Unlike any other creature on this planet, human beings can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. 与这个星球上任何其他的动物不同，人类可以学习和理解未曾经历过的事情
President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates, 福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们： The first thing I
Unlike any other creature on this planet, human beings can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. 与这个星球上任何其他的动物不同，人类可以学习和理解未曾经历过的事情
One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your rela
What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. 像你们这么大时我最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。 At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in t
That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people&#
You see? If all you remember in years to come is the "gay wizard" joke, I've still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals--the first step to self-improvement. 你们知道吗？如果
Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind o
I know the irony strikes like with the force of a cartoon anvil now, but... 我现在明白了反讽就像用卡通铁砧去打击你，但…… So they had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English literature. A com
I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children's
President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates: 尊敬的福斯特校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监督理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位自豪的家长，尤其是毕业生们： Th
As long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since. The door opened, and t
But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people's lives? 但是，哈佛大学的2008届毕业生们，你们多少人有可能去触及他人的生命？ Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have e
