实战练英文|乡村天王Eric Church,用一把吉他,讲述

实战练英文|乡村天王Eric Church,用一把吉他,讲述人生最真实的课题:人生需要不断调音,才能奏出动人的乐章|北卡罗来纳大学2026毕业典礼致词|完整中英
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| 0:00 | Please join me in welcoming your 2026 commencement speaker, Eric Church. | 请与我一起欢迎你的2026开场演讲者 Eric Church. |
| 0:25 | I've been grinding on this for a little bit about how to do it. | 我一直在磨这个 一点点如何做到这一点。 |
| 0:29 | I have torn up multiple speeches. | 我翻翻了多个演讲。 |
| 0:32 | I have thrown things. | 我扔东西。 |
| 0:33 | And in one of my fits of frustration, I sat down with a guitar. | 在我的挫折中,我用吉他坐下来。 |
| 0:38 | And I thought, man, who am I kidding? | 我想,伙计,我在开玩笑吗? |
| 0:42 | I need to figure out a way to do this with a guitar. | 我需要想办法用吉他来做这件事 |
| 0:45 | So if you'll indulge me, I want to start with a sound. | 所以,如果你允许我, 我想从声音开始。 |
| 0:53 | You know this sound. | 你知道这个声音。 |
| 0:55 | It's a guitar that's out of tune. | 吉他不调. |
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| 1 | Please join me in welcoming your 2026 commencement speaker, Eric Church. | 请与我一起欢迎你的2026开场演讲者 Eric Church. |
| 2 | I've been grinding on this for a little bit about how to do it. | 我一直在磨这个 一点点如何做到这一点。 |
| 3 | I have torn up multiple speeches. | 我翻翻了多个演讲。 |
| 4 | I have thrown things. | 我扔东西。 |
| 5 | And in one of my fits of frustration, I sat down with a guitar. | 在我的挫折中,我用吉他坐下来。 |
| 6 | And I thought, man, who am I kidding? | 我想,伙计,我在开玩笑吗? |
| 7 | I need to figure out a way to do this with a guitar. | 我需要想办法用吉他来做这件事 |
| 8 | So if you'll indulge me, I want to start with a sound. | 所以,如果你允许我, 我想从声音开始。 |
| 9 | You know this sound. | 你知道这个声音。 |
| 10 | It's a guitar that's out of tune. | 吉他不调. |
| 11 | Something that almost gets there, that tries, but doesn't. | 几乎到达那里的东西, 那尝试,但没有。 |
| 12 | And some ancient, honest part of your brain knows it immediately. | 而一些古老的,诚实的部分 你的大脑立即知道它。 |
| 13 | You don't need training to hear it. | 你不需要训练才能听到 |
| 14 | You just know. | 随便你 |
| 15 | That sound is the sound of something beautiful that has not been tended to. | 那声音是美丽事物的音响,没有被注意。 |
| 16 | Six strings. | 六根绳. |
| 17 | When all six are in tune, the chords they make can stop a conversation cold. | 当六声调合时,他们制作的和弦可以停止冷谈. |
| 18 | Carry a broken person through the worst night of their life or make a room full | 带一个破碎的人度过人生最糟糕的夜晚 或让房间满满 |
| 19 | of strangers feel for three minutes like they've known each other forever. | 陌生人觉得他们相识了三分钟 |
| 20 | But if even one is off, the whole chord unravels, not gradually, | 但是,如果一个关闭,整个和弦破裂,而不是逐渐, |
| 21 | not politely, the moment you strike it. | 不礼貌,当你打它的时刻。 |
| 22 | You know, I believe your life runs on this principle, and I'm going to break it | 你知道,我相信,你的生命运行 在这个原则,我要打破它 |
| 23 | down for you right now and tell you about your strings, okay? | 现在就下来 告诉你你的弦,好吗? |
| 24 | String one, the low E, that is your foundation. | 弦乐一,低E,那是你的基础。 |
| 25 | The low E is the thickest string. | 低E是最粗的弦. |
| 26 | It is the heaviest. | 这是最重的。 |
| 27 | Every chord a guitar can make rests on this string being in tune. | 吉他能做的每一个和弦 都取决于这根弦的谐音 |
| 28 | Your faith is the low E of your life. | 你的信仰是一生中最卑微的E. |
