公众人物毕业演讲 第137期:2012年Michael Lewis普林斯顿大学(1)

 　　Thank you. President Tilghman. Trustees and Friends

　　感谢Tilghman主席 各位校董和朋友们

　　Parents of the Class of 2012 wherever they put you

　　2012年级的家长们

　　Members of the Class of 2012

　　普林斯顿2012年级的同学们

　　Why don't you give yourself a round of applause?

　　为什么不给自己一次掌声呢？

　　So the next time you look around a church and see everyone dressed in black it'll be awkward to do that. But enjoy the moment

　　下一次你在一所教堂里 看到大家都穿成黑色的时候 像这样欢呼就很尴尬了 享受这一刻吧

　　Thirty years ago I sat where you sat

　　30年前 我坐在你所坐的地方

　　I must have listened to some older person share his life experiences

　　我一定也听过某位年长的人分享他的人生经历

　　I don't remember a word of it

　　但我已经一点都不记得了

　　I couldn't even tell you who spoke¹

　　我连是谁发言都没印象了

　　And you won't be able to either

　　你们也不会记得吧

　　What I do remember, vividly², is graduation

　　而在我记忆中仍栩栩如生的 是毕业

　　I'm told you're meant to be excited, maybe even relieved let you... getting out of you, and maybe all of you are

　　他们告诉我你应该很激动 或者感到轻松 先不说你们……但也许你们现在就是这样

　　I was not. I was totally outraged

　　我却不同 我义愤填膺

　　Here I'd gone and given them four of the best years of my life and this is how they rewarded me, by throwing me out

　　我来到这里给了他们我人生中最好的四年 而他们就是这样报答我的 把我踢走

　　At that moment I was sure of only one thing

　　在那时我只确信一件事

　　I was of no possible economic value to the outside world

　　我对外面的世界没有任何经济价值

　　I'd majored in art history, for a start

　　我修的是艺术史 那是我的起点

　　Even then this was regarded as an act of insanity

　　即使在当时这也被视为疯子的行为

　　I was almost certainly less prepared than you are for the marketplace

　　我为市场做的准备一定差过 几乎在座的每一个人

　　Yet somehow I have wound up somehow rich and famous

　　而现在我竟摇身一变成了富人和名人

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 vividly   

adv.清楚地，鲜明地，生动地

参考例句：

• The speaker pictured the suffering of the poor vividly.演讲者很生动地描述了穷人的生活。
• The characters in the book are vividly presented.这本书里的人物写得栩栩如生。