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2．Jobs and his three stories发布时间：2012-06-04文章出自：译言原文链接：/bilingual/292124点击查看(1)On a warm June day in 2005, Steve Jobs went to his first college graduation – as the commencement speaker. The billionaire founder and leader of Apple Computer was more than just a businessman. Though only fifty years old, the college dropout was a technology rock star, a living legend to millions of people around the world.(2)In his early twenties, Jobs almost single-handedly introduced the world to the first computer that could sit on your desk and do something all by itself. He revolutionized the way people listened to music with a fashionable little music player called the iPod. He started a new company called Pixar that made the most amazing computer-animated movies – Toy Story, Cars, and Finding Nemo. Already in development on that June day, were his greatest technological achievements – the iPhone and the iPad. The father of four would be repeatedly compared with othet inventors in history who introduced affordable, life-changing conveniences that transformed the way Americans lived.(3)Yet for all his successes, Jobs also endured some very public failures. When he was thirty years old, he was fired from Apple for being too difficult to work with. He could get angry quickly, screaming at co-workers, competitors, and reporters. He sometimes cried when things didn’t go his way and he regularly took credit for the ideas of others. He could be both charming and irritating, sensitive and cruel. He was both loved and hated, intensely admired and widely dismissed. People described him with the strongest words: visionary, showman, artist, bully, genius, jerk.(4)Wearing blue jeans and sandals under his graduation-day robe, Jobs stepped up to the microphone to speak in the same way he did just about everything: with intensity and passion.(5) “Today I want to tell you three stories from my life, ” he said.(6) “The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of ReedCollegeafter the