【跟着演讲学英语】J.K.罗琳在哈佛大学的毕业典礼致辞 |
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| 0:02 | Last summer, in a grand celebration of literature, | 去年夏天,在文学的盛大庆祝活动中, |
| 0:08 | Harvard Square and Harvard Yard, | 哈佛广场和哈佛场, |
| 0:11 | historically known as the place for hallowed halls | 历史上被称为圣堂的地方 |
| 0:15 | filled with books, was transformed into Hogwarts Square. | 里面装满了书 变成了霍格沃茨广场 |
| 0:25 | This summer festival celebrated the midnight release | 这个夏天的节日 庆祝午夜的释放 |
| 0:29 | of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, | 哈利・波特和死亡谷, |
| 0:32 | the seventh and final installment | 第七批,也是最后一批 |
| 0:35 | in the wildly popular series. | 在疯狂的流行系列。 |
| 0:38 | Hordes of people, children and adults alike, | 人民、儿童和成年人的恐惧, |
| 0:42 | dressed in elaborate wizard costumes, | 穿着精致的巫师服装, |
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| 1 | Last summer, in a grand celebration of literature, | 去年夏天,在文学的盛大庆祝活动中, |
| 2 | Harvard Square and Harvard Yard, | 哈佛广场和哈佛场, |
| 3 | historically known as the place for hallowed halls | 历史上被称为圣堂的地方 |
| 4 | filled with books, was transformed into Hogwarts Square. | 里面装满了书 变成了霍格沃茨广场 |
| 5 | This summer festival celebrated the midnight release | 这个夏天的节日 庆祝午夜的释放 |
| 6 | of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, | 哈利・波特和死亡谷, |
| 7 | the seventh and final installment | 第七批,也是最后一批 |
| 8 | in the wildly popular series. | 在疯狂的流行系列。 |
| 9 | Hordes of people, children and adults alike, | 人民、儿童和成年人的恐惧, |
| 10 | dressed in elaborate wizard costumes, | 穿着精致的巫师服装, |
| 11 | stood in line for hours at the coop | 排队数小时在监狱 |
| 12 | to purchase copies of the book. | 以购买书本。 |
| 13 | Dozens of restaurants and stores stayed open late | 数十家餐馆和商店很晚才开业 |
| 14 | and posted Harry Potter-themed specials | 并张贴了哈利波特主题特辑 |
| 15 | and a three-hour concert capped off the evening | 和3小时的音乐会 关闭晚上 |
| 16 | in a packed tricentenary theater. | 在一个装满三百块的剧院里 |
| 17 | Today, tricentenary theater is once again | 今天,三百周年纪念剧院再次出现 |
| 18 | packed with children and adults, | 里面装满了儿童和成年人, |
| 19 | and we are pleased to welcome | 我们高兴地欢迎 |
| 20 | one of the most successful authors of our time. | 我们时代最成功的作者之一 |
| 21 | Her books have set sales records | 她的书有销售记录 |
| 22 | and have won many awards, | 并获得许多奖项, |
| 23 | probably because the Harry Potter stories | 也许是因为哈利波特的故事 |
| 24 | provide a familiar backdrop for readers | 为读者提供一个熟悉的背景 |
| 25 | who can empathize with the young protagonist's adrift | 能同情年轻主角的漂移 |
| 26 | in a sometimes cruel and challenging world. | 在一个有时残酷和充满挑战的世界中。 |
| 27 | In addition to her vast contributions to literature, | 除了她对文学的巨大贡献, |
| 28 | she is also noted for the social, moral | 在社会、道德方面,她也受到注意。 |
| 29 | and political inspiration she has given her fans. | 以及她给粉丝们的政治灵感 |
| 30 | A notable philanthropist, | 一个著名的慈善家, |
| 31 | she has established the Volant Charitable Trust, | 她建立了伏兰特慈善信托, |
| 32 | which donates millions of dollars | 捐赠数百万美元 |
| 33 | to aid women and children | 援助妇女和儿童 |
| 34 | and to combat poverty and social inequality. | 消除贫困和社会不平等。 |
| 35 | The fund also gives to organizations that aid children, | 该基金还向援助儿童的组织提供: |
| 36 | one-parent families and multiple sclerosis research. | 单亲家庭和多种硬化症研究。 |
| 37 | She herself has noted that a person | 她自己已经注意到一个人 |
| 38 | has a moral responsibility | 有道德责任 |
| 39 | when you've been given far more than you need | 当你得到的远远超出你需要的 |
| 40 | to do wise things with it and to give intelligently. | 用它做一些明智的事情,并明智地给予。 |
| 41 | And now I give you Ms. J.K. Rowling. | 现在我给你J. K. 罗琳女士。 |
| 42 | President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation | Faust主席,哈佛公司成员 |
