耶鲁大学校长2024毕业典礼演讲：爱与慈悯
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| 0:05 | Graduates of the class of 2024, family members and friends, | 2024级毕业生,家属和朋友, |
| 0:13 | it gives me great pleasure to greet you today | 我今天很高兴能向你问候 |
| 0:16 | and to offer a few words on this celebratory occasion. | 并在此庆典之际发表一些看法。 |
| 0:22 | But first, there's a wonderful Yale tradition | 但首先,耶鲁的传奇 |
| 0:26 | that I'd like to honor right now. | 我现在就想荣耀 |
| 0:29 | May I ask all the families and friends who are here today | 请问今天在场的亲友们 |
| 0:35 | to rise and to recognize the outstanding | 和表彰杰出的 |
| 0:38 | and graduating members of the class of 2024. | 以及2024年班级毕业成员. |
| 1:09 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 1:13 | And now, may I ask the class of 2024 | 现在,我要问2024年的班级 |
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| 1 | Graduates of the class of 2024, family members and friends, | 2024级毕业生,家属和朋友, |
| 2 | it gives me great pleasure to greet you today | 我今天很高兴能向你问候 |
| 3 | and to offer a few words on this celebratory occasion. | 并在此庆典之际发表一些看法。 |
| 4 | But first, there's a wonderful Yale tradition | 但首先,耶鲁的传奇 |
| 5 | that I'd like to honor right now. | 我现在就想荣耀 |
| 6 | May I ask all the families and friends who are here today | 请问今天在场的亲友们 |
| 7 | to rise and to recognize the outstanding | 和表彰杰出的 |
| 8 | and graduating members of the class of 2024. | 以及2024年班级毕业成员. |
| 9 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 10 | And now, may I ask the class of 2024 | 现在,我要问2024年的班级 |
| 11 | to consider all those who have supported your arrival | 考虑所有支持你到达的人 |
| 12 | at this milestone and to please rise and recognize them. | 在这个里程碑上,请起立并认识他们。 |
| 13 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 14 | I remember well the pomp and pageantry | 我记得的很隆重 和选美 |
| 15 | of my commencement weekend. | 我开始的周末。 |
| 16 | And I share in the many emotions | 我分享着很多情感 |
| 17 | you are likely feeling right now | 你现在可能感觉到了 |
| 18 | after being part of this community for several years. | 在加入这个社区几年后 |
| 19 | And as you consider how your roles will soon change | 当你考虑 你的角色将很快改变 |
| 20 | from students to alumni, | 从学生到校友, |
| 21 | and mine from president to faculty member. | 还有我从总统到教职员 |
| 22 | Like the class of 2024, | 就像2024级一样 |
| 23 | I graduated as my university president | 我大学校长毕业了 |
| 24 | was completing his service. | 正在完成他的服务。 |
| 25 | Unlike the class of 2024, | 与2024级不同, |
| 26 | my first years in college had not been disrupted | 我大学的第一年没有中断 |
| 27 | by a pandemic. | 被大流行传染 |
| 28 | Presumably like you, I wondered what message | 可能跟你一样,我在想 |
| 29 | the president would impart for his final words. | 总统会用最后的言辞来传达 |
| 30 | Of course, as I thought about what to say here today, | 当然,我今天想说什么 |
| 31 | I considered the same question. | 我考虑了同样的问题。 |
| 32 | What came to mind was how each of us | 想到的是我们每个人 |
| 33 | had different journeys to arrive at this day. | 今天的旅程不同 |
| 34 | Here is mine. | 这是我的。 |
