米歇尔2013东肯塔基大学16

So, you can either choose to use those opportunities 你可以选择使用这些机会 to continue fighting the fights that we've been locked in for decades 继续数十年来人类之间持续的冲突和斗争 or you can choose to reject those old divisions 你也可以选择摒弃这些旧的分化 and embrace folks with a different point of view 拥抱具有不同见解的人们 And if you do that, the latter 如果你按照...

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奥巴马2013莫尔豪斯学院8

That's a Morehouse man talking 这是一个莫尔豪斯人说的 Now, think about it 想想这个 For black men in the '40s and the '50s 对于四五十年代的黑人而言 The threat of violence, the constant humiliations, large and small 暴力的威胁 持续而来的大大小小的屈辱 The uncertainty that you could support a family 维持家庭生计的不确定性 The gnawing doubts born of the Jim crow cult...

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斯蒂芬科尔伯特2013弗吉尼亚大学(2)

I didn't make it to many classes this year 我今年根本就没上什么课 You guys must have really tanked your finals 你们期末考试肯定是故意输给我的 Thank you for that 谢谢你们的好意 I'd also like to thank President Teresa Sullivan 我还要感谢特蕾莎·沙利文校长 Thank you very much, President Sullivan 非常感谢 沙利文校长 You are way better than that last President Teresa Sulli...

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奥巴马2013莫尔豪斯学院6

It was that mission 这就是学校的使命 Not just to educate men, but to cultivate good men, strong men, upright men 它不仅是教授知识 还要培育善良 强大 正直的人 That brought community leaders together 要能将社区领袖聚集在一起 Just two years after the end of the civil war 在南北战争结束两年以后 They assembled a list of 37 men, free blacks and freed slaves 他们聚集了37名自由黑人和...

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米歇尔2013东肯塔基大学10

And I want to be clear 我要讲清楚 This isn't just some vague platitude about building character 这不仅仅是关于塑造性格的含糊其辞的陈词滥调 In recent years 近年来 we've actually been seeing a growing body of research that shows 越来越多的研究都向我们证明 that skills like resilience and conscientiousness 适应能力和责任心这样的技能 can be just as important to your succe...

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米歇尔2013东肯塔基大学8

So you should be incredibly proud 所以你们应该异常自豪 And I hope that you never lose sight of what brought you to this day 而且我希望永远不要忘记 是什么成就了这一天的你 those values that you came here with 也就是你们来到这里时所拥有的价值观 and those skills and talents you developed while you were here 还有你们在这里培养出的技巧和才能 Because when you pair those two things ...

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斯蒂芬科尔伯特2013弗吉尼亚大学(9)

After all, I don't know if you've seen it 我不知道你们见过这个没有 This week's Time Magazine called you 本周的时代杂志把你们称作 lazy entitled narcissists 懒惰的自恋狂 who are part of the Me Me Me Generation 你们是"我我我一代"的一部分 So self obsessed, tweeting your Vines 如此自我沉醉 用推特发送Vine hashtagging your Spotifys 为Spotify加标签 and Snapchat...

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米歇尔2013东肯塔基大学5

And I'm not just talking about your love lives, either 这里说的显然不只是爱情生活 I am talking about all those papers you poured your heart into 我讲的是你们倾注心血完成的那些论文 all those caffeine-fueled all-nighters 所有那些靠咖啡因支撑的不眠之夜 those moments of anxiety as you set out on your own 以及寻找能够交心的朋友 looking to find new friends you clicked with and...

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米歇尔2013东肯塔基大学4

And of course 当然 I want to join in recognizing all of these beautiful people in the stands today 我还要感谢今天来到看台的所有人 the family members who supported you all every step of the way 感谢一直支持你们的家庭成员 And since tomorrow is what? 明天是什么日子 Mother's Day! 母亲节 I'm sure everybody's on their jobs, right? 每个人应该都准备好了吧 Got flowers ord...

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斯蒂芬科尔伯特2013弗吉尼亚大学(10)

There is no secret society out there 外面没有秘密帮会 that will tap you on the shoulder one night and show you the way 能够某天晚上轻拍你的肩膀 给你指明方向 because the true secret is 因为真正的秘密在于 your life will not be defined by the society that we have left you 你的生命并不是由我们留给你们的社会所定义 to paraphrase Robert Bolt 转述罗伯特·鲍特的一句话 society has no m...

