杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子

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杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子 第一篇

J.K罗琳2008年哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲

——《哈利.波特》作者J.K罗琳

President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,

members of the faculty, 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 would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honor, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindors' 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（沪江小编：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 commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

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 Mary Warnock，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（gay有快乐和同性恋的意思）。

You see? If all you remember in years to come is the 'gay wizard' joke, I've still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable 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 Mary Warnock。建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。

Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day 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 come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called 'real life', I want to extol the crucial importance 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 may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with 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 back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected 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 was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure 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 know the irony strikes like with the force of a cartoon anvil now, but…

我现在明白反讽就像用卡通铁砧去打击你，但...

They had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature.

A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents' car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.

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 cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive 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 would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by 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 myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.

我在你们这个年龄，最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。

At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my 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 because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartache. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.

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。

However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person's idea of success, so high have you already flown academically.

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。

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.

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。

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

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 why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really

succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my 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 scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by 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 security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price 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 knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification 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，虽然是用痛苦换来的，但比我以前得到的任何资格证书都有用。

So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

如果给我一部时间机器，我会告诉21岁的自己，人的幸福在于知道生活不是一份漂亮的成绩单，你的资历、简历，都不是你的生活，虽然你会碰到很多与我同龄或更老一点的人今天依然还在混淆两者。生活是艰辛的，复杂的，超出任何人的控制能力，而谦恭地了解这一点，将使你历经沧桑后能够更好的生存。

You might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory

capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

对于第二个主题的选择——想象力的重要性——你们可能会认为是因为它对我重建生活起到了帮助，但事实并非完全如此。虽然我愿誓死捍卫睡前要给孩子讲故事的价值观，我对想象力的理解已经有了更广泛的含义。想象力不仅仅是人类设想还不存在的事物这种独特的能力，为所有发明和创新提供源泉，它还是人类改造和揭露现实的能力，使我们同情自己不曾经受的他人苦难。

One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International's headquarters in London.

其中一个影响最大的经历发生在我写哈利波特之前，为我随后写书提供了很多想法。这些想法成形于我早期的工作经历，在20 多岁时，尽管我可以在午餐时间里悄悄写故事，可为了付房租，我做的主要工作是在伦敦总部的大赦国际研究部门。

There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. I opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.

在我的小办公室，我看到了人们匆匆写的信件，它们是从极权主义政权被偷送出来的。那些人冒着被监禁的危险，告知外面的世界他们那里正在发生的事情。我看到了那些无迹可寻的人的照片，它们是被那些绝望的家人和朋友送来的。我看过拷问受害者的证词和被害的照片。我打开过手写的目击证词，描述绑架和强奸犯的审判和处决。

Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to think independently of their government. Visitors to our office included those who had come to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those who they had left behind.

我有很多的同事是前政治犯，他们已离开家园流离失所，或逃亡流放，因为他们敢于怀疑政府、独立思考。来我们办公室的访客，包括那些前来提供信息，或想设法知道那些被迫留下的同志发生了什么事的人。

I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness.

我将永远不会忘记一个非洲酷刑的受害者，一名当时还没有我大的年轻男子，他因在故乡的经历而精神错乱。在摄像机前讲述被残暴地摧残的时候，他颤抖失控。他比我高一英尺，却看上去像一个脆弱的儿童。我被安排随后护送他到地铁站，这名生活已被残酷地打乱的男子，小心翼翼地握着我的手，祝我未来生活幸福。

And as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since. The door

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杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子 第二篇

President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,

members of the faculty, 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 would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindors' 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（沪江小编：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 commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The

commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British

philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

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 Mary Warnock，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（gay有快乐和同性恋的意思）。

You see? If all you remember in years to come is the 'gay wizard' joke, I've still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable 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 Mary Warnock。建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。 Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day 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 come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called 'real life', I want to extol the crucial importance 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 may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with 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 back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected 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 was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view

that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure 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 know the irony strikes like with the force of a cartoon anvil now, but…

我现在明白反讽就像用卡通铁砧去打击你，但...

They had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents' car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.【杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子】

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 cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive 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 would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience.

Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by

your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by 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 myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.

我在你们这个年龄，最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。

At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my 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 because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartache. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.

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。

However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person's idea of success, so high have you already flown academically.

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。

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An

exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.

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。 Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale

resolution. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

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 why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to

myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the

determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old

罗琳_哈佛大学演讲稿
杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子 第三篇

1 【分享】一起学英语吧~罗琳在哈佛的演讲稿 中英对照

The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination

失败的好处与想象的重要

Harvard University Commencement Address

J.K. Rowling

President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, 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 would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I‘ve endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world‘s largest Gryffindors' 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 commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

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 Mary Warnock，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 you remember in years to come is the 'gay wizard' joke, I've still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable 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 Mary Warnock。建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。

Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day 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 come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called 'real life', I want to extol the crucial importance 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 may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with 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 back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected 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 was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure 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 know the irony strikes like with the force of a cartoon anvil now, but…

我现在明白反讽就像用卡通铁砧去打击你，但...

They had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature.

A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents' car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.

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 cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive 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 would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by 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 myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.

我在你们这个年龄，最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。

At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers. 我在你们这么大时，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 because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.

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。

However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person's idea of success, so high have you already flown academically.

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。

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.

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。

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

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 why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my 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 scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by 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 security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure

taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above 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 knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification 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，虽然是用痛苦换来的，但比我以前得到的任何资格证书都有用。

Given a time machine or a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

如果给我一部时间机器，我会告诉21岁的自己，人的幸福在于知道生活不是一份漂亮的成绩单，你的资历、简历，都不是你的生活，虽然你会碰到很多与我同龄或更老一点的人今天依然还在混淆两者。生活是艰辛的，复杂的，超出任何人的控制能力，而谦恭地了解这一点，将使你历经沧桑后能够更好的生存。

You might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

对于第二个主题的选择——想象力的重要性——你们可能会认为是因为它对我重建生活起到了帮助，但事实并非完全如此。虽然我愿誓死捍卫睡前要给孩子讲故事的价值观，我对想象力的理解已经有了更广泛的含义。想象力不仅仅是人类设想还不存在的事物这种独特的能力，为所有发明和创新提供源泉，它还是人类改造和揭露现实的能力，使我们同情自己不曾经受的他人苦难。

One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent

JK罗琳哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲稿
杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子 第四篇

J.K罗琳2008年哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲

——《哈利.波特》作者J.K罗琳

JK罗琳哈佛大学演讲(中英文)

President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,

members of the faculty, 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 would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindors' 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（沪江小编：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 commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

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 Mary Warnock，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（gay有快乐和同性恋的意思）。

You see? If all you remember in years to come is the 'gay wizard' joke, I've still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable 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 Mary Warnock。建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。

Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day 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 come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called 'real life', I want to extol the crucial importance 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 may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with 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 back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected 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 was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure 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 know the irony strikes like with the force of a cartoon anvil now, but…

我现在明白反讽就像用卡通铁砧去打击你，但...

They had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents' car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.

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 cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive 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 would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by 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 myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.

我在你们这个年龄，最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。

At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in

the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my 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 because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartache. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.

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。

However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person's idea of success, so high have you already flown academically.

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。

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.

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。

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

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 why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my 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 scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by 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 security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price 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。

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杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子 第五篇

President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,

members of the faculty, 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 would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindors' 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（沪江小编：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 commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher

Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

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 Mary Warnock，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（gay有快乐和同性恋的意思）。

You see? If all you remember in years to come is the 'gay wizard' joke, I've still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable 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 Mary Warnock。建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。

Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day 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 come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called 'real life', I want to extol the crucial importance 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 may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with 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 back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected 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 was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure 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 know the irony strikes like with the force of a cartoon anvil now, but…

我现在明白反讽就像用卡通铁砧去打击你，但...

They had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A

compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents' car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.

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 cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive 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 would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by 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 myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.

我在你们这个年龄，最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。

At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my 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 because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartache. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.

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。

However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person's idea of success, so high have you already flown academically.

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。【杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子】

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.

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。

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

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 why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might

never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my 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 scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by 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 security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price 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 knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification 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，虽然是用痛苦换来的，但比我以前得到的任何资格证书都有用。

So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

如果给我一部时间机器，我会告诉21岁的自己，人的幸福在于知道生活不是一份漂亮的成绩单，你的资历、简历，都不是你的生活，虽然你会碰到很多与我同龄或更老一点的人今天依然还在混淆两者。生活是艰辛的，复杂的，超出任何人的控制能力，而谦恭地了解这一点，将使你历经沧桑后能够更好的生存。

You might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and

innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

对于第二个主题的选择——想象力的重要性——你们可能会认为是因为它对我重建生活起到了帮助，但事实并非完全如此。虽然我愿誓死捍卫睡前要给孩子讲故事的价值观，我对想象力的理解已经有了更广泛的含义。想象力不仅仅是人类设想还不存在的事物这种独特的能力，为所有发明和创新提供源泉，它还是人类改造和揭露现实的能力，使我们同情自己不曾经受的他人苦难。

One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International's headquarters in London.

其中一个影响最大的经历发生在我写哈利波特之前，为我随后写书提供了很多想法。这些想法成形于我早期的工作经历，在20 多岁时，尽管我可以在午餐时间里悄悄写故事，可为了付房租，我做的主要工作是在伦敦总部的大赦国际研究部门。

There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. I opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.

