蘋(píng)果總裁出柜了！熱愛(ài)英語(yǔ)的你只能看懂一部分？太可惜了，讓高手來(lái)幫你吧！看看用初中生的詞匯量改寫(xiě)的“基情宣言”你是否能看懂。
Ever since I started my career, I tried not to let people know too much about my personal life. I wasn’t born rich, and I don’t want to draw attention to myself. People already pay close attention to Apple and I think we should focus on our products and the great things customers get out of them.
At the same time, I believe what Dr. Martin Luther King said: “The most important question about life is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ ” I often ask myself that question, and now I know, my strong desire for keeping my personal life has stopped me from doing more important things for others. That’s why I'm sharing my secret with you today.
For years, I’m not afraid of telling people that I love man more than woman. Plenty of colleagues at Apple know I’m gay, and I don’t see any difference in the way they treat me. Of course, I’m very lucky to work at a great company. This company loves to make something new and and knows that the only way to make new things successful is that you never say no to people’s differences. Not everyone is so lucky.
While I have never said I’m not a gay, I haven’t said I’m a gay to the public either, until now. So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I believe being gay is one of the greatest gifts God has given me.
As a gay, I understand better about other gays. As a gay, I start to understand other people who are in a smaller group. I start to understand what they’re facing every day. It’s made me a nicer man. It made me live a richer life. It’s been tough and uncomfortable at times, but it has given me the confidence to be myself, to follow my own way, and to fight against all kinds difficulties. It’s also made me stronger. It’s very useful when you’re the CEO of Apple.
The world has changed so much since I was a kid. America is giving people more freedom on marriage. More and more famous people are brave to come out. This has changed people’s mind and made people able to accept what other people say or do even if they don’t agree with it. Laws in some states still allow employers to fire people only because they’re gay. In many places, house owners can kick you out only because you are gay. You’re not allowed to visit sick partners and share the money or things when they die. A lot of people, especially kids, are living in fear and treated badly every day only because they are gay.
I don’t think I’m an activist, but I know I’ve benefited a lot from what others did. So if someone starts feeling better with who she or he is, someone doesn’t feel alone anymore, someone is brave enough to ask for the same rights after you hear my story, then it’s not a big deal to share some of my secrets with you.
I have to say this wasn’t easy. Privacy is important to me, and I’d like to keep some of it to myself. Apple is my life’s work. I’ll spend almost all the time on work as long as I’m awake. I just want to be the best CEO I can be. I think that’s what people need me to do,our employees,our customers, developers, shareholders, and supplier partners. Our society is getting better. People don’t judge each other just by their sex, their colors, and who they love. I’m an engineer, an uncle, a nature lover, a fitness nut, a son of the South, a sports fanatic, and many other things. I hope that people will see all these things, because they’re the things that I’m good at, they’re the things that makes me happy.
