2019 Stanford Commencement address by Tim Cook

Thank you, thank you.

谢谢，谢谢。

Good morning, Class of 2019.

早上好，2019届的毕业生们。

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

感谢泰西耶-拉维恩校长如此慷慨的介绍。

I'll do my best.

我会尽力的。

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

在开始之前，我想向所有让这场庆典成为可能的人致以谢意，包括园丁、引座员、志愿者和工作人员。

Thank you.

谢谢。

I am deeply honored and frankly a little astonished惊愕的 to be invited to join you for this most meaningful of occasions.

我深感荣幸，坦率地说，受邀参加这个意义非凡的时刻，我也感到有些惊讶。

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

毕业生们，这是你们的日子，但你们并非独自走到今天。

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

家人、朋友、老师、导师、挚爱，当然还有你们的父母——大家共同努力才成就了今天的你们，他们今日也共享这份喜悦。

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

正值父亲节，让我们特别为在场的父亲们鼓掌。

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

斯坦福大学在我心中占有特殊地位——不仅因为我住得离这里只有一英里半。

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

当然，如果我的口音还没暴露的话，在我人生的前半段，我只能远远地仰望这所学府。

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

我在美国另一端的奥本大学就读，那里位于内陆东阿拉巴马州的中心地带。

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

你可能不知道，我四年里一直是校帆船队的成员。

It wasn't easy back then—the closest marina游艇码头 was a three-hour drive for practice.

那时候并不容易——最近的码头开车去要三个小时才能到达训练点。

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

大多数时候，我们只能等待暴雨把足球场淹没。

And tying knots is hard—who knew?

打结可不容易——谁知道呢？

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

然而不知何故，尽管困难重重，我们还是设法每次都击败了斯坦福队。

We must have gotten lucky with the wind.

我们一定是运气好，赶上了顺风。

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

玩笑归玩笑，我知道自己真正站在这里的原因，我对此不敢掉以轻心。

Stanford and Silicon Valley's roots are woven together.

斯坦福大学和硅谷的根基是交织在一起的。

We're part of the same ecosystem生态系统（常喻指商业或社会环境）.

我们是同一个生态系统的一部分。

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

十四年前史蒂夫站在这个舞台上时，情况也是如此。

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

今天依然如此，而且预计未来很长一段时间内仍会如此。

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.

过去的几十年让我们携手共进，但今天我们在一个需要深思的时刻相聚——这动力源于咖啡因与代码、乐观与理想主义，以及对人工智能的坚定信念和创造力。

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直截了当的.

斯坦福的几代毕业生和辍学者曾利用技术重塑社会，但我认为你们会同意，最近的结果并不整洁或直截了当。

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

就在你们在“农场”度过的短短四年里，形势似乎发生了急剧转折。

Crisis has tempered缓和 optimism.

危机磨平了乐观情绪。

Consequences have challenged idealism.

后果挑战了理想主义。