名校勵志英語演講 第16期:失敗的額外收益和想象力的重要性

[00:00.17]What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. 再者，父母這樣做是希望我不會過窮日子，所以我不能責怪他們。 [00:07.09]They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, 他們經歷了貧窮，我后來也一度貧窮， [00:11.17]and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. 所以我很理解他們，因為貧窮并不是一種高貴的經歷。 [00:16.45]Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; 貧窮會讓人感覺恐懼、有壓力，有時甚至讓人感覺沮喪。 [00:22.18]it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. 貧窮意味著說不盡的羞辱和艱辛。 [00:26.19]Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, 靠自己的努力擺脫貧窮值得自豪， [00:31.19]but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. 只有傻瓜才會將貧窮浪漫化。 [00:36.59]What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. 像你們這么大時我最害怕的不是貧窮，而是失敗。 [00:43.25]At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, 像你們這么大時，盡管我明顯缺乏在大學學習的動力， [00:48.20]where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, 花大量時間在咖啡館寫小說，用于聽課的時間很少， [00:51.59]and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, 但我卻有通過考試的本領。 [00:57.32]and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers. 多年來，考試一直是衡量我和同齡人成功的標準。 [01:04.55]I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, 我不會笨到因為你們年輕、 [01:08.39]gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. 有才華并且受過良好的教育，就認為你們從來沒有經受過困難或心碎的時刻。 [01:16.02]Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates, 才華和指揮并不能使人擺脫命運的反復無常; [01:22.24]and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment. 我從來沒有認為在座的每一個人一直以來都享有優(yōu)越和滿足。 [01:30.44]However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. 然而，即將從哈弗畢業(yè)這一事實就意味著你們很少會經歷失敗。

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