名校勵志英語演講 第19期:失敗的額外收益和想象力的重要性

[00:00.54]The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks 經(jīng)歷了挫折，你變得更加智慧，更加堅強， [00:04.27]means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. 這意味著你有獨立生存的能力。 [00:09.56]You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. 只有經(jīng)過了逆境的考驗，你才能真正了解自己，才能真正知道周圍的人所賦予你的力量。 [00:17.36]Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, 這種認識是真正的財富，雖然歷經(jīng)千辛萬苦， [00:23.22]and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever earned. 但這比我以前獲得的任何資格證書都有價值。 [00:28.17]So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness, 如果我有一臺時光轉(zhuǎn)換器，我會告訴21歲的自己， [00:33.21]lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. 一個人的幸福在于知道人生不只是一份只有收獲和成就的表單。 [00:38.56]Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, 資格證書和個人簡歷不是你們的生活， [00:43.08]though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. 雖然你們將會遇到很多與我同齡或年齡比我大的人將二者混為一談， [00:47.57]Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, 生活艱辛而復(fù)雜，是任何人都無法完全掌控的。 [00:53.35]and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. 謙恭地了解了這一點，你才能從容面對人生的變遷。 [01:00.42]You might think I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, 至于為什么選擇第二個主題——想象力的重要性， [01:04.07]because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. 你們可能會認為是因為它對我重建生活所起的作用，但事實并非完全如此。 [01:09.34]Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, 雖然我堅持睡前故事對孩子的想象力有很大的價值， [01:15.17]I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. 但我學(xué)會了在更廣泛的意義上去理解想象力。 [01:19.36]Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, 想象力不僅僅是人類特有的設(shè)想不存在的事物的能力， [01:26.08]and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. 還是所有發(fā)明和創(chuàng)新的源泉。 [01:31.00]In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, 毋庸置疑，想象力是最富轉(zhuǎn)換性和啟發(fā)性的力量， [01:35.27]it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. 這種力量能使我們與有著不同經(jīng)歷的人們產(chǎn)生共鳴。

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