|
|
回帖下载完整视频及双语文档：
NYU President Andrew Hamilton’s 2021 Commencement Speech
May 19, 2021
纽约大学校长安德鲁·汉密尔顿2021年毕业典礼演讲
2021 年 5 月 19 日
Hello graduates.
毕业生们，你们好。
Every year, I choose a different theme to address the graduating class at commencement. But while the topic varies, the last word of the speeches is typically the same. “Congratulations.” After all, every NYU class deserves to be recognized for their accomplishments and sent off into the world with our best wishes.
每年，我都会选择一个不同的主题来向毕业班演讲。但是，尽管主题不同，演讲的最后一句话通常是一样的：“祝贺。”毕竟，纽约大学的每个班级都应该因其成就而受到认可，并在走向社会时得到我们最美好的祝愿。
But now a spoiler alert. Today’s speech will also end with the word congratulations, but its meaning to me is very different this year.
但现在剧透警报。虽然今天的演讲也会以“祝贺”这个词结束，但对我来说今年的意义大不相同。
Class of 2021, one of the most consequential years of your lives, the year in which you complete your undergraduate or graduate degree. That year coincided with one of the most consequential years in modern history. The past 12 months have seen the most serious public health emergency in a century, also a reckoning of racial justice amid appalling continued acts of violence, and also a polarizing U.S. presidential election coupled with threats to our institutions of democracy.
2021届，这是你一生中最重要的一年，是你取得本科或研究生学历的一年。这一年恰逢现代历史上最重要的一年。过去12个月经历了一个世纪以来最严重的公共卫生紧急情况，也经历了在骇人听闻的持续暴力行为中对种族正义的清算，还经历了两极分化的美国总统大选，以及对我们民主制度的威胁。
Now, philosophers tell us that it’s possible to find meaning in hardship. At the same time, a high schooler echoed the view of many of us this spring. When she told the New York Times, “Making history is way overrated.” And they are both right.
现在，哲学家告诉我们，在困难中找到意义是可能的。与此同时，今年春天，一位高中生也赞同我们许多人的观点。当她告诉《纽约时报》时，“创造历史被高估了。”他们都是对的。
Over the past year, some of you responded to the momentous events we faced by finding a new sense of purpose. Some of you changed your career or your research plans. Some of you discovered new reserves of grit and some of you relied on the support of friends and family.
过去的一年，面对一系列的重大事件，你们中有些人产生了新的使命感，有些人改变了职业或研究计划，有些人获得了更大的勇气，还有些人得到了朋友和家人的支持。
On some days, it was a victory to change out of your pajamas. Some of you never changed out of your pajamas. And that’s okay, too. Many of you at some point felt grief, anxiety, outrage, or fear. But even though each of your experiences was unique, there is one triumph that you all share. You kept moving forward. You kept writing papers and evaluating lab data and composing music and completing case studies. You kept tapping that daily access screener and Zooming into classes sometimes across distant time zones. You studied for finals and defended dissertations. You each completed a demanding course of study. And today, you are earning a degree from one of the premier universities in the world.
有些日子，换掉睡衣都是一场胜利。你们中还有些人从未脱下过睡衣。这也没关系。你们许多人有时会感到悲伤、焦虑、愤怒或恐惧。尽管你们的每一个经历都是独特的，但你们都有一个共同的胜利。你没有停滞不前。你一直在写论文，研究实验室数据，作曲和完成案例研究。你每天要点击那个登录按钮，通过Zoom连接课堂，有时甚至不在同一个时区。你认真准备期末考试，完成论文辩护。你们每个人都完成了一门严格的专业学习。今天，你们正在世界顶尖的大学之一获得学位。
There is something else that each one of you has earned over this past year: the certain knowledge that you can do difficult things. And that will always be with you. When challenging circumstances arise in your life, you will be able to draw on this year and say, “I’ve got this, I’ve done something extraordinary before.”
过去的一年，你们每个人都赢得了其他一些东西：认识到自己可以战胜困难。这一点将永远与你同在。当你的生活中出现具有挑战性的环境时，你可以回顾今年的经历说：“我能做到，我曾经做到过了不起的事情。”
So this year, Class of 2021, “congratulations” honors each of your experiences. It honors every hopeful, messy, enlightening, exhausting, inspired, maddening, transcendent moment that brought you to this point. Today, you are New York University graduates.
因此，今年，2021届学生，“祝贺”之词是致敬你们的每一次经历。它尊重每一个充满希望、混乱、启发性、令人精疲力竭、鼓舞人心、疯狂、超凡的时刻，这些时刻将你带到了今天这一步。今天，你们光荣的成为纽约大学的毕业生。
Congratulations!
祝贺！
|
|
发表于 2021-6-8 09:46:23
发表于 2021-6-10 16:21:04