| 35 | Like many immigrants, my father's parents were poor. | 和许多移民一样,我父亲的父母也是穷人. |
| 36 | Poor in means, but rich in culture and spirit. | 手段贫乏,但文化精神丰富. |
| 37 | They came to the United States | 他们来到美国 |
| 38 | by way of Warsaw and Jerusalem, | 经由华沙和耶路撒冷, |
| 39 | and later met each other on a ship crossing the Atlantic | 后来在穿越大西洋的船上相遇 |
| 40 | between their worlds, old and new. | 在他们的新旧世界之间。 |
| 41 | When my grandfather arrived in New York, | 我祖父来纽约时 |
| 42 | he not only had a new country, but a new name. | 他不仅有一个新的国家,而且有一个新的名字。 |
| 43 | No longer Yitzhak Leib Soloveitchik. | 不再是伊扎克·莱布·索洛维契克 |
| 44 | In America, he became Louis Solovey. | 在美国,他成为了路易斯·索洛维. |
| 45 | He changed his family name in an effort | 他努力改了姓 |
| 46 | to fit into his new surroundings, | 为了适应他的新环境, |
| 47 | but he made sure to retain four letters. | 但他保证保留四个字母。 |
| 48 | L -O -V -E,亲爱的。 | |
| 49 | Which I like to think of as a tribute | 我喜欢把它当作是致敬 |
| 50 | to the family he left behind | 给留下的家属 |
| 51 | and a foundation for the one he would build. | 和他将要建立的基础。 |
| 52 | Love and compassion were creeds by which he lived. | 爱和同情是他赖以生存的信仰。 |
| 53 | It was about these virtues that I spoke with you | 我和你谈的正是这些美德 |
| 54 | four years ago as you entered Yale. | 四年前你进入耶鲁大学时 |
| 55 | And now, here today, that I want to emphasize | 现在,今天,我想强调 |
| 56 | as you prepare to depart it. | 当你准备离开的时候 |
| 57 | One of the earliest, if not most striking, | 一个最早的,如果不是最引人注目的, |
| 58 | demonstrations of compassion I recall | 表示同情,我记得 |
| 59 | took place soon after my seventh birthday, | 发生在我七岁生日后不久 |
| 60 | when a rabbi and a reverend marched together toward justice | 当时,一个犹太教徒和一个教士,同齐走向公道, |
| 61 | alongside other faith leaders. | 和其他信仰领袖一起 |
| 62 | Cradling a Torah in his arms and humanity in his heart, | 在怀里摇摆着一个托拉,在心中摇摆着一个人性, |
| 63 | Rabbi Everett Gendler joined the reverend | 拉比·埃弗雷特·根德勒加入了牧师 |
| 64 | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | 小马丁·路德·金博士 |
| 65 | through the streets of Selma, Alabama, | 穿过阿拉巴马州塞尔玛的街道 |
| 66 | 1965年3月的Turrnaund星期二。 | |
| 67 | One of Rabbi Gendler's greatest contributions | 拉比·詹德勒的最大贡献之一 |
| 68 | was involving American Jews in the civil rights movement, | 让美国犹太人参与民权运动 |
| 69 | and many, including my parents, heeded that call. | 许多人,包括我的父母,都听从了这个呼吁。 |
| 70 | The extraordinary image of Dr. King | 金博士的非凡形象 |
| 71 | and Rabbi Gendler marching alongside one another | 拉比·詹德勒相继进军 |
| 72 | is seared in my memory. | 我记忆中充满了记忆 |
| 73 | Theirs was a coalition of different faiths, | 他们是一个不同信仰的联盟, |
| 74 | but a shared morality against forces devoid of it. | 但以共同的道德来对抗那些没有道德的势力。 |
| 75 | And if I might add a postscript, | 如果我能加个贴纸 |
| 76 | not long after participating in the Selma campaign, | 在参加塞尔玛运动不久后, |
| 77 | Rabbi Gendler welcomed his first daughter | 拉比・詹德勒欢迎他的大女儿 |
| 78 | into a world he was working to repair. | 进入一个他努力修补的世界 |
| 79 | And today, she sits behind me | 今天,她坐在我身后 |
| 80 | as Dean of Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. | 担任耶鲁大学文理学院院长. |