| 29 | The thing that sits at the very bottom of you. | 那个坐在你最下面的东西 |
| 30 | Your belief about what this life is for, what you owe, what holds the universe | 你对生命的意义,你欠的, 拥有宇宙的信念 |
| 31 | together when science reaches the edge of its own explanation and shrugs. | 当科学到达它自己解释的边缘, 并缩水。 |
| 32 | The people who tend to their faith in ordinary seasons do not come undone | 那些在普通季节中 保持信仰的人不会消失 |
| 33 | in extraordinary ones. | 在不寻常的。 |
| 34 | They still hurt. | 他们仍然受伤。 |
| 35 | They still sit in hospital waiting rooms asking unanswerable questions at three | 他们仍然坐在医院的候诊室里 问三点不能回答的问题 |
| 36 | in the morning, but they have a foundation to return to. | 早晨,他们有归宿。 |
| 37 | The world will try to untune this string through busyness, through slow accumulation | 这个世界会试图通过繁忙和缓慢的积累来解开这个字符串 |
| 38 | of a full schedule, a full inbox, a full life. | 一个完整的日程, 一个完整的收件箱, 一个完整的生活。 |
| 39 | Listen to me. | 听我说 |
| 40 | Tend to your faith, not just when you're broken, but when you're whole. | 接受你的信仰,不只是当你被打破的时候,而是当你完整的时候. |
| 41 | String two. | 弦二声. |
| 42 | String two is family, okay? | 弦二是家庭,好吗? |
| 43 | Look out at these bleachers, look around. | 看看这些漂白器,看看周围。 |
| 44 | Somewhere in that crowd is someone who has loved you longer than you've been easy | 在人群的某个地方 是一个爱你的时间比你容易的人 |
| 45 | to love, someone who saw you at your actual worst, not your public facing worst, | 爱的人,谁看到你 在你的实际最差, 不是你的公众面对最差, |
| 46 | and didn't leave you, someone who worked a job they didn't love to put a book | 没有离开你,一个工作的人 他们不喜欢写一本书 |
| 47 | in your hands you sometimes didn't open, someone who sat alone in a quiet house | 你有时不开门,一个人坐在安静的房子里 |
| 48 | and cried the weekend you moved into dorms and wondered, have I done enough? | 周末你搬进宿舍哭着问 我做够了吗? |
| 49 | That is family. | 这是家庭。 |
| 50 | And the A string is where the music starts to get warm. | 而A弦是音乐开始发热的地方. |
| 51 | It gives a chord its body, its richness. | 使一弦其体,富贵. |
| 52 | It's the string that makes you feel like you're not alone in a room. | 是弦令觉不独在室. |
| 53 | I want to warn you about something. | 我想提醒你一些事情 |
| 54 | You're about to get busy in ways that feel important and many are. | 你即将忙碌起来 以方式感到重要 并且很多是。 |
| 55 | Professionally ambitious, creatively alive, building the life you've been pointed | 职业野心勃勃 创造性活泼 打造你被指的人生 |
| 56 | toward for four years, and family, because they love you with the grace you will spend | 4年了,还有家人,因为他们爱你 以你的恩典 |
| 57 | most of your life trying to deserve, will rarely demand your time. | 你生命中的大部分时间都是为了得到应得的 很少需要你的时间 |
| 58 | They'll tell you they understand, and they'll mean it. | 他们会告诉你,他们理解, 他们会说真的。 |
| 59 | Do not take them up on it. | 不要让他们在上面。 |
| 60 | Call your people, not when there's news, not when there's nothing. | 唤汝民,非有消息时,无事时也. |
| 61 | Show up when it costs you something. | 当它花费你的东西。 |
| 62 | Let them see you when things are hard. | 让他们看到你 当事情困难。 |
| 63 | The A string is not a holiday string. | A弦不是节日弦. |
| 64 | It's an everyday string, protected. | 这是日常的绳子,保护。 |
| 65 | The D string, the heart of a chord. | D弦,一弦之心. |
| 66 | On a guitar, the D string sits right at the heart of the instrument, | 在吉他上,D弦坐在乐器的核心 |
