SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Hello, Indiana! It’s good to be back close to home. Everybody have a seat, have a seat. Well, first of all, let me thank Henry and everybody for extending such a warm welcome. It’s good to be back in Indiana. A couple people I just want to acknowledge very quickly: Your Mayor, Bob Hurst. Where did Mayor Hurst go? (Applause.) He was here just ...
Little formal schooling but labor honestly and diligently to help feed, clothe, and educate their families are deserving of greater respect– and help, if necessary– 接受过很少正规教育 但诚实和勤恳劳动 为家人提供食物 衣服 教育的人 比很多表面上成功的人 Than many people who are superficially more successful They're more fun to have a beer with That's all tha...
Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives 糟糕政策结果更主要的原因是 碰到复杂难解问题时所犯下的诚实错误 而不是出于恶劣动机 For these reasons, the greatest forces in Washington are ideas and people prepared to act on those ideas Public service, as I discovered, is not easy 因此 华盛...
Hi Well, it's nice to be back at Princeton I find it difficult to believe that it's been almost 11 years 嗨 很高兴能回到普林斯顿 很难相信我离校赴华盛顿任职 Since I departed these halls for Washington I wrote recently to inquire about the status of my leave from the university and the letter I got back began 已经11年了 我最近写信打听学校在我离开后的状况 结果回信开头就...
Little formal schooling but labor honestly and diligently to help feed, clothe, and educate their families are deserving of greater respect– and help, if necessary– 接受过很少正规教育 但诚实和勤恳劳动 为家人提供食物 衣服 教育的人 比很多表面上成功的人 Than many people who are superficially more successful They're more fun to have a beer with That's all tha...
Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives 糟糕政策结果更主要的原因是 碰到复杂难解问题时所犯下的诚实错误 而不是出于恶劣动机 For these reasons, the greatest forces in Washington are ideas and people prepared to act on those ideas Public service, as I discovered, is not easy 因此 华盛...
Hi Well, it's nice to be back at Princeton I find it difficult to believe that it's been almost 11 years 嗨 很高兴能回到普林斯顿 很难相信我离校赴华盛顿任职 Since I departed these halls for Washington I wrote recently to inquire about the status of my leave from the university and the letter I got back began 已经11年了 我最近写信打听学校在我离开后的状况 结果回信开头就...
Is really entirely meritocratic meritocracies may be fairer and more efficient than some alternatives But fair in an absolute sense? Think about it 是真正意义上的完全精英体系 精英体系可能比其它体系更加公平和高效 但绝对意义上讲 它真的公平吗 想想这个问题 A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment luckiest in terms o...
Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. 你们的聪明才智必定会派上用场，因为你们将在一片充满奇迹的土地上行进。 We humans – plodding as we are – will astonish ourselves. 我们人类，尽管跬步前行，却终将令自己大吃一惊。 We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. 我们能够想方设法制造很多清洁能源。 Atom by atom, w...
I should say that he always added that he would do it all over again in a minute So, well done, moms, dads This is indeed an impressive and appropriate setting for a commencement 但他总会补充说 再让他选择 他还是会这样做 所以说 你们很棒 父母们 作为毕业典礼的讲台 这里再合适不过了 I am sure that, from this lectern any number of distinguished spiritual leaders have ruminated on ...
I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. 我告诉我的老板我想开办一家在网上卖书的公司。 He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, 他带我在中央公园漫步良久，认真地听我讲完，最后说： "That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn'...
Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions? 你们会屈从于批评，还是会坚守信念？ Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize? 你们会掩饰错误，还是会坦诚道歉？ Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love? 你们会因害怕拒绝而掩饰内心，还是会在面对爱情时勇往直前？ Will you play it safe, or will y...
And not on love of the work or a desire to make a difference is a recipe for unhappiness 8 而不是因爱好或追求卓越所做出的职业选择 不过是日后苦恼的根源 八 Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game Number 9 没人喜欢失败 但失败是生活和学习中不可或缺的部分 如果衣服都没弄脏 那你...
I have a vivid memory of what happened next, and it was not what I expected. 我清晰地记得接下来发生了什么，而那是我意料之外的。 I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. 我本期待着小聪明和算术技巧能赢得掌声。 "Jeff, you're so smart. You had to have made some tricky estimates, figure out the number of minutes in a year and do some division.&...
We had a dream of being outside for this occasion. 我们曾经想要在外边举办这个活动。 A reality intervened and we're in here. 但现实就是这样，所以我们只能在这里。 We we live in the real world, we're deal in the real world. 我们生活在现实世界中，面对现实世界的问题。 And I think what I was saying earlier about communications, it's time for something of a reframing. ...
But we were ready to leave, we were ready to get out there. 但当时我们准备好离开了，我们准备好迈向新天地了。 And we felt very much as if we had accumulated this sort of whole wheel of Brie of knowledge. 我们觉得自己积累的全部知识，就像一整块布里奶酪一样。 Of course what I realize is actually a Swiss cheese, and those gaps in there are the point. 当然，我意识到那实际上是一块...
And in the great tradition of these speeches, 同样，在演讲这一伟大传统中， generally what happens is the speaker says something along the lines of you need to chase your dreams. 通常情况下，演讲者会说一些类似于“你们需要追逐你们的梦想”的话。 But I'm not going to say that because I don't believe it. 但我不会这么说，因为我不相信这一点。 I don't want you to chase you...
Thank you. It's a tremendous honor to be here. 谢谢你们。能来到这里是我莫大的荣幸。 I know we were all hoping to be outside. 我知道我们都想在外面举办这次活动。 But in this magnificent surroundings, 不过在这个华丽的环境中， I for one am enjoying the feeling that President Eisgruber is about to get out the sorting hat. 就我个人而言，我很享受艾斯格鲁伯校长即将从分院帽里出来...
And I'm supposed to tell you that the rest of your life, 我要告诉你们，在你们的余生里， you're not going to be regretting the fact that you've left here. 你们不会为你们的离开而感到遗憾。 All I can really say is there's probably a reason 25,000 alumni came back for the reunions this weekend. 我想说，这周末有25000名校友回来参加这次聚会，一定是有原因的。 But at ...
And so much of the resources, intellectual resources, financial resources of of my generation 我们这一代人有很多的资源，知识资源、财政资源， have gone into communications infrastructure and achieved wonderful things, 都用在了通信基础设施领域并取得了惊人的成就， but perhaps not as wonderful as we claim them to be. 但是可能它并没有我们声称的那么好。 I mean, barely a week goes ...