科里布克2013年耶鲁大学(24)

Change will never roll in on the wheels of inevitability It must be carried in on the backs of warriors of love. 变化永远不会载在必然性的车轮上 自动到来必须要有肩负爱的勇士 才能带来变化 See yourself as those warriors Oh, say, can you see. 将你们自己看成这些勇士哦 你可看见 That in this world we have work to do See can’t you see that in this world that pover...

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科里布克2013年耶鲁大学(8)

But when I say a fight, I mean a literal fight Someone had me in a headlock. 反正我这里说的打架是动真格的有人把我脑袋夹住 2 people around my legs and my aid bursts into the council chambers and says Cory. 两个人抱着我的腿这时我助手火急火燎冲到议会大厅 他说 科里 You’ve got to go man Your plane leaves in fifteen minutes. 你需要出发了 老兄你的飞机15分钟后...

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丹泽尔2011宾夕法尼亚大学(10)

And I didn’t have to sing for it, by the way And here’s the kicker. 当然在这出戏里 我并不需要唱歌还有 最关键的是 It was at the Court Theater it was at the same theater. 这部音乐剧是在寇特剧院上演的也就是30年前 That I failed that first audition 30 years prior The point is, and i’ll put up the pace. 我第一次试演失败的那家剧院所以我要说的就是 ...

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拜登2013宾夕法尼亚大学(7)

As my brother Jim would say, “go figure” International terrorism, stateless actors, pandemic disease. 我兄弟吉姆竟然说 “没人说得清” 国际恐怖主义 无国籍行动者 大范围流行病 A political movement that can be organized from your cell phone Twitter can literally unleash a revolution. 一场政治运动可以由你们的手机来组织 毫不夸张 推特能够发动一场革命...

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科里布克2013年耶鲁大学(7)

Eventually we moved on to beach ball for crying out loud then there was the galactic hail. 最终冰雹达到沙滩球那么大然后还有银河冰雹 And I would try to catch my dad in inconsistencies He would tell me the story about in the mountain of North Carolina he. 我经常在父亲的故事中发现不合理的地方有一次他跟我讲北卡罗来纳山区的故事 Would start a story about the steep hil...

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科里布克2013年耶鲁大学(23)

More beautiful than you realize more powerful than you can imagine. 比你所意识到的更美丽比你所想象到的更有力量 But you must imagine it as one great author said the most common way people give up their power. 但你们必须认识到自己的力量如一位作家所言 人们放弃力量的最普遍方式 Is not realizing they have it in the first place I see you. 是最初就没有意识到他们拥有...

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拜登2013宾夕法尼亚大学(8)

With regard to the LGBT community fundamental –. 的态度 发生了根本的改观 根本的 Now an absolute majority of the American people are fully supportive of extending all rights to the LGBT community. 现在 美国绝大多数人 都支持赋予LGBT群体所有的平等权利 Including the right to choose who they marry Eleven states have already moved on marriage equality. 包括选...

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科里布克2013年耶鲁大学(2)

Because for 2 of my years I lived with undergraduates in Pierson College. 因为我有两年和皮尔逊学院的本科生们住在一起 As a yes and yes. 作为 好而且 好 The P is for the P in Pierson College So I just cannot take this is an opportunity to say thank you to. P是皮尔逊学院的首字母所以我必须利用这个机会 感谢 One of the more extraordinary men i’ve met in my ...

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丹泽尔2011宾夕法尼亚大学(11)

How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?. 在你离开这个世界的时候会有多少这样的幽魂围在你的床沿? You invested a lot in your education And people invested in you. 你们在教育上投入了很多别人也在你身上投入了很多 And let me tell you the world needs your talents. 而且让我告诉你这个世界需要你的才华 Man, does it ever I just got back f...

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丹泽尔2011宾夕法尼亚大学(3)

And you dress me up in army fatigues or throw me on top of a moving train. 你们可以让我穿上陆军迷彩服或是让我跳上飞奔的火车 Someone said unstoppable or.. Ask me to play Malcolm X, Rubin Hurricane Carter. 有人刚才说过这个让我扮演马尔科姆.艾克斯 或是鲁宾.卡特 Or Alonzo from Training Day. I can do that But a commencement speech? It’s a very serious affair. ...

