【双语阅读】美国社会学家给大学毕业生的忠告
汤姆_汉克斯2011年耶鲁大学演讲_（中英文）
中文翻译在后面也贴出了，但不太精确。
Speech at Y ale Graduation presented by Tom HanksMay 10, 2011I now many of you were convinced that last night about 6 o'clock local time, the world was going to come to an end. Just because it hasn't doesn't mean that it's not nearby, because my appearing today at Y ale University is surely one of the four horseman of the apocalypse. But listen, today is your day. Please do not turn off your electronic devices, leave your IPhones, your Ipads, your sidekicks, your Droids, your blackberries powered up, recording, photographing, texting out all that emerges from this stage over the next few minute. By the way I'm supporting the hat, it ain't coming off. Y ou know later on today you can compare your tweets, and Facebook comments with those of others to figure out if anything memorable went down, hey you know what tweet that last sentence I just said. It will give you something to do, let your friends know where you are today. Okay take this speech set it to music, then maybe insert some crazy kooky graphics. Star in that video yourself, post it on the web, then if it becomes a viral sensation, you will be equal to any cat playing with a paper bag, any set of twin toddlers talking gibberish to each other, as popular as a cute girl that sings about Fridays, hey you could be the next Sam Tsui. Such are just one of the possibilities in our grave new world, the world you now inherit whether you like it or not, the jig is up, the clock is run out, and the future, with a capital F, now rest with all of you and your goofy hats, and all because you went to Y ale. Y ou are now the anointed, the charge holders, the best and the brightest; each of you is shining hope for our nation and the world. Y ou are the new wizards who can finally make since of all the delta vectors, and the square roots, and the divided byes in the theorem, we call the human race. The generations before you came of age, took on the job, now it's your turn, welcome.Y ou know I once had a friend, who had a rich uncle, who promised to pay for his college, as long as my friend wished to stay in school. "Y ou should stay in school, as long as you can," the rich uncle said "Because when you get out of college, you got to work for every day for the rest of you life". And you all will come to understand, what that rich uncle meant, just as surely you will someday wonder where the hell you put your reading glasses, and to yell at your own kids to turn the damn music down. On spring days, like today, it's traditional for us to ponder the state of the world and implore you all to help make it a better place, which implies that things are somehow worse today than when we up here are where you are sitting right now. I'm not so sure that planet earth is in worse shape than it was 30, no 18, no 4 years ago. But that's not to say it's in better shape either, refraining from waxing nostalgic and comparing our then to your now, and avoiding the any talk of you kids these days with your rap and your hip hop and your snoopy dog daddy with the ditty pops, with your fifty cents, and quarter cents. A sober looks shows that just have the world gotten to be a better place after all; it is also grown a bit worse at the exact same rate.; a one step up, a one step back sort of cosmic balance between forward progress, and cultural retreat, that puts man kind on a bell curve of existence, that shows a small segment of joy, ease, and comfort, while equal proportions struggle on, while with little hope in the fortunes with the remainder either on the rise or on the wane that this confounding tide of so many damn things that we grow oblivious the shifts in the quality of our lives. Graduation day is a proper occasion to put a toe inthe global waters and I think the mercury shows that things are much as they always have been.Ten years ago, we busied ourselves with trivial stuff imbued with the importance of in came, 911, in 1991 riches were created in new businesses that never existed, then that economic balloon burst. In 81, I had a great job on TV, and in 82, Bosom Buddies was canceled. In 71, color TV in more living rooms that ever showed young Americans still fighting in combat in Vietnam. In 61, satellites beamed live images around the world for the very first time, but those images were of the building of the Berlin Wall. Now this ten year grid shows this same "yin-yang thang", and I'm trying to copyright that; yin-yang thang- copyright Tom Hanks. This shows this same yin-yang thang on graduation day 2011. Y ou know we all have these devices that can make a permanent record of revolutionary change on the other side of the globe, as well as hate filled diet tribes from across town. Fewer and fewer in our country go to bed hungry but did you know see how obesity now affects about half our population. No