耶鲁大学校长2025毕业典礼演讲：跨越隔阂，共筑人本关怀
字幕摘录
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| 0:16 | Good morning, everyone, graduates of the Class of 2025, faculty and family members, colleagues | 早上好,各位,2025年班毕业生,教职员工和家庭成员,同事 |
| 0:26 | and friends. | 还有朋友 |
| 0:28 | Today we continue a tradition that is centuries old. | 今天,我们延续着数百年的传统。 |
| 0:34 | On the Sunday before commencement, Yale presidents have stood behind this rostrum to impart a | 在开始前的星期日,耶鲁大学的总统们站在这个讲台后面,向大家传达: |
| 0:39 | few words about the world that awaits our graduates beyond Phelps Gate. | 关于在菲尔普斯门外等待毕业生的世界, |
| 0:45 | It gives me great pleasure to continue the tradition today in my first baccalaureate | 我很高兴今天能在我的第一个高中毕业会考中 继续这个传统 |
| 0:51 | address as Yale's 24th president. | 地址是耶鲁第24任总统 |
| 1:02 | But before I share a few reflections, I want to commence by recognizing this class. | 但是,在我提出一些想法之前,我想首先承认这一阶层。 |
| 1:09 | So friends and families, will you please rise and give a loud cheer to members of the Class | 各位朋友和家人 请起立 大声欢呼 |
| 1:15 | of 2025. | 2025年统计。 |
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| 1 | Good morning, everyone, graduates of the Class of 2025, faculty and family members, colleagues | 早上好,各位,2025年班毕业生,教职员工和家庭成员,同事 |
| 2 | and friends. | 还有朋友 |
| 3 | Today we continue a tradition that is centuries old. | 今天,我们延续着数百年的传统。 |
| 4 | On the Sunday before commencement, Yale presidents have stood behind this rostrum to impart a | 在开始前的星期日,耶鲁大学的总统们站在这个讲台后面,向大家传达: |
| 5 | few words about the world that awaits our graduates beyond Phelps Gate. | 关于在菲尔普斯门外等待毕业生的世界, |
| 6 | It gives me great pleasure to continue the tradition today in my first baccalaureate | 我很高兴今天能在我的第一个高中毕业会考中 继续这个传统 |
| 7 | address as Yale's 24th president. | 地址是耶鲁第24任总统 |
| 8 | But before I share a few reflections, I want to commence by recognizing this class. | 但是,在我提出一些想法之前,我想首先承认这一阶层。 |
| 9 | So friends and families, will you please rise and give a loud cheer to members of the Class | 各位朋友和家人 请起立 大声欢呼 |
| 10 | of 2025. | 2025年统计。 |
| 11 | Now, graduates, it's your turn. | 现在,毕业生,轮到你了。 |
| 12 | Members of the Class of 2025, will you please rise and return the favor by recognizing all | 2025年的班级成员 请起立 承认所有人 |
| 13 | those who have supported you. | 那些曾支持你的人, |
| 14 | Parents and loved ones of today's graduates, I know how this moment feels. | 今天的毕业生的父母和亲人,我知道这一刻的感受. |
| 15 | Just a few springs ago, I was beaming with pride and, yes, a little teary-eyed during | 刚才的春天,我满怀自豪的光芒 和,是的,一点点泪眼 期间 |
| 16 | my own son's commencement weekend. | 我儿子的开始周末。 |
| 17 | As a parent to both a current college student and a recent graduate, I understand the swirl | 作为现任大学生和最近毕业的学生的家长, 我理解这个旋律 |
| 18 | of emotions that come with watching your children navigate their college years. | 看着你的孩子 度过他们的大学时光 |
| 19 | The quiet worry about how they will adjust mingled with the confidence that they would. | 静悄悄地担心,他们将如何以他们愿意的信心调整。 |
| 20 | And as you sit here today, I know how hard it is not to simultaneously float back to | 今天你坐在这里 我知道不同时浮回 |
| 21 | those moments when they took their very first steps and wondering now what next steps will bring. | 他们迈出了第一步,现在又想知道下一步将带来什么。 |
