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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。
jk罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼演讲(中英文)
jk罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文）resident Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates,致Faust校长，哈佛集团以及哈佛监事委员会的各位成员，各位教职员工，众多自豪的家长，以及最为重要的——各位毕业生们：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 experienced 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 fool myself into believing I am at the world's best-educated Harry Potter convention.我想要说的第一句话是“谢谢你们”。
这份感谢不仅来自于哈佛赋予我如此非同寻常的荣誉，更是由于几个星期以来每当我想到今天的致词就会觉得头晕恶心，因而终于成功的减肥了。
这就是“双赢”啊!现在，我只需要深呼吸几次，瞄几眼红色的横幅，然后装模作样的让自己相信，我正身处世界上受过最好教育的哈里波特迷的盛大集会之中。
Delivering a commencement address is a greatresponsibility; 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.毕业典礼上致词意味着极大的责任——我这样想着，直到我开始回想我自己的毕业典礼。
J.K.罗琳在2008年哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲
not have lived at all-in which case,you fail by defaule.
Failure gave me an inner security/that I had never
to survive its vicissitudes.
你可能不曾经历过我所经历的惨痛失败，但生活中遭遇失败在所难免。
永远不失败是不可能的 ，除非你谨小慎微，这样还不如从未在世上活过
——但那样也难逃失败，因为你已经不战而败。
失败让我内心感到安全，这种安全感是顺利通过考试所无法给予的。失败
J.K Rowling's 2008 Harvard Commencenment Address
You might never fail on the scale I did,but some failure
in life is inevitable.Itis impossible/tolive without failing at
你们才能在生活你起落浮沉中得以生存。
21-year-old self/that personal of happiness lies in knowing
that/life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievevment.
Your qualification,your CV,are not your life,thought you will
meet many people of my age and older/who confuse the
JK罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼的演讲
JK罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼的演讲《哈利.波特》的作者罗琳于6月5日参加了哈佛大学2008年的毕业典礼，被授予荣誉学位，并作为特邀嘉宾做了标题为《The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination》（失败的额外收益与想象力的重要性）的演讲。
以下，是译言的翻译。
标题：《失败的额外收益与想象力的重要性》（原文）作者：J.K.罗琳浮士德主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，大学的员工，自豪的父母，以及所有的毕业生们：首先我想说的是“谢谢你们”。
这不仅因为哈佛给了我非比寻常的荣誉，而且为了这几个礼拜以来，由于想到这次毕业典礼演说而产生的恐惧与恶心让我减肥成功。
这真是一个双赢的局面！现在我需要做的就是一次深呼吸，眯着眼看着红色的横幅，然后欺骗自己，让自己相信正在参加世界上受到最好教育群体的哈立波特大会。
做毕业典礼演说是一个重大的责任，我的思绪回到了自己的那次毕业典礼。
那天的演讲者是一位英国的杰出哲学家Baroness Marry Warnock. 对她演讲的回忆对我写这篇演讲稿帮助巨大，因为我发现她说的话我居然一个字都没有记住。
这个发现让我释然，使我得以继续写完演讲稿，我不用再担心，那种想成为"gay wizard"（harry porter中的魔法大师）的眩晕的愉悦，可能会误导你们放弃在商业、法律、政治领域的大好前途。
你们看，如果你们在若干年后能记住“gay wizard”这个笑话，我就比Barkoness Mary Warnock有进步了。
所以，设定一个可以实现的目标是个人进步的第一步。
实际上，我已经绞尽脑汁、费劲心思去想今天我应该讲什么好。
我问自己：我希望在自己毕业那天已经知道的是什么，而又有哪些重要的教训是我从那天开始到现在的21年间学会的。
我想到了两个答案。
在今天这个愉快的日子，我们聚在一起庆祝你们学习上的成功时，我决定和你们谈谈失败的收益。
JK罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼的演讲
JK罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼的演讲《哈利.波特》的作者罗琳于6月5日参加了哈佛大学2008年的毕业典礼，被授予荣誉学位，并作为特邀嘉宾做了标题为《The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination》（失败的额外收益与想象力的重要性）的演讲。
以下，是译言的翻译。
标题：《失败的额外收益与想象力的重要性》（原文）作者：J.K.罗琳浮士德主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，大学的员工，自豪的父母，以及所有的毕业生们：首先我想说的是“谢谢你们”。
这不仅因为哈佛给了我非比寻常的荣誉，而且为了这几个礼拜以来，由于想到这次毕业典礼演说而产生的恐惧与恶心让我减肥成功。
这真是一个双赢的局面！现在我需要做的就是一次深呼吸，眯着眼看着红色的横幅，然后欺骗自己，让自己相信正在参加世界上受到最好教育群体的哈立波特大会。
做毕业典礼演说是一个重大的责任，我的思绪回到了自己的那次毕业典礼。
那天的演讲者是一位英国的杰出哲学家Baroness Marry Warnock. 对她演讲的回忆对我写这篇演讲稿帮助巨大，因为我发现她说的话我居然一个字都没有记住。
这个发现让我释然，使我得以继续写完演讲稿，我不用再担心，那种想成为"gay wizard"（harry porter中的魔法大师）的眩晕的愉悦，可能会误导你们放弃在商业、法律、政治领域的大好前途。
你们看，如果你们在若干年后能记住“gay wizard”这个笑话，我就比Barkoness Mary Warnock有进步了。
所以，设定一个可以实现的目标是个人进步的第一步。
实际上，我已经绞尽脑汁、费劲心思去想今天我应该讲什么好。
我问自己：我希望在自己毕业那天已经知道的是什么，而又有哪些重要的教训是我从那天开始到现在的21年间学会的。
我想到了两个答案。
在今天这个愉快的日子，我们聚在一起庆祝你们学习上的成功时，我决定和你们谈谈失败的收益。
JK罗琳哈佛演讲
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。
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。
JK罗琳2008哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿（英文）
JK罗琳2008哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿（英文）Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s minds, imagine themselves into other people’s places.Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces can lead to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.What is more, those who choose not to empathize may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greekauthor Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.But how much more a re you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people’s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world’s only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for l ife. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough notto sue me when I’ve used th eir names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.So today, I can wish you nothing better than similar friendships. And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom:。
jk罗琳哈佛大学演讲
jk 罗琳哈佛大学演讲 篇一：jk 罗琳哈佛大学演讲稿 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（沪江小编：以防有人没看过《哈利 波特》……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。
jk罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲
J·K·罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲J·K·罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲作者：阮一峰日期：2008年6月17日一、今年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。
