【双语阅读】美国社会学家给大学毕业生的忠告

中文翻译在后面也贴出了，但不太精确。

Speech at Y ale Graduation presented by Tom HanksMay 10, 2011I now many of you were convinced that last night about 6 o'clock local time, the world was going to come to an end. Just because it hasn't doesn't mean that it's not nearby, because my appearing today at Y ale University is surely one of the four horseman of the apocalypse. But listen, today is your day. Please do not turn off your electronic devices, leave your IPhones, your Ipads, your sidekicks, your Droids, your blackberries powered up, recording, photographing, texting out all that emerges from this stage over the next few minute. By the way I'm supporting the hat, it ain't coming off. Y ou know later on today you can compare your tweets, and Facebook comments with those of others to figure out if anything memorable went down, hey you know what tweet that last sentence I just said. It will give you something to do, let your friends know where you are today. Okay take this speech set it to music, then maybe insert some crazy kooky graphics. Star in that video yourself, post it on the web, then if it becomes a viral sensation, you will be equal to any cat playing with a paper bag, any set of twin toddlers talking gibberish to each other, as popular as a cute girl that sings about Fridays, hey you could be the next Sam Tsui. Such are just one of the possibilities in our grave new world, the world you now inherit whether you like it or not, the jig is up, the clock is run out, and the future, with a capital F, now rest with all of you and your goofy hats, and all because you went to Y ale. Y ou are now the anointed, the charge holders, the best and the brightest; each of you is shining hope for our nation and the world. Y ou are the new wizards who can finally make since of all the delta vectors, and the square roots, and the divided byes in the theorem, we call the human race. The generations before you came of age, took on the job, now it's your turn, welcome.Y ou know I once had a friend, who had a rich uncle, who promised to pay for his college, as long as my friend wished to stay in school. "Y ou should stay in school, as long as you can," the rich uncle said "Because when you get out of college, you got to work for every day for the rest of you life". And you all will come to understand, what that rich uncle meant, just as surely you will someday wonder where the hell you put your reading glasses, and to yell at your own kids to turn the damn music down. On spring days, like today, it's traditional for us to ponder the state of the world and implore you all to help make it a better place, which implies that things are somehow worse today than when we up here are where you are sitting right now. I'm not so sure that planet earth is in worse shape than it was 30, no 18, no 4 years ago. But that's not to say it's in better shape either, refraining from waxing nostalgic and comparing our then to your now, and avoiding the any talk of you kids these days with your rap and your hip hop and your snoopy dog daddy with the ditty pops, with your fifty cents, and quarter cents. A sober looks shows that just have the world gotten to be a better place after all; it is also grown a bit worse at the exact same rate.; a one step up, a one step back sort of cosmic balance between forward progress, and cultural retreat, that puts man kind on a bell curve of existence, that shows a small segment of joy, ease, and comfort, while equal proportions struggle on, while with little hope in the fortunes with the remainder either on the rise or on the wane that this confounding tide of so many damn things that we grow oblivious the shifts in the quality of our lives. Graduation day is a proper occasion to put a toe inthe global waters and I think the mercury shows that things are much as they always have been.Ten years ago, we busied ourselves with trivial stuff imbued with the importance of in came, 911, in 1991 riches were created in new businesses that never existed, then that economic balloon burst. In 81, I had a great job on TV, and in 82, Bosom Buddies was canceled. In 71, color TV in more living rooms that ever showed young Americans still fighting in combat in Vietnam. In 61, satellites beamed live images around the world for the very first time, but those images were of the building of the Berlin Wall. Now this ten year grid shows this same "yin-yang thang", and I'm trying to copyright that; yin-yang thang- copyright Tom Hanks. This shows this same yin-yang thang on graduation day 2011. Y ou know we all have these devices that can make a permanent record of revolutionary change on the other side of the globe, as well as hate filled diet tribes from across town. Fewer and fewer in our country go to bed hungry but did you know see how obesity now affects about half our population. No matter how many bargains we find at the local U-Mart, many of us still struggle to pay the rent and the utilities. Our country is no longer at physical or even ideological war with our enemies for most of the last century, but in the eleven and a half years of the third millennium, our armed forces have been fighting in the field for nine of them. Purchasing intellectual property and the work of artists we admire is as simple as clicking a mouse and paying less than a few bucks, which means you may find that there's no guarantee in making a