【正文】 y, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces can lead to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.我可能會受到誘惑，去嫉妒那樣生活的人。但我不認(rèn)為他們做的噩夢會比我更少。選擇生活在狹窄的空間，可以導(dǎo)致不敢面對開闊的視野，給自己帶來恐懼感。我認(rèn)為不愿展開想像的人會看到更多的怪獸，他們往往更感到更害怕。What is more, those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters. For without ever mitting an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.更甚的是，那些選擇不去同情的人，可能會激活真正的怪獸。因為盡管自己沒有犯下罪惡，我們卻通過冷漠與之勾結(jié)。One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.我18歲開始從古典文學(xué)中汲取許多知識，其中之一當(dāng)時并不完全理解，那就是希臘作家普魯塔克所說：我們內(nèi)心獲得的，將改變外在的現(xiàn)實。That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people39。s lives simply by existing.那是一個驚人的論斷，在我們生活的每一天里被無數(shù)次證實。它指明我們與外部世界有無法脫離的聯(lián)系，我們以自身的存在接觸著他人的生命。But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people39。s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world39。s only remaining superpower. The 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 borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.但是，哈佛大學(xué)的2008屆畢業(yè)生們，你們多少人有可能去觸及他人的生命？你們的智慧，你們努力工作的能力，以及你們所受到的教育，給予你們獨特的地位和責(zé)任。甚至你們的國籍也讓你們與眾不同，你們絕大部份人屬于這個世界上唯一的超級大國。你們表決的方式，你們生活的方式，你們抗議的方式，你們給政府帶來的壓力，具有超乎尋常的影響力。這是你們的特權(quán)，也是你們的責(zé)任。If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice。 if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless。 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 better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.如果你選擇利用自己的地位和影響，去為那些沒有發(fā)言權(quán)的人發(fā)出聲音；如果你選擇不僅與強者為伍，還會同情幫扶弱者；如果你會設(shè)身處地為不如你的人著想，那么你的存在，將不僅是你家人的驕傲，更是無數(shù)因為你的幫助而改變命運的成千上萬人的驕傲。我們不需要改變世界的魔法，我們自己的內(nèi)心就有這種力量：那就是我們一直在夢想，讓這個世界變得更美好。I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children39。s godparents, the people to whom I39。ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I39。ve used their names for Death Eaters. At 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 Minister.我的演講要接近尾聲了。對你們，我有最后一個希望，也是我21歲時就有的。畢業(yè)那天坐在我身邊的朋友現(xiàn)在是我終身的摯交，他們是我孩子的教父母，是在我遇到麻煩時愿意伸出援手，在我用他們的名字給哈利波特中的“食死徒”起名而不會起訴我的朋友。我們在畢業(yè)典禮時坐在了一起，因為我們關(guān)系親密，擁有共同的永遠(yuǎn)無法再來的經(jīng)歷，當(dāng)然，也因為假想要是我們中的任何人競選首相，那照片將是極為寶貴的關(guān)系證明。So today, I can wish you nothing better than similar friendships. And 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:所以今天我可以給你們的，沒有比擁有知己更好的祝福了。明天，我希望即使你們不記得我說的任何一個字，你們還能記得哲學(xué)家塞內(nèi)加的一句至理明言。我當(dāng)年沒有順著事業(yè)的階梯向上攀爬，轉(zhuǎn)而與他在古典文學(xué)的殿堂相遇，他的古老智慧給了我人生的啟迪：As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.生活就像故事一樣：不在乎長短，而在于質(zhì)量，這才是最重要的。I wish you all very good lives.我祝愿你們都有美好的生活。Thank you very much.