公眾人物畢業(yè)演講第1期:雪莉桑德伯格哈佛大學(xué)2014畢業(yè)典禮演講(1)

Congratulations everyone, you made it

祝賀所有人 你們做到了

And I don't mean to the end of college, I mean to class day

我說的不是大學(xué)畢業(yè) 而是成功出席今天的畢業(yè)日活動

because if memory serves

如果我沒記錯

some of your classmates had too many scorpion bowls at the Kong last night

某些同學(xué)雖然昨晚在香港餐廳喝了太多蝎子碗調(diào)酒

and are with us today

但今天還是來了

Given the weather

由于天氣

the one thing Harvard hasn't figured out how to control

這種哈佛還沒有弄清如何控制的現(xiàn)象

some of your other classmates are at someplace warm with a hot cocoa

還有同學(xué)正在溫暖的地方喝熱可可飲料

so you have many reasons to feel proud of yourself as you sit here today

你們有很多為今天出席畢業(yè)日活動感到自豪的理由

Congratulations to your parents

祝賀你們的家長

You have spent a lot of money

你們花了很多錢

so your child can say she went to a "small school" near Boston

讓子女能夠說自己是從波士頓附近的這所"小學(xué)校"畢業(yè)的

And thank you to the class of 2014 for inviting me to be part of your celebration

還要感謝2014屆畢業(yè)生 邀請我來到這次盛典

It means a great deal to me

這對我價值巨大

and looking at the list of past speakers was a little daunting

看到過往演講者的名單讓人有些敬畏

I can't be as funny as Amy Poehler

我肯定沒有艾米·波勒那么搞笑

but I'm gonna be funnier than Mother Teresa

但我至少會比特蕾莎修女更幽默

25 years ago

25年前

a man named Dave I did not know at the time but who would one day become my husband

一個我當(dāng)時還不認(rèn)識 但以后會成為我丈夫的男人 戴夫

was sitting where you are sitting today

坐在你們現(xiàn)在坐的地方

23 years ago

23年前

I was sitting where you are sitting today

我坐在你們現(xiàn)在坐的地方

Dave and I are back this weekend

戴夫和我這周末

with our amazing son and daughter to celebrate his reunion

帶著可愛的子女回到母校

and we both share the same sentiment

我們都懷有相同的感觸

Harvard has a good basketball team

哈佛的籃球隊太棒了

Standing here in the yard brings memories flooding back for me

站在校園中 記憶仿佛泉涌

I arrived here from Miami in the fall of 1987

1987年秋我從邁阿密來到這里

with big hopes and even bigger hair

懷著偉大的夢想 還有更夸張的發(fā)型

I was assigned to live in one of Harvard's historic monuments to great architecture

我被分配到哈佛偉大建筑的一座歷史豐碑

Canaday

卡納迪樓

My go-to outfit, and I'm not making this up, was a jean skirt

我是說真的 當(dāng)時我身著牛仔裙

white leg warmers and sneakers and a Florida sweater

白色暖腿襪套 運動鞋 還有一件佛羅里達羊毛衫

because my parents who were here with me then as they're here with me now

因為當(dāng)時我的父母告訴我說

told me everyone would think it was awesome that I was from Florida

所有人都會認(rèn)為來自佛羅里達的人很酷

At least we didn't have Instagram

至少我們當(dāng)時沒有Instagram

For me, Harvard was a series of firsts

對我而言 哈佛給了我很多第一次

My first winter coat, we needn't need those in Miami

包括我的第一件冬裝 我們在邁阿密不需要這些

My first 10 page paper, they didn't assign those in my high school

我的第一份十頁論文 高中沒人會布置這么長的作業(yè)

My first C

我第一次得C

after which my proctor told me that she was on the Admissions Committee

這之后 我的學(xué)監(jiān)告訴我說 她在招生委員會

and I got admitted to Harvard for my personality

招我進哈佛是因為我的品性

not my academic potential

而不是因為學(xué)術(shù)潛能

The first person I ever met from boarding school

我在寄宿學(xué)?？吹降牡谝粋€人

I thought that was our really troubled kids

我就覺得這家伙肯定是個大麻煩

The first person I ever met who shares the name with a whole building

我還碰到了第一個名字同整座建筑一樣的人

or so I met when the first classmate I met was Sarah Wigglesworth

這個人的名字叫作莎拉·威格爾斯沃思

who bore no relation at all to the dorm

她同那棟宿舍樓沒有任何關(guān)系

which would have been nice to know with that very intimidating moment

當(dāng)時我很震驚 知道沒關(guān)系后我才舒了一口氣

But then I went on to meet others

之后我還碰到了其他人

Francis Strauss, James Wells

弗朗西斯·斯特勞斯 詹姆斯·威爾斯

Jessica Science Center B

杰西卡科學(xué)中心B

My first love, my first heartbreak

我第一位愛人 第一位讓我心碎的人

the first time I realized that I love to learn

我第一次認(rèn)識到自己熱愛學(xué)習(xí)

and the first and very last time I saw anyone read anything in Latin

第一次也是最后一次碰到有人在讀拉丁文

When I sat in your seat all those years ago

我畢業(yè)那年

I knew exactly where I was headed. I had it all planned out

我想好了自己以后有什么計劃

I was going to the World Bank to work on global poverty

我要進世界銀行 對抗全球貧困

Then I would go to law school

然后我要去法學(xué)院

And I would spend my life working in a nonprofit or in a government

然后我將在非營利機構(gòu)或政府工作

At Harvard's commencement tomorrow as your dean described

你們院長也講了 在明天的哈佛畢業(yè)典禮上

each school is gonna stand up and graduate together

每個學(xué)院都要起立并一同畢業(yè)

the college, the law school, the med school and so on

本科部 法學(xué)院 醫(yī)學(xué)院 等等

At my graduation, my class cheered for the PhD students

我畢業(yè)時 我們班為博士生歡呼

and then booed the business school

然后噓了商學(xué)院

Business school seemed like such a sellout

商學(xué)院似乎很不受歡迎

18 months later, I applied to business school

18個月后 我就報了商學(xué)院

It wasn't that I was wrong about what I would do decades after graduating

我對自己畢業(yè)后的數(shù)十年規(guī)劃其實并沒錯

I had it wrong a year and a half later

計劃只錯在了一年半以后

And even if I could have predicted I would one day work in the private sector

就算我算到了自己會在私營企業(yè)工作

I never could have predicted Facebook

我肯定也算不到自己會在Facebook

because there was no internet

因為當(dāng)時沒有互聯(lián)網(wǎng)

and Mark Zuckerberg was at elementary school

馬克·扎克伯格還在讀小學(xué)

already wearing his hoody

已經(jīng)開始穿他的標(biāo)志性帽衫了

Not locking into a path too early

沒有太早鎖死自己的道路

gave me an opportunity to go into a new and life changing field

讓我有機會進入改變生活的全新領(lǐng)域

And for those of you who think I owe everything to good luck

有些人可能認(rèn)為我只是運氣好 我想說

after Canaday I got Quaded

卡納迪樓后 我又被安排到了方院

What's that? Barron

怎么樣 巴倫