娜塔丽·波特曼2015哈佛毕业演讲(4)
I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset!
我高中是在长岛一家公立学校，Syoseet高中，哦，你好啊，Syoseet！
The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair.
我们学校的女生都拿着Prada包，烫直了头发。
And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in.
而他们的口音，是我这个9岁从康州搬来的女孩为了融入而一直在模仿的。
Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries.
佛罗里达橘子，巧克力樱桃。
Since I’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school.
因为我年纪太老，所以我上高中时互联网刚兴起。
People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress.
同学都不太在意我演员的身份。
I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands
我在学校出名是因为我的背包比我的人还大，而且我满手都是消正液，
because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books.
因为我不喜欢笔记本上出现划掉的痕迹。
I was voted for my senior yearbook ‘most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy’ or code for nerdiest.
毕业年册中我被评为“最可能成为智力竞赛选手”的人，换句话说，就是最呆的书呆子。
When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1,
《星球大战前传1》刚上映，我就来到哈佛读书，
I knew I would be staring over in terms of how people viewed me.
我知道我得重新建立别人对我的看法了。
I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous,
我害怕大家以为我只是靠名声才进了哈佛，
and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here.
担心他们觉得我配不上这里严格的智力标准。
And it would not have been far from the truth.
其实真相也差不多如此。
When I came here I had never written a 10-paper before.
我来哈佛之前从没写过10页的论文。
I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper.
我都不知道自己写没写过5页的论文。
I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter
我被一位同学的淡定眼神刺激并吓坏，他是Dalton或者Exeter高中的名校生，
who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy.
他说跟高中相比，哈佛的作业量是小菜一碟。
I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable,
我是完全应付不来，我觉得一周读完一千页书是不可想象的，
that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do.
而写出50页的论文是我永远都做不到的。
I had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself.
我完全不知道该怎样表达我的意图。我连跟自己说清楚都做不到。
娜塔丽·波特曼2015哈佛毕业演讲。