耶鲁大学校长2026毕业典礼演讲：且敬荣耀，且惜寻常
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| 0:07 | Graduates of the Class of 2026, faculty and family members, colleagues and friends, welcome. | 2026级毕业生,教职员工和家属,同事和朋友,欢迎. |
| 0:17 | This is a day that's poised between memory and possibility, between all that's brought | 今天是记忆和可能性之间 以及所有带来的东西之间 |
| 0:25 | you here and all that you'll bring to the world from here on out. | 你在这里 和所有你会带来 从这里开始的世界。 |
| 0:31 | It's the kind of day that comes around only a few times in our lives, which also makes it the kind | 我们一生中只有几次出现这样的一天, 也使得它变得如此 |
| 0:38 | of day that provokes what's called, in art historical terms, a collage of emotions. | 在艺术史上 激起人们的情绪 |
| 0:46 | But there is one feeling that can transcend all these other feelings, gratitude. | 但有一种感觉可以超越所有这些感情,感激。 |
| 0:55 | So let's begin this morning then with some mutual appreciation. | 所以,让我们从今天上午开始,然后以相互的赞赏。 |
| 1:00 | Friends and families, will you rise and cheer for the Class of 2026? | 朋友们和家人,你们能起来为2026年的班级欢呼吗? |
| 1:34 | And now, Class of 2026, will you get up and applaud for the people who helped get you here? | 现在,2026年的班级,你能起来为那些帮助你来到这里的人鼓掌吗? |
| 2:12 | Graduates, this is a memorable day at the end of some very memorable years. | 毕业生们,今天是令人难忘的岁月末 |
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| 1 | Graduates of the Class of 2026, faculty and family members, colleagues and friends, welcome. | 2026级毕业生,教职员工和家属,同事和朋友,欢迎. |
| 2 | This is a day that's poised between memory and possibility, between all that's brought | 今天是记忆和可能性之间 以及所有带来的东西之间 |
| 3 | you here and all that you'll bring to the world from here on out. | 你在这里 和所有你会带来 从这里开始的世界。 |
| 4 | It's the kind of day that comes around only a few times in our lives, which also makes it the kind | 我们一生中只有几次出现这样的一天, 也使得它变得如此 |
| 5 | of day that provokes what's called, in art historical terms, a collage of emotions. | 在艺术史上 激起人们的情绪 |
| 6 | But there is one feeling that can transcend all these other feelings, gratitude. | 但有一种感觉可以超越所有这些感情,感激。 |
| 7 | So let's begin this morning then with some mutual appreciation. | 所以,让我们从今天上午开始,然后以相互的赞赏。 |
| 8 | Friends and families, will you rise and cheer for the Class of 2026? | 朋友们和家人,你们能起来为2026年的班级欢呼吗? |
| 9 | And now, Class of 2026, will you get up and applaud for the people who helped get you here? | 现在,2026年的班级,你能起来为那些帮助你来到这里的人鼓掌吗? |
| 10 | Graduates, this is a memorable day at the end of some very memorable years. | 毕业生们,今天是令人难忘的岁月末 |
| 11 | Memorable because of you. | 难忘是因为你 |
| 12 | You researched quantum error correction and bioinformatics and paleobotany | 你研究量子错误校正 生物信息学和古生物学 |
| 13 | and Mesoamerican pseudoglyphs. | 和美式伪胶片。 |
| 14 | You staged A Midsummer Night's Dream and Fiddler on the Roof, an intimate apparel by the | 你出演了《中夏之夜的梦》 和《屋顶上的小提琴手》 |
| 15 | extraordinary Len Nottage, alongside productions that you wrote yourself about Friedrich Nietzsche | 除了你写的关于弗里德里希·尼采的作品之外 |
| 16 | and a beauty salon. | 还有美容院 |
| 17 | And to be clear, those are two different productions. | 说清楚,这是两个不同的产品。 |
| 18 | You started businesses to create health technology and musical technology, and yes, | 你开始创业 创建健康技术和音乐技术, 是的, |
| 19 | technology to manage all our other technology. | 管理我们所有其它技术的技术。 |
| 20 | And you lost your voices cheering our football team on to victory in the game four years in a row. | 你失去了你的声音 欢呼我们的足球队 在比赛中连续四年的胜利。 |
| 21 | And if you're curious, the last graduates who could brag about that were in the Class of 1908. | 如果你好奇的话,那些可以吹嘘的毕业生 是在1908年的班上。 |
