jk羅琳哈佛大學(xué)演講

1、jk羅琳哈佛大學(xué)演講 篇一：jk 羅琳哈佛大學(xué)演講稿 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.，哈佛公司和監(jiān)察委員會的各位成員， 各位老師、家長、全體畢業(yè)生們： The first thing I would like to say is thank you. Not only has Harvard given me an extrao

2、rdinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea Ive 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 worlds largest Gryffindors reunion.

3、 首先請?jiān)试S我說一聲謝謝。哈佛不僅給了我無上的榮譽(yù)，連日來為這個(gè)演講經(jīng)受的恐懼和緊張，更令我減肥成功。這真是一個(gè)雙贏的局面?，F(xiàn)在我要做的就是深呼吸幾下，瞇著眼睛看看前面的大紅橫幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的格蘭芬多（滬江我：以防有人沒看過哈利波特格蘭芬多是小哈利所在的魔法學(xué)院的名字）聚會上。 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

4、 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 cant remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently i

5、nfluence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard. 發(fā)表畢業(yè)演說是一個(gè)巨大的責(zé)任，至少在我回憶自己當(dāng)年的畢業(yè)典禮前是這么認(rèn)為的。那天做演講的是英國著名的哲學(xué)家 Baroness Mary Warnock，對她演講的回憶，對我寫今天的演講稿，產(chǎn)生了極大的幫助，因?yàn)槲也挥浀盟f過的任何一句話了。這個(gè)發(fā)現(xiàn)讓我釋然，讓我不再擔(dān)心我可能會無意中影響你放棄在商業(yè)，法律或政治上的大好前途，轉(zhuǎn)而醉心于成為一個(gè)快樂的魔法師（g

6、ay有快樂和同性戀的意思）。 You see If all you remember in years to come is the gay wizard joke, Ive still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals - the first step to self-improvement. 你們看，如果在若干年后你們還記得快樂的魔法師這個(gè)笑話，那就證明我已經(jīng)超越了Baroness Mary Warnock。建立可實(shí)現(xiàn)的目標(biāo)這是提高自我的第一步。 Actually, I have wracked my min

7、d 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. 實(shí)際上，我為今天應(yīng)該和大家談些什么絞盡了腦汁。我問自己什么是我希望早在畢業(yè)典禮上就該了解的，而從那時(shí)起到現(xiàn)在的 21年間，我又得到了什么重要的啟示。 I have

8、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 imaginatio

9、n. 我想到了兩個(gè)答案。在這美好的一天，當(dāng)我們一起慶祝你們?nèi)〉脤W(xué)業(yè)成就的時(shí)刻，我希望告訴你們失敗有什么樣的益處；在你們即將邁向現(xiàn)實(shí)生活的道路之際，我還要褒揚(yáng)想象力的重要性。 These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with me. 這些似乎是不切實(shí)際或自相矛盾的選擇，但請先容我講完。 Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old tha

10、t 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. 回顧21歲剛剛畢業(yè)時(shí)的自己，對于今天42歲的我來說，是一個(gè)稍微不太舒服的經(jīng)歷。可以說，我人生的前一部分，一直掙扎在自己的雄心和身邊的人對我的期望之間。 I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to wr

11、ite 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，就是寫小說。不過，我的父母，他們都來自貧窮的背景，沒有任何一人上過

12、大學(xué)，堅(jiān)持認(rèn)為我過度的想象力是一個(gè)令人驚訝的個(gè)人怪癖，根本不足以讓我支付按揭，或者取得足夠的養(yǎng)老金。 I know the irony strikes like with the force of a cartoon anvil now, but 我現(xiàn)在明白反諷就像用卡通鐵砧去打擊你，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,

13、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. 他們希望我去拿個(gè)職業(yè)學(xué)位，而我想去攻讀英國文學(xué)。最后，達(dá)成了一個(gè)雙方都不甚滿意的妥協(xié)：我改學(xué)現(xiàn)代語言?？墒堑鹊礁改敢蛔唛_，我立刻放棄了德語而報(bào)名學(xué)習(xí)古典文學(xué)。 I cannot remember telling my parents that I

