名校勵志英語演講 第175期:人人都能成為總統(tǒng)(2)

[00:00.13]Most people think that to speak at Yale's commencement, you have to be President. 很多人認為，只有總統(tǒng)才能在耶魯大學的畢業(yè)典禮上發(fā)表演講。 [00:05.31]But over the years, the specifications have become far more demanding. 但近幾年條件卻更加嚴格。 [00:10.29]Now you have to be a Yale graduate, you have to be President, and you have had to have lost the Yale vote to Ralph Nader. 演講人必須是美國總統(tǒng)，是耶魯大學校友，而且他在總統(tǒng)選舉中在耶魯大學所在投票區(qū)里得到的票數(shù)要少于拉爾夫·納德。 [00:18.29]This is my first time back here in quite a while. 這是我畢業(yè)這么長時間以來第一次回到母校。 [00:22.19]I'm sure that each of you will make your own journey back at least a few times in your life. 我也相信你們每個人會在畢業(yè)以后至少回來幾次。 [00:27.15]If you're like me, you won't remember everything you did here. That can be a good thing. 當你們像我這么老的時候，你們會不記得在這里做過的每一件事情。這或許是一件好事。 [00:33.26]But there will be some people, and some moments, you will never forget. 不過，一些人，一些事你永遠也不會忘記。 [00:38.20]Take, for example, my old classmate, Dick Brodhead, the accomplished dean of this great university. 就拿我的老同學狄克·布羅德黑德來說，如今他是這所偉大的學校的杰出校長， [00:45.51]I remember him as a young scholar, a bright lad a hard worker. 他讀書時的聰明、好學與刻苦至今讓我記憶猶新。 [00:50.32]We both put a lot of time in at the Sterling Library, in the reading room, where they have those big leather couches. 那時，我們經常泡在圖書館那個有著大皮沙發(fā)的閱讀室里。 [00:57.55]We had a mutual understanding—Dick wouldn't read aloud, and I wouldn't snore. 我們之間有個默契：他不大聲朗讀課文，我睡覺時不打呼嚕。 [01:04.05]Our course selections were different, as we followed our own path to academic discovery. 后來，隨著學術探索的領域不同，我們選修的課程也各不相同。 [01:10.16]Dick was an English major, and loved the classics. I loved history, and pursued a diversified course of study. 狄克主修英語，酷愛古典文學，而我主修歷史，喜歡多樣化的學習過程。 [01:18.13]I like to think of it as the academic road less traveled. 我喜歡把這種學習過程想成是少有人走過的學術之路。 [01:22.02]For example, I took a class that studied Japanese Haiku. 有趣的是，我選修過日本俳句， [01:26.15]Haiku, for the uninitiated, is a 15th century form of poetry, each poem having 17 syllables. 對門外漢來說，俳句是15世紀日本的一種詩歌形式，每首詩只有17個音節(jié)， [01:35.23]Haiku is fully understood only by the Zen masters. 我想其意義只有禪學大師才能明了。

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