实战练英文 | 从偷来的绿色外带餐盒 学到三堂人生课；酸黄瓜
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:03 | I have to make a confession. | 我必须忏悔 |
| 0:06 | I stole something from Amherst and never gave it back. | 我从阿默斯特那里偷了东西,从不还回去. |
| 0:11 | I've kept it for four years | 我留了4年了,我一直留着 |
| 0:14 | and it's followed me across dorms and semesters. | 它跟着我穿过宿舍和学期 |
| 0:18 | I have to come clean. | 我必须坦白 |
| 0:19 | I stole a green to-go box. | 我偷了一个绿色的待售箱。 |
| 0:27 | Remember these? | 记得这些吗? |
| 0:29 | For those of you who don't know, | 你们这些不知道的人 |
| 0:31 | Amherst bought these during COVID | 阿默斯特在COVID买的 |
| 0:32 | to encourage eating outside our dining hall. | 鼓励在餐厅外吃饭 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I have to make a confession. | 我必须忏悔 |
| 2 | I stole something from Amherst and never gave it back. | 我从阿默斯特那里偷了东西,从不还回去. |
| 3 | I've kept it for four years | 我留了4年了,我一直留着 |
| 4 | and it's followed me across dorms and semesters. | 它跟着我穿过宿舍和学期 |
| 5 | I have to come clean. | 我必须坦白 |
| 6 | I stole a green to-go box. | 我偷了一个绿色的待售箱。 |
| 7 | Remember these? | 记得这些吗? |
| 8 | For those of you who don't know, | 你们这些不知道的人 |
| 9 | Amherst bought these during COVID | 阿默斯特在COVID买的 |
| 10 | to encourage eating outside our dining hall. | 鼓励在餐厅外吃饭 |
| 11 | They were a symbol of convenience, avoidance, stench. | 它们是方便、避避、臭味的象征。 |
| 12 | Then suddenly, they were gone. | 然后突然,他们走了。 |
| 13 | Ask anyone from the class of 2026 onwards | 问2026年班上的人 |
| 14 | and they'll have no idea what we're talking about. | 他们不会知道我们在说什么 |
| 15 | But we remember. | 但我们记得 |
| 16 | Some of you might remember these green boxes | 你们有些人可能记得这些绿色的盒子 |
| 17 | as an unwelcome COVID reminder, | 作为不受欢迎的COVID提醒, |
| 18 | but I see something different, a philosophy. | 但我看到了不同的东西, 一个哲学。 |
| 19 | Because inside this box are three important lessons | 因为在这个盒子里有三个重要教训 |
| 20 | that I'm taking to go. | 我要离开。 |
| 21 | Lesson one, stay green. | 第一课,保持绿色。 |
| 22 | And I don't just mean eco-friendly green. | 我不是说生态友好的绿色。 |
| 23 | Remember how green and naive we were freshman year? | 还记得我们大一时有多绿色和天真吗? |
| 24 | How in our first month at Amherst, | 在阿默斯特的第一个月里, |
| 25 | we'd sit next to anyone in the val tents. | 我们坐在凡人旁边 瓦帐篷。 |
| 26 | No hesitation, no awkwardness, | 没有犹豫,没有尴尬, |
| 27 | just hey, mind if I join you? | 嘿,介意我加入吗? |
| 28 | Then for four years, | 然后四年来 |
| 29 | we've collectively forgotten how to do that | 我们一起忘记了怎么做 |
| 30 | and refuse to say hi even when we know someone. | 即使我们认识某人 也拒绝打招呼 |
| 31 | Yeah, I'm looking at you, Casey. | 是的,我看着你,凯西。 |
| 32 | Why won't you say hi to me? | 你为什么不跟我打招呼? |
| 33 | I've noticed this month that a lot of us | 这个月我注意到我们很多人 |
| 34 | have suddenly remembered because the end is near. | 突然想起,因为结局就快结束了。 |
| 35 | Why did we wait? | 我们为什么要等? |
