公眾人物畢業(yè)演講第52期:肖恩庫姆斯霍華德大學(8)

I did that with the class of 2014 exactly

我和2014屆畢業(yè)生這樣做了

The class of 2014

2014屆畢業(yè)生

I am so proud of you

我為你們感到自豪

so proud of you

非常自豪

But I want to ask you a real question

不過我想問一個很實際的問題

Do you know how powerful you are?

你們知道自己有多強大嗎

Today is not my day

今天不是我的日子

Today is not belong to anyone on this stage

今天不屬于臺上的任何人

Today is your day. Today is about the power of you

今天屬于你們 今天是關(guān)于你們的強大

Do you know how powerful you are?

你們知道自己有多強大嗎

Our stories may be different

我們的故事可能會有不同

but I bet some of you grew up with single mothers or fathers

但很多人肯定也成長于單親家庭

Maybe you came here from Africa or Caribbean

也許你來自非洲或加勒比地區(qū)

Maybe you are the first in your family to go to college like I was

也許你也是家里第一個考上大學的 就像我一樣

Maybe there were times that you

也許有一段時間

didn't have a place to live or no food to eat

你也沒有地方住 沒有東西吃

You see, the odds were against you

各種條件都對你非常不利

the odds were against you making it here today

各種條件都想阻礙你達到今天的成就

But guess what? You did it

但是 你們做到了

You put this day on your calendar

你們成功走到了今天

You overcame the odds

你們克服可重重阻礙

You made a decision and you saw that decision due

你們做了決定 而且實現(xiàn)了自己的目標

So I ask you one more time

我再問你們一次

Do you know how powerful you are?

你們知道自己有多強大嗎