实战练英文 | 华裔准博士生毕业演讲：我们是海洋，将掀起巨浪
实战练英文 | 华裔准博士生毕业演讲：我们是海洋，将掀起巨浪 | 冒险的重要性 | 哥伦比亚大学2025毕业典礼，杰出学生演讲 | Andrew Yang致词
发布于 2025-12-04 · 时长 10:41字幕摘录
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| 0:00 | So I'm going to Caltech for my PhD, | 所以我要去加州理工大学读博士 |
| 0:01 | shout out to Brent's lab, who are hopefully on live right now. | 向布伦特的实验室大喊大叫 希望他们现在现场直播 |
| 0:04 | Yeah! | 对! |
| 0:05 | And when I went to visit LA, | 当我去洛杉矶时 |
| 0:07 | I got lost late at night looking for a union station, | 我深夜迷路 寻找一个工会站, |
| 0:09 | and I asked a stranger at the bus stop for directions | 我问一个陌生人在公交车站方向 |
| 0:11 | and ended up sitting next to him on the bus. | 结果坐在他旁边的巴士上 |
| 0:13 | We chatted a bit before our conversation turned to syllogisms | 我们聊了一会儿,然后我们谈了一下 |
| 0:16 | and the Nickomachian ethics, | 和尼科马奇的伦理, |
| 0:18 | and he was impressed that Colombia taught us so well about Aristotle | 他印象深刻的是,哥伦比亚教给我们 亚里士多德这么好 |
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| 1 | So I'm going to Caltech for my PhD, | 所以我要去加州理工大学读博士 |
| 2 | shout out to Brent's lab, who are hopefully on live right now. | 向布伦特的实验室大喊大叫 希望他们现在现场直播 |
| 3 | Yeah! | 对! |
| 4 | And when I went to visit LA, | 当我去洛杉矶时 |
| 5 | I got lost late at night looking for a union station, | 我深夜迷路 寻找一个工会站, |
| 6 | and I asked a stranger at the bus stop for directions | 我问一个陌生人在公交车站方向 |
| 7 | and ended up sitting next to him on the bus. | 结果坐在他旁边的巴士上 |
| 8 | We chatted a bit before our conversation turned to syllogisms | 我们聊了一会儿,然后我们谈了一下 |
| 9 | and the Nickomachian ethics, | 和尼科马奇的伦理, |
| 10 | and he was impressed that Colombia taught us so well about Aristotle | 他印象深刻的是,哥伦比亚教给我们 亚里士多德这么好 |
| 11 | that he offered to take me out for dinner. | 他让我出去吃晚饭 |
| 12 | And while sure, I could have ended up without my kidneys in an ice bath, | 当然,我本来可以在冰浴中失去肾脏 |
| 13 | it turns out he was a former sociology professor, | 原来他是前社会学教授 |
| 14 | and we engaged in one of my most exciting debates | 我们参加了我最激动人心的辩论 |
| 15 | about what it means to belong somewhere. | 关于属于某个地方的意义 |
| 16 | All because I went, screw it, I'm in. | 因为我去,去他妈的,我加入。 |
| 17 | The highest honor awarded to an engineering graduate | 授予工程专业毕业生的最高荣誉 |
| 18 | is given to our valedictorian, | 给我们的考生, |
| 19 | the student with the highest grade point average. | 成绩最高的学生。 |
| 20 | The ILLIG prize is awarded by the faculty to Andrew Yang | ILLIG奖由院士颁给杨安德鲁 |
| 21 | for commendable proficiency in their studies. | 他们的学习能力值得称赞。 |
| 22 | Let's applaud. | 让我们鼓掌。 |
| 23 | Come on over here, and we'll do that. | 过来,我们会做到这一点。 |
| 24 | So a double major in physics and applied math, | 物理学和数学应用的双重专业 |
| 25 | Andrew is also the recipient of this year's Applied Physics Faculty Award. | 安德鲁也是今年应用物理系奖的获得者. |
| 26 | His interest lies in the intersection between physics, mathematics, and computation. | 他的兴趣在于物理,数学和计算之间的交汇点. |
| 27 | His research direction has swung wildly | 他的研究方向已经疯狂地扭曲 |
| 28 | from designing long short-term memory neural networks | 从设计长期记忆神经网络 |
| 29 | to searching for periodic signature structures | 搜索定期签名结构 |
