耶鲁大学新校长首个开学演讲
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:09 | Please be seated. | 请坐 |
| 0:13 | Good morning, everyone. | 大家早上好,我们走 |
| 0:17 | I am delighted to join Dean Lewis, Provost Strobel, | 我很高兴加入刘易斯院长 斯特罗贝尔校长 |
| 0:21 | and so many of my distinguished colleagues | 还有这么多尊敬的同事 |
| 0:24 | from across the university in welcoming you to Yale. | 从大学对面欢迎你来耶鲁 |
| 0:29 | This is a big moment for both of us. | 对我们俩来说,这是一个重大的时刻。 |
| 0:33 | As you get introduced to campus, after nearly 30 years, | 当你被介绍到校园, 经过近30年, |
| 0:37 | I am so thrilled to be returning to it | 我很高兴能回来 |
| 0:40 | in my new role as president. | 作为总统的新角色 |
| 0:42 | What a wonderful way for us to begin afresh together. | 我们重新开始的好方法 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Please be seated. | 请坐 |
| 2 | Good morning, everyone. | 大家早上好,我们走 |
| 3 | I am delighted to join Dean Lewis, Provost Strobel, | 我很高兴加入刘易斯院长 斯特罗贝尔校长 |
| 4 | and so many of my distinguished colleagues | 还有这么多尊敬的同事 |
| 5 | from across the university in welcoming you to Yale. | 从大学对面欢迎你来耶鲁 |
| 6 | This is a big moment for both of us. | 对我们俩来说,这是一个重大的时刻。 |
| 7 | As you get introduced to campus, after nearly 30 years, | 当你被介绍到校园, 经过近30年, |
| 8 | I am so thrilled to be returning to it | 我很高兴能回来 |
| 9 | in my new role as president. | 作为总统的新角色 |
| 10 | What a wonderful way for us to begin afresh together. | 我们重新开始的好方法 |
| 11 | I would also like to acknowledge your loved ones, | 我还想感谢你的爱人 |
| 12 | family members, friends, and supporters in attendance. | 家人、朋友和支持者出席。 |
| 13 | To all the parents here today, | 今天在这里的所有父母, |
| 14 | I can imagine the mixed emotions | 我能想象出混合的情绪 |
| 15 | you may be feeling at this moment. | 此时此刻你可能感觉到了 |
| 16 | Having dropped off my second and last to leave the nest | 我第二次也是最后一次离开巢穴 |
| 17 | only two years ago, I remember well | 两年前,我记得很清楚 |
| 18 | the immense feeling of pride mingled with sadness | 巨大的自豪感与悲哀 |
| 19 | for how much I was going to miss her. | 因为我会多么想念她 |
| 20 | So I want to thank you for entrusting your children to Yale. | 所以我想感谢你把孩子托付给耶鲁 |
| 21 | Students, over the coming weeks, | 学生们,在未来几周里, |
| 22 | you may find yourself marveling at the beauty of this campus. | 你会发现自己对这个校园的美丽感到惊讶 |
| 23 | I know I did. | 我知道我这样做。 |
| 24 | Such an extraordinary collection of buildings and landscapes | 如此奇特的建筑和景观 |
| 25 | with grand awe-inspiring sights, | 带着令人敬畏的景象, |
| 26 | where you might just wonder | 在那里你也许只是好奇 |
| 27 | if you have wandered on to a Harry Potter set. | 如果你已经徘徊 在哈利波特的一套。 |
| 28 | These Yale landmarks will be your home for the coming years, | 这些耶鲁的地标 将是你的家 在今后几年, |
| 29 | spaces you will always associate | 您将总是关联的空格 |
| 30 | with memories you create here. | 你在这里创造的记忆 |
| 31 | Because here you will live, dine, learn, debate, | 因为在这里你会活着,吃饭,学习,辩论, |
| 32 | listen, laugh, grow, and discover. | 听,笑,成长,发现。 |
| 33 | You will sit in classrooms and work in laboratories | 你会坐在教室里 在实验室工作 |
| 34 | to explore subjects from the structure of a cell | 从单元格结构中探索主题 |
| 35 | to the vastness of the cosmos, | 至宇宙的宽阔, |
| 36 | from the history of nations | 从各国历史中 |
| 37 | to the literary contributions of a single writer, | 对一位作家的文学贡献, |
| 38 | from how our bodies function | 从我们的身体如何运作 |
| 39 | to the inner workings of our mind. | 我们内心的心灵 |