| 67 | in the middle of the low and high strings, giving the chord its body | 在低线和高线中间 给和弦身体 |
| 68 | and its soul. | 及其灵魂。 |
| 69 | Strike a full chord in a D string is what you feel in the center of your chest. | 在D弦中击出完整的和弦是胸前中央的感觉. |
| 70 | That is not an accident. | 这不是意外。 |
| 71 | That is exactly what the right spouse and partner will do for your life. | 这正是合适的配偶和伴侣会为你做的一切 |
| 72 | The person you choose to share your life with is the most important decision | 你选择与你分享生活的人是最重要的决定 |
| 73 | you will ever make outside of your faith. | 你将永远做出你的信仰之外。 |
| 74 | They will either amplify every other string you're playing, | 他们要么放大你弹的每根弦 |
| 75 | or slowly pull the whole instrument into an out-of-tune mess. | 或慢慢地把整个乐器 拖入一场混乱之中 |
| 76 | Not that I know that, I love you, honey. | 我不知道 我爱你 亲爱的 |
| 77 | Find your best friend, someone you want to talk to at the end of a long day. | 找一个你最好的朋友, 一个你想在漫长的一天结束时说话的人。 |
| 78 | Look for shared values over shared interests. | 寻找共同价值而不是共同利益。 |
| 79 | You don't need to love the same food or music. | 你不需要爱同样的食物或音乐。 |
| 80 | You need the same compass, though it would be a benefit | 你需要同样的指南针, 虽然这将是一个好处 |
| 81 | 如果你们都讨厌NC State. | |
| 82 | That wasn't in the speech, I added. | 我补充道,演讲里没有这个 |
| 83 | I'm throwing it in there. | 我把它扔进去。 |
| 84 | The right partner is the string that makes the whole chord ring fuller | 合适的伴侣是弦 使整个弦环更完整 |
| 85 | and warmer and truer than anything you could ever play alone. | 更温暖 更真实 比任何你能单独玩的。 |
| 86 | Choose them wisely and then love them fiercely. | 明智地选择他们,然后激烈地爱他们。 |
| 87 | The G-string. | G弦乐. |
| 88 | That's what it's called. | 谓之'. |
| 89 | Sorry, I didn't name the damn thing, that's just what it is. | 对不起,我没给那该死的名字,就是这个意思 |
| 90 | The G-string drifts faster than the others on a guitar. | G弦在吉他上的漂移速度比其他人快. |
| 91 | I can promise you that is true, I have dealt with it my whole life. | 我可以向你保证,这是真的, 我处理它的整个生活。 |
| 92 | It's because ambition and resilience both live on this string | 因为野心和韧性都靠这根绳子 |
| 93 | and they pull in opposite directions. | 他们向相反的方向拉。 |
| 94 | I want you to want things. | 我要你想要的东西。 |
| 95 | You should want things. | 你应该想要的东西。 |
| 96 | The world has more than enough people standing at the edge of their own potential, | 世界有足够的人 站在自己潜力的边缘, |
| 97 | waiting for a permission slip that was never going to arrive. | 等待着无法到达的许可 |
| 98 | Want the thing. | 想要的东西。 |
| 99 | Say it out loud. | 大声说出来。 |
| 100 | Build toward it with everything you have. | 用你拥有的一切来向它发展 |
| 101 | And when you fail, and you will fail. | 当你失败,你会失败。 |
| 102 | Hemingway wrote it plainly right in the sternum. | 海明威写在胸前 |
| 103 | The world breaks everyone. | 这个世界打破了每个人。 |
| 104 | Afterward, the best of us are stronger at the broken places. | 之后,我们中最优秀的人在破碎的地方更强大. |
| 105 | Get back up, tune the string, keep playing. | 站起来,调弦,继续演奏 |
| 106 | The B-string is about community. | B大调奏鸣曲是关于社区的. |
| 107 | Your generation faces a temptation no generation before has ever faced. | 你们这一代人面临着前所未有的诱惑。 |
| 108 | The temptation to perform for everyone and belong to no one. | 为每个人表演的诱惑 不属于任何人 |