| 30 | with Zhuanan Li, Chu Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics. | 与 Zhu南李,,楚国应用数学助理教授. |
| 31 | The majority of his work has been with Simon Billinge, | 他的大部分工作都是与西蒙·比林格, |
| 32 | Professor of Material Science and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Math, | 材料科学教授、应用物理和应用数学教授 |
| 33 | on designing fast techniques and programs | 设计快速技术和程序 |
| 34 | to probe changes in material structure from high-throughput diffraction data. | 从高通量 Diffraction 数据中探测材料结构的变化。 |
| 35 | We're still going. | 我们还是去。 |
| 36 | He and Billinge have taken these techniques | 他和比林格都学过这些 |
| 37 | to beam lines in three continents. | 三大洲的梁线 |
| 38 | Andrew enjoys discussing his work | 安德鲁喜欢讨论他的工作 |
| 39 | and was the first undergraduate to speak at a Brooker AXS MIT Symposium. | 并且是第一个在布鲁克AXS麻省理工学院研讨会上发言的本科生. |
| 40 | He'll continue his exploration of material structures and behaviors | 他将继续探索物质结构和行为 |
| 41 | through neutron diffraction and machine learning of inner atomic potentials at Caltech. | 通过中子衍射 和机器学习 内原子潜力 在加州理工学院。 |
| 42 | Please help me congratulate and welcome to the podium | 请帮我祝贺和欢迎来到讲台 |
| 43 | for remarks this year's recipient of the ILLIG prize | 今年的ILLIG奖获得者 |
| 44 | and valedictorian of the class of 2025, Andrew Yang. | 以及2025年班级的考生,杨安德鲁. |
| 45 | So, thank you Dean Morrison. | 谢谢你 迪恩·莫里森 |
| 46 | Every good ceremony places its best speeches at the beginning and at the end, | 每一次好仪式 都会在开头和结尾 发表最好的演讲 |
| 47 | which is why I'm speaking in the middle of class day. | 所以我才在课上说 |
| 48 | And to be honest, that's fair. | 老实说 这很公平 |
| 49 | When I look at this crowd, I see students pioneering clean energy, | 当我看着这群人时,我看到学生们在开拓清洁能源, |
| 50 | ridding plastic from our oceans. | 将塑料从海洋中清除 |
| 51 | We have a real-life Stark Labs featured recently in a Veritasium video. | 我们有一个真实的史塔克实验室 最近在一个Veritasium视频。 |
| 52 | Students using machine learning to explore the quantum world | 学生们利用机器学习探索量子世界 |
| 53 | and working with NASA to launch a freaking satellite into space. | 并与美国航天局合作 将一颗可怕的卫星发射到太空 |
| 54 | Despite all of these amazing people who could be up here today, | 尽管这些令人惊奇的人 今天可能在这里, |
| 55 | they choose the dork with the Among Us keychain | 他们用我们的密钥链选择圆顶, |
| 56 | that you've probably never seen outside of class. | 你可能从来没有见过 课外。 |
| 57 | For those of you who've had me as a TA though, | 对那些有我作为TA的人来说 |
| 58 | watching me yap up here probably isn't strange. | 看着我在这里乱咬可能不奇怪 |
| 59 | You know, I love lecturing | 我喜欢说教 |
| 60 | and could very well spend the next 45 minutes glazing Euclidean distance matrices. | 并很可能花45分钟 凝胶欧几利得的距离矩阵。 |
| 61 | But the best part about teaching here at Columbia | 但最好的部分是哥伦比亚的教学 |
| 62 | is seeing how we all interact so differently with the same material. | 看到我们如何 互动如此不同 与同样的材料。 |
| 63 | And I think this is representative of Columbia as a whole. | 我认为这是整个哥伦比亚的代表。 |
| 64 | Now, don't fact-check me, | 现在,不要检查我的事实, |
| 65 | but not only does our class represent all 50 states, | 我们的班级不仅代表50个州 |