在我的小办公室，我看到了人们匆匆写的信件，它们是从极权主义政权被偷送出来的。那些人冒着被监禁的危险，告知外面的世界他们那里正在发生的事情。我看到了那些无迹可寻的人的照片，它们是被那些绝望的家人和朋友送来的。我看过拷问受害者的证词和被害的照片。我打开过手写的目击证词，描述绑架和强奸犯的审判和处决。

Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to think independently of their government. Visitors to our office included those who had come to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those who they had left behind.

我有很多的同事是前政治犯，他们已离开家园流离失所，或逃亡流放，因为他们敢于怀疑政府、独立思考。来我们办公室的访客，包括那些前来提供信息，或想设法知道那些被迫留下的同志发生了什么事的人。

I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness.

我将永远不会忘记一个非洲酷刑的受害者，一名当时还没有我大的年轻男子，他因在故乡的经历而精神错乱。在摄像机前讲述被残暴地摧残的时候，他颤抖失控。他比我高一英尺，却看上去像一个脆弱的儿童。我被安排随后护送他到地铁站，这名生活已被残酷地打乱的男子，小心翼翼地握着我的手，祝我未来生活幸福。

And as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since. The door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with

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residentFaust,membersoftheHarvardCorporationandtheBoardofOverseers,membersofthefaculty,proudparents,and,aboveall,graduates,

致Faust校长，哈佛集团以及哈佛监事委员会的各位成员，各位教职员工，众多自豪的家长，以及最为重要的——各位毕业生们：

ThefirstthingIwouldliketosayis'thankyou.'NotonlyhasHarvardgivenmeanextraordinaryhonour,buttheweeksoffearandnauseaI'veexperiencedatthethoughtofgivingthiscommencementaddresshavemademeloseweight.Awin-winsituation!NowallIhavetodoistakedeepbreaths,squintattheredbannersandfoolmyselfintobelievingIamattheworld'sbest-educatedHarrypotterconvention.

我想要说的第一句话是“谢谢你们”。这份感谢不仅来自于哈佛赋予我如此非同寻常的荣誉，更是由于几个星期以来每当我想到今天的致词就会觉得头晕恶心，因而终于成功的减肥了。这就是“双赢”啊!现在，我只需要深呼吸几次，瞄几眼红色的横幅，然后装模作样的让自己相信，我正身处世界上受过最好教育的哈里波特迷的盛大集会之中。

Deliveringacommencementaddressisagreatresponsibility;orsoIthoughtuntilIcastmymindbacktomyowngraduation.ThecommencementspeakerthatdaywasthedistinguishedBritishphilosopherBaronessMaryWarnock.Reflectingonherspeechhashelpedmeenormouslyinwritingthisone,becauseitturnsoutthatIcan'trememberasinglewordshesaid.ThisliberatingdiscoveryenablesmetoproceedwithoutanyfearthatImightinadvertentlyinfluenceyoutoabandonpromisingcareersinbusiness,laworpoliticsforthegiddydelightsofbecomingagaywizard.

毕业典礼上致词意味着极大的责任——我这样想着，直到我开始回想我自己的毕业典礼。那天致词的是著名的英国哲学家BaronessMaryWarnock。对于她的演讲的回忆也极大地帮助了我完成现在这份，因为，我完全想不起来她说了什么。这个具有解放意义的重大发现让我无所畏惧的写下自己的致词，因为我再也不必担心会在不经意间对你们造成影响，以至于让你们为了成为一个快乐巫师的虚幻憧憬，就放弃自己在商业、法律界或政界的远大前程。

Yousee?Ifallyourememberinyearstocomeisthe'gaywizard'joke,I'vestillcomeoutaheadofBaronessMaryWarnock.Achievablegoals:thefirststeptowardspersonalimprovement.

Actually,IhavewrackedmymindandheartforwhatIoughttosaytoyoutoday.IhaveaskedmyselfwhatIwishIhadknownatmyowngraduation,andwhatimportantlessonsIhavelearnedinthe21yearsthathasexpiredbetweenthatdayandthis.

Ihavecomeupwithtwoanswers.Onthiswonderfuldaywhenwearegatheredtogethertocelebrateyouracademicsuccess,Ihavedecidedtotalktoyouaboutthebenefitsoffailure.Andasyoustandonthethresholdofwhatissometimescalled'reallife',Iwanttoextolthecrucialimportanceofimagination.

Thesemightseemquixoticorparadoxicalchoices,butpleasebearwithme.

事实上，为了确定今天应该对你们说些什么，我真是绞尽了脑汁。我问自己，在我自己的毕业典礼上，我曾期待知道什么?而自那天开始到现在的21年间，我又学到了那些教训?

我想到了两个答案。在今天这个美妙的时刻，当我们齐聚一堂庆祝你们取得学业成功的时候，我决定跟你们谈谈失败带来的好处。另外，在你们正要一脚踏入所谓“真实的生活”的时候，我还要高声赞颂想象力的重大意义。

这些决定看起来颇为荒诞而矛盾，但是啊，请听我慢慢道来。

Lookingbackatthe21-year-oldthatIwasatgraduation,isaslightlyuncomfortableexperienceforthe42-year-oldthatshehasbecome.Halfmylifetimeago,IwasstrikinganuneasybalancebetweentheambitionIhadformyself,andwhatthoseclosesttomeexpectedofme.

IwasconvincedthattheonlythingIwantedtodo,ever,wastowritenovels.However,myparents,bothofwhomcamefromimpoverishedbackgroundsandneitherofwhomhadbeentocollege,tooktheviewthatmyoveractiveimaginationwasanamusingpersonalquirkthatcouldneverpayamortgage,orsecureapension.

TheyhadhopedthatIwouldtakeavocationaldegree;IwantedtostudyEnglishLiterature.Acompromisewasreachedthatinretrospectsatisfiednobody,andIwentuptostudyModernLanguages.Hardlyhadmyparents'carroundedthecornerattheendoftheroadthanIditchedGermanandscuttledoffdowntheClassicscorridor.

IcannotremembertellingmyparentsthatIwasstudyingClassics;theymightwellhavefoundoutforthefirsttimeongraduationday.Ofallsubjectsonthisplanet,IthinktheywouldhavebeenhardputtonameonelessusefulthanGreekmythologywhenitcametosecuringthekeystoanexecutivebathroom.

对于一个已经42岁的妇人来说，回顾21岁毕业典礼的时刻并不是一件十分舒服的事情。在前半生中我一直奋力挣扎，为了在自己的雄心壮志与亲人对我的期盼之间取得一个平衡。

我自己认定今生唯一想做的事情就是写小说。然而，我的出身贫寒、从未受过大学教育的父母却认为，我那过于活跃的想象力只不过是个人的怪癖而已，永远也不能帮我偿还贷款，也不能帮我弄到养老金。

他们希望我取得一个职业技能学位;而我却向往在英国文学方面深造。最后我们互有妥协并达成一致，让我去学习现代语言;而事后想来，这份妥协其实没有让任何一方满意。于是，没等父母的车绕过路尽头的拐角从视野里消失，我就丢下了德语，转而沿着古典文学的道路快步走下去。

我记不得是否有告诉父母我其实在学习古典文学;他们也可能在出席毕业典礼的时候终于觉察了事实真相。在地球上所有的学科当中，当涉及到“获得使用正式员工专用洗手间的权利”的时候，我估计他们很难想到比希腊神话更没用的学科了。

Iwouldliketomakeitclear,inparenthesis,thatIdonotblamemyparentsfortheirpointofview.Thereisanexpirydateonblamingyourparentsforsteeringyouinthewrongdirection;themomentyouareoldenoughtotakethewheel,responsibilitylieswithyou.Whatismore,IcannotcriticisemyparentsforhopingthatIwouldneverexperiencepoverty.Theyhadbeenpoorthemselves,andIhavesincebeenpoor,andIquiteagreewiththemthatitisnotanennoblingexperience.povertyentailsfear,andstress,andsometimesdepression;itmeansathousandpettyhumiliationsandhardships.Climbingoutofpovertybyyourownefforts,thatisindeedsomethingonwhichtoprideyourself,butpovertyitselfisromanticisedonlybyfools.

顺便提一句，我必须声明自己并没有为父母的观点而责怪他们的意思。你不能总是责怪父母指错了方向;当你长大成人、可以独立掌舵的时候，这份责任就应该由你独立承担了。况且，父母希望我永远都不要经受贫穷，而我不能谴责这一期望。他们自己饱受贫寒之苦，而我也曾经是个穷人，我十分赞同他们的想法——贫穷决不是什么高贵的经历。伴随贫穷而来的是恐惧和紧张，有时还会陷入忧伤沮丧之中;这些都意味着无尽的卑微和艰难。凭借自己的力量挣脱贫困境地，这的确是值得自豪的事情，但是只有愚蠢的人才会一厢情愿的为贫穷本身涂抹浪漫的色彩

WhatIfearedmostformyselfatyouragewasnotpoverty,butfailure.

Atyourage,inspiteofadistinctlackofmotivationatuniversity,whereIhadspentfartoolonginthecoffeebarwritingstories,andfartoolittletimeatlectures,Ihadaknackforpassingexaminations,andthat,foryears,hadbeenthemeasureofsuccessinmylifeandthatofmypeers.

Iamnotdullenoughtosupposethatbecauseyouareyoung,giftedandwell-educated,youhaveneverknownhardshiporheartbreak.TalentandintelligenceneveryetinoculatedanyoneagainstthecapriceoftheFates,andIdonotforamomentsupposethateveryoneherehasenjoyedanexistenceofunruffledprivilegeandcontentment.