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科里布克2013年耶鲁大学(12)

To the nicer row homes by the park I have seen first class having nothing to do with material things. 到公园旁整齐的排屋我看到过同物质事物无关的”头等” This world will give you messages that will try to tell you different everyday It’s going to try to take you. 这个世界会给你各种信息 告诉你每天都有所不同它会将你 From a great national tradition o...

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科里布克2013年耶鲁大学(17)

It was a pact funeral home and I didn’t want to talk to anybody. 殡仪馆人很多我不想和任何人讲话 All I could do was stand at the back and look and I started to feel mocked. 我只能静静地站在后面 呆呆地看着一切我开始感觉到可笑 Not inspired, but mocked by the words of our common ancestry I felt they were haunting me. I would hear things in my head like. 前...

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丹泽尔2011宾夕法尼亚大学(1)

Please join me and welcoming Denzel Washington Thank you. 请大家一起欢迎丹泽尔.华盛顿先生登台演讲谢谢 Thank you very much I am obviously the most unorganized. 非常感谢我可能是这里最没准备充分的一位 Everybody else has a nice box to bring the script up in I’m just like, kinda gather all. 大家都用一个精美的盒子装着演讲稿而我只是把所有资料都放在一起 Next...

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科里布克2013年耶鲁大学(9)

And so I do what I have to do and because of honor and righteousness. 于是我做了我必须做的事为了荣耀和正义 I cut everybody in line And now, there is carry-on baggage being thrown at the back of my head. 我插队到每个人的前面这时 有人把行李箱扔过来 砸到我的后脑勺上 It’s not mother’s day but I’m being called a mother And I lean at the counter. ...

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丹泽尔2011宾夕法尼亚大学(16)

And I felt ultimately his heart becomes flooded with love And I can’t think of a better message. 最终他的内心会洋溢着爱今天把你们送出校园的日子 As we send you off today To not only take risks, but to be open to life. 我想没有比这更合适的信息了不仅要愿意冒险 还要对生活敞开胸怀 To accept new views and to be open to new opinions To be willing to speak at comm...

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拜登2013宾夕法尼亚大学(5)

When you see the headlines in the Wall Street Journal of November this past year about “widespread fiscal and economic uncertainty, “ 去年11月华尔街日报的头条也说 “遍布全国的财政和经济不确定性” I remember the headline in April of ’68, the same publication that said “US in worst fiscal crisis since 1931” 我记得68年4月这份报...

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科里布克2013年耶鲁大学(18)

Descend upon your being You will have days like this, I promise you. 悲伤会突然来袭你们肯定会有这样的日子 我向你们保证 I take no joy in telling you that there’ll be mornings you wake up and you’ll feel the weight of shame. 虽然我不想这么说 但这是必然的 某天早上你们会感受到羞愧的重量 Weighing you down in your bed that you don’t want to get up I ...

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丹泽尔2011宾夕法尼亚大学(5)

And I’m sure there’s some parents out there who can relate to what I’m talking about. 我相信 台下有一些家长他们能理解我的意思 Yeah. Hmm, everybody upstairs And there were other good reasons for me to show up. 没错 就是上排那些人我来这里的原因不止这个 Sure, I got an Academy Award but I never had something called Magic Meatball. 诚然 我获得过...

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科里布克2013年耶鲁大学(20)

We all will be busy but i’ve seen it in my work in Newark. 我们都会变得很忙但我在纽瓦克的工作中认识到 The true heroes are those people that do the small things Alice Walker’s book In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens. 真正的英雄是那些做着小事的人们爱丽丝.沃克的书《寻找母亲的花园》 To paraphrase her, she says it so eloquently that the real revoluti...

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丹泽尔2011宾夕法尼亚大学(13)

And the university very politely suggested it might be better to take some time off. 学校很体面地建议我考虑休学一段时间 I was 20 years old, I was at my lowest point And then one day, and I remember the exact day. 我当时20岁 我的人生到了最低谷有一天 我清楚记得那一天 March 27th, 1975, I was helping out in the beauty shop my mother owned a beauty shop in Mount Vern...

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