[by:可可英语～www.utensil-race.com]
[00:00.17]How will you use these gifts?
你们要如何运用这些天赋呢?
[00:01.43]And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?
你们会为自己的天赋感到骄傲，还是会为自己的选择感到骄傲?
[00:07.18]I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago.
16年前，我萌生了创办亚马逊的想法。
[00:12.05]I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year.
彼时我面对的现实是互联网使用量以每年2300%的速度增长，
[00:17.52]I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast,
我从未看到或听说过任何增长如此快速的东西。
[00:22.24]and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles,something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world,was very exciting to me.
创建涵盖几百万种书籍的网上书店的想法令我兴奋异常，因为这个东西在物理世界里根本无法存在。
[00:32.00]I had just turned 30 years old, and I'd been married for a year.
那时我刚刚30岁，结婚才一年。
[00:37.56]I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to  quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't,
我告诉妻子MacKenzie想辞去工作，然后去做这件疯狂的事情，很可能会失败，因为大部分创业公司都是如此，
[00:48.22]and I wasn't sure what would happen after that.
而且我不确定那之后会发生什么。
[00:51.43]MacKenzie ，also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row)，told me I should go for it.
麦肯琪告诉我，我应该放手一搏。她也是从普林斯顿大学毕业的，现在就坐在第二排那里。
[01:00.49]As a young boy, I'd been a garage inventor.
在我还是一个男 孩儿的时候，我是车库发明家。
[01:05.46]I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires, a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil, baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings.
我曾用水泥填充的轮胎、雨伞和锡箔以及报警器制作了一个自动关门器。
[01:19.39]I'd always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.
我一直想做一个发明家，MacKenzie支持我追随内心的热情。
[01:26.39]I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people,
我当时在纽约一家金融公司工作，同事是一群非常聪明的人，
[01:32.16]and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired.
我的老板也很有智慧，我很羡慕他。
[01:35.42]I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet.
我告诉我的老板我想开办一家在网上卖书的公司。
[01:43.14]He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me,
他带我在中央公园漫步良久，认真地听我讲完，
[01:49.03]and finally said, "That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn't already have a good job."
最后说：“听起来真是一个很好的主意，但是对那些目前没有谋到一份好工作的人来说，这个主意会更好。”
[01:59.10]That logic made some sense to me,and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision.
这一逻辑对我而言颇有道理，他说服我在最终作出决定之前再考虑48小时。
[02:14.47]Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot.
那样想来，这个决定确实很艰难，但是最终，我决定拼一次。
[02:22.45]I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing.
我认为自己不会为尝试过后的失败而遗憾，
[02:27.05]And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.
倒是有所决定但完全不付诸行动会一直煎熬着我。
[02:35.10]After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I'm proud of that choice.
在深思熟虑之后，我选择了那条不安全的道路，去追随我内心的热情，我为那个决定感到骄傲。
[02:47.51]Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life -the life you author from scratch on your own -begins.
明天，非常现实地说，你们从零塑造自己人生的时代即将开启。
[02:59.04]How will you use your gifts?
你们会如何运用自己的天赋?
[03:01.04]What choices will you make?
你们又会作出怎样的抉择?
[03:03.38]Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?
你们是被惯性所引导，还是追随自己内心的热情?
[03:11.09]Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?
你们会墨守陈规，还是勇于创新?
[03:17.07]Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?
你们会选择安逸的生活，还是选择一个奉献与冒险的人生?
[03:24.51]Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?
你们会屈从于批评，还是会坚守信念?
[03:32.26]Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize?
你们会掩饰错误，还是会坦诚道歉?
[03:39.13]Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love?
你们会因害怕拒绝而掩饰内心，还是会在面对爱情时勇往直前?
[03:48.29]Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?
你们想要波澜不惊，还是想要搏击风浪?
[03:54.48]When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?
你们会在严峻的现实之下选择放弃，还是会义无反顾地前行?
[04:03.57]Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?
你们要做愤世嫉俗者，还是踏实的建设者?
[04:12.35]Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
你们要不计一切代价地展示聪明，还是选择善良?
[04:26.27]I will hazard a prediction.
我要冒险做一个预测.
[04:29.14]When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story,
在你们80岁时某个追忆往昔的时刻，只有你一个人静静对内心诉说着你的人生故事，
[04:46.47]the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will  be the series of choices you have made.
其中最为充实、最有意义的那段讲述，会被你们作出的一系列决定所填满。
[04:56.34]In the end, we are our choices.Build youself a great story.
最后，是选择塑造了我们的人生。为你自己塑造一个伟大的人生故事。
[05:04.38]Thank you and good luck!
谢谢，祝你们好运!