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第1期:雪莉桑德伯格哈佛大学2014毕业典礼演讲(1)

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Congratulations everyone, you made it
祝贺所有人你们做到了

And I don't mean to the end of college, I mean to class day
我说的不是大学毕业而是成功出席今天的毕业日活动

because if memory serves some of your classmates had too many scorpion bowls at the Kong last night
如果我没记错，某些同学虽然昨晚在香港餐厅喝了太多蝎子碗调酒

and are with us today
但今天还是来了

Given the weather
由于天气

the one thing Harvard hasn't figured out how to control
这种哈佛还没有弄清如何控制的现象

some of your other classmates are at someplace warm with a hot cocoa
还有同学正在温暖的地方喝热可可饮料

so you have many reasons to feel proud of yourself as you sit here today
你们有很多为今天出席毕业日活动感到自豪的理由

Congratulations to your parents
祝贺你们的家长

You have spent a lot of money
你们花了很多钱

so your child can say she went to a "small school" near Boston
让子女能够说自己是从波士顿附近的这所"小学校"毕业的

And thank you to the class of 2014 for inviting me to be part of your celebration
还要感谢2014届毕业生邀请我来到这次盛典

It means a great deal to me
这对我价值巨大

and looking at the list of past speakers was a little daunting
看到过往演讲者的名单让人有些敬畏

I can't be as funny as Amy Poehler
我肯定没有艾米·波勒那么搞笑

but I'm gonna be funnier than Mother Teresa
但我至少会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
一个我当时还不认识但以后会成为我丈夫的男人戴夫

was sitting where you are sitting today
坐在你们现在坐的地方

23 years ago
23年前

I was sitting where you are sitting today
我坐在你们现在坐的地方

Dave and I are back this weekend with our amazing son and daughter to celebrate his reunion
戴夫和我这周末，带着可爱的子女回到母校

and we both share the same sentiment
我们都怀有相同的感触

Harvard has a good basketball team
哈佛的篮球队太棒了

Standing here in the yard brings memories flooding back for me
站在校园中记忆仿佛泉涌

I arrived here from Miami in the fall of 1987
1987年秋我从迈阿密来到这里

with big hopes and even bigger hair
怀着伟大的梦想还有更夸张的发型

I was assigned to live in one of Harvard's historic monuments to great architecture
我被分配到哈佛伟大建筑的一座历史丰碑

Canaday
卡纳迪楼

My go-to outfit, and I'm not making this up, was a jean skirt
我是说真的当时我身着牛仔裙

white leg warmers and sneakers and a Florida sweater
白色暖腿袜套运动鞋还有一件佛罗里达羊毛衫

because my parents who were here with me then as they're here with me now
因为当时我的父母告诉我说

told me everyone would think it was awesome that I was from Florida
所有人都会认为来自佛罗里达的人很酷

At least we didn't have Instagram
至少我们当时没有Instagram

For me, Harvard was a series of firsts
对我而言哈佛给了我很多第一次

My first winter coat, we didn't need those in Miami
包括我的第一件冬装我们在迈阿密不需要这些

My first 10 page paper, they didn't assign those in my high school
我的第一份十页论文高中没人会布置这么长的作业

My first C
我第一次得C

after which my proctor told me that she was on the Admissions Committee
这之后我的学监告诉我说她在招生委员会

and I got admitted to Harvard for my personality
招我进哈佛是因为我的品性

not my academic potential
而不是因为学术潜能

The first person I ever met from boarding school
我在寄宿学校看到的第一个人

I thought that was our really troubled kids
我就觉得这家伙肯定是个大麻烦

The first person I ever met who shares the name with a whole building
我还碰到了第一个名字同整座建筑一样的人

or so I met when the first classmate I met was Sarah Wigglesworth
这个人的名字叫作莎拉·威格尔斯沃思

who bore no relation at all to the dorm
她同那栋宿舍楼没有任何关系

which would have been nice to know with that very intimidating moment
当时我很震惊知道没关系后我才舒了一口气