living at your chosen discipline. Now some advantages particular to this age, are not to be denied; boredom has seemed to have been vanquished, there is always something to do, but hasn't this translated into a perpetual distraction in our lives. In the bathroom, at the dinner table, in the backseat, at a wedding, at a brisk, at a graduation day; there's always something to check, something to tweet, something to watch, something to download, something to play, something to share, something to buy, someone on a voicemail, something to yank at our attention span and it's all in the palm of our hand for a small monthly service fee. That same technology, has allowed for a surplus of celebrities, and that is nothing to cheer about. Anyone, although that Sam Tsui he rocks, anyone can enjoy the perks of notoriety now and the duration of fame has been lengthened from Andy Warhal's brief 15 minutes, to a good 15 months, if you're willing to do certain things on camera. Though our Willian language is often the vocabulary of official news speak is boogeyman that is the all seen "big brother", has never emerged, unless you live in North Korea, or run a red light in Beverly Hills, or shop online, or have done something stupid in the wrong place or the wrong time in front of someone with a camera in their cell phone, and that is everybody. So pardon my junior college Latin, the vulgestpopuli has become the all seeing state and if you cross it Google Search will forever display you screw up, so actually there is a big brother, but he's not in the level of fiction, he's actually all of us, but he lives in our search engines. So no matter how many times I do the calculations, I come up with a social draw, the positives balance the negatives, the x's equal the y's, and our hopes weigh as much as our fears, but I hesitate on that last one because, fear, good lord, fear is a powerful physiological force in 2011. We here up in the stands, and surrounding you of this graduating class look to you as we do every year, hoping you will now somehow through your labors, free us from what we have come to fear, and we have come to fear many things, fear has become the commodity that sell as certainly as sex. Fear is cheap, fear is easy, fear gets attention, fear is spread as fast as gossip and just as glamorous, juicy, and profitable. Fear twists facts into fiction that becomes indistinguishable from ignorance. Fear is a profit churning go to with a home market being your whole family.Y ou know sitting in the house one day, watching the game on TV not long ago, along came this promo for the local nightly news "Are our schools poisoning our children? That story and our summers hottest bikinis tonight at 11" In that I had that school age kids at the time, I fear that they might be being poisoned, and summer was still a few weeks away. I tooned in to get the scoop, and the actual news stories of that news broadcast was this, a certain supply of hamburger was found to have a bit to much of a particular bacteria in it and for safeties sake, was being taken off the market. That same hamburger was slated for sale to an out of state school system for its cafeterias, but it was recalled in time. So answering that news program's own question then, no, our schools were not poisoning our children, but yes, that summer there would be some very hot bikinis at the beach.Now the early American naval commander, John Paul Jones said "If fear is cultivated, it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery" and this is why I am a big fan of history, because observations of the American colonies over 200 years ago by a compatriot of Nathan Hale, who lived in that building right over there, translates word for word of the United States in 2011 For I take that fear to be fear in a large scale, fear itself intimidating and constant. And I take faith to be, what we hold in ourselves, our American ideal of self-determination. Fear is whispered in our ears and shouted in our faces. Faith must be fostered by the man or woman you see every day in the mirror. The former forever snaps at our heels and our synapsis and delays our course, the later could spur our boot heels to be wonderment, stimulate our creativity, and continue to drive us forward. Fear or faith, which will be our master?Three men found that they could no longer sleep because of their deep seeded fears, this is a story I'm telling. Their lives were in the state of stasis because of their constant worries. So they set out on a pilgrimage to find a wise man, who lived high in the mountains, so high above the tree line, that no vegetation grew, no animals lived, not even insects could be found so high up in the mountains in that thin air. When they reached his cave, the first of the three said "help me wise man, for my fear has crippled me""What is your fear?" asked the wise man"I fear death" said the pilgrim "I wonder when it is going to come for me""Ah, death" said the wise man "Let me take away this fear my friend. Death will not come to call until you are ready for its embrace. Know that and your fear will go away"Well this calmed that pilgrim's mind and he feared death no longer.The wise man turned to the second pilgrim and said "What is it you fear my friend?""I fear my new neighbors" said the second pilgrim "They are strangers, who observe holy days different than mine. They have way to many