【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 w others, and the way you use the gifts you are you leave Yale behind, carrying the written proof of your success here, at a college older than I left here, I didn39。t have much in the way of a life knew some people who thought they it turned out that we were all in for ups and downs, most of them takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own along the way, we start to realize we are not the begin to understand that life is ours to live, but not to waste, and that the greatest rewards are found in the mitments we make with our whole heartsto the people we love and to the causes that earn our hope that each of you will know these hope you will find them in your own way and your own some, that might mean some time in public if you hear that calling, I hope you of you has unique gifts and you were given them for a them and share service is one wayan honorable wayto mark your life with I visit not only my alma mater, but the city of my life began just a few blocks from here, but I was raised in West there, Yale always seemed a world away, maybe a part of my it39。s part of my past, and Yale for me is a source of great hope that there will e a time for you to return to Yale to say that, and feel as I do I hope you won39。t wait as and God bless.(Applause.)END 布什在耶魯大學(xué)的演講我很榮幸能在這個場合發(fā)表演講。我知道，耶魯向來不邀請畢業(yè)典禮演講人，但近幾年來卻有例外。雖然破了例，但條件卻更 加嚴(yán)格――演講人必須同時具備兩種身份：耶魯校友、美國總統(tǒng)。我很驕傲在３３年前領(lǐng)取 到第一個耶魯大學(xué)的學(xué)位。此次，我又榮獲耶魯榮譽(yù)學(xué)位感到光榮。今天是諸位學(xué)友畢業(yè)的日子，在這里我首先要恭喜家長們：恭喜你們的子女修完學(xué)業(yè)順利畢 業(yè)，這是你們辛勤栽培后享受收獲的日子，也是你們錢包解放的大好日子！最重要的是，我 要恭喜耶魯畢業(yè)生們：對于那些表現(xiàn)杰出的同學(xué)，我要說，你真棒！對于那些丙等生，我要 說，你們將來也可以當(dāng)美國總統(tǒng)！耶魯學(xué)位價值不菲。我時常這么提醒切尼(現(xiàn)任美國副總統(tǒng)), ,我想提醒正就讀于耶魯?shù)妮份穼W(xué)子，如果你們從耶魯順利畢業(yè)，你們也許可以當(dāng)上總統(tǒng)； 如果你們中途輟學(xué)，那么你們只能當(dāng)副總統(tǒng)了。這是我畢業(yè)以來第二次回到這里。不過，一些人，一些事至今讓我念念不忘。舉例來說，我 ，如今他是偉大學(xué)校的杰出校長，他讀書時的聰明與刻苦至 今讓我記憶猶新。那時，我們經(jīng)常泡在校圖書館那個有著大皮沙發(fā)的閱讀室里。我們有個默 契：他不大聲朗讀課文，我睡覺不打呼嚕。后來，隨著學(xué)術(shù)探索的領(lǐng)域不同，我們選修的課程也各不相同，狄克主修英語，我主修歷史。有趣的是，我選修過15世紀(jì)的日本俳句——每首詩只有17個音節(jié)，我想其意義只有禪學(xué)大 師才能明了。我記得一位學(xué)科顧問對我選修如此專精的課程表示擔(dān)憂，他說我應(yīng)該選修英語?，F(xiàn)在，我仍然時常聽到這類建議。我在其他場合演講時，在語言表達(dá)上曾被人誤解過，我 的批評者不明白：我不是說錯了字，我是在復(fù)誦古代俳句的完美格式與聲韻呢。我很感激耶魯大學(xué)給我們提供了這么好的讀書環(huán)境。讀書期間，我堅持“用功讀書，努力玩 樂”的思想，雖然不是很出色地完成了學(xué)業(yè)，但結(jié)交了許多讓我終生受益的朋友。也許有的 同學(xué)會認(rèn)為，大學(xué)只是人生受教育的重要部分，殊不知，“大學(xué)生活”這四個字的內(nèi)涵十分 深厚，它既包含豐富的學(xué)科知識和學(xué)術(shù)氛圍，也蘊涵著許多支撐人生成敗的觀念，還有那豐 富多彩的生活以及讀多值得結(jié)交的朋友┄┄大家常說，“耶魯人”，我從不確定那是什么意思。但是我想，這一定是含著無限肯定與景 仰的褒義詞。是的，因為耶魯，因為有了在耶魯深造的經(jīng)歷，你、我、他變成了一個個更加 優(yōu)秀的人！你們離開耶魯后，我希望你們牢記“我的知識源自耶魯”，并以你們自己的方式、自己的時間、自己的奮斗來體現(xiàn)對母校的熱愛，聽從時代的召喚，用信心與行動予以積極 響應(yīng)。你們每個人都有獨特的天賦，你們擁有的這些天賦就是你們參與 競爭、實現(xiàn)人生價值的資 本，好好利用它們，與人分享它們，將它們轉(zhuǎn)化為推進(jìn)時代前進(jìn)的動力吧！人生是要讓我們 去生活、而不是用來浪費的，只要肯爭上游，人人都可當(dāng)總統(tǒng)！這次我不僅回到母校，也是回到我的出生地，我就是在幾條街之外出生的。在那時，耶魯與 無知的我仿佛要隔了一個世界之遙，而現(xiàn)在，她是我過去的一部分。對我而言，耶魯是我知 識的源泉，力量的源泉，令我極度驕傲的源泉。我希望，將來你們以另外一種身份回到耶魯 時，能有與我一樣的感受并說出相同的話。我希望你們不要等太久，我也堅信耶魯邀請你回 校演講的日子也不會等太久。第三篇：布什在耶魯大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上演講Commencement Address at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut May 21, 2001 by George W BushPresident Levin, thank you very Brodhead。