| 36 | I wish we all stayed green | 我希望我们都保持绿色 |
| 37 | and channeled the spirit of freshman year more. | 并且将新生的精神引导到更多。 |
| 38 | Look, I know it's hard to stay that optimistic. | 听着 我知道很难保持乐观 |
| 39 | We as a class have been through a lot together. | 作为一个班级,我们一起经历了很多。 |
| 40 | We've survived a global health pandemic. | 我们从全球的卫生大流行中幸存下来。 |
| 41 | We've witnessed a war in Ukraine. | 我们目睹了乌克兰的战争 |
| 42 | And we've experienced a huge presidential transition. | 我们经历了一个巨大的总统过渡。 |
| 43 | I mean, when President Elliott came in | 我的意思是,当总统 埃利奥特进来 |
| 44 | and took over from Biddy Martin, | 并接替比迪马丁, |
| 45 | everyone was up in arms. | 每个人都在怀抱。 |
| 46 | Ah, another straight white guy. | 啊,另一个直白的家伙。 |
| 47 | He smiles too much. | 他笑得过头了 |
| 48 | And why is he lurking at the rave? | 为什么他潜伏在狂欢节? |
| 49 | At first, I was skeptical too, | 一开始我也怀疑 |
| 50 | but I've come to realize that what unsettles us | 但我意识到 是什么让我们不安 |
| 51 | about our friendly neighborhood president | 关于我们友好的邻居会长 |
| 52 | is just that he's stayed green. | 只是他保持绿色。 |
| 53 | He's embodied the best parts of freshman year, | 他体现了大一最好的部分 |
| 54 | saying hi to everyone, going to every event on campus, | 向大家问好 参加校园里的每件事 |
| 55 | and getting himself into a lot of awkward conversations. | 并让自己陷入很多尴尬的谈话。 |
| 56 | I've seen this friendly greenness in a few others. | 我见过这种友好的绿色 在几个其他。 |
| 57 | Renee, who brightens everyone's meal as we enter Val. | 蕾妮,在我们进入瓦尔时 点亮了每个人的晚餐 |
| 58 | Math Professor Contreras, | 数学教授康特雷拉斯, |
| 59 | who sits with anyone for breakfast. | 谁坐在任何人的早餐。 |
| 60 | And future CEO of LinkedIn, | 和未来的CEO 链接In, |
| 61 | D.A. | 户部郎中. |
| 62 | Mavani, who will help anyone | 马瓦尼,谁能帮助任何人 |
| 63 | with their homework at midnight. | 和他们的作业 在午夜。 |
| 64 | What do they all have in common? | 他们有什么共同点? |
| 65 | They kept their greenness. | 他们保持了绿色。 |
| 66 | Look, I'm not telling you all to backtrack to freshman year, | 听着,我不是要你们回大一 |
| 67 | but let's move forward | 但是我们继续前进 |
| 68 | and not leave behind openness and curiosity. | 而不留下开放和好奇心。 |
| 69 | Be intentionally green moving forward. | 故意绿色前进. |
| 70 | When you walk by a stranger, say hello, | 当你走过一个陌生人,打个招呼, |
| 71 | and look at them, not at your phone. | 看看他们,而不是你的手机。 |
| 72 | When your friends wanna make plans, | 当你的朋友想做计划, |
| 73 | take it out of the group chat and make it happen. | 把它从集体聊天中取出来并实现. |
| 74 | And let's not wait until our 50-year reunion | 让我们不要等到我们50年的团聚 |
| 75 | to finally talk to that Amherst classmate | 最后和那个阿默斯特的同学谈谈 |
| 76 | you wanted to talk to. | 你想和他谈谈 |
| 77 | It's hard, I know, | 这很难,我知道, |
| 78 | but that's why we need to be intentional about it. | 但是这就是为什么我们需要 故意的。 |
| 79 | We've left behind many things from freshman year | 我们从大一就留下了很多东西 |
| 80 | we don't wanna see again. | 我们不想再见面了 |
