斯皮尔伯格在哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿(中英文对照)

斯皮尔伯格在哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿（中

英文对照）

Thank you, thank you, President Faust, and Paul

Choi, thank you so much.

非常感谢

Faust

校长、

Paul Choi

校长

谢谢你们。

It's an honor and a thrill to address this group

of

distinguished

alumni

and

supportive

friends

and

kvelling parents. We've all gathered to share in the

joy of this day, so please join me in congratulating

Harvard's Class of XX.

非常荣幸能被邀请成为哈佛

XX

年毕业典礼的演讲嘉宾，

在众位优秀的毕业生、热情的朋友和诸位家长前做演讲。今

天让我们 一起，祝贺

XX

届哈佛毕业生顺利毕业。

I can remember my own college graduation, which

is easy, since it was only 14 years ago. How many of

you took 37 years to graduate? Because, like most of

you, I began college in my teens, but sophomore year,

I was offered my dream job at Universal Studios, so I

dropped

out.

I

told

my

parents

if

my

movie

career

didn't

go well, I'd re- enroll.

我记得我 自己的大学毕业典礼，这不难，因为就是

14

年以前的事情。你 们当中的多少人花了

37

年才毕业

?< /p>

因为就

像你们中的多数人，我在十几岁时进入大学，但是大二的时

候我从环球影城获得了我的梦想工作，所以我休学了。我跟

我的 父母说，如果我的电影事业不顺，我会重新上学的。

It went all right.

我的电影事业发展得还行。

But eventually, I returned for one big reason.

Most people go to college for an education, and some

go for their parents, but I went for my kids. I'm the

father

of

seven,

and

I

kept

insisting

on

the

importance

of going to college, but I hadn't walked the walk. So,

in

my

fifties,

I

re-enrolled

at

Cal

State

-

Long

Beach,

and I earned my degree.

多人为了获得教育去上 大学，有的人为了父母上大学，而我

是为了我的孩子去上的。我是

7

个孩子的爸爸，我总是不断

强调上大学的重要性，可我自己 都没上过。所以在我

50

多

岁的时候，

我重新进入加州州立大学长滩分校，

获得了学位。

I just have to add: It helped that they gave me

course credit in paleontology for the work I did on

Jurassic Park. That's three units for Jurassic Park,

thank you.

我必须补充一点 ，我获得学位的一个原因是学校为我

在《侏罗纪公园》里所做的，给我了考古学学分。< /p>

《侏罗纪

公园》换得了

3

个学分，非常感谢。

Well, I left college because I knew exactly what

I wanted to do, and some of you know, too - but some

of

you

don't.

Or

maybe

you

thought

you

knew

but

are

now

questioning that choice. Maybe you're sitting there

trying to figure out how to tell your parents that you

want to be a doctor and not a comedy writer.

我离开大学是因为我很清楚地知道我想要做什么。你

们中的一些人也知道，但是有些人还没弄明白。或者你以为

你知道，但是 现在开始质疑这个决定。或者你坐在这里，试

着想要怎么告诉你的父母，你想要成为一名 医生，而不是喜

剧编剧。

Well, what you choose to do next is what we call

in the movies the 'character-defining moment.' Now,

these are moments you're very familiar with, like in

the

last

Star

Wars:

The

Force

Awakens,

when

Rey

realizes

the

force

is

with

her.

Or

Indiana

Jones

choosing

mission

over fear by jumping over a pile of snakes.

你接下来要做的事情，在我们这行叫做“定义角色的

时刻”

。这些是你非常熟悉的场景，例如在最近的一部《星

球大战：

原力觉醒》

里女主角

Rey

< br>发现自己拥有原力的一刻。

或者在

《夺宝奇兵》

里印第安纳琼斯选择战胜恐惧跳过蛇堆，

继续任务的时候。

Now in a two-hour movie, you get a handful of

character-defining

moments,

but

in

real

life,

you

face

them every day. Life is one strong, long string of

character-defining

moments.

And

I

was

lucky

that

at

18

I knew what I exactly wanted to do. But I didn't know

who

I

was.

How

could

I?

And

how

could

any

of

us?

Because

for the first 25 years of our lives, we are trained to

listen to voices that are not our own. Parents and

professors

fill

our

heads

with

wisdom

and

information,

and then employers and mentors take their place and

explain how this world really works.

一部两小时的电影里有几个定义 角色的时刻，但是在

真实的生活中，你每天都在面对这样的时刻。生活就是一长

串强大的定义角色的时刻。我非常幸运在

18

岁 时就知道我

想要做什么。但是我并不知道我是谁。我怎么可能知道呢

?

我们中任何人都不知道。因为在生命的头一个

25

年里，我

们被训练去倾听除自己以外的人的声音。父母和教授们把智< /p>

慧和信息塞进我们的脑袋，然后换上雇主和导师来向我们解

释这个 世界到底是怎么一回事。

And

usually

these

voices

of

authority

make

sense,

but

sometimes,

doubt

starts

to

creep

into

our

heads

and

into our hearts. And even when we think, 'that's not

quite

how

I

see

the

world,'

it's

kind

of

easier

to

just

to nod in agreement and go along, and for a while, I

let

that

going

along

define

my

character.

Because

I

was

repressing my own point of view, because like in that

Nilsson

song,

'Everybody

was

talkin'

at

me,

so

I

couldn't hear the echoes of my mind.'

通常这些权威人物的声音是有道理的，但是有些时候，

质疑会爬进你的脑子和心里。就算我们觉得“这好像不太是

我看世界的 方式”

，点头表示赞同也是更容易做的事情，有

段时间我就让< /p>

“附和”

定义了我。

因为我压抑了自己的 想法，

因为就像尼尔森歌里唱的一样：

“每个人都在对我说话， 所

以我听不见我思考的回声。

”

And

at

first,

the

internal

voice

I

needed

to

listen

to was hardly audible, and it was hardly noticeable -

kind

of

like

me

in

high

school.

But

then

I

started

paying

more attention, and my intuition kicked in.

一开始，我需要倾听的内心的声音几乎一声不响，也

难以察觉就 像高中时的我。但是之后我开始更加注意这些声

音，然后我的直觉开始工作。