| 66 | we represent almost half the countries. | 我们几乎代表了一半的国家。 |
| 67 | We come from the biggest cities to the smallest towns, | 我们从最大的城市到最小的城镇 |
| 68 | and a fifth of us are the first in our families | 我们中有五分之一是家庭第一 |
| 69 | to even attend, let alone graduate, university. | 甚至上大学 更别说毕业了 |
| 70 | Yet together, as one class, | 然而作为一个班级, |
| 71 | we struggled through introductory physics, | 我们通过介绍性物理来挣扎, |
| 72 | fared through the insane heat waves in our dorms, | 度过了我们宿舍里疯狂的热浪 |
| 73 | pulled all-nighters to finish our art of engineering projects, | 整夜赶来完成工程项目 |
| 74 | and spent hours in Butler figuring out how to add just one more page to our music hum essays. | 在巴特勒呆了好几个小时 想着如何在我们的音乐杂文中再增加一页 |
| 75 | All right. | 好吧,我们走。 |
| 76 | So I want to share a bit about my background and how it shaped my perspective here. | 我想分享一下我的背景 以及它如何塑造我的观点。 |
| 77 | Now I know we're all excited to graduate and finally be free of classes, | 现在我知道,我们都兴奋 毕业,终于没有课, |
| 78 | but unfortunately, I'm going to put you through one last lecture. | 但不幸的是,我会让你接受最后的演讲 |
| 79 | So my research, it's all about how materials look on the nanoscale. | 因此,我的研究, 都涉及材料在纳米尺度上的样子。 |
| 80 | So current microscopes aren't powerful enough to see the individual atom, | 所以现在的显微镜不够强大 无法看到单个原子 |
| 81 | so we have to be a little more creative and we shine lasers on them. | 所以我们必须更富有创造力 给它们发射激光 |
| 82 | So it's kind of like when you shine a laser on a mirror | 所以,它有点像 当你照在镜子上的激光 |
| 83 | and the direction the laser bounces tells you the angle the mirror is oriented, | 激光反弹的方向告诉你 镜面的方向 |
| 84 | but no real-world mirror is perfectly smooth. | 但是没有真实世界的镜子是完全平滑的。 |
| 85 | So if you turn off the lights and use a strong enough laser, | 所以如果你关掉灯 用足够强的激光 |
| 86 | you can see not only a bright dot where the reflected light lands, | 你不仅可以看到一个亮点 在那里反射的光线着陆, |
| 87 | but also small fluctuations in light. | 光线也有微小波动 |
| 88 | These minute ripples tell us what atoms compose our mirror | 这些细微的波纹告诉我们是什么原子构成我们的镜子 |
| 89 | and where the defects are. | 以及缺陷所在 |
| 90 | The tiniest waves are the most important. | 最细小的浪是最重要的。 |
| 91 | Waving high in orientation week to some of your now closest friends. | 向一些你现在最亲密的朋友 |
| 92 | Cheerful waves goodbye to your family after convocation, | 欢乐的波 告别你的家人后, |
| 93 | who have hopefully rejoined you on this day. | 他们希望今天能重新加入你 |
| 94 | Shout out to my mom, dad, my yeah, my nai nai, | 向我妈妈,爸爸,我对,我的奈娜, |
| 95 | and my sister Annie, who's just starting high school. | 还有我姐姐安妮 她刚开始上高中 |
| 96 | No pressure. | 没有压力。 |
| 97 | All right. | 好吧,我们走。 |
| 98 | Sound waves of applause at our amazing performers in Lerner, | 在雷纳的表演者们的掌声 |
| 99 | from waving flags to wavy tides at the free kayaking sessions downtown. | 在市中心的免费皮划艇比赛上 从挥舞旗帜到挥舞潮汐 |
| 100 | We make these waves every day | 我们每天都做这些浪 |
| 101 | from the interactions and time we spend with each other. | 从互动和时间 我们花在彼此。 |
| 102 | In 1807, Joseph Fourier showed how waves can combine | 1807年,约瑟夫·傅里叶展示了波浪如何结合 |
| 103 | to form beautiful functions. | 形成美丽的功能。 |