去年的演讲嘉宾是比尔·盖茨，我翻译了他的演讲，影响挺大。
今年，我继续翻译，有兴趣的朋友可以在网上找到原文和视频。
二、她首先说了自己如何构思演讲稿，以及选择的两个演讲主题。
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，各位自豪的家长，以及最重要的各位毕业生同学，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 the world's largest Gryffindor reunion.我想说的第一句话，就是"谢谢"。
jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿中英文
jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿中英文jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿中英文jk罗琳201X哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿中英文。
jk罗琳大家一定是熟悉的，她就是有名的哈利波特的创作者，在她在哈佛大学毕业之际，一篇关于不要害怕失败的演讲影响了很多在校大学生，下面管理资料网与你一起回顾jk罗琳的毕业演讲，献给毕业季的你jk罗琳201X哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿中英文resid ent Faust, members o f the Harv ard Corpor ation andthe Boardof Oversee rs, member s of the f ault, prou d parents,and, abov e all, gra duates,致Faust校长，哈佛集团以及哈佛监事委员会的各位成员，各位教职员工，众多自豪的家长，以及最为重要的各位毕业生们：The fir st thing I ould like to sa isthank ou.Not onl ha s Harvardgiven me a n extraord inar honou r, but the eeks of f ear and na usea I veexperiened at the th ought of g iving this menementaddress ha ve made me lose eigh t. A in-in situation! No all I have to d o is takedeep breat hs, squint at the re d bannersand fool m self intobelievingI am at th e orlds b est-eduate d Harr Pot ter onvent ion.我想要说的第一句话是谢谢你们。
JK罗琳哈佛毕业典礼英语演讲稿：激励人心
JK罗琳哈佛毕业典礼英语演讲稿：激励人心Ladies and gentlemen,It is an absolute honor for me to be standing before you today, on the esteemed grounds of Harvard University - a world-renowned institution that has produced some of the greatest minds in history. As a writer, I must say that I never imagined I would be delivering a speech on this platform, which is why I am very grateful to have this opportunity to talk to you all today.My journey to this moment has been a long one, but it has been filled with valuable lessons that have shaped me into the person I am today. As some of you may know, I came from humble beginnings, and it is safe to say that success was not handed to me on a silver platter. I had to work hard, persevere, and believe in myself even when others did not. And let me tell you, that mindset has carried me far - much farther than I ever imagined possible.But enough about me - I am here today to talk to you about something much bigger than myself. I want to talk about you. I want to talk about the bright minds that are sittingbefore me - the people who will go on to change the world in unimaginable ways. Because, let's face it, that's what Harvard is all about, right? It's about providing a space for some of the greatest thinkers in the world to come together and use their talents for the greater good.But here's the thing - the road to success is never easy. And I know some of you may feel a sense of pressure or uncertainty about what the future holds. Believe me, I understand that feeling all too well. But the truth is, every single person who has ever achieved anything great has had to face obstacles and overcome them to get where they are today. And that's where I want to offer some words of encouragement.First and foremost, never underestimate the power of hard work. Yes, I know it sounds clich茅, but hear me out. Success is not about luck or chances - it's about putting in theeffort and the time to make things happen. And when I say effort, I am not just referring to putting in long hours or sacrificing sleep. I am talking about being consistent, being disciplined, and being willing to learn from your mistakes. Because trust me, you will make mistakes - but it's how you bounce back from them that matters most.Secondly, always stay true to your principles. In thisday and age, it's all too easy to be swayed by the opinionsof others or to succumb to societal pressures. But let metell you, that is not a path to success. Success comes from being authentic, from listening to your heart, and fromstaying true to the values that define who you are. And Iknow that sounds simplistic, but in a world where everythingis changing at lightning speed, it is those principles thatwill anchor you and keep you grounded.Finally, never stop dreaming. Never give up on the things that you are passionate about, no matter how far-fetched they might seem at the time. Because the truth is, sometimes the most brilliant ideas come from the most unlikely places.Think about it - if I had told you twenty years ago that a story about a boy wizard would become a global phenomenon,you might have thought I was crazy. But by daring to dream, I was able to bring my vision to life - and who knows, youmight just be the next person to do the same.In conclusion, I want to leave you with one final thought. Right now, the world may seem like a daunting and uncertain place. But I truly believe that the people sitting before me are the ones who will change that. You are the future leaders,the innovators, and the thinkers who will shape the world for generations to come. And I have every faith that you willrise to that challenge, that you will work hard, stay true to your principles, and most importantly - never stop dreaming.Thank you, Harvard, for inviting me to speak today, and good luck to all of you on your journeys ahead.。