| 109 | To be globally visible and locally invisible. | 具有全球可见性和地方可见性。 |
| 110 | To have thousands of followers and no one knows actually where you live. | 有成千上万的追随者 没有人知道你住在哪里 |
| 111 | Resist this. | 坚持住 |
| 112 | Plant yourself somewhere. | 将自己植入某处. |
| 113 | Put down roots with the full intention of growing there. | 放下根来 完全想在那里生长 |
| 114 | Learn the actual names, not user names, of the people around you. | 学习你周围人的实际姓名,而不是用户姓名. |
| 115 | Volunteer. | 志愿兵. |
| 116 | Coach the team. | 教练团队。 |
| 117 | Build the thing your community needs, even if the internet will never see it. | 建立你社区需要的东西, 即使互联网永远不会看到它。 |
| 118 | Generosity. | 仁义. |
| 119 | Generosity is not something you do after you make it. | 慷慨不是你在做之后做的事。 |
| 120 | It's how you make it. | 如何是汝作么生会. |
| 121 | And if you get lost, and at some point, I promise you, you will. | 如果你迷路了,我答应你,你会的 |
| 122 | You have a place you belong now. | 你现在有个属于你的地方了 |
| 123 | Come back. | 回来 |
| 124 | Walk through the quad on a fall day. | 秋天穿过四角 |
| 125 | Or sit on Franklin Street on a game day. | 或坐富兰克林街 在一个游戏日。 |
| 126 | And remember, these are my people because I am a Tar Heel. | 记住,这些是我的人, 因为我是一个塔脚跟。 |
| 127 | My last tour took me 42,185 miles over North America. | 我上次的巡演 花了我42,185英里 在北美。 |
| 128 | And every single night, near and far, someone had on a Carolina flag, | 每个晚上, 近距离, 有人在卡罗莱纳州旗, |
| 129 | a Carolina hat, or a Carolina jersey. | 一个卡罗来纳州的帽子, 或者一个卡罗来纳州的球衣。 |
| 130 | You will find yourselves, speaking from experience, high-fiving strangers wearing | 你会发现自己,从经验出发, 高血压的陌生人穿 |
| 131 | Carolina gear in faraway airports, or staying up across time zones to catch | 卡罗莱纳装备在遥远的机场 或停留在跨时区捕捉 |
| 132 | the moments, last moments of a game, or canceling a show in Texas, | 游戏的最后时刻 或者取消在德克萨斯的演出 |
| 133 | to be with your people in the final four as you vanquish Coach K. | 与你的人在决赛四 与你击败教练K。 |
| 134 | You're welcome. | 不用谢 |
| 135 | And having the ultimate pride knowing that's the night my boys learn the | 和拥有终极的骄傲 知道这是晚上 我的孩子们学会了 |
| 136 | Carolina fight song ends with, go to hell, Duke. | 卡罗莱纳的战斗歌曲以结束,去地狱,公爵. |
| 137 | True. | 没错 |
| 138 | Carry this community with you as you plant your roots. | 带着这个社区,当你植根。 |
| 139 | It will reap a bountiful harvest and make your song richer and fuller. | 它会收获丰收 让你的歌更丰富更丰富 |
| 140 | And finally, the high E string. | 最后,高E弦。 |
| 141 | This is the thinnest string. | 这是最薄的弦。 |
| 142 | It's the highest note. | 这是最高的音符。 |
| 143 | The one that carries the melody, that single line above the chord that everyone | 带旋律的, 单线在和弦之上,每个人 |
| 144 | in this room recognizes and takes with them on the way home. | 在这间屋子里认识他们 带他们回家 |
| 145 | It's also the one bent most easily by outside pressure. | 它也是最容易被外界压力弯曲的 |
| 146 | Social media is going to show you a thousand versions of a life that looks | 社交媒体会给你们看一千个版本的人生 |
| 147 | better than yours. | 比你的强 |
| 148 | The comparison will be relentless, curated, and a lie dressed up in really | 对比是无情的, 精心设计的, 和谎言穿在真正的 |
| 149 | good lighting. | 良好的照明。 |
| 150 | Someone's comments, someone's criticism, someone's cold opinion is going to try | 有人的评论,有人的批评, 有人的冷酷观点要去尝试 |