| 43 | and the Board of Overseers, | 和监察委员会, |
| 44 | members of the faculty, proud parents | 院系成员,骄傲的父母 |
| 45 | and above all, graduates, | 特别是毕业生, |
| 46 | the first thing I would like to say is thank you. | 我首先要说的就是谢谢你 |
| 47 | Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honor, | 不仅哈佛给了我一个非凡的荣誉, |
| 48 | but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured | 但我忍受了数周的恐惧和恶心 |
| 49 | at the thought of giving this commencement address | 在考虑提供这一启动地址时 |
| 50 | have made me lose weight. | 让我瘦了 |
| 51 | A win-win situation. | 双赢的局面. |
| 52 | Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, | 现在我要做的就是深呼吸 |
| 53 | squint at the red banners | 在红旗上斜视 |
| 54 | and convince myself that I am at the world's | 并说服自己 我在世界的 |
| 55 | largest Gryffindor reunion. | 最大的格莱芬多重聚。 |
| 56 | Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility | 提供启动地址是一项重大责任 |
| 57 | or so I thought until I cast my mind back | 所以我想,直到我回心转意 |
| 58 | to my own graduation. | 我自己的毕业。 |
| 59 | The commencement speaker that day | 那天开场演讲人 |
| 60 | was the distinguished British philosopher | 是英国著名哲学家 |
| 61 | Baroness Mary Warnock. | 玛丽·沃诺克男爵夫人 |
| 62 | Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously | 反省她的演讲对我有很大帮助 |
| 63 | in writing this one because it turns out | 写这篇是因为后来 |
| 64 | that I can't remember a single word she said. | 我不记得她说了什么 |
| 65 | This liberating discovery enables me to proceed | 这个解脱的发现让我得以继续 |
| 66 | without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you | 不用担心我无意中影响你 |
| 67 | to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics | 放弃在商业、法律或政治领域有前途的职业 |
| 68 | for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard. | 成为同性恋巫师的欢乐 |
| 69 | You see, if all you remember in years to come | 你看,如果你记得所有 在以后的岁月 |
| 70 | is the gay wizard joke, | 是同性恋巫师的笑话, |
| 71 | I've come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. | 我领先玛丽·沃诺克男爵夫人 |
| 72 | Achievable goals, the first step to self-improvement. | 可实现的目标,自我完善的第一步. |
| 73 | Actually, I have racked my mind and heart | 其实,我心碎了 |
| 74 | for what I ought to say to you today. | 我今天应该对你说的话 |
| 75 | I have asked myself what I wish I had known | 我问自己,我希望我知道什么 |
| 76 | at my own graduation and what important lessons | 在我毕业的时候 和什么重要课程 |
| 77 | I have learned in the 21 years that have expired | 21年来我学到了 已经过去 |
| 78 | between that day and this. | 从那天到今天 |
| 79 | I have come up with two answers. | 我提出了两个答案。 |
| 80 | On this wonderful day when we are gathered together | 在这美好的一天,我们聚在一起 |
| 81 | to celebrate your academic success, | 庆祝你的学术成就, |
| 82 | I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. | 我决定和你谈谈失败的好处。 |
| 83 | And as you stand on the threshold | 当你站在门槛上 |
| 84 | of what is sometimes called real life, | 所谓现实生活, |
| 85 | I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination. | 我要颂扬想象的重要性。 |
| 86 | These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, | 这些选择可能看起来很可疑或很荒谬, |
| 87 | but bear with me. | 但要忍着点 |
| 88 | Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation | 回顾我毕业时的21岁 |
| 89 | is a slightly uncomfortable experience | 感觉有点不舒服 |
| 90 | for the 42-year-old that she has become. | 她已经42岁了 |
| 91 | Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance | 半辈子前,我一直很不安 |
| 92 | between the ambition I had for myself | 我对自己的野心 |
| 93 | and what those closest off to me expected of me. | 还有那些最接近我的人对我的期望 |
| 94 | I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, | 我确信我唯一想做的事 永远 |
| 95 | was write novels. | 是写小说。 |
| 96 | However, my parents, both of whom came | 不过,我的父母,他们都来了 |
| 97 | from impoverished backgrounds | 贫困背景 |