| 22 | We're so grateful that you entrusted Yale with a critical chapter in between. | 我们很感激你把关键篇章交给耶鲁 |
| 23 | To everyone in the audience, let me remind you about a few of the accomplishments of | 我提醒大家,在座各位, |
| 24 | the Class of 2025. | 2025级。 |
| 25 | Graduates, you started out as the COVID pandemic was beginning to wane, and you helped Yale | 毕业生们,你们从COVID大流行开始, 你帮助了耶鲁 |
| 26 | to revitalize campus life. | 重振校园生活。 |
| 27 | You have been pioneers in navigating the new frontier of generative AI in the classroom. | 你们在课堂上率先探索基因AI的新前沿。 |
| 28 | You count among your ranks Rhodes, Marshalls, Goldwater, and Schwarzman scholars, and even | 罗德斯 马歇尔 戈德沃特 施瓦兹曼的学者 |
| 29 | an Olympic medalist. | 奥运会奖牌得主 |
| 30 | You have distinguished yourselves not only in size but also in spirit as Yale's largest | 你不仅在体型上 而且在精神上 都以耶鲁最大 |
| 31 | class since the Second World War. | 第二次世界大战以来的班级。 |
| 32 | Along the way, you've challenged grandmasters in chess, cheered on the Bulldogs to | 一路走来,你挑战 奶奶在棋,欢呼 在斗牛犬 |
| 33 | several Ivy League championships, and dazzled audiences with your performances in solos, | 几个常春藤联盟的冠军, 和炫耀观众 与你的表演独奏, |
| 34 | ensembles, in groups in nearly every genre, and on stages across the country and around | 综艺节目,几乎每个流派的团体,以及全国和各地的阶段 |
| 35 | the world. | 这个世界。 |
| 36 | You've marked personal milestones and developed friendships that will shape a lifetime. | 你标志着个人的里程碑 并发展了友谊 将塑造一生。 |
| 37 | But of course, among all there is to celebrate, your time on campus also coincides with another | 但当然,除了庆祝之外,你在学校的时间 也和另一个一样 |
| 38 | consequential period that continues to shape our lives, a time of rising partisan antipathy. | 继续影响我们生活的时期,一个党派反感情绪上升的时期。 |
| 39 | When you entered Yale, partisan rancor had reached historic levels. | 当你进入耶鲁大学时 党派的愤怒达到了历史水平 |
| 40 | And now, as you depart, polls suggest that many think of the opposing party not just | 现在,当你离开时,民意测验显示, 许多人认为 对立党派不仅仅是 |
| 41 | misguided but, quote, downright evil. | 错误,但,引用, 直率的邪恶。 |
| 42 | All of us can sense that conversations have become more brittle. | 我们所有人都能感觉到,对话变得更加简洁。 |
| 43 | Trust in institutions and one another is fraying. | 对机构的信任和彼此的信任正在破裂。 |
| 44 | Common ground feels hard to find and still harder to sustain. | 共同立场难以找到,也难以维持。 |
| 45 | I don't think we've lost the ability to talk to one another so much as the will to. | 我觉得我们没有失去 彼此交谈的能力 就像意志一样 |
| 46 | Instead, it's easy to retreat into echo chambers shaped by algorithms, to subscribe to content | 相反,它很容易退入由算法塑造的回声室, 订阅内容 |
| 47 | that validates our viewpoints, and to scroll past perspectives that challenge them. | 它证实了我们的观点,并滚动了过去挑战它们的观点。 |
| 48 | So as an educator and a parent, I often wrestle with a question I know many of you do too. | 所以作为一个教育家和家长, 我经常遇到一个问题,我知道你们中许多人也这样做。 |
| 49 | In a world so fragmented, how do we find our way back to one another? | 在一个如此支离破碎的世界里,我们如何找到回到彼此的道路? |
| 50 | How can we shape our shared future when the ties that bind us feel so tenuous, | 我们如何塑造我们共同的未来 当束缚我们的联系感到如此脆弱, |
| 51 | if not already broken? | 如果还没有破? |