| 81 | Masks, nose swabs, | 面具,鼻子擦伤, |
| 82 | and three times Grammy Award-winning artist common. | 并三次获得格莱美奖的艺术家 |
| 83 | But let's stay green. | 但是让我们保持绿色。 |
| 84 | Lesson two, pickle. | 第二课 咸菜 |
| 85 | Pickles teach us a lot about how to frame our lives | 泡菜教我们很多如何陷害我们的生活 |
| 86 | because fermentation shows us that in the moment, | 因为发酵告诉我们,在那一刻, |
| 87 | some things look and smell really bad, | 有些东西看起来很臭 |
| 88 | but give it time and you get something pretty good. | 但给它时间,你得到的东西相当好。 |
| 89 | Like pickles, kombucha, or kids. | 喜欢腌菜,昆布查,或孩子。 |
| 90 | Embrace the rotten because sometimes a horrible process | 拥抱腐烂的,因为有时 可怕的过程 |
| 91 | is what makes us better, | 是什么让我们更好, |
| 92 | and you can only see that in hindsight. | 你只有在事后才能看到这一点。 |
| 93 | So reframe things the next time something doesn't | 所以下次有事情不做的时候就重新定义 |
| 94 | go your way. | 继续走 |
| 95 | When you're suffering through the last weeks of your thesis, | 当你在论文的最后几周受苦时 |
| 96 | you're not just in pain, you're becoming a scholar. | 你不仅仅是在痛苦, 你正在成为一个学者。 |
| 97 | When you get a B-plus in beginner ballet, like I did, | 当你得到一个B+ 在初学者芭蕾舞,像我一样, |
| 98 | you're not just failing, | 你不只是失败, |
| 99 | you're pushing your comfort zones. | 你在推动你的舒适地带。 |
| 100 | And when housing forces you to move into a Cohen double | 当住房迫使你搬进科恩双人房时 |
| 101 | or forced triple, | 或强迫三倍, |
| 102 | point is, no matter what you're facing, | 重要的是,无论你面对什么, |
| 103 | a tough assignment, an embarrassing moment, | 一个艰难的任务, 一个尴尬的时刻, |
| 104 | or just bad luck. | 或者只是运气不好。 |
| 105 | Those things are miserable. | 那些东西是可悲的。 |
| 106 | How are you gonna deal with it? | 你打算怎么处理? |
| 107 | Reframe it. | 重新定义它。 |
| 108 | Remember, pickles. | 记住,泡菜。 |
| 109 | Embrace the painful and rotten. | 拥抱痛苦和腐烂。 |
| 110 | My family faced one of these very painful moments | 我的家人面临着一个非常痛苦的时刻 |
| 111 | last summer with a brain cancer diagnosis. | 去年夏天脑癌诊断 |
| 112 | Dad, you've beaten the odds, | 爸爸,你打败了机会 |
| 113 | and I'm so thankful that you're here today. | 我很感激你今天能来 |
| 114 | At the time, your sickness was one of the most rotten things | 当时你的病是最烂的 |
| 115 | I've ever experienced. | 我曾经经历过。 |
| 116 | But looking back, | 但回头看 |
| 117 | that time brought our family closer together than ever. | 那段时间让我们的家庭更加亲密 |
| 118 | I learned not to hold back my gratitude, my words, | 我学会了不拖延我的感激,我的话, |
| 119 | or my love. | 或我的爱。 |
| 120 | Despite the pain, we all became stronger. | 尽管痛苦重重,但我们大家都变得更加强大。 |
| 121 | We reframed the rotten as growth. | 我们重新塑造了腐烂的成长。 |
| 122 | The confidence I've grown into this year | 我今年变得自信 |
| 123 | hasn't come from success. | 没有成功。 |
| 124 | It's come from surviving this hardship and failure. | 它来自生存这种艰难和失败。 |
| 125 | Many times I felt down. | 很多次我感觉很沮丧 |
| 126 | I was actually on my way up. | 我其实是在路上。 |
