毕业典礼发言稿-哈佛大学毕业典礼中国学生演讲稿
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哈佛大学毕业典礼中国学生演讲稿
何江哈佛演讲中英文完整版:《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 help—but instead of taking me to a doctor, my mom set my hand on fire。
在我读初中的时候,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,
她而是决定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。热量逐渐渗透过棉花,开始炙烤我的右手。灼烧的疼痛让我忍不住想喊叫,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 didn’t 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。在我出生的时候,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 mom’s cure: heat deactivates proteins,and a spider’s venom is simply a form of protein。It’s cool how that folk remedy actually incorporates basic biochemistry,isn’t it?
在座的如果有生物背景的人,你们或许已经理解到了我妈妈使用的这个简单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一定的理论依据,想来也是挺有意思的。
But I am a PhD student in biochemistry at Harvard, I now know that better, less painful and less risky treatments existed。So I can’t help but ask myself,why I didn’t receive one at the time?