Oprah(奥普拉)哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲实录(中英文)

1、百度文库-让每个人平等地捉升口我 Oprah （奥普拉）哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲 实录（中英文） 演讲稿一般都是励志的，推动我们向前的，如果你迷茫 或悲观，过来看看小编整理的Oprah （奥普拉）哈佛大学毕业 典礼演讲实录（中英文）吧，希望对你有所帮助。 美国脱口秀天后，国际知名慈善家奥普拉温弗瑞 （Oprah Winfrey）, 5月30日应邀至哈佛大学获颁荣誉法学 博士学位，并在毕业典礼发表演说。她敦促毕业生乐于接受 挫折，视之为成长的契机，并在生活与事业中追求为他人服 务的机会。她告诉毕业生：“人生没有失败这档事，所谓失 败只是让人生转个弯。有时难免会陷入挣扎卡在困境中，不 过你想创造的人生

2、故事会带着你走岀去。” 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 va

3、lue was truly above rubies. Oh my goodness! I m at Harvard! Wow! To President Faust, my fellow honorans, Carl Muller that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson, Harvard faculty, with a special bow to my friend Dr. Henry Lewis Gates. All of you alumni, with a spe

4、cial bow to the Class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars And to you, members of the Harvard class of XX! Hello! 我的天啊!我在哈佛！真的！尊敬的Faust校长、和我 一起获得荣誉学位的各位，Carl（注：Carl Muller哈佛校友 会主席），真是太棒了，谢谢你们！还有James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson和哈佛的教职工们,特别感谢我的朋友 Henry Lewis Gates博士 （注：美国知名黑人教授）！感谢所有 的哈佛校友，特别要

5、感谢88届的毕业生，你们为哈佛捐岀 一亿一千五百万美元（注：哈佛历史上最多的一次同一班次 校友捐款）。所有XX届的各位毕业生们！大家好！ 最后让我们再次感谢老师这几年来对我们孜孜不倦的 教导，学校领导对我们的厚望。我们一定不负重望，努力的 学习，长的大吼报效祖国。做一个对社会有用的人。 I thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of yout next chapter. To say that I m honored

6、doesn， t even begin to quantify the depth of gratitude t hat really accompanies an honorary doctorate from Harvard. Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge. And I can tell you that I consider to day as I sat on the st age this morning getting teary

7、 for you all and then teary for myself, I consider today a defining miles tone in a very long and a blessed journey. My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration. I m going to address my remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, thi

8、s is a speech for the Quad. 感谢你们让我成为你们人生这一篇章的结束与下一篇 章开始的纽带。对我而言，荣幸根本无法表达我内心深处对 哈佛授予我荣誉学位的感激之情。不是每个来自密西西比州 的农村小姑娘都能来到剑桥城的（注：哈佛位于波士顿郊剑 桥城）。我可以告诉你们，当我今天早上坐在这个台上，为 你们和我自己流下眼泪的时候，我觉得今天是我漫长并被祝 福的人生旅途中的一个里程碑。我希望今天我能为你们带来 一些启发。我的演讲是为那些曾在人生中感到自卑或觉得自 己没有优势，甚至觉得生活一团糟的人，这就是我给哈佛带 来的演讲。 Actually I was so honored

9、I wanted to do some thing really special for you. I wanted to be able to have you look under your seats and there would be free master and doctor degrees but I see you got that covered already. I will be honest with you. I felt a lot of pressure over the past few weeks to come up with something that

10、 I could share with you that you hadn t heard before because after all you all went to Harvard, I did not. But then I realized that you don，t have to necessarily go to Harvard to have a driven obsessive Type A personality. But it helps. And while I may not have graduated from here I admit that my pe

11、rsonality is about as Harvard as they come. You know my television career began unexpectedly. As you heard this morning I was in the Miss Fire Prevention contest. That was when I was 16 years old in Nashville, Tennessee, and you had the requirement of having to have red hair in order to win up until

12、 the year that I entered. So they were doing the question and answer period because I knew I wasn t going to win under the swimsuit competition. So during the question and answer period the question came “Why, young lady, what would you like to be when you grow up? ” And by the time they got to me a

13、ll the good answers were 7 百度文库-让每个人平等地捉升口我 gone. So I had seen Barbara Walters on the “Today ShowM that morning so I answered, “I would like to be a journalist. I would like to tell other people s stories in a way that makes a difference in their lives and the world. ” And as those words were comin

14、g out of my mouth I went whoa! This is pretty good! I would like to be a journalist I want to make a difference. Well I was on television by the time I was 19 years old. And in 1986 I launched my own television show with a relentless determination to succeed at first. I was nervous about the competi

15、tion and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew. Sound familiar to anybody here? Eventually we did make it to the top and we stayed there for 25 years. Actually, being Vice Preside nt to Barack Obama has been truly a great hono

16、r. We both enjoy getting out of the White House to talk to folks in the real America the kind who know what it means to struggle, to work hard, to shop at Kiko Milano. (Laughter and applause.) Great choice. (Laughter.) 在我读初中的时候，有一次，一只毒蜘蛛咬伤了我的右 手。我问我妈妈该怎么处理-一我妈妈并没有带我去看医生, 她而是决定用火疗的方法治疗我的伤口。 其实我真的很荣幸，

17、因此我想为你们做些特别的事。我 想要跟你们说，请看你们座位下面有免费硕士或博士学位证 书，但是我发现你们已经有了。说实话，在过去的几个星期 我感到很大的压力，因为我想要跟你们分享一些你们从没听 到过的东西，毕竟你们都上了哈佛，而我没有。但后来我意 识到其实并不是一定要上哈佛才能有一个驱动性强迫型的A 型人格，当然上了哈佛还是有帮助的。虽然我没有从哈佛毕 业，但我认为我的性格和哈佛的毕业生是一样。大家都知道, 我的电视事业生涯开始的出乎意料。正如你们早上听到的， 我当时在参加“防火小姐”比赛。那年我16岁（注：奥普拉 出生于1954年，今年59岁），在田纳西州的纳什维尔。在 我参加比赛那年之前，

18、想赢的话你必须得是红头发女孩。在 进行问答环节时，因为我知道我在泳装比赛中不会赢，所以 当问答环节问道：“年轻的女士，你长大后想做什么？为什 么？”等轮到我回答的时候，好答案都被之前的参赛者说完 To因为那天早上我正好在“今日秀”中看到了芭芭拉怀 特女士，所以我说：“我想成为一名新闻工作者，我想成为 为人民带来一些在某种程度上能改变人民生活和改变世界 的故事。”当我说出这些话时，我觉得：“哇!还挺不错的!我 想做个记者，我要做岀一番事业。”后来，19岁时我上了电 视。在1986年，我推岀了我自己的电视节目，一开始就下 定决心要成功。我以前对比赛很紧张，后来我和自己竞争, 每年设立一个更高的目标，一步一