| 127 | So in these first post-grad years, | 所以在毕业后的头几年里 |
| 128 | you're gonna be tempted to compare your success to others. | 你会被诱惑去比较 你的成功与其他人。 |
| 129 | But fermentation takes time. | 但发酵需要时间. |
| 130 | So will your success. | 你的成功也一样 |
| 131 | I hope you're lucky enough | 我希望你够幸运 |
| 132 | to not always succeed immediately, | 不总是立即成功, |
| 133 | lucky enough to sometimes fail, | 幸运到有时失败, |
| 134 | and wise enough to wait for the process to finish. | 和明智的等待过程的完成。 |
| 135 | The process stinks. | 过程很臭 |
| 136 | Sometimes it feels like you're gonna run in circles | 有时候感觉你会在圈子里跑 |
| 137 | for no reason at all, | 毫无理由 |
| 138 | but that's when real, real progress happens. | 但是,这时,真正的,真正的进步发生。 |
| 139 | I did track and field, you can trust me. | 我做了田径 你可以信任我 |
| 140 | Be patient. | 耐心点 |
| 141 | Life's a dream, but sometimes it's first a pickle. | 人生是梦,但有时会先是泡菜. |
| 142 | Lesson three, bridge. | 第三课,桥。 |
| 143 | Bridge is a card game | 桥牌游戏 |
| 144 | that I've played every Sunday since coming to Amherst. | 自从我来到阿默斯特后 我每个星期天都会演奏 |
| 145 | I've played with a lot of seniors, | 我和很多高年级学生玩过 |
| 146 | and not just my classmates, | 不只是我的同学 |
| 147 | because when I say I play bridge, | 因为当我说我打桥牌时 |
| 148 | people usually go, oh, my grandma plays that. | 人们通常去,哦,我的奶奶 播放。 |
| 149 | So how did I get involved with a hobby | 所以,我是如何参与一个爱好 |
| 150 | of the Margretts and Gertrudes of the world? | 世界玛格丽特人和格特鲁德人? |
| 151 | I started the way many college activities do, | 我开始很多大学活动的方式, |
| 152 | hanging out with your friends freshman year. | 和你大一时的朋友一起玩 |
| 153 | Unlike most activities, I got involved | 不像大多数活动,我参与其中 |
| 154 | because Big Mike bribed me during orientation week. | 因为大个子迈克在辅导周贿赂了我 |
| 155 | He said I could get paid to learn a dying card game. | 他说我可以拿钱去学死牌游戏 |
| 156 | So on Sunday, I showed up to North Common Room at 4 p.m. | 所以星期天下午4点我到北共和室 |
| 157 | No questions asked. | 无问所问. |
| 158 | Now, I hated bridge at first. | 我一开始讨厌桥 |
| 159 | It's a tough game to learn. | 学人难得游戏. |
| 160 | You sit at a table and play as a partnership | 你坐在桌子上玩耍,当合伙人 |
| 161 | with the person across from you. | 你对面的人。 |
| 162 | Lots of rules, lots of teamwork, and lots of frustration. | 很多规则,很多团队合作, 很多挫折感。 |
| 163 | But when the $15 hit my Venmo the next day, | 但当15美元打到我的文莫第二天, |
| 164 | unemployed freshman me reconsidered. | 失业新生我重新考虑。 |
| 165 | So my friends and I kept showing up week after week | 所以我和我的朋友们 每周不断出现 |
| 166 | to get paid and learn how to play bridge. | 赚钱学习如何玩桥牌 |
| 167 | Before long, we loved the card game itself, | 不久之后,我们喜欢玩牌游戏本身 |
| 168 | founded the Amherst Bridge Club, | 建立了阿默斯特桥俱乐部, |
| 169 | and began traveling to tournaments across the world, | 并开始参加世界各地的比赛, |
| 170 | meeting tons of new people. | 会见一吨新人 |