14、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. 我不記得將這事告訴了父母，他們可能是在我畢業(yè)典禮那一天才發(fā)

15、現(xiàn)的。我想，在全世界的所有專業(yè)中，他們也許認(rèn)為，不會有比研究希臘神話更沒用的專業(yè)了，根本無法換來一間獨(dú)立寬敞的衛(wèi)生間。 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,

16、 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

17、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：我不會因?yàn)楦改傅挠^點(diǎn)，而責(zé)怪他們。埋怨父母給你指錯(cuò)方向是有一個(gè)時(shí)間段的。當(dāng)你成長到可以控制自我方向的時(shí)候，你就要自己承擔(dān)責(zé)任了。尤其是，我不會因?yàn)楦改赶Ｍ也?/p>

18、要過窮日子，而責(zé)怪他們。他們一直很貧窮，我后來也一度很窮，所以我很理解他們。貧窮并不是一種高貴的經(jīng)歷，它帶來恐懼、壓力、有時(shí)還有絕望，它意味著許許多多的羞辱和艱辛。靠自己的努力擺脫貧窮，確實(shí)可以引以自豪，但貧窮本身只有對傻瓜而言才是浪漫的。 What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. 我在你們這個(gè)年齡，最害怕的不是貧窮，而是失敗。 At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had s

19、pent 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. 我在您們這么大時(shí)，明顯缺乏在大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)的動力，我花了太久時(shí)間在咖啡吧寫故事，而在課堂的時(shí)間卻很少。我有一個(gè)通過的訣竅，并且數(shù)年間一直讓我在大學(xué)生活和同齡人中不落人后。 I

20、 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 uuff

21、led privilege and contentment. 我不想愚蠢地假設(shè)，因?yàn)槟銈兡贻p、有天份，并且受過良好的，就從來沒有遇到困難或心碎的時(shí)刻。擁有才華和智慧，從來不會使人對命運(yùn)的反復(fù)無常有所準(zhǔn)備；我也不會假設(shè)大家坐在這里冷靜地滿足于自身的優(yōu)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 a

22、s a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average persons idea of success, so high have you already flown academically. 相反，你們是哈佛畢業(yè)生的這個(gè)事實(shí)，意味著你們并不很了解失敗。你們也許極其渴望成功，所以非常害怕失敗。說實(shí)話，你們眼中的失敗，很可能就是普通人眼中的成功，畢竟你們在學(xué)業(yè)上已經(jīng)達(dá)到很高的高度了。 Ultimately, we all have to decide for

23、 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, an

24、d 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. 最終，我們所有人都必須自己決定什么算作失敗，但如果你愿意，世界是相當(dāng)渴

25、望給你一套標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的。所以我想很公平的講，從任何傳統(tǒng)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)看，在我畢業(yè)僅僅七年后的日子里，我的失敗達(dá)到了史詩般空前的規(guī)模：短命的婚姻閃電般地破裂，我又失業(yè)成了一個(gè)艱難的單身母親。除了流浪漢，我是當(dāng)代英國最窮的人之一，真的一無所有。當(dāng)年父母和我自己對未來的擔(dān)憂，現(xiàn)在都變成了現(xiàn)實(shí)。按照慣常的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)來看，我也是我所知道的最失敗的人。 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 wa

26、s 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. 現(xiàn)在，我不打算站在這里告訴你們，失敗是有趣的。那段日子是我生命中的黑暗歲月，我不知道它是否代表童話故事里需要?dú)v經(jīng)的磨難，更不知道自己還要在黑暗中走多久。很長一段時(shí)間里，前面留給

27、我的只是希望，而不是現(xiàn)實(shí)。 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 su

28、cceeded 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 篇二：JK羅琳哈佛大學(xué)演講 2021年J.K.羅琳在哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)

