公众人物毕业演讲 第205期:杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(3)

 　　It was called Emerson

　　它叫爱默生

　　And I came here in May for a meeting

　　我五月来到这里

　　and it was told there was not much chance to get into the fall semester学校告诉我 我没有秋季入学的机会

　　especially a migrate

　　特别是非本地人

　　Then I just pleaded with the administrator, I said, look我请求管理者说

　　Look, this is my last chance

　　这是我最后的机会了

　　this is the only place where I can learn how to be a comedian这是我想成为喜剧演员 唯一能去的位置

　　the only place that can help me do that

　　这是唯一能够帮我实现目的的地方

　　He paused for a moment and he said, well, make up a joke about Emerson他顿了一下 说 那你讲个关于爱默生学院的笑话吧You want to be a comedian

　　你想当喜剧演员

　　Say something funny about this place

　　讲讲这个地方的笑话

　　I took a moment and I said okay

　　我想了下 说

　　here's the weird thing about Emerson College爱默生学院的这一点很有趣

　　You can have girls in your room, you can have drugs in your room你可以把女生带到寝室 可以把毒品带到寝室

　　you can have sex in your room 24 hours a day if you wanted to如果你想 一天做爱24小时都没人管

　　The only thing you're not allowed to have, a hotplate他们唯一不让你做的事是 使用电炉

　　A man went by, what's going on

　　有人会来敲门问 你们在搞什么

　　It's getting late and getting hot, you're cooking soup这里感觉好热 你们肯定是在煮汤

　　Hey, you're making soup in there

　　嘿 你们肯定是在煮汤

　　Against all the rules and disregarding my bad academic record我违反过好多规则 学术成绩也很糟糕

　　he said you're willing to go to summer school他问 你想读暑期班吗

　　And I said, yeah, yeah, I've got no problems with summer school我说 好好 读暑期班我没意见

　　And he said you're in

　　他说 那你来吧

　　And for the first time in my life, being

　　这是我人生中第一次

　　funny have gotten me something besides detention通过讲笑话获得奖励 而不是被关禁闭

　　actually got me into college

　　这让我有大学读

　　And for the second time in my life

　　之后我在人生中

　　I met people with the same interest as me又碰到和我志同道合的人

　　This is the first place

　　这是第一个

　　people didn't roll their eyes when they say they want to be a comedian说想成为喜剧演员不用遮遮掩掩的地方

　　You know when you say that to your parents, friends, they're like一般来说 当你跟父母或朋友说想当喜剧演员时oh, we're sorry

　　他们会说 我们很遗憾

　　Heard about Jay

　　听说过杰吗

　　And our dorm was a 206 big history

　　我们宿舍有着206年的古老历史

　　the first time I did comedy with my roommate Jim Bronstein我第一次在里面跟室友吉姆·布朗斯丁演喜剧

　　also a student who went on to be a comedy writer as well这个学生后来成为了一名喜剧作家