当我像你们这么大的时候，我最害怕的甚至还不是贫穷，而是失败。

当我像你们这么大的时候，我对大学里的课程没什么动力，总是在咖啡馆里花上大把的时间写小说，而用于听课的时间则寥寥无几。尽管如此，我却有些让自己能通过考试的窍门;而考试，在若干年中，就成了衡量我和我同龄人的成败的标准。

我不会笨到认为你们这些年轻、有天赋、受过良好教育的孩子就从来不知道困难和心碎的滋味。天赋和智力并不能让人免受命运的捉弄;我也从不认为在这里的所有人都享有不可破坏的特权与满足。

However,thefactthatyouaregraduatingfromHarvardsuggeststhatyouarenotverywell-acquaintedwithfailure.Youmightbedrivenbyafearoffailurequiteasmuchasadesireforsuccess.Indeed,yourconceptionoffailuremightnotbetoofarfromtheaverageperson'sideaofsuccess,sohighhaveyoualreadyflownacademically

Ultimately,weallhavetodecideforourselveswhatconstitutesfailure,buttheworldisquiteeagertogiveyouasetofcriteriaifyouletit.SoIthinkitfairtosaythatbyanyconventionalmeasure,ameresevenyearsaftermygraduationday,Ihadfailedonanepicscale.Anexceptionallyshort-livedmarriagehadimploded,andIwasjobless,aloneparent,andaspoorasitispossibletobeinmodernBritain,withoutbeinghomeless.Thefearsmyparentshadhadforme,andthatIhadhadformyself,hadbothcometopass,andbyeveryusualstandard,IwasthebiggestfailureIknew.

Now,Iamnotgoingtostandhereandtellyouthatfailureisfun.Thatperiodofmylifewasadarkone,andIhadnoideathattherewasgoingtobewhatthepresshassincerepresentedasakindoffairytaleresolution.Ihadnoideahowfarthetunnelextended,andforalongtime,anylightattheendofitwasahoperatherthanareality.

然而，毕业于哈佛大学这一事实暗示着你们并不十分熟悉失败。驱动你们前行的对于失败的恐惧可能更为接近对于成功的渴望。事实上，你们心目中的失败很可能与普通人设想的成功相差无几，毕竟你们在学业上的成功已经高到遥不可及。

最终，我们都要按自己的想法给失败下一个定义;但是如果你允许的话，这个世界会迫不及待的为你设定一套标准。因此我觉得，不管按照什么惯行标准，仅仅在毕业七年之后，我都确确实实的失败了，而且败得彻彻底底。我那罕见的短暂婚姻走到了尽头，自己又失业了。一个单身母亲，沦落到当代英国最为贫困的境地，只不过还没到无家可归的程度而已。我父母害怕发生在我身上的事情，我害怕发生在自己身上的事情，都降临了。无论按照什么标准来看，我都是我所知道的最大的失败。

现在，我站在这里，告诉你们失败可是件一点也不好玩的事情。那个时候我的人生被黑暗笼罩，根本想不到在未来的时光里这段经历竟会被报道为神话般的坚定意志。那时候我不知道黑暗的隧道何时才是尽头，而尽头的任何光亮都像是渺茫的希望而非稳固的现实。

SowhydoItalkaboutthebenefitsoffailure?Simplybecausefailuremeantastrippingawayoftheinessential.IstoppedpretendingtomyselfthatIwasanythingotherthanwhatIwas,andbegantodirectallmyenergyintofinishingtheonlyworkthatmatteredtome.HadIreallysucceededatanythingelse,ImightneverhavefoundthedeterminationtosucceedintheonearenaIbelievedItrulybelonged.Iwassetfree,becausemygreatestfearhadalreadybeenrealised,andIwasstillalive,andIstillhadadaughterwhomIadored,andIhadanoldtypewriterandabigidea.AndsorockbottombecamethesolidfoundationonwhichIrebuiltmylife.

YoumightneverfailonthescaleIdid,butsomefailureinlifeisinevitable.Itisimpossibletolivewithoutfailingatsomething,unlessyoulivesocautiouslythatyoumightaswellnothavelivedatall–inwhichcase,youfailbydefault.

FailuregavemeaninnersecuritythatIhadneverattainedbypassingexaminations.FailuretaughtmethingsaboutmyselfthatIcouldhavelearnednootherway.IdiscoveredthatIhadastrongwill,andmoredisciplinethanIhadsuspected;IalsofoundoutthatIhadfriendswhosevaluewastrulyaboverubies.【杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子】

Theknowledgethatyouhaveemergedwiserandstrongerfromsetbacksmeansthatyouare,everafter,secureinyourabilitytosurvive.Youwillnevertrulyknowyourself,orthestrengthofyourrelationships,untilbothhavebeentestedbyadversity.Suchknowledgeisatruegift,forallthatitispainfullywon,andithasbeenworthmoretomethananyqualificationIeverearned.

什么我还要谈起失败的好处呢?简单的说，是因为失败会为我们揭去表面那些无关紧要的东西。我不再装模作样，终于重新做回自己，开始将所有的精力投入到自己在意的唯一作品。如果我此前在其它的任何什么方面有所成功，我恐怕都会失去在自己真正归属的舞台上获得成功的决心。我最大的恐惧终于成为现实，而我却因此获得了自由，我还活着，还有我深爱的女儿，我还有一架老式打字机和一个宏大的梦想。这片顽固的低谷成为我脚下坚定的基石，在此之上，我重筑了自己的人生。

你们也许不会像我摔得这样惨，但是人生路上总会有些失败。你也许可以毫无失败的度过一生，但你将活得如此小心翼翼，就好像你几乎没有活过——不管从什么意义上讲，你都注定要失败的。

失败赋予我内心的安全感，而这是考试及格也不能让我感受到的。失败让我明白关于自己的一些东西，这是除了失败以外我决不可能获得的认知。我意识到自己拥有坚强的意志，而且比我以前设想的还要自律;我还发现我拥有的朋友们是如此宝贵，其价值连宝石也不能媲美。

你在挫折中成长，更聪明，更强壮，这意味着从此以后你已拥有了牢不可催的生存能力。直到通过逆境的考验，你才会真正了解自己，以及你周围的人赋予你的力量。这些认知都是宝贵的财富，我历经艰辛才获得的财富，这比我得到的任何资格证书都更有价值。

GivenatimemachineoraTimeTurner,Iwouldtellmy21-year-oldselfthatpersonalhappinessliesinknowingthatlifeisnotacheck-listofacquisitionorachievement.Yourqualifications,yourCV,arenotyourlife,thoughyouwillmeetmanypeopleofmyageandolderwhoconfusethetwo.Lifeisdifficult,andcomplicated,andbeyondanyone'stotalcontrol,andthehumilitytoknowthatwillenableyoutosurviveitsvicissitudes.

YoumightthinkthatIchosemysecondtheme,theimportanceofimagination,becauseofthepartitplayedinrebuildingmylife,butthatisnotwhollyso.ThoughIwilldefendthevalueofbedtimestoriestomylastgasp,Ihavelearnedtovalueimaginationinamuchbroadersense.Imaginationisnotonlytheuniquelyhumancapacitytoenvisionthatwhichisnot,andthereforethefountofallinventionandinnovation.Initsarguablymosttransformativeandrevelatorycapacity,itisthepowerthatenablesustoempathisewithhumanswhoseexperienceswehavenevershared.

OneofthegreatestformativeexperiencesofmylifeprecededHarrypotter,thoughitinformedmuchofwhatIsubsequentlywroteinthosebooks.Thisrevelationcameintheformofoneofmyearliestdayjobs.ThoughIwasslopingofftowritestoriesduringmylunchhours,Ipaidtherentinmyearly20sbyworkingintheresearchdepartmentatAmnestyInternational'sheadquartersinLondon.

ThereinmylittleofficeIreadhastilyscribbledletterssmuggledoutoftotalitarianregimesbymenandwomenwhowereriskingimprisonmenttoinformtheoutsideworldofwhatwashappeningtothem.Isawphotographsofthosewhohaddisappearedwithouttrace,senttoAmnestybytheirdesperatefamiliesandfriends.Ireadthetestimonyoftorturevictimsandsawpicturesoftheirinjuries.Iopenedhandwritten,eye-witnessaccountsofsummarytrialsandexecutions,ofkidnappingsandrapes.

如果能够让时光倒流，我会告诉21岁的自己，幸福在于懂得人生不是收获和成就的清单。你的资格证书或你的简历，并不是你的生活;尽管你将遇到很多我这样年纪、甚至比我更老的人，他们却还分不清楚两者间的区别。生活是严酷的，也是复杂的，更不处于任何人的掌控;谦逊的懂得并接受这一点，会帮助安然你度过生活中的风浪。

也许你们会以为，我之所以选择第二个主题——想象力的重要性，是因为想象力在我重筑人生时发挥了巨大作用。但这并不是全部的原因。我固然到死也会捍卫睡前故事的价值，但我还认识到要在更为广阔的范围内珍视想象力。想象力是人类独有的预见未知的能力，它还是所有发明创造的源泉。它具有已被证实的最富变革性和启示性的力量，而正是想象力让我们能够切身体会他人的经验——虽然我们自己并未身临其境。

对我影响最为深远的经历发生在哈里波特之前，而这一经历为我后来完成著作提供了很多信息。我在最早的全日制工作中获得了启示。在二十几岁的时候，我在位于伦敦的国际特赦组织总部的研究部门工作，以获得付房租的钱，而午餐的时候我就溜掉去写小说。

在那里，我坐在小小的办公室里阅读来自集权统治下的地区的信件。男人和女人们急切的写下潦草的文字，将信偷偷寄出来，冒着坐牢的风险告诉外界自己遭受了怎样的对待。我看到那些无声无息地失踪了的人的照片，是由他们的绝望的亲人和朋友寄到特赦组织来的。我读着被严刑拷打的受害人的证词，看着记录他们的惨状的照片。我打开手写的亲眼见证的记录，记载着对于绑架和强奸案件的简单审讯和执行。

Manyofmyco-workerswereex-politicalprisoners,peoplewhohadbeendisplacedfromtheirhomes,orfledintoexile,becausetheyhadthetemeritytothinkindependentlyoftheirgovernment.Visitorstoourofficeincludedthosewhohadcometogiveinformation,ortotryandfindoutwhathadhappenedtothosetheyhadbeenforcedtoleavebehind.