matter how many bargains we find at the local U-Mart, many of us still struggle to pay the rent and the utilities. Our country is no longer at physical or even ideological war with our enemies for most of the last century, but in the eleven and a half years of the third millennium, our armed forces have been fighting in the field for nine of them. Purchasing intellectual property and the work of artists we admire is as simple as clicking a mouse and paying less than a few bucks, which means you may find that there's no guarantee in making a living at your chosen discipline. Now some advantages particular to this age, are not to be denied; boredom has seemed to have been vanquished, there is always something to do, but hasn't this translated into a perpetual distraction in our lives. In the bathroom, at the dinner table, in the backseat, at a wedding, at a brisk, at a graduation day; there's always something to check, something to tweet, something to watch, something to download, something to play, something to share, something to buy, someone on a voicemail, something to yank at our attention span and it's all in the palm of our hand for a small monthly service fee. That same technology, has allowed for a surplus of celebrities, and that is nothing to cheer about. Anyone, although that Sam Tsui he rocks, anyone can enjoy the perks of notoriety now and the duration of fame has been lengthened from Andy Warhal's brief 15 minutes, to a good 15 months, if you're willing to do certain things on camera. Though our Willian language is often the vocabulary of official news speak is boogeyman that is the all seen "big brother", has never emerged, unless you live in North Korea, or run a red light in Beverly Hills, or shop online, or have done something stupid in the wrong place or the wrong time in front of someone with a camera in their cell phone, and that is everybody. So pardon my junior college Latin, the vulgestpopuli has become the all seeing state and if you cross it Google Search will forever display you screw up, so actually there is a big brother, but he's not in the level of fiction, he's actually all of us, but he lives in our search engines. So no matter how many times I do the calculations, I come up with a social draw, the positives balance the negatives, the x's equal the y's, and our hopes weigh as much as our fears, but I hesitate on that last one because, fear, good lord, fear is a powerful physiological force in 2011. We here up in the stands, and surrounding you of this graduating class look to you as we do every year, hoping you will now somehow through your labors, free us from what we have come to fear, and we have come to fear many things, fear has become the commodity that sell as certainly as sex. Fear is cheap, fear is easy, fear gets attention, fear is spread as fast as gossip and just as glamorous, juicy, and profitable. Fear twists facts into fiction that becomes indistinguishable from ignorance. Fear is a profit churning go to with a home market being your whole family.Y ou know sitting in the house one day, watching the game on TV not long ago, along came this promo for the local nightly news "Are our schools poisoning our children? That story and our summers hottest bikinis tonight at 11" In that I had that school age kids at the time, I fear that they might be being poisoned, and summer was still a few weeks away. I tooned in to get the scoop, and the actual news stories of that news broadcast was this, a certain supply of hamburger was found to have a bit to much of a particular bacteria in it and for safeties sake, was being taken off the market. That same hamburger was slated for sale to an out of state school system for its cafeterias, but it was recalled in time. So answering that news program's own question then, no, our schools were not poisoning our children, but yes, that summer there would be some very hot bikinis at the beach.Now the early American naval commander, John Paul Jones said "If fear is cultivated, it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery" and this is why I am a big fan of history, because observations of the American colonies over 200 years ago by a compatriot of Nathan Hale, who lived in that building right over there, translates word for word of the United States in 2011 For I take that fear to be fear in a large scale, fear itself intimidating and constant. And I take faith to be, what we hold in ourselves, our American ideal of self-determination. Fear is whispered in our ears and shouted in our faces. Faith must be fostered by the man or woman you see every day in the mirror. The former forever snaps at our heels and our synapsis and delays our course, the later could spur our boot heels to be wonderment, stimulate our creativity, and continue to drive us forward. Fear or faith, which will be our master?Three men found that they