| 40 | And your education will extend well beyond the classroom | 你的学业会远远超越课堂 |
| 41 | to so many iconic places, | 这么多标志性的地方, |
| 42 | including Yale's extraordinary museums and libraries, | 包括耶鲁杰出的博物馆和图书馆 |
| 43 | such as Sterling Memorial behind me. | 比如我身后的斯特林纪念馆 |
| 44 | By the time you leave here, | 当你离开这里时 |
| 45 | you will have developed a very personal association | 您将会建立一个非常个人的协会 |
| 46 | with the places and spaces at Yale. | 与耶鲁的场所和空间。 |
| 47 | You will develop your favorites | 你会发展你的最爱 |
| 48 | that you will visit again and again | 你将一再拜访 |
| 49 | as you return to Yale as an alum. | 当你回到耶鲁作为校友。 |
| 50 | For me, one of those places has always been | 对我来说,其中一个地方一直是 |
| 51 | the Yale University Art Gallery. | 耶鲁大学美术馆. |
| 52 | So today, we're gonna take a little journey there, | 所以今天,我们要去那儿走走 |
| 53 | but it turns out we won't all fit. | 但事实证明我们不会都适合 |
| 54 | So if you will open your program, | 所以,如果你要打开你的程序, |
| 55 | we have there a printed copy | 我们这里有一份印刷本 |
| 56 | of Edward Hopper's Sunlight in a Cafeteria, | 爱德华・霍伯的阳光 在食堂, |
| 57 | which hangs just a few steps away in the American galleries. | 在几步外的美国画廊 |
| 58 | I have long been drawn to Hopper | 我早就被吸引到霍伯了 |
| 59 | because his works so powerfully capture | 因为他的作品如此有力 捕捉 |
| 60 | essential truths of humanity. | 人类的基本真理。 |
| 61 | In this painting, two individuals | 这幅画里有两个人 |
| 62 | are seated in a New York cafe | 坐在纽约咖啡馆 |
| 63 | as the harsh morning sun enters at a steep angle | 当严酷的早晨,太阳从陡峭的角度进入时, |
| 64 | through large plate glass windows. | 通过大板玻璃窗。 |
| 65 | Though separated by only a short distance from one another, | 虽然彼此之间距离很短 |
| 66 | they appear miles apart. | 它们看起来相距甚远 |
| 67 | The acrid color, the slashing diagonal created by sunlight, | 阴沉的颜色 阳光创造的斜角 |
| 68 | and the eerie stillness leave us | 阴森的静静让我们 |
| 69 | with a feeling of discomfort. | 有一种不适的感觉。 |
| 70 | We feel their sense of isolation and loneliness. | 我们感觉到他们的孤立感和孤独感。 |
| 71 | Perhaps like me, when you look at this painting, | 也许像我,当你看着这幅画, |
| 72 | you are reminded of an experience from your own life. | 让你想起自己生活中的经历 |
| 73 | I know I can remember times when I entered a dining hall | 我知道我记得有几次我走进餐厅 |
| 74 | or went to a party, | 或者去参加派对, |
| 75 | and even though there were many people there, | 尽管那里有许多人, |
| 76 | because I knew no one, I still felt alone. | 因为我不认识任何人, 我仍然觉得孤独。 |
| 77 | This is an experience shared by many. | 这是许多人分享的经验。 |
| 78 | In fact, we know that college students | 事实上,我们知道大学生 |
| 79 | report feeling lonely at times. | 报告有时感到孤独 |
| 80 | After all, most of you probably | 毕竟,你们大多数可能 |
| 81 | do not yet know many others here. | 这里还不认识很多其他人。 |
| 82 | For context, Hopper's evocation of modern loneliness | 从背景看,霍伯对现代孤独的崇拜 |
| 83 | captured mid-20th century New York | 20世纪中叶被俘 |
| 84 | at a time when most Americans had moved to cities, | 在大多数美国人搬到城市的时候 |
| 85 | leaving their small town communities behind. | 离开他们的小镇社区。 |
| 86 | And just months after Hopper completed this painting | 就在霍伯完成这幅画几个月后 |
| 87 | in the late 50s, the field of psychology | 50年代末,心理学领域 |
| 88 | first raised awareness of the very modern problem | 第一次提高了对现代问题的认识 |
| 89 | of loneliness. | 孤独 |
| 90 | Over the next half century, | 在接下来的半个世纪里 |
| 91 | social connections would continue to fracture and fray | 社会联系将继续破裂和破裂 |
