南京女生美国波士顿大学毕业典礼演讲全文【中英文对照】

My

name

is

Yujing

Cai,

and

I

am

a

graduate

from

the

Master

of

Mathematical

Finance

program.

I

come

from

Nanjing, China, one of the oldest cities in the world. Right now,

my

family

is

sitting

somewhere

over

there.

They

travelled,

literally across half of the world to see their baby girl graduate

and talk in a language they don

’

t understand. Therefore, I am

tremendously honored to share my perspective of 6 years at

the Questrom School of Business.

我的名字是蔡语 婧，我硕士毕业于数学金融专业。我来自中国

南京，世界上最古老的城市之一。现在，我 的家人坐在那里。他们旅

行跨越了半个地球来看他们的宝贝女儿毕业，

< br>并用他们不明白的语言

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演 讲。因此，我非常荣幸能够在此分享我在

Questrom

商学 院六年

的感悟。

One of the things I always enjoyed doing while waiting

for

classes

was

looking

at

the

different

country

flags

in

our

mes

my

friends

and

I

even

have

silly

competitions

going

on

to

see

who

knew

more

flags,

and

it

often

amazed

me

how

many

different

cultures

and

nationalities are represented in our community.

< br>在等待上课时，我最喜欢做的事情之一就是看着我们商学院大

厅挂着的不同的国旗 。

有时我还会和朋友们傻傻地比赛，

看谁认得出

更多的国旗。

而我时常惊讶于我们的学生群体里有这么多不同的文化

In

a

community,

so

diverse,

mutual

understanding

doesn

’

t come easily, so I tried hard to be adaptive from the

beginning. Soon, I found myself adjusting to the bigger food

portion,

and

railways

in

the

middle

of

the

road.

I

even

tried

fortunes

cookies

for

the

first

time

in

my

life!

Soon,

I

felt

so

content

with

this

progress

and

I

gradually

built

a

cozy

nest

with

people

of

my

culture,

my

age,

and

who

thought

and

acted exactly like I did. Why bother talking to anyone else? The

coursework

and

job-hunting

were

already

so

tiring,

and

meeting

people

outside

my

circle

just

seemed

so

scary

and

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unnecessary.

在这样一个多元化的群体里，相互理解并不容易，所以我从一

开始就 努力地让自己适应。

很快，

我发现自己适应了这里更大的食量，

和马路正中间的铁路。我甚至人生中第一次品尝了幸运饼干

!(

幸运饼

干

Fortune Cookie:

美式中餐馆提供的打开后有祝福纸条的饼干

)

很

快，

我满足于自己的进步，

于是我逐渐建立一个充满了与我的文化背

景，年龄相仿的人的舒适的窝。 他们的所思所想都与我相似，我又何

必再和任何其他人交流

?< /p>

学校的课业和找工作的过程已经让人疲惫不

堪，

< br>跨出我自己的圈子去和其他人交往看起来是那么的不必要甚至可

怕。

Then

one

day

something

changed.

It

was

a

normal

school

day,

and

I

was

in

the

atrium

looking

at

the

flags

as

always. I saw that the flag of China was surrounded nicely by

the

flags

of

Canada,

Chile,

Colombia,

and

DR

Congo,

and

suddenly

it

struck

me

that

I

didn

’

t

know

anyone

of

those

nationalities. What a waste it was for me to ignore the diversity

of experience and opinions that the Questrom community had

to offer! I was determined to change, but it wasn

’

t easy:

而这一天一切改变了。这是一个正常的上课日，我一如既往地

在大厅里 看着不同的国旗。我看到中国的国旗被加拿大，智利，哥伦

比亚和刚果民主共和国的国旗 很好看地包围着，

突然间我惊觉到我并

不认识任何这些国籍的人 。我意识到，忽略

Questrom

这样多元化

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