could no longer sleep because of their deep seeded fears, this is a story I'm telling. Their lives were in the state of stasis because of their constant worries. So they set out on a pilgrimage to find a wise man, who lived high in the mountains, so high above the tree line, that no vegetation grew, no animals lived, not even insects could be found so high up in the mountains in that thin air. When they reached his cave, the first of the three said "help me wise man, for my fear has crippled me""What is your fear?" asked the wise man"I fear death" said the pilgrim "I wonder when it is going to come for me""Ah, death" said the wise man "Let me take away this fear my friend. Death will not come to call until you are ready for its embrace. Know that and your fear will go away"Well this calmed that pilgrim's mind and he feared death no longer.The wise man turned to the second pilgrim and said "What is it you fear my friend?""I fear my new neighbors" said the second pilgrim "They are strangers, who observe holy days different than mine. They have way to many kids. They play music that sounds like noise""Ah strangers" said the wise man "I will take away this fear my friend. Return to your home and make a cake for your new neighbors. Bring toys to their children. Join them in their songs, and learn their ways, and you will become familiar with these neighbors, and your fear will go away."The second man saw the wisdom in these simple instructions, and knew he would no longer fear the family who were his neighbors. There in the cave so high in the mountains that nothing could live, the wise man turned to the last pilgrim and asked of his fear."Oh wise man, I fear spiders. When I try to sleep at night, I imagine spiders dropping from the ceiling, and crawling upon my flesh, and I cannot rest""Ah, spiders" said the wise man "No shit, why do you think I live way up here?"Fear will get the worst of the best of us, and peddlers of influence count on that. Throughout our nation's constant struggle to create a more perfect union, establish justice, and ensure our domestic tranquility, we battle fear from outside our borders to within our own hearts every day of our history. Our nation came to be despite fear of retribution for treason from a kingdom across the sea. America was made strong and diverse because here people could live free from the fears that made us their daily lives in whatever land they called the old country. Our history books tell of conflicts taken up to free people from fear. Those kept in slavery in our own states, and deliberate home nation from the rule of tyrants and theologies rooted in fear. The American cause at its best has been the cultivation of the faith that declares we will all live in peace, when we are all free to worship as we choose, when we are free to express our hearts, and when we all seek a place free from fear, but we live in a world where to many of us are to ready to believe and fear things that do not exist, conspiracies abound, divisions are constructed, and the differences between us are not celebrated for making us stronger but calculated and programed to set us against each other. Our faith is tested by unpredictable providence, and threatened when common sense in corrupted by specific interests.Speaking from 54 years of experience, the work towards a more perfect union is a never ending concern that involves each and every one of us. Evidence that our nation is becoming a better place is everywhere, but each new day, fear is as the Jersey poet says "lurking in the darkness on the edge of town".Y our rising from bed every morning will give fear its chance to grow stronger just as it will afford faith its chance to blossom. Y ou will make the choice to react to one or create the other, and because you are smart enough to earn you place on this college day at Y ale University, you will sense the moment, and you will know what to do.In the meantime ponder this front in the struggle against ceaseless fear and its ceaseless flow. In the coming months and years veterans of war in Iraq and Afghanistan will finally come home for good. After so many tours, and we know this, some after many tours on the body and soul have spilled a great portion of their lives. For all of them after a long time has spent far away in the harsh realm of war, and they return different from what they were when they left. Surely their faithin themselves is shadowed by a fear of not knowing what is expected of them next. Now no matter what your view of those wars over there, you can affect the future of our nation right here by taking their fears head on. Y ou can imprint the very next pages of the history of our troubled world by reinforcing the faith of those returning veterans, allowing them to rest, aiding in their recovery, if possible their complete recovery. So let those of us who watch