| 92 | to the point where yours is now said | 以至于现在说起你的 |
| 93 | to be a generation of loneliness. | 成为一代人的孤独。 |
| 94 | 外科医生Vivek Murthy将军, | |
| 95 | the Yale alumnus who spoke | 耶鲁的校友 |
| 96 | at this year's class day ceremony, | 今年的课日仪式 |
| 97 | warns that social disconnection represents | 警告社会断开代表 |
| 98 | an alarming risk to our wellbeing | 危及我们的福祉 |
| 99 | associated with greater risk of depression and anxiety. | 与更大的抑郁和焦虑风险有关。 |
| 100 | Here on this campus, Yale students say | 在校园里耶鲁学生说 |
| 101 | that mental health is the most pressing challenge. | 心理健康是最紧迫的挑战 |
| 102 | Too often, the ways we connect | 通常,我们连接的方式 |
| 103 | are through technology and social media, | 通过技术和社交媒体, |
| 104 | but likes and retweets are poor substitutes | 但喜欢和回馈是劣质的替代品 |
| 105 | for real interaction. | 为了真正的互动。 |
| 106 | For society, loneliness and isolation | 社会、孤独和孤立 |
| 107 | can provide fertile ground for division, | 能为分裂提供肥沃的土壤, |
| 108 | even extremism to take root and flourish. | 甚至极端主义 扎根和繁荣。 |
| 109 | Philosopher Hannah Arendt, who taught here as a fellow | 哲学家汉娜·阿伦特, 他在这里教一个朋友 |
| 110 | and would later receive an honorary Yale degree, | 然后获得耶鲁大学荣誉学位 |
| 111 | articulated that risk in her book, | 在她的书中阐述了这种风险, |
| 112 | The Origins of Totalitarianism. | 彻底主义的起源. |
| 113 | What prepares men for totalitarian domination | 男人为极权统治做准备 |
| 114 | in the non-totalitarian world, she told us in 1951, | 她在1951年告诉我们, 在非全面世界中, |
| 115 | is the fact that loneliness, | 是因为孤独, |
| 116 | once a borderline experience, | 曾经的边缘经验, |
| 117 | has become an everyday experience | 成为日常经历 |
| 118 | of the ever-growing masses of our century. | 我们这个世纪中越来越多的大众 |
| 119 | And so it is today, | 今天就是这天 |
| 120 | as we see growing strife around the globe. | 我们看到全球纷争不断加剧。 |
| 121 | So as you are embarking on this next chapter in life, | 当你进入人生的下一章时, |
| 122 | know that community is an antidote to loneliness, | 知道社区是 孤独的解药, |
| 123 | division, and isolation, and that Yale is your community. | 分裂 孤立 耶鲁是你的社区 |
| 124 | You have been given a remarkable opportunity. | 你得到了一个非凡的机会。 |
| 125 | The chance to immerse yourselves in this shared community, | 让自己融入这个共同社区的机会 |
| 126 | one that is structured quite differently | 结构完全不同的 |
| 127 | from most American universities. | 从大多数美国大学。 |
| 128 | In Yale's residential colleges, for example, | 例如耶鲁的寄宿学院, |
| 129 | you will live and interact with peers | 你会与同伴生活和互动 |
| 130 | from many different backgrounds and perspectives. | 来自许多不同背景和观点。 |
| 131 | Serendipitous encounters in dining halls and common rooms | 餐厅和普通房间的意外遭遇 |
| 132 | will lead to engaging conversations and enduring friendships. | 将促成对话与持久的友谊。 |
| 133 | And legendary traditions, Berkeley's Thunder Branch, | 还有传奇传统 伯克利雷电分公司 |
| 134 | Grace Hopper's September Soiree, | 格蕾丝・霍伯的九月大赛 |
| 135 | and Timothy Dwight's Chubb Lecture, | 蒂莫西·德怀特的演讲 |
| 136 | to name only a few, strengthen the bonds of community | 仅举几个例子,加强社区的联系 |
| 137 | and exemplify why our residential college system | 并举例说明为什么我们的寄宿学院系统 |
| 138 | is one of the great glories | 是伟大的荣耀之一 |
| 139 | of the Yale undergraduate experience. | 耶鲁大学本科生经验 |
| 140 | The architecture of the colleges | 学院的建筑 |
| 141 | creates spaces designed to bring people together. | 创造空间 设计把人聚集在一起。 |
| 142 | So take the initiative to start a conversation | 所以主动开始谈话 |