| 22 | I'm sure you can recall these events with precision, because they're some of the defining | 我敢肯定,你可以精确地回顾这些事件, 因为它们是一些定义 |
| 23 | events in your class's history, and they're the material with which you've already begun | 在你班里发生的那些事 也是你已经开始研究的材料 |
| 24 | forming a community of memory. | 组成记忆社区。 |
| 25 | But I promise you this, the way you remember your college years and the way you remember | 但我向你保证,你还记得你的大学时光 和你的记忆 |
| 26 | yourselves and each other is going to change. | 你们自己和彼此都会改变 |
| 27 | Because you can't anticipate right now how both those glorious events that I've just enumerated | 因为你现在无法预料 我刚才列举的那些辉煌事件 |
| 28 | and your perhaps more forgettable undertakings will assume new meaning in some future moment. | 你或许更忘却的事业 在未来某个时刻将具有新的意义 |
| 29 | How those memories might determine the decisions you'll make at all the unexpected junctures of | 这些记忆会决定 你将做出什么样的决定 在所有意外的时刻 |
| 30 | your personal history and of world history. | 你的个人历史和世界历史 |
| 31 | Some famous alumni have found surprising guidance in their memories. | 一些著名的校友在其记忆中发现了令人惊讶的指导. |
| 32 | One took a mediocre essay he wrote for an economics class and turned its thesis into | 一个拿了一篇平庸的散文 他为经济学班写了一篇论文 并将其论文变成 |
| 33 | the largest express transportation company in the world. | 世界上最大的快递公司 |
| 34 | Another took what he had learned writing what he later deemed banal and imitative poetry | 另一首取自他所学的书写他后来认为是典型和模仿性的诗歌 |
| 35 | for the Yale Literary Magazine and became the first American to win the Nobel Prize | 成为第一个获得诺贝尔奖的美国人 |
| 36 | in Literature. | 在文学。 |
| 37 | Their memories of Yale launched them into accomplishments they couldn't have predicted | 他们对耶鲁的记忆把他们推向他们无法预料的成就 |
| 38 | at their own graduations. | 在他们自己的毕业。 |
| 39 | So graduates, this morning has brought you to the threshold of this question. | 所以,毕业生们,今天上午 已经使你进入了这个问题的门槛。 |
| 40 | How will you use your memories of Yale to shape the future? | 如何利用对耶鲁的记忆塑造未来? |
| 41 | That's a lifelong question that will require lifelong answers. | 这是一个终生的问题,需要终生的答案。 |
| 42 | But for now I can offer you a clue I recall from my own studies here. | 但是现在我可以给你一个线索 我从我在这里的学习中记得的 |
| 43 | When I was a graduate student I read a book that would become something of a load-bearing | 当我是研究生的时候,我读了一本书 这本书会成为一个负载的东西 |
| 44 | wall in my scholarship. | 墙在我的奖学金。 |
| 45 | It's called On Collective Memory. | 这叫做集体记忆 |
| 46 | It was written by a French sociologist, Maurice Hobwalks, and he posited that memory | 这是法国社会学家莫里斯·霍布沃克斯写的 他假设了那个记忆 |
| 47 | is subjective. | 是主观的。 |
| 48 | That your memories are formed by your relationships and your relationships are | 你们的记忆是由你们的关系形成的 你们的关系是 |
| 49 | formed by your memories. | 由你的记忆形成 |
| 50 | Your memories, like your emotions today, are a collage. | 你的记忆,就像今天的情绪, 是一个拼凑。 |
| 51 | A collage of bright and disparate and sometimes even clashing recollections, | 由明亮和不相称的回忆拼凑而成,有时甚至是相互冲突的回忆, |
| 52 | glued together by your interactions with each other. | 被你们彼此的相互作用粘在一起 |
| 53 | And the stories you tell and the stories you hear from each other. | 以及你们讲述的故事和你们互相听到的故事。 |
| 54 | When you come together with your closest friends or your entire graduating class, | 当你与你最亲密的朋友 或你的整个毕业班级, |
| 55 | these stories have a way of combining and overlapping and becoming your own. | 这些故事有结合和重叠 成为你自己的方式 |
| 56 | This act you're participating in is the work of collective memory. | 你参与的这个行为是集体记忆的作品. |