the debate of their long deployments serve them now as they served as they were asked and as they were ordered. Let's provide them a place free of fear, by educating them if they can learn, by employing them as they transition from soldier back to citizen, and by empathizing with the new journey they are starting even though we will never fully understand the journey they just completed. We all will define the true nature of our American identity, not by the parades and the welcome home parties, but now we match their time in the service with service of our own. Give it four years, as many years as you just spent here at Y ale, in acts both proactive and spontaneous, and do the things that you can to free veterans of the new uncertainty that awaits them, from the mysterious fear they will face the day after they come home. Cultivate in them the faith to carry on and they will do the rest.So commencements day arrives, your work begins, work that will not always be joyful to you, labor that might not always fulfill you, and days that will seem like one damn thing after the other. It's true, you will now work every day for the rest of your lives. That full time job, your career as human beings, and as Americans, and as graduates of Y ale, is to stand on the fulcrum of fear and faith. Fear at your back, faith in front of you. Which way will you lead? Which way will you move? Move forward, move ever forward, and tweet out the picture of your results. It may make you as famous as Sam Tsui.Transcription on Chinese汤姆·汉克斯2011年耶鲁大学毕业生演讲我知道，在座很多人相信昨晚（2011年5月21日）六点是世界末日（笑声）（掌声）。
比尔·盖茨对毕业生忠告
【测试】
>>测测你的快乐颜色
如果你和一群朋友去森林中探险，没想到中途遇到一场大雾，大雾散去，却只剩下你一个人在林子里。这时候，你面前出现了一位仙女，你可以从她手中的魔法物品里选出一件陪伴你渡过难关，你会选择哪一件呢？
2.番茄和豆腐洗净，番茄每个切4瓣，豆腐切块；葱洗净切碎；
3.拍裂一小块姜，热锅，用姜块在锅上擦一遍，放两汤匙油，待油六成热下黄花鱼，两面煎至微黄；
4.将5碗水倒入宽口瓦煲煮沸，放入番茄、豆腐、煎好的黄花鱼和姜片，武火煮沸后转中小火煲40分钟，下盐调味，撒上葱花即可品尝。
功效：健脾开胃，益气补虚。不过黄花鱼容易生痰助毒、发疮助热，所以易发溃疡的人不宜多食。
【美食】
>>番茄豆腐黄花鱼汤
初春时节，正是黄花鱼大量上市的季节。此时起捕的黄花鱼被称作“报春黄鱼”。黄花鱼此刻正值产卵前夕，鲜肥肉嫩，鱼鳞金黄。今天我们便来尝尝这道番茄豆腐黄花鱼汤。
主料：黄花鱼、番茄、豆腐
辅料：葱、姜、蒜调料、盐适量
做法：
1.洗净宰好的黄花鱼，腹内的黑膜要认真刮净，滤干水；
选C的快乐颜色：红色
外向、活泼的你支配性极强，喜欢充当主导性的灵魂人物。爱憎分明，如果适当放开心态，你会更开心。
选D的快乐颜色：绿色
慷慨大方、感受力极强的你喜欢照顾他人。其实，你的控制欲非常强烈，害怕失去控制大局的能力。
选E的快乐颜色：紫色
神秘的紫色是敏感的代表。你容易情绪低落，心情总是徘徊在天堂与地狱之间。
A.铜镜 B.金苹果 C.山楂 D.树种 E.水晶石
结果分析：
米歇尔致毕业生的演讲稿_英语演讲稿_
米歇尔致毕业生的演讲稿毕业演讲往往鼓舞人心，让你跃跃欲试，恨不得立刻冲出门去，追梦而行。
然而现实是残酷的，保持乐观很重要，但面对现实更是至关重要的。
下面是米歇尔致毕业生的，希望小编整理的对你有用，欢迎阅读：米歇尔致毕业生的演讲稿(中英对照)First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit.Mrs. Obama spoke for 22 minutes to the graduates of Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School on Saturday in her only high school commencement address this year. The ceremony took place in the gymnasium of nearby T ennessee State University.美国第一夫人米歇尔·奥巴马5月18日向高中毕业生给出宝贵建议，告诫他们在大学、生活和工作中要走自己的路，依靠决心和勇气战胜不可避免的失败。
当天在田纳西州马丁·路德·金高中毕业典礼上，米歇尔·奥巴马致辞22分钟，这是她今年唯一一场高中演讲。
演讲在附近田纳西州立大学的体育馆举行。
The first lady told the 170 graduates that she spent too much of her own time in college focusing on academic achievements. While her success in college and law school led to a high-profile job, she said, she ended up leaving to focus on public service."My message to all of you today is this: Do not waste a minute living someone else's dream," she said. "It takes a lot of real work to discover what brings you joy ... and you won't find what you love simply by checking boxes or padding your GPA."在演讲中，她告诉170名毕业生，当年她在大学致力于学业，之后凭借在学校的成功如愿以偿地摘取高职，不过最终还是投身公共服务。
美国社会学家给大学毕业生的忠告.pdf
Advice for college grads from two sociologists美国社会学家给大学毕业生的忠告1. Don't worry about making your dreams come true1. 追随梦想，不要心慌College graduates are often told: "follow your passion," do "what you love," what you were "meant to do," or "make your dreams come true." Two-thirdsthink they're going find a job that allows them to change the world, half withinfive years. Yikes.大学毕业生们常常会听到，“追随梦想”，“做你喜欢做的事”，“让你的梦想成真”。
每当这时，2/3的青年就像是打了鸡血一样，时刻准备找到工作，改变世界，不过大概其中只有一半在5年后才能做到。
This sets young people up to fail. The truth is that the vast majority of us willnot be employed in a job that is both our lifelong passion and a world-changer;that's just not the way our global economy is. So it's ok to set your sights just atad below occupational ecstasy. Just find a job that you like. Use that job tohelp you have a full life with lots of good things and pleasure and helping others and stuff. A great life is pretty good, even if it's not perfect.这些鼓励的话常常让大家越来越感到挫败。
比尔盖茨给大学毕业生的11条人生忠告
1:生活是不公平的，你要去适应它。
2:这个世界并不会在意你的自尊，而是要求你在自我感觉良好之前先有所成就。
3:刚从学校走出来时你不可能一个月挣6万美元，更不会哪家公司的副总裁，还拥有一部汽车，直到你将这些都挣到手的那一天。
4:如果你认为学校里的老师过于严厉，那么等你有了老板再回头想一想。
5:卖汉堡包并不会有损于你的尊严。
你的祖父母对卖汉堡包有着不同的理解，他们称之为“机遇”。
6:如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的过错，不要将你理应承担的责任转嫁给他人，而要学着从中吸取教训。
7:在你出生之前，你的父母并不像现在这样乏味。
他们变成今天这个样子是因为这些年来一直在为你付账单、给你洗衣服。
所以，在对父母喋喋不休之前，还是先去打扫一下你自己的屋子吧！8:你所在的学校也许已经不再分优等生和差等生，但生活却并不如此。
在某些学校已经没有了“不及格”的概念，学校会不断地给你机会让你进步，然而现实生活完全不是这样。
9:走出学校后的生活不像在学校一样有学期之分，也没有暑假之说。
