娜塔莉波特曼哈佛大学演讲 第3期

 　　I went to a public high school on Long Island. Syosset high school. Ooh, Hello Syosset. 我念的是长岛的公立高中。西奥赛特中学。哇哦，你们好，西奥赛特的校友们。

　　The girls I went to school with had Prada bag and flat-ironed hair and they spoke¹ with an accent, I who had moved here at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked² to fit in. Florida oranges. Chocolate, Cherries. 和我一起上学的女孩们有普拉达手袋，拉直了头发，她们说话带有的口音，是我9岁从康涅狄格搬到这里后为了融入一直致力模仿的。佛罗里达橘子，巧克力樱桃。

　　Since I'm ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. 因为我太老了，在我高中的时候互联网才刚刚开始兴起。

　　People didn't really pay that much attention to the fact that I was an actress. 大家并不怎么在意我是一个演员。

　　I was known mainly in school for having a backpack bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands, because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my notebooks. 我在学校为人所知的主要原因是有一个比自己还大的背包，手上总是有涂改液，因为我讨厌在我的笔记本上看到叉。

　　I was voted for my senior yearbook most likely to be a contestant⁴ on Jeopardy⁵ or code for nerdiest. 我在毕业年鉴中被评选为最可能成为智力竞赛选手的人，通俗来说就是最呆的书呆子。

　　When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars Episode one. 我在哈佛上学那年星球大战一刚上映。

　　I knew I would be starting over in terms of how people viewed me. 我知道我需要重建别人对我的看法了。

　　I feared people would assume I gotten in just for being famous, and that they will think that I was not worthy⁶ of the intellectual rigor⁷ here. 我担心人们会认为我只是靠知名度被录取的，他们会认为我配不上这里严苛的智力水平。

　　And it would not have been far from the truth. 其实事实上八九不离十。

　　When I came here I never written a 10-page paper before. 我来到这里前从未写过一份10页纸长的论文。

　　I'm not even sure I'd written a 5-page paper. 我甚至不确定我能写出5页纸长的论文。

　　I was alarmed and intimidated⁸ by the calm eyes of fellow students, who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload⁹ here was easy. 我被同学们冷静的眼神刺激并吓到了，他们从道尔顿或埃克塞特毕业，认为和高中相比，这里的作业量少之又少。

　　I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading a thousand pages a week with unimaginable. 我完全不知所措，认为一礼拜看完一千页书籍简直无法想象。

　　That writing a fifty-page thesis is just something I could never do. 写一篇50页的论文我永远都不可能做得到。

　　I had no idea how to declare my intentions. 我完全不知道该怎么表达我的意图。

　　I couldn't even articulate them to myself. 我对自己都无法解释。

　　I've been acting¹⁰ since I was 11, but I thought acting was too frivolous¹¹ and certainly not meaningful. 我从11岁就开始演戏，但是我认为演戏是轻佻且无意义的。

　　I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. 我出身书香门第，非常在意别人是否把我当回事。

　　In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation¹² freshman¹³ year, five separate students introduce themselves to me by saying I'm going to be President. Remember I told you that. 跟我的不敢言明相比，大一新生培训的第一天，5位同学分别对我自我介绍说：我将来会成为总统。记住我今天跟你说的话。

　　Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted³ Cruz, Barack Obama, and Hilary Clinton. 严肃地说，他们的名字分别是伯尼桑德斯，马克卢比奥，泰德克鲁兹，巴拉克奥巴马和希拉里克林顿。（调侃总统候选人）

1 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

2 mimicked   

v.（尤指为了逗乐而）模仿( mimic的过去式和过去分词 )；酷似

参考例句：

• He mimicked her upper-class accent. 他模仿她那上流社会的腔调。 来自辞典例句
• The boy mimicked his father's voice and set everyone off laughing. 男孩模仿他父亲的嗓音，使大家都大笑起来。 来自辞典例句

3 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

4 contestant   

n.竞争者，参加竞赛者

参考例句：

• The company will furnish each contestant with a free ticket.公司将为每个参赛者免费提供一张票。
• The personal appearance and interview of the contestant is another count.参加比赛者的个人仪表和谈话也是一项。

5 jeopardy   

n.危险；危难

参考例句：

• His foolish behaviour may put his whole future in jeopardy.他愚蠢的行为可能毁了他一生的前程。
• It is precisely at this juncture that the boss finds himself in double jeopardy.恰恰在这个关键时刻，上司发现自己处于进退两难的境地。

6 worthy   

adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的

参考例句：

• I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
• There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。

7 rigor   

n.严酷，严格，严厉

参考例句：

• Their analysis lacks rigor.他们的分析缺乏严谨性。||The crime will be treated with the full rigor of the law.这一罪行会严格依法审理。

8 intimidated   

v.恐吓；威胁adj.害怕的；受到威胁的

参考例句：

• We try to make sure children don't feel intimidated on their first day at school. 我们努力确保孩子们在上学的第一天不胆怯。
• The thief intimidated the boy into not telling the police. 这个贼恫吓那男孩使他不敢向警察报告。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 workload   

n.作业量，工作量

参考例句：

• An assistant one day a week would ease my workload.每周有一天配一个助手就会减轻我的工作负担。
• He's always grousing about the workload.他总是抱怨工作量大。

10 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

11 frivolous   

adj.轻薄的；轻率的

参考例句：

• This is a frivolous way of attacking the problem.这是一种轻率敷衍的处理问题的方式。
• He spent a lot of his money on frivolous things.他在一些无聊的事上花了好多钱。

12 orientation   

n.方向，目标；熟悉，适应，情况介绍

参考例句：

• Children need some orientation when they go to school.小孩子上学时需要适应。
• The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map.旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。

13 freshman   

n.大学一年级学生(可兼指男女)

参考例句：

• Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
• He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。