kids. They play music that sounds like noise""Ah strangers" said the wise man "I will take away this fear my friend. Return to your home and make a cake for your new neighbors. Bring toys to their children. Join them in their songs, and learn their ways, and you will become familiar with these neighbors, and your fear will go away."The second man saw the wisdom in these simple instructions, and knew he would no longer fear the family who were his neighbors. There in the cave so high in the mountains that nothing could live, the wise man turned to the last pilgrim and asked of his fear."Oh wise man, I fear spiders. When I try to sleep at night, I imagine spiders dropping from the ceiling, and crawling upon my flesh, and I cannot rest""Ah, spiders" said the wise man "No shit, why do you think I live way up here?"Fear will get the worst of the best of us, and peddlers of influence count on that. Throughout our nation's constant struggle to create a more perfect union, establish justice, and ensure our domestic tranquility, we battle fear from outside our borders to within our own hearts every day of our history. Our nation came to be despite fear of retribution for treason from a kingdom across the sea. America was made strong and diverse because here people could live free from the fears that made us their daily lives in whatever land they called the old country. Our history books tell of conflicts taken up to free people from fear. Those kept in slavery in our own states, and deliberate home nation from the rule of tyrants and theologies rooted in fear. The American cause at its best has been the cultivation of the faith that declares we will all live in peace, when we are all free to worship as we choose, when we are free to express our hearts, and when we all seek a place free from fear, but we live in a world where to many of us are to ready to believe and fear things that do not exist, conspiracies abound, divisions are constructed, and the differences between us are not celebrated for making us stronger but calculated and programed to set us against each other. Our faith is tested by unpredictable providence, and threatened when common sense in corrupted by specific interests.Speaking from 54 years of experience, the work towards a more perfect union is a never ending concern that involves each and every one of us. Evidence that our nation is becoming a better place is everywhere, but each new day, fear is as the Jersey poet says "lurking in the darkness on the edge of town".Y our rising from bed every morning will give fear its chance to grow stronger just as it will afford faith its chance to blossom. Y ou will make the choice to react to one or create the other, and because you are smart enough to earn you place on this college day at Y ale University, you will sense the moment, and you will know what to do.In the meantime ponder this front in the struggle against ceaseless fear and its ceaseless flow. In the coming months and years veterans of war in Iraq and Afghanistan will finally come home for good. After so many tours, and we know this, some after many tours on the body and soul have spilled a great portion of their lives. For all of them after a long time has spent far away in the harsh realm of war, and they return different from what they were when they left. Surely their faithin themselves is shadowed by a fear of not knowing what is expected of them next. Now no matter what your view of those wars over there, you can affect the future of our nation right here by taking their fears head on. Y ou can imprint the very next pages of the history of our troubled world by reinforcing the faith of those returning veterans, allowing them to rest, aiding in their recovery, if possible their complete recovery. So let those of us who watch the debate of their long deployments serve them now as they served as they were asked and as they were ordered. Let's provide them a place free of fear, by educating them if they can learn, by employing them as they transition from soldier back to citizen, and by empathizing with the new journey they are starting even though we will never fully understand the journey they just completed. We all will define the true nature of our American identity, not by the parades and the welcome home parties, but now we match their time in the service with service of our own. Give it four years, as many years as you just spent here at Y ale, in acts both proactive and spontaneous, and do the things that you can to free veterans of the new uncertainty that awaits them, from the mysterious fear they will face the day after they come home. Cultivate in them the faith to carry on and they will do the rest.So commencements day arrives, your work begins, work that will not always be joyful to you, labor that might not always fulfill you, and days that will seem like one damn thing after the other. It's true, you will now work every day for the rest of your lives. That full time job, your career as human beings, and as Americans, and as graduates of Y ale, is to stand on the fulcrum of fear and faith. Fear at your back, faith in front of you. Which way will you lead? Which way will you move? Move forward, move ever forward, and tweet out the picture of your results. It may make you as famous as Sam Tsui.Transcription on Chinese汤姆·汉克斯2011年耶鲁大学毕业生演讲我知道，在座很多人相信昨晚（2011年5月21日）六点是世界末日（笑声）（掌声）。

