名校勵志英語演講 第24期:失敗的額外收益和想象力的重要性

[00:00.10]If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; 如果你們選擇用自己的地位和影響力為那些沒有發(fā)言權(quán)的人吶喊; [00:06.09]if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; 如果你們不僅能認(rèn)同有權(quán)勢的人，而且也能幫扶無權(quán)勢的人; [00:11.26]if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, 如果你會設(shè)身處地為沒有你這些優(yōu)勢的人著想， [00:17.33]then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, 那么你的存在將不僅是你家人的驕傲， [00:21.48]but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. 更是成千上萬因為你的幫助而生活得更好的人的驕傲。 [00:27.26]We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: 我們不需要用魔法改變世界，我們自己的內(nèi)心就有這種力量： [00:34.19]we have the power to imagine better. 我們擁有想象力，可以讓這個世界變得更美好。 [00:37.13]I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. 我的演講即將結(jié)束。對你們，我有最后一個希望，也是我21歲時就有的一個希望。 [00:44.04]The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. 畢業(yè)那天與我坐在一起的朋友們現(xiàn)在是我終身的摯交， [00:48.52]They are my children's godparents, the people to whom I've been able to turn in times of trouble, 他們是我孩子的教父或教母，是我處于困境時可以求助的人， [00:54.38]people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters. 是在我用他們的名字給《哈利·波特》中的“食死徒”起名而不會起訴我的人。 [00:58.49]At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, 我們在畢業(yè)典禮時坐在了一起，因為我們關(guān)系親密， [01:02.58]by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, 因為我們共同分享了那永遠(yuǎn)都不能重來的時光。 [01:06.46]and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence 當(dāng)然，也因為假想要是我們中任何人競選首相， [01:11.36]that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister. 那照片將是極有價值的證明。 [01:16.42]So today, I wish you nothing better than similar friendships. 所以今天我能送給你們的最好的祝福，就是希望你們能擁有這樣的友誼。 [01:22.18]And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, 我希望，即使明天你們不記得我說過的任何一個字， [01:30.00]another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, 你們還能記得古羅馬哲學(xué)家塞內(nèi)加的一句至理名言。我當(dāng)年沒有順著事業(yè)的階梯向上攀爬， [01:34.57]in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: 轉(zhuǎn)而與他在古典文學(xué)的殿堂相遇，他的古老智慧給了我人生的啟迪： [01:39.58]As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. 生活就像故事一樣，不在于長短，而在于品質(zhì)，這才是最重要的。 [01:48.33]I wish you all very good lives. Thank you very much. 祝愿你們擁有美好的生活。非常感謝大家。

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