杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(7)

I said, a year? 我说 一年? I said, I'm a comedian, I cannot talk for a year? 我可是一个喜剧演员 你让我一年不说话? So don't get discouraged. Think of that 记住 别气馁 想想这个 If you were a doctor, that would be your residency 如果你是医生 你可以把这四年当成实习期 Number 3 第3条 You're an artist, suffer for your work, paint yourself into a corner 你是一位艺术家 ...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(1)

Jay Leno, welcome home 杰·雷诺 欢迎回家 By virtue of the power vested in me by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 我将行使马萨诸塞州 and the Board of Trustees of Emerson College 和爱默生学院校董会授予我的权力 I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters 授予你人文学荣誉博士学位 which you have so justly earned with all the rights, privileges and res...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(6)

I always had a place to go back and technically I wasn't a homeless comedian 我总都地方可以回 我并不是一个无家可归的喜剧演员 I was still a student trying to be a comedian 我仍是一个想当喜剧演员的学生 And Emerson College let me do that 爱默生学院给了我这个机会 and nobody's more stunned than I was when I graduated 我竟然能毕业 没人比我自己更吃惊了 You know, this is the...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(11)

Number 15, this one's really important 第15点 这一点很重要 Don't have a relationship with a partner who doesn't get it 不要同志不同道不合的人搭伙 Someone says, why do you have to go to so many auditions 有人问 你干嘛要去试演那么多次 Next, move on, that person is not for you 下一个 这个人不适合你 Okay, let me tell you something 让我给你们讲讲 until your creative t...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(4)

And Emerson gave me that opportunity 爱默生给了我这个机会 Plus I learned stuff, I learned real stuff 而且我学到了真正的东西 I remember taking a black history course 我记得上过一门黑人历史课 and reading James Baldwin and Dick Gregory 读詹姆斯·鲍德温和迪克·格雷戈里的作品 and for the first time in my life 我人生中第一次意识到 I realized all the things I didn't know 自己不知...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(3)

It was called Emerson 它叫爱默生 And I came here in May for a meeting 我五月来到这里 and it was told there was not much chance to get into the fall semester 学校告诉我 我没有秋季入学的机会 especially a migrate 特别是非本地人 Then I just pleaded with the administrator, I said, look 我请求管理者说 Look, this is my last chance 这是我最后的机会了 this is the only place where I c...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(2)

Smarten up, hey, smarten up, hey, smarten up 聪明些 嘿 聪明些 嘿 聪明些 That was the cure for dyslexia 失读症就是这样治的 In fact, one day 实际上 有一天 the guy in my high school called my mom and he said 我的高中老师把我妈妈找来说 have you ever thought of taking Jay out of school 你有没有想过把杰从学校领回去 You know, Mrs. Leno, education is not for everyone 雷诺夫人 教育并...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(7)

I said, a year? 我说 一年? I said, I'm a comedian, I cannot talk for a year? 我可是一个喜剧演员 你让我一年不说话? So don't get discouraged. Think of that 记住 别气馁 想想这个 If you were a doctor, that would be your residency 如果你是医生 你可以把这四年当成实习期 Number 3 第3条 You're an artist, suffer for your work, paint yourself into a corner 你是一位艺术家 ...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(10)

Now I know this might sound odd 这听起来可能有些奇怪 but it's really a genetic flaw that makes us go into show business 但让我们进入脱口秀行当的确实是一种遗传缺陷 I mean, what normal people want to stand on the stage, have vegetables thrown on them 哪会有正常人想要站在台上 等别人朝他脸上扔蔬菜 They don't 没人想这样 I read somewhere that most people's greatest fea...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(12)

I meet young comedians all the time, they just say 我总碰到有年轻喜剧演员跟我说 I just want to do colleges, I just play small clubs, I just play jazz menus 我只想对大学生表演 我只想在小俱乐部表演等等 You should always try to find the topless audience you can 你总应当竭尽所能找最顶级的观众 It's how you get better and what you do 这才能让你变得更好 You know when I was star...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(5)

So I go over there and this guy says 于是我去找到那个人 I said yeah, I want to be a comedian 我跟他说 我想当一名喜剧演员 I said, I've been trying to do it for about a year 我说我尝试一年了 He said, a year, you're supposed to be if you join the union in three months 他说 一年 入协会三个月就行了 I could find you right now, you could be a violation 我可以马上破格加你 I ...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(8)

Number 5 第5条 my favorite quote from the following poet named John Greenleaf Whittier 是诗人约翰·格林里夫·惠蒂埃的名言中我最喜欢的一句 and his quote is "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these " 所有描绘可悲的言辞中 最可悲的莫过于 '本来可以的'" it might've been," I love that quote, because 我很喜欢这句话 you know, there is no...

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杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(9)

You don't pollute anything, you don't make dangerous chemicals, you don't hurt the 你不会造成环境污染 不会生产危险化学品 environment, the worst thing you can do 你做得最糟糕也只不过是 is not raise the human spirit 不能提高人类精神文明 That's really the worst thing you can do 你没办法做更糟糕的事情 Number 8, do not judge your own success by the success of othe...

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