公众人物毕业演讲 第132期:2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(11)

 　　And the person with the highest measured IQ here, in this entire crowd, the biggest genius here went into another room

　　然后再选出你们当中智商最高的人让这位最聪明的人进另一个房间

　　And then we just kept feeding questions in there

　　然后我们不停地向两组问问题

　　How do you solve this problem? That's um...

　　如何解决这个问题？ 比如说

　　How can we end world hunger?

　　如何能解决世界饥饿问题

　　How can we bring distributed¹ solar power to poorest places on earth?

　　如何能将分散的太阳能带到世界上最贫穷的地方

　　How can we create more jobs for young Americans?

　　如何能为美国的年轻人创造更多工作

　　How can we employ the longterm unemployed² people who don't have even a high school diploma³?

　　如何能雇用那些长期没有工作的人们 尤其在他们连高中文凭都没有的情况下

　　Just kept feeding questions in

　　不断地问他们问题

　　Over time, the room with the crowd will make better decisions than the room with the genius

　　久而久之一群人做出的决定会比天才做出的决定还要明智

　　It turns out that there is an economic and social imperative that compels those of us who understand it to work together

　　事实证明经济社会的需要要求我们懂得这一点协同工作

　　It turns out that creative cooperation works better than constant conflict and we forget that at our peril

　　事实证明 创造性的合作比持续的冲突更为有效忘掉这一点是非常危险的

　　You can't share the future unless you share the responsibility for building it

　　只有共同分担未来建设的重担才能共享未来

　　And I implore you to look for opportunities to do that

　　我恳求大家寻求这样的机会

　　The last thing I would say is that you are living in a time that is changing so fast

　　最后我想说的是你们现在生活的时代日新月异

　　it is more likely than not that even if you start out fast, something will happen that you will find frustrating

　　很有可能即使你们起步很快也会遇到某些令人沮丧挫败的事情

　　You have to be able to begin again

　　你们得能够重新开始

　　And you have to be able to begin again without blaming somebody else in a way that isolates you from them

　　而且你们得能够重新开始 且不归咎于别人才不至于让你被大家孤立

1 distributed   

adj.分布式的v.分配( distribute的过去式和过去分词)；散发；分销；[常用被动语态]将…分类(into)

参考例句：

• The organization distributed food to the earthquake victims. 这个机构向地震灾民分发了食品。
• During the war, all foods were distributed in a planned way. 在战争中，所有的食品都按计划分配。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。

3 diploma   

n.毕业文凭，学位证书

参考例句：

• She won her diploma in only three years.她仅用三年时间就取得了毕业文凭。
• She worked hard to earn her music diploma.她刻苦用功，以求获得音乐学位证书。