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      美国当地时间5月18日，苹果公司CEO蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）在梅赛德斯-奔驰穹顶体育馆向杜兰大学（Tulane University）的毕业生发表主题演讲。

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Hello Tulane! Thank you President Fitts, Provost Forman, distinguished faculty, other faculty [laughs], and the entire Tulane family, including the workers, ushers, [and] volunteers who prepared this beautiful space. And I feel duty-bound to also recognize the hard-working bartenders at The Boot. Though they're not here with us this morning, I'm sure some of you are reflecting on their contributions as well. [The Boot is a popular college bar right next to Tulane's campus which has been around for decades.]

你好，杜兰大学！感谢校长菲茨（Fitts），普罗沃斯特·福尔曼（Provost Forman），杰出的教职人员和其他人员，感谢杜兰的大家庭，包括所有出现在这里的工作人员、接待人员和志愿者们。我也觉得十分有必要在此一并感谢The Boot里辛勤工作的调酒师。虽然他们今天早晨没有出现在这里，但我相信在座的各位中一定有不少人，也像我一样，乐意感谢他们的付出（The Boot为杜兰大学附近一家已有数十年历史的大学酒吧，极受欢迎。）

And just as many of you have New Orleans in your veins, and perhaps your livers, some of us at Apple have New Orleans in our blood as well. When I was a student at Auburn, the Big Easy was our favorite getaway. It's amazing how quickly those 363 miles fly by when you're driving toward a weekend of beignets and beer. And how slowly they go in the opposite direction. Apple's own Lisa Jackson is a proud Tulane alum. Yes. She brought the Green Wave all the way to Cupertino where she heads our environment and public policy work. We're thrilled to have her talent and leadership on our team.

就像你们中大多数都是新奥尔良的儿女，苹果公司也有不少来自新奥尔良的员工。我还在杜兰大学读书的时候，Big Easy是我们最爱的休闲胜地。在周末与三五好友驱车前往，一边吃着煎饼一边喝着酒，哪怕前面还有363公里的路，时间也似乎一晃而过，而回去的路程总是看上去那么遥远。苹果的员工丽莎·杰克逊（Lisa Jackson）也是杜兰的杰出校友。她在公司担任环境与公共政策主管，是她把Green Wave一路带到库比蒂诺。她的才华和领导力，是苹果的一大财富。

OK, enough about us. Let's talk about you. At moments like this, it always humbles me to watch a community come together to teach, mentor, advise, and finally say with one voice, congratulations to the class of 2019!

好了，我已经说了太多我自己，下面让我来谈谈你们。在这样一个时刻，看着大家聚集在一起互相学习、互相指导、共同进步，最后一起说“祝贺2019届学生圆满毕业”，我的心中总是充满敬畏。

Now there's another very important group: your family and friends. The people who, more than anyone else, loved, supported, and even sacrificed greatly to help you reach this moment. Let's give them a round of applause. This will be my first piece of advice. You might not appreciate until much later in your life how much this moment means to them. Or how that bond of obligation, love, and duty between you matters more than anything else.

现在还有另外一个非常重要的群体：你的家人和朋友。这些人在你们获得今天之成功的过程中，比其他任何人都更加爱你们、支持你们，甚至付出所有。让我们给予他们热烈的掌声。而这将是我要给你们的第一个建议。或许现在你还不能够明白，但是日后的某一天，你一定能够明白，今天这个时刻，对他们来说是多么地重要。或者，你们之间的那份义务、爱与责任的纽带，比世界上其它任何事都来得更重要。

In fact, that's what I really want to talk to you about today. In a world where we obsessively document our own lives, most of us don't pay nearly enough attention to what we owe one another. Now this isn't just about calling your parents more, although I'm sure they'd be grateful if you did that. It's about recognizing that human civilization began when we realized that we could do more together. That the threats and danger outside the flickering firelight got smaller when we got bigger. And that we could create more — more prosperity, more beauty, more wisdom, and a better life — when we acknowledge certain shared truths and acted collectively.

事实上，这也是我今天想和各位聊一聊的事情。在一个我们是如此痴迷于记录我们每日生活的世界里，我们大多数人往往忽略了身边的人。这不是说，从现在起，经常给你的爸妈打打电话，虽然我相信，他们一定会非常高兴能经常接到你的电话。但我真正想表达的是，我们需要知道，人类文明始于我们对共同奋斗的认识。当我们聚集在一起的人越多，对野外闪烁火光的恐惧也就越小。当我们认可共同的真理，行动一致的时候，我们也可以创造更多——更多的繁荣、美好与智慧——以及更幸福的生活。

Maybe I'm biased, but I've always thought the South, and the Gulf Coast in particular, have hung on to this wisdom better than most. [Tim Cook grew up in Robertsdale, Alabama, which is about an hour from New Orleans and is similarly close to the Gulf of Mexico.] In this part of the country, your neighbors check up on you if they haven't heard from you in a while. Good news travels fast because your victories are their victories too. And you can't make it through someone's front door before they offer you a home-cooked meal.

也许是我心存偏见，但我一直相信，南方——特别是墨西哥湾沿岸——的人们，比大多数人都深谙这一智慧。（译者注：蒂姆·库克在阿拉巴马州罗伯茨戴尔长大，距离新奥尔良大约一小时车程，同样靠近墨西哥湾。）在这片地方，你的邻居在有一阵子没听到你的消息时，会前来拜访你，看看你最近是不是还好。好消息总是不胫而走，因为你的胜利，也是他们的胜利。人们也总是盛情邀请你一起享用家中的美味。

Maybe you haven't thought about it very much, but these values have informed your Tulane education too. Just look at the motto: not for one's self, but for one's own. You've been fortunate to live, learn, and grow in a city where human currents blend into something magical and unexpected. Where unmatched beauty, natural beauty, literary beauty, musical beauty, cultural beauty, seem to spring unexpectedly from the bayou. The people of New Orleans use two tools to build this city: the unlikely and the impossible. Wherever you go, don't forget the lessons of this place. Life will always find lots of ways to tell you no, that you can't, that you shouldn't, that you'd be better off if you didn't try. But New Orleans teaches us there is nothing more beautiful or more worthwhile than trying. Especially when we do it not in the service of one's self, but one's own.

也许你们还没有认真想过，但是这些价值观根植于你在杜兰接受的教育中。不妨看一下我们的校训：非为自己，更为你所爱的。你们十分幸运，能够生活、学习、成长在一个人们向往着神奇和意想不到事物的城市。在这片海湾，各种无与伦比的美好——自然之美、艺术之美、音乐之美、文化之美——出人意料地涌现。新奥尔良的人们用两种工具建造了这座城市：难以置信和几无可能。不管你们将来去到哪里，不要忘记这个地方教会你的东西。生活会一次次地让你失望，但是你不能、也不该失去奋斗的信心。如果不尝试，那么你会将失去一切可能性。新奥尔良这座城市告诉我们，这世上最美或最有价值的莫过于尝试。特别是当我们不是为自己去尝试，而是为我们所爱的人去尝试的时候。

For me, it was that search for greater purpose that brought me to Apple in the first place. I had a comfortable job at a company called Compaq that at the time looked like it was going to be on top forever. As it turns out, most of you are probably too young to even remember its name. But in 1998, Steve Jobs convinced me to leave Compaq behind to join a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. They made computers, but at that moment at least, people weren't interested in buying them. Steve had a plan to change things. And I wanted to be a part of it.

对我而言，是寻找更大的目标，引我来到了苹果，带到了今天的位置。我曾在康柏（Compaq）有一份舒适的工作，当时看来，这份工作或许将伴随我到退休。但如今，像你们这一代年轻人或许都没听说过这家公司。但是在1998年，史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs）说服我离开康柏，加入一家几近破产边缘的公司。这家快破产的公司也生产电脑，但至少在那个时候，人们对这些电脑并不感兴趣，更别说购买了。史蒂夫有一个改变一切的计划。而我，愿意加入到他的计划中去。

It wasn't just about the iMac, or the iPod, or everything that came after. It was about the values that brought these inventions to life. The idea that putting powerful tools in the hands of everyday people helps unleash creativity and move humanity forward. That we can build things that help us imagine a better world and then make it real.

乔布斯的计划不在于iMac或者iPod，或者之后的种种，而在于为生活赋予这些创新的价值观。让日常生活中的人们也可以用上这些强大的工具，有助于释放创造力，推动人类的进步。我们可以创建一些事物，来帮助我们想象出一个更美好的世界，然后，让想象成真。

There's a saying that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. At Apple, I learned that's a total crock. You'll work harder than you ever thought possible, but the tools will feel light in your hands. As you go out into the world, don't waste time on problems that have been solved. Don't get hung up on what other people say is practical. Instead, steer your ship into the choppy seas. Look for the rough spots, the problems that seem too big, the complexities that other people are content to work around. It's in those places that you will find your purpose. It's there that you can make your greatest contribution. Whatever you do, don't make the mistake of being too cautious. Don't assume that by staying put, the ground won't move beneath your feet. The status quo simply won't last. So get to work on building something better.

