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Unlike any other creature on this planet, human beings can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. 与这个星球上任何其他的动物不同，人类可以学习和理解未曾经历过的事情。他们可以换位思考，能够设身处地去体会他人的感受。 Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One mi...
President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates, 福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们： The first thing I would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve en...
Unlike any other creature on this planet, human beings can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. 与这个星球上任何其他的动物不同，人类可以学习和理解未曾经历过的事情。他们可以换位思考，能够设身处地去体会他人的感受。 Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One mi...
One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write storeies during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working in the research department at Amnesty International's ...
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I e...
What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. 像你们这么大时我最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。 At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing storeis, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of su...
That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing. 那是一个惊人的论断，在我们生活的每一天里被无数次证实。它在某种程度上说明了我们与外部世界有无法脱离的联系，只要我们活着，就会对其他人的生活有影响。...
You see? If all you remember in years to come is the "gay wizard" joke, I've still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals–the first step to self-improvement. 你们知道吗？如果在若干年后你们还仅仅记得“快乐的魔法师”这个笑话，那就证明我已经超越了男爵夫人玛丽·沃诺克。确定一个切实可行的目标——这是自我提升的第一步。 Actually, I have wracked my ...
Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality. 现在，我不打算站在这里...
I know the irony strikes like with the force of a cartoon anvil now, but… 我现在明白了反讽就像用卡通铁砧去打击你，但…… So they had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English literature. A compromise was reaced that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents' car rounded the corner at th...
I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children's godparents, the people to whom I've been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I've took their names for Death Eaters. A...
President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates: 尊敬的福斯特校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监督理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位自豪的家长，尤其是毕业生们： The first thing I would like to say is "thank you". Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the wee...
As long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since. The door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her. She had just given him the news that in retaliation for his own outs...
But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people's lives? 但是，哈佛大学的2008届毕业生们，你们多少人有可能去触及他人的生命？ Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, 你们的智慧，你们努力工作的能力，以及你们所受到的教育， give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. 给予你们独特的...