【正文】 中得到知識將使你更加明智和堅(jiān)強(qiáng)，也就是說您比以往任何時候更有能力生存。我不是在偽裝自己，我只是直接把所有精力放在最重要的工作上。事實(shí)上，您對失敗的理解可能和普通人對成功的看法不會太遠(yuǎn)。像你們這樣大時，我明顯缺乏在大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)的動力。埋怨父母給你指錯方向是有時間段的。他們希望我拿到一個職業(yè)學(xué)位?，F(xiàn)實(shí)生活39。你們都明白，如果在若干年后您還記得39。if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine am nearly have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never e again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime today, I wish you nothing better than similar tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what wish you all very good you very 、哈佛同仁和監(jiān)察委員會的各位員工，各位老師，家長、同學(xué)們: 首先請?jiān)试S我說一聲謝謝。I wanted to study English promise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern had my parents’ car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics。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 person’s idea of success, so high have you already , we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic exceptionally shortlived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being fears that my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both e to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I , 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 then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected。現(xiàn)在我要做的就是深呼吸，瞇著眼睛看著眼前的大紅橫幅，安慰自己只是在世界上最大的矮人大會上?？蓪?shí)現(xiàn)的目標(biāo)：個人提高的第一步。讓一個已經(jīng)42歲的人回顧在她21歲畢業(yè)時情景，是個讓人有點(diǎn)不舒服的經(jīng)歷。幾乎剛把車停在路盡頭的墻角（譯者加指去校報道），我放棄了德語并逃到古典文學(xué)的殿堂。他們是貧窮的，我也一直很貧窮。我不愚蠢假設(shè)因?yàn)槟銈兊哪贻p，天才和受過良好教育就從來沒有困難或心碎的時刻。因而我可以公平地講，從任何傳統(tǒng)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)看，在我畢業(yè)僅僅七年后的日子里，我的失敗就達(dá)到了空前的規(guī)模：一個異常短暫的破裂的婚姻、失業(yè)、一個單親家長，像在現(xiàn)代英國的窮人一樣，只是還沒有到無家可歸的地步罷了。所以困境的谷底成為我重建生活的堅(jiān)實(shí)基礎(chǔ)。這是痛苦的勝利比我取得的任何資格有著更高的價值。這種改造和揭露的能力，使我們能夠?qū)ψ约何唇?jīng)歷的苦難者產(chǎn)生同理心。我有很多的合作者是前政治犯，他們已離開家園流離失所，或逃亡流放，因?yàn)樗麄兇竽懙貞岩烧拿裰鲉栴}。在我20多歲的時候，我工作的每一天，都在提醒我是多么的幸運(yùn)。這在道德上是中立的，是我生命中一段最謙恭和發(fā)人深省的生活經(jīng)歷。我可能會因誘惑而嫉妒那樣生活的人，除了我不認(rèn)為他們會比我少做噩夢。事實(shí)上，我們以自己的存在來接觸其他人的生命。對你們，我有最后一個希望，也是我在21歲時就一直在思考的。在我退出職業(yè)生涯后，尋找古老的生活智慧：生活就像故事一樣，不在乎長度，而在于質(zhì)量。Delivering a mencement address is a great responsibility。ve still e out ahead of Baroness Mary goalsthe first step to ，如果在若干年后你們還記得“快樂的魔法師”這個笑話，那就證明我已經(jīng)超越了Baroness Mary Warnock。These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with ，但請先容我講完。最后，達(dá)成了一個雙方都不甚滿意的妥協(xié)：我改學(xué)現(xiàn)代語言。埋怨父母給你指錯方向是有一個時間段的。我有一個通過考試的訣竅，并且數(shù)年間一直讓我在大學(xué)生活和同齡人中不落人后。所以我承認(rèn)命運(yùn)的公平，從任何傳統(tǒng)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)看，在我畢業(yè)僅僅七年后的日子里，我的失敗達(dá)到了史詩般空前的規(guī)模：短命的婚姻閃電般地破裂，我又失業(yè)成了一個艱難的單身母親。我因此不再偽裝自己、遠(yuǎn)離自我，而重新開始把所有精力放在對我最重要的事情上。羅琳在哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講作者： 阮一峰日期： 2008年6月17日一、今年6月5日是哈佛大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮，請