【正文】 riticise 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 roma nticised only by i feared most for myself at your age was not povert y, 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 me asure 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 person?s idea of success, so high have you already 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 then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a 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 i really succeeded at anything else, i might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena i believed i truly was set free, because my greatest fear had 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 t he solid foundation on which i rebuilt my might never fail on the scale i did, but some failure in life is is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by gave me an inner security that i had never attained by passing taught me things about myself that i could have learned no other discovered tha t i had a strong will, and more discipline than i had suspected。i also found out that i had friends whose value was truly above the price of knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to 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 than any qualification i ever humans whose experiences we have never of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded harry potter, though it informed much of what i subsequently wrote in those revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day i was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, i paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the african research department at amn esty international?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篇五：策馬高級(jí)口譯譯文：比爾蓋茨在哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮的演講稿比爾蓋茨在哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮的演講稿尊敬的bok校長，rudenstine前校長，即將上任的faust校長，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，各位家長，各位同學(xué)：有一句話我等了三十年，現(xiàn)在終于可以說了：“老爸，我總是跟你說，我會(huì)回來拿到我的學(xué)位的！”i want to thank harvard for this timely be changing my job next year?and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my 。明年，我就要換工作了（注：指從微軟公司退休）??我終于可以在簡歷上寫我有一個(gè)本科學(xué)位，這真是不錯(cuò)啊。i applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your my part, im just happy that the crimson has called me harvards most successful guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class?i did the best of everyone who ，你們拿到學(xué)位可比我簡單多了。哈佛的校報(bào)稱我是“哈佛大學(xué)歷史上最成功的輟學(xué)生”。我想這大概使我有資格代表我這一類學(xué)生發(fā)言??在所有的失敗者里，我做得最好。but i also want to be recognized as the guy who got steve ballmer to drop out of business a bad why i was invited to speak at your i had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here ，我還要提醒大家，我使得steve ballmer（注：微軟總經(jīng)理）也從哈佛商學(xué)院退學(xué)了。因此，我是個(gè)有著惡劣影響力的人。這就是為什么我被邀請來在你們的畢業(yè)典禮上演講。如果我在你們?nèi)雽W(xué)歡迎儀式上演講，那么能夠堅(jiān)持到今天在這里畢業(yè)的人也許會(huì)少得多吧。harvard was just a phenomenal experience for life was used to sit in on lots of classes i hadnt even signed up dorm life was lived up at radcliffe, in currier were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew i didnt worry about getting up in the how i came to be the leader of the antisocial clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social ，哈佛的求學(xué)經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。校園生活很有趣，我常去旁聽我沒選修的課。哈佛的課外生活也很棒，我在radcliffe過著逍遙自在的日子。每天我的寢室里總有很多人一直待到半夜，討論著各種事情。因?yàn)槊總€(gè)人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。這使得我變成了校園里那些不安分學(xué)生的頭頭，我們互相粘在一起，做出一種拒絕所有正常學(xué)生的姿態(tài)。radcliffe是個(gè)過日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。這種狀況為我創(chuàng)造了最好的機(jī)會(huì)，如果你們明白我的意思?？上У氖牵艺窃谶@里學(xué)到了人生中悲傷的一課：機(jī)會(huì)大，并不等于你就會(huì)成功。我在哈佛最難忘的回憶之一，發(fā)生在1975年1月。那時(shí)，我從宿舍樓里給位于albuquerque的一家公司打了一個(gè)電話，那家公司已經(jīng)在著手制造世界上第一臺(tái)個(gè)人電腦。我提出想向他們出售軟件。我很擔(dān)心，他們會(huì)發(fā)覺我是一個(gè)住在宿舍的學(xué)生，從而掛斷電話。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準(zhǔn)備好，一個(gè)月后你再來找我們吧?！边@是個(gè)好消息，因?yàn)槟菚r(shí)軟件還根本沒有寫出來呢。就是從那個(gè)時(shí)候起，我日以繼夜地在這個(gè)小小的課外項(xiàng)目上工作，這導(dǎo)致了我學(xué)生生活的結(jié)束，以及通往微軟公司的不平凡的旅程的開始。what i remember above all about harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but alw