IshallneverforgettheAfricantorturevictim,ayoungmannoolderthanIwasatthetime,whohadbecomementallyillafterallhehadenduredinhishomeland.Hetrembleduncontrollablyashespokeintoavideocameraaboutthebrutalityinflicteduponhim.HewasafoottallerthanIwas,andseemedasfragileasachild.IwasgiventhejobofescortinghimtotheUndergroundStationafterwards,andthismanwhoselifehadbeenshatteredbycrueltytookmyhandwithexquisitecourtesy,andwishedmefuturehappiness.

AndaslongasIliveIshallrememberwalkingalonganemptycorridorandsuddenlyhearing,frombehindacloseddoor,ascreamofpainandhorrorsuchasIhaveneverheardsince.Thedooropened,andtheresearcherpokedoutherheadandtoldmetorunandmakeahotdrinkfortheyoungmansittingwithher.Shehadjustgivenhimthenewsthatinretaliationforhisownoutspokennessagainsthiscountry'sregime,hismotherhadbeenseizedandexecuted.

Everydayofmyworkingweekinmyearly20sIwasremindedhowincrediblyfortunateIwas,toliveinacountrywithademocraticallyelectedgovernment,wherelegalrepresentationandapublictrialweretherightsofeveryone.

Everyday,Isawmoreevidenceabouttheevilshumankindwillinflictontheirfellowhumans,togainormaintainpower.Ibegantohavenightmares,literalnightmares,aboutsomeofthethingsIsaw,heardandread.

Amnestymobilisesthousandsofpeoplewhohaveneverbeentorturedorimprisonedfortheirbeliefstoactonbehalfofthosewhohave.Thepowerofhumanempathy,leadingtocollectiveaction,saveslives,andfreesprisoners.Ordinarypeople,whosepersonalwell-beingandsecurityareassured,jointogetherinhugenumberstosavepeopletheydonotknow,andwillnevermeet.Mysmallparticipationinthatprocesswasoneofthemosthumblingandinspiringexperiencesofmylife.

我的很多同事以前都是政治犯。他们被迫离开家庭或流亡国外，因为他们有勇气以独立意志评判他们的政府。我们的办公室的访客有些是来提供信息的，也有人前来了解他们被迫放弃的同伴的情况。

我永远也无法忘记一个来自非洲的经受严刑拷打的受害者。他是个年轻人，不会比那时的我年纪更大，在自己的祖国遭受的一切已经使他有些精神失常。对着摄影机讲述自己遭受的痛苦的时候，他无法抑制的战栗着。他比我高一英尺，看上去却像孩子一样脆弱无助。随后，在我按照吩咐护送他去地铁的路上，这个人生已被残暴摧毁的男人却优雅有礼的拉着我的手，祝我未来幸福快乐。

在我有生之年，我都会记得自己走过一条空旷的走廊的时候，从身后一扇紧闭的门内传出的尖叫。其中包含的痛苦和恐惧是如此强烈，我以后再没听过那样的声音。门打开了，一个工作人员探出头，告诉我赶快跑去，给坐在她身边的青年男子拿一杯热饮。她刚刚告诉那位年青人，由于他本人公开反对自己国家的专制，他的母亲已被抓走并处决了。

在我二十几岁的时候，工作中的每一天，我都不断被提醒着自己是多么的幸运，能够生活在一个民选政府管理的国家，人人都享有法律代理和公开审判的权利。

每天我都看见更多的人类的邪恶加诸于同胞的证据，这样的罪恶仅仅是为了获得或者维持权力。我开始做恶梦，彻头彻尾的恶梦，梦到那些我看到、听到和读到的事情。

然而，在国际特赦组织里我还了解了很多关于人类的好的一面，有些是我从不知道的。

Unlikeanyothercreatureonthisplanet,humanscanlearnandunderstand,withouthavingexperienced.Theycanthinkthemselvesintootherpeople'sminds,imaginethemselvesintootherpeople'splaces.

Ofcourse,thisisapower,likemybrandoffictionalmagic,thatismorallyneutral.Onemightusesuchanabilitytomanipulate,orcontrol,justasmuchastounderstandorsympathise.

Andmanyprefernottoexercisetheirimaginationsatall.Theychoosetoremaincomfortablywithintheboundsoftheirownexperience,nevertroublingtowonderhowitwouldfeeltohavebeenbornotherthantheyare.Theycanrefusetohearscreamsortopeerinsidecages;theycanclosetheirmindsandheartstoanysufferingthatdoesnottouchthempersonally;theycanrefusetoknow.

Imightbetemptedtoenvypeoplewhocanlivethatway,exceptthatIdonotthinktheyhaveanyfewernightmaresthanIdo.Choosingtoliveinnarrowspacescanleadtoaformofmentalagoraphobia,andthatbringsitsownterrors.Ithinkthewilfullyunimaginativeseemoremonsters.Theyareoftenmoreafraid.

Whatismore,thosewhochoosenottoempathisemayenablerealmonsters.Forwithoutevercommittinganactofoutrightevilourselves,wecolludewithit,throughourownapathy.

际特赦组织调动了几千人，他们从未因自己的信念而被折磨或监禁，他们代表那些饱受折磨的人并为之行事。人类的同情心的力量引导了集体行动，拯救生命，释放被关押的人们。那些个人幸福和安全已经得到保证的普通人，为了拯救他们并不认识、甚至再也不会见面的陌生人而集结起来，汇聚成强大的群体。我个人在其中的参与，是我今生最为卑微、却最为振奋的经历。

人类与地球上的其它生物不同。就算没有亲身经历，人类也可以学习和理解。人类可以将自己代入别人的思想之中，设想自己处于他人的境地。

当然，这也是力量，就好像我的小说中的魔法。这是在道德上中立的力量，可以被用于操纵和控制，也可以被用于理解和同情。

还有很多人宁愿不去使用他们的想象力。他们选择舒舒服服的呆在自己的经历之内，从不费事去想象如果他们生下来是别的人，那一切将会怎样。他们可以拒绝倾听叫喊声，也不会窥视笼子内的情况;对于任何没有降临到自身的痛苦，他们都可以关闭自己的头脑和心灵;他们可以拒绝知道。

也许我禁不住会想要嫉妒这样生活的人，只可惜我不相信他们做的恶梦会比我少。选择生活在狭窄的范围里，会导致某种精神上的对于陌生环境的恐惧症，并由此产生相应的害怕心理。我认为那些自己决定不去想象的人会看到更多的怪物。他们通常会更害怕。

OneofthemanythingsIlearnedattheendofthatClassicscorridordownwhichIventuredattheageof18,insearchofsomethingIcouldnotthendefine,wasthis,writtenbytheGreekauthorplutarch:Whatweachieveinwardlywillchangeouterreality.

Thatisanastonishingstatementandyetprovenathousandtimeseverydayofourlives.Itexpresses,inpart,ourinescapableconnectionwiththeoutsideworld,thefactthatwetouchotherpeople'slivessimplybyexisting.

Buthowmuchmoreareyou,Harvardgraduatesof2016,likelytotouchotherpeople'slives?Yourintelligence,yourcapacityforhardwork,theeducationyouhaveearnedandreceived,giveyouuniquestatus,anduniqueresponsibilities.Evenyournationalitysetsyouapart.Thegreatmajorityofyoubelongtotheworld'sonlyremainingsuperpower.Thewayyouvote,thewayyoulive,thewayyouprotest,thepressureyoubringtobearonyourgovernment,hasanimpactwaybeyondyourborders.Thatisyourprivilege,andyourburden.

外，选择不去同情的人会养育现实中的怪物。就算我们自己没有亲自作出邪恶的事情，我们对于邪恶的无动于衷就等同于和它同谋。

十八岁时，为了寻找那时我无法描述的目的，我踏上了古典文学的探险道路;当走到尽头的时候，我学到了很多东西，其中之一就是希腊作家plutarch的这句话：我们在内心的所得，将改变外界的现实。

这句惊人的宣言却每天都被我们的生活证实无数次。在某种程度上，它表达了我们与外面世界的无法逃避的联系;它道出这样一个事实，仅仅是我们自身的存在，就已经触碰到了他人的生活。

但是，哈佛大学2016届的毕业生们，你们又将对他人的生活深入多少呢?你们的智慧、你们应对高难度工作的才能、你们谋求并接受到的教育，都赋予你们

独一无二的身份，以及独一无二的责任。即使你们的国籍将你们区隔开来。你们中的大多数，属于这个世界目前仅存的超级大国。你们投票的方式，你们生活的方式，你们抗议的方式，你们对于政府施加的压力，其影响都会远远超出你们自身的界限。那就是你们的特权，也是你们背负的重任

Ifyouchoosetouseyourstatusandinfluencetoraiseyourvoiceonbehalfofthosewhohavenovoice;ifyouchoosetoidentifynotonlywiththepowerful,butwiththepowerless;ifyouretaintheabilitytoimagineyourselfintothelivesofthosewhodonothaveyouradvantages,thenitwillnotonlybeyourproudfamilieswhocelebrateyourexistence,butthousandsandmillionsofpeoplewhoserealityyouhavehelpedtransformforthebetter.Wedonotneedmagictochangetheworld,wecarryallthepowerweneedinsideourselvesalready:wehavethepowertoimaginebetter.

