英語美文名人勵(lì)志故事64:J.K.羅琳在哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上論失敗和想象力的重要性的故事
64. The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
64. 失敗的額外收益和想象力的重要性
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 academically.
你們是哈佛畢業(yè)生的這個(gè)事實(shí)，說明你們并不很了解失敗。你們也許極其渴望成功，所以非常害怕失敗。說實(shí)話，你們眼中的失敗，很可能就是普通人眼中的成功，畢竟你們?cè)趯W(xué)業(yè)上已經(jīng)很成功了。
But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people's lives? Your your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. That is your privilege, and your burden.
但是，所有各位哈佛大學(xué)2008屆的畢業(yè)生，你們對(duì)其他人的生活產(chǎn)生多少影響呢?你們的智慧、你們的能力、你們所受的教育，給了你們獨(dú)一無二的優(yōu)勢(shì)，也給了你們獨(dú)一無二的責(zé)任。你們的優(yōu)勢(shì)就是你們的責(zé)任。
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better.
你們要用自己的地位和影響，為那些被忽略的人們說話;你們不僅要看到那些有權(quán)有勢(shì)者，也要看到那些無權(quán)元?jiǎng)菡?你們要學(xué)會(huì)設(shè)想，那些條件不如你們的人們是如何生活的;那樣的話，不僅你們的親人們將為你們感到自豪，而且千千萬萬的人們將因?yàn)槟銈兊膸椭畹酶谩?/p>
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
我們不需要改變世界的魔法，我們自己的體內(nèi)就有這樣的力量：那就是我們一直在夢(mèng)想，讓這個(gè)世界變得更美好。
