harvard commencement address
E.E.CUMMING的介绍
e.e. cummings (1894 - 1962)Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to liberal, indulgent parents who from early on encouraged him to develop his creative gifts. While at Harvard, where his father had taught before becoming a Unitarian minister, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a French detention camp. The Enormous Room (1922), his witty and absorbing account of the experience, was also the first of his literary attacks on authoritarianism. Eimi (1933), a later travel journal, focused with much less successful results on the collectivized Soviet Union.At the end of the First World War Cummings went to Paris to study art. On his return to New York in 1924 he found himself a celebrity, both for The Enormous Room and for Tulips and Chimneys (1923), his first collection of poetry (for which his old classmate John Dos Passos had finally found a publisher). Clearly influenced by Gertrude Stein's syntactical and Amy Lowell's imagistic experiments, Cummings's early poems had nevertheless discovered an original way of describing the chaotic immediacy of sensuous experience. The games they play with language (adverbs functioning as nouns, for instance) and lyric form combine with their deliberately simplistic view of the world (the individual and spontaneity versus collectivism and rational thought) to give them the gleeful and precocious tone which became, a hallmark of his work. Love poems, satirical squibs, and descriptive nature poems would always be his favoured forms.A roving assignment from Vanity Fair in 1926 allowed Cummings to travel again and to establish his lifelong routine: painting in the afternoons and writing at night. In 1931 he published a collection of drawings and paintings, CIOPW (its title an acronym for the materials used: charcoal, ink, oil, pencil, watercolour), and over the next three decades had many individual shows in New York. He enjoyed a long and happy third marriage to the photographer Marion Morehouse, with whom he collaborated on Adventures in Value (1962), and in later life divided his time between their apartment in New York and his family's farm in New Hampshire. His many later books of poetry, from VV (1931) and No Thanks (1935) to Xaipe (1950) and 95 Poems (1958), took his formal experiments and his war on the scientific attitude to new extremes, but showed little substantial development.Cummings's critical reputation has never matched his popularity. The left-wing critics of the 1930s were only the first to dismiss his work as sentimental and politically naïve. His supporters, however, find value not only in its verbal and visual inventiveness but also in its mystical and anarchistic beliefs. The two-volume Complete Poems, ed. George James Firmage (New York and London, 1981) is the standard edition of his poetry, and Dreams in a Mirror, by Richard S. Kennedy (New York, 1980) the standard biography. e. e. cummings: The Art of His Poetry, by Norman Friedman (Baltimore and London, 1960) is still among the best critical studies of his poetic techniques.Edward Estlin Cummings (1894～1962)美国诗人。
JK罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲中英双语节选版
T h e F r i n g e B e n e f i t s o f F a i l u r e,a n d t h e I m p o r t a n c e o f I m a g i n a t i o n H a r v a r d U n i v e r s i t y C o m m e n c e m e n t A d d r e s s J.K.R o w l i n g T e r c e n t e n a r y T h e a t r e,J u n e5,2008 失败的好处和想象力的重要性哈佛大学毕业典礼J.K.罗琳2008年6月5日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 would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindors' reunion.首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
朱棣文2009年哈佛大学演讲
朱棣文2009年哈佛大学演讲：未来并非在劫难逃 (中英文对照)【正文】Madam President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, faculty, family, friends, and, most importantly, today's graduates,Thank you for letting me share this wonderful day with you.I am not sure I can live up to the high standards of Harvard Commencement speakers. Last year, J.K. Rowling, the billionaire novelist, who started as a classics student, graced this podium. The year before, Bill Gates, the mega-billionaire philanthropist and computer nerd stood here. Today, sadly, you have me. I am not a billionaire, but at least I am a nerd.I am grateful to receive an honorary degree from Harvard, an honor that means more to me than you might care to imagine. You see, I was the academic black sheep of my family. My older brother has an M.D./Ph.D. from MIT and Harvard while my younger brother has a law degree from Harvard. When I was awarded a Nobel Prize, I thought my mother would be pleased. Not so. When I called her on the morning of the announcement, she replied, "That's nice, but when are you going to visit me next." Now, as the last brother with a degree from Harvard, maybe, at last, she will be satisfied.Another difficulty with giving a Harvard commencement address is that some of you may disapprove of the fact that I have borrowed material from previous speeches. I ask that you forgive me for two reasons.First, in order to have impact, it is important to deliver the same message more than once. In science, it is important to be the first person to make a discovery, but it is even more important to be the last person to make that discovery.Second, authors who borrow from others are following in the footsteps of the best. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who graduated from Harvard at the age of 18, noted "All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." Picasso declared "Good artists borrow. Great artists steal." Why should commencement speakers be held to a higher standard?I also want to point out the irony of speaking to graduates of an institution that would have rejected me, had I the chutzpah to apply. I am married to "Dean Jean," the former dean of admissions at Stanford. She assures me that she would have rejected me, if given the chance. When I showed her a draft of this speech, she objected strongly to my use of the word "rejected." She never rejected applicants; her letters stated that "we are unable to offer youadmission." I have difficulty understanding the difference. After all, deans of admissions of highly selective schools are in reality, "deans of rejection." Clearly, I have a lot to learn about marketing.My address will follow the classical sonata form of commencement addresses. The first movement, just presented, were light-hearted remarks. This next movement consists of unsolicited advice, which is rarely valued, seldom remembered, never followed. As Oscar Wilde said, "The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." So, here comes the advice. First, every time you celebrate an achievement, be thankful to those who made it possible. Thank your parents and friends who supported you, thank your professors who were inspirational, and especially thank the other professors whose less-than-brilliant lectures forced you to teach yourself. Going forward, the ability to teach yourself is the hallmark of a great liberal arts education and will be the key to your success. To your fellow students who have added immeasurably to your education during those late night discussions, hug them. Also, of course, thank Harvard. Should you forget, there's an alumni association to remind you. Second, in your future life, cultivate a generous spirit. In all negotiations, don't bargain for the last, little advantage. Leave the change on the table. In your collaborations, always remember that "credit" is not a conserved quantity. In a successful collaboration, everybody gets 90 percent of the credit.Jimmy Stewart, as Elwood P. Dowd in the movie "Harvey" got it exactly right. He said: "Years ago my mother used to say to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be ... she always used to call me Elwood ... in this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.'" Well, for years I was smart. (I)recommend pleasant. You may quote me on that.My third piece of advice is as follows: As you begin this new stage of your lives, follow your passion. If you don't have a passion, don't be satisfied until you find one. Life is too short to go through it without caring deeply about something. When I was your age, I was incredibly single-minded in my goal to be a physicist. After college, I spent eight years as a graduate student and postdoc at Berkeley, and then nine years at Bell Labs. During that my time, my central focus and professional joy was physics.Here is my final piece of advice. Pursuing a personal passion is important, but it should not be your only goal. When you are old and gray, and look back on your life, you will want to be proud of what you have done. The source of that pride won't be the things you have acquired or the recognition you have received. It will be the lives you have touched and the difference you have made.After nine years at Bell labs, I decided to leave that warm, cozy ivory tower for what I considered to be the "real world," a university. Bell Labs, to quote what was said about Mary Poppins, was "practically perfect in every way," but I wanted to leave behind something more than scientific articles. I wanted to teach and give birth to my own set of scientific children.Ted Geballe, a friend and distinguished colleague of mine at Stanford, who also went from Berkeley to Bell Labs to Stanford years earlier, described our motives best:"The best part of working at a university is the students. They come in fresh, enthusiastic, open to ideas, unscarred by the battles of life. They don't realize it, but they're the recipients of the best our society can offer. If a mind is ever free to be creative, that's the time. They come in believing textbooks are authoritative, but eventually they figure out that textbooks and professors