公众人物毕业演讲 第57期:肖恩库姆斯霍华德大学(13)

 　　It took me 26 years to get on this stage

　　如今 我花了26年才走到这一步

　　And I give all glory to God

　　这份荣耀属于上帝

　　26, that's the same amount as marathon

　　26 和马拉松一样的数字

　　God works in mysterious ways, you see

　　上帝的设计很神秘 看到了吗

　　You just gotta pay attention to signs out there

　　你需要关注上帝的启示

　　Sometimes, you gotta be still

　　有时 你需要坚持

　　You know I'm just learning this like last week, so I'm not preaching¹ to you

　　我上周才学到这一点 我不想讲什么大道理

　　I'm talking with you

　　只是和大家分享一下

　　I didn't take the conventional route back home

　　我并没有采用传统的道路回家

　　See, sometimes I know I made this University proud

　　有时 我知道我让这所大学感到自豪

　　but also sometimes I know I did it

　　有时 我知道我做到了

　　but I made a decision to keep going, keep trying

　　我一直决定坚持尝试 坚持前进

　　even if it meant sometimes that I would fail

　　哪怕有时我也会失败

　　One of the biggest lessons I've learned in life

　　我在生活中学到的最重要的一课就是

　　is that you cannot achieve success without failure

　　不经历失败 是不可能获得成功的

　　You cannot achieve success without failure

　　不经历失败 是不可能获得成功的

　　Some of my biggest successes

　　我最大的一些成功

　　comes from some of my biggest failures

　　都建立于我最大的一些失败之上

　　In the early 90s

　　在九十年代初

　　when my friends were graduating from Howard

　　我的朋友们正从霍华德毕业

　　I got fired from their first job that I got for Andre Harrell

　　而我在第一份工作中 却被安德烈·哈瑞尔炒了鱿鱼

　　I know a lot of you know this story

　　你们很多人应该都知道这个故事

　　while some of you may not know how scared I was

　　但有些人可能体会不到 我当时有多害怕

　　I was scared to death

　　我害怕得要死

　　I didn't have a degree

　　我没有文凭

　　My girlfriend was 8.5 months pregnant² with my first baby

　　我的女友怀了我的第一个孩子 已经八个半月

　　I bought a brand-new house in Scarsdale that I could not afford

　　我在斯卡斯戴尔买了一栋住不起的新房子

　　So I found myself sitting alone in my bedroom

　　我一个人独坐在卧室里

　　and asking myself the question that sometimes we all ask each other

　　问我自己一个你们有时也会问自己的问题

　　What are you going to do now?

　　下面该怎么办

　　What are you going to do now?

　　下面该怎么办

　　You should keep your mouth shut

　　你应该闭上你的嘴

　　and just do what Andre told you to do

　　按照安德烈的吩咐去做

　　You're going to act like he was making the hit rank, isn't it?

　　你就会取得很大的成功

　　Now, look at you, what are you going to do now?

　　现在看看你 打算怎么办

1 preaching   

n.讲道，讲道法v.布道( preach的现在分词 )；劝诫；说教；宣传

参考例句：

• The man was preaching the Gospel. 此人在传布福音。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• These misguided people go around preaching up violence. 这些误入歧途的人到处鼓吹暴力。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 pregnant   

adj.怀孕的，怀胎的

参考例句：

• She is a pregnant woman.她是一名孕妇。
• She is pregnant with her first child.她怀了第一胎。