【正文】 uccess, so high have you already flown , 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 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 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 already 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。ve still e out ahead of Baroness Mary goals: the first step towards personal , 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 have e up with two this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called 39。thank you.39。 Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I39。real life39。I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever a time machine or a Time Turner, I would tell my 21yearold self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the is difficult, and plicated, and beyond anyone39。s lives simply by how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people39。KDelivering a mencement address is a great responsibility。You see? If all you remember in years to e is the 39。I have e up with two this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called 39。I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write , my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, ，我確信自己一生中唯一想做的事情，就是去寫小說?？墒堑鹊礁改傅能囅г诠返霓D(zhuǎn)角，我就立刻拋掉了德語，奔向古典文學(xué)的道路。父母只在一段時(shí)間內(nèi)，對(duì)你的人生方向負(fù)責(zé)；當(dāng)你長大以后，你自己就控制了人生方向，必須自己承擔(dān)責(zé)任。除了流浪漢，我是當(dāng)代英國最窮的人之一，真的一無所有。Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly ，那么我也許永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)有這樣的決心，投身于這個(gè)我自信真正屬于我的領(lǐng)域。You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever ，你才會(huì)真正了解你自己，了解你結(jié)識(shí)的人。蓋茨去年說：Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world39。But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people39。K去年的演講嘉賓是比爾最后，達(dá)成了一個(gè)雙方都不甚滿意的妥協(xié)：我改學(xué)外語?！麄冎皇窍Ｍ也灰^窮日子，我不能批評(píng)他們。我父母對(duì)我的擔(dān)憂，我對(duì)自己的擔(dān)憂，都變成了現(xiàn)實(shí)。I was set free, because my greatest fear had already 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 ，因?yàn)槲易畲蟮目謶忠呀?jīng)成為現(xiàn)實(shí)，而我卻還依然活著，依然有一個(gè)深愛著的女兒，我還有一臺(tái)舊打字機(jī)和一個(gè)大大的夢想。這種了解是真正的財(cái)富，雖然是用痛苦換來的，但是它比我以前得到的任何證書都有用。s worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty … the prevalence of world hunger … the scarcity of clean water …the girls kept out of school … the children who die from diseases we can cure?哈佛是否鼓勵(lì)她的老師去研究解決世界上最嚴(yán)重的不平等？哈佛的學(xué)生是否從全球那些極端的貧窮中學(xué)到了什么……世界性的饑荒……清潔的水資源的缺乏……無法上學(xué)的女童……死于非惡性疾病的兒童……哈佛的學(xué)生有沒有從中學(xué)到東西？Should the world39。s least privileged? 那些世界上過著最優(yōu)越生活的人們，有沒有從那些最困難的人們身上學(xué)到東西？These are not rhetorical questions – you will answer with your 。這部分內(nèi)容也很精彩，不過我就不翻譯了，大家可以去看原文。Failure 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。That period of my life was a da