比尔盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的
演讲
今天小编想和大家一起阅读的是比尔盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲,是中英文版哦,有兴趣的小伙伴们过来阅读吧。 President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates: Ive been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you Id come back and get my degree.”
尊敬的博克校长,前校长鲁登斯坦,即将上任的佛斯特校长,哈佛集团和监察理事会的各位成员。各位老师,各位家长,各位同学:有句话我憋了30年,今天终于能一吐为快了:““爸 我没骗你吧,文凭到手了!”
I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. Ill be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my rsum.
我由衷地感谢哈佛这个时候给我这个荣誉。明年我要换工作(退休)。 我终于能在简历里注明自己有大学学历了。 I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, Im just happy that the Crimson has called me “Harvards most successful dropout.” I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who failed.
我要恭喜今年的毕业生们,因为你们毕业比我顺利多了。其实我倒是很乐意克莱姆森把我唤作“哈佛大学最成功的辍学生”。这大概是我脱颖而出的法宝……我是辍学生中的领头羊。 But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school. Im a bad influence. Thats why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.
我还要检讨一下史蒂夫-鲍尔默也是受我蛊惑从商学院退学。我劣迹斑斑。这就是为什么我会受邀参加毕业演讲。如果是开学典礼,恐怕今天的人会少很多。
Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadnt even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in
Currier House. There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didnt worry about getting up in the morning. Thats how I came to be the leader of the antisocial group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.
哈佛是我生命里的一段非凡经历。校园生活格外充实,我旁听过很多没有选过的课程。住宿的日子也很爽我当时住在拉德克利夫的柯里尔宿舍,总是很多人在我的寝室讨论到深夜。 大家知道我属于夜行动物。就这样,我成为了这堆人的头目。我们粘在一起,摆出拒绝社交的姿态。
Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. This is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesnt guarantee success.
拉德克利夫是个好地方。那里的女生比男生多,男生们大多都是科学怪人。所以我的机会来了,你懂的。可同时我也明白了一个道理——机会大也不能保证成功。
One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, When I made a call from Currier House to a company in