He said and these are his words he said我引用他的原话 他说For twenty years I was a slave on these streets我在这些街道上当了二十年奴隶It was a penitentiary offense to educate a Negro为黑人提供教育曾是应处监禁的罪行I have seen my fellow-servants whipped for trying to learn我亲眼见到过尝试学习的奴隶同胞受到鞭刑but today here I am而今天我站在这里speaking where a build

That&#39s all I can say这就是我想说的了It&#39s like you want to start something up in here, right你们很期待接下来的内容 对吧It&#39s like, now we got a commencement going on up in here这里 我们正在进行着毕业典礼That was beautiful, beautiful. Thank you so much这太美妙了 非常感谢大家I also want to recognize Senator Mary Landrieu, who is here我还想感谢

Because it is the day before Mother&#39s Day马上母亲节就要到了To all the mothers, Happy Mother&#39s Day我向所有母亲致以节日的问候Now, graduates, you all handled your business, right毕业生们 你们都做好了自己该做的事吧Just because you were graduating didn&#39t mean you, come on, now不能仅仅因为毕业就忽视了母亲节Okay, well, if you didn&#39t, you have my p

and you have become an indelible part of the history of this school并让自己也成为了学校历史中不可抹去的一部分a history that, as you all know, stretches back大家都知道 整个历史可以一直to well before the Civil War, back to 1826追溯到南北战争之前 追溯到1826年the year a child named Emperor Williams was born这一年 一个叫作皇帝?威廉姆斯的小孩出生了Now, Emperor was born

He said and these are his words he said我引用他的原话 他说For twenty years I was a slave on these streets我在这些街道上当了二十年奴隶It was a penitentiary offense to educate a Negro为黑人提供教育曾是应处监禁的罪行I have seen my fellow-servants whipped for trying to learn我亲眼见到过尝试学习的奴隶同胞受到鞭刑but today here I am而今天我站在这里speaking where a build

MRS. OBAMA: Oh, my goodness! Good morning!AUDIENCE: Good morning.MRS. OBAMA: I am so happy to be here with you all. I’m proud to be here in the Big Easy. Look at you all! (Applause.) You look good.STUDENT: You do too!MRS. OBAMA: Thank you. (Laughter.) I want to start by thanking Nicole for that very

So, graduates毕业生们I hope that you understand that this day is not just the culmination of your own dreams我希望你们理解 今天并不只是你们自己梦想的实现but the realization of the dreams of so many who came before you今天同时也是很多前人梦想的实现And you should be so proud, and so happy, and so excited about your futures你们应当对自己的未来感到自豪 高兴和激

First lady of the United States of America美利坚合众国第一夫人Mrs. Michelle Obama米歇尔.奥巴马夫人Oh, my goodness哦 我的天啊Good morning早上好I am so happy to be here with you all我很高兴同大家一起聚到这里I&#39m proud to be here in the Big Easy我很荣幸能来到大快活城新奥尔良Look at you all看看你们所有人You look good你们看起来很棒Thank you谢谢I want to start by thanking

When an arsonist set fire to the school&#39s library in 1877, they built a new one1877年学校图书馆被人纵火后 人们又新建了一座When those two original schools ran into financial troubles years later数年后 最初这两所学校碰到财政困难时they started making plans to build an even bigger and better university人们又开始计划建立一所更大更好的大学And in the 1930s

Life will continue to be a journey of discovery if you tend the fires of curiosity that burn brightly in all of us生命是一场持续发现的旅程只有好奇心的火焰 能够照亮我们未来的前路Such curiosity led Eric Kandel here at NYU, to his lifetime goal to discover the chemical and cellular basis of human memory正是这份好奇心让埃里克·坎德尔能够在纽约大学实现他的人生目标

You have demonstrated this through your work你的工作便是最好的例证and your focus on health, nutrition and the environment你关注健康 营养和环境You have mobilized the entire country and you&#39ve got us all moving你鼓励全国民众 让所有人运动起来eating fresh vegetables吃新鲜蔬菜and doing our part to conserve and protect the planet并尽自己所能节约资源 保护

And if you do all of this, then I am confident我坚信 只要能够做到所有这些that you will uphold that duty你们必将履行好职责and write your own chapter into the legacy of this great university并在这所伟大学校的历史上写下自己崭新的篇章And let me tell you something不得不说I cannot wait to see the world that your children will be born into我等不及想看你们的子女会生

It&#39s the same hunger that gave life to this university正是这份渴望让这所大学拥有了生命the same hunger that defined so many of our parents and grandparents正是这份渴望定义了我们的父辈和祖辈including my own包括我自己也是如此You see, my parents never went to college我父母从未上过大学but they were determined to see me and my brother and all the kids