| 143 | with someone you don't know, | 和一个你不认识的人 |
| 144 | strike up a conversation with someone in class | 和班上的人谈话 |
| 145 | or sitting by themselves in a dining hall. | 或者自己坐在餐厅里 |
| 146 | I promise you the other person will be so glad you did so. | 我保证别人会很高兴你这么做的 |
| 147 | As you get to know other students meanwhile, | 当你开始了解其他学生时 |
| 148 | it is also important for you to meet faculty, | 与老师见面也很重要 |
| 149 | staff, alumni, and our neighbors in New Haven, | 员工 校友 还有纽黑文的邻居 |
| 150 | all of whom are part of the rich layers of connection | 他们都是 丰富的连接层的一部分 |
| 151 | that comprise this community. | 包括这个社区 |
| 152 | We can do so, for example, through Dwight Hall, | 我们可以做到这一点,例如通过德怀特·霍尔, |
| 153 | the only nonprofit umbrella campus volunteer organization | 唯一的非营利伞式校园志愿者组织 |
| 154 | run entirely by students. | 完全由学生经营。 |
| 155 | And two thirds of our undergraduates | 还有三分之二的本科生 |
| 156 | participate in service activities. | 参加服务活动。 |
| 157 | And though it might seem intimidating | 虽然看起来很可怕 |
| 158 | to approach a professor who has won a Nobel | 接近诺贝尔奖获得者的教授 |
| 159 | or a Pulitzer Prize, you should take every advantage | 或者普利策奖,你应该利用一切 |
| 160 | of their eagerness to engage with students. | 他们渴望与学生接触。 |
| 161 | And I also encourage you to seek out someone | 我也鼓励你找个人 |
| 162 | who disagrees with you and make a connection. | 谁不同意你,谁与你建立联系。 |
| 163 | Because as you will learn, Yale does not shy away | 因为正如你所学 耶鲁不会害羞 |
| 164 | from facilitating civil and yes, often spirited debates. | 经常是激烈的辩论。 |
| 165 | When we disagree, there are venues for us to do so, | 当我们意见不一的时候,我们还有机会这么做 |
| 166 | such as the Dean's Dialogue Series, hosted by Dean Lewis, | 例如迪恩·刘易斯主持的迪恩对话系列 |
| 167 | the Yale Political Union, which is this country's oldest | 耶鲁政治联盟 这是这个国家最古老的 |
| 168 | and largest collegiate debate society, | 和最大的社团辩论会, |
| 169 | and the Cultivating Conversations Program | 和培育对话方案 |
| 170 | led by University Life, which I suggest you visit | 我建议你访问大学生活 |
| 171 | after classes begin. | 上课后 |
| 172 | I invite you to think through these and other layers | 我邀请你仔细想想 |
| 173 | of what it means to be a Yalie today | 今天成为亚利意味着什么 |
| 174 | and to embrace them over the next four years. | 在接下来的四年里接受他们 |
| 175 | Because as Dean Lewis noted moments ago, | 因为正如刘易斯院长刚才指出的 |
| 176 | citizenship does not work in the absence of community. | 在没有社区的情况下,公民身份不能发挥作用。 |
| 177 | Because one of the most important skills | 因为最重要的技能之一 |
| 178 | you can develop here is learning to listen, | 你可以在这里发展 学习倾听, |
| 179 | particularly to those with whom you may disagree. | 特别是对你们所争论的人。 |
| 180 | Truly listen, not just to formulate your rejoinder, | 真心听着 不只是给你准备复辩 |
| 181 | but to understand their perspective. | 但要了解他们的观点 |
| 182 | We must, as Hopper's painting compels us to consider, | 我们必须,由于霍珀的画 迫使我们考虑, |
| 183 | pull up a chair and sit next to that fellow student | 拉起椅子坐在同学旁边 |
| 184 | dining alone. | 单独吃饭 |
| 185 | And when doing so, listen and be curious. | 而当此时,听之而好奇. |
| 186 | Consider how different this painting would feel | 想想这幅画会有什么不同 |
| 187 | if rather than retreating from one another, | 如果你们不退避, |
| 188 | the two strangers in Hopper's painting were seated together | 霍珀画中的两个陌生人坐在一起 |
| 189 | engaged in a lively conversation. | 进行了热烈的对话。 |