don't know everything, and then they start to think on their own. Then, I begin learning from them."My students, post doctoral fellows, and the young researchers who worked with me at Bell Labs, Stanford, and Berkeley have been extraordinary. Over 30 former group members are now professors, many at the best research institutions in the world, including Harvard. I have learned much from them. Even now, in rare moments on weekends, the remaining members of my biophysics group meet with me in the ether world of cyberspace.I began teaching with the idea of giving back; I received more than I gave. This brings me to the final movement of this speech. It begins with a story about an extraordinary scientific discovery and a new dilemma that it poses. It's a call to arms and about making a difference.In the last several decades, our climate has been changing. Climate change is not new: the Earth went through six ice ages in the past 600,000 years. However, recent measurements show that the climate has begun to change rapidly. The size of the North Polar Ice Cap in the month of September is only half the size it was a mere 50 years ago. The sea level which been rising since direct measurements began in 1870 at a rate that is now five times faster than it was at the beginning of recorded measurements. Here's the remarkable scientific discovery. For the first time in human history, science is now making predictions of how our actions will affect the world 50 and 100 years from now. These changes are due to an increase in carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The Earth has warmed up by roughly 0.8 degrees Celsius since the beginning of the Revolution. There is already approximately a 1 degree rise built into the system, even if we stop all greenhouse gas emissions today. Why? It will takedecades to warm up the deep oceans before the temperature reaches a new equilibrium.If the world continues on a business-as-usual path, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that there is a fifty-fifty chance the temperature will exceed 5 degrees by the end of this century. This increase may not sound like much, but let me remind you that during the last ice age, the world was only 6 degrees colder. During this time, most of Canada and the United States down to Ohio and Pennsylvania were covered year round by a glacier. A world 5 degrees warmer will be very different. The change will be so rapid that many species, including Humans, will have a hard time adapting. I've been told for example, that, in a much warmer world, insects were bigger. I wonder if this thing buzzing around is a precursor.We also face the specter of nonlinear "tipping points" that may cause much more severe changes. An example of a tipping point is the thawing of the permafrost. The permafrost contains immense amounts of frozen organic matter that have been accumulating for millennia. If the soil melts, microbes will spring to life and cause this debris to rot. The difference in biological activity below freezing and above freezing is something we are all familiar with. Frozen food remains edible for a very long time in the freezer, but once thawed, it spoils quickly. How much methane and carbon dioxide might be released from the rotting permafrost? If even a fraction of the carbon is released, it could be greater than all the greenhouse gases we have released to since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Once started, a runaway effect could occur.The climate problem is the unintended consequence of our success. We depend on fossil energy to keep our homes warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and lit at night; we use it to travel across town and across continents. Energy is a fundamental reason for the prosperity we enjoy, and we will not surrender this prosperity. The United States has 3 percent of the world population, and yet, we consume 25 percent of the energy. By contrast, there are 1.6 billion people who don't have access to electricity. Hundreds of millions of people still cook with twigs or dung. The life we enjoy may not be within the reach of the developing world, but it is within sight, and they want what we have.Here is the dilemma. How much are we willing to invest, as a world society, to mitigate the consequences of climate change that will not be realized for at least 100 years? Deeply rooted in all cultures, is the notion of generational responsibility. Parents work hard so that their children will have a better life. Climate change will affect the entire world, but our natural focus is on the welfare of our immediate families. Can we, as a world society, meet ourresponsibility to future generations?While I am worried, I am hopeful we will solve this problem. I became the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in part because I wanted to enlist some of the best scientific minds to help battle against climate change. I was there only four and a half years, the shortest serving director in the 78-year history of the Lab, but when I left, a number of very exciting energy institutes at the Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley had been established.I am extremely privileged to be part of the Obama administration. If there ever was a time to help steer America and the world towards a path of sustainable energy, now is the time. The message the President is delivering is not one of doom and gloom, but of optimism and opportunity. I share this optimism. The task ahead is daunting, but we can and will succeed.We know some of the answers already. There are immediate and significant savings in energy efficiency and conservation. Energy efficiency is not just low-hanging fruit; it is fruit lying on the ground. For example, we have the potential to make buildings 80 percent more efficient with investments that will pay for themselves in less than 15 years. Buildings consume 40 percent of the energy we use, and a transition to energy efficient buildings will cut our carbon emissions by one-third.We are revving up the remarkable American innovation machine that will be the basis of a new American prosperity. We will invent much improved methods to harness the sun, the wind, nuclear power, and capture and sequester the carbon dioxide emitted from our power plants. Advanced bio-fuels and the electrification of personal vehicles make us less dependent on foreign oil.In the coming decades, we will almost certainly face higher oil prices and be in a carbon-constrained economy. We have the opportunity to lead in development of a new, industrial revolution. The great hockey player, Wayne Gretzky, when asked, how he positions himself on the ice, he replied," I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it's been." America should do the same.The Obama administration is laying a new foundation for a prosperous and sustainable energy future, but we don't have all of the answers. That's where you come in. In this address, I am asking you, the Harvard graduates, to join us. As our future intellectual leaders, take the time to learn more about what's at stake, and then act on that knowledge. As future scientists and engineers, I ask you to give us better technology solutions. As future economists and political scientists, I ask you to create better policy options. Asfuture business leaders, I ask that you make sustainability an integral part of your business.Finally, as humanists, I ask that you speak to our common humanity. One of the cruelest ironies about climate change is that the ones who will be hurt the most are the most innocent: the worlds poorest and those yet to be born.The coda to this last movement is borrowed from two humanists.The first quote is from Martin Luther King. He spoke on ending the war in Vietnam in 1967, but his message seems so fitting for today's climate crisis:"This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. This oft misunderstood, this oft misinterpreted concept, so readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force, has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man ... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late."The final message is from William Faulkner. On December 10th, 1950, his Nobel Prize banquet speech was about the role of humanists in a world facing potential nuclear holocaust."I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past."Graduates, you have an extraordinary role to play in our future. As you pursue your private passions, I hope you will also develop a passion and a voice to help the world in ways both large and small. Nothing will give you greater satisfaction.Please accept my warmest congratulations. May you prosper, may you help preserve and save our planet for your children, and all future children of the world.尊敬的Faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位朋友，以及最重要的各位毕业生同学，感谢你们，让我有机会同你们一起分享这个美妙的日子。
JK罗琳在哈佛的演讲--失败的附加值和想象力的重要性
失败的附加值和想象力的重要性——JK罗琳在哈佛的演讲福斯特校长，校理事会和校务监督委员会的成员们，各位老师，各位骄傲的父母们，还有最重要的，毕业生们：首先我要说谢谢，不只是因为哈佛给了我莫大的荣誉，也是因为这几个礼拜一直思考怎么做这个毕业演讲带来的焦虑和担忧让我成功地减了肥。
真是喜上加喜！现在我只需要做几个深呼吸，偷偷看着那面红色的旗子，然后骗自己说我正在一个受过世界最优秀的教育的哈利波特们的大会上。
做一个毕业演讲的责任很大。
但是当我回忆了一下我毕业的时候听到的毕业演讲以后，我改变了我的想法。
那天来做演讲的人是英国著名的哲学家baroness mary warnock 。
回忆她的演讲真的对我写这个稿子帮助很大，因为我发现我连一个字都不记得了。
这个发现让我大大地松了一口气，我不再担心有的人会因为我演讲而放弃他们很有前途的经济、法律或者是政治方面的工作，而为了放纵的快乐成为一名同性恋巫师。
你们看，就算你们以后回忆起我的演讲时只能记得这个“同性恋巫师”的笑话，我仍然会觉得自己比baroness mary warnock成功。
取得个人成功的第一步——给自己一个可以达到的目标。
实际上，为了想出合适的话题，我把自己弄得心力交瘁。
我问过我自己：“我希望我毕业的时候知道什么？”在这毕业之后的二十一年里，我又学到了那些宝贵的知识呢？我有两个答案。
在这个美好的日子里，在我们欢聚在一起庆祝你们取得的学术上的成就的时候，我决定要告诉你们失败的好处。
同时，因为你们已经站在了“现实”的门槛上，我打算赞美一下想象力的至关重要性。
这两个选择看起来奇怪而又相互矛盾，但请耐心地听我说完。
回头看刚毕业的21岁的我，让今天已经42岁的我感到一些不舒服。
21岁，我的生命到现在为止的前一半的时候，我努力地试图在自己的野心和家人的期望之间取得一个平衡。
我一直坚定地相信，我唯一想做的事情，就是写作。
但是我的父母，出生于贫寒家庭，从未上过大学，他们把我过于活跃的想象力看作一种只属于个人的怪癖，既不能用来偿还抵押贷款，又不能用来领福利救济。
朱棣文演讲：生命太短暂,不能空手过!
