jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲

jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲 jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲 jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲 篇一: JK罗琳201X哈佛毕业典礼演讲中英字幕 201X年jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲(中英文对照) 默认分类201X-07-17 20‎‎:13阅读1281 评论0 字号: 大 中 小 “201X年6月5日是哈佛大学的毕业典礼，请来的演讲嘉宾是《哈利波特》的作者j.k. 罗琳女士。她的演讲 题 快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题 目是《失败的好处和想象的重要性》(‎‎the fringe benefits of failure, and the importane of imagination)。我读了一遍讲稿，觉得很好，很感染人。她几乎没有谈到哈里波特，而是说了年轻时的一些经历。虽然j?k? 罗琳现在很有钱，是英国仅次于女皇的最富有的女人，但是她曾经有一段非常艰辛的日 子，30岁了，还差点流落街头。她主要谈的是，自己从 这段经历中学到的东西。”以下是英文文稿和中文翻译: text as delivered f‎‎ollos.opright of jk roling, june 201Xpresident faust, members of the harvard orporation andthe board of overseers, members of the fault, proud parent s, and, above all, graduates. the first thing i ould like to sa is ?thank ou.? not onl he orld?s largest grffindor reunion. k. ahievable goals: the first step to self improvement. atuall, i have raked m mind and heart ‎‎for hat i ought to sa to ou toda. i have asked mself hat i ish i had knon at m on graduation, and hat important lessons i have learned in the 21 ears that have expired beteen tha t da and this. agination. these ma seem quixoti or paradoxial hoies, but plea se bear ith me. hose losest to me expeted of me.i as onvined that the onl thing i anted to do, ever, as to rite‎‎ novels. hoever, m parents, both of hom ame from impoverished bakgrounds and neither of hom had been to ollege, took the vie that m overative imagination as an amusing personal quirk that ould never pa a mortgage, or seure a pension. i kno that the iron strikes ith t he fore of a artoon anvil, no. d off don the lassis orridor. i annot remember telling m parents that i as studing lassis; the might ell have found out for the first time on graduation da. of all the subjets on this planet, i think the ould have been hard put to ‎‎name one less useful than greek mtholog hen it ame to seuring the kes ‎‎to an exe utive bathroom. i ould like to make it lear, in parenthesis, that i do not blame m parents for their point of vie. there is an expir date on blaming our parents for steering ou in the rong diretion; the moment ou are old enough to take the heel, responsibilit lies ith ou. hat is more, i annot ritiise m parents for hopingthat i ould never experiene povert. the had been poor themselves, and i have sine been poor, and i quite agree ith them that it is not an ennobling experiene. povert entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand pett humiliations and hardships. limbing out of povert b our on efforts, that is indeed something on hih to pride ourself, but povert itself is romantiised onl b fools. hat i feared most for mself at our age as not povert , but failure. at our age, in spite of a distint lak of motivation at universit, here i had spent far too long in the offee bar riting stories, and far too little time at letures, i had a knak for passing examinations, and that, for ears, had been the me asure of su‎‎ess in m life and that of m peers.i am not dull enough to suppose that beause ou are oung, gifted and ell-eduated, ou have never knon hardship or heartbreak. talent and intelligene never et inoulated anone against the aprie of the fates, and i do not‎‎ for a moment suppose that everone here has enjoed an existene of uuffled privilege and ontentment. hoever, the fat that ou are graduating from harvard suggests that ou are not ver ell-aquainted ith failure. ou might be driven b a fear of failure quite as muh as a desire for suess. indeed, our oneption of failure might not be too far from the average person?s idea of suess, so high have ou alread flon.ever usual standard, i as the biggest failure i kne. no, i am not going to stand here and tell ou that failure is fun. that period of m life as a dark one, and i had no idea that there as going to be hat the press has sine represented as a kind of fair tale resolution. i had no idea then ho