第一篇：奧普拉哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)演講全文含譯文

Oh my goodness!I?m at Harvard!Wow!To President Faust, my fellow honorans, Carl [Muller] that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson, Harvard faculty, with a special bow to my friend Dr.Henry Lewis Gates.All of you alumni, with a special bow to the Class of ?88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.And to you, members of the Harvard class of 2013!Hello!

我的天?。∥以诠?..佛！真的！尊敬的Faust校長(zhǎng)、和我一起獲得榮譽(yù)學(xué)位的各位，Carl（注：Carl Muller哈佛校友會(huì)主席），真是太棒了，謝謝你們！還有James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson和哈佛的教職工們，特別感謝我的朋友Henry Lewis Gates博士（注：美國(guó)知名黑人教授）！感謝所有的哈佛校友，特別要感謝88屆的畢業(yè)生，你們?yōu)楣鹁璩鲆粌|一千五百萬美元（注：哈佛歷史上最多的一次同一班次校友捐款）。所有2013屆的各位畢業(yè)生們！大家好！

I thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of your next chapter.To say that I?m honored doesn?t even begin to quantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate from Harvard.Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge.And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary for myself, I consider today a defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey.My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration.I?m going to address my remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the Quad.感謝你們讓我成為你們?nèi)松@一篇章的結(jié)束與下一篇章開始的紐帶。對(duì)我而言，榮幸根本無法表達(dá)我內(nèi)心深處對(duì)哈佛授予我榮譽(yù)學(xué)位的感激之情。不是每個(gè)來自密西西比州的農(nóng)村小姑娘都能來到劍橋城的（注：哈佛位于波士頓郊劍橋城）。我可以告訴你們，當(dāng)我今天早上坐在這個(gè)臺(tái)上，為你們和我自己流下眼淚的時(shí)候，我覺得今天是我漫長(zhǎng)并被祝福的人生旅途中的一個(gè)里程碑。我希望今天我能為你們帶來一些啟發(fā)。我的演講是為那些曾在人生中感到自卑或覺得自己沒有優(yōu)勢(shì)，甚至覺得生活一團(tuán)糟的人，這就是我給哈佛帶來的演講。Actually I was so honored I wanted to do something really special for you.I wanted to be able to have you look under your seats and there would be free master and doctor degrees but I see you got that covered already.I will be honest with you.I felt a lot of pressure over the past few weeks to come up with something that I could share with you that you hadn?t heard before because after all you all went to Harvard, I did not.But then I realized that you don?t have to necessarily go to Harvard to have a driven obsessive Type A personality.But it helps.And while I may not have graduated from here I admit that my personality is about as Harvard as they come.You know my television career began unexpectedly.As you heard this morning I was in the Miss Fire Prevention contest.That was when I was 16 years old in Nashville, Tennessee, and you had the requirement of having to have red hair in order to win up until the year that I entered.So they were doing the question and answer period because I knew I wasn?t going to win under the swimsuit competition.So during the question and answer period the question came “Why, young lady, what would you like to be when you grow up?” And by the time they got to me all the good answers were gone.So I had seen Barbara Walters on the “Today Show” that morning so I answered, “I would like to be a journalist.I would like to tell other people?s stories in a way that makes a difference in their lives and the world.” And as those words were coming out of my mouth I went whoa!This is pretty good!I would like to be a journalist.I want to make a difference.Well I was on television by the time I was 19 years old.And in 1986 I launched my own television show with a relentless determination to succeed at first.I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew.Sound familiar to anybody here? Eventually we did make it to the top and we stayed there for 25 years.其實(shí)我真的很榮幸，因此我想為你們做些特別的事。我想要跟你們說，請(qǐng)看你們座位下面有免費(fèi)碩士或博士學(xué)位證書，但是我發(fā)現(xiàn)你們已經(jīng)有了。說實(shí)話，在過去的幾個(gè)星期我感到很大的壓力，因?yàn)槲蚁胍銈兎窒硪恍┠銈儚臎]聽到過的東西，畢竟你們都上了哈佛，而我沒有。但后來我意識(shí)到其實(shí)并不是一定要上哈佛才能有一個(gè)驅(qū)動(dòng)性強(qiáng)迫型的A型人格，當(dāng)然上了哈佛還是有幫助的。雖然我沒有從哈佛畢業(yè)，但我認(rèn)為我的性格和哈佛的畢業(yè)生是一樣。大家都知道，我的電視事業(yè)生涯開始的出乎意料。正如你們?cè)缟下牭降模耶?dāng)時(shí)在參加“防火小姐”比賽。那年我16歲（注：奧普拉出生于1954年，今年59歲），在田納西州的納什維爾。在我參加比賽那年之前，想贏的話你必須得是紅頭發(fā)女孩。在進(jìn)行問答環(huán)節(jié)時(shí)，因?yàn)槲抑牢以谟狙b比賽中不會(huì)贏，所以當(dāng)問答環(huán)節(jié)問道：“年輕的女士，你長(zhǎng)大后想做什么？為什么？”等輪到我回答的時(shí)候，好答案都被之前的參賽者說完了。因?yàn)槟翘煸缟衔艺迷凇敖袢招恪敝锌吹搅税虐爬烟嘏?，所以我說：“我想成為一名新聞工作者，我想成為為人民帶來一些在某種程度上能改變?nèi)嗣裆詈透淖兪澜绲墓适?。”?dāng)我說出這些話時(shí)，我覺得：“哇！還挺不錯(cuò)的！我想做個(gè)記者，我要做出一番事業(yè)。”后來，19歲時(shí)我上了電視。在1986年，我推出了我自己的電視節(jié)目，一開始就下定決心要成功。我以前對(duì)比賽很緊張，后來我和自己競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，每年設(shè)立一個(gè)更高的目標(biāo)，一步一步地推到極限。對(duì)大家來說聽著挺熟悉吧？最終，我們成功達(dá)到巔峰，并在那里待了25年。

The “Oprah Winfrey Show” was number one in our time slot for 21 years and I have to tell you I became pretty comfortable with that level of success.But a few years ago I decided, as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground.So I ended the show and launched OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.The initials just worked out for me.So one year later after launching OWN, nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop.Not just a flop, but a big bold flop they call it.I can still remember the day I opened up USA Today and read the headline “Oprah, not quite standing on her OWN.” I mean really, USA Today? Now that?s the nice newspaper!It really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life.I was stressed and I was frustrated and quite frankly I was actually I was embarrassed.It was right around that time that President Faust called and asked me to speak here and I thought you want me to speak to Harvard graduates? What could I possibly say to Harvard graduates, some of the most successful graduates in the world in the very moment when I had stopped succeeding? So I got off the phone with President Faust and I went to the shower.It was either that or a bag of Oreos.So I chose the shower.And I was in the shower a long time and as I was in the shower the words of an old hymn came to me.You may not know it.It?s “By and by, when the morning comes.” And I started thinking about when the morning might come because at the time I thought I was stuck in a hole.And the words came to me “Trouble don?t last always” from that hymn, “this too shall pass.” And I thought as I got out of the shower I am going to turn this thing around and I will be better for it.And when I do, I?m going to go to Harvard and I?m going to speak the truth of it!So I?m here today to tell you I have turned that network around!“奧普拉秀”在同一時(shí)間段的電視節(jié)目中連續(xù)21年排名第一，我必須說我對(duì)于這個(gè)成功非常的滿足。但是幾年前，我覺得，在人生的某一時(shí)刻，你必須重新來過，找到新的領(lǐng)域，實(shí)現(xiàn)新的突破。所以我離開了“奧普拉秀”，以我的名字命名推出了我自己的電視網(wǎng)絡(luò)“奧普拉·溫福瑞電視網(wǎng)”，縮寫正好是“OWN（自己的）”。在奧普拉·溫福瑞電視網(wǎng)推出一年后，幾乎所有的媒體都認(rèn)為我的新項(xiàng)目是失敗的。不僅僅是失敗，他們稱之為一個(gè)大寫的失敗。我還記得有一天我打開《今日美國(guó)報(bào)》時(shí)看到頭條新聞?wù)f“ 奧普拉搞不定?自己的?電視網(wǎng)”。不是吧，今日美國(guó)報(bào)?。空媸欠莺脠?bào)紙....這正是去年我職業(yè)生涯最低谷的時(shí)刻。我壓力超大近乎崩潰，老實(shí)說，我感到羞愧。就在那個(gè)時(shí)候，F(xiàn)aust校長(zhǎng)打電話邀請(qǐng)我到哈佛做畢業(yè)演講。我心想：“你讓我給哈佛的畢業(yè)生演講?我能跟這些世界上最成功的畢業(yè)生說什么？而我已經(jīng)不再成功。”我掛了Faust校長(zhǎng)的電話后去洗了個(gè)澡。要么去吃?shī)W利奧要么去洗澡，我選擇了洗澡。那個(gè)澡我洗了很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間，在洗澡的時(shí)候我突然想到某首古老贊美詩(shī)中的一句話，你可能沒聽過“終于，清晨來臨...”，之后我就想，我的黎明也許要來了。因?yàn)槟菚r(shí)我覺得我被困在一個(gè)洞里了。我又想到那首古老贊美詩(shī)中的一句話：“困難只是暫時(shí)的，都會(huì)過去...”當(dāng)我走出浴室時(shí)，我想：我遇到的麻煩同樣會(huì)有結(jié)束的一天，我會(huì)將這一頁(yè)翻過去，我會(huì)好起來的，等我做到了，我就去哈佛，把這個(gè)真實(shí)的故事告訴大家！今天我來了并且想告訴你們我已經(jīng)把“奧普拉·溫福瑞電視網(wǎng)”帶上正軌了。

And it was all because I wanted to do it by the time I got to speak to you all so thank you so much.You don?t know what motivation you were for me, thank you.I?m even prouder to share a fundamental truth that you might not have learned even as graduates of Harvard unless you studied the ancient Greek hero with Professor Nagy.Professor Nagy as we were coming in this morning said, “Please Ms.Winfrey, walk decisively.”

這一切都是因?yàn)槲蚁朐趤砉鹬鞍咽虑樽龊?，所以非常感謝你們！你們不知道你們給了我多大的動(dòng)力，謝謝！我甚至能更驕傲地來和各位分享一個(gè)基本的真理。作為哈佛的畢業(yè)生你也未必知道，除非你上過Nagy教授的課程知道古希臘英雄人物。在今天早上來的路上，Nagy教授說：“溫福瑞女士，請(qǐng)堅(jiān)決地向前走?！?I shall walk decisively.我應(yīng)該堅(jiān)決地向前走。