| 52 | So some of you have gotten to know me this year, and so it may not come as a surprise | 所以你们有些人今年认识我 所以可能不会是个惊喜 |
| 53 | that I seek inspiration in history and in art. | 我在历史和艺术中寻求灵感 |
| 54 | It also seems fitting, on the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War, | 在美国革命战争开始250周年之际, |
| 55 | to turn to paintings hanging only steps away in the Yale University Art Gallery. | 在耶鲁大学艺术美术馆里只悬着几步 |
| 56 | There, John Trumbull's painting, The Battle of Bunker's Hill, is one of the most iconic, | 在那里,约翰·特鲁姆布尔的画作"邦克山之战"是最具标志性的作品之一, |
| 57 | and it marks that moment 250 years ago in June when a band of soldiers stood their ground | 它标志着250年前的6月 当一群士兵站在他们的地上 |
| 58 | on a hillside near Boston. | 在波士顿附近的山坡上 |
| 59 | The scene, as you can see, unfolds beneath swirling plumes of thick smoke, | 正如你所见,这个场景在浓烟的卷曲下展开, |
| 60 | the air acrid with cannon fire and laced with sacrifice. | 空中用炮火燃烧 并用牺牲来装饰 |
| 61 | British forces have breached American lines. | 英军突破了美国防线. |
| 62 | The fate of a young nation hangs in the balance. | 一个年轻国家的命运悬在平衡之中。 |
| 63 | And Joseph Warren, the American Major General, has fallen in what would become one of the first | 而约瑟夫·沃伦,美国少将, 已经陷入了将会成为第一个 |
| 64 | major battles in the war for independence. | 独立战争中的重大战役。 |
| 65 | In death as in life, General Warren roused the Revolutionary cause. | 在死亡和生活中,沃伦将军发动了革命事业. |
| 66 | But in Trumbull's masterpiece, he distills the importance and drama of that day | 但是在特伦布尔的杰作中 他总结了那天的重要性和戏剧性 |
| 67 | to a moment of humanity amidst the awful brutality of war. | 在战争的可怕残酷中, |
| 68 | In Trumbull's composition, the slashing diagonal animated by the billowing flags and the chaos | 在特鲁姆布尔的构成中 斜线对角动画 由摇摆的旗帜和混乱 |
| 69 | of red-coated men and revolutionaries in battle stands in tension with the moment | 红衣人和革命者在战斗中 站在紧张的时刻 |
| 70 | of stillness at the center of the canvas. | 画布中央的静态 |
| 71 | There, British Major John Small steps in to stop a fellow redcoat from bayoneting | 在那里,英国少校约翰・斯莫 踏入阻止 红衣同胞刺刀 |
| 72 | the fallen body of the heroic Joseph Warren. | 是英勇的约瑟夫·沃伦的尸体 |
| 73 | In that moment, one man preserves the dignity of a dying foe | 那一刻,一个人维护着一个即将死去的敌人的尊严 |
| 74 | with an unexpected gesture of compassion amid chaos. | 在混乱中 意外的同情姿态 |
| 75 | One man, taming the passions of war, chooses mercy. | 一个人,驯服战争的激情,选择慈悲. |
| 76 | Chooses to see the man who was his friend instead of the general of an opposing force. | 选择去见他的朋友 而不是对立势力的将军 |
| 77 | Ours is an institution that predates the Revolution, | 我们的机构是革命前的机构 |
| 78 | and many Yaleys played pivotal roles in the nation's founding. | 和许多耶鲁派在建国过程中发挥了关键作用. |
| 79 | This history matters not only because of Yale's age, but also because of the leadership we've | 这段历史之所以重要,不仅因为耶鲁时代,也因为我们的领导才能. |
| 80 | shown in pursuit of the ideals that shaped this country, chief among them the pursuit of liberty. | 表现在追求塑造这个国家的理想,其中最主要的是追求自由。 |
| 81 | But let us also remember that those founding ideals were aspirational from the start, | 但我们也要记住,这些创始理想从一开始就是理想的, |
| 82 | and we have fallen short in our history, including toward the people of this land | 我们在历史上没有达到目标, 包括对这片土地的人民 |
