【正文】 o you about the benefits of as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called 39。不過，我的父母，他們都來自貧窮的背景，沒有任何一人上過大學，堅持認為我過度的想象力是一個令人驚訝的個人怪癖，根本不足以讓我支付按揭，或者取得足夠的養(yǎng)老金。我想，在全世界的所有專業(yè)中，他們也許認為，不會有比研究希臘神話更沒用的專業(yè)了，根本無法換來一間獨立寬敞的衛(wèi)生間。貧窮并不是一種高貴的經歷，它帶來恐懼、壓力、有時還有絕望，它意味著許許多多的羞辱和艱辛。s idea of success, so high have you already flown ，你們是哈佛畢業(yè)生的這個事實，意味著你們并不很了解失敗。Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a ，我不打算站在這里告訴你們，失敗是有趣的。第三篇：jk羅琳在哈佛大學畢業(yè)典禮上的演講J雖然JPresident Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, ，哈佛集團的各位成員，監(jiān)管理事會的各位理事，各位老師，各位自豪的家長，以及最重要的各位畢業(yè)生同學，The first thing I would like to say is 39。Delivering a mencement address is a great responsibility。今年，我繼續(xù)翻譯，有興趣的朋友可以在網(wǎng)上找到原文和視頻。我讀了一遍講稿，覺得很好，很感染人。我獲得了自由，因為最害怕的雖然已經發(fā)生了，但我還活著，我仍然有一個我深愛的女兒，我還有一個舊打字機和一個很大的想法。當The Benefits of JK Rowling at Harvard 3 年父母和我自己對未來的擔憂，現(xiàn)在都變成了現(xiàn)實。擁有才華和智慧，從來不會使人對命運的反復無常有所準備；我也不會假設大家坐在這里冷靜地滿足于自身的優(yōu)越感。尤其是，我不會因為父母希望我不要過窮日子，而責怪他們。I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics?？梢哉f，我人生的前一部分，一直掙扎在自己的雄心和身邊的人對我的期望之間。Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day and ，我為今天應該和大家談些什么絞盡了腦汁。t remember a single word she liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of being a gay ，至少在我回憶自己當年的畢業(yè)典禮前是這么認為的。第二篇：JK羅琳哈佛大學演講The Benefits of JK Rowling at Harvard ：失敗的好處和想象Video of J K Rowling39。在畢業(yè)典禮上，我們被心中澎湃的激情緊密聯(lián)結，被共同分享的寶貴時光緊密聯(lián)結，當然，也被某個共識緊密聯(lián)結——如果我們中的某人有朝一日當選為英國首相，那我們持有的合影照片肯定會價值不菲。我們并不需要魔法來改造世界。在某種程度上，它表達了我們與外面世界的無法逃避的聯(lián)系；它道出這樣一個事實，僅僅是我們自身的存在，就已經觸碰到了他人的生活。也許我禁不住會想要嫉妒這樣生活的人，只可惜我不相信他們做的惡夢會比我少。人類與地球上的其它生物不同。在我二十幾歲的時候，工作中的每一天，我都不斷被提醒著自己是多么的幸運，能夠生活在一個民選政府管理的國家，人人都享有法律代理和公開審判的權利。他是個年輕人，不會比那時的我年紀更大，在自己的祖國遭受的一切已經使他有些精神失常。男人和女人們急切的寫下潦草的文字，將信偷偷寄出來，冒著坐牢的風險告訴外界自己遭受了怎樣的對待。但這并不是全部的原因。我意識到自己擁有堅強的意志，而且比我以前設想的還要自律；我還發(fā)現(xiàn)我擁有的朋友們是如此寶貴，其價值連寶石也不能媲美。我不再裝模作樣，終于重新做回自己，開始將所有的精力投入到自己在意的唯一作品。我那罕見的短暫婚姻走到了盡頭，自己又失業(yè)了。盡管如此，我卻有些讓自己能通過考試的竅門；而考試，在若干年中，就成了衡量我和我同齡人的成敗的標準。順便提一句，我必須聲明自己并沒有為父母的觀點而責怪他們的意思。在前半生中我一直奮力掙扎，為了在自己的雄心壯志與親人對我的期盼之間取得一個平衡?？吹搅税桑烤退闳舾赡旰竽銈儗ξ业难葜v的印象只剩下這個“快樂的巫師”的笑話，那我還是領先了Baroness Mary Warnock一步的。ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I39。they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally。it means a thousand petty humiliations and out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and welleducated, you have never known hardship or and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and , the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very wellacquainted with might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for , your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person39。 joke, I39。第一篇：JK羅琳 2008哈佛大學畢業(yè)典禮上的演講(JK羅琳2008哈佛大學畢業(yè)典禮上的演講（視頻+中英對照文稿）The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of ImaginationHarvard University Commencement AddressCopyright June 2008As prepared for deliveryPresident Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates，The first thing I would like to say is 39。gay wizard39。the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression。s course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at choose to remain fortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages。s godparents, the people to whom I39。這個具有解放意義的重大發(fā)現(xiàn)讓我無所畏懼的寫下自己的致詞，因為我再也不必擔心會在不經意間對你們造成影響，以至于讓你們?yōu)榱顺蔀橐粋€快樂巫師的虛幻憧憬，就放棄自己在商業(yè)、法律界或政界的遠大前程。對于一個已經42歲的婦人來說，回顧21歲畢業(yè)典禮的時刻并不是一件十分舒服的事情。在地球上所有的學科當中，當涉及到“獲得使用正式員工專用洗手間的權利”的時候，我估計他們很難想到比希臘神話更沒用的學科了。當我像你們這么大的時候，我對大學里的課程沒什么動力，總是在咖啡館里花上大把的時間寫小說，而用于聽課的時間則寥寥無幾。因此我覺得，不管按照什么慣行標準，僅僅在畢業(yè)七年之后，我都確確實實的失敗了，而且敗得徹徹底底。為什么我還要談起失敗的好處呢？簡單的說，是因為失敗會為我們揭去表面那些無關緊要的東西。失敗讓我明白關于自己的一些東西，這是除了失敗以外我決不可能獲得的認知。也許你們會以為，我之所以選擇第二個主題——想象力的重要性，是因為想象力在我重筑人生時發(fā)揮了巨大作用。在那里，我坐在小小的辦公室里閱讀來自集權統(tǒng)治下的地區(qū)的信件。我永遠也無法忘記一個來自非洲的經受嚴刑拷打的受害者。她剛剛告訴那位年青人，由于他本人公開反對自己國家的專制，他的母親已被抓走并處決了。我個人在其中的參與，是我今生最為卑微、卻最為振奮的經歷。他們可以拒絕傾聽叫喊聲，也不會窺視籠子內的情況；對于任何沒有降臨到自身的痛苦，他們都可以關閉自己的頭腦和心靈；他們可以拒絕知道。這句驚人的宣言卻每天都被我們的生活證實無數(shù)次。那么，不僅僅是你的家人會為你自豪，更有成千上萬的、因為你而生活得更好的人會為你歡呼。他們是如此寬容的朋友，就連名字被我用來命名食死徒的時候也沒有起訴我。非常感謝。or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own mencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary on her speech has helpe