SD冠军锦标赛｜美国藤校演讲与辩论赛中国选拔赛

So here is our appeal to you all. 我们呼吁你们所有人 As you leave Stanford, 在离开斯坦福之后 take all your genius and your optimism and your empathy, 使用你们所有的天分 乐观和同情心 and go change the world in ways that will make millions of people optimistic. 以一种能让无数人感到乐观的方式去改变世界 You don't have to rush. 你们不用立刻做到 You have careers to launch and ...

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But the next day I went to Soweto, 第二天 我去了索韦托 the poor town just southwest of Johannesburg, 约翰内斯堡西南面一个很贫穷的城镇 that had been the center of the antiapartheid movement. 曾经反种族隔离运动的中心 It was a short distance from the city into the township, 这座城镇离约翰内斯堡主城区并不远 but the entry was sudden, jarring and harsh. 但进入索韦托后 我立刻感受到...

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So let your heart break. 让自己沉浸于心碎 It will change what you do with your optimism. 这会改变你们对乐观的理解 On a trip to South Asia, 有一次去南亚 I met a desperately poor Indian woman who had two children 我碰到了一位赤贫的印度女性 她有两个孩子 and she begged me to take them home with me. 她请求我把这两个孩子带回去领养 And when I begged her for her forgiveness she said...

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Let me take this second to introduce our commencement speaker 请允许我介绍我们的毕业典礼演讲嘉宾 It truly is a privilege to have Elon Musk join us today 我们很荣幸地请到了伊隆马斯克 It doesn't need much of an introduction 我应该不需要太多地介绍这位客人 but let me tell you a little bit about them 我只简单介绍一下 He grew up in South Africa 他在南非长大 got his degrees fro...

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So for example at Tesla 我想说 在特斯拉 we've never spent any money on advertising 我们从来不花钱做广告 We put all of the money into R&D and manufacturing and design 我们把所有的钱都用于研发 制造和设计 to try to make the car as good as possible 尽力让汽车变得更好 And I think that's the way to go 我认为 公司就该这样 For any given company, just keep thinking about ...

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Or the people who see a trend toward inequality and a decline in opportunity 还是那些认为不平等会加重 机会会减少 and don't think innovation will change that? 不认为创新能够改变这些趋势的人 The pessimists are wrong, in my view. 在我看来 悲观主义者是错误的 But they are not crazy. 但他们的想法并不疯狂 If innovation is purely market driven, 如果创新纯粹是市场驱使的 and we do...

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My normal glasses really aren't all that different. 我平时用的眼镜其实也没有多大不同 There are so many remarkable things going on here at this campus, 这所学校里发生了很多了不起的事情 but if Melinda and I had to put into one word what we love most about Stanford, 如果要我和梅琳达用一个词来总结对斯坦福的热爱 it's the optimism. 我们会说是"乐观" There's an...

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Mr. president 校长先生 I have the high honor to present Mr. Sean Combs 我很荣幸为你介绍肖恩·库姆斯先生 to receive at your hand the honorary degree of doctor of humanities 请你亲手将人文学荣誉博士学位授予他 Sean Combs 肖恩·库姆斯 dynamic groundbreaking global entrepreneur 活力四射的全球开拓性企业家 creative, visionary, dedicated humanitarian and innovative philanthropist 具有...

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Only this family could take one of its sons who already had three name changes 只有这个大家庭能够接受一个已经改过三次名字的儿子 and give him a fourth, Dr. Combs 并给他第四个名字 库姆斯博士 I know the board of trustees are looking at me back there like 我知道校董们肯定正坐在后面想 this is not the regular type of commencement speech that we're used to 这可不是我们习惯的那...

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That ran counter to our core belief. 这将同我们的核心信念背道而驰 Technology should benefit everyone. 技术应当让每个人受益 So we worked to close the digital divide. 于是我们开始行动 试图缩小这一数字鸿沟 I made a priority at Microsoft, 我原来在微软 and Melinda and I made it an early priority at our Foundation. 以及我和梅琳达在盖茨基金会早期都确立了 Donating personal computers...