29、典禮上的演講：失敗的好處和想象 Video of J K Rowlings Commencement Address, 力的重要性 “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on Importance of Imagination Harvard University Commencement Address

30、June 5th 2021. In this powerful, moving, yet also funny speech Jo talks about her time working for J.K. Rowling Amnesty International, her personal experiences Tercentenary Theatre, June 5, 2021 失敗的好處和想象力的重要性 with failure and the power of the imagination to 哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮 allow us to empathize with others

31、. J.K. 羅琳 2021年6月5日 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.，哈佛公司和監(jiān)察委員會的各位成員， 各位老師、家長、全體畢業(yè)生們： The first thing I would like to say is thank you. Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary

32、 honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea Ive 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 worlds largest Gryffindors reunion. 首先請?jiān)试S我

33、說一聲謝謝。哈佛不僅給了我無上的榮譽(yù)，連日來為這個(gè)演講經(jīng)受的恐懼和緊張，更令我減肥成功。這真是一個(gè)雙贏的局面。現(xiàn)在我要做的就是深呼吸幾下，瞇著眼睛看看前面的大紅橫幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的魔法學(xué)院聚會上。 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 philoso

34、pher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I cant 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

35、in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard. 發(fā)表畢業(yè)演說是一個(gè)巨大的責(zé)任，至少在我回憶自己當(dāng)年的畢業(yè)典禮前是這么認(rèn)為的。那天做演講的是英國著名的哲學(xué)家Baroness Mary Warnock，對她演講的回憶，對我寫今天的演講稿，產(chǎn)生了極大的幫助，因?yàn)槲也挥浀盟f過的任何一句話了。這個(gè)發(fā)現(xiàn)讓我釋然，讓我不再擔(dān)心我可能會無意中影響你放棄在商業(yè)，法律或政治上的大好前途，轉(zhuǎn)而醉心于成為一個(gè)快樂的魔法師。 You see If all you remember in years to com

36、e is the gay wizard joke, Ive still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals - the first step to self-improvement. 你們看，如果在若干年后你們還記得“快樂的魔法師”這個(gè)笑話，那就證明我已經(jīng)超越了Baroness Mary Warnock。建立可實(shí)現(xiàn)的目標(biāo)這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

37、 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. 實(shí)際上，我為今天應(yīng)該和大家談些什么絞盡了腦汁。我問自己什么是我希望早在畢業(yè)典禮上就該了解的，而從那時(shí)起到現(xiàn)在的21年間，我又得到了什么重要的啟示。 I have come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we a

38、re 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. 我想到了兩個(gè)。在這美好的一天，當(dāng)我們一起慶祝你們?nèi)〉脤W(xué)業(yè)成就的時(shí)刻，我希望告訴你們失敗有什么樣的益處；在你們

39、即將邁向“現(xiàn)實(shí)生活”的道路之際，我還要褒揚(yáng)想象力的重要性。 These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with me. 這些似乎是不切實(shí)際或自相矛盾的選擇，但請先容我講完。 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

40、 uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me. 回顧21歲剛剛畢業(yè)時(shí)的自己，對于今天42歲的我來說，是一個(gè)稍微不太舒服的經(jīng)歷?？梢哉f，我人生的前一部分，一直掙扎在自己的雄心和身邊的人對我的期望之間。 I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from i

41、mpoverished 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，就是寫小說。不過，我的父母，他們都來自貧窮的背景，沒有任何一人上過大學(xué)，堅(jiān)持認(rèn)為我過度的想象力是一個(gè)令人驚訝的個(gè)人怪癖，根本不足以讓我支付按揭，或者取得足夠的養(yǎng)老金。 I know

42、 the irony strikes like with the force of a cartoon anvil now, but 我現(xiàn)在明白反諷就像用卡通鐵砧去打擊你，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 pa