This is what I want to share.It doesn?t matter how far you might rise.At some point you are bound to stumble because if you?re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar.If you?re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall.And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure.Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.Now when you?re down there in the hole, it looks like failure.So this past year I had to spoon feed those words to myself.And when you?re down in the hole, when that moment comes, it?s really okay to feel bad for a little while.Give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost but then here?s the key, learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.And then figure out what is the next right move.And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S.that can tell you which way to go.Because now and forever more when you Google yourself your search results will read “Harvard, 2013″.And in a very competitive world that really is a calling card because I can tell you as one who employs a lot of people when I see “Harvard” I sit up a little straighter and say, “Where is he or she? Bring them in.” It?s an impressive calling card that can lead to even more impressive bullets in the years ahead: lawyer, senator, C.E.O., scientist, physicist, winners of Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes or late night talk show host.But the challenge of life I have found is to build a résumé that doesn?t simply tell a story about what you want to be but it?s a story about who you want to be.It?s a résumé that doesn?t just tell a story about what you want to accomplish but why.A story that?s not just a collection of titles and positions but a story that?s really about your purpose.Because when you inevitably stumble and find yourself stuck in a hole that is the story that will get you out.What is your true calling? What is your dharma? What is your purpose? For me that discovery came in 1994 when I interviewed a little girl who had decided to collect pocket change in order to help other people in need.She raised a thousand dollars all by herself and I thought, well if that little 9-year-old girl with a bucket and big heart could do that, I wonder what I could do? So I asked for our viewers to take up their own change collection and in one month, just from pennies and nickels and dimes, we raised more than three million dollars that we used to send one student from every state in the United States to college.That was the beginning of the Angel Network.這就是我想分享的。無論你已經(jīng)達(dá)到怎樣的成就，在某個(gè)節(jié)點(diǎn)，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)你會(huì)跌倒，因?yàn)槿绻阋恢辈粩嗟脑谧鑫覀兠總€(gè)人做的事：不斷設(shè)定更高的目標(biāo)。如果你一直不斷把你自己推向更高的目標(biāo)，你將在某一點(diǎn)上落下，更不必說伊卡洛斯能預(yù)測(cè)你會(huì)跌倒的神話。當(dāng)你真的跌倒時(shí)我想讓你知道，并請(qǐng)記?。骸笆篱g并不存在失敗，那不過是生活想讓我們換個(gè)方向走走罷了，現(xiàn)在當(dāng)你在人生谷底，那看起來像是失敗?！痹谶^去的一年里，這些話支撐著我自己。當(dāng)你到了人生谷底，到那時(shí)候，你可以難過一段時(shí)間，給自己時(shí)間去哀悼你認(rèn)為你可能失去的一切，但關(guān)鍵在于：從每個(gè)失敗和遭遇中學(xué)習(xí)特別是你的每個(gè)錯(cuò)誤，都會(huì)教并迫使你成為真正的自己，然后想想接下來怎么做。生活的重點(diǎn)在于建立內(nèi)在道德、情感的定位系統(tǒng)，它能為你指路，因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)在或?qū)懋?dāng)你在谷歌上搜索你自己，結(jié)果會(huì)是“哈佛2013畢業(yè)生”。在這個(gè)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)激烈的世界，那的確是塊敲門磚。我作為一個(gè)雇傭過很多人的人，可以說當(dāng)我聽到哈佛的畢業(yè)生，我都會(huì)坐直一點(diǎn)，然后說“他/她在哪，帶來見我”。這是一個(gè)令人印象深刻的敲門磚，在未來的日子里那的確是顆有力的子彈：成為律師、議員、老板、科學(xué)家、物理學(xué)家，諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)普利策獎(jiǎng)獲得者或者晚間脫口秀主持人。然而來自生活的挑戰(zhàn)并不是做個(gè)履歷簡(jiǎn)單地告訴大家你想做什么，而是你想成為什么樣的人。這份履歷不只是告訴大家你完成了什么，而是你為什么做這些？這份履歷不僅僅是一個(gè)頭銜和職位的羅列，而是告訴大家你究竟想做什么？因?yàn)楫?dāng)你不可避免地跌倒或陷入困境時(shí)，它可以幫你走出困境，人生真正的意義是什么？你的人生哲學(xué)是什么？你的目標(biāo)是什么？對(duì)我來說，我是在1994年采訪了一位決定攢零花錢來幫助他人的小女孩，她籌集了一千美金。我想：“嗯，如果一個(gè)9歲的小姑娘，用一個(gè)筐和熱忱的心就能做到，我能做到什么？”所以我請(qǐng)我們的觀眾拿出自己的零錢，在一個(gè)月內(nèi)我從一分一毫籌集超過300萬美金，我們用這筆錢從每個(gè)州選出一個(gè)學(xué)生上大學(xué)。這就是“天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)”的開始。

And so what I did was I simply asked our viewers, “Do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life.Give me your time or your talent your money if you have it.” And they did.Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.And together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes Rita and Katrina.So the Angel Network — I have been on the air for a long time — but it was the Angel Network that actually focused my internal G.P.S.It helped me to decide that I wasn?t going to just be on TV every day but that the goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.Because what had become clear to me, and I want you to know, it isn?t always clear in the beginning because as I said I had been on television since I was 19 years old.But around ?94 I got really clear.So don?t expect the clarity to come all at once, to know your purpose right away, but what became clear to me was that I was here on Earth to use television and not be used by it;to use television to illuminate the transcendent power of our better angels.So this Angel Network, it didn?t just change the lives of those who were helped, but the lives of those who also did the helping.It reminded us that no matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and more importantly it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.I saw something on the “Bill Moore Show” recently that so reminded me of this point.It was an interview with David and Francine Wheeler.They lost their 7-year-old son, Ben, in the Sandy Hook tragedy.And even though gun safety legislation to strengthen background checks had just been voted down in Congress at the time that they were doing this interview they talked about how they refused to be discouraged.Francine said this, she said, “Our hearts are broken but our spirits are not.I?m going to tell them what it?s like to find a conversation about change that is love, and I?m going to do that without fighting them.” And then her husband David added this, “You simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesn?t agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over.And we cannot do that any longer.The problem is too enormous.There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light.” In our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested.And yet, I know you know the truth.We all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout Washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle.Not my channel, by the way.We understand that the vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger background checks because they realize that we can uphold the Second Amendment and also reduce the violence that is robbing us of our children.They don?t have to be incompatible.其實(shí)我做的只是簡(jiǎn)單的請(qǐng)求我們的觀眾：“無論你在哪里處于人生的哪個(gè)階段，如果可以，請(qǐng)拿出你的時(shí)間、天賦以及金錢，做你力所能及的事。”他們這樣做了。無論你在哪里，將你的仁慈帶給他人。眾人拾柴火焰高，我們一起在12個(gè)國(guó)家建了55所學(xué)校，重建了近300個(gè)被麗塔和卡特里娜颶風(fēng)摧毀的家園。所以“天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)”聚集了我內(nèi)在的定位系統(tǒng)。它能幫助我知道，我不是僅僅每天在電視上出現(xiàn)，還有我的采訪目標(biāo)，我的生意，我的慈善事業(yè)，所有的一切。無論我追求怎樣的事業(yè)，我更清楚把我們凝聚在一起的力量比分離我們的力量更令人滿足和不可抗拒。但我想讓你們知道，任何事情的一開始對(duì)于我們未必明朗，正如我所說我19歲就開始上電視，然而到了94年我才漸漸清楚，所以不要期待一下子就想清楚、并馬上明白自己的使命。對(duì)我來說，我最終清楚，我要利用電視而不是被電視利用，利用電視來照亮我們內(nèi)在天使的一面。這個(gè)“天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)”，它不只是改變那些我們幫助過的人們的生活，同時(shí)也改變那些提供幫助的人們的生活。它提醒我們，無論是誰，看上去如何，或者我們相信什么，更重要的是它成為了我們?yōu)楣餐繕?biāo)走到一起的驅(qū)動(dòng)力。我最近在“比利摩爾秀”上看到一些東西再次提醒了我。那是一個(gè)采訪戴維和弗朗辛·惠勒的節(jié)目，他們?cè)赟andy Hook慘案中痛失他們7歲幼子Ben。盡管在此次訪談時(shí)國(guó)會(huì)已經(jīng)否決了加強(qiáng)背景調(diào)查的槍支安全立法，他們談到他們拒絕被國(guó)會(huì)的否決所打擊。弗朗辛說：“我們的心都碎了，但我們的精神沒有垮，我想告訴他們關(guān)于變故的對(duì)話是怎樣的感覺，那感覺就是愛。我將會(huì)接受他而不是抵觸?！比缓笏恼煞虼骶S繼續(xù)說：“你不能詆毀或妖魔化那些持有異見的人，因?yàn)槿绻氵@樣做的那一刻，就不再有下文，我不能再那樣做了，問題已經(jīng)很嚴(yán)重了，總會(huì)有方法將光明驅(qū)逐黑暗?！痹谖覀兊恼误w系和媒體環(huán)境下，我們經(jīng)?？吹綄?duì)這個(gè)國(guó)家的反思，這個(gè)兩級(jí)分化，近乎癱瘓、自我利益的國(guó)家。然而，我知道你們明白真相。我們都知道我們比電視上新聞媒體24小時(shí)滾動(dòng)從華盛頓傳來的那些憤世嫉俗和悲觀主義更好。順便說一句，那不是我的電視頻道。我們理解，在這個(gè)國(guó)家絕大多數(shù)人相信并支持背景調(diào)查，因?yàn)樗麄兠靼孜覀兛梢灾С謶椃ǖ诙涡拚?，同時(shí)減少殘殺我們孩子的暴力。而這兩者并不必水火不相容。

And we understand that most Americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because it?s possible to both enforce our laws and at the same time embrace the words on the Statue of Liberty that have welcomed generations of huddled masses to our shores.We can do both.我們知道大多數(shù)美國(guó)人相信讓1200萬沒有合法身份的移民居住在這個(gè)國(guó)家成為公民會(huì)有一條清晰的路徑。因?yàn)樵诤葱l(wèi)法律的同時(shí)，我們還要擁抱自由女神像上的辭藻，而這些話語歡迎了一代代人到達(dá)美國(guó)的海岸。我們都能做得到。

