【正文】 encement address is a great responsibility。 Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I39。第一篇：JK羅琳 2008哈佛大學畢業(yè)典禮上的演講(JK羅琳2008哈佛大學畢業(yè)典禮上的演講（視頻+中英對照文稿）The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of ImaginationHarvard University Commencement AddressCopyright June 2008As prepared for deliveryPresident Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates，The first thing I would like to say is 39。thank you.39。ve experienced 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 fool myself into believing I am at the world39。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。gay wizard39。ve still e out ahead of Baroness Mary goals: the first step towards personal , 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 has 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 39。, I want to extol the crucial importance of might 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 could never pay a mortgage, or secure a had hoped that I would take a vocational degree。 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。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。s idea of success, so high have you already flown , 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 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 , 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 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 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 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 that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected。s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with 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 in the research department at Amnesty International39。s regime, his mother had been seized and day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain o