翻譯學習之雙語閱讀

　　【英語原文】

　　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年前當喬布斯的父母領養他的時候，他們曾經向他的生母許下諾言，會讓喬布斯上大學，所以他們一直都克盡父母的職責，努力工作，為他的大學基金省吃儉用。等到喬布斯高中畢業時，他們攢的錢雖不多，但是也足夠他上大學了�？墒悄菚r候的喬布斯是個越發任性的孩子，上大學的事情也沒那么容易。開始他根本沒有認真考慮上大學的.事情�！耙�是我沒上大學，我想我很可能直接去紐約了。”他回憶說，一邊思考著要是他當時選擇了另一條路，他的世界（可能還有我們所有人的世界）會有怎樣的不同。當父母堅持讓他去上大學的時候，他的回應是消極反抗。他沒有考慮如沃茲上的伯克利這樣的公立大學，雖然事實是這些公立大學父母才能供得起。他也沒有考慮斯坦福大學，盡管學校就在附近而且愿意提供獎學金。“那些去上斯坦福的孩子，他們都已經知道自己到底想要什么，”喬布斯說道，“他們不是真正的藝術型，我想上更加有藝術性更加有趣的大學�！�

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