朱棣文演讲：生命太短暂，不能空手过！朱棣文是美国第12任能源部部长、1997年诺贝尔物理学奖获得者。
今天小编给大家分享一篇朱棣文在哈佛的毕业演讲，希望对大家有所帮助。
朱棣文演讲：生命太短暂，不能空手过!Madam President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, faculty, family, friends, and, most importantly, todays graduates：尊敬的Faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位朋友，以及最重要的各位毕业生同学：Thank you for letting me share this wonderful day with you.感谢你们，让我有机会同你们一起分享这个美妙的日子。
I am not sure I can live up to the high standards of Harvard Commencement speakers. Last year, J.K. Rowling, the billionairenovelist, who started as a classics student, graced this podium. The year before, Bill Gates, the mega-billionaire philanthropist and computer nerd stood here. Today, sadly, you have me. I am not wealthy, but at least I am a nerd.我不太肯定，自己够得上哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲人这样的殊荣。
去年登上这个讲台的是，英国亿万身家的小说家J.K. Rowling 女士，她最早是一个古典文学的学生。
XX奥普拉在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿
XX奥普拉在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿奥普拉哈佛大学XX毕业典礼演讲oprah winfrey harvard commencement speech奥普拉XX哈佛毕业励志演讲视频：失败只是一个新的开始(演讲稿)奥普拉.温弗瑞在哈佛大学XX届毕业典礼上的演讲，温弗瑞用了许多励志的话语鼓励这批XX年毕业的学生，她希望能带给大学生鼓舞，鼓舞所有曾感到卑微、弱势或生活一片狼藉的人。
人生唯一目标就是做真实的自己，失败只是一个新的开始。
编者按：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。
"there is no such thing as failure. failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."oprah winfrey, talk show host and media entrepreneur, addresses graduates at harvard's 362nd commencement on may 30, XX.oh my goodness! i'm at harvard! wow! to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephaniewilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr. henry lewis gates.all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of '88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.and to you, members of the harvard class of XX! hello!i thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of your next chapter. to say that i'm honored doesn't even begin to quantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate from harvard. not too many little girls from rural mississippi have made it all the way here to cambridge. and i can tell you that i consider today as i sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary for myself, i consider today a defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey. my one hope today is that i can be a source of some inspiration. i'm going to address my remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the quad.actually i was so honored i wanted to do somethingreally special for you. i wanted to be able to have you look under your seats and there would be free master and doctor degrees but i see you got that covered already. i will be honest with you. i felt a lot of pressure over the past few weeks to come up with something that i could share with you that you hadn't heard before because after all you all went to harvard, i did not. but then i realized that you don't have to necessarily go to harvard to have a driven obsessive type a personality. but it helps. and while i may not have graduated from here i admit that my personality is about as harvard as they come. you know my television career began unexpectedly. as you heard this morning i was in the miss fire prevention contest. that was when i was 16 years old in nashville, tennessee and you had the requirement of having to have red hair in order to win up until the year that i entered. so they were doing the question and answer period because i knew i wasn't going to win under the swimsuit competition. so during the question and answer period the question came "why, young lady, what would you like to be when you grow up?" and by the time they got to me all the good answers weregone. so i had seen barbara walters on the today show that morning so i answered "i would like to be a journalist. i would like to tell other people's stories in a way that makes a difference in their lives and the world." and as those words were coming out of my mouth i went whoa! this is pretty good! i would like to be a journalist. i want to make a difference. well i was on television by the time i was 19 years old. and in 1986 i launched my own television show with a relentless determination to succeed at first. i was nervous about the competition and then i became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as i knew. sound familiar to anybody here? eventually we did make it to the top and we stayed there for 25 years.the oprah winfrey show was number one in our time slot for 21 years and i have to tell you i became pretty comfortable with that level of success. but a few years ago i decided as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground. so i ended the show and launched own, the oprah winfrey network. the initials just worked out for me.so one year later after launching own nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop. not just a flop but a big bold flop they call it. i can still remember the day i opened up usa today and read the headline "oprah, not quite standing on her own."i mean really, usa today? now that's the nice newspaper! it really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life. i was stressed and i was frustrated and quite frankly i was actually i was embarrassed. it was right around that time that president faust called and asked me to speak here and i thought you want me to speak to harvard graduates? what could i possibly say to harvard graduates, some of the most successful graduates in the world in the very moment when i had stopped succeeding? so i got off the phone with president faust and i went to the shower. it was either that or a bag of oreos. so i chose the shower. and i was in the shower a long time and as i was in the shower the words of an old hymn came to me. you may not know it. it's "by and by, when the morning comes." and i started thinking about when the morning might come because at the time i thought i was stuckin a hole. and the words came to me "trouble don't last always" from that hymn, "this too shall pass." and i thought as i got out of the shower i am going to turn this thing around and i will be better for it. and when i do, i'm going to go to harvard and i'm going to speak the truth of it! so i'm here today to tell you i have turned that network around!and it was all because i wanted to do it by the time i got to speak to you all so thank you so much. you don't know what motivation you were for me, thank you. i'm even prouder to share a fundamental truth that you might not have learned even as graduates of harvard unless you studied the ancient greek hero with professor nagy. professor nagy as we were coming in this morning said "please ms. winfrey, walk decisively."i shall walk decisively. this is what i want to share. it doesn't matter how far you might rise. at some point you are bound to stumble because if you're constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. if you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the myth of icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. and when you do i want youto know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. now when you're down there in the hole, it looks like failure. so this past year i had to spoon feed those words to myself. and when you're down in the hole, when that moment comes, it's really okay to feel bad for a little while. give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost but then here's the key, learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are. and then figure out what is the next right move. and the key to life is to develop an internal moral emotional that can tell you which way to go. because now and forever more when you google yourself your search results will read "harvard, XX". and in a very competitive world that really is a calling card because i can tell you as one who employs a lot of people when i see "harvard" i sit up a little straighter and say "where is he or she? bring them in." it's an impressive calling card that can lead to even more impressive bullets in the years ahead: lawyer, senator, ,scientist, physicist, winners of nobel and pulitzer prizes or late night talk show host. but the challenge of life i have found is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be but it's a story about who you want to be. it's a resume that doesn't just tell a story about what you want to accomplish but why. a story that's not just a collection of titles and positions but a story that's really about your purpose. because when you inevitably stumble and find yourself stuck in a hole that is the story that will get you out. what is your true calling? what is your dharma? what is your purpose? for me that discovery came in 1994 when i interviewed a little girl who had decided to collect pocket change in order to help other people in need. she raised a thousand dollars all by herself and i thought well if that little 9 year old girl with a bucket and big heart could do that i wonder what i could do? so i asked for our viewers to take up their own change collection and in one month just from pennies and nickels and dimes we raised more than three million dollars that we used to send one student from every state in the united states to college. that wasthe beginning of the angel network.and so what i did was i simply asked our viewers "do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life. give me your time or your talent your money if you have it." and they did. extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can. and together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes rita and katrina. so the angel network i have been on the air for a long time, but it was the angel network that actually focused my internal it helped me to decide that i wasn't going to just be on tv every day but that the goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy all of it, whatever ventures i might