You Are Not Special(选段正文)_61C

You Are Not Special(选段正文)_61C

2016-09-28    01'02''

主播: 布莱恩教育

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介绍:
You Are Not Special 你并不特别 ---David McCullough Jr. 【本演讲节选自David McCullough Jr.于2012年在韦斯利高中(Wellesley High)毕业典礼上的致辞。人们对此番演讲热议不断,不少人誉其为“美国有史以来最伟大的毕业致辞”。 韦斯利高中是美国精英高中,闻名遐迩。致辞者是该校资深英语教师,其父是曾获立兹奖的知名历史学家David McCullough。出自普通教师的一番话,为何引起如此大的反响,并使很多人产生心灵共鸣而由衷赞叹?本期营,让我们一起走进他的语言,共同思考人生。】 Climb the mountain not to plant your bag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Go to Paris to be in Paris, not to cross it off your list and congratulate yourself for being worldly. Exercise free will and creative independent thought, not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion–and those who will follow them. And then, you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special. Because everyone is. Congratulations. Good luck. Make for yourselves, please, for your sake and for ours, extraordinary lives. 【参考译文】 爬山不是为了插上旗帜,而是迎接挑战、享受新鲜空气、欣赏眼前美景。爬山是为了看世界,而不是让世界看见你。去巴黎,就好好体验巴黎的一切,不是为了将它从你的清单上划去,然后庆祝自己又到过一个新的国家。运用自由意志和创造力、进行独立思考,不是为了替自己带来满足感,而是为了替其他68亿人及后代子孙带来福祉。然后,你会发现人类体验到的伟大而奇妙的真理——无私是你能为自己所做最棒的事。 要体会生命中最甜美的喜悦,只有当你意识到,你并不特别。因为每个人都是特别的。 祝贺你们毕业了,祝你们好运。请为了你们自己,为了你们的将来,也为了我们今后美好的生活而努力奋斗。
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