far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, an lightat the end of it as a hope rather than a realit. so h do i talk about the benefits of failure? simpl beause failure meant a stripping XX of the inessential. i stopped pretending to mself that i as anthing other than hat i as, and began to diret all m energ into finishing the onl ork that mattered to me. had i reall sueeded at anthing else, i might never have found the determination to sueed in the one a‎‎rena i believed i trul belonged. i as set free, beause m greatest fear had been realised, and i as still alive, and i still had a daughter hom i adored, and i had an old tperiter and a big idea. and so rok bottom beame t he solid foundation on hih i rebuilt m life. ou might never fail on the sale i did, but some failure in life is inevitable. it is impossible to live ithout failing at something, unless ou live so autiousl that ou might as ell not have lived at all – in hih ase, ou fail b default. failure gave me an inner seurit that i had never attained b passing examinations. failure taught me things about mself that i ould have learned no other a. i disovered that i had a strong ill, and more disipline than i had suspeted; i also found out that i had friends hose value as trulabove the prie of rubies.the knoledge that ou have emerged iser and stronger from setbaks means that ou are, ever after, seure in our abilit to survive. ou ill never trul kno ourself, or the strength of our relationships, until both have been tested b adversit. suh knoledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfull o‎‎n, and it has been orth more than an qualifiation i ever earned. th humans hose experienes e have n‎‎ever shared. one of the greatest formative experienes of m life preeded harr potter, though it informed muh of hat i subsequentl rote in those books. this revelation ame in the form of one of m earliest da jobs. though i as sloping off to rite stories during m lunh hours, i paid the rent in m earl 20s b orking at the afrian researh department at amnest international?s headquarters in london. there in m little offie i read hastil sribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes b men and omen ho ere ‎‎risking imprisonment to inform the outside orld of hat as happening to them. i sa photographs of tho‎‎se ho had disappeared ithout trae, sent to amnest b their desperate families and friends. i read the testimon of torture vitims 篇二: 201X年jk罗琳: 哈佛毕业典礼演讲201X年jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲(中英文对照) “201X年6月5日是哈佛大学的毕业 典礼，请来的演讲嘉宾 是《哈利波特》的作者j.k.罗琳女士。她的演讲题目是《失败的好 处 和想象的重要性》(the fringe benefits of failure, and the importane of imagination)。 我读了一遍讲稿，觉得很好，很感染人。 她几乎没有谈到哈里波特，而是说了年轻时的一些经历。虽然j?k?罗琳现在很有钱， 是英国仅次于女皇的最富有的女人， 但是她曾经有一段非常艰辛的日子，30岁了，还差点流 落街头。她主要谈的是，自己从这段经历中学到的东西。” 以下是英文文稿和中文翻译: text as delivere‎‎d follos.opright of jk roling, june 201Xpresident faust, members of the harvard orporation and the board of overseers, members of the fault, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.atuall, i have raked m mind and heart for hat i ought to sa to ou toda. i have asked mself hat i ish i had knon at m on graduation, and hat important lessons i have learned in the 21 ears that have expired beteen that da and this.failure. and as ou stand on the threshold of hat is sometimes alled ?real life?, i ant to extol the ruial importane of imagination. these ma seem quixoti or paradoxial‎‎ hoies, but please bear ith me. i as onvined that the onl thing i anted to do, ever, as to rite novels. hoever, m parents, both of hom ame from impoverished bakgrounds and neither of hom had been to ollege, took the vie that m ove‎‎rative imagination as an amusing personal quirk that ould never pa a mortgage, or seure a pension. i kno that the iron strikes ith the fore of a artoon anvil, no.i annot remember telling m parents that i as studing lassis; the might ell have found out for the first time on graduation da. of all the subjets on this planet, i think the ould have been‎‎ hard put to name one less useful than greek mtholog hen it ame to seuring the kes to an