fellows of the Yale Corporation。fellow Yale parents, families, and 39。s a special privilege to receive this honorary was proud 33 years ago to receive my first Yale degree。I39。m even prouder that, in your eyes, I39。ve earned this congratulate my fellow 39。m pleased to share this honor with such a distinguished 39。m particularly pleased to be here with my friend the former President of ? or Presidente, usted es un verdadero lider y un gran congratulate all the parents who are 39。s a glorious day when your child graduates from 39。s a great day for you。it39。s a great day for your wallet.[Laughter] Most important, congratulations to the class of those of you who received honors, awards, and distinctions, I say, well to the C students I say, you, too, can be President of the United States.[Laughter] A Yale degree is worth a lot, as I often remind Dick Cheney—[laughter]—who studied here but left a little now we know: If you graduate from Yale, you bee President。if you drop out, you get to be Vice President.[Laughter] I appreciate so very much the chance to say a few words on this know Yale has a tradition of having no mencement also know that you39。ve carved out a single people think that to speak at Yale39。s mencement, you have to be over the years, the specifications have bee far more you have to be a Yale graduate。you have to be President。and you have had to have lost the Yale vote to Ralph is my first time back here in quite a 39。m sure that each of you will make your own journey back at least a few times in your you39。re like me, you won39。t remember everything you did here.[Laughter] That can be a good thing.[Laughter] But there will be some people and some moments you will never , for example, my old classmate Dick Brodhead, the acplished dean of this great remember him as a young scholar, a bright lad—[laughter]— a hard both put a lot of time in at the Sterling Library, in the reading room where they have those big leather couches.[Laughter] We had a mutual wouldn39。t read aloud, and I wouldn39。t snore.[Laughter] Our course selections were different, as we followed our own path to academic was an English major and loved the loved history and pursued a diversified course of like to think of it as the academic road less traveled.[Laughter] For example, I took a class that studied Japanese , for the uninitiated, is a 15thcentury form of poetry, each poem having 17 is fully understood only by the Zen I recall, one of my academic advisers was worried about my selection of such a specialized said I should focus on English.[Laughter] I still hear that quite often.[Laughter] But my critics don39。t realize, I don39。t make verbal gaffes。I39。m speaking in the perfect forms and rhythms of ancient did take English here, and I took a class called “The History and Practice of American Oratory,” taught by Rollin President Levin, I want to give credit where credit is want the entire world to know this: Everything I know about the spoken word, I learned right here at Yale.[Laughter] As a student, I tried to keep a low year the New York Times interviewed John Morton Blum because the record showed I had taken one of his his mind39。s eye over