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President Bach, former President Rudenstein, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the board of overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially the graduates: I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.
巴赫校長、前任魯?shù)撬固剐iL、即將上任的福斯特校長、哈佛公司成員和監(jiān)事會成員、教職員工、家長們,尤其是畢業(yè)生們:我等了三十多年才說出這句話:爸爸,我一直告訴過您我會回來拿到學位。
I want to thank Harvard for this honor. I'll be changing my job next year, and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume. I applaud the graduates for taking a much more direct route to their degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson called me Harvard's most successful dropout.
我要感謝哈佛給我的這份榮譽。我明年就要換工作了,終于能在簡歷上寫上大學學位了,這真是太好了。我為畢業(yè)生們采取更直接的途徑獲得學位而喝彩。就我而言,我很高興《哈佛深紅報》稱我是哈佛最成功的輟學者。
I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class. I did the best for everyone who failed, but I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Balmer to drop out of business school.
我想,這讓我成為了我這個特殊班級的畢業(yè)生代表。我為所有失敗的人盡了最大的努力,但我也希望人們認識到我是讓史蒂夫·鮑爾默從商學院輟學的人。
I'm a bad influence. That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I'd spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today. Harvard was a phenomenal experience for me.
我是一個壞影響者。這就是我被邀請在你們畢業(yè)典禮上發(fā)言的原因。如果我在你們的迎新會上發(fā)言,今天在場的人可能會更少。哈佛對我來說是一次非凡的經(jīng)歷。
My academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes that I hadn't even signed up for, and dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe in Career House.
我的學術生活令人著迷。我曾經(jīng)旁聽過很多我甚至沒有報名的課程,宿舍生活也很棒。我住在拉德克利夫的職業(yè)之家。
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