罗琳哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿
罗琳哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿下面小编就和大家分享罗琳哈佛大学毕业典礼上的，欢迎有在学英语或者热爱英文演讲稿的你们一起来阅读，品读。
2019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)。
她几乎没有谈到哈里波特，而是谈及年轻时一段非常艰辛的日子和对人生的思考。
”以下是英文文稿和中文翻译：The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of ImaginationHarvard University Commencement AddressJ.K. RowlingCopyright June 2019As prepared for deliveryPresident Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the 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 the 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 herspeech 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 the giddy 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 Warnock. Achievable goals: the first step to self improvement.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 21 years that have expired between that 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 imagination.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 those 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 the 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 executive 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 entails fear, 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 writingstories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure 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 unruffled 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 the average person’s idea of success, so high have 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 by every 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 light at the end of it was ahope 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 the only 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 the 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 is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I 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 ofacquisition 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 my earliest 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 and saw pictures of their injuries. I opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings andrapes.Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to speak against their governments. Visitors to our offices included those who had come to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those they had left behind.I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness.And as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since. The door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her. She had just had to give him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his country’s regime, his mother had been seized and executed.Every day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain power. Ibegan to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw, heard, and read.And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.Amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have. The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet. My small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life.Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places.Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfullyunimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.What is more, those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2019, likely to touch other people’s lives? Your intelli gence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world’s only remaining superpower. The way yo u vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power weneed inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.So today, I wish you nothing better than similar friendships. And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.Thank you very much.福斯特主席、哈佛同仁和监察委员会的各位员工，各位老师，家长、同学们:首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
JK罗琳哈佛毕业典礼英语演讲稿：畅想未来的职场生涯
JK罗琳哈佛毕业典礼英语演讲稿：畅想未来的职场生涯Ladies and gentlemen,It is an honor to stand before you today and deliver this speech. More than two decades ago, I sat where you are,filled with excitement and trepidation, wondering what the future had in store for me. Today, as I stand before you, I can honestly say that the journey has been nothing short of extraordinary.When I was sitting where you are now, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. All I knew was that I loved writing, and I loved telling stories. I remember my mother’s words to me as I headed off to Hogwarts in my first year –“Write what you know.” And so, I began to write what I knew – stories of wizards, witches, and magic.But what I learned is that you don’t have to write about what you know. You can write about anything that you want. You can create worlds that don’t exist and bring characters to life that never were. And that’s the beauty of writing –the freedom to create and imagine.My advice to you, as you graduate today, is to never stop creating and imagining. You may not know what the future holds, but you can make it anything you want it to be. It’s easy to get caught up in the practicalities of life –finding a job, paying bills, saving for