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米歇尔2013东肯塔基大学3

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm honored to introduce Michelle Obama 女士们 先生们 我很荣幸地介绍米歇尔·奥巴马 a first lady whose life in service as attorney, public service, educator 这位第一夫人是优秀的律师 公益服务者 教育者 wife and mother 妻子和母亲 have earned her the admiration and appreciation of a nation 在全国赢得了钦佩和感谢 a builder of community with a passion for m...

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奥巴马2013莫尔豪斯学院11

But I will say it betrays a poverty of ambition 我想说的是 如果你只考虑着买到什么商品 If all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do 而不考虑能够带来什么福祉 这就有悖于贫穷之志 So, yes, go get that law degree 没问题 拿你的法律学位 But if you do, ask yourself if the only option is to defend the rich and the powerful 但你要扪心自问 你是不是只...

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斯蒂芬科尔伯特2013弗吉尼亚大学(4)

Let's give it up a round of applause 让我们用热烈掌声感谢那些 for those paying out-of-state tuition, shall we? 支付高额州外学费的同学 好吗 Because without those people 因为 没有这些人 tomorrow instead of wearing gowns and mortarboards 今后你们将不再是穿着长袍和方帽毕业 you'd be graduating in ponchos made of hefty bags 而是穿着大麻袋制成的斗篷 with used pizza boxes on...

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阿丽安娜.哈芬顿2013史密斯学院(9)

"I don't care how well your business is doing You're not taking care of you "我不关心你的生意做得怎样""你肯定没照顾好自己" Your business might have a great bottom line, but you are your most important capital There are only so many withdrawals you can make from your health bank account "你的生意可能资本雄厚 但你才是自己最重要的资本"...

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米歇尔2013东肯塔基大学11

See here at Eastern, you have an extraordinary culture of service 这是在东部 你们有非比寻常的服务传统 Many of you spent your spring break volunteering in places 春假时 你们很多人都到新奥尔良 like New Orleans and Washington DC 华盛顿特区这些地方去当志愿者 You're journalism society 你们的新闻业界 donated all the money they'd raised for a trip to a regional conference ...

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阿丽安娜.哈芬顿2013史密斯学院(2)

I've learned about Smithies writing honors theses on subjects that I not only don't understand but I can't even pronounce 我发现 很多史密斯人的荣誉论文标题我不仅无法理解 甚至不会发音 Like Lisa Stephanie Cunden's thesis on entro- I wanted to do here a thesis pronounced in a Greek accent — 比如丽莎.斯蒂芬妮.康登的论文 …我将用希腊口音念出这个论文标题 On en...

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米歇尔2013东肯塔基大学14

And you have seen that your community has become even stronger 而且你们看到 自己的社区变得比以往更强 even more vibrant because of these men and women 更充满活力 这正是得益于这些人 because they are part of this community 因为他们是社区的一部分 So graduates, think about how this will apply to your own lives in the future 毕业生们 想想这会如何应用到你们未来的生活中 As you move ...

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推特CEO迪克2013密歇根大学(1)

I love you too You know I have to start with by tweeting this 我也爱你们 首先请让我就此发一条推文 so just give me one second I'm a professional so this will only take a second 一秒钟就够了 我非常专业 所以这只需要一秒钟 All right I want to start up by thanking President Coleman 好了 首先我想感谢科尔曼校长 all the graduates, friends, and family faculty, of course 所有毕业...

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阿丽安娜.哈芬顿2013史密斯学院(6)

To me, it's very much a third women's revolution call to arms She spoke of the need to dispel myths about ambition and success 在我看来 这就是第三次女性革命的革命宣言她讲到消除抱负和成功误区的必要性 Chief among them the myth that success and ambition look like a straight line 其中最重要的一个误区就是成功和抱负看起来像一条直线 Now I guess it's no big surprise that...

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阿丽安娜.哈芬顿2013史密斯学院(7)

A much simpler way is to sleep your way to the top Right now I imagine President Christ is thinking 更简单的方法是一路睡向成功现在 估计克里斯特校长正想着 She probably should have vetted this speech But no, I'm talking about sleep in the literal sense 应该事先审查这次演讲不过别想歪了 我这里的"睡"是字面意义的 Because right now the workplace is absolutely fueled b...

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