exeutive bathroom. i ould like to make it lear, in parenthesis, that i do not blame m parents for their point of vie. there is an expir date‎‎ on blaming our parents for steering ou in the rong diretion; the moment ou are old enough to take the heel, responsibilit lies ith ou. hat is more, i annot ritiise m parents for hoping that i ould never experi‎‎ene povert. the had been poor themselves, and i have sine been poor, and i quite agree ith them that it is not an ennobling experiene. povert entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand pett humiliations and hardships. limbing out of povert b our on efforts, that is indeed something on hih to pride ourself, but povert itself is romantiised onl b fools. hat i feared most for mself at our age as not povert, but failure. at our age, in spite of a distint lak of motivation at universit, here i had spent far too long in the offee bar riting stories, and far too little time at letures, i had a knak for passing examinations, and that, for ears, had been the measure of suess in m life and that of m peers. i am not dull enough to suppose that beause ou are oung, gifted and ell-eduated, ou have never knon hardship or heartbreak. talent and intelligene never et inoulatedanone against the aprie of the fates, and i do not for a moment suppose that everone here has enjoed an existene of uuffled privilege and ontentment. hoever, the fat that ou are graduating from harvard suggests that ou are not ver ell-aquainted ith failure. ou might be driven b a fear of failure quite as muh as a desire for suess. indeed, our oneption of failure might not be too far from the average person?s idea of suess, so high have ou alread flon. no, i am not going to stand here and tell ou that failure is fun. that period of m life as a dark one, and i had no idea that there as going to be hat the press has sine represented as a kind of fair tale resolution. i had no idea then ho far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, an light at the end of it as a hope rather than a realit. so h do i talk about the benefits of failure? simpl beause failure meant a stripping XX of the inessential. i stopped pretending to mself that i as anthing other than hat i as, and began to diret all m energ into finishing the onl ork that mattered to me. had i reall sueeded at anthing else, i might never have found the determination to sueed in the one arena i believed i trul belonged. i as set free, beause m greatest fear had been realised, and i as still alive,‎‎ and i still had a daughter hom i adored, and i had an old tperiter and a big idea. and so rok bottom beame the solid foundation on hih i rebuilt m life.ou might never fail on the sale i did, but some failure in life is inevitable. it is impossible t‎‎o live ithout failing at something, unless ou live so autiousl that ou might as ell not have lived at all – in hih ase, ou fail b default.failure gave me an inner seurit that i had never attained b passing examinations. failure taught me th‎‎ings about mself that i ould have learned no other a. i disovered that i had a strong ill, and more disipline than i had suspeted; i also found out that i had friends hose value as trul above the prie of rubies.the knoledge that ou have emerged iser ‎‎and stronger from setbaks means that ou are, ever after, seure in our abilit to survive. ou ill never trul kno ourself, or the strength of our relationships, until both have been tested b adversit. suh knoledge is a true gift, for all that it is pain‎‎full on, and it has been orth more than an qualifiation i ever earned. no ou might think that i hose m seond theme, the importane of imagination, beause of the part it plaed in rebuilding m life, but that is not holl so. though i personall ill defen‎‎d the value of bedtime stories to m last gasp, i have learned to value imagination in a muh broader sense. imagination is not onl the uniquel human apait to envision that hih is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. in its arg‎‎uabl most transformative and revelator apait, it is the poer that