pursue would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me. because what had become clear to me and i want you to know it isn't always clear in the beginning because as i said i had been on television since i was 19 years old. but around '94 i got really clear. so don't expect the clarity to come all at once to know your purpose right away, but whatbecame clear to me was that i was here on earth to use television and not be used by it; to use television to illuminate the transcendent power of our better angels. so this angel network, it didn't just change the lives of those who were helped, but the lives of those who also did the helping. it reminded us that no matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe it is both possible and more importantly it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort. i saw something on the bill moore show recently that so reminded me of this point. it was an interview with david and francine wheeler. they lost their 7 year old son, ben in the sandy hook tragedy. and even though gun safety legislation to strengthen background checks had just been voted down in congress at the time that they were doing this interview they talked about how they refused to be discouraged. francine said this, she said "our hearts are broken but our spirits are not. i'm going to tell them what it's like to find a conversation about change that is love, and i'm going to do that without fighting them." and then her husband david added this, "you simply cannot demonize or vilifysomeone who doesn't agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over. and we cannot do that any longer. the problem is too enormous. there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light." in our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested. and yet, i know you know the truth. we all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle. not my channel, by the way. we understand that the vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger background checks because they realize that we can uphold the second amendment and also reduce the violence that is robbing us of our children. they don't have to be incompatible.and we understand that most americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because it's possible to both enforce our laws and at the same time embrace the words on the statue of liberty that have welcomed generations of huddled masses to ourshores. we can do both.and we understand. i know you do because you went to harvard. there are people from both parties and no party believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education because here in the richest nation on earth we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity. so the question is what are we going to do about it? really what are you going to do about it? maybe you agree with these beliefs. maybe you don't. maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, class of XX, are passionate about. maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government. maybe you want to launch your own television show. or maybe you simply want to collect some change. your parents would appreciate that about now. the point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change. each of you has been blessed with this enormous opportunity of attending this prestigious school. you now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the lifeof our country. when you do that let me tell you what i know for sure. that's when your story gets really good. maya angelou always says "when you learn, teach. when you get, give. that my friends is what gives your story purpose and meaning." so you all have the power in your own way to develop your own angel network and in doing so your class will be armed with more tools of influence and empowerment than any other generation in history.i did it in an analog world. i was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20,000,000 viewers a day. now here in a world of twitter and facebook and youtube and tumbler, you can reach billions in just seconds. you're the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in XX. and when the pundits said they said they talked about you, they said you'd be too disappointed, you'd be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in XX election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers. that's who you are.this generation your generation i know has developed a finely honed radar for can you say "" atharvard? the spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that saturates so much of our national debate.i know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic- an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all empathy. i have to say that the single most important lesson i learned in 25 years talking every single day to people was that there is a common denominator in our human experience. most of us i tell you we don't want to be divided. what we want, the common denominator that i found in every single interview, is we want to be validated. we want to be understood. i have done over 35,000 interviews in my career and as soon as that camera shuts off everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way asks this question "was that okay?" i heard it from president bush, i heard it from president obama. i've heard it from heroes and from housewives. i've heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes. i even heard it from beyonce and all of her beyonceness. she finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says "was that okay?" friends and family, yours, enemies, strangers in every argument in every encounter, every exchangei will tell you they all want to know one thing: was that okay? did you hear me? do you see me? did what i say mean anything to you? and even though this is a college where facebook was born my hope is that you would try to go out and have more face-to-face conversations with people you may disagree with.that you'll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesn't cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody else's shoes and recognize all that we share as a people. this is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation. "there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light," says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary friday in december. so whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is i know this, there is a light inside each of you all of us that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it. and as a young girl from rural mississippi i learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be barbara walters. although when i firststarted because i had barbara in my head i would try to sit like barbara, talk like barbara, move like barbara and then one night i was on the news reading the news and i called canada can-a-da, and that was the end of me being barbara. i cracked myself up on tv. couldn't stop laughing and my real personality came through and i figured out oh gee, i can be a much better oprah than i could be a pretend barbara.i know that you all might have a little anxiety now and hesitation about leaving the comfort of college and putting those harvard credentials to the test. but no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. you want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. theologian howard thurman said it best. he said "don't ask yourself what the world needs. ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that because what the world needs is people who have comealive." the world needs-people like michael stolzenberg from fort lauderdale. when michael was just 8 years old michael nearly died from a bacterial infection that cost him both of his hands and both of his feet. and in an instant this vibrant little boy became a quadruple amputee and his life was changed forever. but in losing who he once was michael discovered who he wanted to be. he refused to sit in that wheelchair all day and feel sorry for himself so with prosthetics he learned to walk and run and play again. he joined his middle school lacrosse team and last month when he learned that so many victims of the boston marathon bombing would become new amputees michael decided to banish that darkness with light. michael and his brother harris created to raise 1,000,000 dollars for other amputees. by the time harris runs the XX boston marathon. more than 1,000 miles away from here these two young brothers are bringing people together to support this boston community the way their community came together to support michael. and when this 13 year old man was asked about his fellow amputees he said this "first they willbe sad. they're losing something they will never get back and that's scary. i was scared. but they'll be okay. they just don't know that yet." we might not always know it. we might not always see it, or hear it on the news or even feel it in our daily lives but i have faith that no matter what class of XX you will be okay and you will make sure our country is okay. i have faith because of that 9 year old girl who went out and collected the change. i have faith because of david and francine wheeler, i have faith because of michael and harris stolzenberg and i have faith because of you, the network of angeles sitting here today. one of them kadija williams who came to harvard four years ago. kadija had attended 12 schools in 12 years living out of garbage bags amongst pimps and prostitutes and drug dealers, homeless, going in to department stores, wal-mart in the morning to bathe herself so that she wouldn't smell in front of her classmates and today she graduates as a member of the harvard class of XX.from time to time you may stumble fall, you will for sure count in this no doubt, you will have questions and you will have doubts about your path but i know this,if you're willing to listen to be guided by that still small voice that is the within yourself, to find out what makes you come alive you will be more than okay. you will be happy, you will be successful, and you will make a difference in the world. congratulations class of XX, congratulations to your family and friends, good luck and thank you for listening. was that okay?相关推荐：珍藏记忆，给力未来—尚钢书记在毕业典礼上的讲话在高三毕业典礼上的致辞在国培通用技术毕业典礼上的发言在幼儿园大班毕业典礼上的园长致词警院老师毕业典礼上的发言在初三毕业典礼上的发言校长在中学XX届学生毕业典礼上的讲话学员代表在党校毕业典礼上的发言父亲在幼儿园毕业典礼上的发言在儿子幼儿园毕业典礼上的发言稿在毕业典礼上的发言比尔盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿毕业生毕业典礼上的讲话在党校毕业典礼上的发言：在党性锻炼中升华人生价值青春万岁_在毕业典礼上的致辞。