And we understand.I know you do because you went to Harvard.There are people from both parties, and no party, [who] believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education because here in the richest nation on Earth, we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity.So the question is, what are we going to do about it? Really, what are you going to do about it? Maybe you agree with these beliefs.Maybe you don?t.Maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, Class of 2013, are passionate about.Maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government.Maybe you want to launch your own television show.Or maybe you simply want to collect some change.Your parents would appreciate that about now.The point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change.Each of you has been blessed with this enormous opportunity of attending this prestigious school.You now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the life of our country.When you do that let me tell you what I know for sure.That?s when your story gets really good.Maya Angelou always says, “When you learn, teach.When you get, give.That my friends is what gives your story purpose and meaning.” So you all have the power in your own way to develop your own Angel Network and in doing so, your class will be armed with more tools of influence and empowerment than any other generation in history.I did it in an analog world.I was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20,000,000 viewers a day.Now here in a world of Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and Tumbler, you can reach billions in just seconds.You?re the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in 2008.And when the pundits said, they said they talked about you, they said you?d be too disappointed, you?d be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers.That?s who you are.正如我們了解的那樣，你們能理解，因?yàn)槟銈兩狭斯稹碜詢牲h派和無黨派的人同樣堅(jiān)信：貧困的母親和家庭都理應(yīng)獲得使其健康的食物、住所以及強(qiáng)有力的教育支持。因?yàn)槲覀儸F(xiàn)在正生活在全世界最為富有的國(guó)家中，我們有能力去提供安全與機(jī)遇最基礎(chǔ)的社會(huì)保障。于是問題便隨之而來：我們將對(duì)此有何打算呢？說真的，我們將要對(duì)此做些什么呢？也許你是贊同這些理念的，也有可能你會(huì)持反對(duì)意見?；蛟S你作為2013屆哈佛的畢業(yè)生，對(duì)這些問題很上心，抑或是你把關(guān)注點(diǎn)放在了其他極具挑戰(zhàn)性的事情上。你可能想要通過行政工作改變我們的社會(huì)，你可能想要做自己的電視節(jié)目，你也可能僅僅是想收集一些零錢，你的父母會(huì)贊揚(yáng)你現(xiàn)在的所作所為。關(guān)鍵是你們這一代人肩負(fù)著突破國(guó)家積年累月無法突破的重重圍嶂的使命。你們每一位上了哈佛這所名校的人都擁有千萬機(jī)會(huì)、無盡不可?，F(xiàn)在你有機(jī)會(huì)來改善你的生活，改變你周圍人的生活，以及整個(gè)國(guó)家的命運(yùn)。當(dāng)你這樣做的時(shí)候，我可以堅(jiān)定地告訴你：這個(gè)時(shí)候，有關(guān)你的故事已然盡善盡美。Maya Angelou常常說：“有所學(xué)時(shí)你要去施教，有所得時(shí)你便去給予。我親愛的朋友，那將賦予你的故事以目的與意義。”你們都有能力用自己的方式去打造屬于你們自己的“天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)”，與此同時(shí)你會(huì)擁有史無前例的影響力與權(quán)力的工具。我用虛擬網(wǎng)絡(luò)的方式做到這一點(diǎn)，我的網(wǎng)絡(luò)電視在鼎盛時(shí)期的日瀏覽量能夠達(dá)到2000萬，在這個(gè)Twitter、Facebook、YouTube與Tumbler盛行的時(shí)代，你在片刻之間便可獲得幾十億的瀏覽量。就是你們這一代，在其他人都以為你們會(huì)對(duì)政治漠不關(guān)心的時(shí)候，你們用你們的一腔熱情，徹底顛覆了世人的想象，你們?cè)?008年的時(shí)候，參與總統(tǒng)大選投票的人數(shù)創(chuàng)造新高。當(dāng)那些“博學(xué)多識(shí)”的人們猜測(cè)道，你們必然已經(jīng)失望透頂，你們?cè)?012年總統(tǒng)大選中由于太沮喪而不可能重復(fù)2008年的輝煌時(shí)，你們用甚至比2008年更高的參與記錄，再一次讓世人刮目相看。這就是你們這一代.This generation, your generation I know, has developed a finely honed radar for B.S.Can you say “B.S.” at Harvard? The spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that saturates so much of our national debate.I know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic — an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all empathy.I have to say that the single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people, was that there is a common denominator in our human experience.Most of us, I tell you we don?t want to be divided.What we want, the common denominator that I found in every single interview, is we want to be validated.We want to be understood.I have done over 35,000 interviews in my career and as soon as that camera shuts off everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way asks this question “Was that okay?” I heard it from President Bush, I heard it from President Obama.I?ve heard it from heroes and from housewives.I?ve heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes.I even heard it from Beyonce and all of her Beyonceness.She finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says, “Was that okay?” Friends and family, yours, enemies, strangers in every argument in every encounter, every exchange I will tell you, they all want to know one thing: was that okay? Did you hear me? Do you see me? Did what I say mean anything to you? And even though this is a college where Facebook was born my hope is that you would try to go out and have more face-to-face conversations with people you may disagree with.我所了解的你們這一代對(duì)一些胡言亂語有極為敏銳的追求，你能在哈佛“胡說”嗎？關(guān)于我們的國(guó)家，虛偽幻象鋪張?jiān)谀阊矍?，紛擾流言充斥在你耳畔。我深知你們比眾人更加了解，一個(gè)國(guó)家真正的進(jìn)步是要求建立在真實(shí)而坦然的基礎(chǔ)之上的，還有更為重要的——一種感同身受的心理。我想我不得不坦言，在我25年的訪談歷程中，我所學(xué)到的最重要的，我們的人生有一個(gè)共同的公分母。我可以告訴你的是，我們中的大多數(shù)人，并不愿意被分割。我在每次訪談中發(fā)現(xiàn)我們的“公分母”，發(fā)現(xiàn)我們想要的，是我們想要被證實(shí)、被認(rèn)可。我們渴望被理解。我的職業(yè)生涯中容納了大約35000個(gè)訪談，每每在攝像機(jī)的鏡頭關(guān)閉后，幾乎所有人都不可避免地轉(zhuǎn)向我，用他們各自的方式，詢問著同一個(gè)問題“像這樣可以嗎？”布什總統(tǒng)這樣問，奧巴馬總統(tǒng)這樣問，我在英雄的口中聽到過這個(gè)疑問，同樣也在家庭主婦的口中聽說過這句話。我聽受害者這樣問，也聽過那些有罪行的人們這樣問，我甚至聽過碧昂斯和她的粉絲們這樣問。碧昂斯結(jié)束表演之后，把麥克風(fēng)遞到我手中，問道：“像我這樣可以嗎？”朋友或家人、支持者或敵人、每次爭(zhēng)論或邂逅的陌生人，有關(guān)每一次交流，我都可以篤定地告訴你們，他們都想知道一件事兒——“像這樣可以嗎？你聽得見我嗎？你看的見我嗎?我之所言是否對(duì)你有些許意義？”盡管這里是Facebook誕生的大學(xué)，我還是希望你們能夠脫離虛擬，盡可能多的和那些與你意見相左的人進(jìn)行一些面對(duì)面的交流。

That you?ll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesn?t cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody else?s shoes and recognize all that we share as a people.This is imperative, for you as an individual, and for our success as a nation.“There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light,” says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary Friday in December.So whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is I know this, there is a light inside each of you, all of us, that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it.And as a young girl from rural Mississippi I learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be Barbara Walters.Although when I first started because I had Barbara in my head I would try to sit like Barbara, talk like Barbara, move like Barbara and then one night I was on the news reading the news and I called Canada “Can-a-da,” and that was the end of me being Barbara.I cracked myself up on TV.Couldn?t start laughing and my real personality came through and I figured out, oh gee, I can be a much better Oprah than I could be a pretend Barbara.你們要有勇氣去直視他們的雙眼，去聆聽他們的觀點(diǎn)，并且確保這世界的高速、距離、匿名不會(huì)讓我們失去站在他人的立場(chǎng)上去認(rèn)可那些我們作為人類共同享受東西的能力。這是你作為一個(gè)個(gè)體或是為了整個(gè)國(guó)家的成功必須要做到的?！耙欢ù嬖谀撤N方法可以使光明驅(qū)逐黑暗?！币晃缓⒆釉?2月一個(gè)普通的星期五被殺害的父親如是說道。所以無論你愿意稱她為靈魂、精神、抑或是更高尚的自我，天資什么的，我知道，我們內(nèi)心深處的星星之火總能夠點(diǎn)燃我們——只要你愿意讓自己被點(diǎn)亮。作為一個(gè)來自密西西比州農(nóng)村的年輕姑娘，我早就知道，成為自己比假裝成芭芭拉更容易?？v使我對(duì)自己的堅(jiān)守是因?yàn)槲蚁胍蔀榘虐爬?，我希望的的坐姿像芭芭拉、談吐像芭芭拉，舉止像芭芭拉。直到有一天晚上，我在電視上讀新聞的時(shí)候，我把“Canada”讀成“Can-a-da”，這就成了我試圖變成芭芭拉的終止。我在電視上把自己層層剖析，我笑個(gè)不停。隨后真正的自我脫穎而出，我突然就想通了“哦，哎呀，與其成為芭芭拉我能夠成為一個(gè)更出色的奧普拉?！?/p>

I know that you all might have a little anxiety now and hesitation about leaving the comfort of college and putting those Harvard credentials to the test.But no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way, you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you.Theologian Howard Thurman said it best.He said, “Don?t ask yourself what the world needs.Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” The world needs … People like Michael Stolzenberg from Fort Lauderdale.When Michael was just 8 years old Michael nearly died from a bacterial infection that cost him both of his hands and both of his feet.And in an instant, this vibrant little boy became a quadruple amputee and his life was changed forever.But in losing who he once was Michael discovered who he wanted to be.He refused to sit in that wheelchair all day and feel sorry for himself so with prosthetics he learned to walk and run and play again.He joined his middle school lacrosse team and last month when he learned that so many victims of the Boston Marathon bombing would become new amputees, Michael decided to banish that darkness with light.Michael and his brother, Harris, created Mikeysrun.com to raise $1 million for other amputees — by the time Harris runs the 2014 Boston Marathon.More than 1,000 miles away from here these two young brothers are bringing people together to support this Boston community the way their community came together to support Michael.And when this 13-year-old man was asked about his fellow amputees he said this, “First they will be sad.They?re losing something they will never get back and that?s scary.I was scared.But they?ll be okay.They just don?t know that yet.” We might not always know it.We might not always see it, or hear it on the news or even feel it in our daily lives, but I have faith that no matter what, Class of 2013, you will be okay and you will make sure our country is okay.I have faith because of that 9-year-old girl who went out and collected the change.I have faith because of David and Francine Wheeler, I have faith because of Michael and Harris Stolzenberg, and I have faith because of you, the network of angels sitting here today.One of them Khadijah Williams, who came to Harvard four years ago.Khadijah had attended 12 schools in 12 years, living out of garbage bags amongst pimps and prostitutes and drug dealers;homeless, going in to department stores, Wal-Mart in the morning to bathe herself so that she wouldn?t smell in front of her classmates, and today she graduates as a member of the Harvard Class of 2013.我非常理解在你們即將離開大學(xué)象牙塔一樣舒服單純的生活，把你們?cè)诠鹄锓e累的經(jīng)驗(yàn)?zāi)贸鋈?shí)踐的時(shí)候，或多或少會(huì)有些焦慮與猶豫不決，但是無論你一路上經(jīng)歷到怎樣的挑戰(zhàn)、挫折、險(xiǎn)釁、絕望，如果你自始至終都只有一個(gè)目標(biāo)，真的只有一個(gè)目標(biāo)，你就會(huì)找到真正的成功和幸福。這個(gè)目標(biāo)就是：作為一個(gè)人，你要滿足你最真摯、最坦誠(chéng)的自我表達(dá)，奮力拓展自己的人生領(lǐng)域，去追逐生命的最大化，去改變你周圍你親友，讓他們的人生也因你而不同。神學(xué)家Howard Thurman將這件事兒闡釋的淋漓盡致，他說：“不要追問這世界需要什么樣的人，捫心自問是什么支持著你活到現(xiàn)在，然后你奔赴你的信仰、因?yàn)檫@世界需要的就是人們充滿活力地活在世上，”這是世界需要的——正如來自勞德代爾堡的邁克爾·斯托爾岑貝格。邁克爾年僅8歲時(shí)險(xiǎn)些喪命于細(xì)菌感染，雖然他活了下來，但卻永遠(yuǎn)失去了雙手雙腳。須臾之間，原本一個(gè)完整的，充滿活力的男孩兒失去四肢，成為一個(gè)殘疾人，他的命運(yùn)軌跡在這一劫難之后被硬生生地扭轉(zhuǎn)。但在失去一切之后，他聽懂了他的心，他明白了自己真正想成為誰，他拒絕整日坐在輪椅中上沮喪、難過，而是選擇了在假肢的扶持下繼續(xù)行走、奔跑、玩耍、他甚至加入了他高中的曲棍球隊(duì)。上個(gè)月當(dāng)他得知在波士頓馬拉松的轟炸中，有一些不幸的人同樣被截肢時(shí)，他決心用同樣的“燈光”幫助他們驅(qū)逐黑暗，于是邁克爾和他的兄弟哈里斯創(chuàng)辦了mikeysrun.com為其他被截肢的人募捐。他希望集資100萬美元，等到2014年哈里斯從1000多英里外跑波士頓馬立松時(shí)，這兩位年輕的兄弟將把人們聚集在一起來支持整個(gè)波士頓社區(qū)，如同他們的社區(qū)支持邁克爾那樣。當(dāng)這個(gè)十三歲的孩子第一次被問及一些關(guān)于同樣被截肢的人的事時(shí)，他說：“他們一定會(huì)很傷心，因?yàn)樗麄兪チ松兄厍矣啦粡?fù)返的東西，那是很可怕的一件事，但是他們一定會(huì)振作起來的，他們只是現(xiàn)在還沒察覺罷了。”我們可能對(duì)這種事所知甚少，這些事情并不常見，在電視里也鮮聽聞，我們的日常生活中也不能有所獲知。但是我對(duì)你們有信心，不管發(fā)生什么，2013屆的畢業(yè)生們，請(qǐng)相信，柳暗花明又一村，你們也要記得去確保我們的國(guó)家的安康。我有信心，因?yàn)槟莻€(gè)9歲小女孩會(huì)出去收集零錢；我有信心，因?yàn)镈avid和Wheeler；我有信心，因?yàn)檫~克爾和哈里斯。我有信心是你們讓我充滿信心，因?yàn)槟悖驗(yàn)椤疤焓咕W(wǎng)絡(luò)”現(xiàn)在就在這里。這其中就有四年前來到哈佛的Khadijah Williams。Khadijah在過去的12年中上了12個(gè)不同的學(xué)校，身處在皮條客、妓女、毒品販子和流浪兒之間的垃圾袋子里，她為了不讓同學(xué)們聞到他身上的異味，他每天清晨會(huì)去百貨大樓、沃爾瑪超市洗澡，今天他成為2013屆哈佛畢業(yè)生的一員。

From time to time you may stumble, fall, you will for sure, count on this, no doubt, you will have questions and you will have doubts about your path.But I know this, if you?re willing to listen to, be guided by, that still small voice that is the G.P.S.within yourself, to find out what makes you come alive, you will be more than okay.You will be happy, you will be successful, and you will make a difference in the world.Congratulations Class of 2013.Congratulations to your family and friends.Good luck, and thank you for listening.不時(shí)地，你可能會(huì)失足跌倒，我們之中誰也難以幸免。對(duì)你的未來之路你會(huì)彷徨、會(huì)憂慮、會(huì)無所適從，但是我知道：只要你肯聽聽你內(nèi)心深處的聲音，你體內(nèi)隱藏的GPS定位系統(tǒng)，能讓你回歸你人生的本真，你可能會(huì)因此活的更加奪目。你一定會(huì)快樂，一定會(huì)成功。你一定可以讓世界因你而不同。祝賀你們，2012屆哈佛的畢業(yè)生們。把祝賀同樣送給你們的親朋好友們。祝你們的命運(yùn)永遠(yuǎn)備受眷顧，同時(shí)感謝你們的聆聽。Was that okay?像這樣可以嗎？

第二篇：奧普拉2013年哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)演講(英文版)（模版）

Oh my goodness!I'm at Harvard!Wow!To President Faust, my fellow honorands, Carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson, Harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend Dr.Henry Lewis Gates.All of you alumni with a special bow to the class of '88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.And to you, members of the Harvard class of 2013!Hello!

I thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of your next chapter.To say that I'm honored doesn't even begin to quantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate from Harvard.Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge.And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary for myself, I consider today a defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey.My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration.I'm going to address my remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the quad.Actually I was so honored I wanted to do something really special for you.I wanted to be able to have you look under your seats and there would be free master and doctor degrees but I see you got that covered already.I will be honest with you.I felt a lot of pressure over the past few weeks to come up with something that I could share with you that you hadn't heard before because after all you all went to Harvard, I did not.But then I realized that you don't have to necessarily go to Harvard to have a driven obsessive Type A personality.But it helps.And while I may not have graduated from here I admit that my personality is about as Harvard as they come.You know my television career began unexpectedly.As you heard this morning I was in the Miss Fire Prevention contest.That was when I was 16 years old in Nashville, Tennessee and you had the requirement of having to have red hair in order to win up until the year that I entered.So they were doing the question and answer period because I knew I wasn't going to win under the swimsuit competition.So during the question and answer period the question came “Why, young lady, what would you like to be when you grow up?” And by the time they got to me all the good answers were gone.So I had seen Barbara Walters on the Today Show that morning so I answered “I would like to be a journalist.I would like to tell other people's stories in a way that makes a difference in their lives and the world.” And as those words were coming out of my mouth I went whoa!This is pretty good!I would like to be a journalist.I want to make a difference.Well I was on television by the time I was 19 years old.And in 1986 I launched my own television show with a relentless

determination to succeed at first.I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew.Sound familiar to anybody here? Eventually we did make it to the top and we stayed there for 25 years.The Oprah Winfrey Show was number one in our time slot for 21 years and I have to tell you I became pretty comfortable with that level of success.But a few years ago I

decided as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground.So I ended the show and launched OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.The initials just worked out for me.So one year later after launching OWN nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop.Not just a flop but a big bold flop they call it.I can still remember the day I opened up USA Today and read the headline “Oprah, not quite standing on her OWN.” I mean really, USA Today? Now that's the nice newspaper!It really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life.I was stressed and I was frustrated and quite frankly I was actually I was embarrassed.It was right around that time that President Faust called and asked me to speak here and I thought you want me to speak to Harvard graduates? What could I possibly say to Harvard graduates, some of the most successful graduates in the world in the very moment when I had stopped succeeding? So I got off the phone with President Faust and I went to the shower.It was either that or a bag of Oreos.So I chose the shower.And I was in the shower a long time and as I was in the shower the words of an old hymn came to me.You may not know it.It's “By and by, when the morning comes.” And I

started thinking about when the morning might come because at the time I thought I was stuck in a hole.And the words came to me “Trouble don't last always” from that hymn, “this too shall pass.” And I thought as I got out of the shower I am going to turn this thing around and I will be better for it.And when I do, I'm going to go to Harvard and I'm going to speak the truth of it!So I'm here today to tell you I have turned that network around!

And it was all because I wanted to do it by the time I got to speak to you all so thank you so much.You don't know what motivation you were for me, thank you.I'm even

prouder to share a fundamental truth that you might not have learned even as graduates of Harvard unless you studied the ancient Greek hero with Professor Nagy.Professor Nagy as we were coming in this morning said “Please Ms.Winfrey, walk decisively.”

I shall walk decisively.This is what I want to share.It doesn't matter how far you might rise.At some point you are bound to stumble because if you're constantly doing what we do, raising the bar.If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall.And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure.Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.Now when you're down there in the hole, it looks like failure.So this past year I had to spoon feed those words to myself.And when you're down in the hole, when that moment comes, it's really okay to feel bad for a little while.Give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost but then here's the key, learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.And then figure out what is the next right move.And the key to life is to develop an internal moral emotional G.P.S.that can tell you which way to go.Because now and forever more when you Google yourself your search results will read “Harvard, 2013”.And in a very competitive world that really is a calling card because I can tell you as one who employs a lot of people when I see “Harvard” I sit up a little straighter and say

“Where is he or she? Bring them in.” it's an impressive calling card that can lead to even

more impressive bullets in the years ahead: lawyer, senator, C.E.O., scientist, physicist, winners of Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes or late night talk show host.But the challenge of life I have found is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be but it's a story about who you want to be.It's a resume that doesn't just tell a story about what you want to accomplish but why.A story that's not just a collection of titles and positions but a story that's really about your purpose.Because when you inevitably stumble and find yourself stuck in a hole that is the story that will get you out.What is your true calling? What is your dharma? What is your purpose? For me that discovery came in 1994 when I interviewed a little girl who had decided to collect pocket change in order to help other people in need.She raised a thousand dollars all by herself and I thought well if that little 9 year old girl with a bucket and big heart could do that I wonder what I could do? So I asked for our viewers to take up their own change collection and in one month just from pennies and nickels and dimes we raised more than three million dollars that we used to send one student from every state in the United States to college.That was the beginning of the Angel Network.And so what I did was I simply asked our viewers “Do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life.Give me your time or your talent your money if you have it.” And they did.Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.And together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes Rita and Katrina.So the Angel Network I have been on the air for a long time, but it was the Angel Network that actually focused my internal G.P.S.It helped me to decide that I wasn't going to just be on TV every day but that the goal of my shows,my interviews,my business, my philanthropy all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.Because what had become clear to me and I want you to know it isn't always clear in the beginning because as I said I had been on television since I was 19 years old.But around '94 I got really clear.So don't expect the clarity to come all at once to know your purpose right away, but what became clear to me was that I was here on earth to use television and not be used by it;to use television to illuminate the transcendent power of our better angels.So this Angel Network, it didn't just change the lives of those who were helped, but the lives of those who also did the helping.It reminded us that no matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe it is both possible and more importantly it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.I saw something on the Bill Moore Show recently that so reminded me of this point.It was an interview with David and Francine Wheeler.They lost their 7 year old son, Ben in the Sandy Hook tragedy.And even though gun safety legislation to strengthen background checks had just been voted down in Congress at the time that they were doing this interview they talked about how they refused to be discouraged.Francine said this, she said “Our hearts are broken but our spirits are not.I'm going to tell them what it's like to find a conversation about change that is love, and I'm going to do that without fighting them.” And then her husband David

added this, “You simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesn't agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over.And we cannot do that any longer.The problem is too enormous.There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light.” In our political system and in the media we often see the

reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested.And yet, I know you know the truth.We all know that we are better than the cynicism and the

pessimism that is regurgitated throughout Washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle.Not my channel, by the way.We understand that the vast majority of people in this

country believe in stronger background checks because they realize that we can uphold the Second Amendment and also reduce the violence that is robbing us of our children.They don't have to be incompatible.And we understand that most Americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because it's possible to both enforce our laws and at the same time embrace the words on the Statue of Liberty that have welcomed generations of huddled masses to our shores.We can do both.And we understand.I know you do because you went to Harvard.There are people from both parties and no party believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education

because here in the richest nation on earth we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity.So the question is what are we going to do about it? Really what are you going to do about it? Maybe you agree with these beliefs.Maybe you don't.Maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, class of 2013, are passionate about.Maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government.Maybe you want to launch your own television show.Or maybe you simply want to collect some change.Your parents would appreciate that about now.The point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change.Each of you has been blessed with this enormous

opportunity of attending this prestigious school.You now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the life of our country.When you do that let me tell you what I know for sure.That's when your story gets really good.Maya Angelou always says “When you learn, teach.When you get, give.That my friends is what gives your story purpose and meaning.” So you all have the power in your own way to develop your own Angel Network and in doing so your class will be armed with more tools of influence and empowerment than any other generation in history.I did it in an analog world.I was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20,000,000 viewers a day.Now here in a world of Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and Tumbler, you can reach billions in just seconds.You're the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in 2008.And when the pundits said they said they talked about you, they said you'd be too

disappointed, you'd be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers.That's who you are.This generation your generation I know has developed a finely honed radar for B.S.Can you say “B.S.” at Harvard? The spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that

saturates so much of our national debate.I know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic-an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all

empathy.I have to say that the single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people was that there is a common denominator in our human

experience.Most of us I tell you we don't want to be divided.What we want, the common denominator that I found in every single interview, is we want to be validated.We want to be understood.I have done over 35,000 interviews in my career and as soon as that camera shuts off everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way asks this question “Was that okay?” I heard it from President Bush, I heard it from President Obama.I've heard it from heroes and from housewives.I've heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes.I even heard it from Beyonce and all of her Beyonceness.She finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says “Was that okay?” Friends and family, yours, enemies, strangers in every argument in every encounter, every exchange I will tell you they all want to know one thing: was that okay? Did you hear me? Do you see me? Did what I say mean anything to you? And even though this is a college where Facebook was born my hope is that you would try to go out and have more face-to-face conversations with people you may disagree with.That you'll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesn't cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody else's shoes and recognize all that we share as a people.This is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation.“There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light,” says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary Friday in December.So whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is I know this, there is a light inside each of you all of us that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it.And as a young girl from rural Mississippi I learned long ago that being myself was much easier than

pretending to be Barbara Walters.Although when I first started because I had Barbara in my head I would try to sit like Barbara, talk like Barbara, move like Barbara and then one night I was on the news reading the news and I called Canada Can-a-da, and that was the end of me being Barbara.I cracked myself up on TV.Couldn't stop laughing and my real personality came through and I figured out oh gee, I can be a much better Oprah than I could be a pretend Barbara.I know that you all might have a little anxiety now and hesitation about leaving the comfort of college and putting those Harvard credentials to the test.But no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you.Theologian Howard Thurman said it best.He said “Don't ask yourself what the world needs.Ask yourself what makes you come alive

and then go do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” The world needs-People like Michael Stolzenberg from Fort Lauderdale.When Michael was just 8 years old Michael nearly died from a bacterial infection that cost him both of his hands and both of his feet.And in an instant this vibrant little boy became a quadruple amputee and his life was changed forever.But in losing who he once was Michael discovered who he wanted to be.He refused to sit in that wheelchair all day and feel sorry for himself so with prosthetics he learned to walk and run and play again.He joined his middle school lacrosse team and last month when he learned that so many victims of the Boston Marathon bombing would become new amputees Michael decided to banish that darkness with light.Michael and his brother Harris created Mikeysrun.com to raise 1,000,000 dollars for other amputees.By the time Harris runs the 2014 Boston Marathon.More than 1,000 miles away from here these two young brothers are bringing people together to support this Boston community the way their community came together to support Michael.And when this 13 year old man was asked about his fellow amputees he said this “First they will be sad.They're losing something they will never get back and that's scary.I was scared.But they'll be okay.They just don't know that yet.” We might not always know it.We might not always see it, or hear it on the news or even feel it in our daily lives but I have faith that no matter what class of 2013 you will be okay and you will make sure our country is okay.I have faith because of that 9 year old girl who went out and collected the change.I have faith because of David and Francine Wheeler, I have faith because of Michael and Harris Stolzenberg and I have faith because of you, the network of angeles sitting here today.One of them Kadija Williams who came to Harvard four years ago.Kadija had attended 12 schools in 12 years living out of garbage bags amongst pimps and prostitutes and drug dealers, homeless, going in to department stores, Wal-Mart in the morning to bathe herself so that she wouldn't smell in front of her classmates and today she graduates as a member of the Harvard class of 2013.From time to time you may stumble fall, you will for sure count in this no doubt, you will have questions and you will have doubts about your path but I know this, if you're willing to listen to be guided by that still small voice that is the G.P.S.within yourself, to find out what makes you come alive you will be more than okay.You will be happy, you will be successful, and you will make a difference in the world.Congratulations class of 2013, congratulations to your family and friends, good luck and thank you for listening.Was that okay?