| 57 | And it's this shared remembrance that binds you together as the class of 2026 | 而正是这种共同的纪念 将你们作为2026年的班级联系在一起 |
| 58 | and that binds you to Yale and connects you with all the graduates who have come before you. | 使你与耶鲁相联,并使你与在你之前的全体毕业生相联。 |
| 59 | Tomorrow will be Yale's 325th commencement ceremony. | 明天是耶鲁的第325次启动仪式. |
| 60 | 324 classes have preceded you. | 324课在你之前。 |
| 61 | And like many of you, many of them spent their first night at Yale right here on old campus, | 像你们中许多人一样, 他们中许多人在耶鲁度过了他们的第一个晚上 就在这里的老校园, |
| 62 | got inducted into not very secret, secret societies, | 进入秘密社团 |
| 63 | and were serenaded regularly by the nation's finest a cappella singers. | 并经常被全国最优秀的卡佩拉歌手 唱响 |
| 64 | And though they may have lived in times that diverged from our own, | 虽然他们生活在与我们不同的时代 |
| 65 | their memories of Yale still converge with yours. | 他们对耶鲁的记忆仍然与你的记忆汇合 |
| 66 | And so, Professor Obvox would suggest that you can start to answer the question | 所以Obvox教授建议你开始回答这个问题 |
| 67 | of your own memory by considering how your predecessors collaborated to answer that | 通过考虑你的前任如何合作来回答 |
| 68 | themselves. | 他们自己。 |
| 69 | And one such answer is sitting cross-legged behind you. | 一个这样的答案就是坐在你身后 |
| 70 | Our statue of Theodore Dwight Wolsey. | 我们的西奥多·德怀特·沃尔西雕像 |
| 71 | This memorial to our 10th president is reaching an anniversary of its own this year. | 这个纪念我们第10任总统的纪念碑 今年将迎来一个纪念日 |
| 72 | It was placed there on class day 130 years ago as a gift from alumni. | 130年前的课日,作为校友的礼物放在那里. |
| 73 | And it exemplifies how, decades after students had graduated from Yale, | 说明学生从耶鲁大学毕业几十年后 |
| 74 | they came to understand even more fully the meaning of their time here. | 他们开始更充分地理解 他们在这里的时间的意义。 |
| 75 | Now you probably know President Wolsey best for his famed shiny toe. | 现在你可能最了解沃尔西总统了 他著名的闪亮的脚趾 |
| 76 | Some of you have no doubt rubbed his foot for good luck | 你们中有些人无疑为了好运 擦了他的脚 |
| 77 | as part of a ritual that you might have been told about on your very first tour of campus. | 作为仪式的一部分 在你第一次参观校园时 你可能已经被告知。 |
| 78 | It's based on a story about how, at regattas, he would kick the boat off the dock, | 它基于一个故事,在Regattas, 他如何踢船离码头, |
| 79 | which invariably led to victory. | 这必然导致胜利。 |
| 80 | Now it turns out that story is completely apocryphal. | 事实证明,这个故事是完全令人发指的。 |
| 81 | And it originated just in the last 30 years or so. | 它起源于过去30年左右。 |
| 82 | But it's so fun we keep repeating it. | 但它是如此有趣 我们不断重复它。 |
| 83 | Before President Wolsey became one of our fondest symbols on old campus, | 在沃尔西总统成为我们老校区最美的标志之一之前 |
| 84 | he was an ordained minister, an authority on international law, | 他是一位受委任的部长 国际法权威 |
| 85 | an expounder of Escalus, and the leader of Yale for 25 years. | 释迦牟尼如来及耶律大统二十五年. |
| 86 | Even while he served as president, he continued to teach political economy to seniors. | 即使在他担任总统期间,他还是继续向老年人教授政治经济学. |
| 87 | After he died, his cousin, Timothy Dwight V, who was president of Yale at the time, | 死后,他的堂兄,当时任耶鲁大学院长的蒂莫西·德怀特五世, |
| 88 | memorialized President Wolsey with these words. | 用这些话纪念沃尔西总统. |
| 89 | He lived as truly in the inmost lives of his pupils. | 他真正地生活在他的学生的最深处。 |
| 90 | So it was that after seven years after Wolsey's death, his former students determined to preserve | 所以在Wolsey去世七年后 他的前学生们决心保护 |
| 91 | their memories of his imposing scholarship and abundant teaching with that statue. | 他们对他的奖学金的记忆 以及用雕像进行的大量教学 |
| 92 | Because the direction of their post-graduate years confirmed what they already suspected. | 因为他们研究生时代的方向证实了他们已经怀疑的. |