如果你选择了，用你的身份和影响力来提高你的声音，为那些没有声音的人呐喊;如果你选择了，不仅认同权势群体，更要与弱势群体为伍;如果你保留了想象的能力，能够与不具备你的优势的那些人感同身受。那么，不仅仅是你的家人会为你自豪，更有成千上万的、因为你而生活得更好的人会为你欢呼。我们并不需要魔法来改造世界。我们在内心深处已经拥有了所需的所有力量：我们拥有想象更好的世界的力量。

Iamnearlyfinished.Ihaveonelasthopeforyou,whichissomethingthatIalreadyhadat21.ThefriendswithwhomIsatongraduationdayhavebeenmyfriendsforlife.Theyaremychildren'sgodparents,thepeopletowhomI'vebeenabletoturnintimesoftrouble,friendswhohavebeenkindenoughnottosuemewhenI'veusedtheirnamesforDeathEaters.Atourgraduationwewereboundbyenormousaffection,byoursharedexperienceofatimethatcouldnevercomeagain,and,ofcourse,bytheknowledgethatweheldcertainphotographicevidencethatwouldbeexceptionallyvaluableifanyofusranforprimeMinister.

Sotoday,Icanwishyounothingbetterthansimilarfriendships.Andtomorrow,Ihopethatevenifyouremembernotasinglewordofmine,yourememberthoseofSeneca,anotherofthoseoldRomansImetwhenIfleddowntheClassicscorridor,inretreatfromcareerladders,insearchofancientwisdom:

Asisatale,soislife:nothowlongitis,buthowgooditis,iswhatmatters.

Iwishyouallverygoodlives.

Thankyouverymuch.

我的话快要说完了。最后，我对你们还有一个期望，在我21岁的时候我就怀有这个期望。在毕业典礼上与我坐在一起的朋友们，后来成了我一生的朋友。他们是我的孩子们的教父和教母。他们是我陷入困境时可以寻求帮助的人。他们是如此宽容的朋友，就连名字被我用来命名食死徒的时候也没有起诉我。在毕业典礼上，我们被心中澎湃的激情紧密联结，被共同分享的宝贵时光紧密联结，当然，也被某个共识紧密联结——如果我们中的某人有朝一日当选为英国首相，那我们持有的合影照片肯定会价值不菲。

因此，今天，我能够送给你们的最好的祝福，就是这样的友谊。明天，我希望就算你记不起我说过的任何一个字，你还是能够想起Seneca说过的话。那时我已远离职业生涯的阶梯，转而寻找古代的智慧。我在沿着古典文学的走廊飞奔时遇到了这个古罗马的家伙。

他说：

人生就像故事，不在于漫长，而在于精彩。

我祝你们所有人一生幸福。

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杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子 第七篇

刘强东，京东集团CEO，以下是刘强东在哈佛大学演讲全文，在演讲中，他自述他做京东的励志故事，也说了他创业阶段要解决两个问题，第一个是找到女朋友，第二个则是做O2O项目——“京东到家”，还在演讲中号召海归们回国工作创业。下面是这篇刘强东在哈佛大学演讲全文

刘强东在哈佛大学演讲全文

女士们、先生们：

本来我想用苏北英语给大家做演讲，结果张总(张磊，高瓴资本CEO)一上来说了中文，弄的我很不好意思，所以我还是用苏北话演讲。

昨天晚上我问了一个哥大的朋友，我说我特别想知道大家今天想听什么，他说其实非常想听创业。我知道最近创业非常火，我想今天在座的很多同学都有创业的冲动或者打算。如果你让我说创业，我想说，创业要想取得成功，关键就一句话：只要你能够解决一个问题，那么你的项目就一定会成功。

我就从我大学的一个故事讲起。1992年，我考上了人大。人大的经济学系、金融系都是很好的专业，工作特别好找，而我上的是社会学系，结果发现社会学系最难的一件事情就是找工作。当时，宿舍里面的老大喜欢英语系的女孩子，喜欢了整整一年，天天晚上和她一起上晚自习，终于有一天晚上把那个女孩子约到了人大东门的小花园，我们五个人在宿舍里面非常激动地等着好消息。我们宿舍老大回来了，说失败了，为什么?他说那女孩子说了，你们是社会学系的，社会学系的连工作都找不到，我怎么跟你谈恋爱啊?

所以我要解决第一个问题，想找个女朋友。虽然我的专业不大好找工作，但是经过简单的调查研究，我发现女孩子喜欢男生带有神秘感，所以我想了半天，什么最神秘呢?突然我发现在1993年的时候，在中国最神秘的就是电脑，所以我决定我要自己去学电脑，学编程，给我们系老师编了一个名片管理系统。因为作为人大的教授，出席各种会议名片非常多，找名片很难，通过我这个程序在名片管理系统里甚至只输一个字就可以搜到，他们觉得这个真好。因此，在大二下学期结束的时候，我终于有了自己的女朋友。

解决一个问题，你就可以取得成功。

从站柜台开始的第一次创业

在我1998年创业的时候，我去了中关村，带着积攒的12000块钱人民币在中关村租了一个四平方米的柜台。那时候中关村几乎所有的商家做生意都是一个模式，老板对员工的培训基本都是一台笔记本两万五，你怎么用三万五卖出去。由此中关村还有十大“招术”教你如何欺骗顾客，我觉得这注定是不对的，终究有一天这种混乱的情况会改变。

所以在我开柜台第一天，我是在中关村唯一明码标价、所有产品都开发票的商家。在我这个柜台上，我不接受讨价还价，我所有的产品都是正品行货，我所有的商品都可以开具发票。

在那个年代，我的做法与整个市场是格格不入的，因为整个中关村做生意基本都是要想尽一切办法，如何把一块钱的东西两块钱卖出去，三块钱卖成六块钱，甚至通过一种变相欺骗的方式。这就是问题。谁能把这个问题解决，谁就可以取得成功，非常简单。

就这么一做做了六年，从一个小柜台，到2016年的时候，我在中国已经拥有了12个店面，在北京有3个店，而且每个店的营业额都非常好。

在2016年非典的时候，我们迫不得已把所有的门店都关掉，所有的人员都在办公室，每天很着急，因为我们各种租金、开销一天都不少，货又不敢进行销售，店面不敢开门。所以我们有同事就提出来，说为什么我们不去做网上销售呢?如果我们网上销售，可能就不用去面对面见客户所以，我们去搜狐、新浪、163(网易)各种各样的网站发帖，结果发现发了帖就被管理员删了，偶尔没有被删的，也没有人订货，也没人相信，因为我们就在BBS里说我有什么刻录机，什么东西多少钱，底下是汇款帐号，如果你想买的话先把钱汇到这儿来。那时候tooyoungtoonaive.

后来，我们就在专业的测评论坛里发帖。后来论坛总版主看到了我们发的帖，不仅回复了还把我们的帖子置顶，总版主说京东多媒体，我知道，这是中关村唯一的一个不卖假光盘的厂家。置顶!结果我们一天就接到了10个订单。

正因为我们过去六年的坚持，赢得了别人的信任，从而在最关键的时刻，得到了一个我们从来都不记得他姓名的人一次很简单的帮助，从而使京东成功转型，由线下彻底转到线上，做了电商。

我为什么创业做京东?

在2016年、2016年融资的时候，好多人说你们是没法成功的，为什么?他说几乎我所想要买的所有东西，都可以在当当、卓越或者淘宝上购买，还都能找到比你京东更便宜的，所以很多人说你没必要做，注定你没有前途。

但是我们不这么认为，为什么?因为我觉得在那个时候，包括今天网上的销售有很多问题。我想解决这个问题。

你可以想象一下，你去一个平台买手机，一搜搜出来几百几千个，有价格特别便宜的，你点进去，卖家很快就说“亲”，你问“为什么你比别人便宜300块钱?”“亲，我们小店薄利多销”。你找了半天，终于被说服了，然后下了订单，他就告诉你“亲，这不包邮哦，亲，我告诉你订单号”，然后货收到了，突然发现包装上面没有中文，按照中国的法律，所有在中国销售的产品必须有中文标识，你去问他，“你不是告诉我这是行货吗，怎么收到的没有中文标识啊?你这是水货啊。”那边说了，“亲，阿拉是港行”，香港行货。你就想虽然不是正品行货，也能使吧，你就很开心地使用了两三个月，忽然出了问题，你找到卖家，卖家说“亲，是可以保修的，但是我要把你手机要寄到香港去，一来一去邮费就要400块，维修是免费的，可是运费你要出”。

你一想400块钱寄到香港修，可能还要等两个月，你去北京找一个维修店去维修吧，人家打电话来告诉你，“先生，你被骗了，你这手机是翻新的二手货”。你去找卖家吧，“啊，你不是香港行货吗，今天我去维修说你这是翻新货”。卖家说“亲，你拿证据啊，你给我开证据出来，叫手机商家开证据”。开不了，你给我退款，你不退款给你差评，你真给了差评，结果第二天你的手机被呼死了，一天打了五百个电话进来，大家知道中国有一个叫“呼死你”软件，只要你手机开机了就给你打，还有一些卖家给你寄各种各样很恶心的东西、危险的东西。购物原本应该是一件非常简单的事情。