| 98 | and neither of whom had been to college, | 他们没有上过大学, |
| 99 | took the view that my overactive imagination | 认为我过度活跃的想象力 |
| 100 | was an amusing personal quirk | 是个有趣的个人怪胎 |
| 101 | that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. | 永远不会支付抵押贷款或保障养老金。 |
| 102 | I know the irony strikes with the force | 我知道这很讽刺 |
| 103 | of a cartoon anvil now, but... | 现在的卡通广告,但是... |
| 104 | So they hoped that I would take a vocational degree. | 所以他们希望我考上职业学位。 |
| 105 | I wanted to study English literature. | 我想学习英语文学 |
| 106 | A compromise was reached that, in retrospect, | 达成了一项妥协,回顾过去, |
| 107 | satisfied nobody, and I went up to study modern languages. | 满足了没有人, 我上去学习现代语言。 |
| 108 | Hardly had my parents' car round at the corner | 街角没有我父母的车 |
| 109 | at the end of the road, then I ditched German | 在路的尽头, 然后我抛弃了德国人 |
| 110 | and scuttled off down the classics corridor. | 并切断了经典的走廊。 |
| 111 | I cannot remember telling my parents | 我不记得告诉我爸妈了 |
| 112 | that I was studying classics. | 我在学习经典 |
| 113 | They might well have found out | 他们可能已经发现了 |
| 114 | for the first time on graduation day. | 第一次在毕业日。 |
| 115 | Of all the subjects on this planet, | 在这个星球上的所有主体中 |
| 116 | I think they would have been hard put | 我觉得他们应该很难接受 |
| 117 | to name one less useful than Greek mythology | 来命名一个比希腊神话有用的 |
| 118 | when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. | 当它涉及到保护 钥匙一个行政浴室。 |
| 119 | Now, I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, | 现在,我想说清楚, 在括号中, |
| 120 | that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. | 我不会因为父母的观点而责备他们 |
| 121 | There is an expiry date on blaming your parents | 责怪父母有过期日期 |
| 122 | for steering you in the wrong direction. | 以引导你走向错误的方向。 |
| 123 | The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, | 一旦你大到可以驾车 |
| 124 | responsibility lies with you. | 责任在于你。 |
| 125 | What is more, I cannot criticise my parents | 更何况 我不能批评我父母 |
| 126 | for hoping that I would never experience poverty. | 希望我永远不会陷入贫困 |
| 127 | They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor. | 他们自己很穷,从那时起我就很穷。 |
| 128 | And I quite agree with them | 我同意他们的意见 |
| 129 | that it is not an ennobling experience. | 说这不是一个令人发指的经历。 |
| 130 | Poverty entails fear and stress, and sometimes depression. | 贫穷带来恐惧和压力,有时带来抑郁。 |
| 131 | It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. | 意味着千百种轻度的羞辱和苦难. |
| 132 | Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, | 通过自己的努力摆脱贫困, |
| 133 | that is something on which to pride yourself. | 这是值得骄傲的。 |
| 134 | But poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. | 但贫穷本身只有傻瓜才浪漫。 |
| 135 | What I feared most for myself at your age | 在你这个年纪我最担心的 |
| 136 | was not poverty, but failure. | 不是贫穷,而是失败。 |
| 137 | At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation | 在你这个年纪,尽管明显缺乏动力 |
| 138 | at university, where I had spent far too long | 在大学,我花了太久的时间 |
| 139 | in the coffee bar writing stories, | 在咖啡酒吧写故事, |
| 140 | and far too little time at lectures, | 和太少的时间 在讲座, |
| 141 | I had a knack for passing examinations. | 我有通过考试的本事 |
| 142 | And that, for years, had been the measure of success | 多年来,这一直是衡量成功的尺度 |
| 143 | in my life and that of my peers. | 在我的生活中,我的同伴们。 |
| 144 | Now, I am not dull enough to suppose | 现在,我还不足以认为 |
| 145 | that because you are young, gifted, and well-educated, | 因为你年轻 有天赋 受过良好教育 |
| 146 | you have never known hardship or heartache. | 你从不知道痛苦和心痛 |
| 147 | Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone | 才华和智慧从未接种过 |
| 148 | against the caprice of the fates. | 对抗命运的诱惑 |