米歇尔致毕业生的演讲稿毕业演讲往往鼓舞人心，让你跃跃欲试，恨不得立刻冲出门去，追梦而行。

然而现实是残酷的，保持乐观很重要，但面对现实更是至关重要的。

下面是米歇尔致毕业生的，希望小编整理的对你有用，欢迎阅读：米歇尔致毕业生的演讲稿(中英对照)First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit.Mrs. Obama spoke for 22 minutes to the graduates of Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School on Saturday in her only high school commencement address this year. The ceremony took place in the gymnasium of nearby T ennessee State University.美国第一夫人米歇尔·奥巴马5月18日向高中毕业生给出宝贵建议，告诫他们在大学、生活和工作中要走自己的路，依靠决心和勇气战胜不可避免的失败。

当天在田纳西州马丁·路德·金高中毕业典礼上，米歇尔·奥巴马致辞22分钟，这是她今年唯一一场高中演讲。

演讲在附近田纳西州立大学的体育馆举行。

The first lady told the 170 graduates that she spent too much of her own time in college focusing on academic achievements. While her success in college and law school led to a high-profile job, she said, she ended up leaving to focus on public service."My message to all of you today is this: Do not waste a minute living someone else's dream," she said. "It takes a lot of real work to discover what brings you joy ... and you won't find what you love simply by checking boxes or padding your GPA."在演讲中，她告诉170名毕业生，当年她在大学致力于学业，之后凭借在学校的成功如愿以偿地摘取高职，不过最终还是投身公共服务。

Advice for college grads from two sociologists美国社会学家给大学毕业生的忠告1. Don't worry about making your dreams come true1. 追随梦想，不要心慌College graduates are often told: "follow your passion," do "what you love," what you were "meant to do," or "make your dreams come true." Two-thirdsthink they're going find a job that allows them to change the world, half withinfive years. Yikes.大学毕业生们常常会听到，“追随梦想”，“做你喜欢做的事”，“让你的梦想成真”。

每当这时，2/3的青年就像是打了鸡血一样，时刻准备找到工作，改变世界，不过大概其中只有一半在5年后才能做到。

This sets young people up to fail. The truth is that the vast majority of us willnot be employed in a job that is both our lifelong passion and a world-changer;that's just not the way our global economy is. So it's ok to set your sights just atad below occupational ecstasy. Just find a job that you like. Use that job tohelp you have a full life with lots of good things and pleasure and helping others and stuff. A great life is pretty good, even if it's not perfect.这些鼓励的话常常让大家越来越感到挫败。

1:生活是不公平的，你要去适应它。

2:这个世界并不会在意你的自尊，而是要求你在自我感觉良好之前先有所成就。

3:刚从学校走出来时你不可能一个月挣6万美元，更不会哪家公司的副总裁，还拥有一部汽车，直到你将这些都挣到手的那一天。

4:如果你认为学校里的老师过于严厉，那么等你有了老板再回头想一想。

5:卖汉堡包并不会有损于你的尊严。

你的祖父母对卖汉堡包有着不同的理解，他们称之为“机遇”。

6:如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的过错，不要将你理应承担的责任转嫁给他人，而要学着从中吸取教训。