为什么我们做京东商城?刚开始的时候，京东可以说是一无所有，我们没有钱、没有技术，没有货源，我们甚至都不知道什么叫VC。但我们发现网络购物有很多问题，我想如果京东能够把这些问题解决了，我们就一定可以取得成功，这就是我们的思维。所以为什么京东在2016年刚开始做时，第一个坚持就是所有的商品都是正品行货，你不要发票也给你发票。我们实行低价策略，这个低价不是以翻新、水货、走私、逃税为基础，而是通过规模的优化降低运营成本，将节省的成本让利给消费者所获得的低价。我们的服务也不断地创新，在2016年我们在中国就推出了“当日达”，今天我接受一个外国媒体采访，他问我说前几年我在哥大上课的时候，是否去亚马逊购物过?我说购物过，他问感觉怎么样，我说很好，但是我实在忍受不了它的物流速度。他说你要是prime会员两天就可以收到货，那多快啊。我说京东在中国，几乎每个用户都是prime会员，但你不用花99美金，只要一次购买满79块钱的商品就可以免运费了，而且我们在中国，在北京、上海这些大的城市，都是当日达。

正因为坚持，我们解决了网络购物领域长期存在的大量问题，这就是京东公司得以生存和快速发展的基础。

我为什么要第二次创业做“京东到家”

我们今天又在创立一种全新的商业模式叫“京东到家”，主做生鲜，有人说这有什么问题需要解决呢?我们做了11年的电商，结果我们发现服装、鞋帽，甚至汽车、房子，所有的东西都可以到网上销售，而且卖的越来越好，可是就是有一类，是老百姓高频购买的东西，几乎每个人每天都要买的东西，恰恰在网上没有人能够做好，不管是平台模式还是京东这种自主经营的模式，都没有做好，那就是生鲜。

生鲜有一个什么问题?那就是在消费者和种植者当中至少有四个环节。

举一个非常简单的例子，大家都知道中国的山东是生产大蒜的，一头大蒜送到北京的家庭里面去，当中要经历至少四家公司。首先收购者去田间地头收大蒜，他收购完之后卖到山东非常有名的一个县级的蔬菜批发市场，全山东百分之七八十的蔬菜都是在那个批发市场批发的，产地批发市场再卖给销售地批发市场，卖给北京的比如大钟寺、新发地批发市场。这些人拿到之后，到了北京，他不会卖给终端用户的，还分给各个小的批发市场，这些人拿到之后再放到沃尔玛家乐福销售。那些种植的人发现一年辛辛苦苦种大蒜挣不了几个钱，因为收购价格一压再压。而买大蒜的人觉得价格怎么这么贵啊，从产地收购价只有五毛钱，到了北京卖出去就变成了两块五毛钱、三块钱、四块钱、五块钱。就因为中间环节太多了。

第二个问题，过去十年，大家发现几乎每一年都听到某类农产品滞销的消息。前天在新疆什么地方西红柿滞销，大量种植西红柿的人把西红柿摘下来之后卖不出去，任它烂在地里面。今天是土豆滞销，明天西瓜滞销，为什么?因为他在种植的时候永远不知道中国到底有多少人种了大蒜，有多少人种了西红柿，没人提供这个信息，而消费者发现今年白菜狂涨，后年大蒜价格又是涨了几倍，价格不断地剧烈波动，所以需求方、供给方信息没有打通，这是第二个问题。

第三个问题，还是有很多食品安全问题。

那么京东到家怎么解决这些问题呢?

我们成立了全资子公司，第一，我们就要把中间环节全部去掉，我们提出了“从产地直接送达消费者”的理念(FarmtoTable)。大家可以想想看，全北京市每一天为北京市民提供辣椒的、西红柿、黄瓜的，包括批发者、运输者、超市，所有与之相关的人员好几千人，在北京大概有数千个地方都在卖着同样的辣椒、同样的西红柿。我们能够通过缩短中间环节，帮他们更高效地送到用户手上。

第二个说信息技术大数据。今年我们提出了进入农村的战略，核心就是解决农村种子化肥农药问题。我们现在正在进行数据的搜集，年底前在中国数万个村庄建立我们自己的村民代理。我们现在正在每个村搜集信息，我们要知道每个村的种植面积，主要的农作物是什么，副产品是什么，我们搜集每个村每年的降雨量，甚至当地的河流湖泊的分布，我们还可以通过销售数字知道每个区域种子化肥农药的使用量和消耗量。想一想，如果有一天，某个地区大家在卖黄瓜或者西红柿种子的时候，我们告诉你不要种植西红柿了，明年的西红柿产量已经饱和了，因为我们发现太多地方买西红柿种子了，今年西红柿种子的销量远远超出市场的需求，有一天我们可以给种植者提供这些信息。

第三个问题，食品安全问题怎么解决?我们通过每个区域长时间数据的搜集，我们能够知道这个区域使用的化肥主要是什么品牌，是有机的还是无机的，我们知道这个区域的农药是低浓度农药还是有毒农药，通过数据做分析。通过几年的数据分析，我们甚至能够知道中国每个种植产区的土壤情况怎么样，蔬菜是不是安全基于它的地下水有没有被污染，土壤有没有被污染。通过长时间的数据搜集，我们可以知道这些数字，这也可以帮助解决食品安全的问题。

所以我们从3月16日推出了“京东到家”的测试，没有大规模地宣传，只是口碑相传，现在每天销售给五六千个北京家庭，而且还在高速增长中。

对创业者来说，现在是一个伟大的时代

我想，如果大家创业的话，希望每个人要问自己一个非常关键的问题，我这个项目解决了什么问题。如果你什么问题都不能解决的话，那么我可以说你的项目注定会失败，所以创业是为了要解决问题。有的人说，不，我觉得我创业是为了获取财富，创业成功获取合理合法的财富，无可厚非，但是我从来都没有看到哪一个创业者是为了获取更多的财富而创业成功的。现在，在中国大家知道创业非常的火，火到什么程度?投资人也有些愚蠢，现在只要有一个主意，你可以拿到3000万美金的投资，真的很容易，很多人很高兴，但是不要忘了，你拿到多少融资不是你的财富，你拿到多少融资，你将来就要10倍、20倍的把这个还回去，风险投资的成本是全世界最高的。如果大家能够从银行贷款的话一定要从银行贷款，千万不要拿风投的钱。当然话又说回来了，作为创业者，你一无所有的时候，银行是不贷款的，所以没的选择的时候还是要找投资人。所以千万不要把投资人投资的钱视为你的财富，视为你的成功，投钱给你，你压力更大，你要10倍、100倍的还回去的。

有人说我创业是为了自由，我不想朝九晚六打卡，受到别人的指使，做老板以后我就自由支配我的时间，想什么时候上班就什么时候上班，如果你真是为了自由的话，可以说创业是最不自由的，因为作为创业者，你在公司必须是最自律的那个人，所有人都可以违反这个公司的制度规定，所有人都可以迟到早退，唯独你不行，永远不行。你如果下午一点钟上班的话，兄弟们肯定是下午三四点才上班，一定是这样的。你如果说我创业是为了出名，能参加各种论坛，如果你要抱着这样的想法的话，我可以告诉你，最后99%的结果是你真的出名了，而且会载入哈佛的案例，说某某人拿了风投20亿美金5年烧光，项目失败，然后大家来分析他是怎么失败的。

可以说今天我们真的处在一个非常好的时候，往前看30年，往后看30年，真的没有人比我们今天更为幸运，机会更大，为什么?因为大家发现最近我们几乎所有的东西都在加速发展，今天，一年的变化赶得上过去10年的变化，今天，一年的技术进步比过去10年的技术进步都要快。我们最早1998年上互联网的时候，144的猫拨号上网，都觉得很快了，几千字的邮件很快收到了，觉得简直难以置信，但是相信很快每个家庭都需要1G带宽。

所以人类的需求在几乎毫无节制地、进一步贪婪地、快速地增加，这就给我们创业者提供了巨大的机会，消费者有需求，只要你解决问题，满足消费者需求，你就能获得成功。在这个满足需求的过程中产生了很多新的问题，比如环境问题、污染问题、医疗问题、教育问题，这就给很多创业者提供了新的机会。所以我想说，身处我们这个时代，如果大家不去做点事情的话，真的是会让你一生感到后悔，后人终究将记录我们这一代人，这是一个伟大的时代，是值得我们每个人记录、奋斗的时代。

你们每个人都值得回中国去!

最后我想再讲一下中国。我想今天在场的大部分是中国人，很多中国的留学生。几个月之前法国总理问我，他说你作为企业家怎么看中国经济，中国经济连续增长了十年，年年都说中国经济今年要出这个问题，明年要出那个问题，后年要出问题，都在频繁地讨论。而我认为中国经济不会出问题，为什么?

