(xué)的教授，我很走運(yùn)。 [01:19.23]A professor's life is pretty flexible,and he was able to spend oodles of time raising me. 教授的工作比較靈活，所以父親有大量的時(shí)間陪我。 [01:25.10]Could there be a better upbringing than university brat? 還有比大學(xué)校園更適合培養(yǎng)孩子的地方嗎? [01:29.98]What I'm trying to tell you is that this is way more than just a homecoming for me. 我想告訴大家的是，來(lái)這里不僅僅是重回母校。 [01:33.06]It's not easy for me to express how proud I am to be here,with my Mom, my brother and my wife Lucy, and with all of you,at this amazing institution that is responsible for my very existence. 我非常自豪能跟我的媽媽?zhuān)绺?，妻子露西，還有你們大家聚在這里。這里見(jiàn)證了我的成長(zhǎng)。我的自豪難以言表。 [01:45.80]I am thrilled for all of you,and I'm thrilled for your families and friends,as all of us join this great, big Michigan family I feel I've been a part of all of all my life. 我為你們感到驕傲，也為你們的家人和朋友感到驕傲，因?yàn)槲覀兌际敲苄蠹彝サ囊粏T，它是我生命中不可或缺的一部分。 [01:57.25]What I'm also trying to tell you is that I know exactly what it feels like to be sitting in your seat,listening to some old gasbag give a long-winded commencementspeech. 同時(shí)，我也知道你們現(xiàn)在坐在臺(tái)下的感受：聽(tīng)我們這些老家伙絮叨，老生常談。 [02:04.29]Don't worry. I'll be brief. 別擔(dān)心，我簡(jiǎn)單說(shuō)幾句。

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