7:在你出生之前，你的父母并不像现在这样乏味。

他们变成今天这个样子是因为这些年来一直在为你付账单、给你洗衣服。

所以，在对父母喋喋不休之前，还是先去打扫一下你自己的屋子吧！8:你所在的学校也许已经不再分优等生和差等生，但生活却并不如此。

在某些学校已经没有了“不及格”的概念，学校会不断地给你机会让你进步，然而现实生活完全不是这样。

9:走出学校后的生活不像在学校一样有学期之分，也没有暑假之说。

没有几位老板乐于帮你发现自我，你必须依靠自己去完成。

10:电视中的许多场景决不是真实的生活。

在现实生活中，人们必须埋头做自己的工作，而非像电视里演的那样天天泡在咖啡馆里。

11:善待你所厌恶的人，因为说不定哪一天你就会为这样的一个人工作。

In Bill Gates' Book for high school and college graduates, there is a list of 11 things they did not learn in school. In his book, Bill Gates talks about how feelgood, politically-correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this education set them up forfailure in the real world.在比尔·盖茨写给高中毕业生和大学毕业生的书里，有一个单子上面列有11项学生没能在学校里学到的事情。

比尔·盖茨在书中谈到让你感觉良好的"政治上正确"的教导培养出一整代不知现实为何物的年轻人，这种教育只能导致他们成为现实世界中的失败者。

The 11 things are:这11项事情是：1. Life is not fair, get used to it.生活是不公平的；要去适应它。

2. The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world willexpect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.这世界并不会在意你的自尊。

这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。

3. You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.高中刚毕业你不会一年挣4万美元。

比尔盖茨给毕业生的忠告在比尔·盖茨写给高中毕业生和大学毕业生的一本书里，列举了11项学生没能在学校里学到的东西，对刚刚毕业的学子们列出11条忠告：1、生活是不公平的，要去适应它。

2、这世界并不会在意你的自尊。

这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。

3、高中刚毕业你不会一年挣4万美元。

你不会成为一个公司的副总裁，不会拥有一部装有电话的汽车——除了你将此职位和汽车电话都挣到手。

4、如果你认为你的老师严厉，等你有了老板再这样想。

老板可是没有任期限制的。

5、烙牛肉饼并不有损你的尊严。

你的祖父母对烙牛肉饼可有不同的定义，他们称它为机遇。

6、如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的过错，所以不要尖声抱怨我们的错误，要集从中汲取教训。

