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名校生的「最后一课」:史上最经典的5场毕业演讲

2017-05-25 墨菲 沪江英语



每年的五六月都是美国各大高校举行毕业典礼的季节。


为了给自家学生的大学生涯画上完美的句号,越来越多的高校都会邀请社会各界知名人士来做毕业演讲,给学生上“最后一课”。



这份熠熠生辉的“名人榜”上包括奥巴马、娜塔莉波特曼、斯皮尔伯格、乔布斯、比尔盖茨等等。


经过精挑细选,英大为大家整理了5场最精彩的美国名校毕业演讲,及其中的智慧金句,希望对大家有所启迪。


1

娜塔莉·波特曼 - 哈佛大学


你的瑕疵,成就独特的你


讲者介绍

娜塔莉·波特曼(Natalie Portman):

美国演员,出生于以色列耶路撒冷,毕业于哈佛大学心理学系。

2011年获第83届奥斯卡最佳女主角。

代表作:《这个杀手不太冷》《星球大战》《黑天鹅》《雷神》《雷神2:黑暗世界》


高校介绍

哈佛大学(Havard University):

被公认为当今世界最知名、最顶尖的高等学府之一,美国常春藤盟校成员,常年位居世界大学排行榜前三。


演讲视频

https://v.qq.com/txp/iframe/player.html?vid=e0155edpsce&width=500&height=375&auto=0


金句摘录:

Sometimes your insecurities and you're inexperienced may lead you to embrace other people's expectations, standards or values.

有时因为你缺乏安全感,缺乏经验,你会很容易接受别人的期望,标准或价值观。


But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.

但是,你可以利用你在经验上的缺乏,造就你自己的路,不用去担心事情应该怎么做,只需依据自己的思考来定义这条路。


I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals rather than the foremost trophies in my industry: financial and critical success.

我很早就学到,我的价值应该来自于电影拍摄过程的体验,来自触碰人心的可能,而不是我们行业最首要的荣誉:商业和影评方面的成功。


Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

接受你知识上的缺乏,把它当成财富。


Your path, even if it's a strange and clumsy path, will be wholly yours.

你的路,即使是陌生而坎坷的路,也将会完全属于你自己。




2

马特·达蒙 - 麻省理工学院


去做你认为有意义的事


讲者介绍

马特·达蒙(Matt Damon):

美国演员、编剧、制片人。奥斯卡最佳男主角奖提名演员,2016年获73届金球奖喜剧类最佳男演员奖。

代表作:《心灵捕手》《拯救大兵瑞恩》《谍影重重》《十一罗汉》《火星救援》


高校介绍

麻省理工学院(Massachusetts Institute of Technology):

简称MIT。世界著名研究型大学,共产生了85位诺贝尔奖得主(世界第6) 、6位菲尔兹奖得主(世界第10) 以及20位图灵奖得主(世界第2)。

(英大注:菲尔兹奖为数学界最高奖;图灵奖为计算机界最高奖)


演讲视频

https://v.qq.com/txp/iframe/player.html?vid=b0305fgaayj&width=500&height=375&auto=0


金句摘录:

You’re working on some crazy stuff in these buildings. I’ll tell you one that’s been on my mind: Simulation Theory. There’s a philosopher named Nick Bostrom at Oxford, and he’s postulated that if there’s a truly advanced form of intelligence out there in the universe, then it’s probably advanced enough to run simulations of entire worlds — maybe trillions of them — maybe even our own.

你们在学校大楼里研究些厉害的事物。我告诉你们我在想些什么:模拟理论。牛津大学尼克·博斯特罗姆曾假定,如果宇宙真有一种先进的智能在,或许可以先进到模拟所有世界,也许有数百万个世界在,也许甚至模拟我们自己的世界。


The basic idea is that we could be living in a massive simulation run by a far smarter civilization, a giant computer game, and we don’t even know it. What if this—all of this—is a simulation?

基本想法就是我们可能生活在超级大型的模拟中,由比我们聪慧得多的文明或者巨型电脑游戏控制着,而我们却不自知。如果这一切真的是模拟呢?


But then again: what if it isn’t asimulation? Either way, what we do matters. What we do affects the outcome. MIT, you’ve got to go out and do really interesting things. Important things. Inventive things. Because this world ... real or imagined ... this world has some problems we need you to drop everything and solve.

