【正文】 for Death 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 。對你們，我有最后一個(gè)希望，也是我21歲時(shí)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(shí)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(huì)起訴我的朋友。我們在畢業(yè)典禮時(shí)坐在了一起，因?yàn)槲覀冴P(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?yàn)榧傧胍俏覀冎械娜魏稳烁傔x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 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(gè)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 ：不在乎長短，而在于質(zhì)量，這才是最重要的。I wish you all very good 。Thank you very 。第五篇：JK羅琳2008哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, first thing I would like to say is 161。174。thank you.161。175。 Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this mencement address have made me lose winwin situation!Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world161。175。s largest Gryffindor a mencement address is a great responsibility。or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own mencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can161。175。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 see? If all you remember in years to e is the 161。174。gay wizard161。175。 joke, I161。175。ve e out ahead of Baroness Mary goals: the first step to self , 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 have 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 161。174。real life161。175。, I want to extol the crucial importance of may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with back at the 21yearold that I was at graduation, is a slightly unfortable experience for the 42yearold that she has my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of 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, they hoped that I would take a vocational degree。I wanted to study English promise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern had my parents161。175。 car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics。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 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。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。it means a thousand petty humiliations and out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and welleducated, you have never known hardship or and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and , the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very wellacquainted with might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for , your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person161。175。s idea of success, so high have you already , 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 t