retirement. But ifyou focus too much on the practicalities, you may lose sightof the dream.I remember my first book signing – I was so nervous that no one would show up. But I will never forget the feeling of seeing the first person in line, holding a copy of my book, waiting to get it signed. That feeling – the feeling of accomplishment, the feeling of making a connection with someone through words – is something that you can never forget.And so, I encourage you to pursue your dreams, whatever they may be. Don’t be afraid to fail, because fai lure is a necessary ingredient to success. Don’t be afraid to take risks, because risks often lead to the most rewarding experiences.As you embark on this next chapter of your life, remember that you have the power to make it anything you want it to be.You can create, imagine, and inspire. You have the power to change the world. So, go out there and do it.In conclusion, I want to leave you with one last piece of advice – always, always follow your dreams. No matter where they take you, no matter how difficult the road may be, your dreams are what make life worth living. Congratulations, Class of 2021. The journey has just begun.。
2008年JK罗琳：哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文对照）
2008年JK罗琳：哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文对照）第一篇：2008年JK罗琳：哈佛毕业典礼演讲(中英文对照) 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： T ext as delivered follows.Copyright of JK Rowling, June 2008 President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parent s, 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 the 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 turnsout 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 the giddy 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 Warnock.Achievable goals: the first step to self improvement.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 21 years that have expired between that 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 imagination.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 those 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, or secure a pension.I know that the irony strikes with the 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 executive 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 entails fear, 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 beenthe measure 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 unruffled 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 the average 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 by every 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 light at 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 thanwhat I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only 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 the 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 trulyabove 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 is painfully 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 itsvicissitudes.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 my earliest 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 and saw pictures of their injuries.I opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to speak against their governments.Visitors to our offices included those who had come to give information, or to try and find out what hadhappened to those they had left behind.I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland.He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him.He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child.I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness.And as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since.The door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her.She had just had to give him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his country‟s regime, his mother had been seized and executed.Every day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain power.I began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw, heard, and read.And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.Amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have.The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners.Ordinary people, whose personal well-being andsecurity are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet.My small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of mylife.Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced.They can think themselves into other people‟s places.Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral.One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all.They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages;they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally;they can refuse to know.I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do.Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors.I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters.They are oftenmore afraid.What is more, those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters.For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will chan ge outer reality.That is an astonishing statement and yetproven a thousand times every day of our lives.It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people‟s lives simply by existing.But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people‟s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities.Even your nationality sets you apart.The great majority of you belong to the world‟s only remaining superpower.The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders.That is your privilege, and your burden.If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice;if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless;if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change.We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.I am nearly finished.I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21.The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life.They are my children‟s godparents, the people to whom I‟ve been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters.At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable ifany of us ran for Prime Minister.So today, I wish you nothing better than similar friendships.And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.Thank you very much.福斯特主席、哈佛同仁和监察委员会的各位员工，各位老师，家长、同学们:首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
最新-jk罗琳2019哈佛毕业典礼演讲(中英文) 精品
jk罗琳2019哈佛毕业典礼演讲(中英文)·罗琳，毕业于英国埃克塞特大学，是一位英国知名奇幻小说家，代表作为《哈利·波特》系列作品。
罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲,,,,,,,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格兰芬多聚会上。
;,,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，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有快乐和同性恋的意思。
?,--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。
建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。
,,21实际上，我为今天应该和大家谈些什么绞尽了脑汁。
我问自己什么是我希望早在毕业典礼上就该了解的，而从那时起到现在的21年间，我又得到了什么重要的启示。
,,我想到了两个答案。
在这美好的一天，当我们一起庆祝你们取得学业成就的时刻，我希望告诉你们失败有什么样的益处;在你们即将迈向"现实生活"的道路之际，我还要褒扬想象力的重要性。
,这些似乎是不切实际或自相矛盾的选择，但请先容我讲完。
21--,42--,,回顾21岁刚刚毕业时的自己，对于今天42岁的我来说，是一个稍微不太舒服的经历。
可以说，我人生的前一部分，一直挣扎在自己的雄心和身边的人对我的期望之间。
,,,,,,我一直深信，自己唯一想做的事情，就是写小说。
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jk罗琳演讲稿jk罗琳演讲稿——《哈利.波特》作者罗琳JK罗琳哈佛大学演讲(中英文)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 cant 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。
JK罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲
J·K·罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲《失败的好处和想象的重要性》(The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination)。
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。
二、她首先回忆了自己大学毕业的情景: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 could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.当时,我只想去写小说。
但是,我的父母出身贫寒,没有受过大学教育。
他们认为,我那些不安分的想象力只是一种怪癖,根本不能用来还房贷,或者挣来养老金。
They had 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.他们希望我再去读个专业学位,而我想去攻读英国文学。
哈佛大学毕业典礼上的英语演讲稿——改变你的人生轨迹
哈佛大学毕业典礼上的英语演讲稿——改变你的人生轨迹Ladies and gentlemen,Today is a very special day, not only for the graduatesbut also for their parents, friends, and families who have supported them in their long journey towards this momentous occasion. You have all gathered here in this prestigious institution, Harvard University, to celebrate the accomplishments of these young men and women.As we look back at their journey, we can resonate withthe challenges they have faced and the sacrifices they have made to reach this point. They have pushed themselves beyond their limits and have worked very hard to pursue their dreams. Today, they have achieved their goals and are ready to embark on a new journey, a journey that will define their future.As I stand here, I cannot help but reflect on my own journey. Like many of you, I did not have an easy path, but I was determined to change my life trajectory. I understoodthat my destiny was not dictated by my circumstances, but rather by my choices, my attitude, and my perseverance. And this understanding has been instrumental in my journey.Today, I want to share my journey with you, and I hopethat it will inspire you to make the necessary changes inyour life to transform your destiny.Growing up, I was raised in a very humble family. My parents worked tirelessly to provide for us, but we still struggled financially. I knew from a young age that I did not want to live my life like this. I dreamed of going to college, obtaining a degree, and making a better life for myself andmy family.However, my circumstances told a different story. I wasnot an outstanding student, and I had no resources to pursue higher education. I had no connections or access toinfluential people who could help me achieve my dreams.But I was determined to change my story. I took charge of my education by reading extensively, attending seminars and workshops, and seeking advice from experts in various fields.I was relentless in my pursuit of knowledge and self-improvement, and over time, I began to develop the skills and the network that I needed to achieve my goals.It was not an easy journey. There were countless times when I wanted to give up, times when I doubted myself, and times when I was told that I was not good enough. But I held on to my dream and my