| 151 | to convince you to retune yourself to match what they think you should sound | 说服你重新调整自己 适应他们认为你应该听到的声音 |
| 152 | like. | 喜欢。 |
| 153 | Do not let them touch your string. | 别让他们碰你的绳子 |
| 154 | You are made uniquely, wonderfully, distinctly. | 你是独一无二的 奇妙的 独特的 |
| 155 | There's a sound only you can make, a voice that has never existed before you | 只有你才能发出声音 声音在你之前从未存在过 |
| 156 | and will never exist again. | 永远不再存在 |
| 157 | A contribution only you can bring, a way of seeing that belongs to only you. | 只有你才能带来一个贡献 一个只有你才能得到的贡献 |
| 158 | The world does not need another cover song. | 这个世界不需要另一首封面歌 |
| 159 | It needs an original. | 它需要一个原创。 |
| 160 | Six strings, six strings of life and willingness to keep them in tune. | 六弦,六弦的生命 和愿意保持它们的谐律。 |
| 161 | Six principles, six pillars. | 六原则六柱. |
| 162 | When all six are in tune with each other, the chord your life makes is full and | 当六根琴相互配合时, 你的生活所制造的和弦是满的 |
| 163 | resonant and true. | 共鸣与真实。 |
| 164 | All six will drift. | 六者皆会漂流. |
| 165 | Not one or two, all six in their own time, in their own season. | 不是一两个,所有六个在自己的时间, 在自己的季节。 |
| 166 | Your faith will go quiet when you need it loud. | 当你需要的时候,你的信仰会安静下来 |
| 167 | Your family will get complicated in a way only the people who love you most can | 你的家人会在某种程度上变得复杂 只有最爱你的人才能 |
| 168 | complicate things. | 事情变得复杂。 |
| 169 | You will go through hard seasons with your spouse. | 你会经历艰难的季节 与你的配偶。 |
| 170 | Your ambition will hollow out and your resilience will wear thin. | 你的雄心将空虚, 你的韧性将磨损。 |
| 171 | Your community will start to feel like an obligation and your world will try to | 你的社区将开始感到 义务,你的世界将尝试 |
| 172 | sand down the edges of exactly who you are. | 沙子在你的边缘。 |
| 173 | This is not failure. | 这不是失败。 |
| 174 | This is not weakness. | 这不是软弱。 |
| 175 | It's the inevitable universal experience of living in an imperfect world that | 生活在不完美世界的必然普遍经验 |
| 176 | doesn't stop to let us tune up. | 不停止让我们调头。 |
| 177 | And the difference between a life that sounds like music and a life that sounds | 听起来像音乐的生活和听起来像音乐的生活之间的区别 |
| 178 | like noise is whether you stop and listen. | 声音就像你停止听。 |
| 179 | Whether you're honest enough to hear which string has drifted out of tune and | 无论你是否诚实地听到哪根弦从曲调中飘走 |
| 180 | humble enough to make the adjustment instead of just turning up the volume and | 谦逊到可以调整 而不是把音量调高 |
| 181 | hoping nobody notices, because you will notice. | 希望没人注意到 因为你会注意到的 |
| 182 | The part of you that knows what the chord should sound like will always notice. | 你们中知道和弦的音响 总是会注意到的 |
| 183 | It will not let you go. | 它不会让你走的。 |
| 184 | Life won't be right until it is tuned. | 生命不会是正确的,直到它被调谐。 |
| 185 | Trust what your heart hears and is telling you about your song. | 相信你的心听到 并告诉你关于你的歌。 |
| 186 | So graduates, now I encourage you to take your six strings, | 毕业生们,现在我鼓励你们拿起你的六弦琴 |
| 187 | make it something worth hearing, and play your song as I leave you with mine. | 让它值得听到的东西, 并弹你的歌 当我离开你与我的。 |
| 188 | Hang on, we got to do this the right way. | 坚持住,我们必须做正确的方式。 |
| 189 | Hang on. | 坚持住。 |
| 190 | Ka-puh-dee-ka. | 嘉普de德. |
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