公众人物毕业演讲 第218期:马克·贝尼奥夫南加大2014毕业典礼演讲(4)

 　　And I'll tell you I was sitting out here not so long ago, but life does go fast我想说 我不久前也坐在这里 但时间过得太快

　　and I made an unusual decision, I was graduating on a Friday just like you are here and Monday, I started work我毕业时做了一个不寻常的决定 我和你们一样 毕业于一个周五 然后周一 我就开始工作了I started work. I was already to hit it

　　我准备取得成功

　　I was ready to get going, ready to make it happen ready to get out there. I was motivated. I was excited我准备开始了 准备实现自我了 我很积极 很激动I was educated. I was inspired by my commencement speaker and I was ready to go我受过良好教育 我受到了毕业演讲嘉宾的鼓舞 我准备开始自己的事业Ready

　　准备好了

　　And Monday, I started at this little software company called Oracle¹ Corporation²周一 我就在一家名为甲骨文的小软件公司开始工作了in San Francisco, it's a little software company位于旧金山 它是一家小软件公司

　　And I got up there and they were excited and they were inspired我到那里工作 他们也很激情 很有活力

　　And I'll tell you what

　　我告诉你们是怎样的

　　I worked and I worked and as you heard, I was我在那工作 在那工作 刚你们也获悉了

　　I had some great success there. I was the youngest VP there and youngest SVP我在那里获得了蛮大的成功 我是最年轻的副总裁 最年轻的高级副总裁And I went on and created some great products and did all these things我在那里创造出了很多伟大的产品

　　And about a decade went by after my graduation我毕业后的十年很快就过去了

　　And I'll tell you life goes fast 10 years went by and时间过得真快 十年就这样过去了

　　It's kind of funny, people are always overestimating what you can do in a year有趣的是 人们总会高估自己一年能做的事

　　And underestimating what happens in a decade但却经常低估十年所能做的事

　　And a decade went by

　　十年过去了

　　And all of a sudden I kind of felt a little bit weird我突然觉得有点奇怪

　　I felt kind of unmotivated, unenergized, not very excited我感觉有些没了动力 没了能量 没了激情

　　Not very inspired

　　没了那股兴奋劲

　　It's kind of in a bad mood

　　我感觉心情很糟糕

　　It's kind of grumpy

　　变得有些脾气暴躁

　　A little bit pissed off

　　有些不爽

 

1 oracle   

n.神谕，神谕处，预言

参考例句：

• In times of difficulty,she pray for an oracle to guide her.在困难的时候，她祈祷神谕来指引她。
• It is a kind of oracle that often foretells things most important.它是一种内生性神谕，常常能预言最重要的事情。

2 corporation   

n.公司，企业&n.社团，团体

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation. 这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• The inflation did the corporation up. 通货膨胀使这个公司破产了。