| 83 | and those who contributed to this country even as they were denied its freedoms. | 以及那些为国家作出贡献的人,即使他们被剥夺了自由。 |
| 84 | But we have always been a people striving to live up to our ideals, and that is why | 但是,我们一直是一个致力于实现我们的理想的人民,这就是为什么 |
| 85 | the journey remains unfinished and why we must continue it with humility. | 旅程尚未完成,为什么我们必须谦卑地继续前进。 |
| 86 | Fellow art historians have noted how astonishing it is that Trumbull | 艺术史学者们已经注意到 特朗布尔多么惊人 |
| 87 | does not focus on the outcome of the battle so much as the nobility of its participants. | 没有像参与者的贵族那样注重战斗的结果。 |
| 88 | By spotlighting Major Small's intervention, Trumbull honored an officer equally distinguished | 特朗布尔通过突出Small少校的干预 向一位同样杰出的军官致敬 |
| 89 | by acts of humanity and kindness to his enemies as by bravery and fidelity to the cause he served. | 以人道和善待他的敌人 以勇敢和忠于他的事业 |
| 90 | The kind of courage that Trumbull invites us to see is the kind we too often overlook. | 特朗布尔邀请我们看到的勇气 是那种我们经常忽略的勇气 |
| 91 | The courage to practice restraint over retribution. | 勇于克制以战胜报复 |
| 92 | The courage to see | 看见的勇气 |
| 93 | a fellow human being even when every voice around you insists they are the enemy. | 一个人类同胞,即使你周围的每个声音 都坚称他们是敌人。 |
| 94 | The courage, in short, to show compassion. | 简言之,是表现出同情心的勇气。 |
| 95 | Compassion, as I suspect Major Small understood, is not the absence of conviction. | 我怀疑小少校所理解的同情不是没有定罪。 |
| 96 | It is not weakness, and it is certainly not retreat. | 这不是软弱,它肯定不会退缩。 |
| 97 | It is, in fact, an act of radical strength in its rarest form. | 事实上,这是一种最罕见形式的激进力量行为。 |
| 98 | It is the idea that even in our most consequential disagreements, that even when the stakes | 这个想法是,即使在我们最导致的分歧中,即使利害关系 |
| 99 | are as significant as life and liberty, we must find ways to recognize our common humanity. | 我们必须设法承认我们的共同人性。 |
| 100 | Now I am not necessarily advocating for the avoidance of conflict or the denial of our | 现在,我不一定主张避免冲突或否认我们 |
| 101 | differences. | 差别。 |
| 102 | In a vibrant, pluralistic society, disagreement is inevitable, indeed welcomed. | 在一个充满活力、多元的社会中,分歧是不可避免的,确实值得欢迎。 |
| 103 | But what I would like to impress on you today is that compassion can coexist with our most | 但我今天想给你留下深刻印象的是 同情心可以和我们最 |
| 104 | deeply held beliefs. | 深厚的信念, |
| 105 | We can, at once, have a resolute mind and an open heart. | 我们马上可以有一个坚定的头脑和一个开放的心。 |
| 106 | One that holds | 一个坚守 |
| 107 | hope for peace, and for a day when our common humanity triumphs over our deepest divisions. | 希望和平,希望有一天我们共同的人类战胜我们最深刻的分歧。 |
| 108 | It is reasonable to think of Trumbull's scene, though, nearby to those of us at Yale, as some | 想想特鲁姆布尔的场景是合情合理的, 但是,在附近 我们的人在耶鲁, |
| 109 | distant, romanticized moment on canvas. | 画布上遥远的浪漫时刻 |
| 110 | Yet Trumbull captured for a nation not only the events, | 然而特鲁姆布尔为了一个国家所俘虏 不仅是事件, |
| 111 | but also the values that stood at the heart of our new country. | 还有我们新国家的核心价值观。 |
| 112 | In his searings of paintings | 在他的画圈里 |
| 113 | and prints that celebrate the creation of the United States, Trumbull helped shape the collective | 以及庆祝美国诞生的指纹 特朗布尔帮助塑造了集体 |
| 114 | memory of the sacrifice, the bravery, and the spirit of generosity at the heart of our origin | 缅怀牺牲、勇敢和慷慨精神 |
