【正文】 rk 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 。它帶來(lái)恐懼、壓力、有時(shí)還有抑郁。I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics。今年，我只翻譯了一部分，有興趣的朋友可以在網(wǎng)上找到全部原文和視頻。我讀了一遍講稿，覺(jué)得很好，很感染人。......你們的優(yōu)勢(shì)就是你們的責(zé)任。s most privileged people learn about the lives of the world39。在演說(shuō)的下半部分，她還談了畢業(yè)后在大*赦*國(guó)*際（Amnesty International）倫敦總部的第一份工作。我生命中最低的低點(diǎn)，成為我重建生活的堅(jiān)實(shí)基礎(chǔ)。用平常人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，我是我所知道的最失敗的人。他們自己很窮，我后來(lái)一度也很窮，所以我很理解他們，貧窮是一種悲慘的經(jīng)歷。they might well have found out for the first time on graduation all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive 。他們認(rèn)為，我那些不安分的想象力只是一種怪癖，根72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 本不能用來(lái)還房貸，或者掙來(lái)養(yǎng)老金。, I want to extol the crucial importance of 。 joke, I39。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, the law or politics for the giddy delights of being a gay ，是一項(xiàng)巨大的責(zé)任，令我倍感壓力。President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, ，哈佛集團(tuán)的各位成員，監(jiān)管理事會(huì)的各位理事，各位老師，各位自豪的家長(zhǎng)，以及最重要的各位畢業(yè)生同學(xué)，The first thing I would like to say is 39。s only remaining way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your is your privilege, and your you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice。s headquarters in in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their opened handwritten, eyewitness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and of my coworkers were expolitical prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to think independently of their to our office included those who had e to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those they had been forced to leave shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had bee mentally ill after all he had endured in his trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a was given the job of escorting him to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with had just given him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his country39。I wanted to study English promise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern had my parents39。s besteducated Harry Potter a mencement address is a great responsibility。Kgay 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。s largest Gryffindor ，就是“謝謝”。沃 諾克?？梢詫?shí)現(xiàn)的目標(biāo)，是自己改進(jìn)的第一步。These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with ，但是請(qǐng)聽(tīng)下去。I wanted to study English promise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern had my parents39。I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction?？孔约旱呐[脫貧窮，確實(shí)讓人自豪，但是只有傻瓜才會(huì)將貧窮本身浪漫化。但是，沒(méi)有那段日子的失敗，就不會(huì)有后來(lái)的她。失敗讓我看清自己，以前我從沒(méi)認(rèn)識(shí)到自己是這樣的。一般來(lái)說(shuō)，在演講結(jié)束時(shí)，嘉賓將對(duì)畢業(yè)生提出期望。s idea of success, so high have you already flown ，說(shuō)明你們并不很了解失敗。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 transform for the ，為那些被忽略的人們說(shuō)話(huà)；你們不僅要看到那些有權(quán)有勢(shì)者，也要看到那些無(wú)權(quán)無(wú)勢(shì)者；你們要學(xué)會(huì)設(shè)想，那些條件不如你們的人209 210 211 212 213 214 215 們是如何生活的；那樣的話(huà)，不僅你們的親人們將為你們感到自豪，而且千千萬(wàn)萬(wàn)的人們將因?yàn)槟銈兊膸椭畹酶?。K他們認(rèn)為，我那些不安分的想象力只是一種怪癖，根本不能用來(lái)還房貸，或者掙來(lái)養(yǎng)老金。我想，在全世界的所有專(zhuān)業(yè)中，他們也許認(rèn)為，不會(huì)有比研究希臘神話(huà)更沒(méi)用的專(zhuān)業(yè)了，根本無(wú)法換來(lái)一間獨(dú)立的寬敞衛(wèi)生間。接著，她談到了自己那些最悲慘的日子：A mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic ，就失敗得一塌糊涂。So 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 ？因?yàn)槭⒛切┓潜举|(zhì)的東西都剝離了。我發(fā)現(xiàn)，我比自己以為的，有更強(qiáng)的意志和決心。我們可以看到，在這種場(chǎng)合，幾乎所有嘉賓，都沒(méi)有說(shuō)―祝愿同學(xué)們?nèi)〉脗€(gè)人成功‖，而是說(shuō)―希望同學(xué)們努力去減輕人類(lèi)的苦難‖。：the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very wellacquain