| 171 | Full disclosure, we don't pay you to play bridge anymore. | 完全公开,我们不付你玩桥牌了。 |
| 172 | So I know it's a tough sell. | 所以我知道这是很难卖掉的 |
| 173 | But even if you don't start playing bridge, | 但即使你不开始玩桥牌 |
| 174 | I hope you'll remember bridges. | 我希望你记得桥。 |
| 175 | Because the unexpected gift of bridge | 因为桥的意外礼物 |
| 176 | has been the connections it's built me. | 一直以来都是它给我建立的联系 |
| 177 | Bridges that span generations and geographies. | 跨越几代人和地理的桥梁. |
| 178 | Bridge isn't just a card game. | 桥不只是一个牌局。 |
| 179 | It's about partnership. | 这是关于伙伴关系。 |
| 180 | We share strategies with each other, yes, | 我們互相分享策略,是的, |
| 181 | but also stories and life lessons. | 还有故事和生活课 |
| 182 | Each table I've played at is a new conversation | 我演奏的每一张桌子都是新的对话 |
| 183 | and lets me glimpse different life paths. | 让我看看不同的人生道路 |
| 184 | I play with Jeff, a 40-year-old Canadian teacher, | 我和Jeff玩 40岁的加拿大老师 |
| 185 | Zia, an 80-year-old Pakistani grandmaster, | Zia 一个80岁的巴基斯坦祖母 |
| 186 | Bill, a retired biologist, and even Bill Gates. | 比尔,一个退休的生物学家, 甚至比尔盖茨。 |
| 187 | Many friendships I've made through bridge | 我结过很多友谊 |
| 188 | wouldn't have existed if I didn't seek out this connection. | 如果我没有找到这个联系 就不会存在 |
| 189 | So find mentors, learn who to trust, | 找到导师 学会相信谁 |
| 190 | because not all advice is worth taking. | 因为并非所有的建议都是值得的。 |
| 191 | Not all advice is worth taking. | 并非所有的建议都是值得的。 |
| 192 | If you don't believe me, you're already doing a great job. | 如果你不相信我, 你已经做了一个伟大的工作。 |
| 193 | No one does life alone, so lean on our Amherst community. | 没有人独自生活, 所以靠我们的Amherst社区。 |
| 194 | Some of my earliest life advice came from alums | 我一些最早的人生建议来自于校友 |
| 195 | who I reached out to. | 我联系到谁了 |
| 196 | Mike Reed, class of 04, AJ Chienessey and Ryan Park, | 迈克·里德,04级,AJ·奇内西和瑞安·朴, |
| 197 | 05, Haoran Tang, 2023, and many, many more. | 05, 郝兰唐, 2023, 以及许多, 更多. |
| 198 | These alums responded to emails from some green freshmen | 这些校友回应了一些绿色新生的电子邮件 |
| 199 | who knew nothing about a career in law, | 他对法律事业一无所知, |
| 200 | and they spent hours conversing with me. | 他们和我交谈了好几个小时 |
| 201 | They built me a bridge. | 他们给我建了座桥 |
| 202 | Bridges go two ways. | 桥通二道. |
| 203 | What bridge will you build for someone else? | 你会为别人建什么桥? |
| 204 | In just a few minutes, you'll also be an alum | 再过几分钟,你也会是校友 |
| 205 | who can start building bridges for others, | 谁可以开始为他人建造桥梁, |
| 206 | take some time to mentor the interns at work, | 需要一些时间来指导实习生的工作, |
| 207 | or respond to that Amherst freshman who emails you | 或回复那个发邮件给你的阿默斯特大一 |
| 208 | because you never know, | 因为你不知道, |
| 209 | you might get a shout out at their commencement. | 你可能会在他们开始的时候大喊大叫 |
| 210 | Look to receive and create bridges. | 寻找接收和创建桥梁。 |
