Requiring scholars and commencement speakers, for that matter因此 要求学者和毕业典礼发言者to conform to certain political standards遵循特定政治标准undermines the whole purpose of a university会侵蚀整个大学的存在意义This spring今年春it has been disturbing to see a number of college commencement speakers withdraw很让人不安的是 很多大学毕业典礼演讲者都被撤销了o

And it is that union of values that the正是这两大价值的结合terrorists who attacked us on September 11th, 2001让2001年9月11日及2013年4月15日and on April 15th, 2013 found most threatening袭击我们的恐怖分子感到恐惧To them, we were a God-less country在他们看来 我们是一个不信神的国家But in fact, there is no country但事实上 没有任何国家that protects the core of

I&#39m sure all of today&#39s graduates have read我敢肯定 今天毕业的学生肯定都读过John Stuart Mill&#39s On Liberty约翰.斯图尔特.密尔的《论自由》But just let me read a short passage from it请允许我将其中的一小段读给大家听&quotThe peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is&quot强迫别人不能发表意见的邪恶&quotthat it is robbing the human race&qu

In the 2012 presidential race, according to Federal Election Commission data 96 percent of all campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty and employees2年总统选举中 根据联邦选举委员会数据 常春藤盟校教职员工有96%的捐赠went to Barack Obama都给了巴拉克·奥巴马Ninety-six percent There was more disagreement among the old Soviet Politburo96

This painting is big for a reason这幅画有一个很了不起的地方It&#39s called &quotHigh Visibility&quot它叫&quot高可见性&quotIt&#39s about picking up the light and daring to be seen它的主题是接收光芒 勇于被看到I worked on this for so long, for weeks and weeks我在这上面花了很多精力 整周整周都用在上面like a mad man alone on a scaffolding像一个疯子单独站在脚手架上and whe

There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going从你们所坐的地方到你们要去的地方 是没有直路的Don&#39t try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong不要尝试画这样的直线 这不仅会出错You&#39ll miss big opportunities and I mean big, like the Internet还会错失大机遇 我说的是大机遇 例如像互联网这样Careers are not ladders. Those days are

but it&#39s the only way we can improve但我们只能在批评中进步A few years ago, Mark Zuckerberg decided he wanted to learn Chinese几年前 马克·扎克伯格决定要学中文and in order to practice为了练习he started trying to have work meetings with some of他开始尝试在一些工作会议中our Facebook colleagues who are native speakers同中文母语的Facebook同事交流Now you

公众人物毕业英语演讲第3期:雪莉桑德伯格哈佛大学2014毕业典礼演讲when a staff member informed me very firmly结果一位员工很肯定地告诉我that the ladies' room was over there女卫生间在那里and I should be sure not to go up stairs我务必不要上楼去because women are never allowed in this building因为女性不允许进入这座建筑I didn't realize I was in an all-male club until that minu

I am elated and truly, truly, truly excited to be我很高兴 也非常非常非常激动present and fully connected to you at this important moment in your journey能够到场 出席大家人生旅程中的这一重要时刻I want to thank the Trustees, Administrators and Faculty of MUM我要感谢玛赫西管理大学校董会 管理者和教职员工for creating an institution worthy of Maharishi&#39s id

Thank you, Katie感谢凯蒂and thank you to President Faust, the Fellows of Harvard College, the Board of Overseers感谢佛斯特校长 哈佛大学部成员 监事会and all the faculty, alumni, and students who have welcomed me back to campus还有迎接我回校园的所有教职员工 校友和学生I&#39m excited to be here能来到这里我很激动not only to address the distinguished gra

He was attempting to repress and criminalize他试图压制和定罪those who sympathized with an economic system that was, even then, failing那些赞同哪怕在当时都已经很失败的经济体制的人McCarthy&#39s Red Scare destroyed thousands of lives麦卡锡的红色恐惧让数以千计的人失去了生命but what was he so afraid of?他害怕的是什么呢An idea in this case, communism是一种思想 也就是共产主

公众人物毕业英语演讲第3期:雪莉桑德伯格哈佛大学2014毕业典礼演讲But in order to get there但要实现目标Hillary Clinton is gonna have to overcome 2 very real obstacles希拉里·克林顿需要克服两大重要障碍unknown and often ununderstood gender bias一是未知 通常也未被理解的性别偏见and even worse, a degree from Yale二是更糟的 从耶鲁获得的文凭You can challenge stereotypes that's subtle and

Joined together两者结合在一起they form a sacred trust that holds the basis of our democratic society构成了维持民主社会根基的神圣信赖But let me tell you that trust is perpetually vulnerable但我要告诉大家 这种信赖是很脆弱的to the tyrannical tendencies of monarchs, mobs, and majorities特别是在君主 暴民 多数的专横倾向下And lately, we have seen those tendenc

And if it doesn&#39t happen for you right away如果它没有立刻实现it&#39s only because the universe is so busy fulfilling my order那可能是因为宇宙太忙于满足我的愿望My father could have been a great comedian我父亲本来有能力当一个伟大的喜剧演员but he didn&#39t believe that was possible for him但他认为实现这个的可能性太渺茫and so he made a conservative choice他于是

My personal connection to Harvard began back in 1964我个人同哈佛的联系始于1964年when I graduated from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore我从约翰霍普金斯大学毕业and matriculated here at the B-School被录取到这里的商学院You&#39re probably asking yourself or maybe whispering to the person next to you你们或许在想 或是正在同旁边的人窃窃私语说How did he ever get into

