偶像勵(lì)志英語演講 79:做真正的自己(1)

[00:00.16]Thank you, President Cowan, Mrs. President Cowen; 尊敬的考恩校長，校長夫人， [00:04.46]distinguished guests, undistinguished guests--you know who you are, honored faculty and creepy Spanish teacher. 尊貴的嘉賓，不知名的嘉賓——你們知道自己是誰，不用介紹了，老師們還有令人害怕的西班牙語老師，感謝你們! [00:11.00]So and thank you to all the graduating class of 2009, 感謝所有杜蘭大學(xué)2009屆畢業(yè)生們! [00:17.14]I realize most of you are hungover and have splitting headaches and haven't slept since Fat Tuesday, 我知道你們絕大多數(shù)還因?yàn)樗拮矶^痛欲裂，狂歡到今天都還沒有睡覺。 [00:21.48]but you can't graduate till I finish, so listen up. 但沒聽完我演講不能畢業(yè)，所以要注意聽了。 [00:27.21]When I was asked to make the commencement speech, I immediately said yes. 當(dāng)我應(yīng)邀來發(fā)表畢業(yè)演講時(shí)，我毫不猶豫就答應(yīng)了， [00:31.40]Then I went to look up what commencement meant. 然后我才去查畢業(yè)典禮是什么意思。 [00:36.08]Which would have been easy if I had a dictionary, 如果我有字典的話就輕松多了， [00:37.48]but most of the books in our house are Portia's, and they're all written in Australian. 但我家里有的書大多都是波西亞的，而且都是澳式英語， [00:44.19]So I had to break the word down myself, to find out the meaning. 所以我得自己拆分單詞，摸索它的意思。 [00:50.24]Commencement: common, and cement. Common cement. Commencement由common和cement構(gòu)成，意思是“常見的水泥”。 [00:57.22]You commonly see cement on sidewalks. 在人行道上你常看見水泥。 [01:00.51]Sidewalks have cracks, and if you step on a crack, you break your mother's back. 人行道上有裂縫，你踩到了裂縫，撞傷了你媽媽的背。意思就是這樣 [01:06.00]So there's that. But I'm honored that you've asked me here to speak at your common cement. 。但是我很榮幸應(yīng)邀給你們做“常見的水泥”的演講。 [01:16.22]I thought that you had to be a famous alumnus-alumini-aluminum-alumis-you had to graduate from this school. 我原以為要夠有名，并且必須是貴校的校友才能來這里演講。 [01:22.28]And I didn't go to college here, 我沒在這兒上過大學(xué)， [01:26.38]and I don't know if President Cowen know, I didn't go to college at all. Any collge. 而且，不知道考恩校長是否知道，我根本沒念過大學(xué)，沒上過任何大學(xué)。 [01:30.35]And I'm not saying you wasted your time, or money, 我不是說你們在浪費(fèi)時(shí)間和金錢。 [01:34.01]but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity. 看看我，我可是超級(jí)成功的名人。

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