【9A文】新标准大学英语视听说教程1-课文翻译
Unit1collegelifeTeRtAASatisfRingCollegeERperience令人满意的大学体验莉亚·思宁斯基20RR年8月31日随着时间的推移，我对“你长大想要干什么？”这个老问题的答案变化很大。
四岁时候，像大多数充满希望的学龄前儿童，我很自信的回答，我想成为美国总统。
上小学时，我的目标稍微实际了一点—我想成为一名宇航员或者科学家。
但是，到了初中，警钟响起：我对自然科学没有天赋。
上高中时，我决定在英语方面找到适合自己的位置，我的职业规划是希望自己做自己最喜欢的一块—读和写。
作为一名主修英语辅修新闻的大四学生，我自豪地说我不得不放弃梦想，我长大想要做什么的梦想毫无疑问排在我毕业后能做什么之后。
每当我告诉人们我上大学所学的东西，我收到的是种种疑问，我听到的是各种“为什么”，领会的多，自然就更自信。
大学的三年时光让我明白所有关于大学的陈词滥调都是正确的。
大学是一生中学习最多的地方。
不仅仅在学习上，而且因为大学塑造了未来的我们。
上大学时候所做的选择极大地影响我们培养的兴趣和我们认可的价值观。
刚毕业我可能不能在出版社找到理想的工作，但是我不后悔，也从来没有后悔过我所选择的专业。
今年夏天，在朋友的毕业晚会上，我听着朋友们讨论以后无聊的工作和压抑的研究生生活。
这些都是我最聪明，最有天赋和最勤奋的朋友。
他们的简历令人印象深刻，写满了各个季度的实习，各个社团的职位以及极高的GPA。
他们中很多人都是英文专业。
但是我仍然怀有希望。
在大学，我亲身体验了我所珍视的东西。
体验了记者的生活，完成了采访，体验了截止日期内交稿，体验了看到所写的东西出版的满足感。
在文学课上，我拜读了作家的经典作品，他们的价值观有的我认同，有的我反对，但是他们都使我变得更加智慧，更加有修养，更加开明。
或许需要一段时间，我才能找到像我大学经历那样满意的职业，但是我相信我能找到。
我永远感激自己上大学学的是文科，我知道它将继续丰富我的生活。
0 美国能源部长朱棣文哈佛开学典礼演讲
I am not sure I can live up to the high standards of Harvard Commencement speakers. L ast year, J.K. Rowling, the billionaire novelist, who started as a classics student, graced th is podium. The year before, Bill Gates, the mega-billionaire philanthropist and computer nerd stood here. Today, sadly, you have me. I am not wealthy, but at least I am a nerd.I am grateful to receive an honorary degree from Harvard, an honor that means more to me than you might care to imagine. You see, I was the academic black sheep of my famil y. My older brother has an M.D./Ph.D. from MIT and Harvard while my younger brother h as a law degree from Harvard. When I was awarded a Nobel Prize, I thought my mother would be pleased. Not so. When I called her on the morning of the announcement, she r eplied, “That‟s nice, but when are you going to visit me next.”Now, as the last brother w ith a degree from Harvard, maybe, at last, she will be satisfied.Another difficulty with giving a Harvard commencement address is that some of you may disapprove of the fact that I have borrowed material from previous speeches. I ask that you forgive me for two reasons.First, in order to have impact, it is important to deliver the same message more than onc e. In science, it is important to be the first person to make a discovery, but it is even mor e important to be the last person to make that discovery.Second, authors who borrow from others are following in the footsteps of the best. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who graduated from Harvard at the age of 18, noted “All my best thou ghts were stolen by the ancients.”Picasso declared “Good artists borrow. Great artists st eal.”Why should commencement speakers be held to a higher standard?I also want to point out the irony of speaking to graduates of an institution that would ha ve rejected me, had I the chutzpah to apply. I am married to “Dean Jean,”the former de an of admissions at Stanford. She assures me that she would have rejected me, if given t he chance. When I showed her a draft of this speech, she objected strongly to my use of the word “rejected.”She never rejected applicants; her letters stated that “we are unabl e to offer you admission.”I have difficulty understanding the difference. After all, deans of admissions of highly selective schools are in reality, “deans of rejection.”Clearly, I hav e a lot to learn about marketing.My address will follow the classical sonata form of commencement addresses. The first m ovement, just presented, were light-hearted remarks. This next movement consists of un solicited advice, which is rarely valued, seldom remembered, never followed. As Oscar Wi lde said, “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”So, here comes the advice. First, every time you celebrate an achievement, be t hankful to those who made it possible. Thank your parents and friends who supported you, thank your professors who were inspirational, and especially thank the other professor s whose less-than-brilliant lectures forced you to teach yourself. Going forward, the abilit y to teach yourself is the hallmark of a great liberal arts education and will be the key to your success. To your fellow students who have added immeasurably to your education d uring those late night discussions, hug them. Also, of course, thank Harvard. Should you forget, there‟s an alumni association to remind you. Second, in your future life, cultivate a generous spirit. In all negotiations, don‟t bargain for the last, little advantage. Leave th e change on the table. In your collaborations, always remember that “credit”is not a con served quantity. In a successful collaboration, everybody gets 90 percent of the credit.Jimmy Stewart, as Elwood P. Dowd in the movie “Harvey”got it exactly right. He said: “Y ears ago my mother used to say to me, …In this world, Elwood, you must be …she alway s used to call me Elwood …in this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so plea sant.‟”Well, for years I was smart. ... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me on that.My third piece of advice is as follows: As you begin this new stage of your lives, follow yo ur passion. If you don‟t have a passion, don‟t be satisfied until you find one. Life is too s hort to go through it without caring deeply about something. When I was your age, I wa s incredibly single-minded in my goal to be a physicist. After college, I spent eight years as a graduate student and postdoc at Berkeley, and then nine years at Bell Labs. During t hat my time, my central focus and professional joy was physics.Here is my final piece of advice. Pursuing a personal passion is important, but it should n ot be your only goal. When you are old and gray, and look back on your life, you will wan t to be proud of what you have done. The source of that pride won‟t be the things you h ave acquired or the recognition you have received. It will be the lives you have touched a nd the difference you have made.After nine years at Bell labs, I decided to leave that warm, cozy ivory tower for what I co nsidered to be the “real world,”a university. Bell Labs, to quote what was said about Mar y Poppins, was “practically perfect in every way,”but I wanted to leave behind something more than scientific articles. I wanted to teach and give birth to my own set of scientific children.Ted Geballe, a friend and distinguished colleague of mine at Stanford, who also went fro m Berkeley to Bell Labs to Stanford years earlier, described our motives best:“The best part of working at a university is the students. They come in fresh, enthusiastic , open to ideas, unscarred by the battles of life. They don't realize it, but they're the recip ients of the best our society can offer. If a mind is ever free to be creative, that's the tim e. They come in believing textbooks are authoritative, but eventually they figure out that textbooks and professors don't know everything, and then they start to think on their o wn. Then, I begin learning from them.”My students, post doctoral fellows, and the young researchers who worked with me at Be ll Labs, Stanford, and Berkeley have been extraordinary. Over 30 former group members are now professors, many at the best research institutions in the world, including Harvar d. I have learned much from them. Even now, in rare moments on weekends, the remain ing members of my biophysics group meet with me in the ether world of cyberspace.I began teaching with the idea of giving back; I received more than I gave. This brings m e to the final movement of this speech. It begins with a story about an extraordinary scie ntific discovery and a new dilemma that it poses. It‟s a call to arms and about making a difference.In the last several decades, our climate has been changing. Climate change is not new: t he Earth went through six ice ages in the past 600,000 years. However, recent measure ments show that the climate has begun to change rapidly. The size of the North Polar Ice Cap in the month of September is only half the size it was a mere 50 years ago. The sea level which been rising since direct measurements began in 1870 at a rate that is now fi ve times faster than it was at the beginning of recorded measurements. Here‟s the remar kable scientific discovery. For the first time in human history, science is now making predi ctions of how our actions will affect the world 50 and 100 years from now. These change s are due to an increase in carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The Earth has warmed up by roughly 0.8 degrees Celsius since the beginning of the Revolution. There is already approximately a 1 degree rise built into the system, even if we stop all greenhouse gas emissions today. Why? It will take decad es to warm up the deep oceans before the temperature reaches a new equilibrium.If the world continues on a business-as-usual path, the Intergovernmental Panel on Clim ate Change predicts that there is a fifty-fifty chance the temperature will exceed 5 degre es by the end of this century. This increase may not sound like much, but let me remind you that during the last ice age, the world was only 6 degrees colder. During this time, m ost of Canada and the United States down to Ohio and Pennsylvania were covered year r ound by a glacier. A world 5 degrees warmer will be very different. The change will be so rapid that