名校勵志英語演講 第13期:失敗的額外收益和想象力的重要性

[00:01.29]President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, 尊敬的福斯特校長，哈弗集團的各位成員，監(jiān)管理事會的各位理事， [00:08.07]members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates. 各位老師，各位自豪的家長，尤其是畢業(yè)生們： [00:14.58]The first thing I would like to say is 'thank you'. 首先請允許我說一聲謝謝。 [00:18.28]Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, 哈弗不僅給了我至高無上的榮譽， [00:22.18]but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. 連日來一想到要發(fā)表這個畢業(yè)演說所經(jīng)受的恐懼和緊張，更令我減肥成功。 [00:38.48]A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, 這真是“雙贏”?，F(xiàn)在，我只需要深呼吸幾次， [00:44.26]squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world's largest Gryffindor' reunion. 瞇著眼睛看看前面的大紅橫幅，然后安慰自己，讓自己相信我正在參加世界上最大的魔法學(xué)院聚會。 [00:51.20]Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; 發(fā)表畢業(yè)演說責任重大。 [00:55.12]or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. 至少我回想我當年的畢業(yè)典禮時是這么認為的。 [01:01.28]The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. 那天致辭的是英國著名的哲學(xué)家瑪麗·沃諾克男爵夫人。 [01:08.15]Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, 回想她的演講，對我完成這篇演講稿有極大的幫助， [01:13.12]because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. 因為我已完全不記得她當時講了什么。 [01:23.38]This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear, 這讓我釋然，讓我不再擔心我可能會無意中影響你們， [01:30.42]that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, 使你們放棄商業(yè)、法律或政治上的大好前途， [01:37.31]the law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard. 轉(zhuǎn)而醉心于成為一個快樂的魔法師。

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