名校勵(lì)志英語演講 第177期:人人都能成為總統(tǒng)(4)

[00:00.01]That's how I've come to feel about the Yale experience—grateful. 我很感激耶魯大學(xué)給我們提供了這么好的讀書環(huán)境。 [00:05.02]I studied hard, I played hard, and I made a lot of lifelong friends. 讀書期間，我堅(jiān)持“用功讀書，努力玩樂”，結(jié)交了許多讓我終生受益的朋友。 [00:11.51]What stays with you from college is the part of your education you hardly ever notice at the time. 大學(xué)期間，常陪伴你身邊的那些東西是你學(xué)習(xí)生涯的一部分，但是那時(shí)你卻從來沒有注意過。 [00:18.02]It's the expectations and examples around you, the ideals you believe in, and the friends you make. 那是大家對(duì)你們的期望，是你身邊值得你學(xué)習(xí)的榜樣，是你堅(jiān)持的理想，以及諸多你結(jié)交的朋友... [00:24.35]In my time, they spoke of the "Yale man." I was really never sure what that was. 我那個(gè)時(shí)代，常常聽到大家說“耶魯人”。我從不確定那是什么意思。 [00:31.39]But I do think that I'm a better man because of Yale. 但是因?yàn)橐?，因?yàn)橛辛嗽谝斏钤斓慕?jīng)歷，我變成了一個(gè)更加優(yōu)秀的人！ [00:35.56]All universities, at their best, teach that degrees and honors are far from the full measure of life. 許多大學(xué)都在盡力教導(dǎo)學(xué)生，學(xué)位和榮譽(yù)并非衡量人生的一切標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。 [00:44.03]Nor is that measure taken in wealth or in titles. 財(cái)富和頭銜也不能用來衡量人生。 [00:47.15]What matters most are the standards you live by, the consideration you show others, and the way you use the gifts you are given. 衡量人生的關(guān)鍵在于你的生活準(zhǔn)則、你對(duì)他人的體恤以及你如何運(yùn)用你的天賦。 [00:57.29]Now you leave Yale behind, carrying the written proof of your success here, at a college older than America. 現(xiàn)在你們即將低著從這所比美國歷史還要悠久的大學(xué)獲得的證明你們成功的證書離開耶魯。 [01:05.30]When I left here, I didn't have much in the way of a life plan. I knew some people who thought they did. 我從這里畢業(yè)時(shí)，還沒有仔細(xì)規(guī)劃我的人生。我認(rèn)識(shí)一些人，他們認(rèn)為自己對(duì)人生做了規(guī)劃。 [01:12.45]But it turned out that we were all in for ups and downs, most of them unexpected. 但結(jié)果表明，生活不可能一帆風(fēng)順，人生道路跌宕起伏，免不了會(huì)經(jīng)歷坎坷。 [01:19.09]Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story. 生活自由軌跡，生活充滿挑戰(zhàn)，生活譜寫著自己的故事， [01:24.17]And along the way, we start to realize we are not the author. 而歷經(jīng)漫漫人生路，我們才開始發(fā)現(xiàn)自己并不是這些故事的譜寫者。

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