My company did a lot for human rights. We support people who want the same rights at work. We support people who want the same rights in marriage. We said no when they’re trying to make a law rule which is unfair to the gay. We’ll continue to do the right thing, and I believe that any CEO of this company would do the same thing. And I will continue to fight for the same rights for all people until I’m dead.
When I arrive in my office each morning, I see the photos of Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy. I’m not writing this to pretend I’m one of them. I’m just doing my part, however small, to help others. We’re in a group. I’m happy to be part of it.
啥？啥？啥？還是看不懂？那只好給你翻譯成大白話嘍！
從開(kāi)始工作到現(xiàn)在，我就一直是個(gè)低調(diào)的人。咱一窮人家的娃，有啥好得瑟的？要說(shuō)張揚(yáng)，沒(méi)有哪個(gè)公司比蘋(píng)果更有資格的了。我就覺(jué)著吧，咱的本分就是做好產(chǎn)品，回饋消費(fèi)者，回饋社會(huì)。
但時(shí)不時(shí)的呢，我又經(jīng)常想起以前老金（馬丁路德金）說(shuō)的那話：“人活著，這輩子可不能光為了自己”。這話有道理哈！我經(jīng)常琢磨這事，經(jīng)常問(wèn)自己，你這輩子為別人做過(guò)啥事不？你這么低調(diào)，是不是也太慫了點(diǎn)？你一慫人能為別人干啥事呢？這不，我咬了咬牙就決心今天給大家說(shuō)點(diǎn)啥。
其實(shí)關(guān)于我是個(gè)基友這事，只要有人問(wèn)，我從來(lái)沒(méi)打過(guò)哈哈，所以很多同事都知道。俺也從沒(méi)覺(jué)得他們斜眼看我。當(dāng)然，這和企業(yè)文化也有一定的關(guān)系，都知道蘋(píng)果是個(gè)創(chuàng)新型的公司，喜歡捯飭新鮮玩意兒。要?jiǎng)?chuàng)新，你就得鼓勵(lì)“綻放基情”嘛！但是，不是人人都能像我這么狗屎運(yùn)攤上這么個(gè)好公司。
到現(xiàn)在為止，雖然我從沒(méi)否認(rèn)過(guò)我是基男，但也從沒(méi)有拿大喇叭吆喝過(guò)。所以，今天，在這里，我就鄭重聲明一下：我做基男，我驕傲！我做基男，是這輩子最大的榮耀！
當(dāng)上基男之后我才真正體會(huì)到，做為人類(lèi)的一小撮，做基男不容易??！不光是基男不容易，其它不學(xué)常人過(guò)日子的少數(shù)派也不容易。作為基友的一員，我開(kāi)始理解別人了，我的人生閱歷也豐富了許多。雖然時(shí)不時(shí)地還會(huì)有人羞皮臊臉地給你難堪，但這同時(shí)也讓我變得更加堅(jiān)強(qiáng)，堅(jiān)定了我做基友的決心：走自己的路，讓那些偏見(jiàn)死一邊去吧！我要像犀牛一樣披上盔甲！做為蘋(píng)果的老大，不正需要這么一件刀槍不入的“牛皮大衣”么？
星轉(zhuǎn)斗移，世事變遷。就誰(shuí)和誰(shuí)結(jié)婚這事，美國(guó)人也學(xué)會(huì)睜一眼閉一眼了。我們這個(gè)社會(huì)之所以開(kāi)始變得理性有溫情，也正是因?yàn)楹芏嘤蓄^有臉地人能站出來(lái)勇敢地說(shuō)出自己是基友。雖然，還是有那么一些犄角旮旯，老板可以名正言順地因?yàn)閱T工是同性戀就炒他們魷魚(yú)，還是有那么一些犄角旮旯，房東因?yàn)槟闶峭詰倬涂梢园涯阙s到大街上。如果你是同性戀，基友生病了你也不能看，因?yàn)槟闶峭詰?，基友死了你也拿不到他們的遺產(chǎn)。還有好多好多的人，尤其是孩子，因?yàn)樗麄兿矚g同性而挨打受罵。
雖然我從來(lái)沒(méi)把自己當(dāng)根蔥，但我心里爛明白，前人栽樹(shù)，后人乘涼，沒(méi)有之前那些前仆后繼、首尾相接的戰(zhàn)友，哪有我們基友的今天！所以，今天我講的這些，如果能夠讓某些基友明白你不是一個(gè)人在戰(zhàn)斗，如果能夠堅(jiān)定某些網(wǎng)友排除萬(wàn)難一心做基男的信念，那我老庫(kù)今天的話就算沒(méi)有白說(shuō)！
話說(shuō)回來(lái)，今天能站出來(lái)說(shuō)這些掏心窩子的話真是臉紅了又白白了又紅。畢竟我還是個(gè)要面子的人。我愛(ài)企業(yè)如家，除了睡覺(jué)，我大部分時(shí)間都鋪在工作上了，就想著當(dāng)好這個(gè)老大。不容易?。∧敲匆淮蠹易訂T工，還不用說(shuō)那么多果粉，開(kāi)發(fā)商，股東，供應(yīng)商都盯著呢！咱們常說(shuō)時(shí)代不同了，社會(huì)進(jìn)步了，進(jìn)步在哪兒呢？進(jìn)步就進(jìn)步在你不能用老眼光看人了。一個(gè)人是男是女，是黑是白，喜歡公的還是母的，這重要嗎？這不重要。就像我，雖然是基男，但我同時(shí)也是出類(lèi)拔萃的工程師?。∫粋€(gè)和藹可親的大叔?。∥疫€熱愛(ài)大自然，是個(gè)健身狂，運(yùn)動(dòng)迷。大家別光盯著檔下那點(diǎn)事，也關(guān)注一下其它那些我又會(huì)玩還能玩到爆的事情。
要說(shuō)我所在的這家公司，那做好人好事可不是一天兩天的事了。我們跟國(guó)會(huì)干架，堅(jiān)持辦公場(chǎng)所人人平等。我們跟加州議會(huì)死掐，爭(zhēng)取婚姻自主。我們對(duì)亞里桑那州議會(huì)豎中指，因?yàn)樗麄兤缫曂詰佟Ｖ灰覀冋J(rèn)為是對(duì)的，就會(huì)繼續(xù)干下去。我想這事不光是我，換一個(gè)老總，不管他是男是女，是黑是白，是不是基友，都會(huì)同意我的觀點(diǎn)。我個(gè)人也會(huì)繼續(xù)為共產(chǎn)主義事業(yè)而奮斗！鞠躬盡萃，死而后已！
每天早晨我來(lái)到辦公室，第一眼看到的就是辦公桌上金老和肯老的照片。我這么做并不是攀高枝，好像我跟他們一樣有多牛逼似的。我說(shuō)這些就是為了有資格能當(dāng)著他們的面說(shuō)，老金老肯啊，我小庫(kù)總算為別人做了一點(diǎn)事了，雖然與您二老還有差距，但是我盡力了！如果說(shuō)大家正在齊心協(xié)力鋪一條通往共產(chǎn)主義事業(yè)的金光大道的話，那我就是這條金光大道上的一塊小小的磚。
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