当然,如果这一切又不是模拟呢?无论怎样,我们的所为会影响结果。麻省理工的学生,你们要走出去,做真正有意思的事情、重要的事情、有创造力的事情。因为这个世界,无论真实也好,想象也罢,都会有些问题需要你放下一切去解决。




3

艾伦·德詹尼斯 - 杜兰大学


做真实的自己


讲者介绍

艾伦·德詹尼斯(Ellen DeGeneres):

美国著名脱口秀《艾伦秀》主持人,曾在2007年和2014年先后两次担任奥斯卡颁奖典礼主持人。


高校介绍

杜兰大学(Tulane University):

位于美国南部路易斯安那州的一所著名私立研究型大学,在2017 US News美国综合大学排名中排行第39名。


演讲视频

https://v.qq.com/txp/iframe/player.html?vid=a0387ialgtu&width=500&height=375&auto=0


金句摘录:

And as you grow, you'll realize the definition of success changes. For many of you, today, success is being able to hold down 20 shots of tequila. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity, and not to give into peer pressure.

当你长大,你会发现成功的定义在改变。对你们中的很多人来说,今天的成功是能灌下20杯龙舌兰酒。对我来说,生命中最重要的事是:真实地去生活,不要屈服于同龄人的压力。


Don't give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Don't take anyone's advice. So my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

别给别人忠告,吃力不讨好;也别只是听从别人的忠告。所以我忠告大家:做真实的自己,一切会好的。


Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they see, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

人生犹如一场狂欢派对,不过要向人们展示你的头脑,而不是你的胸部,如果人们欣赏你,你会收获很多。




4

乔布斯 - 斯坦福大学


  求知若饥,虚心若愚  


讲者介绍

史蒂芬·乔布斯(Steve Jobs):

美国发明家、企业家、美国苹果公司联合创办人,前Pixar动画公司的董事长及行政总裁。


高校介绍

斯坦福大学(Stanford University):

全球著名私立研究型高校,位于美国加州,临近世界著名高科技园区硅谷(Silicon Valley),为硅谷的形成和崛起奠定了坚实的基础。产生了60位诺贝尔奖得主,7位菲尔兹奖得主和20位图灵奖得主。


演讲视频

↓扫码看视频↓


金句摘录:

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

你们同样不可能从现在这个点上看到将来;只有回头看时,才会发现它们之间的关系。所以,要相信这些点迟早会连接到一起。你们必须信赖某些东西——直觉、归宿、生命,还有缘分,等等。


The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

做好工作的唯一办法,是热爱自己的工作。你们如果还没有发现自己喜欢什么,那就不断地去寻找。


As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

就像一切要凭著感觉去做的事情一样,一旦找到了自己喜欢的事,感觉就会告诉你。就像任何一种美妙的关系一样,它会历久弥新。


If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.

如果把每一天都当作生命的最后一天,那么一切都会好起来。


Your time is limited,so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

你们的时间都有限,所以不要按照别人的意愿去活,这是浪费时间。不要囿于成见,那是在按照别人设想的结果而活。不要让别人观点的聒噪声淹没自己的心声。最主要的是,要有跟著自己感觉和直觉走的勇气。无论如何,感觉和直觉早就知道你到底想成为什么样的人,其他都是次要的。


Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

求知若饥,虚心若愚。




5

J.K. 罗琳 - 哈佛大学


失败是你人生的盔甲


讲者介绍

J.K.罗琳(J.K. Rowling):英国著名作家,代表作《哈利·波特》系列。


高校介绍

哈佛大学(Havard University):

被公认为当今世界最知名、最顶尖的高等学府之一,美国常春藤盟校成员,常年位居世界大学排行榜前三。


演讲视频

↓扫码看视频↓

金句摘录:

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.

失败使我的内心产生一种安全感,这是我从考试中没有得到过的。失败让我看清自己,这也是我通过其他方式无法体会的。我发现,我比自己认为的,要有更强的意志和决心。我还发现,我拥有比宝石更加珍贵的朋友。


The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more tome than any qualification I ever earned.

从挫折中获得智慧、变得坚强,意味着你比以往任何时候都更有能力生存。只有在逆境来临的时候,你才会真正认识你自己,了解身边的人。这种了解是真正的财富,虽然是用痛苦换来的,但比我以前得到的任何资格证书都有用。


So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

如果给我一部时间机器,我会告诉21岁的自己,人的幸福在于知道生活不是一份漂亮的成绩单,你的资历、简历,都不是你的生活,虽然你会碰到很多与我同龄或更老一点的人今天依然还在混淆两者。生活是艰辛的,复杂的,超出任何人的控制能力,而谦恭地了解这一点,将使你历经沧桑后能够更好的生存。


这5场温暖人心的毕业演讲,是否对你有所启迪?哪一个最打动你?


如果可以选择,你最希望听到什么主题的毕业演讲?


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