Congratulations everyone, you made it祝贺所有人 你们做到了And I don&#39t mean to the end of college, I mean to class day我说的不是大学毕业 而是成功出席今天的毕业日活动because if memory serves如果我没记错some of your classmates had too many scorpion bowls at the Kong last night某些同学虽然昨晚在香港餐厅喝了太多蝎子碗调酒and are with us today但今天还是来了Given the we

When we want to learn more about the immune system当我们想更深入理解免疫系统to help cure the worst diseases,帮助治疗最严重的疾病时we work with Stanford.我们找到斯坦福一同合作When we want to understand the changing landscape of higher education in the United States,当我们想了解美国高等教育现状的改变趋势so that more low-income students get college degree

Let&#39s get serious让我们严肃一些When 86 Americans are killed with guns every single day每天都有86位美国人死于枪杀and shootings regularly occur at our schools and universities枪击事件也经常发生在校园中including last week&#39s tragedy at Santa Barbara包括上周发生在圣巴巴拉的悲剧it would be almost medical malpractice to say anything else但除此之外 再说

It&#39s been 40 years since then,从那时到现在 已经过了40年and 20 years since Melinda and I were married.我和梅琳达结婚也已经20年了We are both more optimistic now than ever.我们现在仍然坚持着这份乐观 甚至更甚于当年But on our journey, our optimism evolved.随着人生旅途的展开 这份乐观也随之深化We would like to tell you what we learned今天 我们愿与大家分享自己的经历and talk to y

As a former chairman of Johns Hopkins作为约翰霍普金斯大学前任主席I strongly believe that a university&#39s obligation我坚信一所大学的职责is not to teach students what to think but to teach students how to think并不是教学生思考什么 而是教学生如何思考And that requires listening to the other side这就需要倾听不同意见weighing arguments without prejudging t

So here is our appeal to you all.我们呼吁你们所有人As you leave Stanford,在离开斯坦福之后take all your genius and your optimism and your empathy,使用你们所有的天分 乐观和同情心and go change the world in ways that will make millions of people optimistic.以一种能让无数人感到乐观的方式去改变世界You don&#39t have to rush.你们不用立刻做到You have careers to launc

But the next day I went to Soweto,第二天 我去了索韦托the poor town just southwest of Johannesburg,约翰内斯堡西南面一个很贫穷的城镇that had been the center of the antiapartheid movement.曾经反种族隔离运动的中心It was a short distance from the city into the township,这座城镇离约翰内斯堡主城区并不远but the entry was sudden, jarring and harsh.但进入索韦托后 我立刻感

So let your heart break.让自己沉浸于心碎It will change what you do with your optimism.这会改变你们对乐观的理解On a trip to South Asia,有一次去南亚I met a desperately poor Indian woman who had two children我碰到了一位赤贫的印度女性 她有两个孩子and she begged me to take them home with me.她请求我把这两个孩子带回去领养And when I begged her for her forgiveness s

Let me take this second to introduce our commencement speaker请允许我介绍我们的毕业典礼演讲嘉宾It truly is a privilege to have Elon Musk join us today我们很荣幸地请到了伊隆马斯克It doesn&#39t need much of an introduction我应该不需要太多地介绍这位客人but let me tell you a little bit about them我只简单介绍一下He grew up in South Africa他在南非长大got his degre

So for example at Tesla我想说 在特斯拉we&#39ve never spent any money on advertising我们从来不花钱做广告We put all of the money into R&ampD and manufacturing and design我们把所有的钱都用于研发 制造和设计to try to make the car as good as possible尽力让汽车变得更好And I think that&#39s the way to go我认为 公司就该这样For any given company, just keep thi

My normal glasses really aren&#39t all that different.我平时用的眼镜其实也没有多大不同There are so many remarkable things going on here at this campus,这所学校里发生了很多了不起的事情but if Melinda and I had to put into one word what we love most about Stanford,如果要我和梅琳达用一个词来总结对斯坦福的热爱it&#39s the optimism.我们会说是&quot乐观&quotThere&#39s

Or the people who see a trend toward inequality and a decline in opportunity还是那些认为不平等会加重 机会会减少and don&#39t think innovation will change that?不认为创新能够改变这些趋势的人The pessimists are wrong, in my view.在我看来 悲观主义者是错误的But they are not crazy.但他们的想法并不疯狂If innovation is purely market driven,如果创新纯粹是市场驱使的and we don

Mr. president校长先生I have the high honor to present Mr. Sean Combs我很荣幸为你介绍肖恩·库姆斯先生to receive at your hand the honorary degree of doctor of humanities请你亲手将人文学荣誉博士学位授予他Sean Combs肖恩·库姆斯dynamic groundbreaking global entrepreneur活力四射的全球开拓性企业家creative, visionary, dedicated humanitarian and innovative philan

Only this family could take one of its sons who already had three name changes只有这个大家庭能够接受一个已经改过三次名字的儿子and give him a fourth, Dr. Combs并给他第四个名字 库姆斯博士I know the board of trustees are looking at me back there like我知道校董们肯定正坐在后面想this is not the regular type of commencement speech that we&#39re used to这可不

That ran counter to our core belief.这将同我们的核心信念背道而驰Technology should benefit everyone.技术应当让每个人受益So we worked to close the digital divide.于是我们开始行动 试图缩小这一数字鸿沟I made a priority at Microsoft,我原来在微软and Melinda and I made it an early priority at our Foundation.以及我和梅琳达在盖茨基金会早期都确立了Donating personal computers