金墉美国东北大学(3)

Once when he was eating his contraband ramen 有一次 他正在无照小摊旁边吃面 next to the vendor, police started chasing the vendors and all the customers 警察来了 开始驱赶小摊贩和顾客 But my father told me 但我的父亲告诉我 that as he was running, he kept eating his noodles 他一边跑一边还在吃他的面 because he knew he wouldn't be able to afford any more 因为他知道自己买不起...

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A recent study by a group of psychologists in the journal Science 几位心理学家最近在《科学》杂志上发表了一篇研究论文 found that people are extremely poor at predicting their futures 他们发现人极其不擅长预测自己的未来 The study showed 他们的研究显示 that, for example, a typical 20-year-old woman's predictions 例如 一个典型的20岁女性 for life changes in the next decade of ...

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Baumeister and his colleagues 鲍迈斯特和他的同事们 have shown that taking certain actions to improve willpower 已经证明 采取某些行动来提高意志力 is the surest way to a more successful life 是实现更成功的人生的最可靠的途径 Moreover, they've shown that willpower is like a muscle 此外 他们也已证明 意志力就像肌肉 that can be built with practice 可以通过锻炼来强化 but also th...

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金墉美国东北大学(1)

Thank you, good morning 谢谢你们 早上好 Since I was a basketball player in high school 我原来在高中是篮球运动员 I've always wanted to perform at the Garden, and here I am 我总想在花园球场一展身手 今天我做到了 President Joseph E. Aoun 约瑟夫?E?奥恩校长 Distinguished faculty members and administrators 尊敬的各位教职员工和行政人员 Members of the Class of 2013 2013届的全体毕...

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He wanted me to have a skill 他希望我掌握一门本领 and he wanted me to butt my head up against the joy 他希望我能冲向自己的兴趣 but also the hard reality of finishing medical school 但也希望我能刻苦读完医学院 finishing residency 完成实习期 and caring for patients in life-or-death situations 照顾同生与死作斗争患者们 I'm so grateful to my father 我很感谢我的父亲 So far I...

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By graduating today, you've shown the entire world 通过今天的毕业 你们已经向全世界证明 that you have more than enough IQ points to achieve anything you want 你们有足够的智商去获得任何成就 Willpower, discipline and focus — 意志力 纪律和专注 the essential qualities for success that everyone needs — 每个人都需要的成功的必备素质 are in your hands to develop and b...

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They fell in love, married 他们坠入爱河 缔结良缘 my older brother was born in New York City 在纽约市生下我哥哥 and then returned to Korea 然后回到韩国 I was born in Seoul and when I was five 我出生在首尔 在我五岁时 my family moved back to the United States 我们举家搬回到美国 and we eventually settled in Muscatine, Iowa 我们最终定居在爱荷华州的马斯卡廷 My father opened his de...

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I played quarterback on the football team in high school– 我在高中橄榄球队打四分卫 but don't be too impressed 但别以为我们有多了不起 we had the longest losing streak in the nation by the time I graduated as a senior 在我毕业那年 我们是全国连败最长的队 Years and years without a victory 一年又一年 我们一次都没赢过 It was said that grandfathers of my teammates 有人说 ...

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Back in Iowa 早在爱荷华州时 my mother used to read to me the writings of Martin Luther King 我的母亲曾经读马丁?路德?金的著作给我听 In Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" 金牧师在"寄自伯明翰监狱的信"中 he writes about the need to understand the urgency of the present 写了他对现实紧迫性的理解的需要 He writes about an experience with a white moder...

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金墉美国东北大学(10)

For myself, with all the willpower I can muster 就我自己而言 我集中全部的意志力 I try to bring the sense of urgency in Dr. King's words to my work today 试图将金博士所说的紧迫感带入我今天的工作 I do this with an understanding that I still have no idea of what the future may bring 我这样做是因为我了解我仍不知道未来可能会带来什么 After all, I had no idea that I would not o...

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The World Bank Group is an extraordinary organization 世界银行集团是一个非同寻常的机构 founded in the 1940's 成立于1940年代 to rebuild Europe after World War II 初衷是在二战之后重建欧洲 Over the 66 years of its existence 在其存在的66年里 it has become the premier development institution in the world 它已成为世界上最大的发展机构 Just two weeks ago 就在两周前 The World Ban...

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