俗话说，“选择你喜欢的工作，那你就不会把它当做工作”（If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life）。但在苹果公司我发现，这句话完全是一派胡言。相反，当你找到一份你所热爱的工作，你会努力工作，但你不会介意这样做。你会比想象中更努力地工作，只不过这种工具在你手中会感觉很轻松。当你走入社会之时，不要把时间浪费在已经解决的问题上。不要徘徊于人们口中的实用东西上。相反，你应该扬帆走向波涛汹涌的大海，去征服不完美，去解决看似艰涩的问题，去直面其他人不愿面对的复杂事务。只有在这些地方，你才会找到你一生的真正意义，做出最大的贡献。无论你做什么，不要犯下“小心谨慎”的错误。不要以为站在原地不动，地球就不会转动。现状在下一秒就不是现状了。所以，行动起来，一起创造更美好的未来。

In some important ways, my generation has failed you in this regard. We spent too much time debating. We've been too focused on the fight and not focused enough on progress. And you don't need to look far to find an example of that failure. Here today, in this very place, in an arena where thousands once found desperate shelter from a 100-year disaster, the kind that seem to be happening more and more frequently, I don't think we can talk about who we are as people and what we owe to one another without talking about climate change.

在一些重要的方面，我们这一代人让你们失望了。我们花太多时间互相争吵不休。我们太过于专注斗争，忽视了进步。这样的失败案例比比皆是。就在我们今天所在的这个地方，100多年前，成千上万人在这里绝望地躲避灾难。在今天，这样的灾难发生得似乎越来越频繁。我想，在谈论我们是谁，我们互相之间负有怎样的责任之时，就不能不谈谈气候变化。

Thank you. Thank you.

谢谢各位，谢谢。

This problem doesn't get any easier based on whose side wins or loses an election. It's about who has won life's lottery and has the luxury of ignoring this issue and who stands to lose everything. The coastal communities, including some right here in Louisiana, that are already making plans to leave behind the places they've called home for generations and head for higher ground. The fishermen whose nets come up empty. The wildlife preserves with less wildlife to preserve. The marginalized, for whom a natural disaster can mean enduring poverty.

这个问题跟哪一方获胜或谁当选了总统无关。它好比，你中了人生彩票，足够幸运可以无视这个问题，而其他人则要面对失去一切的结果。沿海地区，包括路易斯安那州，包括这里，已经在规划离开这片他们世世代代称之为家的地方，前往地势更高的地方。渔民打渔的收获越来越少。我们说保护野生动物，但能保护的野生动物却越来越少。对于那些边缘化的人们，自然灾害意味着令人绝望的贫穷。

Just ask Tulane's own Molly Keogh, who's getting her Ph.D. this weekend. Her important new research shows that rising sea levels are devastating areas of Southern Louisiana more dramatically than anyone expected. Tulane graduates, these are people's homes. Their livelihoods. The land where their grandparents were born, lived, and died.

只消问问我们杜兰大学的莫莉·基奥（Molly Keogh），她这周刚拿到了自己的博士学位。她的重要新研究表明，海平面的上升给路易斯安那州南部地区造成的破坏远远超出了任何人的预期。杜兰的毕业生们，这些都是人们的家园，是他们的生计，他们的祖祖辈辈在这里出生、生活，又在这片土地上终去。

When we talk about climate change or any issue with human costs, and there are many, I challenge you to look for those who have the most to lose and find the real, true empathy that comes from something shared. That is really what we owe one another. When you do that, the political noise dies down, and you can feel your feet firmly planted on solid ground. After all, we don't build monuments to trolls, and we're not going to start now.

当我们谈论气候变化或任何与人类成本有关的问题时，这样的问题实在太多太多了。我希望你们能够关注那些已经失去最多的人们，唤醒内心深处真正的同情。这是我们彼此之间应该有的纽带。当你真正做到一点的时候，政治聒噪会随之消停，你会发现你的双脚牢牢站立。毕竟，我们不会为“巨魔”（troll）建造纪念碑，至少我们这一代人不会。

If you find yourself spending more time fighting than getting to work, stop and ask yourself who benefits from all the chaos. There are some who would like you to believe that the only way that you can be strong is by bulldozing those who disagree or never giving them a chance to say their peace in the first place. That the only way you can build your own accomplishments is by tearing down the other side.