| 93 | This professor had changed their lives. | 这位教授改变了他们的生活。 |
| 94 | And so that material, that statue materialized their shared gratitude. | 因此,那幅雕像实现了他们共同的感激。 |
| 95 | You've all had teachers here whose instruction has offered you fundamental knowledge, | 你们都在这里有老师 他们的教导给了你们基本的知识 |
| 96 | knowledge that's propelled you to discover your own ideals, | 知识促使你发现自己的理想 |
| 97 | ideals that you'll spend the rest of your life seeking. | 你将终生追求的理想 |
| 98 | These teachers have helped you recognize yourself in the mirror of your future. | 这些老师帮助你在未来的镜中认识自己. |
| 99 | But the monuments you'll build to them won't be as massive and bronze. | 但你要为他们建造的纪念碑 不会那么大那么青铜 |
| 100 | Their monuments will be the possibilities that you'll fulfill, | 他们的遗迹将会是你能够实现的可能 |
| 101 | the possibilities that they first opened for you here. | 他们第一次为你打开的可能 |
| 102 | This is how your memories open the way for your future possibilities. | 这就是你的记忆为将来的可能性开辟了道路。 |
| 103 | But what exactly you'll accomplish remains beyond prediction. | 但是,你究竟要完成什么 仍然无法预测。 |
| 104 | Your predecessors have learned this too about memory. | 你的前任也从记忆中学到了这一点。 |
| 105 | That the past is always being revised by the future and the future is a surprising editor. | 未来总是在修正过去,未来的编辑令人惊讶。 |
| 106 | For example, one of the first graduations that President Wolsey presided over | 例如,沃尔西总统主持的首批毕业典礼之一 |
| 107 | was the commencement ceremony for the class of 1850. | 是1850年班级的开始仪式 |
| 108 | He delivered an address that was 7,000 words long, | 他发表了一个7000字长的演讲, |
| 109 | which means he likely spoke for about an hour, | 也就是说他可能说过一个小时左右的话 |
| 110 | which is an achievement I'm not attempting to challenge today. | 今天我不打算挑战这个成就 |
| 111 | At the end of his speech, he pronounced his hope that, quote, | 在演讲结束时,他表示希望, |
| 112 | the graduates of coming years will equip themselves as worthily as those of the past. | 未来数年的毕业生将像过去一样有价值地装备自己。 |
| 113 | Those graduates did equip themselves worthily. | 这些毕业生确实装备精良。 |
| 114 | But for all of President Wolsey's erudition, | 但对于沃尔西总统的言论, |
| 115 | he couldn't have begun to predict what they would encounter in the coming decades. | 他不可能开始预测他们未来几十年会遇到什么。 |
| 116 | There would be a civil war, an industrial revolution, | 会有内战 工业革命 |
| 117 | theories of evolution and of germs, | 进化理论和细菌理论, |
| 118 | unbelievable inventions we now take for granted like the light bulb and the telephone. | 不可思议的发明,我们现在认为理所当然 像灯泡和电话。 |
| 119 | The graduates of 1850 were more than just witnesses to this change. | 1850年的毕业生不仅仅是这个变化的见证. |
| 120 | They were participants in it and helped to shape it. | 他们参与其中,并帮助塑造它。 |
| 121 | As lawyers, doctors, soldiers, ministers, poets, | 作为律师,医生,士兵,部长,诗人, |
| 122 | teachers, bankers, professors, farmers, and so much more. | 老师,银行家,教授,农民等等 |
| 123 | One of them became a president of a university. | 其中一人成为了一所大学的校长. |
| 124 | One became a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences. | 一个成为国家科学院的创始成员. |
| 125 | One became a congressman who was judged | 一个成为议员 被判决 |
| 126 | one of the most efficient members of the Ways and Means Committee. | 方法委员会效率最高的成员之一。 |
| 127 | In the decades after their graduation, | 在他们毕业后的几十年里, |
| 128 | whenever they ran into each other or returned to campus for their reunions, | 当他们碰面或回到校园重聚, |
| 129 | they would tell each other the stories of their unexpected work | 他们互相讲述出人意料的作品 |
| 130 | and of their unforeseeable accomplishments. | 以及他们无法预料的成就。 |