| 104 | Our interactions combine to form this beautiful community. | 我们的相互作用共同形成了这个美丽的社区。 |
| 105 | When you think back at the time you spent here, | 当你回想起你在这里度过的时光 |
| 106 | what's going to stick with you? | 什么会坚持你? |
| 107 | Well, sure, the horrors of a machine learning midterm | 当然,机器学习中期的恐怖 |
| 108 | are probably never going to leave you, | 也许永远不会离开你, |
| 109 | but I'm certain it's also filled with unplanned urban explorations, | 但我确定它也充满了 计划外的城市探索, |
| 110 | watching sunsets on the Brooklyn Bridge, | 看着布鲁克林桥上的日落 |
| 111 | losing four biens and five hands of hold'em, | 失去四双双和五只手, |
| 112 | and making an Among Us-shaped candle for White Elephant. | 我为白象而以我所造的蜡烛, |
| 113 | All of these with friends by your side. | 这些都是你身边的朋友做的 |
| 114 | While we have some of the most rigorous courses, | 虽然我们有一些最严格的课程, |
| 115 | access to lucrative internships, and the best research laboratories, | 获得有利可图的实习机会,以及最好的研究实验室, |
| 116 | what really makes us is our commitment to each other. | 真正使我们彼此的承诺。 |
| 117 | After all, our slogan is not just engineering, | 毕竟我们的口号不只是工程 |
| 118 | but engineering for humanity. | 但工程为人类服务。 |
| 119 | And Columbia engineers are particularly well-versed in the humanities. | 哥伦比亚的工程师们特别精通人文科学. |
| 120 | So I'm going to Caltech for my PhD. | 我要去加州理工大学读博士 |
| 121 | Shout out to Brent's lab, who are hopefully on live right now. | 向布伦特的实验室大喊大叫 希望他们现在现场直播 |
| 122 | Yeah! | 对! |
| 123 | And when I went to visit LA, | 当我去洛杉矶时 |
| 124 | I got lost late at night looking for a union station, | 我深夜迷路 寻找一个工会站, |
| 125 | and I asked a stranger at the bus stop for directions | 我问一个陌生人在公交车站方向 |
| 126 | and ended up sitting next to him on the bus. | 结果坐在他旁边的巴士上 |
| 127 | We chatted a bit before our conversation turned to syllogisms | 我们聊了一会儿,然后我们谈了一下 |
| 128 | and the Nickomachian ethics, | 和尼科马奇的伦理, |
| 129 | and he was impressed that Columbia taught us so well about Aristotle | 他印象深刻的是哥伦比亚 教给我们亚里士多德 |
| 130 | that he offered to take me out for dinner. | 他让我出去吃晚饭 |
| 131 | And while sure, I could have ended up without my kidneys in an ice bath, | 当然,我本来可以在冰浴中失去肾脏 |
| 132 | it turns out he was a former sociology professor, | 原来他是前社会学教授 |
| 133 | and we engaged in one of my most exciting debates | 我们参加了我最激动人心的辩论 |
| 134 | about what it means to belong somewhere, | 关于属于某个地方的意义, |
| 135 | all because I went, screw it, I'm in. | 因为我去,去他妈的,我加入。 |
| 136 | Which brings me to my final point, | 这让我想到我的最后一点 |
| 137 | the importance of taking risks, | 冒险的重要性, |
| 138 | of splashing through the ripples of uncertainty. | 流淌着不确定的波段 |
| 139 | While this mindset has led to unpleasant situations, | 虽然这种心态导致了不愉快的情况, |
| 140 | like being detained in Japan during midterms week | 就像在中产期周在日本被拘留 |
| 141 | and Googling symptoms of beaver fever after drinking water from a creek, | 和海狸发烧的症状, |
| 142 | like hear me out, I wanted to try the cold spring up at Cold Springs, | 我想试试冷泉的冷泉 |
| 143 | so like, yeah, don't do it. | 所以,是的,不要这样做。 |
| 144 | But taking these risks has also allowed me | 但冒险也让我 |