7、在你出生之前，你的父母并非像他们现在这样乏昧。

他们变成今天这个样子，是因为这些年来他们一直在为你付账单，给你洗衣服，听你大谈你是如何的酷。

所以，如果你想消灭你父母那一辈中的“寄生虫”来拯救雨林的话，还是先去消除你房间衣柜里的虫子吧。

8、你的学校也许已经不再分优等生和劣等生了，但生活却仍在作出类似区分。

在某些学校已经废除不及格分，只要你想找到正确答案，学校给你无数次机会。

这和现实生活中的任何事情没有一点相似之处。

9、生活不分学期。

你并没有暑假可以休息，也没有几位雇主乐于帮助你发现自我。

自己找时间做吧。

10、电视并不是真实的生活。

在现实生活中，人们实际上得远离咖啡屋去干自己的工作。

11、善待乏味的人。

有可能到头来你会为一个乏味的人工作。

生活不相信眼泪那年，我16岁，一个很淳朴很倔强的农村女孩。

外面的经济大潮冲击着小乡村人们的头脑，我也下决心要走出小村，看看外面的世界。

初中毕业，不假思索报考了艺术学校。

为此，老师为我叹息，但我不后悔，自己看准的事就干下去，那时的我丝毫没有想到会遇到许多棘手的事情。

面试那天，我带着书本，捎着路上解渴的几个甜瓜，独自踏上了去县城的路。

初试取前5名，但我一点儿也不胆怯，因为我相信自己，几年来多次参加各种演出练就了我良好的心理素质。

比尔·盖茨的11条人生箴言(中英文对照)墨西哥《成绩》周刊有一期发表了比尔·盖茨写给即将走出学校、踏入社会的青年一代的11点忠告：INBILLGATESBOOKFORHIGHSCHOOLANDCOLLEGEGRADUATES,THEREISALISTOF11THING STHEYDIDNOTLEARNINSCHOOL.INHISBOOK,BILLGATESTALKSABOUTHOWFEELGOOD,POL ITICALLY-CORRECTTEACHINGSCREATEDAFULLGENERATIONOFKIDSWITHNOCONCEPTOFR EALITYANDHOWTHISEDUCATIONSETTHEMUPFORFAILUREINTHEREALWORLD.在比尔-盖茨写给高中毕业生和大学毕业生的书里，有一个单子上面列有11项学生没能在学校里学到的事情。

比尔-盖茨在书中谈到让你感觉良好的政治上正确的教导培养出一整代不知现实为何物的年轻人，这种教育只能导致他们成为现实世界中的失败者。

THE11THINGSARE:这11项事情是：■LIFEISNOTFAIR,GETUSEDTOIT.■生活是不公平的；要去适应它。

这世界并不会在意你的自尊。

这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。

■THEWORLDWON"TCAREABOUTYOURSELF-ESTEEM.THEWORLDWILLEXPECTYOUTOACCOMPLI SHSOMETHINGBEFOREYOUFEELGOODABOUTYOURSELF.■这世界并不会在意你的自尊。

这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。

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【双语阅读】美国社会学家给大学毕业生的忠告【双语阅读】美国社会学家给大学毕业生的忠告1.Don’t worry about making your dreams come trueCollege graduates are often told: “follow your passion,” do “what you love,”what you were “meant to do,” or “make your dreams come true.” Two-thirds think they’re going find a job that allows them to change the world, half within five years. Yikes.This sets young people up to fail. The truth is that the vast majority of us will not be employed in a job that is both our lifelong passion and a world-changer; that’s just not the way our global economy is. So it’s ok to set your sights just a tad below occupational ecstasy. Just find a job that you like. Use that job to help you have a full life with lots of good things and pleasure and helping others and stuff.A great life is pretty good, even if it’s not perfect.1.追随梦想，不要心慌大学毕业生们常常会听到，“追随梦想”，“做你喜欢做的事”，“让你的梦想成真”。

比尔·盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲（中英文对照）[精选5篇]第一篇：比尔·盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲(中英文对照) 比尔·盖茨和夫人梅琳达·盖茨在斯坦福大学2014年毕业典礼上的演讲。

整个演讲以“乐观”为主线，强调了他们对科技的乐观态度，以及对世界美好未来的乐观态度。

盖茨夫妇轮流讲述了自己的亲身经历和故事，告诉学生应该站在他人的立场上，感同身受那些处境不及自己的人，尽自己所能去帮助那些需要帮助的人，让全世界所有人类同胞都有一样的美好未来。

Stanford University.（斯坦福大学）BILL GATES: Congratulations, class of 2014!比尔·盖茨：2014届毕业生，祝贺你们顺利毕业(Cheers).（欢呼）Melinda and I are excited to be here.It would be a thrill for anyone to be invited to speak at a Stanford commencement, but it's especially gratifying for us.Stanford is rapidly becoming the favorite university for members of our family, and it's long been a favorite university for Microsoft and our foundation.我和梅琳达怀着激动的心情与你们欢聚在此共贺毕业。

能受邀到斯坦福大学学位授予典礼上做演讲是一件让人激动的事，对我们而言，这尤为荣幸。

斯坦福大学正日渐成为我们家庭成员最喜爱的大学。

而长久以来，斯坦福也是微软以及比尔与梅琳达基金会最喜爱的一所大学。

”Our formula has been to get the smartest, most creative people working on the most important problems.It turns out that a disproportionate number of those people are at Stanford.(Cheers).我们一直致力于让最聪颖有创造力的人攻克最为重要的问题。