43、rents car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor. 他們希望我去拿個(gè)職業(yè)學(xué)位，而我想去攻讀英國文學(xué)。最后，達(dá)成了一個(gè)雙方都不甚滿意的妥協(xié)：我改學(xué)現(xiàn)代語言。可是等到父母一走開，我立刻放棄了德語而報(bào)名學(xué)習(xí)古典文學(xué)。 I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for

44、 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. 我不記得將這事告訴了父母，他們可能是在我畢業(yè)典禮那一天才發(fā)現(xiàn)的。我想，在全世界的所有專業(yè)中，他們也許認(rèn)為，不會有比研究希臘神話更沒用的專業(yè)了，根本無法換來一間獨(dú)立寬敞的衛(wèi)生

45、間。 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 cri

46、ticise 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 ha

47、rdships. 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：我不會因?yàn)楦改傅挠^點(diǎn)，而責(zé)怪他們。埋怨父母給你指錯(cuò)方向是有一個(gè)時(shí)間段的。當(dāng)你成長到可以控制自我方向的時(shí)候，你就要自己承擔(dān)責(zé)任了。尤其是，我不會因?yàn)楦改赶Ｍ也灰^窮日子，而責(zé)怪他們。他們一直很貧窮，我后來也一度很窮，所以我很理解他們。貧窮并不是一種高貴的經(jīng)歷，它帶來恐懼、

48、壓力、有時(shí)還有絕望，它意味著許許多多的羞辱和艱辛?？孔约旱呐[ 脫貧窮，確實(shí)可以引以自豪，但貧窮本身只有對傻瓜而言才是浪漫的。 What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. 我在你們這個(gè)年齡，最害怕的不是貧窮，而是失敗。 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

49、 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. 我在您們這么大時(shí)，明顯缺乏在大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)的動力，我花了太久時(shí)間在咖啡吧寫故事，而在課堂的時(shí)間卻很少。我有一個(gè)通過考試的訣竅，并且數(shù)年間一直讓我在大學(xué)生活和同齡人中不落人后。 I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are yo

50、ung, 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 uuffled privilege and contentment. 我不想愚蠢地假設(shè)，因?yàn)槟銈兡贻p、有天份，并且

51、受過良好的教育，就從來沒有遇到困難或心碎的時(shí)刻。擁有才華和智慧，從來不會使人對命運(yùn)的反復(fù)無常有所準(zhǔn)備；我也不會假設(shè)大家坐在這里冷靜地滿足于自身的優(yōu)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

52、failure might not be too far from the average persons idea of success, so high have you already flown academically. 相反，你們是哈佛畢業(yè)生的這個(gè)事實(shí)，意味著你們并不很了解失敗。你們也許極其渴望成功，所以非常害怕失敗。說實(shí)話，你們眼中的失敗，很可能就是普通人眼中的成功，畢竟你們在學(xué)業(yè)上已經(jīng)達(dá)到很高的高度了。 Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world

53、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 i

54、s 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. 最終，我們所有人都必須自己決定什么算作失敗，但如果你愿意，世界是相當(dāng)渴望給你一套標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的。所以我承認(rèn)命運(yùn)的公平，從任何傳統(tǒng)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)看，在我畢業(yè)僅僅七年后的日子里，我的失敗達(dá)到了

55、史般空前的規(guī)模：短命的婚姻閃電般地破裂，我又失業(yè)成了一個(gè)艱難的單身母親。除了流浪漢，我是當(dāng)代英國最窮的人之一，真的一無所有。當(dāng) 年父母和我自己對未來的擔(dān)憂，現(xiàn)在都變成了現(xiàn)實(shí)。按照慣常的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)來看，我也是我所知道的最失敗的人。 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

56、 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. 現(xiàn)在，我不打算站在這里告訴你們，失敗是有趣的。那段日子是我生命中的黑暗歲月，我不知道它是否代表童話故事里需要?dú)v經(jīng)的磨難，更不知道自己還要在黑暗中走多久。很長一段時(shí)間里，前面留給我的只是希望，而不是現(xiàn)實(shí)。 So why do I talk about the benefits

57、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

58、 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 m