| 190 | Members of the Class of 2028, take a minute | 2028级,请稍等 |
| 191 | and look at those seated near you, | 看看你身边的坐着 |
| 192 | most of whom you probably do not know yet. | 大部分你可能还不知道。 |
| 193 | You share much in common, including this, | 你有很多共同点 包括这个 |
| 194 | Yale wanted each and every one of you | 耶鲁要你们每一个人 |
| 195 | to be part of our community. | 成为我们社区的一部分 |
| 196 | You were chosen from a record applicant pool | 你从一个有记录的申请者库中挑选出来的 |
| 197 | because you bring something unique to this place. | 因为你给这里带来了独特的东西 |
| 198 | But your uniqueness naturally is going to be distinct | 但你的独特性自然会变得很独特 |
| 199 | from somebody else's. | 从别人的。 |
| 200 | This campus is formed very deliberately | 这个校园是故意的 |
| 201 | of people who are diverse, | 是众生的; |
| 202 | radically so perhaps from one another. | 也许彼此之间是绝对如此 |
| 203 | Your charge then while you are here | 你在这里的时候就负责吧 |
| 204 | is to start your interactions from an understanding | 就是从理解开始你的互动 |
| 205 | of your shared humanity, | 你们共同的人性 |
| 206 | from a place of mutual understanding | 从相互理解的地方 |
| 207 | that we are all part of this community. | 我们都是这个社区的一部分。 |
| 208 | Indeed, you would do well to remember the words | 其实你应该记得那些话 |
| 209 | of retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer | 最高法院退休法官斯蒂芬·布雷耶 |
| 210 | who received an honorary Yale degree earlier this year. | 获得荣誉 今年早些时候获得耶鲁学位. |
| 211 | Listen to what other people say | 听别人怎么说 |
| 212 | because if you talk long enough, | 因为如果你说得够久 |
| 213 | you'll discover they say something you actually agree with | 你会发现他们会说一些你实际上同意的话 |
| 214 | and then what you say is let's work with that. | 然后,你说什么是 让我们的工作。 |
| 215 | In a world trying with great force | 在一个充满力量的世界里 |
| 216 | to get us to vilify others, | 为了让我们诽谤别人 |
| 217 | to push us apart, to focus us narrowly, | 把我们分开, 集中我们狭隘的注意力, |
| 218 | almost exclusively on what makes us different, | 几乎完全是关于是什么让我们不同, |
| 219 | we at Yale want to focus on what we share as a community. | 我们耶鲁大学想专注于我们作为一个社区所共享的东西。 |
| 220 | A community that doesn't end in four years time | 一个没有四年结束的社区 |
| 221 | because then you will join the vast Yale alumni network | 因为那样你就会加入耶鲁大学的校友网络 |
| 222 | of which you will always be a part. | 你将永远是其中的一部分。 |
| 223 | Perhaps that is why the late George Pearson, | 也许这就是为什么已故乔治·皮尔逊 |
| 224 | an official historian of Yale, | 耶鲁的官方历史学家, |
| 225 | memorably observed that our university | 我们的大学 |
| 226 | is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, | 是一个传统,一个学者的公司, |
| 227 | a society of friends. | 一个朋友的社会。 |
| 228 | For Yalies, in other words, | 换句话说,对雅利丝来说, |
| 229 | the great bounty of higher education | 高校的恩赐 |
| 230 | lies not only in the knowledge you will gain, | 这不仅在于你们所学到的知识, |
| 231 | but also in the bonds you will form | 但你们在结实中, |
| 232 | and what you will learn, of course, | 以及你们所学的, |
| 233 | but no less in who you will encounter, | 惟你们所要遭遇的, |
| 234 | in who you will become along the way. | 你们将来要变成怎样的人。 |
| 235 | So today it gives me great pleasure | 所以今天我很高兴 |
| 236 | to welcome you to a place | 欢迎你来到一个地方 |
| 237 | of both scholarship and friendship. | 奖学金和友谊。 |
| 238 | It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Yale. | 很高兴欢迎你来到耶鲁大学 |
| 239 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 240 | ! | 来啊! |
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