没有几位老板乐于帮你发现自我，你必须依靠自己去完成。
10:电视中的许多场景决不是真实的生活。
在现实生活中，人们必须埋头做自己的工作，而非像电视里演的那样天天泡在咖啡馆里。
11:善待你所厌恶的人，因为说不定哪一天你就会为这样的一个人工作。
双语：比尔·盖茨给毕业生的11条人生箴言-翻译文化.doc
In Bill Gates' Book for high school and college graduates, there is a list of 11 things they did not learn in school. In his book, Bill Gates talks about how feelgood, politically-correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this education set them up forfailure in the real world.在比尔·盖茨写给高中毕业生和大学毕业生的书里，有一个单子上面列有11项学生没能在学校里学到的事情。
比尔·盖茨在书中谈到让你感觉良好的"政治上正确"的教导培养出一整代不知现实为何物的年轻人，这种教育只能导致他们成为现实世界中的失败者。
The 11 things are:这11项事情是：1. Life is not fair, get used to it.生活是不公平的；要去适应它。
2. The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world willexpect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.这世界并不会在意你的自尊。
这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。
3. You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.高中刚毕业你不会一年挣4万美元。
(整理)比尔盖茨给毕业生的忠告
比尔盖茨给毕业生的忠告在比尔·盖茨写给高中毕业生和大学毕业生的一本书里，列举了11项学生没能在学校里学到的东西，对刚刚毕业的学子们列出11条忠告：1、生活是不公平的，要去适应它。
2、这世界并不会在意你的自尊。
这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。
3、高中刚毕业你不会一年挣4万美元。
你不会成为一个公司的副总裁，不会拥有一部装有电话的汽车——除了你将此职位和汽车电话都挣到手。
4、如果你认为你的老师严厉，等你有了老板再这样想。
老板可是没有任期限制的。
5、烙牛肉饼并不有损你的尊严。
你的祖父母对烙牛肉饼可有不同的定义，他们称它为机遇。
6、如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的过错，所以不要尖声抱怨我们的错误，要集从中汲取教训。
7、在你出生之前，你的父母并非像他们现在这样乏昧。
他们变成今天这个样子，是因为这些年来他们一直在为你付账单，给你洗衣服，听你大谈你是如何的酷。
所以，如果你想消灭你父母那一辈中的“寄生虫”来拯救雨林的话，还是先去消除你房间衣柜里的虫子吧。
8、你的学校也许已经不再分优等生和劣等生了，但生活却仍在作出类似区分。
在某些学校已经废除不及格分，只要你想找到正确答案，学校给你无数次机会。
这和现实生活中的任何事情没有一点相似之处。
9、生活不分学期。
你并没有暑假可以休息，也没有几位雇主乐于帮助你发现自我。
自己找时间做吧。
10、电视并不是真实的生活。
在现实生活中，人们实际上得远离咖啡屋去干自己的工作。
11、善待乏味的人。
有可能到头来你会为一个乏味的人工作。
生活不相信眼泪那年，我16岁，一个很淳朴很倔强的农村女孩。
外面的经济大潮冲击着小乡村人们的头脑，我也下决心要走出小村，看看外面的世界。
初中毕业，不假思索报考了艺术学校。
为此，老师为我叹息，但我不后悔，自己看准的事就干下去，那时的我丝毫没有想到会遇到许多棘手的事情。
面试那天，我带着书本，捎着路上解渴的几个甜瓜，独自踏上了去县城的路。
初试取前5名，但我一点儿也不胆怯，因为我相信自己，几年来多次参加各种演出练就了我良好的心理素质。
比尔·盖茨的11条人生箴言(中英文对照)
比尔·盖茨的11条人生箴言(中英文对照)墨西哥《成绩》周刊有一期发表了比尔·盖茨写给即将走出学校、踏入社会的青年一代的11点忠告：INBILLGATESBOOKFORHIGHSCHOOLANDCOLLEGEGRADUATES,THEREISALISTOF11THING STHEYDIDNOTLEARNINSCHOOL.INHISBOOK,BILLGATESTALKSABOUTHOWFEELGOOD,POL ITICALLY-CORRECTTEACHINGSCREATEDAFULLGENERATIONOFKIDSWITHNOCONCEPTOFR EALITYANDHOWTHISEDUCATIONSETTHEMUPFORFAILUREINTHEREALWORLD.在比尔-盖茨写给高中毕业生和大学毕业生的书里，有一个单子上面列有11项学生没能在学校里学到的事情。
比尔-盖茨在书中谈到让你感觉良好的政治上正确的教导培养出一整代不知现实为何物的年轻人，这种教育只能导致他们成为现实世界中的失败者。
THE11THINGSARE:这11项事情是：■LIFEISNOTFAIR,GETUSEDTOIT.■生活是不公平的；要去适应它。
这世界并不会在意你的自尊。
这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。
■THEWORLDWON"TCAREABOUTYOURSELF-ESTEEM.THEWORLDWILLEXPECTYOUTOACCOMPLI SHSOMETHINGBEFOREYOUFEELGOODABOUTYOURSELF.■这世界并不会在意你的自尊。
这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。
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【双语阅读】美国社会学家给大学毕业生的忠告
【双语阅读】美国社会学家给大学毕业生的忠告【双语阅读】美国社会学家给大学毕业生的忠告1.Don’t worry about making your dreams come trueCollege graduates are often told: “follow your passion,” do “what you love,”what you were “meant to do,” or “make your dreams come true.” Two-thirds think they’re going find a job that allows them to change the world, half within five years. Yikes.This sets young people up to fail. The truth is that the vast majority of us will not be employed in a job that is both our lifelong passion and a world-changer; that’s just not the way our global economy is. So it’s ok to set your sights just a tad below occupational ecstasy. Just find a job that you like. Use that job to help you have a full life with lots of good things and pleasure and helping others and stuff.A great life is pretty good, even if it’s not perfect.1.追随梦想，不要心慌大学毕业生们常常会听到，“追随梦想”，“做你喜欢做的事”，“让你的梦想成真”。
比尔·盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲（中英文对照）[精选5篇]
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比尔·盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲（中英文对照）[精选5篇]第一篇：比尔·盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲(中英文对照) 比尔·盖茨和夫人梅琳达·盖茨在斯坦福大学2014年毕业典礼上的演讲。
整个演讲以“乐观”为主线，强调了他们对科技的乐观态度，以及对世界美好未来的乐观态度。
盖茨夫妇轮流讲述了自己的亲身经历和故事，告诉学生应该站在他人的立场上，感同身受那些处境不及自己的人，尽自己所能去帮助那些需要帮助的人，让全世界所有人类同胞都有一样的美好未来。
Stanford University.（斯坦福大学）BILL GATES: Congratulations, class of 2014!比尔·盖茨：2014届毕业生，祝贺你们顺利毕业(Cheers).（欢呼）Melinda and I are excited to be here.It would be a thrill for anyone to be invited to speak at a Stanford commencement, but it's especially gratifying for us.Stanford is rapidly becoming the favorite university for members of our family, and it's long been a favorite university for Microsoft and our foundation.我和梅琳达怀着激动的心情与你们欢聚在此共贺毕业。
能受邀到斯坦福大学学位授予典礼上做演讲是一件让人激动的事，对我们而言，这尤为荣幸。
斯坦福大学正日渐成为我们家庭成员最喜爱的大学。
而长久以来，斯坦福也是微软以及比尔与梅琳达基金会最喜爱的一所大学。
”Our formula has been to get the smartest, most creative people working on the most important problems.It turns out that a disproportionate number of those people are at Stanford.(Cheers).我们一直致力于让最聪颖有创造力的人攻克最为重要的问题。
埃里克,毕业典礼演讲,中英