many species, including Humans, will have a hard time adapting. I‟ve been tol d for example, that, in a much warmer world, insects were bigger. I wonder if this thing buzzing around is a precursor.We also face the specter of nonlinear “tipping points”that may cause much more severe changes. An example of a tipping point is the thawing of the permafrost. The permafrost contains immense amounts of frozen organic matter that have been accumulating for mill ennia. If the soil melts, microbes will spring to life and cause this debris to rot. The differ ence in biological activity below freezing and above freezing is something we are all famil iar with. Frozen food remains edible for a very long time in the freezer, but once thawed, it spoils quickly. How much methane and carbon dioxide might be released from the rotti ng permafrost? If even a fraction of the carbon is released, it could be greater than all th e greenhouse gases we have released to since the beginning of the industrial revolution.Once started, a runaway effect could occur.The climate problem is the unintended consequence of our success. We depend on fossil energy to keep our homes warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and lit at night; we us e it to travel across town and across continents. Energy is a fundamental reason for the p rosperity we enjoy, and we will not surrender this prosperity. The United States has 3 per cent of the world population, and yet, we consume 25 percent of the energy. By contrast, there are 1.6 billion people who don‟t have access to electricity. Hundreds of millions of people still cook with twigs or dung. The life we enjoy may not be within the reach of the developing world, but it is within sight, and they want what we have.Here is the dilemma. How much are we willing to invest, as a world society, to mitigate t he consequences of climate change that will not be realized for at least 100 years? Deepl y rooted in all cultures, is the notion of generational responsibility. Parents work hard so t hat their children will have a better life. Climate change will affect the entire world, but o ur natural focus is on the welfare of our immediate families. Can we, as a world society, meet our responsibility to future generations?While I am worried, I am hopeful we will solve this problem. I became the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in part because I wanted to enlist some of the b est scientific minds to help battle against climate change. I was there only four and a hal f years, the shortest serving director in the 78-year history of the Lab, but when I left, a number of very exciting energy institutes at the Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley had been established.I am extremely privileged to be part of the Obama administration. If there ever was a ti me to help steer America and the world towards a path of sustainable energy, now is the time. The message the President is delivering is not one of doom and gloom, but of opti mism and opportunity. I share this optimism. The task ahead is daunting, but we can and will succeed.We know some of the answers already. There are immediate and significant savings in e nergy efficiency and conservation. Energy efficiency is not just low-hanging fruit; it is frui t lying on the ground. For example, we have the potential to make buildings 80 percent more efficient with investments that will pay for themselves in less than 15 years. Buildin gs consume 40 percent of the energy we use, and a transition to energy efficient buildin gs will cut our carbon emissions by one-third.We are revving up the remarkable American innovation machine that will be the basis of a new American prosperity. We will invent much improved methods to harness the sun, t he wind, nuclear power, and capture and sequester the carbon dioxide emitted from our power plants. Advanced bio-fuels and the electrification of personal vehicles make us less dependent on foreign oil.In the coming decades, we will almost certainly face higher oil prices and be in a carbon-constrained economy. We have the opportunity to lead in development of a new, industri al revolution. The great hockey player, Wayne Gretzky, when asked, how he positions him self on the ice, he replied,“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it‟s been.”America should do the same.The Obama administration is laying a new foundation for a prosperous and sustainable e nergy future, but we don‟t have all of the answers. That‟s where you come in. In this ad dress, I am asking you, the Harvard graduates, to join us. As our future intellectual leade rs, take the time to learn more about what‟s at stake, and then act on that knowledge. A s future scientists and engineers, I ask you to give us better technology solutions. As futu re economists and political scientists, I ask you to create better policy options. As future business leaders, I ask that you make sustainability an integral part of your business. Finally, as humanists, I ask that you speak to our common humanity. One of the cruelest ironies about climate change is that the ones who will be hurt the most are the most inn ocent: the worlds poorest and those yet to be born.The coda to this last movement is borrowed from two humanists.The first quote is from Martin Luther King. He spoke on ending the war in Vietnam in 196 7, but his message seems so fitting for today‟s climate crisis:“This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race , class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all m ankind. This oft misunderstood, this oft misinterpreted concept, so readily dismissed by t he Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force, has now become an absolute n ecessity for the survival of man …We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomo rrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conun drum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late.”The final message is from William Faulkner. On December 10th, 1950, his Nobel Prize ba nquet speech was about the role of humanists in a world facing potential nuclear holocau st.“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because h e alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit c apable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to wri te about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by remin ding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sac rifice whih have been the glory of his past.”Graduates, you have an extraordinary role to play in our future. As you pursue your priva te passions, I hope you will also develop a passion and a voice to help the world in ways both large and small. Nothing will give you greater satisfaction.Please accept my warmest congratulations. May you prosper, may you help preserve and save our planet for your children, and all future children of the world.。
英语短文-英语短文：你的大学是不是必需读
英语短文英语短文：你的大学是不是必需读英语短文：BENJAMIN GOERING does not look like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, talk like him or inspire the same controversy. But he does apparently think like him.Two years ago, Mr. Goering was a sophomore at the University of Kansas, studying computer science and philosophy and feeling frustrated in crowded lecture halls where the professors did not even know his name.“I wanted to make Web experiences,” said Mr. Goering, now 22, and create “tools that make the lives of others better.”本杰明·戈林(Benjamin Goering)的长相和说话方式都不像Facebook的创始人马克·扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)，也不像他那样备受争议。
但是他们的想法显然是相似的。
两年前，戈林先生在堪萨斯大学(University of Kansas)读大二，学习计算机科学和哲学。
在拥挤的大教室里，他感到郁闷，在那里，教授们甚至不知道他叫什么。
“我想要创造网络体验，”现年22岁的戈尔说，“创造出那种让其他人生活得更好的工具。
”So in the spring of 2010, Mr. Goering took the sameleap as Mr. Zuckerberg: he dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco to make his mark. He got a job as a software engineer at a social-software company, Livefyre, run by a college dropout, where the chief technology officer at the time and a lead engineer were also dropouts. None were sheepish about their lack of a diploma. Rather, they were proud of their real-life lessons on the job.“Education isn’t a four-year program,” Mr. Goering said. “It’s a mind-set.”所以，在2010年的春天，戈尔先生跨出了和扎克伯格相同的一步：为了做出成绩，他从大学退学，搬去了旧金山。
朱棣文在哈佛大学毕业典礼英语演讲稿
朱棣文在哈佛大学毕业典礼英语演讲稿Madam President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,faculty, family, friends, and, most importantly, today's graduates,尊敬的Faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位朋友，以及最重要的各位毕业生同学，Thank you for letting me share this wonderful day with you.感谢你们，让我有机会同你们一起分享这个美妙的日子。
I am not sure I can live up to the high standards of Harvard Commencement speakers. Lastyear, J.K. Rowling, the billionaire novelist, who started as a classics student, graced thispodium. The year before, Bill Gates, the mega-billionaire philanthropist and computer nerdstood here. Today, sadly, you have me. I am not wealthy, but at least I am a nerd.我不太肯定，自己够得上哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲人这样的殊荣。
去年登上这个讲台的是，英国亿万身家的小说家J.K. Rowling女士，她最早是一个古典文学的学生。
前年站在这里的是比尔盖茨先生，他是一个超级富翁、一个慈善家和电脑高手。
今年很遗憾，你们的演讲人是我，虽然我不是很有钱，但是至少我也算一个高手。
跟读100篇名人演讲
跟读100篇名人演讲跟读100篇名人演讲可以帮助提高口语表达能力和演讲技巧。