| 149 | And I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here | 我暂时没有假设这里的每一个人 |
| 150 | has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege | 享受着未受侵犯的特权 |
| 151 | and contentment. | 和满足。 |
| 152 | However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard | 不过,你从哈佛毕业的事实 |
| 153 | suggests that you are not very well acquainted with failure. | 说明你不太熟悉失败 |
| 154 | You might be driven by a fear of failure | 你可能会被失败的恐惧所驱使 |
| 155 | quite as much as a desire for success. | 就像渴望成功一样 |
| 156 | Indeed, your conception of failure | 的确,你的失败概念 |
| 157 | might not be too far removed | 可能不会太远 |
| 158 | from the average person's idea of success. | 从普通人的成功思想。 |
| 159 | So high have you already flown. | 你飞得这么高 |
| 160 | Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves | 归根结底,我们都得自己决定 |
| 161 | what constitutes failure. | 什么是失败。 |
| 162 | But the world is quite eager to give you | 但世界非常渴望给你 |
| 163 | a set of criteria if you let it. | 如果你允许的话,有一套标准。 |
| 164 | So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, | 因此,我认为公平地说,通过任何常规措施, |
| 165 | a mere seven years after my graduation day, | 离我毕业仅7年 |
| 166 | I had failed on an epic scale. | 我在史诗上失败了 |
| 167 | An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, | 一个非常短暂的婚姻破裂了, |
| 168 | and I was jobless, a lone parent, | 我失业了,一个单亲父母, |
| 169 | and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain | 和尽可能贫穷 在现代英国 |
| 170 | without being homeless. | 没有无家可归。 |
| 171 | The fears that my parents had had for me | 我父母对我的恐惧 |
| 172 | and that I had had for myself | 和我已经拥有我自己 |
| 173 | had both come to pass. | 都过去了。 |
| 174 | And by every usual standard, | 按照通常的标准 |
| 175 | I was the biggest failure I knew. | 我是我知道的最大失败。 |
| 176 | Now, I'm not going to stand here | 现在,我不站在这里 |
| 177 | and tell you that failure is fun. | 告诉你,失败是乐趣。 |
| 178 | That period of my life was a dark one, | 我生命中的那个时期是黑暗的时期 |
| 179 | and I had no idea that there was going to be | 我完全不知道会发生什么 |
| 180 | what the press has since represented | 媒体从此所表现的 |
| 181 | as a kind of fairy tale resolution. | 作为童话般的解答 |
| 182 | I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, | 我不知道隧道有多宽 |
| 183 | and for a long time, any light at the end of it | 很久以来,它尽头的任何光芒 |
| 184 | was a hope rather than a reality. | 是希望而不是现实。 |
| 185 | So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? | 我为什么要谈论失败的好处? |
| 186 | Simply because failure meant | 仅仅因为失败意味着 |
| 187 | a stripping away of the inessential. | 剥离无谓的。 |
| 188 | I stopped pretending to myself | 我不再假装了 |
| 189 | that I was anything other than what I was, | 说我除了我是什么, |
| 190 | and began to direct all my energy | 并开始引导我所有的精力 |
| 191 | into finishing the only work that mattered to me. | 完成我唯一关心的工作 |
| 192 | Had I really succeeded at anything else, | 如果我真的成功 在任何其他, |
| 193 | I might never have found the determination | 我可能永远找不到决心 |
| 194 | to succeed in the one arena | 在一个舞台上取得成功 |
| 195 | where I believed I truly belonged. | 在那里,我相信我真正属于。 |
| 196 | I was set free, | 我被放出来了 |
| 197 | because my greatest fear had been realized, | 因为我最大的恐惧已经意识到, |
| 198 | and I was still alive, | 我还活着, |
| 199 | and I still had a daughter whom I adored, | 我还有个我爱的女儿 |
| 200 | and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. | 我有一个旧打字机和一个大主意。 |
| 201 | And so Rockbottom became the solid foundation | 所以石底就成了坚固的基础 |
| 202 | on which I rebuilt my life. | 我重建了我的生活。 |
| 203 | You might never fail on the scale I did, | 你可能永远不会失败的尺度 我做了, |
| 204 | but some failure in life is inevitable. | 但生活中的某些失败是不可避免的。 |
| 205 | It is impossible to live without failing at something | 没有失败是无法生存的 |