第三篇：奧普拉2013年哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)演講(英文版)

Oh my goodness!I'm at Harvard!Wow!To President Faust, my fellow honorands, Carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson, Harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend Dr.Henry Lewis Gates.All of you alumni with a special bow to the class of '88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.And to you, members of the Harvard class of 2013!Hello!I thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of your next chapter.To say that I'm honored doesn't even begin to quantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate from Harvard.Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge.And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary for myself, I consider today a defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey.My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration.I'm going to address my remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the quad.Actually I was so honored I wanted to do something really special for you.I wanted to be able to have you look under your seats and there would be free master and doctor degrees but I see you got that covered already.I will be honest with you.I felt a lot of pressure over the past few weeks to come up with something that I could share with you that you hadn't heard before because after all you all went to Harvard, I did not.But then I realized that you don't have to necessarily go to Harvard to have a driven obsessive Type A personality.But it helps.And while I may not have graduated from here I admit that my personality is about as Harvard as they come.You know my television career began unexpectedly.As you heard this morning I was in the Miss Fire Prevention contest.That was when I was 16 years old in Nashville, Tennessee and you had the requirement of having to have red hair in order to win up until the year that I entered.So they were doing the question and answer period because I knew I wasn't going to win under the swimsuit competition.So during the question and answer period the question came “Why, young lady, what would you like to be when you grow up?” And by the time they got to me all the good answers were gone.So I had seen Barbara Walters on the Today Show that morning so I answered “I would like to be a journalist.I would like to tell other people's stories in a way that makes a difference in their lives and the world.” And as those words were coming out of my mouth I went whoa!This is pretty good!I would like to be a journalist.I want to make a difference.Well I was on television by the time I was 19 years old.And in 1986 I launched my own television show with a relentless determination to succeed at first.I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew.Sound familiar to anybody here? Eventually we did make it to the top and we stayed there for 25 years.The Oprah Winfrey Show was number one in our time slot for 21 years and I have to tell you I became pretty comfortable with that level of success.But a few years ago I decided as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground.So I ended the show and launched OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.The initials just worked out for me.So one year later after launching OWN nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop.Not just a flop but a big bold flop they call it.I can still remember the day I opened up USA Today and read the headline “Oprah, not quite standing on her OWN.” I mean really, USA Today? Now that's the nice newspaper!It really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life.I was stressed and I was frustrated and quite frankly I was actually I was embarrassed.It was right around that time that President Faust called and asked me to speak here and I thought you want me to speak to Harvard graduates? What could I possibly say to Harvard graduates, some of the most successful graduates in the world in the very moment when I had stopped succeeding? So I got off the phone with President Faust and I went to the shower.It was either that or a bag of Oreos.So I chose the shower.And I was in the shower a long time and as I was in the shower the words of an old hymn came to me.You may not know it.It's “By and by, when the morning comes.” And I started thinking about when the morning might come because at the time I thought I was stuck in a hole.And the words came to me “Trouble don't last always” from that hymn, “this too shall pass.” And I thought as I got out of the shower I am going to turn this thing around and I will be better for it.And when I do, I'm going to go to Harvard and I'm going to speak the truth of it!So I'm here today to tell you I have turned that network around!And it was all because I wanted to do it by the time I got to speak to you all so thank you so much.You don't know what motivation you were for me, thank you.I'm even prouder to share a fundamental truth that you might not have learned even as graduates of Harvard unless you studied the ancient Greek hero with Professor Nagy.Professor Nagy as we were coming in this morning said “Please Ms.Winfrey, walk decisively.” I shall walk decisively.This is what I want to share.It doesn't matter how far you might rise.At some point you are bound to stumble because if you're constantly doing what we do, raising the bar.If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall.And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure.Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.Now when you're down there in the hole, it looks like failure.So this past year I had to spoon feed those words to myself.And when you're down in the hole, when that moment comes, it's really okay to feel bad for a little while.Give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost but then here's the key, learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.And then figure out what is the next right move.And the key to life is to develop an internal moral emotional G.P.S.that can tell you which way to go.Because now and forever more when you Google yourself your search results will read “Harvard, 2013”.And in a very competitive world that really is a calling card because I can tell you as one who employs a lot of people when I see “Harvard” I sit up a little straighter and say “Where is he or she? Bring them in.” it's an impressive calling card that can lead to even more impressive bullets in the years ahead: lawyer, senator, C.E.O., scientist, physicist, winners of Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes or late night talk show host.But the challenge of life I have found is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be but it's a story about who you want to be.It's a resume that doesn't just tell a story about what you want to accomplish but why.A story that's not just a collection of titles and positions but a story that's really about your purpose.Because when you inevitably stumble and find yourself stuck in a hole that is the story that will get you out.What is your true calling? What is your dharma? What is your purpose? For me that discovery came in 1994 when I interviewed a little girl who had decided to collect pocket change in order to help other people in need.She raised a thousand dollars all by herself and I thought well if that little 9 year old girl with a bucket and big heart could do that I wonder what I could do? So I asked for our viewers to take up their own change collection and in one month just from pennies and nickels and dimes we raised more than three million dollars that we used to send one student from every state in the United States to college.That was the beginning of the Angel Network.And so what I did was I simply asked our viewers “Do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life.Give me your time or your talent your money if you have it.” And they did.Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.And together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes Rita and Katrina.So the Angel Network I have been on the air for a long time, but it was the Angel Network that actually focused my internal G.P.S.It helped me to decide that I wasn't going to just be on TV every day but that the goal of my shows, my interviews,my business, my philanthropy all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.Because what had become clear to me and I want you to know it isn't always clear in the beginning because as I said I had been on television since I was 19 years old.But around '94 I got really clear.So don't expect the clarity to come all at once to know your purpose right away, but what became clear to me was that I was here on earth to use television and not be used by it;to use television to illuminate the transcendent power of our better angels.So this Angel Network, it didn't just change the lives of those who were helped, but the lives of those who also did the helping.It reminded us that no matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe it is both possible and more importantly it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.I saw something on the Bill Moore Show recently that so reminded me of this point.It was an interview with David and Francine Wheeler.They lost their 7 year old son, Ben in the Sandy Hook tragedy.And even though gun safety legislation to strengthen background checks had just been voted down in Congress at the time that they were doing this interview they talked about how they refused to be discouraged.Francine said this, she said “Our hearts are broken but our spirits are not.I'm going to tell them what it's like to find a conversation about change that is love, and I'm going to do that without fighting them.” And then her husband David added this, “You simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesn't agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over.And we cannot do that any longer.The problem is too enormous.There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light.” In our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested.And yet, I know you know the truth.We all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout Washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle.Not my channel, by the way.We understand that the vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger background checks because they realize that we can uphold the Second Amendment and also reduce the violence that is robbing us of our children.They don't have to be incompatible.And we understand that most Americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because it's possible to both enforce our laws and at the same time embrace the words on the Statue of Liberty that have welcomed generations of huddled masses to our shores.We can do both.And we understand.I know you do because you went to Harvard.There are people from both parties and no party believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education because here in the richest nation on earth we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity.So the question is what are we going to do about it? Really what are you going to do about it? Maybe you agree with these beliefs.Maybe you don't.Maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, class of 2013, are passionate about.Maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government.Maybe you want to launch your own television show.Or maybe you simply want to collect some change.Your parents would appreciate that about now.The point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change.Each of you has been blessed with this enormous opportunity of attending this prestigious school.You now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the life of our country.When you do that let me tell you what I know for sure.That's when your story gets really good.Maya Angelou always says “When you learn, teach.When you get, give.That my friends is what gives your story purpose and meaning.” So you all have the power in your own way to develop your own Angel Network and in doing so your class will be armed with more tools of influence and empowerment than any other generation in history.I did it in an analog world.I was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20,000,000 viewers a day.Now here in a world of Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and Tumbler, you can reach billions in just seconds.You're the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in 2008.And when the pundits said they said they talked about you, they said you'd be too disappointed, you'd be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers.That's who you are.This generation your generation I know has developed a finely honed radar for B.S.Can you say “B.S.” at Harvard? The spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that saturates so much of our national debate.I know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic-an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all empathy.I have to say that the single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people was that there is a common denominator in our human experience.Most of us I tell you we don't want to be divided.What we want, the common denominator that I found in every single interview, is we want to be validated.We want to be understood.I have done over 35,000 interviews in my career and as soon as that camera shuts off everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way asks this question “Was that okay?” I heard it from President Bush, I heard it from President Obama.I've heard it from heroes and from housewives.I've heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes.I even heard it from Beyonce and all of her Beyonceness.She finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says “Was that okay?” Friends and family, yours, enemies, strangers in every argument in every encounter, every exchange I will tell you they all want to know one thing: was that okay? Did you hear me? Do you see me? Did what I say mean anything to you? And even though this is a college where Facebook was born my hope is that you would try to go out and have more face-to-face conversations with people you may disagree with.That you'll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesn't cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody else's shoes and recognize all that we share as a people.This is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation.“There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light,” says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary Friday in December.So whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is I know this, there is a light inside each of you all of us that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it.And as a young girl from rural Mississippi I learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be Barbara Walters.Although when I first started because I had Barbara in my head I would try to sit like Barbara, talk like Barbara, move like Barbara and then one night I was on the news reading the news and I called Canada Can-a-da, and that was the end of me being Barbara.I cracked myself up on TV.Couldn't stop laughing and my real personality came through and I figured out oh gee, I can be a much better Oprah than I could be a pretend Barbara.I know that you all might have a little anxiety now and hesitation about leaving the comfort of college and putting those Harvard credentials to the test.But no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you.Theologian Howard Thurman said it best.He said “Don't ask yourself what the world needs.Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” The world needs-People like Michael Stolzenberg from Fort Lauderdale.When Michael was just 8 years old Michael nearly died from a bacterial infection that cost him both of his hands and both of his feet.And in an instant this vibrant little boy became a quadruple amputee and his life was changed forever.But in losing who he once was Michael discovered who he wanted to be.He refused to sit in that wheelchair all day and feel sorry for himself so with prosthetics he learned to walk and run and play again.He joined his middle school lacrosse team and last month when he learned that so many victims of the Boston Marathon bombing would become new amputees Michael decided to banish that darkness with light.Michael and his brother Harris created Mikeysrun.com to raise 1,000,000 dollars for other amputees.By the time Harris runs the 2014 Boston Marathon.More than 1,000 miles away from here these two young brothers are bringing people together to support this Boston community the way their community came together to support Michael.And when this 13 year old man was asked about his fellow amputees he said this “First they will be sad.They're losing something they will never get back and that's scary.I was scared.But they'll be okay.They just don't know that yet.” We might not always know it.We might not always see it, or hear it on the news or even feel it in our daily lives but I have faith that no matter what class of 2013 you will be okay and you will make sure our country is okay.I have faith because of that 9 year old girl who went out and collected the change.I have faith because of David and Francine Wheeler, I have faith because of Michael and Harris Stolzenberg and I have faith because of you, the network of angeles sitting here today.One of them Kadija Williams who came to Harvard four years ago.Kadija had attended 12 schools in 12 years living out of garbage bags amongst pimps and prostitutes and drug dealers, homeless, going in to department stores, Wal-Mart in the morning to bathe herself so that she wouldn't smell in front of her classmates and today she graduates as a member of the Harvard class of 2013.From time to time you may stumble fall, you will for sure count in this no doubt, you will have questions and you will have doubts about your path but I know this, if you're willing to listen to be guided by that still small voice that is the G.P.S.within yourself, to find out what makes you come alive you will be more than okay.You will be happy, you will be successful, and you will make a difference in the world.Congratulations class of 2013, congratulations to your family and friends, good luck and thank you for listening.Was that okay?

