名校勵(lì)志英語(yǔ)演講 第67期:做真正的自己
尊敬的考恩校長(zhǎng)，校長(zhǎng)夫人，尊敬的嘉賓——你們知道自己是誰(shuí)，不用介紹了，尊敬的老師們，還有令人害怕的西班牙語(yǔ)老師，感謝你們!
And thank you to all the graduating class of 2009, I realize most of you are hungover and have splitting headaches and haven't slept since Fat Tuesday, but you can't graduate till I finish, so listen up.
尊敬的所有杜蘭大學(xué)2009屆畢業(yè)生們!我知道你們絕大多數(shù)人還因?yàn)樗拮矶^痛欲裂，狂歡到今天都還沒有睡覺。但沒聽完我演講不能畢業(yè)，所以要注意聽了。
When I was asked to make the commencement speech, I immediately said yes. Then I went to look up what commencement meant. Which would have been easy if I had a dictionary, but most of the books in our house are Portia's, and they're all written in Australian. So I had to break the word down myself, to find out the meaning.
當(dāng)我應(yīng)邀來發(fā)表畢業(yè)演講時(shí)，我毫不猶豫就答應(yīng)了，然后我才去查畢業(yè)典禮是什么意思。如果我有字典的話就輕松多了，但我家大多數(shù)的書都是波西米亞的，而且都是澳式英語(yǔ)，所以我得自己拆分單詞，摸索它的意思。
Commencement: common, and cement. Common cement. You commonly see cement on sidewalks. Sidewalks have cracks, and if you step on a crack, you break your mother's back. So there's that. But I'm honored that you've asked me here to speak at your common cement.
commencement 由 commen 和 cement 構(gòu)成，意思是“常見的水泥”。在人行道上你?？匆娝?。人行道上有裂縫，你踩到了裂縫，撞傷了你媽媽的背。意思就是這樣。但是我很榮幸應(yīng)邀給你們做“常見的水泥”演講。
I thought that you had to be a famous alumnus—alumini—aluminum—alumis—you had to graduate from this school. And I didn't go to college here, and I don't know if President Cowan knows, I didn't go to any college at all. Any college. And I'm not saying you wasted your time,or money, but look at me, I"m a huge celebrity.
我本以為要夠有名，必須要是校友才能來。我沒在這兒上過大學(xué)，而且，不知道考恩校長(zhǎng)知道不知道，我完全沒念過大學(xué)。任何一所大學(xué)。我不是說你們?cè)诶速M(fèi)時(shí)間和金錢，看看我，我可是超越成功的名人。
