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英语角——You’ve got to find what you love（你必须找到你所钟爱的）
英语角 July 11th, 2009
周末英语角，简单有意义的英语美文。
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
一个幸福的人，必须有一个明确的、可以带来快乐和意义的目标，然后努力地去追求。真正快乐的人，会在自己觉得有意义的生活方式里，享受它的点点滴滴。 阅读 »
当内心燃烧的时候，口中便会迸出点点火花。 ──英国作家傅乐（Thomas Fuller）
有一次，卡内基先生应邀到哥伦比亚大学颁发一个演讲比赛的奖牌，当天参加的学生大概有六到七名，每一个人都受过良好的演讲训练，准备在比赛中大展身手，可是，他们太“赢奖心切”，虽有演讲技巧，却缺乏了打动人心的力量。
只有一位来自祖鲁的王子，谈起了“非州对现代文明的贡献”，每一个字都充满了感情，每一句话都出自他对祖国的情感。 最后，卡内基给了这位祖鲁王子首奖，“虽然他在演讲技巧上，还不能跟其他人相比，但由于他的谈话充满了真实，燃烧着真诚，比较之下，其他人的演讲都只不过像煤气炉里微弱的火苗。”
卡内基训练的演讲班上，曾经有一位佛莱恩先生。某天晚上，佛莱恩上台演讲，主题是华盛顿这个城市，整场演讲，所说的内容都是一些枯燥的资料，不但他自己讲得难受，底下听众也听得昏昏欲睡。
两个星期后，他在演讲中再一次提到了华盛顿市，却整个人都不一样了。原来，他刚买的新车，在市中心让某个不知名的驾驶人给撞坏了，肇事者还逃之夭夭，佛莱恩一提到这件事，就怒火中烧，语气激昂了，表情也丰富了，最后听众全给他如雷的掌声。
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精采演说的要素
什么是精采的演讲？在卡内基的观念中，至少要符合三个条件。
一、谈论熟悉而确信的东西
首先，精采的演讲，多半是你挣来的。
如果一场演讲中，主讲人所说的全是资料或理论，通常很难引起听众的兴趣。所以卡内基认为，在精采的演讲中，你所讲的内容，一定要跟你经历的事、你读过的书、你听到的话有关，谈你自己熟悉而确信的东西，演讲就不会失败。
以佛莱恩的演讲为例，为什么前后两个星期，听众的反应会如此不同？佛莱恩学到任何独特的演讲技巧吗？ 其实没有。他只是说起自己的亲身经历，自然而然，话语中就会产生热度。
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