Then I went on to meet others
之后我还碰到了其他人

Francis Strauss, James Wells
弗朗西斯·斯特劳斯詹姆斯·威尔斯

Jessica Science Center B
杰西卡科学中心B

My first love, my first heartbreak
我第一位爱人第一位让我心碎的人

the first time I realized that I love to learn
我第一次认识到自己热爱学习

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读拉丁文

When I sat in your seat all those years ago
我毕业那年

I knew exactly where I was headed. I had it all planned out
我想好了自己以后有什么计划

I was going to the World Bank to work on global poverty
我要进世界银行对抗全球贫困

Then I would go to law school
然后我要去法学院

Then I would spend my life working in a nonprofit or in a government
然后我将在非营利机构或政府工作

At Harvard's commencement tomorrow as your dean described
你们院长也讲了在明天的哈佛毕业典礼上

each school is gonna stand up and graduate together
每个学院都要起立并一同毕业

the college, the law school, the med school and so on
本科部法学院医学院等等

At my graduation, my class cheered for the PhD students
我毕业时我们班为博士生欢呼

and then booed the business school
然后嘘了商学院

Business school seemed like such a sellout
商学院似乎很不受欢迎

18 months later, I applied to business school
18个月后我就报了商学院

It wasn't that I was wrong about what I would do decades after graduating
我对自己毕业后的数十年规划其实并没错

I had it wrong a year and a half later
计划只错在了一年半以后

And even if I could have predicted I would one day work in the private sector
就算我算到了自己会在私营企业工作

I never could have predicted Facebook
我肯定也算不到自己会在Facebook

because there was no internet
因为当时没有互联网

and Mark Zuckerberg was at elementary school
马克·扎克伯格还在读小学

already wearing his hoody
已经开始穿他的标志性帽衫了

Not locking into a path too early
没有太早锁死自己的道路

gave me an opportunity to go into a new and life changing field
让我有机会进入改变生活的全新领域

And for those of you who think I owe everything to good luck
有些人可能认为我只是运气好我想说

after Canaday I got Quaded
卡纳迪楼后我又被安排到了方院

What's that? Barron
怎么样巴伦

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人物简介
雪莉·桑德伯格（Sheryl Sandberg），1969年8月26日，生于华盛顿，2011年41岁，Facebook首席运营官，2011福布斯权势女性榜排名第5位。2008年3月，正当Facebook从一家受到广泛关注的创业公司向一家互联网巨头迈进时，桑德伯格从谷歌跳槽至这家社交网站。她负责Facebook的销售、营销、收购、合作、人士、公共政策和联络事宜，使该网站CEO马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）可以专注于Facebook的设计和新功能。雪莉·桑德伯格给此家初出茅庐的新兴企业带来了难得的成熟气息，帮助Facebook从一家热门创业公司走向互联网世界的主宰。在她的努力下，Facebook克服用户隐私问题的困扰，在全世界获得了5亿以上的用户，成为最重要的互联网企业之一。

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sentiment	['sentimənt]	想一想再看 n. 感情，情趣，意见，观点，多愁善感	联想记忆 X 单词sentiment 联想记忆： senti感觉+ment→感觉→感情
potential	[pə'tenʃəl]	想一想再看 adj. 可能的，潜在的 n. 潜力，潜能
global	['gləubəl]	想一想再看 adj. 全球性的，全世界的，球状的，全局的	联想记忆 X 单词global 联想记忆：北京有一个global的厅
intimidating		想一想再看 adj. 吓人的
daunting	['dɔ:ntiŋ]	想一想再看 adj. 令人畏惧的
proctor	['prɔktə]	想一想再看 n. 代理人，学监	联想记忆 X 单词proctor 联想记忆： proct监督+or表名词，“人或物器”→学监，代理人
elementary	[.elə'mentəri]	想一想再看 adj. 基本的，初级的，元素的	联想记忆 X 单词elementary 联想记忆： element元素，要素+ary表形容词，“…的”→基本的
commencement	[kə'mensmənt]	想一想再看 n. 开始，毕业典礼	联想记忆 X 单词commencement 联想记忆： commence开始+ment表名词,“行为或结果”→开始
inviting	[in'vaitiŋ]	想一想再看 adj. 吸引人的，诱人的动词invite的现在分词	联想记忆 X 单词inviting 联想记忆： inviet邀请+ing表形容词，“正 …的”，“令人…的”→诱人的
bore	[bɔ:]	想一想再看 vt. 使厌烦 n. 讨厌的人，麻烦事