Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. I feel sure it will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
不要让这个世界的复杂性阻碍你前进。要成为一个行动主义者。将解决人类的不平等视为己任。我敢肯定它将成为你生命中最重要的经历之一。
You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had. You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have. And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with modest effort. You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.
在座的各位毕业生，你们所处的时代是一个神奇的时代。当你们离开哈佛的时候，你们拥有的技术，是我们那一届学生所没有的。你们已经了解到了世界上的不平等，而我们那时对此还一无所知。有了这样的了解之后，要是你再置那些你可以帮助的人们于不顾，就将受到良心的谴责。只需一点小小的努力，你就可以改变那些人的生活。你们比我们具有更强的能力。你们必须尽早开始，尽可能更长地坚持下去。
And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.
我希望，30年后你们还会再回到哈佛，回顾你们用自己的天赋和能力所做出的一切，我希望，在那个时候，你们用来评价自己的标准，不仅仅是你们的专业成就，而且还包括你们为改变这个世界深刻的不平等所做出的努力，以及你们如何善待那些远隔千山万水、除了同为人类之外与你们毫无共同之处的人们。
Good luck.
祝你们好运！
重点讲解：
1. carry on
继续；接着；坚持；
eg. Rachael Carr intends to carry on teaching.
雷切尔·卡尔打算继续教书。
eg. Her bravery has given him the will to carry on with his life and his work.
她的勇气激发了他继续生活和工作的意愿。
2. reflect on
沉思；深思；
eg. I need time to reflect on your offer.
我需要时间来考虑你的建议。
eg. I often reflect on my schooldays.
我经常回忆起我上学的日子。
3. judge on
评判；评价；
eg. It is dangerous to judge on the basis of first impressions.
凭藉初次印象进行判断是危险的。
eg. Teachers always judge their students on the final examination.
老师常根据期末考试来评价他们的学生。
4. nothing but
只有，仅仅；
eg. Fame brought her nothing but misery.
名声只给她带来了痛苦。
eg. They are lacking in nothing, but real happiness.
除了真正的幸福以外，他们什么都不缺。
5. in common
共同的，相同的；
eg. He had very little in common with his sister.
他和姐姐几乎没有什么共同语言。
eg. In common with most Italian lakes, access to the shores of Orta is restricted.
和大部分意大利湖泊一样，奥尔塔湖岸不对公众开放。 |