谷歌总裁埃里克·施密特-2012 波士顿大学毕业典礼演讲埃里克·施密特2012年波士顿大学演讲---学会对生活说YES（find a way to say "yes" to things）It‘s great to be here on campus. It‘s an honor to have been invited. It‘s an honor to look out on the next generation of BU Terriers.我很高兴来到这里，也很荣幸受到邀请来做演讲，有机会看到新一代的波士顿大学毕业生们。
I‘ll give you a quote:―I am a true adorer of life, and if I can‘t reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.‖ Well, graduates … allow me to e xplain. You used to have a professor here–a decent writer by the name of Saul Bellow. That comes from his novel Henderson the Rain King. I stand before you today as someone who considers himself an adorer of life. I know what it‘s like to plant a kiss on a life lived fully… And I can tell you from experience that, once you understand that, Professor Bellow‘s right: that no further explanation is necessary.我想送你们一句名言：“我是个真正的崇尚生活的人。
美国毕业典礼上的忠告_成长故事
美国毕业典礼上的忠告和中国一样，美国的6月也是毕业的季节。
每逢此时，社会各界名流都被邀请到毕业典礼的讲台上，与即将踏上职业征程的毕业生们分享人生真谛。
在这里一起来聆听2007年美国毕业典礼上的声音。
我想说的是：团队意识。
和有才华的人在一起合作不是一件容易的事，但那却是让你闪光的方式——和伟大的人在一起，你将比现在更有才华。
和他们在一起愉快相处的秘诀，不是向他们证明你每次都是正确的，秘诀是把注意力放在你们要追求的东西上——对于我来说，就是追求最美的音乐。
——演讲者：刀刃（TheEdge，摇滚乐人，U2乐队吉他手）美国伯克利音乐学院在我很小的时候，就聋了。
那个时候谁都不相信一个聋女能当演员，但是我做到了。
在很小的时候，我就知道奇迹是这样发生的：你相信它是可能的，并为之努力。
请相信，你远比别人想象得更出色。
——演讲者：玛丽·；玛特琳（MarleeMatlin，获得奥斯卡金像奖的唯一聋人女演员）威尔克斯大学尊重是如此重要的品德，特别是在互相冲突的时候。
实际上，阻止别人发表意见是缺乏自信的表现。
对于我来说，和别人思想的交锋是我深度认识事物的良机，特别是一起讨论那些即将到来的危险，将能帮助我们及时规避。
不管你多么深刻地明白这个道理，要做好的第一件事就是：允许别人说话。
这也是《第一宪法修正案》要告诉我们的。
——迈克尔·；布隆伯格（MichaelBloomberg，纽约市市长）塔夫茨大学在座的各位都并非只靠自己就拿到了毕业证。
说这话并不是要把大家所取得的成就从你手中剥夺，只是想提醒大家，你四周坐着的人，在你做事的过程中，一直在直接或间接地帮助你：你的父母、朋友、老师和学校的其他工作者，还有那些在你出生前就盖起学校教学楼的人，以及那些捐款给学校的人，正是他们的慷慨才使得我们今天用的仪器这么先进。
要知道，这些人中的每一个都是你顺利毕业路上的赞助者。
——演讲者：娜奥米·；图图（NaomiTutu，美国著名人权运动者）美国本特雷大学21世纪最基本的特征是什么？很多人会告诉我：全球化。
初中英语名人演讲稿给大学毕业生的几个忠告_美国前能源部部长朱棣文素材
给大学毕业生的几个忠告—美国前能源部部长朱棣文Advice For Graduates给大学毕业生的几个忠告——美国能源部部长朱棣文As you begin this new stage of your lives, follow your passion. If you don’t have a passion, don’t be satis?ed until you?nd one. Life is too short to go through it without caring deeply about something. 当你开始生活的新阶段时，请追随你的爱好。
如果你没有爱好，就去找，找不到绝不罢休。
生命太短暂，所以不能空手走过，你必须对某样东西倾注你的深情。
2009 Commencement Address at Harvard University— U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven ChuMadam 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 wealthy, but at least I am a nerd.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, “T he 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, i n your future life, cultivate a generous spirit. In all negotiations, don’tbargain 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.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.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. T he 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.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 no w 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 yourprivate 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长、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。
美国大学毕业典礼上的人生忠告
美国大学毕业典礼上的人生忠告作者：苏索才来源：《留学生》2016年第04期每年五六月间是美国4000多所大学和学院的毕业高峰。
在绿树掩映的露天草坪或彩旗飘扬的室内场馆，都可以看到邀请来的社会各界成功人士登台演讲，为毕业生送上几句祝福、劝告和人生建议。
我在美国读书、工作了将近20年，参加过自己的硕士、博士典礼，在工作中几乎每年也出席学生的毕业仪式，聆听过数十场毕业演讲。
这些演讲既是真诚的劝告，又是一篇篇写得精彩的作文。
基于此，我整理了近年来最轰动美国校园的威廉和梅琳达·盖茨（ William and Melinda Gates）、斯蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs）、奥普拉·温弗丽（Opera Winfry）、海军上将威廉·麦柯瑞恩（William McRaven）、脱口秀主持人柯南·奥布莱恩（Conan O‟Brien）、电影明星奈特莉·波特曼（Natalie Portman）、 CNN著名记者桑吉·古普塔（Sangy Gupta）、两度奥斯卡奖得主罗伯特·德·尼罗（Robert De Niro）的演讲。
我希望借自己的一点努力能够帮助中国的年轻一代也能从这些人生忠告中得到启迪。
美国大学毕业典礼上最多听到的几条建议可以概括为以下几点：第一，听从内心的召唤，做自己喜欢的事。
这是美国毕业生最常听到的劝告之一，也是美国重要的价值观念。
它坚信人只有在做他喜欢做的事时才能最大限度地发挥他的才智和潜能，在遇到困难时才不会放弃。
什么是喜欢呢？喜欢是一种内心感受，一种直觉，一种可以给你的心灵带来幸福的快感。
有些人在很早的时候就知道自己喜爱的事业，有些人需要慢慢发现，无论哪一种情况，喜欢是走向成功的必备条件。
奥普拉在2013年给哈佛大学的演讲中说：“你如果愿意倾听并跟从你内心的微小的声音，即那个导航仪，寻找可以使你生命复活的源头，你就一定会成功，就一定会改变这个世界。
美国亿万富豪们给大学毕业生的19条忠告
美国亿万富豪们给大学毕业生的19条忠告导语：在迈出象牙塔内之际，应届毕业生应该听从哪些人的建议?在走向社会的征程中，他们该吸取哪些教训?听一听各领域成功者们的建议或许不错，这些人是富有远见的商业领导者，他们从无到有建立起自己的帝国，并都跻身世界最富有的人之列。
下面是美国亿万富豪们给大学毕业生的19条忠告，希望大家能认真读读。
1、史蒂夫•乔布斯(Steve Jobs)：把每一天都当成生命中的最后一天在我17岁的时候，我读到了一句箴言，差不多是这样的："如果你把每一天都当作生命中的最后一天去生活的话，那么终有一天你会发现自己是正确的。
"这句话给我留下了深刻的印象，从那时算起的33年以来，我每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己："如果今天是我生命中的最后一天，我还会做自己今天即将要做的事吗?"当答案连续多次都是"不"时，我就知道自己需要做些改变了。
――斯坦福大学，2005年，苹果公司创始人。
2、比尔•盖茨(Bill Gates)：你的能力越大，人们对你的期望也就越大我的母亲在我被哈佛大学录取的那一天曾经感到非常骄傲，她从没有停止督促我去为他人做更多的事情。
在我结婚的前几天，她主持了一个新娘进我家的仪式。
在这个仪式上，她高声朗读了一封关于婚姻的信，这是她写给梅琳达(Melinda)的。
那时，我的母亲已经因为癌症病入膏肓，但是她还是认为这是又一个传播自己信念的机会。
在那封信的结尾，她写道："你的能力越大，人们对你的期望也就越大。
"――哈佛大学，2007年。
3、奥普拉•温弗瑞(Oprah Winfrey)：我们所有人时不时都需要化化妆在生活中，我们所有人时不时都需要化化妆。
同学们，我清楚这一点，如果你们能看到改变自己人生的可能性，如果你们能看到自己可以成为怎样的人而不是原本的面貌，那么你们将获得巨大的成功。
――杜克大学，2009年。
通过控股哈普娱乐集团的股份，掌握了超过10亿美元的个人财富;主持的电视谈话节目"奥普拉脱口秀"，平均每周吸引3300万名观众，并连续16年排在同类节目的首位。
给大学毕业生的几个忠告