enables us to empathise ith humans hose experienes e h‎‎ave never shared. one of the greatest formative experienes of m life preeded harr potter, though it informed muh of hat i subsequentl rote in those books. this revelation ame in the form of one of m earliest da jobs. though i as sloping off to rite stories during m lunh hours, i paid the rent in m earl 20s b orking at the afrian researh department at amnest international?s headquarters in london. there in m little offie i read hastil sribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes b men and omen ho ere risking imprisonment to inform the outside orld of hat as happening to them. i sa photographs of those ho had disappeared ithout trae, sent to amnest b their desperate families and friends. i read the testimon of torture vitims and sa pitures of their injuries. i opened handritten, ee-itness aounts of summar trials and exeutions, of kidnappings‎‎ and rapes. and as long as i live i shall remember alking along an empt orridor and suddenl hearing, from behi‎‎nd a losed door, a sream of pain and horror suh as i have never heard sine. the door opened, and the researher‎‎ poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the oung man sitting ith her. she had just had to give him the nes that in retaliation for his on outspokenness against his ountr?s regime, his mother had been seized and exeuted. ever da, i sa more evidene about the evils humankind ill inflit on their fello humans, to gain or maintain poer. i began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things i sa, heard, and read. and et i also learned more about human goodness at amnest international than i had ever knon before.amnest mobilises thousands of people ho have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to at on behalf of those ho have. the poer of human empath, leading to olletive ation, saves lives, and frees prisoners. ordinar‎‎ people, hose personal ell-being and seurit are assured, join together in huge numbers 篇二: JK罗琳201X哈佛毕业演讲稿 福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员， 各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们: The first thing I ould like to sa is thank ou. Not onl has Harvard given me an extraordinar honour, but the eeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving this menement address have made me lose eight. A in-in situation! No all I have to do is t‎‎ake deep breaths, squint at the red banners and onvine mself that I am at the orld’s largest Grffind‎‎ors' reunion. 首先请允许我说一声谢谢。哈佛不仅给了我无上的荣誉，连日来为这个演讲经受的恐惧和紧张，更令我减肥成功。这真是一个双赢的局面。现在我要做的就是深呼吸几下，眯着眼睛看看前面的大红横幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的魔法学院聚会上。 Delivering a menement address is a great responsibilit; or so I thought until I ast m mind bak to m on graduation. The menement speaker that da as the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mar Warnok. Refleting on her speeh has helped me‎‎ enormousl in riting this one, beause it turns out that I an't remember a single ord she said. This liberating disover enables me to proeed ithout an fear that I might inadvertentl influene ou to abandon promising areers in business, la or politis for the gidd delights of being a ga iz‎‎ard. 发表毕业演说是一个巨大的责任，‎‎至少在我回忆自己当年的毕业典礼前是这么认为的。那天做演讲的是‎‎英国著名的哲学家Baroness Mar Warnok，对她演讲的回忆，对我写 今天的演讲稿，产生了极大的帮助，因为我不记得她说过的任何一句 话了。这个发现让我释然，让我不再担心我可能会无意中影响你放弃 在商业，法律或政治上的大好前途，转而醉心于成为一个快乐的魔法 师。 You see? If all ou remember in ears to e is the 'ga izard' joke, I've still ‎‎e out ahead of Baroness Mar Warnok. Ahievable goals - the first step to self-improvement. ‎‎ 你们看，如果在若干年后你们还记得“快乐的魔法师”这个笑话，那‎‎就证明我已经超越了Baroness Mar Warnok。建立可实现的目标—— 这是提高自我的第一步。 Atuall, I have raked m mind and heart for hat I ought to sa to ou toda. I have asked mself hat I ish I had knon at m on graduation, and hat important lessons I have learned in the 21 ears that has expired beteen that da‎‎ and this. 实际上，我为今天应该和大家谈些什么绞尽了脑汁。我问自己什么是我希望早在毕业典礼上就该了解的，而从那时起到现在的21年间，我又得到了什么重要的启示。