| 206 | unless you live so cautiously | 除非你这么谨慎地生活 |
| 207 | that you might as well not have lived at all, | 以免你们没有活着, |
| 208 | in which case you fail by default. | 默认失败。 |
| 209 | Failure gave me an inner security | 失败给了我内心的安全感 |
| 210 | that I had never attained by passing examinations. | 我从来没有通过考试。 |
| 211 | Failure taught me things about myself | 失败让我了解我自己 |
| 212 | that I could have learned no other way. | 我无法学到其他方法 |
| 213 | I discovered that I had a strong will, | 我发现我有强烈的意志, |
| 214 | and more discipline than I had suspected. | 比我想象的还要严谨 |
| 215 | I also found out that I had friends | 我也发现我有朋友 |
| 216 | whose value was truly above the price of rubies. | 他们的价值确实高于红宝石的价格。 |
| 217 | The knowledge that you have emerged wiser | 你所出现的智慧 |
| 218 | and stronger from setbacks | 以及因挫折而更强大 |
| 219 | means that you are ever after secure | 这意味着你永远安全 |
| 220 | in your ability to survive. | 在你的生存能力。 |
| 221 | You will never truly know yourself | 你永远不会真正了解自己 |
| 222 | or the strength of your relationships | 或你们关系的力量 |
| 223 | until both have been tested by adversity. | 直到被逆境考验 |
| 224 | Such knowledge is a true gift | 这种知识是真正的天赋 |
| 225 | for all that it is painfully won, | 以痛苦的胜利发誓, |
| 226 | and it has been worth more | 它一直值得更多 |
| 227 | than any qualification I ever earned. | 比我赚过的任何资格都好 |
| 228 | So given a time turner, | 所以给一个时间转动器, |
| 229 | I would tell my 21-year-old self | 我会告诉我21岁的自己 |
| 230 | that personal happiness lies in knowing | 个人的幸福在于知道 |
| 231 | that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. | 生命不是获取或成就的核对表 |
| 232 | Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, | 你的资格,你的简历,不是你的生活, |
| 233 | though you will meet many people of my age and older | 虽然你会遇见我这个年纪和年纪的人 |
| 234 | who confuse the two. | 他们混淆了两者。 |
| 235 | Life is difficult and complicated | 生活既艰难又复杂 |
| 236 | and beyond anyone's total control, | 和任何人的完全控制, |
| 237 | and the humility to know that | 谦卑地知道这一点 |
| 238 | will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. | 让你能幸免于其变 |
| 239 | Now you might think that I chose my second theme, | 现在你可能认为 我选择了我的第二个主题, |
| 240 | the importance of imagination, | 想象力的重要性, |
| 241 | because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, | 因为它在重建我的生活中扮演的角色, |
| 242 | but that is not wholly so. | 但事实并非如此。 |
| 243 | Though I personally will defend | 虽然我会亲自辩护 |
| 244 | the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, | 睡前故事对我最后一次喘息的价值, |
| 245 | I have learned to value imagination | 我学会了珍惜想象力 |
| 246 | in a much broader sense. | 更广义地说 |
| 247 | Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity | 想象不仅是独特的人的能力 |
| 248 | to envision that which is not, | 想象着那不是, |
| 249 | and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. | 因而是一切发明和创新的源泉。 |
| 250 | In its arguably most transformative | 在其可以说最转型的 |
| 251 | and revelatory capacity, | 和回转能力, |
| 252 | it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans | 它的力量让我们能同情人类 |
| 253 | whose experiences we have never shared. | 我们从未分享过他们的经验。 |
| 254 | One of the greatest formative experiences of my life | 这是我一生中最伟大的成长经历之一 |
| 255 | preceded Harry Potter, | 在哈利・波特之前 |
| 256 | though it informed much of what I subsequently | 虽然它告诉了我很多事 |
| 257 | wrote in those books. | 写在这些书上。 |
| 258 | This revelation came in the form | 这个启示是用形式出现的 |
| 259 | of one of my earliest day jobs. | 我最早的一天工作之一。 |
| 260 | Though I was sloping off to write stories | 虽然我跑去写故事 |
| 261 | during my lunch hours, | 在午餐时间, |
| 262 | I paid the rent in my early 20s | 我20多岁就付了房租 |
| 263 | by working at the African Research Department | 在非洲研究部工作 |