| 115 | story. | 故事的情节。 |
| 116 | Incidentally, Trumbull is interred beneath the Yale University Art Gallery itself. | 顺便说一句,特伦布尔被困在耶鲁大学美术馆本身之下. |
| 117 | His legacy and the ideals of America he documented, quite literally, part of Yale's | 他的遗产和美国的理想 他记录了,相当字面上,耶鲁的一部分 |
| 118 | foundation. | 基础。 |
| 119 | While you will likely never face circumstances similar to those of Major Small | 虽然你永远不会面临 类似小少校的情况 |
| 120 | and Bunkers Hill, you will, without question, encounter division. | 和舱位 希尔,你一定会遇到组织 |
| 121 | You may be tempted to turn | 你可能想转身 |
| 122 | away from those who do not agree with you. | 远离与你不合者。 |
| 123 | It is precisely in those moments that you must lean in | 正是在这些时刻,你必须靠在 |
| 124 | on what you have learned at Yale. | 关于你在耶鲁大学学到的 |
| 125 | To listen, especially when it would be easier to dismiss. | 听,特别是当它更容易被开除。 |
| 126 | To extend grace even when grievance feels warranted. | 即使有冤情需要 也要给予恩惠 |
| 127 | To defend your ideals | 为了捍卫你的理想 |
| 128 | without demeaning those who disagree with them. | 而不贬其不和者. |
| 129 | In my first year as president, I have been moved by | 在我当总统的第一年, 我被感动了 |
| 130 | our community spirit to exemplify these principles. | 我们的社区精神将体现这些原则。 |
| 131 | I've watched as veterans who have served in combat | 我在战场上服役的老兵 |
| 132 | zones now show valor in the classroom by engaging openly and respectfully with fellow students | 区域现在在课堂上表现出勇气,公开和敬重地与同学接触 |
| 133 | about the complexities of war. | 关于战争的复杂性。 |
| 134 | I've seen faculty members, like those involved in the law school's | 我见过一些教职员工 就像法学院的教职员工 |
| 135 | Crossing Divides program, convene leaders from opposing sides of contentious debates | 跨越分歧方案,召集争议辩论的对立方领导人 |
| 136 | to explore how they bridge differences and find new ways forward. | 探索如何弥合分歧,找到新的前进方向。 |
| 137 | And I've had the privilege of | 我有幸 |
| 138 | meeting eminent alumni like Henry Louis Gates Jr. who turned a personal injustice into a public | 认识像小亨利·路易斯·盖茨这样的知名校友 他把个人的不公正变成了公众 |
| 139 | display of generosity. | 展现出慷慨 |
| 140 | After a painful incident in which he was wrongly arrested on his own front | 在一场痛苦的事件中 他被错误地逮捕 在自己的战线上 |
| 141 | porch on the suspicion of breaking into his own home, Professor Gates chose not to retreat into | 盖茨教授因涉嫌闯入自己家 选择不退缩 |
| 142 | resentment, but to instead sit down with the arresting officer. | 而不是和逮捕官坐下来 |
| 143 | Some of your family members | 你的一些家庭成员 |
| 144 | may well remember that the two men met at the White House for what became known as the Beer Summit. | 可能记得两人在白宫为啤酒峰会相遇 |
| 145 | Of course, the summit was not some grand solution to the broader issue it concerned. | 当然,首脑会议不是解决它所关心的更广泛问题的重要办法。 |
| 146 | No single conversation could be, but it was a small gesture of hope. | 任何谈话都不可能,但这只是一个小小的希望姿态。 |
| 147 | A hope that when we sit | 一个希望,当我们坐下 |
| 148 | together, speak openly, and acknowledge our shared humanity, we can create space | 我们一起,公开说话,承认我们共同的人性,我们可以创造空间 |
| 149 | for understanding and even unexpected connections to take root. | 理解甚至意外的联系 才能扎根 |
| 150 | As a remarkable postscript, | 作为杰出的海报 |