| 131 | And how they remembered each other would change accordingly. | 和他们如何记得 彼此会相应改变。 |
| 132 | Just as how you remember that one classmate | 就像你记得一个同学一样 |
| 133 | who spent all of seminar scrolling rather than listening | 他花了所有的研讨会 滚动而不是听 |
| 134 | might change in a few decades when they win a Nobel Prize. | 当他们赢得诺贝尔奖时 几十年后可能会改变 |
| 135 | Because the future is undetermined, the past is undetermined too. | 因为未来未定,过去亦未定. |
| 136 | I don't mean that your memories from your time here aren't real, | 我不是说你在这里的回忆不是真的 |
| 137 | but your interpretation of them is going to fluctuate | 你对他们的解释,将发生波动, |
| 138 | as you take all that you've learned here, | 你在这里学到的一切, |
| 139 | all the knowledge that you've been given, | 所有你得到的知识, |
| 140 | and meet the inevitable but unpredictable change that will contour the future. | 迎接未来不可避免但无法预测的变革。 |
| 141 | Which brings us back to the fundamental question | 这让我们回到一个根本的问题 |
| 142 | of how you will use your memories of Yale to shape the future. | 你如何利用对耶鲁的记忆来塑造未来 |
| 143 | Here is my recommendation. | 这是我的建议 |
| 144 | Hold on to both the glorious and the forgettable | 坚持光荣和忘却 |
| 145 | because you don't know what's going to happen. | 因为你不知道会发生什么事 |
| 146 | You can't right now know how some minor or grand story from Yale, | 你现在不能知道 耶鲁的什么小故事 |
| 147 | how some concept you encountered in a class, | 你在课堂上遇到的一些概念, |
| 148 | how some remembered agreement or disagreement | 某些人如何记得协议或分歧 |
| 149 | will influence the decisions you'll make and the work you'll do | 将影响你的决定和工作 |
| 150 | that will change your life and the lives of others. | 这将改变你的生活和他人的生活。 |
| 151 | So it all deserves to be part of your class's shared collage of retrospection. | 所以,这都值得 成为你班 共享的复古拼图的一部分。 |
| 152 | It's all part of your total effort to remember together. | 这都是你们一起努力记住的一部分. |
| 153 | And that commitment to remember together | 承诺要一起记住 |
| 154 | is what will continue to unite you. | 继续团结你们 |
| 155 | That commitment was fulfilled by the class of 1850, | 1850年的班级履行了这一承诺, |
| 156 | 27 years after their graduation, | 他们毕业27年后 |
| 157 | by combining the biographies of their classmates | 结合同学的传记 |
| 158 | into that antique form of social media called a book. | 成为古董形式的社交媒体 称为一本书。 |
| 159 | This was their way of staying in relationship with one another. | 这就是他们彼此保持关系的方式。 |
| 160 | In entry after entry, | 进入后, |
| 161 | these now middle-aged graduates asserted their gratitude | 这些中年毕业生表示感激 |
| 162 | for what one of them called the class tie. | 他们中有人称之为"阶级领带" |
| 163 | Also included in that book was a song they had sung together at their third reunion. | 书中还收录了他们第三次团聚时一起唱的一首歌。 |
| 164 | And my hope for all of you can be summarized by its chorus. | 我对大家的希望可以用它的合唱来总结. |
| 165 | Years may other bonds to sever, | 数年可能会有其他的债券 |
| 166 | distance oft prevail. | 距离为主。 |
| 167 | Still, still my heart is turning ever to those good old times at Yale. | 尽管如此,我仍然心在向那些 在耶鲁大学的美好时光转变 |
| 168 | Class of 2026, though the stories you tell will change, | 2026年的班级,虽然你讲的故事会改变, |
| 169 | may your hearts turn ever toward each other | 愿你们的心永远相向 |
| 170 | in gratitude that you could spend these years together. | 感谢你能一起度过这些年 |
| 171 | And may your hearts turn ever toward humanity | 愿你们的心向人类转 |
| 172 | as you take what you've learned here | 你在这里学到的东西 |
| 173 | and shape the future that will reshape the past. | 塑造未来 重塑过去 |
| 174 | Congratulations, graduates. | 恭喜你,毕业生们 |
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