| 211 | For me, it started with a silly little card game, bridge. | 对我来说,它从一个愚蠢的小牌游戏开始,桥。 |
| 212 | Find your bridge and pay it forward. | 找到你的桥,并支付它向前。 |
| 213 | It's finally time I give my stolen box back. | 我终于该把我的偷来的盒子还回去了 |
| 214 | But before I do, seniors, take a moment to ask yourself, | 但在此之前, 高年级学生, 花点时间问问自己, |
| 215 | what will you take away from your time at Amherst, | 你们在阿默斯特的时候,将取舍什么? |
| 216 | and what will you give back to others | 你们怎样报答他人呢? |
| 217 | in life after Amherst? | 在阿默斯特之后的生活中? |
| 218 | It might take a while to answer that, | 要回答这个问题可能需要一段时间。 |
| 219 | so remember, Amherst isn't going to be just one time | 记住,阿默斯特不会只是一次 |
| 220 | or place in our lives. | 或在我们的生活。 |
| 221 | It's gonna be an eternal community of friends | 这将是一个永恒的朋友社区 |
| 222 | and a lifelong of explaining | 和终身解释 |
| 223 | that no, we're different from UMass Amherst. | 不,我们和乌马斯·阿默斯特不一样 |
| 224 | When our parents first sent us here, | 当我们的父母 第一次让我们在这里, |
| 225 | I'm sure that they hoped we'd become less naive | 我相信他们希望我们不再天真 |
| 226 | and maybe figure out a life plan. | 并想出一个生活计划。 |
| 227 | But I hope we leave just as green | 但我希望我们离开 一样绿色 |
| 228 | and still a little uncertain about our road ahead. | 未来的道路还有些不确定 |
| 229 | Because as the poet who we named | 因为作为我们命名的诗人 |
| 230 | our kind of ugly frost library after once said, | 我们那种丑陋的霜冻图书馆 曾经说过 |
| 231 | two roads diverged. | 有两条路是分开的 |
| 232 | I chose the one less traveled by, | 我选择了少一个旅行, |
| 233 | and that has made all the difference. | 这使得所有的变化。 |
| 234 | I hope you choose the roads not taken. | 我希望你选择没有走的路 |
| 235 | I hope you hold on to your greenness | 我希望你坚持你的绿色 |
| 236 | and the things many others would leave behind. | 和许多人所遗下的东西。 |
| 237 | Because some of those things, like green to-go boxes, | 因为有些东西, 像绿色的到去的盒子, |
| 238 | are actually worth keeping around. | 值得留下来 |
| 239 | So before I end, I wanna thank President Elliott, | 所以在我结束之前 我想感谢艾略特总统 |
| 240 | the board of trustees, professors, | 董事会,教授, |
| 241 | and all members of the college. | 以及学院的所有成员 |
| 242 | You've truly made Amherst special, | 你让阿默斯特变得特别 |
| 243 | and it's been an honor to speak today. | 今天我很荣幸能发言 |
| 244 | Thank you families for coming all this way | 感谢你们一家人一路赶来 |
| 245 | while other commencements get Nobel Prize winners | 而其他开始获得诺贝尔奖得主 |
| 246 | and Kermit the Frog, you got me. | 和柯密特的青蛙, 你得到了我。 |
| 247 | Finally, thank you and congratulations, seniors. | 最后,谢谢你和祝贺, 老年人。 |
| 248 | It was a pleasure to be young with you. | 很高兴能跟你在一起 |
| 249 | As we depart, let's keep these three | 我们离开的时候,我们保留这三只 |
| 250 | green box lessons in mind. | 绿色盒的课,记住。 |
| 251 | Build bridges, embrace the rotten, | 架起桥梁,拥抱腐朽者, |
| 252 | and bring our freshman greenness to go. | 带我们的新生绿色去。 |
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