| 264 | of Amnesty International's headquarters in London. | 国际特赦组织伦敦总部 |
| 265 | There in my little office, | 在我的小办公室里 |
| 266 | I read hastily scribbled letters | 我匆忙地读了写着的字母 |
| 267 | smuggled out of totalitarian regimes | 从极权主义政权偷运出去 |
| 268 | by men and women who were risking imprisonment | 有可能被监禁的男子和妇女 |
| 269 | to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. | 让外界知道他们遭遇了什么 |
| 270 | I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, | 我看到那些失踪的人的照片 |
| 271 | sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. | 被他们绝望的家人和朋友送到特赦组织. |
| 272 | I read the testimony of torture victims | 我读了酷刑受害者的证词 |
| 273 | and saw pictures of their injuries. | 并看到了他们受伤的照片。 |
| 274 | I opened handwritten eyewitness accounts | 我打开了手写目击者的叙述 |
| 275 | of summary trials and executions of kidnappings and rapes. | 绑架和强奸的即审即决和处决。 |
| 276 | Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, | 我的许多同事都是前政治犯 |
| 277 | people who had been displaced from their homes | 流离失所的人 |
| 278 | or fled into exile | 或流亡国外 |
| 279 | because they have the temerity to speak | 因为他们有话要说 |
| 280 | against their governments. | 对抗他们的政府 |
| 281 | Visitors to our offices included those | 我们办公室的访客包括: |
| 282 | who had come to give information | 他们是来提供信息的 |
| 283 | or to try and find out what had happened | 或者试着找出发生了什么 |
| 284 | to those who they had left behind. | 以他们所遗留的人发誓, |
| 285 | I shall never forget the African torture victim, | 我永远不会忘记非洲酷刑受害者, |
| 286 | a young man no older than I was at the time, | 一个没有我年龄的年轻人 |
| 287 | who had become mentally ill | 精神病患者 |
| 288 | after all he had endured in his homeland. | 在他的家乡忍受了这么多 |
| 289 | He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera | 在对着摄像机说话时,他无节制地颤抖 |
| 290 | about the brutality inflicted upon him. | 关于他所遭受的暴行。 |
| 291 | He was a foot taller than I was | 他比我高一尺长 |
| 292 | and seemed as fragile as a child. | 看上去就像一个孩子一样脆弱 |
| 293 | I was given the job of escorting him | 我奉命护送他 |
| 294 | back to the underground station afterwards | 之后回到地下站 |
| 295 | and this man, whose life had been shattered by cruelty, | 这个被残酷所毁灭的人, |
| 296 | took my hand with exquisite courtesy | 恭敬地握着我的手 |
| 297 | and wished me future happiness. | 并祝愿我未来的幸福。 |
| 298 | And as long as I live, | 只要我活着 |
| 299 | I shall remember walking along an empty corridor | 我会记得沿着一条空走廊走 |
| 300 | and suddenly hearing from behind a closed door | 忽然从闭门门门后听到 |
| 301 | a scream of pain and horror | 痛苦和恐怖的尖叫声 |
| 302 | such as I have never heard since. | 我从来没有听说过。 |
| 303 | The door opened and the researcher poked out her head | 门打开了 研究员戳出她的头 |
| 304 | and told me to run and make a hot drink | 叫我跑去喝杯热酒 |
| 305 | for the young man sitting with her. | 给坐在她旁边的年轻人 |
| 306 | She had just had to give him the news | 她只好告诉他这个消息 |
| 307 | that in retaliation for his outspokenness | 为了报复他的直言不讳 |
| 308 | against his country's regime, | 反对他的政权, |
| 309 | his mother had been seized and executed. | 他的母亲被扣押并处决。 |
| 310 | Every day of my working week in my early 20s, | 我20多岁时每天工作 |
| 311 | I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was | 人们提醒我,我是多么的幸运 |
| 312 | to live in a country with a democratically elected government | 生活在一个民选政府的国家 |
| 313 | where legal representation and a public trial | 法律代表和公开审判 |
| 314 | were the rights of everyone. | 是每个人的权利。 |
| 315 | Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils | 我每天都看到更多关于邪恶的证据 |
| 316 | humankind would inflict on their fellow humans | 人类会给人类的同胞带来痛苦 |
| 317 | to gain or maintain power. | 获得或保持权力。 |
| 318 | I began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, | 我开始做恶梦 做恶梦 |