| 151 | Professor Gates found not only common ground with the arresting officer, but a distant relative. | 盖茨教授不仅找到了与逮捕官员的共同点,还找到了一位远亲. |
| 152 | The two discovered that they descend from the same ancestor, reminding us of how interwoven | 二人发现他们来自同一个祖先 提醒我们如何交织 |
| 153 | our lives often are if we summon the courage to look more closely and listen more carefully. | 如果我们鼓起勇气更仔细地观察和仔细地聆听,我们的生活往往就是如此。 |
| 154 | As Yale graduates, you are uniquely equipped to do so. | 作为耶鲁大学的毕业生,你有着独特的能力来完成这项工作. |
| 155 | You have spent four years in an environment | 你在环境里度过了四年 |
| 156 | that celebrates the balance of excellence and empathy, rigorous thought, and human connection. | 歌颂卓越与同情、严谨的思想和人际联系之间的平衡。 |
| 157 | So yours is now the rare privilege and the solemn responsibility to live what you have learned, | 所以,现在你的特权 和庄严的责任 生活你学到的, |
| 158 | to mend what has been broken, to lift up where others have torn down. | 以修补已破裂的事物,以升起他人已毁坏的地方。 |
| 159 | In the coming days and | 在未来的日子里 |
| 160 | years, you will assume leadership roles across every sector of society. | 几年后,你们将在社会各部门发挥领导作用。 |
| 161 | Some of you will pursue | 你们中有些人会追逐 |
| 162 | scientific breakthroughs, others artistic endeavors. | 科学突破,其他艺术努力 |
| 163 | Some will build businesses, | 有些人会建立企业, |
| 164 | others will shape policy. | 其他国家将制定政策。 |
| 165 | Whatever path you choose, I urge you to heed the humanity on view | 无论你选择哪条路,我都敦促你注意人性 |
| 166 | just a few steps away on Trumbull's campus. | 就在特伦布尔的校园几步外 |
| 167 | To remember that in even those moments of profound | 要记住,即使在那些深刻的时刻 |
| 168 | conflict, we can choose instead to be guided by a spirit of compassion, | 我们可以选择以同情精神为指导, |
| 169 | that we can choose to act with dignity towards those with whom we disagree, | 我们可以选择以尊严对待我们不同意的人, |
| 170 | that in a world divided, civility may be our most revolutionary act. | 在一个分裂的世界,文明也许是我们最革命的行为。 |
| 171 | So as you prepare to pass through Phelps Gate one last time as students, know that you leave this | 所以,当你准备通过菲尔普斯门 最后一次作为学生,知道你离开这个 |
| 172 | place with both our congratulations and our confidence, a deep and abiding confidence that | 以我们的祝贺和信心,以深深和持久的信心,相信 |
| 173 | you will indeed be the bearers of our banner, one of knowledge and understanding, | 你确是我们族中的博学者, |
| 174 | leadership and service, light and truth. | 领导与服务,光明与真理。 |
| 175 | So when future historians look back at this fractured | 所以当未来的历史学家回顾这个断裂 |
| 176 | moment, let them record that you carried this banner not just from Yale to the world, | 让他们记录下你背着这个旗帜 从耶鲁到世界 |
| 177 | but from the world as it is to the world as it might be. | 但从世间至世间. |
| 178 | Let them note that you helped us | 让他们注意到你帮了我们 |
| 179 | find our way back to one another. | 找到我们回到彼此的路 |
| 180 | Let them say that you were not only brilliant scholars, | 让他们说,你们不仅是高明的学者, |
| 181 | but courageous citizens. | 但勇敢的公民。 |
| 182 | Let them say that in a time that called for both conviction | 让他们说,在一个需要 双方定罪的时代 |
| 183 | and compassion, the Yale Class of 2025 answered with both in full measure. | 2025年耶鲁班对这两期课程都作了充分的答复。 |
| 184 | Thank you, and | 谢谢 |
| 185 | congratulations. | 祝贺你 |
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