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第137期:2012年Michael Lewis普林斯顿大学(1)

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  • Thank you. President Tilghman. Trustees and Friends
  • 感谢Tilghman主席 各位校董和朋友们
  • Parents of the Class of 2012 wherever they put you
  • 2012年级的家长们
  • Members of the Class of 2012
  • 普林斯顿2012年级的同学们
  • Why don't you give yourself a round of applause?
  • 为什么不给自己一次掌声呢?
  • So the next time you look around a church and see everyone dressed in black it'll be awkward to do that. But enjoy the moment
  • 下一次你在一所教堂里 看到大家都穿成黑色的时候 像这样欢呼就很尴尬了 享受这一刻吧
  • Thirty years ago I sat where you sat
  • 30年前 我坐在你所坐的地方
  • I must have listened to some older person share his life experiences
  • 我一定也听过某位年长的人分享他的人生经历
  • I don't remember a word of it
  • 但我已经一点都不记得了
  • I couldn't even tell you who spoke
  • 我连是谁发言都没印象了
  • And you won't be able to either
  • 你们也不会记得吧
  • What I do remember, vividly, is graduation
  • 而在我记忆中仍栩栩如生的 是毕业
  • I'm told you're meant to be excited, maybe even relieved let you... getting out of you, and maybe all of you are
  • 他们告诉我你应该很激动 或者感到轻松 先不说你们……但也许你们现在就是这样
  • I was not. I was totally outraged
  • 我却不同 我义愤填膺
  • Here I'd gone and given them four of the best years of my life and this is how they rewarded me, by throwing me out
  • 我来到这里给了他们我人生中最好的四年 而他们就是这样报答我的 把我踢走
  • At that moment I was sure of only one thing
  • 在那时我只确信一件事
  • I was of no possible economic value to the outside world
  • 我对外面的世界没有任何经济价值
  • I'd majored in art history, for a start
  • 我修的是艺术史 那是我的起点
  • Even then this was regarded as an act of insanity
  • 即使在当时这也被视为疯子的行为
  • I was almost certainly less prepared than you are for the marketplace
  • 我为市场做的准备一定差过 几乎在座的每一个人
  • Yet somehow I have wound up somehow rich and famous
  • 而现在我竟摇身一变成了富人和名人


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人物简介
当莘莘学子走出象牙塔,迈向社会,怎样做好从学子到社会人的华丽转变呢?我们可以从风云学长们的成长故事和忠告中获得些什么呢?面对一份收益优厚的工作,对于自己怀揣的梦想,你会做出怎样的抉择?或许,2012年普林斯顿大学Michael Lewis的毕业演讲能够让你有所收获。


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spoke [spəuk]

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v. 说,说话,演说

 
applause [ə'plɔ:z]

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n. 鼓掌,喝彩,赞许
v. 鼓掌

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relieved [ri'li:vd]

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adj. 放心的,放松的,免除的

 
awkward ['ɔ:kwəd]

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adj. 笨拙的,尴尬的,(设计)别扭的

 

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