I have e up ith to ansers. On this onderful da hen e are gathered together to elebrate our XXdemi suess, I have deided to talk to ou about the benefits of failure. And as ou stand on the threshold of hat is sometimes alled 'real life', I ant to extol the ruial importane of imagination. 我想到了两个 答案 八年级地理上册填图题岩土工程勘察试题省略号的作用及举例应急救援安全知识车间5s试题及答案 。在这美好的一天，当我们一起庆祝你们取得学业成就的时刻，我希望告诉你们失败有什么样的益处;在你们即将迈向“现实生活”的道路之际，我还要褒扬想象力的重要性。 These ma seem quixoti or paradoxial hoies, but bear ith me. 这些似乎是不切实际或自相矛盾的选择，但请先容我讲完。 Looking bak at the 21-ear-old that I as at graduation, is a slightl unfortable experiene for the 42-ear-old that she h‎‎as bee. Half m lifetime ago, I as striking an uneas balane beteen the ambition I had for mself, and hat those losest to me expeted of me. 回顾21岁刚刚毕业时的自己，对于今天42岁的我来说，是一个稍微不太舒服的经历。可以说，我人生的前一部分，一直挣扎在自己的雄心和身边的人对我的期望之间。 I as onvined that the onl thing I anted to do, ever, as ‎‎to rite novels. Hoever, m parents, both of hom ame from impoverished bakgrounds and neither of hom h‎‎ad been to ollege, took the vie that m overative imagination as an amusing personal quirk that ould never pa a mortgage, or seure a pension. 我一直深信，自己唯一想做的事情， 就是写小说。不过，我的父母‎‎，他们都来自贫穷的背景，没有任何一 人上过大学，坚持认为我过度的想象力是一个令人惊讶的个人怪癖， 根本不足以让我支付按揭，或者取得足够的养老金。 I kno the iron strikes like ith the fore of a artoon anvil no, but„ 我现在明白反讽就像用卡通铁砧去打击你，但... The had hoped that I ould take a voational degree; I anted to stud English Literature. A promise as reahed that in retrospet satisfied nobod, and I ent up to stud Modern Languages. Hardl had m parents' ar rounded the orner at the end of the road than I dithed Ger‎‎man and suttled off don the Classis orridor. 他们希望我去拿个职业学位，而我想去攻读英国文学。最后，达成了一个双方都不甚满意的妥协: 我改学现代语言。可是等到父母一走开，我立刻放弃了德语而报名学习古典文学。 I annot remember telling m parents that I as studing Classis; the might ell have found out for the first time on graduation da. Of all the subjets on thisplanet,‎‎ I think the ould have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mtholog hen it ame to seuring the kes to an exeutive bathroom. 我不记得将这事告诉了父母，他们可能是在我毕业典礼那一天才发现的。我想，在全世界的所有专业中，他们也许认为，不会有比研究希腊神话更没用的专业了，根本无法换来一间独立宽敞的卫生间。 I ould like to make it lear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame m parents for their point of vie. There is an expir date on blaming our parents for steering ou in the rong diretion; the moment ou are old enough to take the heel, responsibilit lies ith ou. What is more, I annot ritiise m parents‎‎ for hoping that I ould never experiene povert. The had been poor themselves, and I have sine been poor, and I quite agree ith them that it is not an ennobling experiene.Povert entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand pett humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of povert b our on effort‎‎s, that is indeed something on hih to pride ourself, but povert itself is romantiised onl b fools. 我想澄清一下: 我不会因为父母的观点，而责怪他们。埋怨父母给你指错方向是 有一个时间段的。当你成长到可以控制自我方向的时候，你就要自己 承担责任了。尤其是，我不会因为父母希望我不要过穷日子，而责怪 他们。他们一直很贫穷，我后来也一度很穷，所以我很理解他们。贫 穷并不是一种高贵的经历，它带来恐惧、压力、有时还有绝望，它意 味着许许多多的羞辱和艰辛。靠自己的努力摆脱贫穷，确实可以引以 自豪，但贫穷本身只有对傻瓜而言才是浪漫的。 What I feared most for mself at our age as not povert, but failure. 我在你们这个年龄，最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。 At our age, in spi‎‎te of a distint lak of motivation at universit, here I had spent far too long in the offee bar riting stories, and far too little time at letures, I had a knak for passing examinations, and that, for ears, had been the measure of suess in m life and that of m peers. 我在您们这么大时，明显缺乏在大学学习的动力，我花了太久时间在咖啡吧写故事，而在课堂的时间却很少。我有一个通过考试的诀窍，并且数年间一直让我在大学生活和同龄人中不落人后。 I am not dull enou‎‎gh to suppose that beause ou are oung, gifted and ell-eduated, ou have never knon hardship or heartb‎‎reak. Talent and intelligene never et inoulated anone against the aprie of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everone here has enjoed an existene ofuuffled privilege and ontentment. 我不想愚蠢地假设，因为你们年轻、有天份，并且受过良好的教育，就从来没有遇到困难或心碎的时刻。拥有才华和智慧，从来不会使人对命运的反复无常有免疫(直译);我也不会假设大‎‎家坐在这里冷静地满足于自身的优越感。 Hoever, the fat that ou are graduating from Harvard suggests that ou ar‎‎e not ver ell-aquainted ith failure. You might be driven b a fear of failure quite as muh as a desire for suess. Indeed, our oneption of failure might not be too far from the average person's idea of suess, so high have ou alread flon XXdemiall. 