公众人物毕业演讲 第211期:杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(9)

 　　You don't pollute anything, you don't make dangerous chemicals, you don't hurt the你不会造成环境污染 不会生产危险化学品

　　environment, the worst thing you can do

　　你做得最糟糕也只不过是

　　is not raise the human spirit

　　不能提高人类精神文明

　　That's really the worst thing you can do

　　你没办法做更糟糕的事情

　　Number 8, do not judge your own success by the success of others第8点 不要用别人的成功来衡量你自己

　　I was very fortunate. When I start out as a comedian¹我很幸运 我刚开始搞喜剧时

　　I was the only comedian I knew

　　只认识我自己一位喜剧演员

　　So consequently, I had no idea how terrible I was因为没有比较 我不知道自己有多烂

　　When I was doing old people's birthday parties for the state for $10 a day我曾在一个老头的生日宴上讲笑话 日进10美元I thought, hehe, I had made it, 10 bucks² a day我心想 嘿嘿 我太厉害了 一天赚了10美元

　　Betsy, you like comedians³?

　　贝琪 你喜欢喜剧演员吗

　　That's what it was. It was a nightmare. I had no idea how bad I was情况就是这样了 简直是噩梦 我不知道自己有多烂But by the time I got to Los Angeles

　　之后我去了洛杉矶

　　and met Letterman and Robin⁴ Williams and Jerry Seinfeld碰到了莱特曼 罗宾·威廉姆斯 杰瑞·宋飞

　　I've been doing it for a few years, I wasn't thrown how good the competition was我干了几年 一直都没被残酷竞争所击溃

　　Number 9

　　第9点

　　Never turn down a job because of the money不要因为钱拒绝一份工作

　　only turn it down because you don't like it拒绝工作只能是因为你不喜欢它

　　Money will come later. Don't even worry about it钱以后会来 不要担心它

　　Number 10

　　第10点

　　It's nice to believe in yourself

　　相信自己很好

　　it's better to have other people believe in you让其他人相信你会更好

　　That really worth much better

　　真的要好很多

　　Number 11, here's another rule I observed第11点 这是我观察到的另一条规则

　　If you can stay in this business for seven years如果你能在这个行业待七年

　　you can stay in the rest of your life

　　那么你一辈子都可以待在这个行业中

　　By that I mean, if you can physically⁵ make it to the stage我说的也就是 如果你能走到台上

　　all the recording⁶ studio, all the movie set for seven years without screwing up完成所有录音录像 七年而不搞砸

　　you will make a living in this business. I know that sounds simplistic你就能在这个行业干一辈子 我知道这有些简单化but think of all the careers that can be sidelined不过想想所有那些

　　by greed and envy and drugs and alcohol, sex, ego能够被贪婪 嫉妒 毒品 酒精 性 自负搞砸的行业it's usually never your talent or your abilities that you're in, it's one of those things通常 让你能够待在行业中的并不是你的才能

　　So keep your eye on the ball

　　时刻警惕那些东西 我总都地方可以回

 

1 comedian   

n.喜剧演员；滑稽演员

参考例句：

• The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
• The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。

2 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 comedians   

n.喜剧演员，丑角( comedian的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The voice was rich, lordly, Harvardish, like all the boring radio comedians'imitations. 声音浑厚、威严，俨然是哈佛出身的气派，就跟无线电里所有的滑稽演员叫人已经听腻的模仿完全一样。 来自辞典例句
• He distracted them by joking and imitating movie and radio comedians. 他用开玩笑的方法或者模仿电影及广播中的滑稽演员来对付他们。 来自辞典例句

4 robin   

n.知更鸟，红襟鸟

参考例句：

• The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
• We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟，知道春天要到了。

5 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

6 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。