因为，在今天晚上10点钟你去北京朝阳CBD的时候，你发现所有的商铺都是灯火通明，有无数人在加班加点，中国人在继续努力，只要我们在追求，我相信中国经济不可能出问题;只要中国无数的年轻人在拼命地努力、在创业、在创新，中国的经济就不会出问题;只要还有无数的中国人去美国留学、去欧洲留学、去日本留学，去学习全世界的知识、经验，中国的经济就不会出问题。

过去的30年，可以说我们不断向国外的公司学习，包括京东在内，我们确实也在向美国的公司、日本的公司学习，我们整整学习了30年。到今天我可以毫不客气地告诉大家，中国的企业，特别是互联网领域的民营企业，在没有任何垄断、完全市场化的情况下，几乎都是民企在主打，在这个行业里，中国的企业并不比世界上任何一家公司差，因为我们学得很快。每个中国的互联网企业都知道用户体验的创新，每个中国的创业者，每个中国的企业家都知道人才的重要性，大家都知道必须要留住人，给聪明人提供一个发展的空间，企业才能够成功。我们学会了如何尊重员工、激励员工，和员工一块成长;我们学会了如何利用各种规则，建立了现代企业制度，并且按照全球的贸易规则进行贸易，按照现在最高的企业治理理念在治理自己的企业。

我每次到美国，非常多的华人留学生都会告诉我，说我要在美国工作几年，有了经验之后我再回国，我想告诉大家，没有这个必要，这是10年前的老观念了，那是上一代人的观念。你看高瓴资本，听这名字，起得土不拉叽的，但是我可以告诉大家，从2000万美金到180亿美金，10年的时间，它的成长速度不比全球任何一家优秀的基金公司成长速度慢，甚至更快。我还可以告诉大家，中国的红杉过去5-10年的资本回报率也是高于美国的很多投资公司。现在已经到了这样一个时代，你们每个人都值得回国，加入中国的基金，去高瓴基金，而不是美国的什么基金。

最后三秒钟广告，欢迎大家回国，欢迎大家加入京东的国际管培生计划。

2016白岩松耶鲁大学演讲稿
杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子 第八篇

白岩松耶鲁大学演讲稿为大家整理白岩松在美国耶鲁大学的演讲稿，演讲题为《我的故事以及背后的中国梦》，讲述他的故事以及中国梦的故事。下面是小编整理的白岩松耶鲁大学演讲稿

白岩松耶鲁大学演讲稿

过去的20年，中国一直在跟美国的三任总统打交道。但是，今天到了耶鲁大学我才知道，其实它只跟一所学校打交道。透过这三位总统我也明白了，耶鲁大学毕业生的水准也并不是很平均。

接下来，就进入我们今天的主题，如果要起个题目的话，应该叫《我的故事以及背后的中国梦》。

那一年，我们更应该记住的是马丁·路德·金先生遇刺。虽然，那一年他倒下了，但是“我有一个梦想”的这句话却真正地站了起来，不仅在美国站了起来，也在全世界站了起来。

我要讲五个年份，第一要讲的年份是1968年。

那一年我出生了。但是，那一年世界非常乱，在法国有巨大的街头的骚乱„„在美国也有，然后美国总统候选人罗伯特·肯尼迪遇刺了(他的哥哥约翰·肯尼迪总统在1963年遇刺)。但是，的确这一切的原因都与我无关(哄堂大笑)。那一年，我们更应该记住的是马丁·路德·金先生遇刺。虽然，那一年他倒下了，但是“我有一个梦想”的这句话却真正地站了起来，不仅在美国站了起来，也在全世界站了起来。但是，当时很遗憾，不仅仅是我，几乎很多的中国人并不知道这个梦想。因为当时中国人，每一个人很难说拥有自己的梦想，将自己的梦想变成了一个国家的梦想，甚至是领袖的一个梦想。中国与美国的距离非常遥远，不亚于月亮与地球之间的距离。但是我并不关心这一切，我只关心我是否可以吃饱。

很显然，我的出生非常不是时候，不仅对于当时的中国来说，对于世界来说，似乎都有些问题(众笑)。

1978年，10年之后，我10岁了。

我依然生活在我出生的地方，那个只有20万人的非常非常小的城市。它离北京的距离有2000公里，它要想了解北京出的报纸的话，要在三天之后才能看见。所以，对于我们来说，是不存在新闻这个说法的(众笑)。

那一年，我的爷爷去世了。而在两年前的时候，我的父亲去世了。所以，只剩下我母亲一个人抚养我们哥儿俩，她一个月的工资不到10美元。因此，即使10岁了，梦想这个词对我来说，依然是一个非常陌生的词汇，我从来不会去想它。我母亲一直到现在也没有建立新的婚姻，是她一个人把我们哥俩抚养大。我看不到这个家庭的希望，只是会感觉，那个时候的每一个冬天都很寒冷。

就在我看不到希望的1978年的时候，不管是中国这个国家，还有中国与美国这两个国家之间，都发生了非常巨大的变化。那是一个我们在座的所有人都该记住的年份：1978年的12月16日，中国与美国正式建交，那是一个大事件。而在中美建交两天之后，12月18日，中国共产党十一届三中全会召开了，那是中国改革开放31年的开始。

历史将两个伟大的国家、一个非常可怜的家庭就如此戏剧性地交织在一起，不管是小的家庭，还是大的国家，其实当时谁都没有把握知道未来是什么样的。接下来的年份，该讲1988年了，那一年我20岁。

这个时候我已经从边疆的小城市来到了北京，成为一个大学生。虽然，今天在中国依然还有很多的人在抨击中国的高考制度，认为它有很多很多的缺陷。但是，必须承认正是高考的存在，让我们这样一个又一个非常普通的孩子，拥有了改变命运的机会。

当然，这个时候美国已经不再是一个很遥远的国家，它变得很具体，它也不再是那个过去口号当中的“美帝国主义”(众笑并鼓掌)，而是变成了生活中很多的细节。

这个时候，我已经第一次尝试过可口可乐，而且喝完可口可乐之后会觉得中美两个国家真的是如此接近(众笑)。因为，它几乎就跟中国的中药是一样的(众笑)。

那个时候，我已经开始非常狂热地去喜欢上摇滚乐。那个时候，正是迈克尔·杰克逊长得比较漂亮的时候(哄堂大笑)。

更重要的是，这个时候的中国，已经开始发生了非常大的变化。因为，改革已经进行了10年。

那一年，中国开始尝试放开很多商品的价格。这在你们看来是非常不可思议的事情。但是，在中国当时是一个很大的迈进，因为过去的价格都是由政府来决定的。

就在那一年，因为放开了价格，引起了全国疯狂地抢购，大家都觉得这个时候会有多久呢?于是，要把一辈子用的食品和用品，都买回到家里头。这一年也就标志着中国离市场经济越来越近了。当然，那个时候没有人知道市场经济也会有次贷危机(众笑)。

当然，我知道那一年1988年对于耶鲁大学来说是格外的重要，因为你们耶鲁的校友又有一个成为了美国的总统。

我说：“看样子美国需要对中国有更多的了解，有的时候要从语言开始”。“对于中美这两个国家来说，面对面永远要好过背对背”。接下来又是一个新的年份：1998年，那一年我30岁。

我已经成为中央电视台的一个新闻节目主持人。更重要的是，我已经成为一个1岁孩子的父亲。我开始明白我所做的许多事情不仅要考虑我自己，还要考虑孩子及他们的未来。

那一年，在中美之间发生了一个非常重要的事件，主角就是克林顿。也许在美国你记住的是性丑闻。但是，在中国记住的是，他那一年访问了中国。在6月份他访问中国的时候，在人民大会堂和江泽民主席进行了一个开放的记者招待会，然后又在北京大学进行了一个开放的演讲，这两场活动的直播主持人都是我。当克林顿总统在上海即将离开中国的时候，记者问道：“这次访问中国，您印象最深的是什么?”

他说：“我最想不到的是这两场讲座居然都直播了(笑)。不过，直播让中国受到了表扬，而美国却受到了批评(众笑)。”当然只是一个很小的批评。在北大的演讲当中，由于整个克林顿总统的演讲，用的全是美方所提供的翻译。因此，他翻译的那个水准远远达不到今天我们翻译的水准(听众大笑并鼓掌表示对现场翻译的感谢)。我猜想有很多的中国观众，是知道克林顿一直在说话，但是说的是什么，不太清楚(众笑)。

所以，我在直播结束的时候，说了这样的一番话：“看样子美国需要对中国有更多的了解，有的时候要从语言开始”，美国包括美联社在内的很多媒体都报道了我的这句话。但是，我说的另外一句话不知道他们有没有报道?我说：“对于中美这两个国家来说，面对面永远要好过背对背。”

当然也是在这一年年初，我开上了人生的第一辆车。这是我在过去从来不会想到的，中国人有一天也可以开自己的车。个人的喜悦，也会让你印象很久，因为往往第一次才是最难忘的。

这一年，也是中国梦非常明显的一年。它就像全世界所有的伟大梦想，注定都要遭受很多的挫折才能显现出来一样。无论是期待了很久的北京奥运会，还是神舟七号中国人第一次在太空行走，那都是很多年前，我们期待了很久的梦想。接下来，我要讲述的是：2016这一年，这一年我40岁。

很多年大家不再谈论的“我有一个梦想”这句话了，但是在这一年我听到太多的美国人在讲。看样子奥巴马的确不想再接受耶鲁占领美国20年这样的事实了(耶鲁大学一直盛产总统，而出身哈佛大学的奥巴马终结了这一事实)。他用“改变”以及“梦想”这样的词汇，让耶鲁大学的师生在他当选总统之后举行游行，甚至庆祝。在这个细节中，让我看到了耶鲁师生的超越。这一年，也是中国梦非常明显的一年。它就像全世界所有的伟大梦想，注定都要遭受很多的挫折才能显现出来一样。无论是期待了很久的北京奥运会，还是神舟七号中国人第一次在太空行走，那都是很多年前，我们期待了很久的梦想。