| 81 | As Rabbi Gendler noted at the time, | 正如拉比·根德勒当时指出的, |
| 82 | the effects of love, thought the ancients, | 爱的效果,以为古人, |
| 83 | were not simply personal, but social as well. | 不仅是个人的,也是社会性的。 |
| 84 | Love may not be all we need, he added, | 爱也许不是我们需要的,他补充说, |
| 85 | but neither is it entirely beside the point. | 但它也不是完全与重点无关。 |
| 86 | Dr. King echoed these sentiments | 金博士也这么说 |
| 87 | while speaking to Rabbi Gendler | 在与拉比·根德勒交谈时 |
| 88 | in what would be his final public interview | 在他的最后一次公开采访中 |
| 89 | in 1968. | (原始内容存档于1968年). In 1968. |
| 90 | We need a movement now to transmute rage, he said, | 我们需要一个运动来改变愤怒,他说, |
| 91 | into a positive, constructive force. | 成为积极、建设性的力量。 |
| 92 | Those words resonate today. | 这些话今天引起共鸣。 |
| 93 | They remind us that we need to reject hate and rage | 他们提醒我们,我们需要拒绝仇恨和愤怒 |
| 94 | and instead find our common love for life, | 而是找到我们共同的爱生活, |
| 95 | for community, and for peace. | 为了社区,为了和平。 |
| 96 | Now to be sure, now to be sure the challenges before us, | 现在确定,现在确定 我们面前的挑战, |
| 97 | climate change, racial injustice, armed conflict, | 气候变化、种族不公正、武装冲突、 |
| 98 | and extremism, to name only a few, | 和极端主义,仅举几个例子, |
| 99 | stoke the indignation of any individual of conscience. | 激起任何良心人士的愤慨。 |
| 100 | And across this country, we've seen rising anti-Semitism | 在这个国家,我们看到反犹太主义抬头 |
| 101 | and Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry. | 仇视伊斯兰教和其他形式的偏见。 |
| 102 | Without anger, we would be reconciled | 没有愤怒,我们就和解 |
| 103 | to accept the unacceptable, to tolerate the intolerable, | 接受无法接受,容忍无法容忍, |
| 104 | and thereby consign ourselves to a status quo | 从而走向现状 |
| 105 | in need of repair. | 需要修复。 |
| 106 | Without anger, we would be bereft of the fuel necessary | 没有愤怒,我们就会失去必要的燃料 |
| 107 | to fight against prejudice and violence around the globe. | 打击全球的偏见和暴力。 |
| 108 | So what then are the grounds | 那么,什么是基础 |
| 109 | that support the translation of outrage into compassion, | 支持将愤怒转化为同情, |
| 110 | as Dr. King advised? | 正如金博士建议的那样? |
| 111 | In thinking about the answer to this question, | 在思考这个问题的答案时, |
| 112 | I'm reminded of these lines of poetry | 让我想起这些诗歌 |
| 113 | from the Reverend Dr. Polly Murray, | 从牧师波利·默里博士, |
| 114 | eminent Yale graduate, | 著名耶鲁大学毕业生, |
| 115 | eminent Yale graduate, civil rights icon, | 耶鲁大学杰出毕业生 民权偶像 |
| 116 | and namesake of one of our residential colleges. | 并命名我们的一所寄宿学院。 |
| 117 | She said, but love, alas, holds me captive here, | 她说,但爱,阿拉斯, 把我囚禁在这里, |
| 118 | consigned to sacrificial flame to burn | 被烧死 |
| 119 | and find no hearts to cease | 没有心停止 |
| 120 | until its more enduring uses, I may learn. | 直到它更持久地使用, 我可能会学会。 |
| 121 | In the fall of 1963, at a pivotal moment | 1963年秋天 在关键时刻 |
| 122 | in the civil rights struggle, | 在民权斗争中, |
| 123 | the Yale Political Union invited George Wallace, | 耶鲁政治联盟邀请乔治·华莱士 |
| 124 | Alabama's hate-spewing governor, to speak on campus. | 阿拉巴马州憎恨的州长 在校园里讲话 |
| 125 | The invitation ignited controversy at Yale | 请柬引发耶鲁的争议 |
