哈佛首位大陆毕业生代表何江在哈佛毕业典礼的演讲

哈佛首位大陆毕业生代表何江在哈佛毕业典礼的演讲教育能转变人生演讲时间：2021年5月26日中国大陆第一位作为哈佛讨论生优秀毕业生代表何江的励志演讲稿The Spiders Bite蜘蛛咬伤轶事When I was in middle school, a poisonous spider bit my right hand. I ran to my mom for helpbut instead of taking me to a doctor, my mom set my hand on fire.在我读学校的时候，有一次，一只毒蜘蛛咬伤了我的右手。

我问我妈妈该怎么处理---我妈妈并没有带我去看医生，她而是打算用火疗的方法治疗我的伤口。

After wrapping my hand with several layers of cotton, then soaking it in wine, she put a chopstick into my mouth,and ignited the cotton. Heat quickly penetrated the cotton and began to roast my hand. The searing pain made me want to scream, but the chopstick prevented it. All I could do was watch my hand burn - one minute, then two minutes until mom put out the fire.她在我的手上包了好几层棉花，棉花上喷撒了白酒，在我的嘴里放了一双筷子，然后打火点燃了棉花。

热量渐渐渗透过棉花，开头炙烤我的右手。

灼烧的痛苦让我忍不住想喊叫，可嘴里的筷子却让我发不出声来。

我只能看着我的手被火烧着，一分钟，两分钟，直到妈妈熄灭了火苗。

You see, the part of China I grew up in was a rural village, and at that time pre-industrial. When I was born, my village had no cars, no telephones, no electricity, not even running water. And we certainly didnt have access to modern medical resources. There was no doctor my mother could bring me to see about my spider bite.你看，我在中国的农村长大，在那个时候，我的村庄还是一个类似前工业时代的传统村落。

在我诞生的时候，我的村子里面没有汽车，没有电话，没有电，甚至也没有自来水。

我们自然不能轻易的获得先进的现代医疗资源。

那个时候也没有一个合适的医生可以来帮我处理蜘蛛咬伤的伤口。

For those who study biology, you may have grasped the science behind my moms cure: heat deactivates proteins, and a spiders venom is simply a form of protein. Its cool how that folk remedy actually incorporates basic biochemistry, isnt it? But I am a PhD student in biochemistry at Harvard, I now know that better, less painful and less risky treatments existed. So I cant help but ask myself, why I didnt receive one at the time?在座的假如有生物背景的人，你们或许已经理解到了我妈妈使用的这个简洁的治疗手段的基本原理：高热可以让蛋白质变性，而蜘蛛的毒液也是一种蛋白质。

这样一种传统的土方法实际上有它肯定的理论依据，想来也是挺有意思的。

但是，作为哈佛高校生物化学的博士，我现在知道在我学校那个时候，已经有更好的，没有那么苦痛的，也没有那么有风险的治疗方法了。

于是我便忍不住会问自己，为什么我在当时没有能够享用到这些更为先进的治疗方法呢？Fifteen years have passed since that incident. I am happy to report that my hand is fine. But this question lingers, and I continue to be troubled by the unequal distribution of scientific knowledge throughout the world. We have learned to edit the human genome and unlock many secrets of how cancer progresses. We can manipulate neuronal activity literally with the switch of a light. Each year brings more advances in biomedical research-exciting, transformative accomplishments.蜘蛛咬伤的事故已经过去也许十五年了。

我特别兴奋的向在座的各位报告一下，我的手还是完好的。

但是，我刚刚提到的这个问题这些年来始终停在我的脑海中，而我也时不时会由于先进科技学问在世界上不同地区的不公平分布而困扰。

现如今，我们人类已经学会怎么进行人类基因编辑了，也讨论清晰了许多个癌症发生进展的缘由。

我们甚至可以利用一束光来掌握我们大脑内神经元的活动。

每年生物医学的讨论都会给我们带来不一样突破和进步其中有不少令人兴奋，也极具革命颠覆性的成果。

Yet, despite the knowledge we have amassed, we havent been so successful in deploying it to where its needed most. According to the World Bank, twelve percent of the worlds population lives on less than $2 a day. Malnutrition kills more than 3 million children annually. Three hundred million people are afflicted by malaria globally. All over the world, we constantly see these problems of poverty, illness, and lack of resources impeding the flow of scientific information. Lifesaving knowledge we take for granted in the modern world is often unavailable in these underdeveloped regions.And in far too many places, people are still essentially trying to cure a spider bite with fire.然而，尽管我们人类已经在科研上有了很多的建树，在怎样把这些最前沿的科学讨论带到世界最需要该技术的地区这件事情上，我们有时做的差强人意。

世界银行的数据显示，世界上大约有12%的人口每天的生活水平仍旧低于2美元。

养分不良每年导致三百万儿童死亡。

将近3亿人口仍旧受到疟疾的干扰。

在世界各地，我们常常看到类似的由贫困，疾病和自然匮乏导致的科学学问传播的受阻。

现代社会里习以为常的那些救生常识常常在这些欠发达或不发达地区未能普及。

于是，在世界上仍有许多地区，人们只能依靠于用火疗这一简洁粗暴的方式来治理蜘蛛咬伤事故。

While studying at Harvard, I saw how scientific knowledge can helpothers in simple, yet profound ways. The bird flu pandemic in the 2000s looked to my village like a spell cast by demons. Our folk medicine didnt even have half-measures to offer. Whats more, farmers didnt know the difference between common cold and flu; they didnt understand that the flu was much more lethal than the common cold. Most people were also unaware that the virus could transmit across different species.在哈佛读书期间，我有切身体会到先进的科技学问能够既简洁又深远的关心到社会上许多的人。

本世纪初的时候，禽流感在亚洲多个国家肆虐。

那个时候，村庄里的农夫听到禽流感就像听到恶魔施咒一样，对其特殊的恐惊。

乡村的土医疗方法对这样一个疾病也是束手无策。

农夫对于一般感冒和流感的区分并不是很清晰，他们并不懂得流感比一般感冒可能更加致命。

而且，大部分人对于科学家所发觉的流感病毒能够跨不同物种传播这一事实并不清晰。

So when I realized that simple hygiene practices like separating different animal species could contain the spread of the disease, and that I could help make this knowledge available to my village, that was my first “Aha” moment as a budding scientist. But it was more than that: it was also a vital inflection point in my own ethical development, my own self-understanding as a member of the global community.于是，在我意识到这些学问背景，及简洁的将受感染的不同物种隔离开来以减缓疾病传播，并打算将这些学问传递到我的村庄时，我的心里第一次有了一种作为将来科学家的使命感。