以下是一些著名的演讲，你可以选择其中的100篇进行跟读练习：1. Martin Luther King Jr. - "I Have a Dream"2. John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address3. Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address4. Winston Churchill - "We Shall Fight on the Beaches"5. Nelson Mandela - "I Am Prepared to Die"6. Barack Obama - Inaugural Address7. Malala Yousafzai - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech8. Steve Jobs - Stanford University Commencement Address9. Bill Gates - Harvard University Commencement Address10. Oprah Winfrey - Golden Globe Awards Acceptance Speech11. J.K. Rowling - Harvard University Commencement Address12. Ellen DeGeneres - Tulane University Commencement Address13. Michelle Obama - Democratic National Convention Speech14. Emma Watson - UN Women's HeForShe Campaign Speech15. George W. Bush - Address to the Nation on 9/1116. Ronald Reagan - "Tear Down This Wall"17. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation18. Hillary Clinton - Women's Rights are Human Rights19. Elon Musk - TED Talk on Tesla, SpaceX, and the Future of Humanity20. Mark Zuckerberg - Harvard University Commencement Address21. Steve Jobs - iPhone Introduction Keynote Address22. Mahatma Gandhi - Speech at Asian Relations Conference23. Sheryl Sandberg - TED Talk on Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders24. Michelle Obama - Time to Build a Nation of Fit Kids25. Martin Luther King Jr. - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech26. Desmond Tutu - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech27. Albert Einstein - Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Prize in Physics28. Greta Thunberg - United Nations Climate Action Summit Speech29. Serena Williams - TED Talk on Equality and Empowerment30. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Quit India Speech31. Emma Gonzalez - March for Our Lives Speech32. Malala Yousafzai - Address to the United Nations Youth Assembly33. Tim Cook - Stanford University Commencement Address34. Michelle Obama - Beating the Odds, Becoming a Success35. Barack Obama - Speech on the Death of Osama bin Laden36. John F. Kennedy - "We Choose to Go to the Moon"37. Shonda Rhimes - Dartmouth College Commencement Address38. Dalai Lama - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech39. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech40. Bill Gates - TED Talk on Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Education41. Winston Churchill - "Their Finest Hour"42. Kamala Harris - Democratic National Convention Speech43. Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Supreme Court Nomination Acceptance Speech44. Tim Cook - Acceptance Speech for the Anti-Defamation League Courage Against Hate Award45. Oprah Winfrey - Harvard University Commencement Address46. Richard Branson - TED Talk on Life at 30,000 Feet47. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - TED Talk on The Danger of a Single Story48. Angela Merkel - Address to the Bundestag on the Eurozone Debt Crisis49. Pope Francis - Address to the United Nations General Assembly50. Aung San Suu Kyi - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech51. Justin Trudeau - Address to the United Nations General Assembly52. Michelle Obama - Democratic National Convention Speech53. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Inaugural Address54. Indira Gandhi - Independence Day Speech55. Steve Jobs - Stanford University Commencement Address56. Kamala Harris - Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech57. Jeff Bezos - Princeton University Commencement Address58. Meghan Markle - United Nations Women's Conference Speech59. Sheryl Sandberg - Harvard Business School Class Day Speech60. Greta Thunberg - Climate Action Now Speech at the United Nations61. Ernesto Che Guevara - Address to the United Nations General Assembly62. Elon Musk - TED Talk on The Future We're Building -- and Boring63. Oprah Winfrey - Golden Globe Awards Acceptance Speech64. Kamala Harris - United States Senate Floor Speech on Immigration65. Malala Yousafzai - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech66. Aung San Suu Kyi - Address to the Nation on Democracy and Human Rights (1995)67. Dalai Lama - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech68. Desmond Tutu - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech69. Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Supreme Court Nomination Acceptance Speech70. Shonda Rhimes - Dartmouth College Commencement Address71. Martin Luther King Jr. - "I Have a Dream"72. Barack Obama - Inaugural Address73. John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address74. Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address75. Winston Churchill - "We Shall Fight on the Beaches"76. Nelson Mandela - "I Am Prepared to Die"77. Bill Gates - Harvard University Commencement Address78. Steve Jobs - Stanford University Commencement Address79. Emma Watson - UN Women's HeForShe Campaign Speech80. Elon Musk - TED Talk on Tesla, SpaceX, and the Future of Humanity81. Michelle Obama - Democratic National Convention Speech82. Barack Obama - Address to the Nation on 9/1183. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation84. Tim Cook - Stanford University Commencement Address85. Michelle Obama - Time to Build a Nation of Fit Kids86. Mahatma Gandhi - Speech at Asian Relations Conference87. Serena Williams - TED Talk on Equality and Empowerment88. Desmund Tutu - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech89. Sheryl Sandberg - TED Talk on Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders90. Kamala Harris - Democratic National Convention Speech91. Malala Yousafzai - Address to the United Nations Youth Assembly92. Dalai Lama - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech93. Michelle Obama - Beating the Odds, Becoming a Success94. Barack Obama - Speech on the Death of Osama bin Laden95. John F. Kennedy - "We Choose to Go to the Moon"96. Kamala Harris - Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech97. Greta Thunberg - Climate Action Now Speech at the United Nations98. Elon Musk - TED Talk on The Future We're Building -- and Boring99. Oprah Winfrey - Golden Globe Awards Acceptance Speech 100. Martin Luther King Jr. - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech这些演讲涵盖了不同领域的名人，包括政治家、科技企业家、人权倡导者、体育家和文化艺术家等。
实现梦想的英语演讲稿中的努力奋斗
实现梦想的英语演讲稿中的努力奋斗Effort and Struggle in English Speeches to Achieve DreamsIn our journey of pursuing our dreams, there is one constant companion that remains by our side, empowering us to overcome challenges and propel us towards success – effort and struggle. It is through dedication, determination, and hard work that we are able to transform our dreams into reality. This notion is often exemplified in the realm of English speeches, where individuals from all walks of life share their stories, emphasizing the significance of effort and struggle in achieving their dreams.Effort, in its essence, is the exertion of physical or mental strength to attain a desired result. It requires a persistent and unwavering commitment to our goals, even when faced with obstacles that threaten to derail our progress. English speeches that highlight the importance of effort emphasize the need to remain focused and determined, regardless of the hardships encountered along the way.One of the most renowned speeches focusing on effort is J.K. Rowling's Harvard commencement address, titled "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination." Rowling, the author of the immensely popular Harry Potter series, shares her personal journey of perseverance and how it shaped her success. She reminds the audience that it is often through failure and struggle that we discover our true potential. Rowling's speech resonates with individuals as it serves as a reminder that effort is not a guarantee of success, but an integral part of the journey towards achieving our dreams.Struggle, on the other hand, refers to the conflict and resistance that we encounter on our path towards realizing our dreams. It pushes us beyond our comfort zones, forcing us to confront our fears and limitations. Although struggle may appear as an adversary, it is often the catalyst for growth and self-improvement. Many English speeches emphasize the transformative power of struggle and how it shapes our character.An inspiring example of this notion is Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address, widely known as "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish." Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., shares his personal anecdotes of struggle, including his early failures and later successes. He encourages individuals to embrace the uncertainties of life and to view struggles as stepping stones to success. Through his speech, Jobs demonstrates the importance of perseverance and the immense personal growth that can be achieved through embracing challenges.Effort and struggle are not merely abstract concepts in the realm of English speeches, but rather powerful motivators that ignite the fire within us. These concepts manifest in various forms, such as overcoming adversity, defying expectations, or even challenging societal norms. The speeches that resonate with audiences the most are often those that encapsulate the struggles faced by individuals striving to achieve their dreams against all odds.One remarkable speech that exemplifies the triumph of effort and struggle is Malala Yousafzai's address to the United Nations Youth Assembly in 2013. Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate, shares her courageous journey ofadvocating for girls' education and surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban. Her speech illustrates the power of determination and resilience in the face of adversity. Yousafzai's story serves as an inspiration to millions, emphasizing the indomitable spirit that can emerge from the most challenging circumstances.In conclusion, effort and struggle are integral parts of the journey towards achieving our dreams, as exemplified by various English speeches. Effort pushes us to reach for our goals, maintaining our focus even in the face of failure. Struggle, on the other hand, shapes our character and propels us to our full potential. These speeches not only remind us of the importance of effort and struggle but also provide hope and inspiration for individuals determined to make their dreams a reality. It is through dedication, determination, and unwavering perseverance that we can transform our dreams into tangible achievements.。
演讲稿 朱棣文演讲：生命太短暂,不能空手过!
