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Oprah

（奥普拉）

哈佛大学

2013

毕业典礼演讲实录

（中英文）

美 国脱口秀天后，国际知名慈善家奥普拉

·

温弗瑞

(Oprah Winfrey)

，

5

月

30

日应邀至哈佛大学获颁荣誉法学博士学位，并在 毕业典礼发表演说。她敦促

毕业生乐于接受挫折，

视之为成长的 契机，

并在生活与事业中追求为他人服务的

机会。她告诉毕业生 ：

“

人生没有失败这档事，所谓失败只是让人生转个弯。有

时难免会陷入挣扎卡在困境中，不过你想创造的人生故事会带着你走出去。

< br>”

Oprah

（奥普拉）哈佛 大学

2013

毕业典礼演讲实录

Oh

my

goodness!

I?m

at

Harvard!

Wow!

To

President

Faust,

my

fellow

honorans,

Carl

[Muller]

that

was

so

beautiful,

thank

you

so

much,

and

James

Rothenberg,

Stephanie Wilson, Harvard faculty, with a special bow to my friend Dr. Henry Lewis

Gates. All of you alumni, with a special bow to the Class of ?88, your hundred fifteen

million dollars. And to you, members of the Harvard class of 2013! Hello!

我的天啊！我在哈

...< /p>

佛！真的！尊敬的

Faust

校长、和我 一起获得荣誉学位的各

位，

Carl

（

注：

Carl Muller

哈佛校友 会主席）

，

真是太棒了，

谢谢你们！< /p>

还有

James

Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson

和哈佛的教职工们，

特别感谢我的朋友

Henry Lewis

Gates

博士（注：美国知名黑人教授）！感谢所有的哈佛校 友，特别要感谢

88

届的毕业生，

你们 为哈佛捐出一亿一千五百万美元

（注：

哈佛历史上最多的一次< /p>

同一班次校友捐款）。所有

2013

届的 各位毕业生们！大家好！

I thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives

and the commencement of your next chapter. To say that I?m honored doesn?t even

begin to quantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate

from

Harvard.

Not

too

many

little

girls

from

rural

Mississippi

have

made

it

all

the

way here to Cambridge. And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage

this

morning

getting

teary

for

you

all

and

then

teary

for

myself,

I

consider

today

a

defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey. My one hope today is that I

can be a source of some inspiration. I?m going to address my remarks to anybody who

has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the

Quad.

感谢你们让我成 为你们人生这一篇章的结束与下一篇章开始的纽带。对我而言，

荣幸根本无法表达我内心 深处对哈佛授予我荣誉学位的感激之情。

不是每个来自

密西西比 州的农村小姑娘都能来到剑桥城的（注：哈佛位于波士顿郊剑桥城）。

我可以告诉你们，

当我今天早上坐在这个台上，

为你们和我自己流下眼泪的时候，

我觉得今天是我漫长并被祝福的人生旅途中的一个里程碑。

我希 望今天我能为你

们带来一些启发。我的演讲是为那些曾在人生中感到自卑或觉得自己没有 优势，

甚至觉得生活一团糟的人，这就是我给哈佛带来的演讲。

Actually I was so honored I wanted to do something really special for you. I wanted

to

be

able

to

have

you

look

under

your

seats

and

there

would

be

free

master

and

doctor degrees but I see you got that covered already. I will be honest with you. I felt

a lot of pressure over the past few weeks to come up with something that I could share

with you that you hadn?t heard before because after all you all went to Harvard, I did

not.

But

then

I

realized

that

you

don?t

have

to

necessarily

go

to

Harvard

to

have

a

driven

obsessive

Type

A

personality.

But

it

helps.

And

while

I

may

not

have

graduated

from

here

I admit

that my personality is

about

as Harvard as

they

come.

You know my television career began unexpectedly. As you heard this morning I was

in the Miss Fire Prevention contest. That was when I was 16 years old in Nashville,

Tennessee, and you had the requirement of having to have red hair in order to win up

until

the

year

that

I

entered.

So

they

were

doing

the

question

and

answer

period

because I knew I wasn?t going to win under the swimsuit c

ompetition. So during the

question

and

answer

period

the

question

came

“Why,

young

lady,

what

would

you

like to be when you grow up?” And by the time they got to me all the good answers

were

gone. So

I had seen Barbara Walters on the “Today Show” that morn

ing so

I

answered, “I would like to be a journalist. I would like to tell other people?s stories in

a way that makes a difference in their lives and the world.” And as those words were

coming

out

of

my

mouth

I

went

whoa!

This

is

pretty

good!

I

would

like

to

be

a

journalist. I want to make a difference. Well I was on television by the time I was 19

years

old.

And

in

1986

I

launched

my

own

television

show

with

a

relentless

determination

to

succeed

at

first.

I

was

nervous

about

the

competition

and

then

I

became

my

own

competition

raising

the

bar

every

year,

pushing,

pushing,

pushing

myself as hard as I knew. Sound familiar to anybody here? Eventually we did make it

to the top and we stayed there for 25 years.

其实我真的很荣幸，

因此我想为你们做些 特别的事。

我想要跟你们说，

请看你们

座位下面有免费硕士或博士学位证书，

但是我发现你们已经有了。

说实话，

在过

去的几个星期我感到很大的压力，

因为我想要跟你们分享一些你们从没听到过的

东西，

毕竟你们都上了哈佛，

而我没有。

但后来我意识到其实并不是一 定要上哈

佛才能有一个驱动性强迫型的

A

型人格，当然上了哈佛还是有帮助的。虽然我

没有从哈佛毕业，

但我认为我的性格和哈佛的毕业生是一样。

大家都知道，

我的

电视事业生涯开始的出乎意料。

正如你们早上听到的，

我当时在参加

“

防火小姐

”

比赛。那年我

16

岁（注：奥普拉 出生于

1954

年，今年

59

岁），在田纳西州的

纳什维尔。

在我参加比赛那 年之前，

想赢的话你必须得是红头发女孩。

在进行问

“< /p>

年轻的

女士，你长大后想做什么？为什么？

”

等轮到我回答的时候，好答案都被之前的

参赛者说完了。因 为那天早上我正好在

“

今日秀

”

中看到了芭芭拉

·

怀特女士，所

以我说：

“

我想成为一名新闻工作者，我想成为为人 民带来一些在某种程度上能

改变人民生活和改变世界的故事。

”

当我说出这些话时，我觉得：

“

哇！还 挺不错

的！我想做个记者，我要做出一番事业。

”

后来，

19

岁时我上了电视。在

1986

年，

我推出了我自己的电视节目，

一开始就下定决心要成功。

我以前对比赛很紧

张，后来 我和自己竞争，每年设立一个更高的目标，一步一步地推到极限。对大

家来说听着挺熟悉 吧？最终，我们成功达到巅峰，并在那里待了

25

年。