| 145 | to explore amazing physics across the Pacific Ocean, | 探索整个太平洋的惊人物理学, |
| 146 | become the first undergraduate speaker for the Brooker MIT Symposium, | 成为布鲁克麻省理工学院研讨会的第一位本科演讲人, |
| 147 | and wear a video game costume for graduation speech. | 并穿着电子游戏服装 毕业演讲。 |
| 148 | Oh, thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 149 | Despite all of this, well, now, sorry. | 尽管这一切, 好了,现在,对不起。 |
| 150 | Now, more than ever, it feels difficult to take risks, | 现在 比以往更难冒险 |
| 151 | especially when it feels like the whole world is watching | 特别是当它感觉 像整个世界在看 |
| 152 | and there's always something we can lose. | 总会有损失的 |
| 153 | Despite this, I'm confident our class is exclusively qualified | 尽管如此,我相信我们的班级是完全合格的 |
| 154 | to overcome any hardship. | 以克服任何困难。 |
| 155 | During our NSOP, our campus flooded from the rain, | 在我们的NSOP期间 我们的校园被雨水淹没 |
| 156 | but rather than hiding away, we brought out a boat | 但是我们没有躲起来,而是拿出一条船 |
| 157 | and see if thieves are away outside of John Jay. | 看看强杰外面有没有小偷 |
| 158 | We survived a pandemic, stood with our families abroad, | 我们从一场大流行中幸存下来 和我们在国外的家人站在一起 |
| 159 | and braved events other students may never face in their lives. | 和勇敢的事件 其他学生可能永远不会面对 他们的生活。 |
| 160 | We even spent a good portion of college without generative AI. | 我们甚至花了相当一部分的大学 没有基因AI。 |
| 161 | Like, yeah. | 喜欢,是的。 |
| 162 | Isn't it crazy, like, we started our journey without cloud or perplexity, | 难道它不是疯了一样, 我们开始了我们的旅程 没有云或困惑, |
| 163 | and now LLMs have dominated our... | 现在LLMs已经主导了我们的... |
| 164 | Oh, sorry, GPT says I'm out of free credits, | 哦,对不起,GPT说我没有免费的信用, |
| 165 | so I guess I have to close things off. | 所以我想我得把事情了结了 |
| 166 | Yeah. | 对 |
| 167 | We came here maybe unknowing about what the future would hold | 我们来到这里也许不知道未来会是什么 |
| 168 | and definitely not knowing what these four years would bring, | 肯定不知道这四年会带来什么 |
| 169 | but we made it. | 但我们做到了。 |
| 170 | With the invaluable supports of our friends and family, | 在朋友和家人的宝贵支持下 |
| 171 | after weathering so many tides, | 经过这么多的潮汐, |
| 172 | we've made it to the crest of our college careers. | 我们的大学生涯达到了顶峰 |
| 173 | Look among us, Class of 2025. | 看看我们,2025级。 |
| 174 | We are seas, and we're going to make waves. | 我们是海,我们要去制造海浪。 |
| 175 | Thank you very much. | 谢谢 |
| 176 | All right, clap a little longer so I can put my robe back on. | 好吧,再拍一拍,让我穿上我的长袍 |
| 177 | Thank you, class. | 谢谢你,班级。 |
| 178 | Best class ever in the university. | 大学里最好的班级 |
| 179 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 180 | Okay, that's enough. | 好了,够了。 |
| 181 | All right. | 好吧,我们走。 |
| 182 | Thank you so much. | 非常感谢 |
| 183 | Sorry for the cheesy send-off, | 对不起, 俗气的发送, |
| 184 | but if you wanted a professional speaker, | 但是如果你想要一个专业演讲者, |
| 185 | you would have looked in the college. | 你会在大学里找的 |
| 186 | Now... | 现在... |
| 187 | 现在,我想邀请Reed Ellison,2008年的班级。 | |
| 188 | and President of the Columbia Engineering Alumni Association | 哥伦比亚工程校友会主席 |
| 189 | to the podium. | 进入讲台。 |
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