当地时间5月31日，脱口秀女王奥普拉·温弗瑞（Oprah Winfrey） 在哈佛的毕业典礼上为毕业生们献上了一场精彩励志演讲。&quotThere is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.&quot&quotOh my goodness! I&#39m at Haaaaaarvard!&quot That&#39s how Oprah Winfrey began her speech at Harvard University graduation cer

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

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

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

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

It is always a pleasure to greeta sea of alumni on Commencement afternoon—even though my role is that of thewarm-up act for the feature to come. Today I am especially aware of the treatwe have in store as I look out on not a sea, but a veritable ocean ofanticipation.But it is my customary assignment

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

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

Now, don&#39t get me wrong: scientific skepticism is healthy别误解我的意思 科学怀疑主义是有好处的But there is a world of difference between scientific skepticism that seeks out more但是寻找更多证据的科学怀疑主义同意识形态上evidence and ideological stubbornness that shuts it out拒绝科学证据的顽固不化是有本质差别的Given the general attitude of many elected

Thank you all and good afternoon alumni, graduates, families, friends, honored guests. For seven years now, it has been my assignment and my privilege to deliver an annual report to our alumni, and to serve as the warm-up act for our distinguished speaker.Whether this is your first opportunity to be

Thank you, Katie – and thank you to President Faust, the Fellows of Harvard College, the Board of Overseers, and all the faculty, alumni, and students who have welcomed me back to campus.I’m excited to be here, not only to address the distinguished graduates and alumni at Harvard University’s 363rd

People always talk about diving into things you&#39re afraid of. That never worked for me.人们总是说要放手去做你害怕的事。这对我而言行不通。If I&#39m afraid I run away, and I would probably urge my child to do the same.如果我害怕了我会逃跑，我可能会敦促我的孩子也这样做。Fear protect us in many ways.害怕在各方面保护着我们。What has served me is diving into my ow

Hello, class of 2015. I am so honored to be here today. Dean Khurana, faculty, parents and most especially graduating students.2015届毕业生你们好。今天我很荣幸地站在这里。迪恩库拉纳，教职员工，家长们，尤其是你们毕业生们。Thank you so much for inviting me. The senior class committee.非常感谢你们邀请我。感谢大四学生会。It&#39s genuinely one of the most exciting t

A couple years ago I went to Tokyo with my husband and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant.几年前，我跟丈夫去东京玩，我在最美味的寿司店里吃饭。I don&#39t even eat fish. I&#39m vegan. So that tells you how good it was.我不吃鱼，我是素食主义者。所以你们该知道那有多好吃了。Even with just vegetables, this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about.即便

I started choosing only job that i&#39m passionate about and from which I knew I could bring meaningful experiences.于是我开始只挑那些我热爱的事情来做，只选那些我知道能汲取到有意义经验的工作。This thoroughly confused everyone around me: agents, producers and audiences alike.这让我身边的人感到很困惑：经纪人，制片人，还有观众也是如此。I made Cotaya&#39s Ghost, a forei

I went to a public high school on Long Island. Syosset high school. Ooh, Hello Syosset.我念的是长岛的公立高中。西奥赛特中学。哇哦，你们好，西奥赛特的校友们。The girls I went to school with had Prada bag and flat-ironed hair and they spoke with an accent, I who had moved here at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida orang

People always talk about diving into things you&#39re afraid of. That never worked for me.人们总是说要放手去做你害怕的事。这对我而言行不通。If I&#39m afraid I run away, and I would probably urge my child to do the same.如果我害怕了我会逃跑，我可能会敦促我的孩子也这样做。Fear protect us in many ways.害怕在各方面保护着我们。What has served me is diving into my ow

And so the very inexperienced that in college had made me feel insecure and make me wanna play by others&#39s rules.无经验让我在大学时缺乏自信，让我愿意遵循他人的规则。Now was making me actually take risks I didn&#39t even realize were risks.如今它让我敢于接受挑战，那些我根本没意识到的挑战。When Darren asked me if I could do ballet, I told him that

The other day I went to an amusement park with my soon to be four-year-old son and I watched him play arcade games.有一天我和我快四岁大的儿子去了游乐园，我看着他玩街机游戏。He was incredibly focused, throwing his ball at the target.他非常专注的把球往靶子上扔。Jewish mother that I am, I skipped twenty steps, and was already imagining him as a

My Harvard degree represents for me to curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendship I&#39ve sustained, the way professor Graham told me not to describe the way like hit a flower, but rather the shadow that the flower cast, the way professor Scarry talked about theater is a trans

In all seriousness, I believed everyone of them, their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn&#39t shake my self-doubt.认真来说，我相信他们每一个人，他们的态度和自信本身就足以证明他们的预言。而我却无法摆脱自我怀疑。I got in only because I&#39m famous. This is how others saw me and it was how I saw myself.我