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. As you may have heard this morning, I was the academic failure of my family. Both My brother have degrees from Harvard. My older brother, Gilbert,after getting a Ph.D. in physics from that other school down the river, got an M.D. Ph.D.from Harvard. My younger brother, Morgan Chu, who you just heard his name today at the board overseers, has a law degree. When I was awarded a Nobel Prize, I thought my mother would be pleased. Not so. 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 pleased.Another difficulty with giving a Harvard commencement address is that some students may disapprove of the fact that I will borrow material from previous speeches, as well from others. I ask that you forgive me for two reasons.First, in order to be heard, it is important to deliver the same message more than once. 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 commenceme nt 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 an admission.” 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. I n 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 percentof the credit.Jimmy Stewart,as Elwood P.Dowd in the movie Harvey got it exactly right. (Now, forgive me, I don't believe in jimmy Stenart's story very well, but...)"Years ago my mother used to say to me, 'In this world, Elwwod, you must be...she always used to call me Elwood...in this world, Elwwod, 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 in 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 Barkeley, and then nine years at Bell Labs. During that time, my centural 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 I wanted to give birth to my own set of scientific children.Ted Geballe, a friend and distinguished colleague of mine at Stanford, went from Berkeley to Bell Labs to Stanford years earlier, described our motives best, and I quote:“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 t he 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. And then, I began 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; But 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.[qh] So here is the movement.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 is now five times faster, at a rate now five times faster, than at the beginning of recorded measurements. Here’s the remarkablescientific 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 be decades 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 adapti ng. 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 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 coo k 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 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 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 tohelp 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 will 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 tha t 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. 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 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, I quote:“This call for a worldwide fe llowship 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 quote.“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he 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 w rite about thesethings. 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.尊敬的福斯特校长、哈佛集团的各位成员、监管理事会的各位理事、全体教职工、各位家长、各位朋友，以及最重要的各位毕业生们：感谢你们，让我有机会同你们一起分享这个美妙的日子。
比尔·盖茨给毕业生的10个建议
比尔·盖茨在一个毕业典礼上给了 比尔 盖茨在一个毕业典礼上给了 毕业生10个人生的建议 个人生的建议： 毕业生 个人生的建议：
1、人生是不公平的，学会 、人生是不公平的， 去接受它吧。 去接受它吧。 2、这个世界不在乎你的自 尊，这个世界期望你先做 出成绩， 出成绩，再去强调自己的 感受。 感受。
3、你不会一离开学校就有百万 、 年薪， 年薪，你不会马上就是拥有行 动电话的副总裁， 动电话的副总裁，二者你都必 须靠努力赚来。 须靠努力赚来。 4、在速食店煎汉堡并不是作践 、 自己， 自己，你的祖父对煎汉堡有完 全不同的定义：机会。 全不同的定义：机会。 5、如果你一事无成，不是你父 、如果你一事无成， 母的错。 母的错。不要只会对自己犯的 错发牢骚，要从错误中学习。 错发牢骚，要从错误中学习。
6、在你出生前，你的父母并不像现 、在你出生前， 在这般无趣， 在这般无趣，他们忙成这样是在 付你的开销，洗你的衣服， 付你的开销，洗你的衣服，听你 吹嘘自己有多了不起。 吹嘘自己有多了不起。所以在你 拯救被父母这代人破坏的热带雨 淋前，先整理一下自己的房间。 淋前，先整理一下自己的房间。 7、在学校时你可能是赢家或输家， 、在学校时你可能是赢家或输家， 在人生中却还言之过早， 在人生中却还言之过早，学校可 能会不断地给你机会找到正确的 答案， 答案，真实人生却完全不是这个 样子。 样子。
8、人生不是学期制，人生没 、人生不是学期制， 有寒暑假， 有寒暑假，没有那个雇主有 兴趣协助你找寻自我， 兴趣协助你找寻自我，请用 自己的空暇做这件事吧。 自己的空暇做这件事吧。 9、电视上演的并不是真实的 、 人生， 人生，真实人生每个人都要 离开咖啡馆去上班。 离开咖啡馆去上班。 10、对书呆子好一点，你未来 、对书呆子好一点， 很可能就为其中一位工作。 很可能就为其中一位工作。
英语学习资料：马克吐温：致青年的忠告（上）（双语）
英语学习资料：马克吐温：致青年的忠告（上）（双语）马克·吐温虽然他的财富不多，却无损他高超的幽默、机智与名气，称美国最知名人士之一。
其交友广阔，威廉·迪安·豪威尔士、安德鲁·卡内基、布克·华盛顿、尼古拉·特斯拉、海伦·凯勒、亨利·罗杰诸君，皆为其友。
他曾被誉为：文学史上的林肯。
海伦·凯勒曾言：“我喜欢马克·吐温——谁会不喜欢他呢？即使是上帝，亦会钟爱他，赋予其智慧，并于其心灵里绘画出一道爱与信仰的彩虹。
”威廉·福克纳称马克·吐温为“第一位真正地美国作家，我们都是继承他而来”。
其于1910年四月二十一日去世，享年七十五，安葬于纽约州艾玛拉。
Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one’s tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. First, then. I will say to you my young friends—and I say it beseechingly, urgingly—听说期望我来谈谈，我便询问应该发表什么样的谈话。