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And that brings me to what I see is a paradox. 这在我看来是一个巨大的悖论 The modern world is an incredible source of innovation 现代世界是一个无可比拟的创新之源 and Stanford stands at the center of that, 斯坦福则位于这一切的中心 creating new companies, 创立起新公司 new schools of thought, 和新的思想学派 prize-winning professors, 充满获奖教授 inspired art and literature, 启...

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Excuse me 抱歉 Throughout my life, I have rushed to some of my greatest moments 在我这一生中 我匆匆错过了很多伟大的时刻 and I said if I made it to this point and when I made it to this point 我曾经说过 如果我能走到这一天 I would take my time and I would look at each and every one of you 我会花时间看看你们每一个人 So let me take my time and look at you 下面给点时间我 让我看你...

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And to all of the Board of Trustees, I truly thank you 我还要由衷地感谢校董会全体成员 And I have to send a shout out to the members of the class of 1964 我还要为1964届毕业生喝彩 Happy 50th 50周年快乐 You all know you all are going to have to turn up tonight right? 你们都知道今晚会出席对吧 Alright now, ain't no party like a Diddy party 好 没有什么派对能比得过吹牛老爹的派...

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Now, don't get me wrong: scientific skepticism is healthy 别误解我的意思 科学怀疑主义是有好处的 But there is a world of difference between scientific skepticism that seeks out more 但是寻找更多证据的科学怀疑主义同意识形态上 evidence and ideological stubbornness that shuts it out 拒绝科学证据的顽固不化是有本质差别的 Given the general attitude of many elected officials tow...

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All right. Thank you. I've got about apparently 5 or 6 minutes 谢谢大家 我有大概五六分钟时间 to say the most useful things I can think. I'm going to do my best 讲我认为最有用的东西 我会尽我所能 And it was suggested that I distill things down to 3 items 有人建议我将内容提炼为三点 I think I'll go with 4 我想 我会讲四点 and I'll try to, I think these are pretty ...

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Over the next generation, 在下一代 you, Sanford graduates, will lead a new wave of innovation. 你们这些斯坦福毕业生将会引领新一波创新 Which problems will you decide to solve? 你们决定处理哪些问题 If your world is wide, 如果你们的世界观足够宽广 you can create the future we all want. 你们将能创建出我们所有人都想要的未来 If your world is narrow, 如果你们的世界观太过狭窄 you may...

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So they rigged up an extension cord that ran 200 feet 人们只能临时拉了一根200英尺长的延长线 from the center to the diesel generator outside. 让社区中心能够接上外面的柴油发电机 Looking at this setup, I knew the minute the reporters left, 看到这种情形 我知道一旦记者离开 the generator would get to a more urgent task. 发电机就会被用到更紧急的任务 And the people at the community ...

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Congratulations, class of 2014! 祝贺2014届毕业生 Melinda and I are excited to be here. 我和梅琳达很高兴能来到这里 It would be a thrill for anyone 能受邀到斯坦福做毕业演讲 to be invited to speak at a Stanford commencement, 对任何人来说都是一件令人激动的事情 but it's especially gratifying for us. 我们尤是如此 Stanford is rapidly becoming the favorite university for members...

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Bill and I talk about this with our own kids around the dinner table. 我和比尔在餐桌上同我们自己的孩子们讨论过这个问题 Bill worked incredibly hard 比尔工作无比努力 and he took risks and he made sacrifices for success. 他冒过很多风险 做过很多牺牲 才取得了今天的成功 But there's another essential ingredient of success, 但成功还有另外一个很重要的成分 and that is luck. 那就是...

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I was so taken aback by what I saw that I had to ask myself, 亲眼所见的情形让我非常惊讶 我不得不问自己 did I still believe that innovation could solve the world's toughest problems? 我还相信创新能够解决世界上最困难的问题吗 I promised myself that before I came back to Africa, 我许下承诺 要在下次回到非洲之前 I would find out more about what keeps people poor. 更了解到底是...

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