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1、毕业典礼上演讲英文每年的毕业季，都会有毕业典礼等着毕业生下面是我整理的毕业典礼上演讲英文，欢迎阅读，更多资讯请接着关注毕业典礼栏目。林毅夫在诺丁汉高校毕业典礼上演讲I am the luckiest person in the world Commencement Address at the University of NottinghamJuly 17， 2023Justin Yifu LinVice chancellor， ladies and gentlemen:I am grateful for the honor bestowed on me today. At this new

2、landmark of my life， I have a small secret to share with all of you.I would like to tell you that I am the luckiest person in the world.I am the luckiest person in the world because at the age of 57 I still have the same dream as the dream that I had 35 years ago at an age similar to many of you her

3、e today.I am the luckiest person in the world because I have a wife who is as supportive to my pursuance of my dream as the first day that I met her 38 years ago.I am the luckiest person in the world also because I have had many surprises in my life that I have never dreamed of.I did not make any ap

4、plication to study abroad. However， I was given a scholarship to do PhD in economics by the University of Chicago.I did not have any intention to work outside China. However， I was offered the position of Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank.I did not study at the University o

5、f Nottingham. However， I am offered an honorary doctoral degree by the University of Nottingham today.At the commencement day， I understand all of you like me 35 years ago also have your own dreams.My fellow graduates of class 2023， I have a new dream today:Let us pursue our dreams together.Let us g

6、o ahead! Work hard! Do our best! Never give up!I am sure like me you will have many wonders that you have never dreamed of in the future.I am sure every one you will also be the luckiest person in the world!罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿中英文resident Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,

7、members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, 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，众多骄傲的家长，以及最为重要的各位毕业生们：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 experienced at the th

8、ought 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 fool myself into believing I am at the world's best-educated Harry Potter convention.我想要说的第一句话是“感谢你们”。这份感谢不仅来自于哈佛给予我如此非同寻常的荣誉，更是由于几个星期

9、以来每当我想到今日的致词就会觉得头晕恶心，因而最终胜利的减肥了。这就是“双赢”啊!现在，我只须要深呼吸几次，瞄几眼红色的横幅，然后装腔作势的让自己信任，我正身处世界上受过最好教化的哈里波特迷的盛大集会之中。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 philosop

10、her 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 care

11、ers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.毕业典礼上致词意味着极大的责任我这样想着，直到我起先回想我自己的毕业典礼。那天致词的是闻名的英国哲学家 Baroness Mary Warnock。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觉让我无所畏惧的写下自己的致词，因为我再也不必担忧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欢乐巫师的虚幻向往，就放弃自己在商业、法律界或政界的远大前程。You see? If

12、 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 towards personal improvement.Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish

13、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.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 bene

14、fits 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.These might seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.事实上，为了确定今日应当对你们说些什么，我真是绞尽了脑汁。我问自己，在我自己的毕业典礼上，我曾期盼知道什么?而自那天起先到现在的21年间，我又学

15、到了那些教训?我想到了两个答案。在今日这个奇妙的时刻，当我们齐聚一堂庆祝你们取得学业胜利的时候，我确定跟你们谈谈失败带来的好处。另外，在你们刚要一脚踏入所谓“真实的生活”的时候，我还要高声赞颂想象力的重大意义。这些确定看起来颇为荒诞而冲突，但是啊，请听我渐渐道来。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 st

16、riking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me.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, too

17、k the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.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 stud

18、y 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.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 al

19、l 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.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非常舒适的事情。在前半生中我始终奋力挣扎，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、从未受过高校教化的父母却认为，我那过于活跃

20、的想象力只不过是个人的怪癖而已，恒久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;而我却憧憬在英国文学方面深造。最终我们互有妥协并达成一样，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足。于是，没等父母的车绕过路终点的拐角从视野里消逝，我就丢下了德语，转而沿着古典文学的道路快步走下去。我记不得是否有告知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最终觉察了事实真相。在地球上全部的学科当中，当涉及到“获得运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。I would like to make it clea

21、r, 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 th

22、at 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 povert

23、y by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.顺便提一句，我必需声明自己并没有为父母的观点而指责他们的意思。你不能总是指责父母指错了方向;当你长大成人、可以独立掌舵的时候，这份责任就应当由你独立担当了。况且，父母希望我恒久都不要经受贫困，而我不能指责这一期望。他们自己饱受贫寒之苦，而我也曾经是个穷人，我非常赞同他们的想法贫困决不是什么名贵的经验。伴随贫困而来的是恐惊和惊慌，有时还会陷入悲伤懊丧

24、之中;这些都意味着无尽的卑微和艰难。凭借自己的力气摆脱贫逆境地，这的确是值得骄傲的事情，但是只有愚蠢的人才会一厢情愿的为贫困本身涂抹浪漫的色调What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.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 tim