| 319 | about some of the things I saw, heard, and read. | 我所看见的,听到的,读的。 |
| 320 | And yet, I also learned more about human goodness | 然而,我也学到更多 关于人类的善良 |
| 321 | at Amnesty International than I had ever known before. | 在大赦国际,比我以前见过的。 |
| 322 | Amnesty mobilises thousands of people | 大赦动员了数千人 |
| 323 | who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs | 从未因信仰而遭受酷刑或监禁的人 |
| 324 | to act on behalf of those who have. | 代表那些已经这样做的人采取行动。 |
| 325 | The power of human empathy leading to collective action | 导致集体行动的人类同情的力量 |
| 326 | saves lives and frees prisoners. | 拯救生命,释放囚犯。 |
| 327 | Ordinary people whose personal wellbeing | 个人福祉的普通人 |
| 328 | and security are assured join together in huge numbers | 和保证安全 聚集在一起的众多数量 |
| 329 | to save people they do not know and will never meet. | 以拯救他们不认识的人,而永不相见。 |
| 330 | My small participation in that process | 我对这一进程的微小参与 |
| 331 | was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences | 是最令人沮丧和鼓舞的经历之一 |
| 332 | of my life. | 我一生的记忆 |
| 333 | Unlike any other creature on this planet, | 不像这个星球上的任何其他生物 |
| 334 | human beings can learn and understand | 人类可以学习和理解 |
| 335 | without having experienced. | 没有经验。 |
| 336 | They can think themselves into other people's places. | 他们可以把自己想进别人的地方. |
| 337 | Of course, this is a power like my brand of fictional magic | 当然,这就像我的虚构魔法 |
| 338 | that is morally neutral. | 这是道德中立的。 |
| 339 | One might use such an ability to manipulate or control | 可能利用这种能力来操纵或控制 |
| 340 | just as much as to understand or sympathise. | 就像理解或同情一样 |
| 341 | And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. | 许多人宁愿不发挥自己的想象力。 |
| 342 | They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds | 他们选择在边界内安心 |
| 343 | of their own experience, never troubling to wonder | 他们自己的经历,从不担心 |
| 344 | how it would feel to have been born other than they are. | 生在他们之外的感觉如何? |
| 345 | They can refuse to hear screams or peer inside cages. | 它们可以拒绝听到笼子里的尖叫声或对等声. |
| 346 | They can close their minds and hearts | 他们可以闭上心扉 |
| 347 | to any suffering that does not touch them personally. | 任何不触碰他们个人的痛苦 |
| 348 | They can refuse to know. | 他们可以拒绝知道。 |
| 349 | I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, | 我可能会羡慕那些能那样生活的人 |
| 350 | except that I do not think they have | 但我不认为他们有 |
| 351 | any fewer nightmares than I do. | 比我少做噩梦 |
| 352 | Choosing to live in narrow spaces | 选择生活在狭窄的空间 |
| 353 | leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, | 导致一种精神恐惧症, |
| 354 | and that brings its own terrors. | 这带来了它自己的恐怖。 |
| 355 | I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. | 我想那些无意识的怪物会看到更多的怪物 |
| 356 | They are often more afraid. | 他们往往更加害怕。 |
| 357 | What is more, those who choose not to empathise | 更何况那些选择不同情的人 |
| 358 | enable real monsters, for without ever committing | 能够让真正的怪物,因为永远不要犯罪 |
| 359 | an act of outright evil ourselves, | 完全邪恶的行为, |
| 360 | we collude with it through our own apathy. | 我们通过自己的冷漠与它勾结。 |
| 361 | One of the many things I learned | 我学到的许多东西之一 |
| 362 | at the end of that classics corridor | 在经典走廊的尽头 |
| 363 | down which I ventured at the age of 18 | 我18岁就冒险了 |
| 364 | in search of something I could not then define | 为了寻找我无法定义的东西 |
| 365 | 这是希腊作家Plutarch写的 | |
| 366 | What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. | 我们内部的成就将改变外部现实。 |
| 367 | That is an astonishing statement, | 这是令人惊叹的说法, |
| 368 | and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. | 却证明我们生命的每一天都有上千次 |
| 369 | It expresses in part our inescapable connection | 这在一定程度上表明了我们不可回避的联系 |
| 370 | with the outside world, the fact that we touch | 我们接触外界的事实 |