第四篇：奧普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講中英

奧普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講：人生唯一目標(biāo)就是做真實(shí)的自己 oh my goodness!im at haaaaaarvard!thats how oprah winfrey began her speech at harvard university graduation ceremony—in her spirited, signature way.winfrey also received an honorary doctor of law degree from the university before taking to the podium.溫弗瑞演講中4條最勵(lì)志的語錄

談失敗的好處 there is no such thing as failure.failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.世間并不存在“失敗”，那不過是生活想讓我們換個(gè)方向走走罷了。learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.要從錯(cuò)誤中吸取教訓(xùn)，因?yàn)槟愕拿恳淮谓?jīng)歷、尤其是你犯下的錯(cuò)誤，都將幫助你、推動(dòng)你更好地做自己。

2.on her own biggest personal failure.談自身最大的失敗

我突然想到某首古老贊美詩(shī)中的一句話：“困難只是暫時(shí)的”，我遇到的麻煩同樣會(huì)有結(jié)束的一天。然后我想，我會(huì)將這一頁(yè)翻過去，我會(huì)好起來的。

談職業(yè)生涯所做訪談的共同性 beyonce in all her beyonce-ness...they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you? 我發(fā)現(xiàn)，我所有的訪談?dòng)幸粋€(gè)共同性，那就是人人都希望自己被認(rèn)可、被理解。they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you? 我的采訪對(duì)象都想知道：“我的表現(xiàn)ok嗎？你聽到我看到我嗎？我說的話對(duì)你有價(jià)值嗎？”

4.on the key to success and happiness.談成功和快樂的關(guān)鍵 you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal.there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.如果你只認(rèn)準(zhǔn)一個(gè)目標(biāo)，那你就能獲得真正的成功和快樂。人生確實(shí)只有一個(gè)目標(biāo)，那就是：最大程度地、最真實(shí)地展現(xiàn)自己。

“不要問自己世界需要什么，問問是什么讓你精神抖擻地活著，然后就去做，因?yàn)槭澜缢枰木褪且粋€(gè)個(gè)朝氣蓬勃的人?！逼簥W普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講

奧普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講：人生唯一目標(biāo)就是做真實(shí)的自己 oprah winfrey: oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr.henry lewis gates.oprah winfrey: all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.oprah winfrey: and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013!hello!oprah winfrey: and we understand that most americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because its possible to both enforce our篇三：奧普拉2013年哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)演講(英文版)oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr.henry lewis gates.all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013!hello!decided as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground.so i ended the show and launched own, the oprah winfrey network.the initials just worked out for me.so one year later after launching own nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop.not just a flop but a big bold flop they call it.i can still remember the day i opened up usa today and read the headline oprah, not quite standing on her own.i mean really, usa today? now thats the nice newspaper!it really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life.i was stressed and i was frustrated and quite frankly i was actually i was embarrassed.and it was all because i wanted to do it by the time i got to speak to you all so thank you so much.you dont know what motivation you were for me, thank you.im even where is he or she? bring them in.its an impressive calling card that can lead to even and so what i did was i simply asked our viewers do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life.give me your time or your talent your money if you have it.and they did.extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.and together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes rita and katrina.so the angel network i have been on the air for a long time, but it was the angel network that actually focused my internal g.p.s.it helped me to decide that i wasnt going to just be on tv every day but that the goal of my shows, added this, you simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesnt agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over.and we cannot do that any longer.the problem is too enormous.there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light.in our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested.and yet, i know you know the truth.we all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle.not my channel, by the way.we understand that the vast majority of people in this and we understand.i know you do because you went to harvard.there are people from both parties and no party believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education because here in the richest nation on earth we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity.so the question is what are we going to do about it? really what are you going to do about it? maybe you agree with these beliefs.maybe you dont.maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, class of 2013, are passionate about.maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government.maybe you want to launch your own television show.or maybe you simply want to collect some change.your parents would appreciate that about now.the point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change.each of you has been blessed with this enormous disappointed, youd be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers.thats who you are.this generation your generation i know has developed a finely honed radar for b.s.can you say b.s.at harvard? the spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that saturates so much of our national debate.i know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic-an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all that youll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesnt cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody elses shoes and recognize all that we share as a people.this is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation.there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light, says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary friday in december.so whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is i know this, there is a light inside each of you all of us that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it.and as a young girl from rural mississippi i learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be barbara walters.although when i first started because i had barbara in my head i would try to sit like barbara, talk like barbara, move like barbara and then one night i was on the news reading the news and i called canada can-a-da, and that was the end of me being barbara.i cracked myself up on tv.couldnt stop laughing and my real personality came through and i figured out oh gee, i can be a much better oprah than i could be a pretend barbara.oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr.henry lewis gates.all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013!hello!a personality.but it helps.and while i may not have graduated from here i admit that my 比爾·蓋茨在哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

尊敬的bok校長(zhǎng)，rudenstine前校長(zhǎng)，即將上任的faust校長(zhǎng)，哈佛集團(tuán)的各位成員，監(jiān)管理事會(huì)的各位理事，各位老師，各位家長(zhǎng)，各位同學(xué)： 有一句話我等了三十年，現(xiàn)在終于可以說了：“老爸，我總是跟你說，我會(huì)回來拿到我的學(xué)位的！” i want to thank harvard for this timely honor.ill be changing my job next year ?

and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感謝哈佛大學(xué)在這個(gè)時(shí)候給我這個(gè)榮譽(yù)。明年，我就要換工作了（注：指從微軟公司退休）??我終于可以在簡(jiǎn)歷上寫我有一個(gè)本科學(xué)位，這真是不錯(cuò)啊。i applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.for my part, im just happy that the crimson has called me harvards most successful dropout.i guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class ? i did the best of everyone who failed.我為今天在座的各位同學(xué)感到高興，你們拿到學(xué)位可比我簡(jiǎn)單多了。哈佛的校報(bào)稱我是“哈佛大學(xué)歷史上最成功的輟學(xué)生”。我想這大概使我有資格代表我這一類學(xué)生發(fā)言??在所有的失敗者里，我做得最好。but i also want to be recognized as the guy who got steve ballmer to drop out of business school.im a bad influence.thats why i was invited to speak at your graduation.if i had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.但是，我還要提醒大家，我使得steve ballmer（注：微軟總經(jīng)理）也從哈佛商學(xué)院退學(xué)了。因此，我是個(gè)有著惡劣影響力的人。這就是為什么我被邀請(qǐng)來在你們的畢業(yè)典禮上演講。如果我在你們?nèi)雽W(xué)歡迎儀式上演講，那么能夠堅(jiān)持到今天在這里畢業(yè)的人也許會(huì)少得多吧。

harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me.academic life was fascinating.i used to sit in on lots of classes i hadnt even signed up for.and dorm life was terrific.i lived up at radcliffe, in currier house.there were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew i didnt worry about getting up in the morning.thats how i came to be the leader of the anti-social group.we clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.對(duì)我來說，哈佛的求學(xué)經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。校園生活很有趣，我常去旁聽我沒選修的課。哈佛的課外生活也很棒，我在radcliffe過著逍遙自在的日子。每天我的寢室里總有很多人

一直待到半夜，討論著各種事情。因?yàn)槊總€(gè)人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。這使得我變成了校園里那些不安分學(xué)生的頭頭，我們互相粘在一起，做出一種拒絕所有正常學(xué)生的姿態(tài)。radcliffe是個(gè)過日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。這種狀況為我創(chuàng)造了最好的機(jī)會(huì)，如果你們明白我的意思?？上У氖?，我正是在這里學(xué)到了人生中悲傷的一課：機(jī)會(huì)大，并不等于你就會(huì)成功。

我在哈佛最難忘的回憶之一，發(fā)生在1975年1月。那時(shí)，我從宿舍樓里給位于albuquerque的一家公司打了一個(gè)電話，那家公司已經(jīng)在著手制造世界上第一臺(tái)個(gè)人電腦。我提出想向他們出售軟件。

我很擔(dān)心，他們會(huì)發(fā)覺我是一個(gè)住在宿舍的學(xué)生，從而掛斷電話。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準(zhǔn)備好，一個(gè)月后你再來找我們吧?！边@是個(gè)好消息，因?yàn)槟菚r(shí)軟件還根本沒有寫出來呢。就是從那個(gè)時(shí)候起，我日以繼夜地在這個(gè)小小的課外項(xiàng)目上工作，這導(dǎo)致了我學(xué)生生活的結(jié)束，以及通往微軟公司的不平凡的旅程的開始。what i remember above all about harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence.it could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging.it was an amazing privilege – and though i left early, i was transformed by my years at harvard, the friendships i made, and the ideas i worked on.不管怎樣，我對(duì)哈佛的回憶主要都與充沛的精力和智力活動(dòng)有關(guān)。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有壓力，有時(shí)甚至?xí)械叫箽?，但永遠(yuǎn)充滿了挑戰(zhàn)性。生活在哈佛是一種吸引人的特殊待遇??雖然我離開得比較早，但是我在這里的經(jīng)歷、在這里結(jié)識(shí)的朋友、在這里發(fā)展起來的一些想法，永遠(yuǎn)地改變了我。but taking a serious look back ? i do have one big regret.但是，如果現(xiàn)在嚴(yán)肅地回憶起來，我確實(shí)有一個(gè)真正的遺憾。i left harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world –

the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.我離開哈佛的時(shí)候，根本沒有意識(shí)到這個(gè)世界是多么的不平等。人類在健康、財(cái)富和機(jī)遇上的不平等大得可怕，它們使得無數(shù)的人們被迫生活在絕望之中。i learned a lot here at harvard about new ideas in economics and politics.i got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.我在哈佛學(xué)到了很多經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)和政治學(xué)的新思想。我也了解了很多科學(xué)上的新進(jìn)展。but humanitys greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.但是，人類最大的進(jìn)步并不來自于這些發(fā)現(xiàn)，而是來自于那些有助于減少人類不平等的發(fā)現(xiàn)。不管通過何種手段——民主制度、健全的公共教育體系、高質(zhì)量的醫(yī)療保健、還是廣泛的經(jīng)濟(jì)機(jī)會(huì)——減少不平等始終是人類最大的成就。i left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country.and i knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.我離開校園的時(shí)候，根本不知道在這個(gè)國(guó)家里，有幾百萬的年輕人無法獲得接受教育的機(jī)會(huì)。我也不知道，發(fā)展中國(guó)家里有無數(shù)的人們生活在無法形容的貧窮和疾病之中。it took me decades to find out.我花了幾十年才明白了這些事情。you graduates came to harvard at a different time.you know more about the worlds inequities than the classes that came before.in your years here, i hope youve had a chance to think about how – in this age of accelerating technology – we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.在座的各位同學(xué)，你們是在與我不同的時(shí)代來到哈佛的。你們比以前的學(xué)生，更多地了解世界是怎樣的不平等。在你們的哈佛求學(xué)過程中，我希望你們已經(jīng)思考過一個(gè)問題，那就是在這個(gè)新技術(shù)加速發(fā)展的時(shí)代，我們?cè)鯓幼罱K應(yīng)對(duì)這種不平等，以及我們?cè)鯓觼斫鉀Q這個(gè)問題。

imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause – and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives.where would you spend it? 為了討論的方便，請(qǐng)想象一下，假如你每個(gè)星期可以捐獻(xiàn)一些時(shí)間、每個(gè)月可以捐獻(xiàn)一些錢——你希望這些時(shí)間和金錢，可以用到對(duì)拯救生命和改善人類生活有最大作用的地方。你會(huì)選擇什么地方？ for melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.對(duì)melinda（注：蓋茨的妻子）和我來說，這也是我們面臨的問題：我們?nèi)绾文軐⑽覀儞碛械馁Y源發(fā)揮出最大的作用。during our discussions on this question, melinda and i read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country.measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis b, yellow fever.one disease i had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year – none of them in the united states.在討論過程中，melinda和我讀到了一篇文章，里面說在那些貧窮的國(guó)家，每年有數(shù)百萬的兒童死于那些在美國(guó)早已不成問題的疾病。麻疹、瘧疾、肺炎、乙型肝炎、黃熱病、還有一種以前我從未聽說過的輪狀病毒，這些疾病每年導(dǎo)致50萬兒童死亡，但是在美國(guó)一例死亡病例也沒有。we were shocked.we had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them.but it did not.for under a dollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just werent being delivered.我們被震驚了。我們想，如果幾百萬兒童正在死亡線上掙扎，而且他們是可以被挽救的，那么世界理應(yīng)將用藥物拯救他們作為頭等大事。但是事實(shí)并非如此。那些價(jià)格還不到一美元的救命的藥劑，并沒有送到他們的手中。if you believe that every life has equal value, its revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not.we said to ourselves: this cant be true.but if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.如果你相信每個(gè)生命都是平等的，那么當(dāng)你發(fā)現(xiàn)某些生命被挽救了，而另一些生命被放棄了，你會(huì)感到無法接受。我們對(duì)自己說：“事情不可能如此。如果這是真的，那么它理應(yīng)是我們努力的頭等大事?！? so we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it.we asked: how could the world let these children die? 所以，我們用任何人都會(huì)想到的方式開始工作。我們問：“這個(gè)世界怎么可以眼睜睜看著這些孩子死去？” the answer is simple, and harsh.the market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it.so the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.答案很簡(jiǎn)單，也很令人難堪。在市場(chǎng)經(jīng)濟(jì)中，拯救兒童是一項(xiàng)沒有利潤(rùn)的工作，政府也不會(huì)提供補(bǔ)助。這些兒童之所以會(huì)死亡，是因?yàn)樗麄兊母改冈诮?jīng)濟(jì)上沒有實(shí)力，在政治上沒有能力發(fā)出聲音。but you and i have both.但是，你們和我在經(jīng)濟(jì)上有實(shí)力，在政治上能夠發(fā)出聲音。we can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism – if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities.we also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.我們可以讓市場(chǎng)更好地為窮人服務(wù)，如果我們能夠設(shè)計(jì)出一種更有創(chuàng)新性的資本主義制度——如果我們可以改變市場(chǎng)，讓更多的人可以獲得利潤(rùn)，或者至少可以維持生活——那么，這就可以幫到那些正在極端不平等的狀況中受苦的人們。我們還可以向全世界的政府施壓，要求他們將納稅人的錢，花到更符合納稅人價(jià)值觀的地方。if we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world.this task is open-ended.it can never be finished.but a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.如果我們能夠找到這樣一種方法，既可以幫到窮人，又可以為商人帶來利潤(rùn)，為政治家?guī)磉x票，那么我們就找到了一種減少世界性不平等的可持續(xù)的發(fā)展道路。這個(gè)任務(wù)是無限的。它不可能被完全完成，但是任何自覺地解決這個(gè)問題的嘗試，都將會(huì)改變這個(gè)世界。i believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.我相信，問題不是我們不在乎，而是我們不知道怎么做。all of us here in this yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts, and yet we did nothing – not because we didnt care, but because we didnt know what to do.if we had known how to help, we would have acted.此刻在這個(gè)院子里的所有人，生命中總有這樣或那樣的時(shí)刻，目睹人類的悲劇，感到萬分傷心。但是我們什么也沒做，并非我們無動(dòng)于衷，而是因?yàn)槲覀儾恢雷鍪裁春驮趺醋?。如果我們知道如何做是有效的，那么我們就?huì)采取行動(dòng)。

為了將關(guān)心轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)樾袆?dòng)，我們需要找到問題，發(fā)現(xiàn)解決辦法的方法，評(píng)估后果。

第五篇：奧普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講中英文

oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr.henry lewis gates.all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013!hello!decided as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground.so i ended the show and launched own, the oprah winfrey network.the initials just worked out for me.so one year later after launching own nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop.not just a flop but a big bold flop they call it.i can still remember the day i opened up usa today and read the headline oprah, not quite standing on her own.i mean really, usa today? now thats the nice newspaper!it really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life.i was stressed and i was frustrated and quite frankly i was actually i was embarrassed.and it was all because i wanted to do it by the time i got to speak to you all so thank you so much.you dont know what motivation you were for me, thank you.im even where is he or she? bring them in.its an impressive calling card that can lead to even and so what i did was i simply asked our viewers do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life.give me your time or your talent your money if you have it.and they did.extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.and together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes rita and katrina.so the angel network i have been on the air for a long time, but it was the angel network that actually focused my internal g.p.s.it helped me to decide that i wasnt going to just be on tv every day but that the goal of my shows, added this, you simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesnt agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over.and we cannot do that any longer.the problem is too enormous.there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light.in our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested.and yet, i know you know the truth.we all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle.not my channel, by the way.we understand that the vast majority of people in this and we understand.i know you do because you went to harvard.there are people from both parties and no party believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education because here in the richest nation on earth we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity.so the question is what are we going to do about it? really what are you going to do about it? maybe you agree with these beliefs.maybe you dont.maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, class of 2013, are passionate about.maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government.maybe you want to launch your own television show.or maybe you simply want to collect some change.your parents would appreciate that about now.the point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change.each of you has been blessed with this enormous opportunity of attending this prestigious school.you now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the life of our country.when you do that let me tell you what i know for sure.thats when your story gets really good.maya angelou always says when you learn, teach.when you get, give.that my friends is what gives your story purpose and meaning.so you all have the power in your own way to develop your own angel network and in doing so your class will be armed with more tools of influence and empowerment than any other generation in history.i did it in an analog world.i was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20,000,000 viewers a day.now here in a world of twitter and facebook and youtube and tumbler, you can reach billions in just seconds.youre the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in 2008.and when the pundits said they said they talked about you, they said youd be too disappointed, youd be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers.thats who you are.this generation your generation i know has developed a finely honed radar for b.s.can you say b.s.at harvard? the spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that that youll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesnt cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody elses shoes and recognize all that we share as a people.this is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation.there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light, says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary friday in december.so whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is i know this, there is a light inside each of you all of us that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it.and as a young girl from rural mississippi i learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be barbara walters.although when i first started because i had barbara in my head i would try to sit like barbara, talk like barbara, move like barbara and then one night i was on the news reading the news and i called canada can-a-da, and that was the end of me being barbara.i cracked myself up on tv.couldnt stop laughing and my real personality came through and i figured out oh gee, i can be a much better oprah than i could be a pretend barbara.奧普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講：人生唯一目標(biāo)就是做真實(shí)的自己 oh my goodness!im at haaaaaarvard!thats how oprah winfrey began her speech at harvard university graduation ceremony—in her spirited, signature way.winfrey also received an honorary doctor of law degree from the university before taking to the podium.溫弗瑞演講中4條最勵(lì)志的語錄

談失敗的好處 there is no such thing as failure.failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.世間并不存在“失敗”，那不過是生活想讓我們換個(gè)方向走走罷了。learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.要從錯(cuò)誤中吸取教訓(xùn)，因?yàn)槟愕拿恳淮谓?jīng)歷、尤其是你犯下的錯(cuò)誤，都將幫助你、推動(dòng)你更好地做自己。

2.on her own biggest personal failure.談自身最大的失敗

我突然想到某首古老贊美詩(shī)中的一句話：“困難只是暫時(shí)的”，我遇到的麻煩同樣會(huì)有結(jié)束的一天。然后我想，我會(huì)將這一頁(yè)翻過去，我會(huì)好起來的。

談職業(yè)生涯所做訪談的共同性 beyonce in all her beyonce-ness...they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you? 我發(fā)現(xiàn)，我所有的訪談?dòng)幸粋€(gè)共同性，那就是人人都希望自己被認(rèn)可、被理解。they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you? 我的采訪對(duì)象都想知道：“我的表現(xiàn)ok嗎？你聽到我看到我嗎？我說的話對(duì)你有價(jià)值嗎？”

4.on the key to success and happiness.談成功和快樂的關(guān)鍵 you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal.there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.如果你只認(rèn)準(zhǔn)一個(gè)目標(biāo)，那你就能獲得真正的成功和快樂。人生確實(shí)只有一個(gè)目標(biāo)，那就是：最大程度地、最真實(shí)地展現(xiàn)自己。

“不要問自己世界需要什么，問問是什么讓你精神抖擻地活著，然后就去做，因?yàn)槭澜缢枰木褪且粋€(gè)個(gè)朝氣蓬勃的人?！逼簥W普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講

奧普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講：人生唯一目標(biāo)就是做真實(shí)的自己 oprah winfrey: oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr.henry lewis gates.oprah winfrey: all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.oprah winfrey: and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013!hello!oprah winfrey: and we understand that most americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because its possible to both enforce our篇四：2008年jk羅琳：哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講(中英文對(duì)照)2008年jk羅琳哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講（中英文對(duì)照）“2008年6月5日是哈佛大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮，請(qǐng)來的演講嘉賓是《哈利波特》的作者j.k.羅琳女士。她的演講題目是《失敗的好處和想象的重要性》（the fringe benefits of failure, and the importance of imagination）。我讀了一遍講稿，覺得很好，很感染人。

她幾乎沒有談到哈里波特，而是說了年輕時(shí)的一些經(jīng)歷。雖然j·k·羅琳現(xiàn)在很有錢，是英國(guó)僅次于女皇的最富有的女人，但是她曾經(jīng)有一段非常艱辛的日子，30歲了，還差點(diǎn)流落街頭。她主要談的是，自己從這段經(jīng)歷中學(xué)到的東西?！? 以下是英文文稿和中文翻譯： text as delivered follows.copyright of jk rowling, june 2008 president faust, members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.actually, i have wracked my mind and heart for what i ought to say to you today.i have asked myself what i wish i had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons i have learned in the 21 years that have expired between that day and this.failure.and as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called ?real life?, i want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.these may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.i was convinced that the only thing i wanted to do, ever, was to write novels.however, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.i know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.i cannot remember telling my parents that i was studying classics;they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day.of all the subjects on this planet, i think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.i would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that i do not blame my parents for their point of view.there is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction;the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.what is more, i cannot criticise my parents for hoping that i would never experience poverty.they had been poor themselves, and i have since been poor, and i quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience.poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression;it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.what i feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.at your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where i had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, i had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.i am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak.talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates, and i do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.however, the fact that you are graduating from harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure.you might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success.indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person?s idea of success, so high have you already flown.now, i am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun.that period of my life was a dark one, and i had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution.i had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.so why do i talk about the benefits of failure? simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.i stopped pretending to myself that i was anything other than what i was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.had i really succeeded at anything else, i might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena i believed i truly belonged.i was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and i was still alive, and i still had a daughter whom i adored, and i had an old typewriter and a big idea.and so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuilt my life.you might never fail on the scale i did, but some failure in life is inevitable.it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.failure gave me an inner security that i had never attained by passing examinations.failure taught me things about myself that i could have learned no other way.i discovered that i had a strong will, and more discipline than i had suspected;i also found out that i had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.the knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.you will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification i ever earned.now you might think that i chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so.though i personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, i have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense.imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation.in its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.one of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded harry potter, though it informed much of what i subsequently wrote in those books.this revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs.though i was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, i paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the african research department at amnesty international?s headquarters in london.there in my little office i read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them.i saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to amnesty by their desperate families and friends.i read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries.i opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.and as long as i live i shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as i have never heard since.the door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her.she had just had to give him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his country?s regime, his mother had been seized and executed.every day of my working week in my early 20s i was reminded how incredibly fortunate i was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.every day, i saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain power.i began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things i saw, heard, and read.and yet i also learned more about human goodness at amnesty international than i had ever known before.amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have.the power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners.ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet.my small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life.unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced.they can think themselves into other people?s places.of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral.one might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.i might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that i do not think they have any fewer nightmares than i do.choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors.i think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters.they are often more afraid.one of the many things i learned at the end of that classics corridor down which i ventured at the age of 18, in search of something i could not then define, was this, written by the greek author plutarch: what we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.篇五：比爾·蓋茨在哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講(中英文對(duì)照)比爾·蓋茨在哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