相反， 你们是哈佛毕业生的这个事实，意味着你们并不很了解失败。你们也许极其渴望成功，所以非常害怕失败。说实话，你们眼中的失败，很可能就是普通人眼中的成功，毕竟你们在学业上已经达到很高的高度了。 Ultimatel, e all have to deide for ourselves hat onstitutes failure, but the orld is quite eager to give ou a set of riteria if ou let it. So I think it fair to sa that b an onventional measure, a mere seven ears after m graduation da, I had failed on an epi sale. An exeptionall shor‎‎t-lived marriage had imploded, and I as jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, ithout being homeless. The fears m parents had had for me, and that I had had for mself, had both e to pass, and b ever usual standard, I as the biggest failure I kne. 最终，我们所有人都必须自己决定什么算作失败， 但如果你愿意，世界是相当渴望给你一套 标准 excel标准偏差excel标准偏差函数exl标准差函数国标检验抽样标准表免费下载红头文件格式标准下载 的。所以我承认命运的 公平，从任何传统的标准看，在我毕业仅仅七年后的日子里，我的失 败达到了史诗般空前的规模: 短命的婚姻闪电般地破裂，我又失业成了一个艰难的单身母亲。除了流浪汉，我是当代英国最穷的人之一，真的一无所有。当年父母和我自己对未来的担忧，现在都变成了现实。按照惯常的标准来看，我也是我所知道的最失败的人。 No, I am not going to stand here and tell ou that failure is fun. That period of m life as a dark one, and I had no idea that there as going to be hat the press has sine represented as a kind of fair tale resolution. I had no idea ho far the tunnel ex‎‎tended, and for a long time, an light at the end of it as a hope rather than a realit. 现在，我不打算站在这里告诉你们，失败是有趣的。那段日子是我生命中的黑暗岁月，我不知道它是否代表童话故事里需要历经的磨难，更不知道自己还要在黑暗中走多久。很长一段时间里，前面留给我的只是希望，而不是现实。 So h do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simpl beause failure meant astripping XX of the inessential. I stopped pretending to mself that I as anthing other than hat I as, and began to diret all m energ into finishing the onl ork that mattered to me. Had I reall sueeded at anthing else, I might never have found the determination to sueed in the one arena I believed I trul belonged. I as set free, beause m greatest fear had alread been realized, and I as still ali‎‎ve, and I still had a daughter hom I adored, and I had an old tperiter and a big idea. And so rok bo‎‎ttom beame the solid foundation on hih I rebuilt m life. 那么为什么我要谈论失败的好处呢,因为失败意味着剥离掉那些不必要的东西。我因此不再伪装自己、远离自我，而重新开始把所有精力放在对我最重要的事情上。如果不是没有在其他领域成功过，我可能就不会找到，在一个我确信真正属于的舞台上取得成功的决心。我获得了自由，因为最害怕的虽然‎‎已经发生了，但我还活着，我仍然有一个我深爱的女儿，我还有一个旧打字机和一个很大的想法。所以困境的谷底，成为我重建生活的坚实基础。 You might never fail on the sale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live ithout failing at something, unless ou live so autiousl that ou might as ell not have lived at all – in hih ase, ou fail b default. 你们可能永远没有达到我经历的那种失败程度，但有些失败，在生活中是不可避免的。生活不可能没有一点失败，除非你生活的万般小心，而那也意味着你没有真正在生活了。无论怎样，有些失败还是注定地要发生。 Failure gave me an inner seurit that I had never attained b passing examinations. ‎‎Failure taught me things about mself that I ould have learned no other a. I disovered that I had a strong ill, and more disiplined than I had suspeted; I also found out that I had friends hose value as trul above the prie 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 knoledge that ou have emerged iser and stronger from setbaks means that ou are, ever after, seure in our abilit to survive. You ill never trul kno ourself, or the strength of our relationships, until both have been tested b adversit. Suh knoledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfull on, a‎‎nd it has been orth more to me than an qualifiation 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 篇三: JK罗琳201X哈佛毕业典礼演讲---《不要害怕失败》中英文对照President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the fault, proud parents, an‎‎d, above all, graduates, 福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员， 各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们: The first thing I ould like to sa is thank ou. Not onl has Harvard given me an extraordinar‎‎ honour, but the eeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving this menement address have made me lose eight. A in-in situation! No all I have to do is take deep br‎‎eaths, squint at the red banners and onvine mself that I am at the orld’s largest Grffindors' reunion. 首先请允许我说一声谢谢。哈佛不仅给了我无上的荣誉，连日来为这个演讲经受的恐惧和紧张，更令我减肥成功。