| 371 | other people's lives simply by existing. | 别人的生活只是靠存在。 |
| 372 | But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, | 但2008年哈佛毕业生,你还有多少? |
| 373 | lightly to touch other people's lives? | 轻轻摸别人的生活? |
| 374 | Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, | 你的智慧,你努力工作的能力, |
| 375 | the education you have earned and received | 获得和接受的教育 |
| 376 | give you unique status and unique responsibilities. | 赋予你独特的地位和独特的责任。 |
| 377 | Even your nationality sets you apart. | 甚至你的国籍也让你分崩离析 |
| 378 | The great majority of you belong to the world's | 你们大多数人属于世界 |
| 379 | only remaining superpower. | 只留下超级力量 |
| 380 | The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, | 投票方式 生活方式 抗议方式 |
| 381 | the pressure you bring to bear on your government | 你给政府带来的压力 |
| 382 | has an impact way beyond your borders. | 影响超越你的边界。 |
| 383 | That is your privilege and your burden. | 这就是你的特权和负担。 |
| 384 | If you choose to use your status and influence | 如果你选择使用你的地位和影响力 |
| 385 | to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice, | 代表那些没有发言权的人提高你的声音, |
| 386 | if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, | 如果你选择不只认同强者 |
| 387 | but with the powerless, if you retain the ability | 但与无能者, 如果你保留能力 |
| 388 | to imagine yourself into the lives of those | 想象自己进入那些 |
| 389 | who do not have your advantages, | 他们没有你们的优势, |
| 390 | then it will not only be your proud families | 那不仅是你们的骄傲的家族, |
| 391 | who celebrate your existence, | 他们庆祝你的存在, |
| 392 | but thousands and millions of people | 成千上万的人 |
| 393 | whose reality you have helped change. | 你帮助他改变现实 |
| 394 | We do not need magic to transform our world. | 我们不需要魔法来改变我们的世界。 |
| 395 | We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. | 我们已经掌握了我们需要的一切力量 |
| 396 | We have the power to imagine better. | 我们有能力更好的想象 |
| 397 | I am nearly finished. | 我快结束了 |
| 398 | I have one last hope for you, | 我对你有最后的希望 |
| 399 | which is something that I already had at 21. | 这是我21岁时已经拥有的东西 |
| 400 | The friends with whom I sat on graduation day | 我毕业那天和的朋友 |
| 401 | have been my friends for life. | 我一辈子都是朋友 |
| 402 | They are my children's godparents, | 他们是我的孩子的教父母, |
| 403 | the people to whom I've been able to turn | 我所接触的人 |
| 404 | in times of real trouble. | 在真正的麻烦时刻。 |
| 405 | People who have been kind enough not to sue me | 善良的人不要起诉我 |
| 406 | when I took their names for Death Eaters. | 当我把他们的名字 吃死的人。 |
| 407 | At our graduation, we were bound by enormous affection | 毕业时,我们深有感情 |
| 408 | by our shared experience of a time | 根据我们共同的经验 |
| 409 | that could never come again. | 再也不会来了 |
| 410 | And of course, by the knowledge | 当然,根据知识 |
| 411 | that we held certain photographic evidence | 我们持有一些照片证据 |
| 412 | that would be exceptionally valuable | 那将是非常宝贵的 |
| 413 | if any of us ran for Prime Minister. | 如果我们有谁竞选总理 |
| 414 | So today, I wish you nothing better than similar friendships. | 因此,今天,我祝你们无比友好。 |
| 415 | And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember | 明天,我希望你还记得 |
| 416 | not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, | 我一个字都没说 你记得塞内卡的 |
| 417 | another of those old Romans I met | 我遇见的另外一位老罗马人 |
| 418 | when I fled down the classics corridor | 当我从经典的走廊逃走时 |
| 419 | in retreat from career ladders in search of ancient wisdom. | 以寻找古老的智慧 |
| 420 | As is a tale, so is life. | 就像一个故事,生活也是 |
| 421 | Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. | 不是多久,但有多好, 重要的是什么。 |
| 422 | I wish you all very good lives. | 祝你们生活愉快 |
| 423 | Thank you very much. | 谢谢 |
| 424 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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