| 126 | and provided occasion for activists like Polly Murray | 并为波利·默里这样的活动家提供了机会 |
| 127 | to respond to his bigotry, measure for measure. | 以回应他的偏见,度量衡。 |
| 128 | But that's not what she did. | 但她不是那样的 |
| 129 | Instead, she showed the strength of her commitment | 相反,她展现出她承诺的力量 |
| 130 | to destroy segregation by positive and embracing methods. | 以积极和拥抱的方法消灭隔离。 |
| 131 | Wallace, of course, personified southern hostility | 华莱士,当然, 人性化的南方敌意 |
| 132 | to integration. | 以融合为目的。 |
| 133 | Earlier that year, he had famously stood on the portico | 当年早些时候,他曾名声显赫地站在波蒂科 |
| 134 | of the Alabama State Capitol | 阿拉巴马州议会 |
| 135 | and declared in his inaugural speech, | 在就职演说中, |
| 136 | segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. | 现在隔离,明天隔离,永远隔离。 |
| 137 | And just days before he was invited to Yale, | 就在他被邀请去耶鲁大学前几天 |
| 138 | Klansmen bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church | 三K党人轰炸了16街浸信会教堂 |
| 139 | in Birmingham, killing four black schoolgirls | 在伯明翰杀了四个黑人女学生 |
| 140 | and wounding 22 others, an act of domestic terrorism | * 造成22人受伤,这是国内恐怖主义行为; |
| 141 | for which Wallace was blamed as an instigator. | 华莱士被指责为煽动者 |
| 142 | So perhaps it comes as no surprise | 所以也许这没什么大不了的 |
| 143 | that Kingman Brewster, Yale's president, | 那个国王布鲁斯特,耶鲁的总统, |
| 144 | urged students to rescind their invitation. | 敦促学生撤销邀请。 |
| 145 | New Haven Mayor Richard Lee, meanwhile, | 同时,纽黑文市长李理查 |
| 146 | also concerned about the tensions Wallace would inflamed, | 还担心华莱士的紧张局势会激化, |
| 147 | deemed him unfficially unwelcome in the city of New Haven. | 认为他在纽黑文市不受欢迎 |
| 148 | More surprising is that Polly Murray, | 更令人惊讶的是,波利·默里, |
| 149 | a law student at the time, disagreed. | 当时是法律系学生 不同意 |
| 150 | In an astonishing display of drawing a circle of inclusion | 令人惊奇的展示 画了一圈包容 |
| 151 | large enough to incorporate George Wallace, | 大到可以把乔治华莱士纳入其中 |
| 152 | she wrote to President Brewster | 她写信给布鲁斯特总统 |
| 153 | in support of his right to speak at Yale. | 支持他在耶鲁演讲的权利 |
| 154 | To be sure, Polly Murray loathed what Wallace represented. | 当然,波利·默里厌恶华莱士代表的东西. |
| 155 | By every cultural, spiritual, and psychological resource | 利用每一种文化、精神和心理资源 |
| 156 | at my disposal, she wrote, | 她写道: |
| 157 | I shall seek to destroy the institution of segregation, | 我将试图摧毁隔离制度, |
| 158 | but I will not submit to segregation myself. | 但我不会被隔离 |
| 159 | Dr. Murray rather maintained an abiding belief | 默里博士相当坚持一种坚定的信念 |
| 160 | in the power of redemption over retribution, | 誓以报应, |
| 161 | even, and most especially, | 甚至,最特别的是, |
| 162 | for a man who threatened the principles | 对于一个威胁原则的人 |
| 163 | to which she had dedicated her life. | 她献身于此 |
| 164 | The division sowed by Wallace | 华莱士播的师 |
| 165 | stands as one of this country's darkest chapters. | 成为这个国家最黑暗的篇章之一 |
| 166 | But his story has a postscript, | 但是他的故事里写着 |
| 167 | one that affirms the might of Polly Murray's approach. | 它肯定了波利·默里的方法的力量 |