尊敬的bok校長(zhǎng)，rudenstine前校長(zhǎng)，即將上任的faust校長(zhǎng)，哈佛集團(tuán)的各位成員，監(jiān)管理事會(huì)的各位理事，各位老師，各位家長(zhǎng)，各位同學(xué)： 有一句話我等了三十年，現(xiàn)在終于可以說了：“老爸，我總是跟你說，我會(huì)回來拿到我的學(xué)位的！” i want to thank harvard for this timely honor.ill be changing my job next year ?

and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感謝哈佛大學(xué)在這個(gè)時(shí)候給我這個(gè)榮譽(yù)。明年，我就要換工作了（注：指從微軟公司退休）??我終于可以在簡(jiǎn)歷上寫我有一個(gè)本科學(xué)位，這真是不錯(cuò)啊。i applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.for my part, im just happy that the crimson has called me harvards most successful dropout.i guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class ? i did the best of everyone who failed.我為今天在座的各位同學(xué)感到高興，你們拿到學(xué)位可比我簡(jiǎn)單多了。哈佛的校報(bào)稱我是“哈佛大學(xué)歷史上最成功的輟學(xué)生”。我想這大概使我有資格代表我這一類學(xué)生發(fā)言??在所有的失敗者里，我做得最好。but i also want to be recognized as the guy who got steve ballmer to drop out of business school.im a bad influence.thats why i was invited to speak at your graduation.if i had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.但是，我還要提醒大家，我使得steve ballmer（注：微軟總經(jīng)理）也從哈佛商學(xué)院退學(xué)了。因此，我是個(gè)有著惡劣影響力的人。這就是為什么我被邀請(qǐng)來在你們的畢業(yè)典禮上演講。如果我在你們?nèi)雽W(xué)歡迎儀式上演講，那么能夠堅(jiān)持到今天在這里畢業(yè)的人也許會(huì)少得多吧。

harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me.academic life was fascinating.i used to sit in on lots of classes i hadnt even signed up for.and dorm life was terrific.i lived up at radcliffe, in currier house.there were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew i didnt worry about getting up in the morning.thats how i came to be the leader of the anti-social group.we clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.對(duì)我來說，哈佛的求學(xué)經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。校園生活很有趣，我常去旁聽我沒選修的課。哈佛的課外生活也很棒，我在radcliffe過著逍遙自在的日子。每天我的寢室里總有很多人

一直待到半夜，討論著各種事情。因?yàn)槊總€(gè)人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。這使得我變成了校園里那些不安分學(xué)生的頭頭，我們互相粘在一起，做出一種拒絕所有正常學(xué)生的姿態(tài)。radcliffe是個(gè)過日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。這種狀況為我創(chuàng)造了最好的機(jī)會(huì)，如果你們明白我的意思?？上У氖?，我正是在這里學(xué)到了人生中悲傷的一課：機(jī)會(huì)大，并不等于你就會(huì)成功。

我在哈佛最難忘的回憶之一，發(fā)生在1975年1月。那時(shí)，我從宿舍樓里給位于albuquerque的一家公司打了一個(gè)電話，那家公司已經(jīng)在著手制造世界上第一臺(tái)個(gè)人電腦。我提出想向他們出售軟件。

我很擔(dān)心，他們會(huì)發(fā)覺我是一個(gè)住在宿舍的學(xué)生，從而掛斷電話。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準(zhǔn)備好，一個(gè)月后你再來找我們吧?！边@是個(gè)好消息，因?yàn)槟菚r(shí)軟件還根本沒有寫出來呢。就是從那個(gè)時(shí)候起，我日以繼夜地在這個(gè)小小的課外項(xiàng)目上工作，這導(dǎo)致了我學(xué)生生活的結(jié)束，以及通往微軟公司的不平凡的旅程的開始。what i remember above all about harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence.it could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging.it was an amazing privilege – and though i left early, i was transformed by my years at harvard, the friendships i made, and the ideas i worked on.不管怎樣，我對(duì)哈佛的回憶主要都與充沛的精力和智力活動(dòng)有關(guān)。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有壓力，有時(shí)甚至?xí)械叫箽?，但永遠(yuǎn)充滿了挑戰(zhàn)性。生活在哈佛是一種吸引人的特殊待遇??雖然我離開得比較早，但是我在這里的經(jīng)歷、在這里結(jié)識(shí)的朋友、在這里發(fā)展起來的一些想法，永遠(yuǎn)地改變了我。but taking a serious look back ? i do have one big regret.但是，如果現(xiàn)在嚴(yán)肅地回憶起來，我確實(shí)有一個(gè)真正的遺憾。i left harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world –

the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.我離開哈佛的時(shí)候，根本沒有意識(shí)到這個(gè)世界是多么的不平等。人類在健康、財(cái)富和機(jī)遇上的不平等大得可怕，它們使得無數(shù)的人們被迫生活在絕望之中。i learned a lot here at harvard about new ideas in economics and politics.i got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.我在哈佛學(xué)到了很多經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)和政治學(xué)的新思想。我也了解了很多科學(xué)上的新進(jìn)展。but humanitys greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.但是，人類最大的進(jìn)步并不來自于這些發(fā)現(xiàn)，而是來自于那些有助于減少人類不平等的發(fā)現(xiàn)。不管通過何種手段——民主制度、健全的公共教育體系、高質(zhì)量的醫(yī)療保健、還是廣泛的經(jīng)濟(jì)機(jī)會(huì)——減少不平等始終是人類最大的成就。i left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country.and i knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.我離開校園的時(shí)候，根本不知道在這個(gè)國(guó)家里，有幾百萬的年輕人無法獲得接受教育的機(jī)會(huì)。我也不知道，發(fā)展中國(guó)家里有無數(shù)的人們生活在無法形容的貧窮和疾病之中。it took me decades to find out.我花了幾十年才明白了這些事情。you graduates came to harvard at a different time.you know more about the worlds inequities than the classes that came before.in your years here, i hope youve had a chance to think about how – in this age of accelerating technology – we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.在座的各位同學(xué)，你們是在與我不同的時(shí)代來到哈佛的。你們比以前的學(xué)生，更多地了解世界是怎樣的不平等。在你們的哈佛求學(xué)過程中，我希望你們已經(jīng)思考過一個(gè)問題，那就是在這個(gè)新技術(shù)加速發(fā)展的時(shí)代，我們?cè)鯓幼罱K應(yīng)對(duì)這種不平等，以及我們?cè)鯓觼斫鉀Q這個(gè)問題。

imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause – and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives.where would you spend it? 為了討論的方便，請(qǐng)想象一下，假如你每個(gè)星期可以捐獻(xiàn)一些時(shí)間、每個(gè)月可以捐獻(xiàn)一些錢——你希望這些時(shí)間和金錢，可以用到對(duì)拯救生命和改善人類生活有最大作用的地方。你會(huì)選擇什么地方？ for melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.對(duì)melinda（注：蓋茨的妻子）和我來說，這也是我們面臨的問題：我們?nèi)绾文軐⑽覀儞碛械馁Y源發(fā)揮出最大的作用。during our discussions on this question, melinda and i read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country.measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis b, yellow fever.one disease i had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year – none of them in the united states.在討論過程中，melinda和我讀到了一篇文章，里面說在那些貧窮的國(guó)家，每年有數(shù)百萬的兒童死于那些在美國(guó)早已不成問題的疾病。麻疹、瘧疾、肺炎、乙型肝炎、黃熱病、還有一種以前我從未聽說過的輪狀病毒，這些疾病每年導(dǎo)致50萬兒童死亡，但是在美國(guó)一例死亡病例也沒有。we were shocked.we had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them.but it did not.for under a dollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just werent being delivered.我們被震驚了。我們想，如果幾百萬兒童正在死亡線上掙扎，而且他們是可以被挽救的，那么世界理應(yīng)將用藥物拯救他們作為頭等大事。但是事實(shí)并非如此。那些價(jià)格還不到一美元的救命的藥劑，并沒有送到他們的手中。if you believe that every life has equal value, its revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not.we said to ourselves: this cant be true.but if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.如果你相信每個(gè)生命都是平等的，那么當(dāng)你發(fā)現(xiàn)某些生命被挽救了，而另一些生命被放棄了，你會(huì)感到無法接受。我們對(duì)自己說：“事情不可能如此。如果這是真的，那么它理應(yīng)是我們努力的頭等大事?！? so we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it.we asked: how could the world let these children die? 所以，我們用任何人都會(huì)想到的方式開始工作。我們問：“這個(gè)世界怎么可以眼睜睜看著這些孩子死去？” the answer is simple, and harsh.the market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it.so the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.答案很簡(jiǎn)單，也很令人難堪。在市場(chǎng)經(jīng)濟(jì)中，拯救兒童是一項(xiàng)沒有利潤(rùn)的工作，政府也不會(huì)提供補(bǔ)助。這些兒童之所以會(huì)死亡，是因?yàn)樗麄兊母改冈诮?jīng)濟(jì)上沒有實(shí)力，在政治上沒有能力發(fā)出聲音。but you and i have both.但是，你們和我在經(jīng)濟(jì)上有實(shí)力，在政治上能夠發(fā)出聲音。we can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism – if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities.we also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.我們可以讓市場(chǎng)更好地為窮人服務(wù)，如果我們能夠設(shè)計(jì)出一種更有創(chuàng)新性的資本主義制度——如果我們可以改變市場(chǎng)，讓更多的人可以獲得利潤(rùn)，或者至少可以維持生活——那么，這就可以幫到那些正在極端不平等的狀況中受苦的人們。我們還可以向全世界的政府施壓，要求他們將納稅人的錢，花到更符合納稅人價(jià)值觀的地方。if we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world.this task is open-ended.it can never be finished.but a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.如果我們能夠找到這樣一種方法，既可以幫到窮人，又可以為商人帶來利潤(rùn)，為政治家?guī)磉x票，那么我們就找到了一種減少世界性不平等的可持續(xù)的發(fā)展道路。這個(gè)任務(wù)是無限的。它不可能被完全完成，但是任何自覺地解決這個(gè)問題的嘗試，都將會(huì)改變這個(gè)世界。i believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.我相信，問題不是我們不在乎，而是我們不知道怎么做。all of us here in this yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts, and yet we did nothing – not because we didnt care, but because we didnt know what to do.if we had known how to help, we would have acted.此刻在這個(gè)院子里的所有人，生命中總有這樣或那樣的時(shí)刻，目睹人類的悲劇，感到萬分傷心。但是我們什么也沒做，并非我們無動(dòng)于衷，而是因?yàn)槲覀儾恢雷鍪裁春驮趺醋?。如果我們知道如何做是有效的，那么我們就?huì)采取行動(dòng)。

為了將關(guān)心轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)樾袆?dòng)，我們需要找到問題，發(fā)現(xiàn)解決辦法的方法，評(píng)估后果。