vision, and I refused to let anyone or anything deter me from my path.And today, I stand before you as a testament to the fact that anything is possible. I have achieved more than I ever thought possible, and I have changed my family's trajectory and my own.My story is not unique, and my journey is one that many of us can relate to. You may have faced similar obstacles and challenges, and you may have doubted your ability to achieve your dreams. But I want to tell you today that you have the power to change your life trajectory.You have the ability to make choices that will lead you towards success, happiness, and fulfillment. You have the strength to persevere and work hard towards your goals, no matter what obstacles you may face. And you have thepotential to transform your circumstances and create a better future for yourself and your loved ones.As you leave this institution and embark on a new journey, I urge you to remember the power that lies within you. Useyour education, your skills, and your passion to make a difference in the world. Believe in yourself and yourabilities, and do not be afraid to take risks and pursue your dreams.You have the potential to change the world, and I cannot wait to see the amazing things that you will accomplish inthe years to come.Thank you, and congratulations to the class of 2021!。
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The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of ImaginationHarvard 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 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。
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JK罗琳哈佛毕业典礼英语演讲稿：感染你的人生旅程
Dear fellow graduates, distinguished guests, and faculty members,
It is an absolute honor to stand before you today and address the graduating class of Harvard University. I am grateful for this opportunity to share with you a few thoughts about the journey that lies ahead of you and how it is we can find meaning and purpose during the twists and turns of life.
When I was asked to speak at this graduation ceremony, I was reminded of my own journey as a writer and how I was shaped by the people and experiences I encountered along the way. It was a journey that began many years ago, long before I ever dreamed of writing about a boy wizard and a magical world.
Growing up, I was not the happiest of children. My parents had a difficult marriage, and they fought constantly. My mother suffered from a debilitating illness, which left her bedridden for much of my childhood. And I struggled
academically, feeling like I could never live up to the expectations of my teachers and peers.
Despite these challenges, there were people who inspired and encouraged me to follow my dreams. They were the teachers who saw something in me that I couldn't see myself. The friends who showed me kindness and compassion when I needed
it most. And the authors and books that transported me to new worlds and helped me to see the beauty and wonder of life.
It was these people who lit a spark within me and set me on a path to becoming a writer. As I wrote, I found that I could create new stories and worlds that allowed me to explore my own thoughts and feelings. It gave me a sense of purpose and meaning that I had never felt before.
For me, writing was a way to make sense of the world and to connect with others. It was a journey that took me to places I never imagined and introduced me to people who would forever change my life. And it all started with that spark of inspiration that was ignited by the people I encountered along the way.
As you embark on your own journey, I encourage you to seek out those people who will inspire and inspire you. They may be the teachers who push you to excel, the friends who
lift you up when you fall, or the strangers who offer a helping hand when you need it most. They are the ones who
will help you to find your path and to stay true to your values and beliefs.
But finding these people is just the first step. The true challenge is in recognizing them when they appear and being open to the lessons they have to teach you. It requires a willingness to let go of your preconceptions and to embrace the unknown. It requires a willingness to take risks and to learn from your mistakes. And it requires a willingness to be humble and to ask for help when you need it.
As you navigate the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, remember that your journey is not about reaching a destination. It is about the people you meet along the way and the impact they have on your life. It is about the lessons you learn and the changes you make. And it is about finding joy and fulfillment in the moments, both big and small, that make up your life.
So, to the graduating class of Harvard University, I leave you with this: seek out the people who will inspire and challenge you, and be open to the journey that lies ahead. It won't always be easy, but if you stay true to yourself and keep your eyes open, you may just find that your greatest adventures are yet to come.
Congratulations, and may the journey ahead be filled with joy, wonder, and discovery.
Thank you.。