奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿中文翻译.doc

奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲：人生唯一目标就是做真实的自己 oh my goodness! im at haaaaaarvard! thats how oprah winfrey began her speech at harvard university graduation ceremony—in her spirited, signature way. winfrey also received an honorary doctor of law degree from the university before taking to the podium.
温弗瑞演讲中4条最励志的语录
谈失败的好处
there is no such thing as failure. failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
世间并不存在“失败”，那不过是生活想让我们换个方向走走罢了。
learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your
mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are. 要从错误中吸取教训，因为你的每一次经历、尤其是你犯下的错误，都将帮助你、推动你更好地做自己。
2. on her own biggest personal failure.
谈自身最大的失败
我突然想到某首古老赞美诗中的一句话：“困难只是暂时的”，我遇到的麻烦同样会有结束的一天。然后我想，我会将这一页翻过去，我会好起来的。
谈职业生涯所做访谈的共同性
beyonce in all her beyonce-ness ... they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you?
我发现，我所有的访谈有一个共同性，那就是人人都希望自己被认可、被理解。
they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you?
我的采访对象都想知道：“我的表现ok吗？你听到我看到我吗？我说的话对你有价值吗？”
4. on the key to success and happiness.
谈成功和快乐的关键
you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal. there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.
如果你只认准一个目标，那你就能获得真正的成功和快乐。人生确实只有一个目标，那就是：最大程度地、最真实地展现自己。
“不要问自己世界需要什么，问问是什么让你精神抖擞地活着，然后就去做，因为世界所需要的就是一个个朝气蓬勃的人。”篇二：奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲
奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲：人生唯一目标就是做真实的自己
oprah winfrey: oh my goodness! im at harvard! wow! to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl 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.
oprah winfrey: all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.
oprah winfrey: and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013! hello!
oprah winfrey: and we understand that most americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because its possible to both enforce our篇三：奥普拉2013年哈佛大学毕业演讲(英文版)
oh my goodness! im at harvard! wow! to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl 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 special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.
and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013! hello!
decided as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground. so i ended the show and launched own, the oprah winfrey network. the initials just worked out for me. so one year later after launching own nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop. not just a flop but a big bold flop they call it. i can still remember the day i opened up usa today and read the headline oprah, not quite standing on her own. i mean really, usa today? now thats the nice newspaper! it really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life. i was stressed and i was frustrated and quite frankly i was actually i was embarrassed.
and it was all because i wanted to do it by the time i got to speak to you all so thank you so much. you dont know what motivation you were for me, thank you. im even
where is he or she? bring them in. its an impressive calling card that can lead to even
and so what i did was i simply asked our viewers do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life. give me your time or your talent your money if you have it. and they did. extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can. and together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes rita and katrina.
so the angel network i have been on the air for a long time, but it was the angel network that actually focused my internal g.p.s. it helped me to decide that i wasnt going to just be on tv every day but that the goal of my shows,
added this, you simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesnt agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over. and we cannot do that any longer. the problem is too enormous. there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light. in our political system and in the media we often see the
reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested. and yet, i know you know the truth. we all know that we are better than the cynicism and the
pessimism that is regurgitated throughout washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle. not my channel, by the way. we understand that the vast majority of people in this
and we understand. i know you do because you went to harvard. there are people from both parties and no party believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education
because here in the richest nation on earth we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity. so the question is what are we going to do about it? really what are you going to do about it? maybe you agree with these beliefs. maybe you dont. maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, class of 2013, are passionate about. maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government. maybe you want to launch your own television show. or maybe you simply want to collect some change. your parents would appreciate that about now. the point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change. each of you has been blessed with this enormous
opportunity of attending this prestigious school. you now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the life of our country. when you do that let me tell you what i know for sure. thats when your story gets really good. maya angelou always says when you learn, teach. when you get, give. that my friends is what gives your story purpose and meaning. so you all have the power in your own way to develop your own angel network and in doing so your class will be armed with more tools of influence and empowerment than any other generation in history. i did it in an analog world. i was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20,000,000 viewers a day. now here in a world of twitter and facebook and youtube and tumbler, you can reach billions in just seconds. youre the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in 2008. and when the pundits said they said they talked about you, they said youd be too
disappointed, youd be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers. thats who you are.
this generation your generation i know has developed a finely honed radar for b.s. can you say b.s. at harvard? the spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that
saturates so much of our national debate. i know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic- an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all
that youll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesnt cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody elses shoes and recognize all that we share as a people. this is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation. there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light, says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary friday in december. so whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is i know this, there is a light inside each of you all of us that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it. and as a young girl from rural mississippi i learned long ago that being myself was much easier than
pretending to be barbara walters. although when i first started because i had barbara in my head i would try to sit like barbara, talk like barbara, move like barbara and then one night i was on the news reading the news and i called canada can-a-da, and that was the end of me being barbara. i cracked myself up on tv. couldnt stop laughing and my real personality came through and i figured out oh gee, i can be a much better oprah than i could be a pretend barbara.
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“2008年6月5日是哈佛大学的毕业典礼，请来的演讲嘉宾是《哈利波特》的作者j.k.罗琳女士。她的演讲题目是《失败的好处和想象的重要性》（the fringe benefits of failure, and the importance of imaginatio
n）。我读了一遍讲稿，觉得很好，很感染人。
她几乎没有谈到哈里波特，而是说了年轻时的一些经历。虽然j·k·
罗琳现在很有钱，是英国仅次于女皇的最富有的女人，但是她曾经有一段非常艰辛的日子，30岁了，还差点流落街头。她主要谈的是，自己从
这段经历中学到的东西。”
以下是英文文稿和中文翻译：
text as delivered follows.
copyright of jk rowling, june 2008
president faust, members of the harvard corporation and
the board of overseers, members of the faculty, proud parent
s, and, above all, graduates.
the first thing i would like to say is ?thank you.? not only
he world?s largest gryffindor reunion.
k. achievable goals: the first step to self 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 i had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons i have learned in the 21 years that have expired between tha
t day and this.
agination.
these may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but plea
se bear with me.
hose 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, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. i know that the irony strikes with t
he force of a cartoon anvil, now.
d off down the classics corridor. (转载于:奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿中文翻译)
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 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 exec
utive bathroom.
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 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 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 roma
nticised only by fools.
what i feared most for myself at your age was not povert
y, 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 time at lectures, i had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the me
asure 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 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.
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 failure might not be too far from the average person?s idea of success, so high
have you already flown.
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 the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. i had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light
at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.
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 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 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 t
he 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 all – 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 tha
t i had a strong will, and more discipline than i had suspected; i also found out that i had friends whose value was truly
above the price of 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 adversity. such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification
i ever earned.
th humans whose experiences we have never shared. one of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded harry potter, though it informed much 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 at the african research department at amn
esty international?s headquarters in london.
there in my little office i read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who we