名校勵志英語演講 第23期:失敗的額外收益和想象力的重要性

[00:00.16]I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, 我可能會受到誘惑，去嫉妒那樣生活的人。 [00:03.40]except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. 但我不認(rèn)為他們做的噩夢會比我更少。 [00:08.02]Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, 選擇生活在狹窄的空間會導(dǎo)致不敢面對開闊的視野， [00:13.15]and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. 那種生活同樣會有恐懼。我認(rèn)為不愿展開想象的人會看到更多的怪獸， [00:20.21]They are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. 他們往往更會感到害怕。而且，那些沒有同情心的人會激活真正的怪獸。 [00:28.00]For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy. 因為盡管他們自身沒有作惡，但他們對于罪惡無動于衷，這已足以證明他們成為作惡者的共謀。 [00:35.08]One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down 18歲時，為了追尋我當(dāng)時還無法解釋的東西， [00:38.31]which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, 我踏上了學(xué)習(xí)古典文學(xué)的征途并汲取了許多知識， [00:43.16]was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. 其中一點便是希臘作家普魯塔克所說：我們的內(nèi)在修養(yǎng)將會改變外在的現(xiàn)實。 [00:51.59]That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. 那是一個驚人的論斷，在我們生活的每一天里被無數(shù)次證實。 [00:57.15]It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, 它在某種程度上說明了我們與外部世界有無法脫離的聯(lián)系， [01:02.14]the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing. 只要我們活著，就會對其他人的生活有影響。 [01:06.06]But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people’s lives? 但是，哈弗大學(xué)2008屆的畢業(yè)生們，你們會對其他人的生活產(chǎn)生多大的影響呢? [01:14.16]Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, 你們的智慧、你們應(yīng)對高難度工作的能力以及你們所接受的教育 [01:21.05]give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. 賦予了你們獨特的地位和責(zé)任。 [01:26.17]Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world’s only remaining superpower. 甚至你們的國籍也讓你們與眾不同，你們中的絕大多數(shù)人都屬于這個世界上唯一的超級大國。 [01:34.53]The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, 你們投票的方式，你們抗議的方式，以及你們給政府帶來的壓力， [01:41.43]has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden. 都會產(chǎn)生超越國界的影響力。這是你們的特權(quán)，更是你們的責(zé)任。

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