朱棣文演讲：生命太短暂，不能空手过！朱棣文是美国第12任能源部部长、xx年诺贝尔物理学奖获得者。
今天给大家分享一篇朱棣文在哈佛的毕业演讲，希望对大家有所帮助。
朱棣文演讲：生命太短暂，不能空手过!Madam President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, faculty, family, friends, and, most importantly, todays graduates：尊敬的Faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位朋友，以及最重要的各位毕业生同学：Thank you for letting me share this wonderful day with you.感谢你们，让我有机会同你们一起分享这个美妙的日子。
I am not sure I can live up to the high standards of Harvard Commencement speakers. Last year, J.K. Rowling, the billionaire novelist, who started as a classics student, graced this podium. The year before, Bill Gates, the mega-billionaire philanthropist and computer nerd stood here. Today, sadly, you have me. I am not wealthy, but at least I am a nerd.我不太肯定，自己够得上哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲人这样的殊荣。
去年登上这个讲台的是，英国亿万身家的小说家J.K. Rowling女士，她最早是一个古典文学的学生。
英语文章背诵精选40篇
英语文章背诵精选40篇以下是一些适合英语学习者背诵的精选文章，这些文章主题广泛，包括故事、诗歌、新闻、演讲等。
请注意，这里只提供了10篇精选文章，大家可以根据个人兴趣和需求选择适合自己的文章进行背诵。
1、The Love of a ParentThis is the love of a parent。
A love that's patient and kind。
A love that's never ending。
A love that's full of forgiveness。
A love that's true and pure.This is the love of a parent。
A love that's unconditional。
A love that's deep and broad。
A love that always protects。
A love that will never fade.This is the love of a parent。
A love that's full of joy and peace。
A love that will never be shattered。
A love that will always persevere。
A love that will never cease.2、The DaffodilIn early spring, when the sun shines bright。
A yellow daffodil greets the light.Its petals are like little cups of gold。
Fill them with sunshine and they smile and nod. The daffodil's leaves are like green fans。
2008年J.K.罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲(中英文)
J.K.罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼（2008年）上的演讲(双语）The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination Harvard University Commencement Address（失败的好处和想象力的重要性）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：首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
哈佛不仅给了我无上的荣誉，连日来为这个演讲经受的恐惧和紧张，更令我减肥成功。
这真是一个双赢的局面。
现在我要做的就是深呼吸几下，眯着眼睛看看前面的大红横幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的魔法学院聚会上。
发表毕业演说是一个巨大的责任，至少在我回忆自己当年的毕业典礼前是这么认为的。
那天做演讲的是英国著名的哲学家Baroness Mary Warnock，对她演讲的回忆，对我写今天的演讲稿，产生了极大的帮助，因为我不记得她说过的任何一句话了。
这个发现让我释然，让我不再担心我可能会无意中影响你放弃在商业，法律或政治上的大好前途，转而醉心于成为一个快乐的魔法师。
你们看，如果在若干年后你们还记得“快乐的魔法师”这个笑话，那就证明我已经超越了Baroness Mary Warnock。
建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。
Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today.I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation,and what important lessons I have learned in the 21years that has expired between that day and this.实际上，我为今天应该和大家谈些什么绞尽了脑汁。
娜塔莉·波特曼在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲
Hello ，class of 2015.I am so honest to be here today.Dean Khurana ，faculty ，parents ，and most especially graduating students.Thank you so much for inviting me.I have to admit that today ，even 12years after graduation.I ’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remind myself today you ’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard now so much affected as to make it almost impossible for her to appear tolerably cheerful.Their engagements at Rosings were as frequent during the last week of her stay as they had been at first.The very last evening was spent there ；and her Ladyship again enquired minutely into the particulars of their journey ，gave them directions as to the best method of packing ，and was so urgent on the necessity of placing gowns in the only right way ，that Maria thought herself obliged ，on her return ，to undo all the work of the morning ，and pack her trunk afresh.When they parted ，Lady Catherine ，with great condescension ，wished them a good journey ，and invited them to come to Hunsford again next year ；and Miss De Bourgh exerted herself so far as to curtsey and hold out her hand to both.激，连强颜欢笑也几乎办不到了，这是可想而知的。
2008哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿.doc
jk罗琳2008哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿篇一：2008年JK罗琳：哈佛毕业典礼演讲2008年JK罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文对照）默认分类2009-07-17 20:13阅读1281评论0字号：大中小“2008年6月5日是哈佛大学的毕业典礼，请来的演讲嘉宾是《哈利波特》的作者J.K.罗琳女士。
她的演讲题目是《失败的好处和想象的重要性》（The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination）。
我读了一遍讲稿，觉得很好，很感染人。
她几乎没有谈到哈里波特，而是说了年轻时的一些经历。
虽然J·K·罗琳现在很有钱，是英国仅次于女皇的最富有的女人，但是她曾经有一段非常艰辛的日子，30岁了，还差点流落街头。
她主要谈的是，自己从这段经历中学到的东西。
”以下是英文文稿和中文翻译：Text as delivered follows.Copyright of JK Rowling, June 2008President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation andthe Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.The first thing I would like to say is ?thank you.? Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at t he world?s largest Gryffindor reunion.Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can?t remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics for thegiddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.You see? If all you remember in years to come is the ?gay wizard? joke, I?ve come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnoc k. Achievable goals: the first step to self improvement. Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought tosay to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that have expired between tha t day and this.I have come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called ?real life?, I want to extol the crucial importance of im agination.These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what t hose closest to me expected of me.I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, orsecure a pension. I know that the irony strikes with t he force of a cartoon anvil, now.So they hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents? car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an exec utive bathroom.I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entailsfear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the me asure of success in my life and that of my peers.I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of uuffled privilege and contentment.However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from theaverage person?s idea of success, so highhave you already flown.Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears that my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and byevery usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew. 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 of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any lightat the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing theonly work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became t he solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.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 relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it ispainfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualificationI ever earned.So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone?s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. 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 myearliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International?s headquarters in London.There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I read the testimony of torture victims 篇二：罗琳2008年哈佛大学毕业演讲The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance ofImaginationHarvard University Commencement AddressJ.K. RowlingTercentenary Theatre, June 5, 2008失败的好处和想象力的重要性哈佛大学毕业典礼J.K. 罗琳2008年6月5日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 would like to say is thank you. Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinaryhonour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving thiscommencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do istake deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largestGryffindors reunion. 首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
Official Commencement Address Graduating Class of 2014 by Jim Carrey 中文翻译
Love or Fear——Jim Carrey在MUM2014毕业典礼上的致辞（JustinW译）今天，我带了一幅我自己的画来给你们看。
希望你们等一下会觉得它还不错。
这是我最大的一幅画。
你们可能会想往前坐一点——可以好好看清楚。
（自己笑笑）教员们，家长们，朋友们，贵宾们…2014届的毕业生们，还有所有从玉米地来的仙逝了的棒球手们。
（现场笑声）收割了之后，田里空空荡荡，他们无处可躲啊。
（现场笑声）我今天是想来在你们心里种颗种子，激励你们用更积极地心态去迎接今后的人生道路，更清晰去判断人生是否完美。
问题时，这颗种子是否有机会发芽，还是我会被Monsanto告上法庭，要求我用他们的种子呢？后者听起来真不是那么“阿育吠陀”。
（现场笑声）如果你们觉得我今晚，哦不，今天能量值有点低，非常抱歉。
我昨晚睡觉的时候头朝北了。
（现场笑声）哦，哥们！哦，哥们！你们肯定也经历过，对不？睡到皮塔（Pitta）的中间醒来，直到转回瓦塔（Vata）才又睡着。
但我没有害怕。
我用醒着的时间吃了顿大餐，还在Tinder上和某人聊了聊天。
（现场笑声）生活不因你而生，但生活可因你而变。
（Lifedoesn’t happen to y ou, it happens for you.）我怎么知道这点呢？我不知道，但我在发声，这是重要的事情。
这也是我此刻在做的事情。
有时候，我想发声是唯一重要的事情。
足以让我们知道彼此在身边，提醒彼此，我们都是更大的我们的一部分。
我以前觉得Jim carrey是：一闪而过的亮光翩翩起舞的影子假装成你们知道名字的无有住在女巫的——哦，不——希望的堡垒和城堡中！——对不起，一个弗洛伊德式的口误在山洞和狐狸洞中需找庇护，急切地向外挖着土在镜子中寻找目标的弓箭手等待地只能是被自己的利箭射伤乞求着被奴役渴求着被锁链迷失在对天堂的渴望和羁绊中到这里你们是不是应该说“阿门”啊（现场掌声）你们没想到我也可以很严肃，对不对？我觉得你们并不了解你们正面对的这个人。
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JK罗琳Rolling的2008演讲稿（中英文对照）
JK罗琳2008哈佛毕业典礼演讲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 would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindors' reunion.首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
哈佛不仅给了我无上的荣誉，连日来为这个演讲经受的恐惧和紧张，更令我减肥成功。
这真是一个双赢的局面。
现在我要做的就是深呼吸几下，眯着眼睛看看前面的大红横幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的格兰芬多（格兰芬多是小哈利所在的魔法学院的名字）聚会上。
Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.发表毕业演说是一个巨大的责任，至少在我回忆自己当年的毕业典礼前是这么认为的。
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Commencement Address of Harvard University
By Mary Robinson
I too am proud. I am proud to see so many capable young men and women about to embark on a future career where they can put their years of learning and preparation to good use. Having passed through the rigors of a formal education, you are now ready to assume new responsibilities and tasks, become answerable only to yourselves with regards to your performance, your humanity and your soundness of judgment, in a world full of possibilities.
But I would ask you to remember that it is not a world full of possibilities for all. Each of you has been the beneficiary of a rare privilege. You have received an exceptional education at an exceptional place when there are many, in both your country and mine, and in many, many other parts of our world, who are just as innately talented and just as ambitious as you are but will never have such an opportunity. I say this not to make you feel guilty. You should be proud of what you have achieved. But I do ask that you use your education to pursue only the worthiest of goals; goals that can contribute to the betterment of the lives of others; and goals that give you personal satisfaction because of their contribution to the society we live in.。