偶像勵志英語演講 43:讓父母為你驕傲(3)

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread it around like manure, fertilize those young minds, let them in on the secret. What is it that you know that no one else knows. The self examination begins: one looks inward; one opens an interior door. Cobwebs, black, the lights bulbs burned out, the airless dank refrigerator of an insanely over-scheduled, unexamined life that usually just gets take-out. Where is my writer friend, Anna Quindlen when I need her? On another book tour.

如果你已經(jīng)是成功人士，人們以為你知道成功的原因。人們認(rèn)為你有義務(wù)傳播成功的經(jīng)驗，這些經(jīng)驗就像肥料一樣，為年輕人的思想施肥，讓他們也知道成功的秘密。什么是你知道而別人不知道的呢?你開始自我反思：獨自審視自我，打開通往內(nèi)心之門。生活成了一團(tuán)糟，就像沒有了目標(biāo)，黑色的蜘蛛網(wǎng)懸掛著，燈泡也壞掉了，超過使用壽命的疲于奔命的冰箱陰冷而壓抑。在我需要的時候，我的作家朋友安娜·昆德蘭去哪里了呢?她在進(jìn)行另一次巡回售書活動。

Hello, I'm Meryl Streep, and today, Class of 2010 and I am really, I am very honored, and I am humbled to be asked to pass on tips and inspiration to you, for achieving success in this next part of your lives. President Spar, when I consider the other distinguished medal recipients and venerable Board of Trustees, the many accomplished faculty and family members, people who've acutally done things, produced things, while I have pretneded to do things, I can think these 3,800 people who should have been on this list before me and you know since my success has depended wholly on my putting things over on people. So I'm not sure parents think I'm that great, a role model anyway.

大家好，我是梅麗爾·斯特里普，今天能給在座的2010屆的畢業(yè)生們講一些關(guān)于如何取得成功的小竅門和靈感，我感到莫大的榮幸，希望對你們?nèi)松南乱浑A段有所啟發(fā)。撒皮爾主席，當(dāng)我想到其他聲名顯赫的獲獎?wù)咭约白鹁吹亩聲蓡T們、眾多功成名就的教工及其家屬們、以及那些真正做了實事、創(chuàng)造了價值的人們時，我就會覺得自己只是假裝做了些事情，所以我認(rèn)為你們這3800人更應(yīng)該被羅列在此名單之中，比我更適合來做這次演講。你也知道，我的成功完全依賴于他人所做的事，所以我不敢肯定家長們是否認(rèn)為我是個了不起的好榜樣。