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2018年美國大學名人畢業演講,又暖又燃的雞湯!

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2018年美國大學名人畢業演講,又暖又燃的雞湯

2018年美國大學名人畢業演講,又暖又燃的雞湯!

在美國,畢業季除了花式的畢業照之外,最大的亮點估計就是各路名人大咖的畢業演講 (commencement speech) 了, commencement有“新開始”之意,這也是畢業演講的意義所在。

那麼,今年又有哪些名人大咖登臺演講,他們又如何給畢業生們上好這“最後一課”呢?

蒂姆·庫克 (Tim Cook)

蘋果公司CEO

作爲各大高校畢業演講的常客,庫克今年在其母校杜克大學的演講中談及了不少嚴峻的熱點問題,比如氣候變化以及經濟不平等,但他仍相信當下是最好的時代,並希望畢業生們能夠“無所畏懼”(fearless)。

金句1:

Steve‘s vision was that great ideas come from a restless refusal to accept things as they are. Those principles still guide us at Apple today. … In every way at every turn, the question we ask ourselves is not what can we do, but what should we do.

史蒂夫認爲,偉大的想法就在於不接受事物的現狀。這樣的信念如今依然指導着蘋果公司……在每一個轉折點上,我們應該問自己的問題不是我們能做什麼,而是我們應做什麼。

金句2:

But don’t let those worries stop you from making a difference. Fearlessness means taking the first step, even if you don‘t know where it will take you. It means being driven by a higher purpose rather than by applause.

不要讓這些憂慮阻礙你做出改變。無所畏懼意味着踏出步,就算你不知道它將帶你前往何方。它意味着你是被更崇高的目標所驅動而不是掌聲。

金句3:

Duke graduates, be fearless! Be the last people to accept things as they are. And the first people to stand up and change them for the better.

杜克大學的畢業生們,無所畏懼吧!做最不願意接受現狀的人,做批站出來爲更好的生活做出改變的人。

希拉里·克林頓 (Hillary Clinton)

美國前夫人、前國務卿

在今年的畢業季中,希拉里也回到了自己的母校耶魯大學發表畢業演講。在演講中,她鼓勵畢業生們時刻做好輸掉一場戰鬥的準備,並在面臨困難時要有恢復力(是的,她依然在這場演講中反思了自己大選時輸給死對頭·特朗普的種種……)

金句1:

Everyone gets knocked down, what matters is whether you get up and keep going. This may be hard for a group of Yale soon-to-be graduates to accept, but yes, you will make mistakes in life, you will even fail, it happens to all of us no matter how qualified and capable we are. Take it from me.

每個人都會有被擊敗的時刻,但重要的是你是否站起來繼續前行。一些耶魯準畢業生或許很難接受這點,但是,你會在人生中犯錯,甚至還會失敗,這發生在我們所有人身上, 不論我們多麼優秀,多麼能幹。看看我的例子就知道了。

金句2:

This is a battle hardened to hope, tempered by loss and clear-eyed about the stakes. We are standing up to policies that hurt people. We’re standing up for all people being treated with dignity. The fact that some days it is so hard to keep at it, just makes it that much more remarkable that so many of us are in fact keeping at it.

這是一場戰役,對希望無動於衷,對失敗從容應對,對風險洞悉明瞭。我們反對傷害人們的政策。我們支持所有人都受到尊重。事實是,有時真的很難堅持下去,這就讓我們許多仍在堅持的人變得更加了不起。

奧普拉 (Oprah Winfrey)

美國著名脫口秀主持人

在南加州大學安納伯格新聞與傳播學院的畢業典禮上,奧普拉鼓勵美國未來的媒體從業人員,希望學生們能夠“化身爲真相”(be the truth)、“展現真實”(exemplify honesty)。她提及了虛假新聞對整個社會的負面影響,但新一代的媒體人能夠做出改變。

金句1:

Everything around us, including and in particular the Internet and social media, is now being used to erode trust in our institutions, enter fear in our elections and wreak havoc on our infrastructure. It enables misinformation to run rampant, attention spans to run short and false stories from phony sites to run circles around major news outlets.

我們周遭的一切,特別是互聯網以及社交媒體,正在削弱我們對於公共機構的信任,干涉我們的選舉,並肆意破壞我們的公共建設。它使虛假的信息氾濫成災,人們缺乏注意力,來自野雞網站的虛假信息充斥着主流媒體。

金句2:

You will become the new editorial gate-keepers, an ambitious army of truth-seekers who will arm yourselves with the intelligence, with the insights and the facts necessary to strike down deceit, you can answer false narratives with real information and you can set the record straight.

你們將成爲新一代新聞“把關人”,你們將是一支雄心勃勃的隊伍,運用智慧、洞察力以及必要的事實來尋求真相、擊潰謊言。你們可以用真實的信息反擊虛假的敘事,能澄清是非。

賈斯廷·特魯多 (Justin Trudeau)

加拿大總理

在紐約大學的畢業典禮上,加拿大總理特魯多給畢業生們提出了一個挑戰:去擁抱不同的文化,遇見各種各樣的新人。特魯多指出,多元化並非弱點,而是優勢所在。而人們要做的不僅僅只是“包容”,而是要試着接受、尊重甚至去愛他人。

金句1:

Here‘s the challenge I’m offering you today, our celebration of difference needs to extend to differences of values and beliefs, too. Diversity includes political and cultural diversity. It includes diversity of perspectives and approaches to solving problems......as you go forward from this place, I would like you to make a point of reaching out to people whose beliefs and values differ from your own. Listen, truly listen, and try to understand them, and find that common ground.

以下是今天我向你們提出的挑戰,我們對“差異”的頌揚需要延伸到不同的價值觀和信仰。多元化包含了政治及文化多元化,包含了觀點和問題解決方法的多樣性……你們從這裏走出去之後,我希望你們努力結交信仰和價值觀與你不同的人。我希望你們聽聽他們的想法,真心實意地去聽,試着理解他們,找到你們的共同點。

金句2:

There is no shortage of cynicism and selfishness in the world. Be their answer, their antidote. I am abundantly optimistic about the future because of you. It is yours to make and mold and shape.

憤世嫉俗,自私自利者,世界上不乏其人。去幫他們找到答案,矯正他們的想法。因爲有你們,我對未來十分樂觀。未來靠你們來塑造。

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