【正文】 enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can’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 ‘gay wizard’ joke, I’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 ‘real life’, 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。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 ，為那些被忽略的人們說話；你們不僅要看到那些有權有勢者，也要看到那些無權無勢者；你們要學會設想，那些條件不如你們的人們是如何生活的；那樣的話，不僅你們的親人們將為你們感到自豪，而且千千萬萬的人們將因為你們的幫助而生活得更好。If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice。s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities.......That is your privilege, and your ，所有各位哈佛大學2008屆畢業(yè)生，你們對其他人的生活了解多少？你們的智慧、你們的能力、你們所受的教育，給了你們獨一無二的優(yōu)勢，也給了你們獨一無二的責任。說實話，你們眼中的失敗，很可能就是普通人眼中的成功，畢竟你們在學業(yè)上已經(jīng)很成功了。s idea of success, so high have you already flown ，說明你們并不很了解失敗。s least privileged?那些世界上過著最優(yōu)越生活的人們，有沒有從那些最困難的人們身上學到東西？ These are not rhetorical questionsin talent, privilege, and opportunitythere is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from ，我們在這個院子里的這些人，被給予過什么天賦、特權、機遇那么可以這樣說，全世界的人們幾乎有無限的權力，期待我們做出貢獻。s worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty...the prevalence of world hunger...the scarcity of clean water...the girls kept out of school...the children who die from diseases we can cure? 哈佛是否鼓勵她的老師去研究解決世界上最嚴重的不平等？哈佛的學生是否從全球那些極端的貧窮中學到了什么......世界性的饑荒......清潔的水資源的缺乏......無法上學的女童......死于非惡性疾病的兒童......哈佛的學生有沒有從中學到東西？Should the world39。比爾一般來說，在演講結束時，嘉賓將對畢業(yè)生提出期望。這部分內(nèi)容也很精彩，不過我就不翻譯了，大家可以去看原文。這種了解是真正的財富，雖然是用痛苦換來的，但是它比我以前得到的任何證書都有用。我還發(fā)現(xiàn)，我有一些比寶石更珍貴的朋友。失敗讓我看清自己，以前我從沒認識到自己是這樣的。Failure 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 that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected。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 so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my ，因為我最大的恐懼已經(jīng)成為現(xiàn)實，而我卻還依然活著，依然有一個深愛著的女兒，我還有一臺舊打字機和一個大大的夢想。我不再偽裝自己，我找到了真正的我，我將自己所有的精力，投入完成對我最重要的唯一一項工作。但是，沒有那段日子的失敗，就不會有后來的她。That period of my life was a dark had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a 。我父母對我的擔憂，我對自己的擔憂，都變成了現(xiàn)實。An 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 my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both e to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I ，我還失業(yè)了，成了一個艱難的單身母親?？孔约旱呐[脫貧窮，確實讓人自豪，但是只有傻瓜才會將貧窮本身浪漫化。它帶來恐懼、壓力、有時還有抑 郁。而且，他們只是希望我不要過窮日子，我不能批評他們。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 ，我并不責怪父母有這種看法。I 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。他們可能是在畢業(yè)典禮那一天才發(fā)現(xiàn)的。I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics。最后，達成了一個雙方都不甚滿意的妥協(xié)：我改學語言學。I wanted to study English promise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern had my parents39。我現(xiàn)在知道，這種人生的反諷，有著卡通片里大鐵砧般的巨大打擊力。但是，我的父母出身貧寒，沒有受過大學教育。回到21年之前，我正遭受煎熬，不知道在自己內(nèi)心的追求與父母對我的期望之間，應該如何平衡。These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with ，但是請聽下去。這個美妙的日子，我們聚集一堂，慶祝你們在學業(yè)上的成功，但是我決定跟你們說說失敗的好處。real life39。我問自己，當年我畢業(yè)的時候，希望知道哪些事情；以及21年后的今天，我又從人生中得到哪些重要的經(jīng)驗教訓。可以實現(xiàn)的目標，是自己改進的第一步。ve e out ahead of Baroness Mary goals: the first step to self ？如果多年以后，你們只記得我講的這個“快樂巫師”的笑話，我就已經(jīng)超過瑪麗gay wizard39。這個發(fā)現(xiàn)讓我如釋重負，不再害怕自己在不經(jīng)意間就對你們產(chǎn) 生影響，讓你們放棄在商業(yè)、法律、政治方面的大好前途，去追求成為一個快樂巫師的那種令人眩暈的愉悅。沃 諾克。直到我回憶起了自己的畢業(yè)典禮，才稍稍放松。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 can39。這真可謂“雙贏”啊！現(xiàn)在，我唯一要做的就是深呼吸，偷偷看一眼四周飄揚的紅色旗幟，讓自己相信真的來到了世界上最大的“格蘭芬多” 聚會。s largest Gryffindor ，就是“謝謝”。thank you.39。二、她首先說了自己如何構思演講稿，以及選擇的兩個演講主題。蓋茨，我翻譯了他的演講，影響挺大。她主要談的是，自己從這段經(jīng)歷中學到的東西。K她幾乎沒有談到哈里波特，而是說了年輕時的一些經(jīng)歷。第一篇：jk羅琳在哈弗大