【正文】 我們可以看到，在這種場合，幾乎所有嘉賓，都沒有說―祝愿同學(xué)們?nèi)〉脗€人成功‖，而是說―希望同學(xué)們努力去減輕人類的苦難‖。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 ？因為失敗將那些非本質(zhì)的東西都剝離了。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的寬敞衛(wèi)生間。Ks idea of success, so high have you already flown ，說明你們并不很了解失敗。失敗讓我看清自己，以前我從沒認識到自己是這樣的。靠自己的努力擺脫貧窮，確實讓人自豪，但是只有傻瓜才會將貧窮本身浪漫化。I wanted to study English promise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern had my parents39?？梢詫崿F(xiàn)的目標(biāo)，是自己改進的第一步。s largest Gryffindor ，就是“謝謝”。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。gay wizard39。s besteducated Harry Potter a mencement address is a great responsibility。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。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(xué)，The first thing I would like to say is 39。 joke, I39。他們認為，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 本不能用來還房貸，或者掙來養(yǎng)老金。他們自己很窮，我后來一度也很窮，所以我很理解他們，貧窮是一種悲慘的經(jīng)歷。我生命中最低的低點，成為我重建生活的堅實基礎(chǔ)。s most privileged people learn about the lives of the world39。我讀了一遍講稿，覺得很好，很感染人。I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics。That period of my life was a dark 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 。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。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。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 ，因為我最大的恐懼已經(jīng)成為現(xiàn)實，而我卻還依然活著，依然有一個深愛著的女兒，我還有一臺舊打字機和一個大大的夢想?！麄冎皇窍Ｍ也灰^窮日子，我不能批評他們。去年的演講嘉賓是比爾But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people39。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 ，你才會真正了解你自己，了解你結(jié)識的人。除了流浪漢，我是當(dāng)代英國最窮的人之一，真的一無所有?？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。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。Delivering a mencement address is a great responsibility。s lives simply by how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people39。real life39。thank you.39。s idea of success, 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 ti