| 168 | About a decade later, Wallace, | 大约十年后,华莱士, |
| 169 | then a candidate for president, | 然后是总统候选人, |
| 170 | was paralyzed after an assassination attempt | 在暗杀未遂之后瘫痪了 |
| 171 | and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. | 在轮椅上度过余生 |
| 172 | As he was recovering in the hospital from the shooting, | 当他在医院从枪击中康复时, |
| 173 | he had an unexpected visitor, Shirley Chisholm, | 他有一个意外的访客,雪莉・奇肖姆, |
| 174 | the first black woman elected to the United States Congress | 第一位当选美国国会议员的黑人妇女 |
| 175 | and a rival to Wallace in 1972 presidential politics. | 和1972年华莱士总统政治的对手. |
| 176 | Understandably, Shirley Chisholm's visit | 可以理解,雪莉·奇肖姆的来访 |
| 177 | left her staff concerned. | 留下了她的员工。 |
| 178 | How could she sit by the bedside | 她怎么能坐在床边 |
| 179 | of someone she stood so fervently, so virtuously against? | 她如此热心地站着 如此善意地对抗一个人? |
| 180 | Sometimes she told them, | 有时候,她告诉他们, |
| 181 | we have to remember we're all human beings, | 我们必须记住我们都是人类, |
| 182 | and I may be able to teach him something | 我也许能教他一些东西 |
| 183 | to help him regain his humanity, | 帮助他重新获得人性, |
| 184 | to maybe make him open up his eyes, | 也许让他睁开眼睛 |
| 185 | to make him see something he has not seen. | 让他看到一些他从未见过的东西 |
| 186 | And so she went. | 于是她就离开了。 |
| 187 | In a remarkable expression of compassion | 以非凡的同情心表达 |
| 188 | Chisholm对华莱士说, | |
| 189 | I wouldn't want what happened to you to happen to anyone. | 我不想让发生在你身上的事发生在任何人身上 |
| 190 | The callous George Wallace wept. | 无情的乔治·华莱士哭泣. |
| 191 | And to this day, his daughter maintains, | 直到今天,他的女儿坚持 |
| 192 | it was after this visit that he started to change. | 正是在这次访问之后,他才开始改变。 |
| 193 | Shirley Chisholm 继续说 | |
| 194 | planted a seed of new beginnings in my father's heart. | 在我父亲的心中种下了新的开始 |
| 195 | Culminating in the record number of appointments | 任用人数创记录 |
| 196 | of African-Americans, he made to state positions | 非裔美国人,他做了国家立场 |
| 197 | during his final term as governor. | 在他最后的州长任期内 |
| 198 | Wallace would later earn an honorary degree | 华莱士以后会拿到荣誉学位 |
| 199 | from the historically black Tuskegee University. | 来自历史上的黑色图斯克格大学. |
| 200 | And he would earn the forgiveness of civil rights leaders | 他会得到民权领袖的宽恕 |
| 201 | like John Lewis, himself a recipient | 像约翰·刘易斯一样,他是一个领奖者 |
| 202 | of an honorary degree at Yale. | 在耶鲁获得荣誉学位。 |
| 203 | Because to do otherwise, to hate him, | 因为要不然,要恨他 |
| 204 | Lewis posited, would only perpetuate | 刘易斯认为,只会延续 |
| 205 | the evil system we sought to destroy. | 我们试图摧毁的邪恶系统 |
| 206 | Philosopher Hannah Arendt, | 哲学家汉娜·阿伦特, |
| 207 | on whom Yale also bestowed an honorary degree, | 耶鲁也授予他荣誉学位, |
| 208 | eloquently advocated for this doctrine | 大力主张这一理论 |
| 209 | decades before Shirley Chisholm exemplified it. | 在雪莉·奇肖姆(英语:Shirley Chisholm)所展示的数十年前. |
| 210 | The faculty of forgiving, she wrote, | 她写道,原谅的教职员工 |
| 211 | is the exact opposite of vengeance, | 与复仇完全相反, |
| 212 | whereby far from putting an end | 远未结束 |
| 213 | to the consequences of the first misdeed, | 以首先犯罪的后果盟誓, |
