名校勵志英語演講 第83期:追隨自己的心聲,你們一定會成功

[00:01.17]So I had a charity sale a while back to get rid of all that stuff, 有時候，我的壁櫥都有點(diǎn)放不下，所以我舉行了義賣，處理那些衣物。 [00:05.59]and a woman named Joanie Jacks didn't have much money, because she didn't have a job at the time, 有一個名叫喬安妮·杰克斯的女人沒有太多錢，因?yàn)楫?dāng)時她沒有工作， [00:12.33]and the least expensive thing she could find was a pair of black shoes. 而她能從中找到最便宜的東西是一雙黑鞋。 [00:17.43]Now, she wore a size of seven and I'm 10.5 on a good day, 1 with humidity. 那時，她的鞋碼是7，而我平常穿10碼半的鞋，天氣潮濕的話還會穿11碼的。 [00:27.10]So， she brought a pair of my shoes and kept them in her bedroom, and she said that when she got depressed, 結(jié)果，她買了一雙我的鞋，把它們放在自己的臥室里。 [00:34.29]when things weren't going well, she would take out the shoes and she would stand in my shoes. 她說，當(dāng)她感到沮喪時，當(dāng)事情不順利時，他就會拿出這雙鞋子，穿在自己的腳上。 [00:43.30]And she said she wanted to stand in the shoes until she'd be able to stand on her own, 她說，她想穿上這雙鞋子，直到她能夠穿上自己的鞋子， [00:48.36]and she used the shoes as a sense of inspiration to herself. 她把這雙鞋子當(dāng)作對自己的激勵。 [00:53.55]At age of 50, she went back to college and got herself a degree, and today she's standing in her own shoes. 在50歲時，重返大學(xué)，獲得學(xué)位，如今，她穿著屬于自己的鞋子。 [01:03.51]That is what makes me feel successful. Of all the wonderful things hat have happened, including getting a doctorate, 這讓我感覺自己很成功。把所有發(fā)上在我身上的好事都算上， [01:16.14]an honorary doctorate from Duke, what really makes me feel successful is being able to use my life in service to someone else's. 包括獲得杜克大學(xué)榮譽(yù)博士學(xué)位在內(nèi)，真正讓我有成績感的事情是用我的生命服務(wù)他人。 [01:25.42]And I will have to say, it is a wonderful thing to have a beautiful home, or homes, 當(dāng)然，我得承認(rèn)，有個漂亮的家真好， [01:33.58]a wonderful thing to have a beautiful home which just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara. 有個在圣巴巴拉市大火中幸免下來的漂亮的家真好。 [01:39.22]And it is really fantastic to have your own jet, and anybody who says it isn't lying to you. That jet thing is really good. 擁有自己的噴氣式飛機(jī)真好，如果有人認(rèn)為這不好，他就是在撒謊。噴氣式飛機(jī)真的是個好東西。

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