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【双语阅读】美国社会学家给大学毕业生的忠告1.Don’t worry about making your dreams come trueCollege graduates are often told: “follow your passion,” do “what you love,”what you were “meant to do,” or “make your dreams come true.” Two-thirds think they’re going find a job that allows them to change the world, half within five years. Yikes.This sets young people up to fail. The truth is that the vast majority of us will not be employed in a job that is both our lifelong passion and a world-changer; that’s just not the way our global economy is. So it’s ok to set your sights just a tad below occupational ecstasy. Just find a job that you like. Use that job to help you have a full life with lots of good things and pleasure and helping others and stuff.A great life is pretty good, even if it’s not perfect.1.追随梦想，不要心慌大学毕业生们常常会听到，“追随梦想”，“做你喜欢做的事”，“让你的梦想成真”。
每当这时，2/3的青年就像是打了鸡血一样，时刻准备找到工作，改变世界，不过大概其中只有一半在5年后才能做到。
这些鼓励的话常常让大家越来越感到挫败。
事实是这样：我们中的大多数都不能找到一个这样的工作，既能和自己兴趣相投，也可以改变世界。
这不怪我们，经济大环境就那样。
所以，还是不要太张狂，能老老实实找一个比较喜欢的工作就好啦。
让这个工作充实你的生活，并且乐于帮助他人。
伟大的人生在于善良，无所谓完美。
2.Make friendsAmericans put far too much emphasis on finding Mr. or Ms. Right and getting married. We think this will bring us happiness. In fact, however, both psychological well-being and health are more strongly related to friendship. If you have good friends, you’ll be less likely to get the common cold, less likely to die from cancer, recover better from the loss of a spouse, and keep your mental acuity as you age. You’ll also feel more capable of facing life’s challenges, be less likely to feed depressed or commit suicide, and be happier in old age. Having happy friends increases your chance of being happy as much as an extra $145,500 a year does. So, make friends!2.结交朋友美国人过于注重谈恋爱，找到理想的另一半，然后步入婚姻殿堂。
我们认为婚姻会给自己带来幸福。
事实上，心理和身体的健康都和友谊有着极大关联。
如果你有很多好朋友，那么你患感冒和死于癌症的几率都会降低，也会更好地从失去配偶的伤痛中恢复过来，而且智力衰退将更慢。
面对人生的坎坷，你会更有信心，抑郁和自杀的几率也会降低，老年生活更幸福。
拥有快乐的朋友们会增加你的幸福感，这幸福感相当于你每年可以多挣145500美元的快感。
所以，多交朋友。
3.Don’t worry about being singleSingle people, especially women, are stigmatized in our society: we’re all familiar with the image of a sad, lonely woman eating ice cream with her cats in her pajamas on saturday night. But about 45 percent of US adults aren’t married and around one in seven lives alone.This might be you. Research shows that young people’s expectations about their marital status (e.g., the desire to be married by 30 and have kids by 32) have little or no relationship to what actually happens to people. So, go with the flow.And, if you’re single, you’re in good company. Single people spend more time with friends, volunteer more, and are more involved in their communities than married people. Never-married and divorced women are happier, on average, than married women. So, don’t buy into the myth of the miserable singleton.3.还是单身？不用担心单身人士、尤其是单身女性更容易遭到社会的非议：我们都很熟悉一个场景，周六晚上，裹着睡袍的女子只有猫咪陪在身边，一脸抑郁地嚼着冰淇淋。
但实际上，美国有45%成年人处于未婚状态，而且其中有1/7独自生活。
也许你也是其中一个。
研究表明，年轻人对他们的婚姻规划通常如下：30岁之前结婚，32岁之前要孩子。
但往往事与愿违。
所以，就那样吧。
如果是单身，你可能会有更多小伙伴陪。
单身可以有更多时间和朋友们呆在一起，更愿意帮助他人，更容易融入各种圈子。
平均来讲，从没结婚，或者离婚的女性更加幸福。
所以，不要为还是单身郁郁寡欢。
4.Don’t take your ideas about gender and marriage too seriouslyIf you do get married, keep going with the flow. Relationship satisfaction, financial security, and happy kids are more strongly related to flexibility in the face of life’s challenges than any particular way of organizing families. The most functional families are ones that can bend. So partnering with someone who thinks that one partner should support their families and the other should take responsibility for the house and children is a recipe for disaster. So is being equallyrigid about non-traditional divisions of labor. It’s okay to have ideas about how to organize your family but your best bet for happiness is to be flexible.4.不要太在意婚姻中的男女地位如果已婚，要顺其自然学会变通。
比起特定的组织家庭的方式，善于应变是夫妻和睦、收入稳定、孩子快乐的法宝。
最团结的家庭是懂得变通的家庭。
不要规定谁必须养家，谁必须打理家务，照看孩子，这对婚姻的伤害很大，不要被传统观念束缚。
对家庭分工有想法不是件坏事，但为家庭整体幸福着想，还是应该灵活变通一些。
5.Think hard about whether to buy a houseOur current image of the American Dream revolves around homeownership, and buying a home is often taken for granted as a stage on the path to full-fledge adulthood. But the ideal of universal home ownership was born in the 1950s. It’s a rather new idea.With such a short history, it’s funny that people often insist that buying a house is a fool-proof investment and the best way to secure retirement. In fact, buying a house may not be the best choice for you. The mortgage may be less than rent, but there are also taxes, insurance, and the increasingly common Home Owners Association (HOA) fees. You may someday sell the house for more than you bought it but, if you paid interest on a mortgage, you also paid far more than the sale price. You have freedom from a landlord, but may discover your HOA is just as controlling, or worse. And then there’s the headache: renting relieves you from the stress of being responsible for repairs. It also offers a freedom of movement that you might cherish.So, think carefully about whether buying or renting is a better fit for your finances, lifestyle, and future goals.5.买房？三思而后行拥有自己的房子成为了如今“美国梦”的一部分，也被视作完全成人的一个标志。