翻譯學(xué)習(xí)之雙語(yǔ)閱讀
【英語(yǔ)原文】
Seventeen years earlier, Jobs’s parents had made a pledge when they adopted him: He would go to college. So they had worked hard and saved dutifully for his college fund, which was modest but adequate by the time he graduated. But Jobs, becoming ever more willful, did not make it easy. At first he toyed with not going to college at all. “I think I might have headed to New Yorkif I didn’t go to college,” he recalled, musing on how different his world—and perhaps all of ours—might have been if he had chosen that path. When his parents pushed him to go to college, he responded in a passive-aggressive way. He did not consider state schools, such as Berkeley, where Woz then was, despite the fact that they were more affordable. Nor did he look at Stanford, just up the road and likely to offer a scholarship. “The kids who went to Stanford, they already knew what they wanted to do,” he said. “They weren’t really artistic. I wanted something that was more artistic and interesting.” (Chapter 3 The Dropout: Reed College)()
【譯文】
17年前當(dāng)喬布斯的父母領(lǐng)養(yǎng)他的時(shí)候，他們?cè)?jīng)向他的生母許下諾言，會(huì)讓喬布斯上大學(xué)，所以他們一直都克盡父母的職責(zé)，努力工作，為他的大學(xué)基金省吃儉用。等到喬布斯高中畢業(yè)時(shí)，他們攢的錢雖不多，但是也足夠他上大學(xué)了�？墒悄菚r(shí)候的喬布斯是個(gè)越發(fā)任性的孩子，上大學(xué)的事情也沒(méi)那么容易。開(kāi)始他根本沒(méi)有認(rèn)真考慮上大學(xué)的.事情�！耙俏覜](méi)上大學(xué)，我想我很可能直接去紐約了。”他回憶說(shuō)，一邊思考著要是他當(dāng)時(shí)選擇了另一條路，他的世界（可能還有我們所有人的世界）會(huì)有怎樣的不同。當(dāng)父母堅(jiān)持讓他去上大學(xué)的時(shí)候，他的回應(yīng)是消極反抗。他沒(méi)有考慮如沃茲上的伯克利這樣的公立大學(xué)，雖然事實(shí)是這些公立大學(xué)父母才能供得起。他也沒(méi)有考慮斯坦福大學(xué)，盡管學(xué)校就在附近而且愿意提供獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金�！澳切┤ド纤固垢５暮⒆�，他們都已經(jīng)知道自己到底想要什么，”喬布斯說(shuō)道，“他們不是真正的藝術(shù)型，我想上更加有藝術(shù)性更加有趣的大學(xué)。”
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