公眾人物畢業(yè)演講第48期:肖恩庫姆斯霍華德大學(xué)(4)

Only this family could take one of its sons whoalready had three name changes

只有這個大家庭能夠接受一個已經(jīng)改過三次名字的兒子

and give him a fourth, Dr. Combs

并給他第四個名字 庫姆斯博士

I know the board of trustees are looking at me backthere like

我知道校董們肯定正坐在后面想

this is not the regular type of commencement speech that we're used to

這可不是我們習(xí)慣的那種常規(guī)畢業(yè)演講

Waste time first of all

一開始就浪費了一堆時間

We're changing things out here, you feel me?

我們正在改變規(guī)則 感覺到了嗎

and thanks to this board right here

這多虧了在座的各位校董

It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up Magazine

我要談的是夢想 我過去常常讀Word Up雜志

Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine

崇拜豪華大轎車中的Salt-n-Pepa和Heavy D

And then I went and enrolled into Howard Universe

之后我被錄取到霍華德大學(xué)

I can still remember my first day at Howard Universe

我還記得自己在霍華德大學(xué)度過的第一天

I walked up that hill

我爬到山上

past the Quad through the main gate

通過大門 經(jīng)過Quad

I made a ride on to the Yard

我騎車去了Yard

My mind was blown

我感到非常震撼

See, I'm from New York

知道嗎 我來自紐約

And New York has its own world and I rarely traveled outside in New York

紐約有自己獨特的世界 我很少外出到紐約進(jìn)行游覽

So my mind was blown

我當(dāng)時覺得很震撼

when I saw so many beautiful shades of brown

我是第一次看到這么多漂亮的棕膚色身影

I never heard so many accents

我第一次聽到這么多種口音

I've never seen so many beautiful women

我第一次見到這么多漂亮的女士

And we all know that Howard has the most beautiful intelligent women in a world

我們都知道 霍華德?lián)碛腥澜缱蠲利惵敾鄣呐?/p>

# be clear, # be clear

我明確提醒一下 這里值得#