如果你发现自己争论的时间多过工作，那么赶紧停下来，扪心自问一下：究竟谁能从这一切混乱中受益。总有人试图让你们相信，变得强大的唯一途径就是威胁恐吓那些对你说“不”的人，或者从一开始就不给对方任何求和的机会。你自己的成功只能建立在粉碎对方的基础上。

We forget sometimes that our preexisting beliefs have their own force of gravity. Today, certain algorithms pull toward you the things you already know, believe, or like, and they push away everything else. Push back. It shouldn't be this way. But in 2019, opening your eyes and seeing things in a new way can be a revolutionary act. Summon the courage not just to hear but to listen. Not just to act, but to act together.

我们有时候会忘记，我们先前拥有的信仰有着它们自身的吸引力。今天，一些算法将你们诱导至你们已然知道、相信、或喜欢的事物，同时让你们与剩下的一切渐行渐远。千万别这样，这不是事物该有的样子。但是在2019年，睁开你的双眼，以全新的方式看待世界，将是一个充满革命性意义的举动。鼓起勇气，不仅要听，更要倾听。不仅要行动，更要一起行动。

It can sometimes feel like the odds are stacked against you, that it isn't worth it, that the critics are too persistent and the problems are too great. But the solutions to our problems begin on a human scale with building a shared understanding of the work ahead and with undertaking it together. At the very least, we owe it to each other to try.

有时候你会觉得，胜算完全不在你这一侧。你会觉得所做的一切不值得，批评的声音太顽强，问题太顽固。但是问题的解决方法始于一群人，一群拥有共同目标且愿意共同行动的人。而且，无论如何，为了彼此，我们都该拼搏一试。

It's worked before. In 1932, the American economy was in a free-fall. Twelve million people were unemployed, and conventional wisdom said the only thing to do was to ride it out, wait, and hope that things would turn around. But the governor of New York, a rising star named Franklin Roosevelt, refused to wait. He challenged the status quo and called for action. He needed people to stop their rosy thinking, face the facts, pull together, and help themselves out of a jam. He said: "The country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it and try another. But above all, try something."

这样的团结曾经有过。1932年，美国经济急速下坠。1200万人失业，经验智慧说，我们现在唯一能做的就是经受住考验，耐心等待，寄希望于事情终将会慢慢好转。但是当时纽约州的州长，一位名叫富兰克林·罗斯福（Franklin Roosevelt）的后起之秀拒绝等待。他向旧有的体制发起挑战，呼吁人们行动起来。他告诉人们，停止那些不切实际的幻想，直面现实，团结起来，互相扶持走出困境。他说：“我们的国家需要大胆持久的试验。采取措施、放胆实践是常识。如果失败，那就承认失败，换个法子继续尝试。只是无论如何，一定要去尝试。”

This was a speech to college students fearful about their future in an uncertain world. He said: "Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world." The audacious empathy of young people, the spirit that says we should live not just for ourselves, but for our own. That's the way forward. From climate change to immigration, from criminal justice reform to economic opportunity, be motivated by your duty to build a better world. Young people have changed the course of history time and time again. And now it's time to change it once more.

这是对一群即将踏入一个不确定的世界、对未来充满恐惧的学生们所做的演讲。他继续说：“你的使命不是让自己在这个世界有立足之地，而是重塑这个世界。”年轻人敢于冒险的共性，大声宣告我们不仅为自己、更为我们所拥有的努力奋斗的精神，是我们前进的关键。从气候变化到移民，从刑事司法到经济机遇，让建立一个更加美好的世界成为你肩上的责任，激励你勇往直前。古往今来，年轻人一次又一次地改变了历史的进程，现在是时候轮到你们，来再一次书写历史。

I know, I know the urgency of that truth is with you today. Feel big because no one can make you feel strong. Feel brave because the challenges we face are great but you are greater. And feel grateful because someone sacrificed to make this moment possible for you. You have clear eyes and a long life to use them. And here in this stadium, I can feel your courage.

我知道今天的你们，责任更加重大。你们要内心强大，因为安全感并非来自他人施舍。你们要勇敢自信，因为我们面临的挑战已经足够棘手，但你们将要面对的更加棘手。你们也要心存感恩，因为有太多人奉献了自己让你走到了今天。你有一双明亮的眼睛，还有一生去好好使用它。今天在这里，我可以感受到各位的勇气。

Call upon your grit. Try something. You may succeed. You may fail. But make it your life's work to remake the world because there is nothing more beautiful or more worthwhile than working to leave something better for humanity.

拿出你们的勇气。放胆去尝试。你会成功，也会失败。但是让重塑世界成为你一生的使命。因为，没有什么比为人类留下更美好的世界这件事更加美妙、更有价值。

Thank you very much, and congratulations class of 2019!

谢谢你们，2019届的毕业生们！

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