| 214 | everybody remains bound to the process, | 每个人仍受这一进程的约束, |
| 215 | permitting the chain reaction to take its unhindered course. | 允许连锁反应畅通无阻。 |
| 216 | Forgiving, in other words, is the only reaction | 换句话说,唯一的反应是原谅 |
| 217 | which does not merely react, | 这不仅仅是反应, |
| 218 | but acts anew and unexpectedly, | 却以新的和意外的方式行事, |
| 219 | unconditioned by the act which provoked it | 不受挑衅行为的影响 |
| 220 | and thereby freeing from its consequences. | 从而摆脱其后果。 |
| 221 | Dr. King called this redemptive approach | 金博士称这为"红发" |
| 222 | the strength to love, declaring in a refrain | 爱的力量,在节奏中宣告 |
| 223 | with which you are no doubt familiar | 你们必定是熟悉的, |
| 224 | that returning hate for hate only multiplies hate. | 为了仇恨而回来的仇恨 只会增加仇恨 |
| 225 | So we can take pride in the fact | 这样我们就可以为事实骄傲 |
| 226 | that precisely 60 years ago, | 整整60年前, |
| 227 | Yale presented Dr. King an honorary degree | 耶鲁大学授予金博士荣誉学位 |
| 228 | with a citation that extolled his steadfast refusal | 以赞颂他坚忍的拒绝, |
| 229 | to countenance violence in resistance to injustice. | 支持暴力反抗不公正。 |
| 230 | For our part, as we face complex challenges | 就我们而言,我们面临复杂的挑战 |
| 231 | that call out for concerted action, | 要求采取一致行动, |
| 232 | we would do well to heed his example, | 我们愿意以他为榜样, |
| 233 | which requires us to inhibit our desire | 这需要我们抑制我们的欲望 |
| 234 | to dismiss those with whom we believe | 将我们所信仰的人开除; |
| 235 | we cannot develop common purpose. | 我们不能发展共同目标。 |
| 236 | It is not enough to retreat into silos | 退到仓里还不够 |
| 237 | alongside those who are already inclined to agree with us, | 和那些已经同意我们意见的人, |
| 238 | nor is it effective to ostracize or call out | 排斥或呼唤也无效果 |
| 239 | or shame or silence well-meaning others who do not. | 或羞耻或沉默 善意的其他人没有。 |
| 240 | Progress depends on our willingness | 进展取决于我们的意愿 |
| 241 | to work together to solve common problems, | 共同努力解决共同的问题, |
| 242 | to extend love and grace, | 以伸展爱和恩典, |
| 243 | compassion and cooperation with one another. | 相互同情与合作。 |
| 244 | And through these means to build consensus | 通过这些手段来建立共识 |
| 245 | by bridging differences, by daring to choose love | 通过弥合分歧 通过大胆选择爱 |
| 246 | and compassion over rage and hate, | 怜悯愤怒和仇恨, |
| 247 | we can bring about the meaningful, | 我们可以带来有意义的, |
| 248 | sustainable changes needed in society. | 社会需要可持续的变革。 |
| 249 | We can bring the world you will soon enter | 我们可以把世界带入你即将进入的世界 |
| 250 | a little closer to the one we desire. | 离我们想要的更近一点 |
| 251 | I hear you. | 我听见了 |
| 252 | Let's get started. | 让我们开始吧。 |
| 253 | Let's get started together. | 我们一起开始吧 |
| 254 | For me personally, and moments like this, | 对于我个人来说 像这样的时刻 |
| 255 | speakers of Hebrew, which was my grandma, | 希伯来语的发音 是我奶奶 |
| 256 | grandfather's native language, | 爷爷的母语, |
| 257 | hey, don't say goodbye, but rather lehit raot, | 嘿,不要说再见,但莱希特劳特, |
| 258 | until we all meet again. | 直到我们再次见面。 |
| 259 | Congratulations, class of 2024. | 恭喜,2024级 |
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