这真是一个双赢的局面。现在我要做的就是深呼吸几下，眯着眼睛看看前面的大红横幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的格兰芬多(沪江我: 以防有人没看过《哈利波特》„„格兰芬多是小哈利所在的魔法 学院的名字)聚会上。 Delivering a menement address is a great responsibilit; or so I thought until I ast m mind bak to m on graduation. The menement speaker that da as the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mar Warnok. Refleting on her speeh has helped me enormousl in riting this one, beause it turns out that I an't remember a single ord she said. This liberating disover enables me to proeed ithout an fear that I might inadvertentl influene ou to abandon promising areers in business, la or politis for the gidd delights of being a ga‎‎ izard. 发表毕业演说是一个巨大的责任，至少在我回忆自己当年的毕业典礼 前是这么认为的。那天做演讲的是英国著名的哲学家 Baroness Mar Warnok，对她演讲的回忆，对我写今天的演讲稿，产生了极大的帮助， 因为我不记得她说过的任何一句话了。这个发现让我释然，让我不再 担心我可能会无意中影响你放弃在商业，法律或政治上的大好前途， 转而醉心于成为一个快乐‎‎的魔法师(ga有快乐和同性恋的意思)。 You see? If all ou remember in ears to e is the 'ga izard' joke, I've still e out ahead of Baroness Mar Warnok. Ahievable goals - the first step to self-impr‎‎ovement. 你们看，如果在若干年后你们还记得―快乐的魔法师‖这个笑话，那就证明我已经超越了Baroness Mar Warnok。建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。Atuall, I have raked m mind and heart for hat I ought to sa to ou toda. I have asked mself ‎‎hat I ish I had knon at m on graduation, and hat important lessons I have learned in the 21 ears tha‎‎t has expired beteen that da and this. 实际上，我为今天应该和大家谈些什么绞尽了脑汁。我问自己什么是我希望早在毕业典礼上就该了解的，而从那时起到现在的 21年间，我又得到了什么重要的启示。 I have e up ith to ansers. On this onderful da hen e are gathered‎‎ together to elebrate our XXdemi suess, I have deided to talk to ou about the benefits of failure. A‎‎nd as ou stand on the threshold of hat is sometimes alled 'real life', I ant to extol the ruial importane of imagination. 我想到了两个答案。在这美好的一天，当我们一起庆祝你们取得学业成就的时刻，我希望告诉你们失败有什么样的益处;在你们即将迈向―现实生活‖的道路之‎‎际，我还要褒扬想象力的重要性。 These ma seem quixoti or paradoxial hoies, but bear ith me. 这些似乎是不切实际或自相矛盾的选择，但请先容我讲完。 Looking bak at the 21-ear-old that I as at graduation, is a slightl unfortable experiene for the 42-ear-old that she has bee. Half m lifetime ago, I as striking an uneas balane beteen the ambition I had for mself, and hat those losest to me expeted of me. 回顾21岁刚刚毕业时的自己，对于今天42岁的我来说，是一个稍微不太舒服的经历。可以说，我人生的前一部分，一直挣扎在 自己的雄心和身边的人对我的期望之间。 I as onvined that the onl thing I anted to do, ever, as to rite novels. Hoever, m parents, both of hom ame from impoverishe‎‎d bakgrounds and neither of hom had been to ollege, took the vie that m overative imagination as an amusing personal quirk that ould never pa a mortgage, or seure a pension. 我一直深信，自己唯一想做的事情，就是写小说。不过，我的父母，他们都来自贫穷的背景，没有任何一人上过大学，坚持认为我过度的想象力是一个令人惊讶的个人怪癖，根本不足以让我支付按揭，或者取得足够的养老金。I kno the iron strikes like ith the fore of a artoon anvil no, but„ 我现在明白反讽就像用卡通铁砧去打击你，但... The had hoped that I ould take a voational degree; I anted to stud English Literature. A promise as reahed that in retrospet satisfied nobod, and I ent up to stud Modern Languages. Hardl had m parents' ar rounded the orner at the end of the‎‎ road than I dithed German and suttled off don the Classis orridor. 他们希望我去拿个职业学位，而我想去攻读英国文学。最后，达成了一个‎‎双方都不甚满意的妥协: 我改学现代语言。可是等到父母一走开，我立刻放弃了德语而报名学习古典文学。 I annot remember telling m parents th‎‎at I as studing Classis; the might ell have found out for the first time on graduation da. Of all the subjets on this planet, I think the ould have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mtholog hen i‎‎t ame to seuring the kes to an exeutive bathroom. ‎‎我不记得将这事告诉了父母，他们可能是在我毕业典礼那一天才发现‎‎ 的。我想，在全世界的所有专业中，他们也许认为，不会有比研究希‎‎腊神话更没用的专业了，根本无法换来一间独立宽敞的卫生间。 I ould like to make it lear, in parenthe‎‎sis, that I do not blame m parents for their point of vie. There is an expir date on blaming our par‎‎ents for steering ou in the rong diretion; the moment ou are old enough to take the heel, responsibilit lies ith ou. What is more, I annot ritiise m parents for hoping that I ould never experiene povert. The had been poor themselves, and I have sine been poor, and I quite agree ith them that it is not an ennobling experiene. Povert entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depres‎‎sion; it means a thousand pett‎‎ humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of povert b our on efforts, that is indeed something on hi‎‎h to pride ourself, but povert itself is romantiised onl b fools. 