2019 Stanford Commencement address by Tim Cook

Thank you, thank you.

謝謝，謝謝。

Good morning, Class of 2019.

早上好，2019屆的畢業生們。

Thank you, President Tessier-Lavine, for that very generous introduction.

感謝泰西耶-拉維恩校長如此慷慨的介紹。

I'll do my best.

我會盡力的。

To earn it, before I begin, I want to recognize everyone whose hard work made this celebration possible, including the groundskeepers場地管理員, ushers, volunteers, and crew.

在開始之前，我想向所有讓這場慶典成為可能的人致以謝意，包括園丁、引座員、志願者和工作人員。

Thank you.

謝謝。

I am deeply honored and frankly a little astonished令人驚奇的 to be invited to join you for this most meaningful of occasions.

我深感榮幸，坦率地說，受邀參加這個意義非凡的時刻，我也感到有些驚訝。

Graduates, this is your day, but you didn't get here alone.

畢業生們，這是你們的日子，但你們並非獨自走到今天。

Family and friends, teachers, mentors導師, loved ones, and, of course, your parents—all worked together to make you possible, and they share your joy today.

家人、朋友、老師、導師、摯愛，當然還有你們的父母——大家共同努力才成就了今天的你們，他們今日也共享這份喜悅。

Here on Father's Day, let's give the dads in particular a round of applause.

正值父親節，讓我們特別為在場的父親們鼓掌。

Stanford is near to my heart—not least because I live just a mile and a half from here.

斯坦福大學在我心中佔有特殊地位——不僅因為我住得離這裡只有一英里半。

Of course, if my accent hasn't given it away, for the first part of my life, I had to admire欽佩 this place from a distance.

當然，如果我的口音還沒暴露的話，在我人生的前半段，我只能遠遠地仰望這所學府。

I went to school on the other side of the country at Auburn University, in the heart of landlocked內陸的 eastern Alabama.

我在美國另一端的奧本大學就讀，那裡位於內陸東阿拉巴馬州的中心地帶。

You may not know this, but I was on the sailing team all four years.

你可能不知道，我四年裡一直是校帆船隊的成員。

It wasn't easy back then—the closest marina遊艇碼頭 was a three-hour drive for practice.

那時候並不容易——最近的碼頭開車去要三個小時才能到達訓練點。

Most of the time, we had to wait for a heavy rainstorm to flood淹沒 the football field.

大多數時候，我們只能等待暴雨把足球場淹沒。

And tying knots is hard—who knew?

打結可不容易——誰知道呢？

Yet somehow, against all odds, we managed to beat Stanford every time.

然而不知何故，儘管困難重重，我們還是設法每次都擊敗了斯坦福隊。

We must have gotten lucky with the wind.

我們一定是運氣好，趕上了順風。

Kidding aside, I know the real reason I'm here, and I don't take it lightly.

玩笑歸玩笑，我知道自己真正站在這裡的原因，我對此不敢掉以輕心。

Stanford and Silicon Valley's roots are woven together.

斯坦福大學和矽谷的根基是交織在一起的。

We're part of the same ecosystem生態系統（常喻指商業或社會環境）.

我們是同一個生態系統的一部分。

It was true when Steve stood on this stage 14 years ago.

十四年前史蒂夫站在這個舞臺上時，情況也是如此。

It's true today, and presumably大概 it'll be true for a while longer still.

今天依然如此，而且預計未來很長一段時間內仍會如此。

The past few decades have lifted us together, but today we gather at a moment that demands some reflection—fueled by caffeine and code, optimism and idealism, conviction in AI and creativity.

過去的幾十年讓我們攜手共進，但今天我們在一個需要深思的時刻相聚——這動力源於咖啡因與程式碼、樂觀與理想主義，以及對人工智慧的堅定信念和創造力。

Generations of Stanford graduates and dropouts have used technology to remake our society, but I think you would agree that lately the results haven't been neat or straightforward直截了當的.

斯坦福的幾代畢業生和輟學者曾利用技術重塑社會，但我認為你們會同意，最近的結果並不整潔或直截了當。

In just the four years that you've been here at the Farm, things feel like they've taken a sharp turn.

就在你們在“農場”度過的短短四年裡，形勢似乎發生了急劇轉折。

Crisis has tempered緩和 optimism.

危機磨平了樂觀情緒。

Consequences have challenged idealism.

後果挑戰了理想主義。