但是，突如其来的四川汶川特大地震，让这一切都变得没有我们期待中的那么美好。这个时候中国人对于生命的看待，我相信跟美国人和世界上一切善待生命的民族都是一样的。8万个生命的离开，让整个2016年中国人度日如年。我猜得到在耶鲁校园里头，在每一个网页、电视以及报纸的前面，也有很多的来自中国的人，以及世界各地的人们，为这些生命流下眼泪。但是，就像40年前，马丁·路德·金先生倒下，却让“我有一个梦想”这句话站得更高，站得更久，站得更加让人觉得极其有价值一样，更多的中国人也明白了，梦想很重要，但是生命更重要。

在北京奥运会期间，我度过了自己的40岁的生日。

那一天，我感慨万千。虽然，周围的人不会知道(众笑)。因为时间进入到我的生日那一天的时候，我在直播精彩的比赛。24小时之后，当这个时间要走出我生日这一天的时候，我也依然在直播。但是，这一天我觉得非常的幸运。因为，正是这样一个特殊的、在北京奥运会期间的40岁，让我意识到了我的故事背后的中国梦。正是在这样的40年的时间里头，我从一个根本不可能有梦想的，一个遥远边疆的小城市里的孩子，变成了一个可以在全人类欢聚的一个大的节日里头，分享以及传播这种快乐的新闻人，这是一个在中国发生的故事。

而在这一年，中国和美国相距并不遥远，你中有我，我中有你，彼此需要。布什总统据说度过了他作为总统以来在国外、一个国家待得最长的一段时间，就是在北京奥运会期间。菲尔普斯在那儿拿到了8块金牌，而他的家人都陪伴在他的身边，所有的中国人都为这样一个特殊的家庭祝福。当然，任何一个这样的梦想都会转眼过去。在这样的一个年份里头，中美两国历史上几乎是第一次同时发出了“我有一个新的梦想”的时候，如此的巧合，如此的应该。美国面临了一次非常非常艰难的金融危机，当然不仅仅是美国的事情，也对全世界有重大的影响。昨天我到达纽约，刚下了飞机，我去的第一站就是华尔街，我看到了华盛顿总统的雕像，他的视线是那么永久不变地在盯着证券交易所上那面巨大的美国国旗(众笑)。而非常奇妙的是，在这个雕像后面的展览馆里正在举行“林肯总统在纽约”这样的一个展览。因此，林肯总统的大幅的画像也挂在那上面，他也在看那面国旗(众笑)。我读出了非常悲壮的一种历史感。

在离开那个地方的时候，我对我的同事说了这样一句话：“很多很多年前如果美国发生了这样状况的时候，也许中国人会感到很开心。”因为，大家会说：“你看，美国又糟糕了!”(众大笑)但是，今天中国人会格外地希望美国尽早地好起来，因为我们有几千亿的钱在美国(鼓掌，众大笑)，我们还有大量的产品等待着装上货船，送到美国来，如果美国的经济进一步好起来的话，在这些货品的背后，就是一个又一个中国人增长的工资，是他重新拥有的就业岗位，以及家庭的幸福。因此，你明白，这不是一个口号的宣传。

在过去的30年里头，你们是否注意到了，与一个又一个普通的中国人紧密相关的中国梦。我不知道世界上还有哪个国家，在过去这30年的时间里头，让个人的命运发生了这么大的变化。

一个边远小城市的孩子，一个绝望中的孩子，今天有机会在耶鲁跟各位同学交流，当然也包括很多老师和教授。中国经历了这30年，有无数个这样的家庭。他们的爷爷奶奶依然守侯在土地上，仅有微薄的收入，千辛万苦。他们的父亲母亲，已经离开了农村，通过考大学，在城市里已经有了很好的工作，而这个家庭的孙子孙女也许此刻就在美国留学，三代人，就像经历了三个时代。但是在中国，你随时可以看到这样的家庭。如果我没有说错的话，现场的很多个中国留学生，他们的家庭也许就是这样。对么?(鼓掌)

那么，在我们去观察中国的时候，也许你经常关注的是“主义”、“社会主义”或其他庞大的政治词汇，或许该换一个视角去看13亿个非常普通的中国人。他们并没有宏大的梦想、改变命运的那种冲动，依然善良的性格和勤奋的那种品质。今天的中国是由刚才的这些词汇构成。

在过去的很多年里头，中国人看美国，似乎在用望远镜看。美国所有的美好的东西，都被这个望远镜给放大了。经常有人说美国怎么怎么样，美国怎么怎么样，你看我们这儿什么时候能这样(众笑)。

在过去的好多年里头，美国人似乎也在用望远镜在看中国。但是，我猜测可能拿反了(哄堂大笑，热烈鼓掌)。因为，他们看到的是一个缩小了的、错误不断的、有众多问题的一个中国。他们忽视了13亿非常普通的中国人，改变命运的这种冲动和欲望，使这个国家发生了如此巨大的变化(鼓掌)。

但是，我也一直有一个梦想：为什么要用望远镜来看彼此?我相信现场在座的很多个来自中国的留学生，他们会用自己的眼睛看到了最真实的美国，用自己的耳朵去了解最真实的来自美国人内心的想法。无论再用什么样的文字也很难再改变他们对美国的看法。因为，这来自他们内心的感受。当然我也希望非常多的美国人，有机会去看看中国，而不是在媒体当中去看中国。你知道，我并不太信任我所有的同行(众笑，鼓掌)。

开一个玩笑。其实美国的同行是我非常尊敬的同行。我只是希望越来越多的美国的朋友去看一个真实的中国。因为，我起码敢确定一件事情，即使在美国你吃到的被公认为最好的中国菜，在中国却很难卖出好价钱(众笑)。就像很多很多年之前，在中国所有的城市里流行着一种叫加州牛肉面，加利福尼亚牛肉面。相当多的中国人都认为，美国来的东西一定非常非常好吃。所以，他们都去吃了。即使没那么好吃的话，由于觉得这是美国的也就不批评了(大笑)。这个连锁的快餐店在中国存在了很多年，直到有越来越多的中国人来到美国，在加州四处寻找加州牛肉面(众笑)。但是，一家都没有找到的时候，越来越多的中国人知道，加州是没有这种牛肉面的(笑)。

于是，这个连锁店在中国，现在处于消失的过程当中。你看，这就是一种差异。但是，当人来人往之后，这样的一种误会就会越来越少。所以，最后我只想再说一句。

40年前，当马丁·路德·金先生倒下的时候，他的那句话“我有一个梦想”传遍了全世界。但是，一定要知道，不仅仅有一个英文版的“我有一个梦想”。在遥远的东方，在一个几千年延续下来的中国，也有一个梦想。它不是宏大的口号，并不仅仅在政府那里存在，它是属于每一个非常普通的中国人，而它用中文写成：“我有一个梦想!”好，谢谢各位!

宣传金融知识的标语
杰克罗琳哈佛大学演讲中文稿子 第九篇

宣传金融知识的标语

1、注意信息保护，维护用卡安全。

2、正确树立理财观念，理性选择投资渠道。

3、珍惜一切血汗，远离非法集资。

4、珍惜个人信用记录，合理使用个人贷款。

5、珍爱信用记录，享受幸福人生。

6、账务变动需留意，刷卡金额要核对。

7、远离非法集资，人人责无旁贷。

8、远离非法集资，拒绝高利诱-惑。

9、用卡安全需牢记，金融欺诈须警惕。

10、依据个人风险偏好，合理选择代销产品。

11、宣传普及靠大家，金融知识进万家。

12、信用卡不是摇钱树，刷卡消费要适度。

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15、天上不会掉馅饼，一夜暴富是陷阱。

16、提高风险防范意识，警惕贷款、非法融资和非法集资广告陷阱，谨防上当受骗。

17、提高风险防范能力，自觉抵制非法集资。

18、树立正确理财观念，警惕非法集资陷阱。

19、设备存取多观察，小心偷-窥和尾随。

20、人信用要珍惜，避免套现和逾期。

21、清清楚楚贷款，明明白白消费。

22、前观后看捂密码，插口验机留存条。

23、密码操作勿泄露，不明网站勿登陆。

24、理睬你产品有风险，认真阅读慎重选。

25、理财非储蓄，了解要仔细。

26、理财非储蓄，风险兼收益;别人做介绍，自己拿主意。

27、理财产品有风险，认真阅读慎重选。

28、理财产品细甄选，合理配置降风险。

29、看清风险提示，谨慎投资决策。

30、谨防电信诈骗，切勿轻易转账。

31、广学银行知识，依法维护权益。

32、个人信用要珍惜，避免套现和逾期。

33、服务有起点，满意无终点。

34、风险牢记于心，投资量力而行。

35、非法集资不受法律保护，参与非法集资风险自负。

36、多一份银行知识学习，多一份个人财富保障。

37、抵制高息集资诱-惑，理性选择投资渠道。

38、打击非法集资，维护群众利益。

39、打击非法集资，维护金融稳定，共创和-谐社会。

40、打击非法集资，共创社会和-谐。

41、产品介绍要看清，谨防误导和误听。

42、操作多一分留心，资金多一份安心。

43、参与非法集资，自己承担损失。

44、财务变动需留意，刷卡金额要核对。

45、不明信息匆轻信，网上支付要谨慎。

46、安全用卡不转借，支付密码勿外泄。

47、安全用卡，理性消费，精明理财，没好生活。

48、安全使用网银，谨慎网络诈骗。