我想澄清一下: 我不会因为父母的观点，而责怪他们。埋怨父母给你指错方向是有一个时间段的。当你成长到可以控制自我方向的时候，你就要自己承担责任了。尤其是，我不会因为父母希望我不要过穷日子，而责怪他们。他们一直很贫穷，我后来也‎‎一度很穷，所以我很理解他们。贫穷并不是一种高贵的经历，它带来恐惧、压力、有时还有绝望，它意味着许许多多的羞辱和艰辛。靠自己的努力摆脱贫穷，确实可以引以自豪，但贫穷本身只有对傻瓜而言才是浪漫的。What I feared most for mself at our age as not povert, but failure. 我在你们这个年龄，最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。 At our age, in spite of a distint lak of motivation at universit, here I had spent far too long in the offee bar riting stories, and far too little time at letures, I had a knak for passing examinations, and that, for ears, had been the measure of suess in m life and that of m peers. 我在您们这么大时，明显缺乏在大学学习的动力，我花了 太久时间在咖啡吧写故事，而在课堂的时间却很少。我有一个通过考 试的诀窍，并且数年间一直让我在大学生活和同龄人中不落人后。 I am not dull enough to suppose that beause ou are oung, gifted and ell-eduated, ou have never knon hardship or heartahe. Talent and intelligene never et inoula‎‎ted anone against the aprie of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everone here has enjoed an existene of uuffled privilege and ontentment. 我不想愚蠢地假设，因为你们年轻、有天份，并且受过 良好的教育，就从来没有遇到困难或心碎的时刻。拥有才华和智慧， 从来不会使人对命运的反复无常有所准备;我也不会假设大家坐在这 里冷静地满足于自身的优越感。 Hoever, the fat that ou are graduating from Harvard suggests that ou are not ver ell-aquainted ith failure. You migh‎‎t be driven b a fear of failure quite as muh as a desire for‎‎ suess. Indeed, our oneption of failure might not be too far from the average person's idea of suess, so high have ou alread flon XXdemiall. 相反，你们是哈佛毕业生的这个事实，意味着你们并不很了解失败。你们也 许极其渴望成功，所以非常害怕失败。说实话，你们眼中的失败，很 可能就是普通人眼中的成功‎‎，毕竟你们在学业上已经达到很高的高度 了。 Ultimatel, e all have to deide for ourselves hat onstitutes failure, but the orld is quite eager to give ou a set of riteria if ou let it. So I think it fair to sa that b an onventional measure, a mere seven ears after m graduation da, I had failed on an epi sale. An ‎‎exeptionall short-lived marriage had imp‎‎loded, and I as jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, ithout being homeless. Thefears m parents had had for me, and that I had had for mself, had both e to pass, and b ever usual standard, I as the biggest fai‎‎lure I kne. 最终，我们所有人都必须自己决定什 么算作失败，但如果你愿意，世界是相当渴望给你一套标准的。所以 我想很公平的讲，从任何传统的标准看，在我毕业仅仅七年后的日子 里，我的失败达到了史诗般空前的规模: 短命的婚姻闪电般地破裂，我又失业成了一个艰难的单身母亲。 除了流浪汉，我是当代英国最穷的人之一，真的一无所有。当年父母 和我自己对未来的担忧，现在都变成了现实。按照惯常的标准来看， 我也是我所知道的最失败的人。 No, I am not going to stand here and tell ou that failure is fun. That period of m life as a dark one, and I had no idea that there as going to be‎‎ hat the press has sine represented as a kind of fair tale resolution. I had no idea ho far the tunn‎‎el extended, and for a long time, an light at the end of it as a hope rather than a realit. 现在，我不打算站在这里告诉你们，失败是有趣的。那段日子是我生命中的黑暗 岁月，我不知道它是否代表童话故事里需要历经的磨难，更不知道自 己还要在黑暗中走多久。很长一段时间里，前面留给我的只是希望， 而不是现实。 So h do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simpl beause failure meant a stripping XX of the ‎‎inessential. I stopped pretending to mself that I as anthing other than hat I as, and began to diret‎‎ all m energ into finishing the onl ork that mattered to me. Had I reall sueeded at anthing else, I might never have found the determination to sueed in the one arena I believed I trul belonged. I as set free, beause m greatest fear had been realised, and I as still alive, and I still had a daughter hom I adored, and I had an old tperiter and a big idea. And so rok bottom beame the solid foundation on hih I rebuilt m life. 那么为什么我要谈论失败的好处呢,因为失败意味着剥离掉那些不必要的东西。我因此不再伪装自己、远离自我，而重新开始把所有精力放在对我最重要的事情上。如‎‎果不是没有在其他领域成功过，我可能就不会找到，在一个我确信真正属于的舞台上取得成功的决心。我获得了自由，因为最害怕的虽然已经发生了，但我还活着，我仍然有一个我深爱的女儿，我还有一个旧打字机和一个很大的想法。所以困境的谷底，成为我重建生活的坚实基础。 You might never fail on the sale I did, but some failure in life‎‎ is inevitable. It is impossible to live ithout failing at something, unless ou live so autiousl tha‎‎t ou might as ell not have lived at all – in hih ase, ou fail b default.