【正文】 　　我祝你們所有人一生幸福。我在沿著古典文學的走廊飛奔時遇到了這個古羅馬的家伙。明天，我希望就算你記不起我說過的任何一個字，你還是能夠想起Seneca說過的話。在畢業(yè)典禮上，我們被心中澎湃的激情緊密聯(lián)結(jié)，被共同分享的寶貴時光緊密聯(lián)結(jié)，當然，也被某個共識緊密聯(lián)結(jié)——如果我們中的某人有朝一日當選為英國首相，那我們持有的合影照片肯定會價值不菲。他們是我陷入困境時可以尋求幫助的人。在畢業(yè)典禮上與我坐在一起的朋友們，后來成了我一生的朋友?！　 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 childrens godparents, the people to whom Ive been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when Ive 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.　　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:　　As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.　　I wish you all very good lives.　　Thank you very much.　　我的話快要說完了。我們并不需要魔法來改造世界。如果你保留了想象的能力，能夠與不具備你的優(yōu)勢的那些人感同身受。 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.　　如果你選擇了，用你的身份和影響力來提高你的聲音，為那些沒有聲音的人吶喊。那就是你們的特權(quán)，也是你們背負的重任　　If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice。你們中的大多數(shù)，屬于這個世界目前僅存的超級大國?！　〉牵鸫髮W2019屆的畢業(yè)生們，你們又將對他人的生活深入多少呢?你們的智慧、你們應對高難度工作的才能、你們謀求并接受到的教育，都賦予你們　　獨一無二的身份，以及獨一無二的責任。在某種程度上，它表達了我們與外面世界的無法逃避的聯(lián)系。當走到盡頭的時候，我學到了很多東西，其中之一就是希臘作家Plutarch的這句話：我們在內(nèi)心的所得，將改變外界的現(xiàn)實。就算我們自己沒有親自作出邪惡的事情，我們對于邪惡的無動于衷就等同于和它同謀。他們通常會更害怕。選擇生活在狹窄的范圍里，會導致某種精神上的對于陌生環(huán)境的恐懼癥，并由此產(chǎn)生相應的害怕心理。他們可以拒絕知道。他們可以拒絕傾聽叫喊聲，也不會窺視籠子內(nèi)的情況?！　∵€有很多人寧愿不去使用他們的想象力?！　‘斎?，這也是力量，就好像我的小說中的魔法。就算沒有親身經(jīng)歷，人類也可以學習和理解。我個人在其中的參與，是我今生最為卑微、卻最為振奮的經(jīng)歷。人類的同情心的力量引導了集體行動，拯救生命，釋放被關(guān)押的人們。 they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally?！　∪欢趪H的特赦組織里我還了解了很多關(guān)于人類的好的一面，有些是我從不知道的?！　∶刻煳叶伎匆姼嗟娜祟惖男皭杭又T于同胞的證據(jù)，這樣的罪惡僅僅是為了獲得或者維持權(quán)力。她剛剛告訴那位年青人，由于他本人公開反對自己國家的專制，他的母親已被抓走并處決了。其中包含的痛苦和恐懼是如此強烈，我以后再沒聽過那樣的聲音。隨后，在我按照吩咐護送他去地鐵的路上，這個人生已被殘暴摧毀的男人卻優(yōu)雅有禮的拉著我的手，祝我未來幸福快樂。對著攝影機講述自己遭受的痛苦的時候，他無法抑制的戰(zhàn)栗著。　　我永遠也無法忘記一個來自非洲的經(jīng)受嚴刑拷打的受害者。他們被迫離開家庭或流亡國外，因為他們有勇氣以獨立意志評判他們的政府。我打開手寫的親眼見證的記錄，記載著對于綁架和奸污案件的簡單審訊和執(zhí)行。我看到那些無聲無息地失蹤了的人的照片，是由他們的絕望的親人和朋友寄到特赦組織來的?！　≡谀抢?，我坐在小小的辦公室里閱讀來自集權(quán)統(tǒng)治下的地區(qū)的信件。我在最早的全日制工作中獲得了啟示。它具有已被證實的最富變革性和啟示性的力量，而正是想象力讓我們能夠切身體會他人的經(jīng)驗——雖然我們自己并未身臨其境。我固然到死也會捍衛(wèi)睡前故事的價值，但我還認識到要在更為廣闊的范圍內(nèi)珍視想象力?！　∫苍S你們會以為，我之所以選擇第二個主題——想象力的重要性，是因為想象力在我重筑人生時發(fā)揮了巨大作用。生活是嚴酷的，也是復雜的，更不處于任何人的掌控。你的資格證書或你的簡歷，并不是你的生活。這些認知都是寶貴的財富，我歷經(jīng)艱辛才獲得的財富，這比我得到的任何資格證書都更有價值?！　∧阍诖煺壑谐砷L，更聰明，更強壯，這意味著從此以后你已擁有了牢不可催的生存能力。我意識到自己擁有堅強的意志，而且比我以前設(shè)想的還要自律。　　失敗賦予我內(nèi)心的安全感，而這是考試及格也不能讓我感受到的?！　∧銈円苍S不會像我摔得這樣慘，但是人生路上總會有些失敗。我最大的恐懼終于成為現(xiàn)實，而我卻因此獲得了自由，我還活著，還有我深愛的女兒，我還有一架老式打字機和一個宏大的夢想。我不再裝模作樣，終于重新做回自己，開始將所有的精力投入到自己在意的唯一作品?！　o why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I 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 me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. 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 idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.　　You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It 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 default.　　Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected。那個時候我的人生被黑暗籠罩，根本想不到在未來的時光里這段經(jīng)歷竟會被報道為神話般的堅定意志。無論按照什么標準來看，我都