公众人物毕业演讲 第154期:比尔·奈马萨诸塞大学2014(1)

 　　Once in a while driving, you'll find yourself wanting to wander go explore, dream a little

　　有时候你会觉得自己想四处游荡去探索 去寻梦

　　and visit some faraway places, cities off your normal course the normal course that everyone else is taking

　　去拜访偏离往常路线的遥远的地方和城市偏离大家都遵循的正常轨道

　　Take the side roads in life, you know and then you might find yourself out in the middle of a farmfield

　　要我说 可以选择走人生的小路你可能会发现自己开到了一大片农田之中

　　and you either got there because you were dreaming or because you trusted your GPS system

　　能走到那里 要么就是你在寻梦要么就是你过于相信全球定位系统了

　　Your intellectual¹ and physical energy is at peak² at this age

　　现在你们的智力和体力都达到了峰值

　　Look at the young age of the people who started Google, Facebook,

　　看看那些创立了谷歌 脸书

　　Apple, Yahoo! back then and a lot of these other companies,

　　苹果 雅虎等公司的人们

　　they're your age and they come up with ideas that they believe in and they work for life like Rihanna did

　　创立之初他们都是你们这个年纪他们有了想法 并坚信不疑像蕾哈娜一样努力工作

　　and you gotta get to trust yourself and know what your internal³ passion⁴ is and that's what would drive you to success

　　你们得相信自己 知道自己的内在的热情是什么这才会引领你们走向成功

　　When you have success, are you gonna become a different person though?

　　当你们成功之后 你们会变成另外一个人吗？

　　And all of a sudden, money and power and wealth are increasingly important to you or your ideals today gonna be with you forever

　　突然间 金钱 权力和财富对你们来说会越来越重要还是你们会永远追随现在的理想

　　You can't tell yourself, I wanna be this person that I like forever in life

　　你不能对自己说 我希望一辈子都是我喜欢的样子

　　Now it's your time to change the world and to think different

　　现在是你们改变世界 改变观念的时候了

　　Go Bears, go Oski, go with peace

　　加油小熊们 加油奥斯基 平和地前进吧

1 intellectual   

n.知识分子；adj.智力的，理智的，有理解力的

参考例句：

• Thinking is an intellectual process.思维是一个智力活动过程。
• Chess is a highly intellectual game.象棋是需用高度智力的运动项目。

2 peak   

n.山峰，巅，山顶，顶点，尖峰，帽舌；adj.最高的，最大值的；vi.到达最高点，消瘦，变憔悴，逐渐缩小；vt.使竖起，使达到最高点

参考例句：

• Traffic reaches a peak between 8 and 9 in the morning.早晨八九点钟是交通的高峰时刻。
• He was the first to top the mountain peak.他是第一个登上这座山峰的人。

3 internal   

adj.内的，内部的；国内的，内政的

参考例句：

• He is talking to Tom on the internal telephone.他正在内线电话上与汤姆交谈。
• We do not intend to be drawn into the internal strife.我们不想卷入内乱之中。

4 passion   

n.热爱，强烈的感情，热情，耶稣的受难

参考例句：

• He had a passion for music.他酷爱音乐。
• In his passion,he tore the letter into pieces.在盛怒之下，他把那封信撕得粉碎。