25、e 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.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

26、 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.当我像你们这么大的时候，我最胆怯的甚至还不是贫困，而是失败。当我像你们这么大的时候，我对高校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

27、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、受过良好教化的孩子就从来不知道困难和心碎的味道。天赋和智力并不能让人免受命运的戏弄;我也从不认为在这里的全部人都享有不行破坏的特权与满意。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

28、, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person's idea of success, so high have you already flown academicallyUltimately, 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 i

29、t 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

30、 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.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 th

31、e 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.然而，毕业于哈佛高校这一事实示意着你们并不非常熟识失败。驱动你们前行的对于失败的恐惊可能更为接近对于胜利的渴望。事实上，你们心目中的失败很可能与一般人设想的胜利相差无几，终归你们在学业上的胜利已经高到遥不行及。最终，我们

32、都要按自己的想法给失败下一个定义;但是假如你允许的话，这个世界会迫不及待的为你设定一套标准。因此我觉得，不管根据什么惯行标准，仅仅在毕业七年之后，我都确的确实的失败了，而且败得彻彻底底。我那罕见的短暂婚姻走到了终点，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。我父母胆怯发生在我身上的事情，我胆怯发生在自己身上的事情，都驾临了。无论根据什么标准来看，我都是我所知道的最大的失败。现在，我站在这里，告知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覆盖，根本想不到在将来的时间里这段经验竟会被报道为神话般的坚决意志。那时候我不知道黑暗的隧道何时才

33、是终点，而终点的任何光亮都像是渺茫的希望而非稳固的现实。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.

34、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 typewrite

35、r and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.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 a

36、ll in which case, you fail by default.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 t

37、hat I had friends whose value was truly above rubies.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 adver

38、sity. 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.什么我还要谈起失败的好处呢?简洁的说，是因为失败会为我们揭去表面那些无关紧要的东西。我不再装腔作势，最终重新做回自己，起先将全部的精力投入到自己在意的唯一作品。假如我此前在其它的任何什么方面有所胜利，我唯恐都会失去在自己真正归属的舞台上获得胜利的决心。我最大的恐惊最终成为现实，而我却因此获得了自由，我还活着，还有我深

39、爱的女儿，我还有一架老式打字机和一个宏大的幻想。这片固执的低谷成为我脚下坚决的基石，在此之上，我重筑了自己的人生。你们或许不会像我摔得这样惨，但是人生路上总会有些失败。你或许可以毫无失败的度过一生，但你将活得如此当心翼翼，就似乎你几乎没有活过不管从什么意义上讲，你都注定要失败的。失败给予我内心的平安感，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行能获得的认知。我意识到自己拥有坚毅的意志，而且比我以前设想的还要自律;我还发觉我拥有的挚友们是如此珍贵，其价值连宝石也不能媲美。你在挫折中成长，更聪慧，更强壮，这意味着从今以后你已拥有了牢不行催的生存实力。

40、直到通过逆境的考验，你才会真正了解自己，以及你四周的人给予你的力气。这些认知都是珍贵的财宝，我历经艰辛才获得的财宝，这比我得到的任何资格证书都更有价值。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, th

41、ough 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.You might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, be

42、cause 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 therefo

43、re 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.One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed mu

44、ch 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 in the research department at Amnesty International's headquarters in Londo

45、n.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

46、 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.假如能够让时间倒流，我会告知21岁的自己，华蜜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;尽管你将遇到许多我这样年纪、甚至比我更老的人，他们却还分不清晰两者间的区分。生

47、活是严酷的，也是困难的，更不处于任何人的掌控;谦逊的懂得并接受这一点，会帮助安稳你度过生活中的风浪。或许你们会以为，我之所以选择其次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。但这并不是全部的缘由。我当然到死也会捍卫睡前故事的价值，但我还相识到要在更为广袤的范围内珍视想象力。想象力是人类独有的预见未知的实力，它还是全部独创创建的源泉。它具有已被证明的最富变革性和启示性的力气，而正是想象力让我们能够切身体会他人的阅历虽然我们自己并未身临其境。对我影响最为深远的经验发生在哈里波特之前，而这一经验为我后来完成著作供应了许多信息。我在最早的全日制工作中获得了启示。在二十几岁的时候，

48、我在位于伦敦的国际的特赦组织总部的探讨部门工作，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。男人和女人们急迫的写下潦草的文字，将信偷偷寄出来，冒着坐牢的风险告知外界自己遭遇了怎样的对待。我看到那些无声无息地失踪了的人的照片，是由他们的无望的亲人和挚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，记载着对于绑架和奸污案件的简洁审讯和执行。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 they had been forced to leave behind.I sh