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娜塔莉·波特曼2015年哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿【英文】(2)I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics, and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me, by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, and Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them, their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.At the age of 18,I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurobiology, and advanced modern Hebrew literature, because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both. I got Bs,for you information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation.But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y’d shua in Hebrew, and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing, and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairly tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sakewas its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.When I got to my graduation, sitting where you sit today after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else. I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films. I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others.I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have prize now, or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is a Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it?My Harvard degree represents for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained, the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower, but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theatre is a transformative religious force, how Professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imagining. Now granted these things don’t necessarity help me answer the most common question I’m asked: What designer are you wearing? What’s your fitness regime? Any make up tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what I might previously have thought was stupid question. My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them. The wood paneled lecture halls, the colorful fall leaves, the hot vanilla Toscaninis, reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs, running through dining halls screaming: Ooh! Ah! City steps!City steps!City steps!City steps!It’s easy now to romanticize my time here. But I had somevery difficult times here to. Some combination of being 19, dealing with my first heartbreak, taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects, and spending too much time missing day light during winter months, led me to some pretty dark moments. Particularly during sophomore year, there were several occasions where I started crying in meetings with professors. Overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off. When I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning.Moment when I took on the motto for my school work. Done. Not good.If only I could finish my work, even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper. I felt that I’ve accomplished a great feat. I repeat to myself. Done.Not good.A couple of years ago, I went to T okyo with my husband, and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant. I don’t even eat fish. I’m vegan. So that tells you how good it was. Even with just vegetables, this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about. The restaurant has six seats. My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice. We wondered why they didn’t make a bigger restaurant and be the most popular place in town. Our local friends explains to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small, and do only one type of dish: sushi or tempura or teriyaki. Because they want to do that thing well and beautifully. And it’s not about quantity. It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the particular.本文已影响人。
娜塔莉波特曼哈佛毕业演讲英文稿娜塔莉波特曼哈佛毕业演讲英文稿Hello, class of 2015.I am so honest to be here today.Dean Khurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do.I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.” Wow! This is so nice!” ”I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any idea s? ”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit that toda y, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999.When you guys were,to my continued shocked and horror, still in kindergarten.I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth.I would have to prove that I wasn’t just dumb actress.So I start with an apology. This won’t be very funny. I’m not a comedian.And I didn’t get a ghost writer.But I am here to tell you today.Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other pe ople’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out yourown path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.That other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-yeas-old son. And I watch him play arcade games. He was incredible focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother than I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is his arm and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toy. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too. Prizes serve as false idols everywhere(圣经里的false idol). Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terribletrap.I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t reall y pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my s enior yearbook ‘ most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy ’ or code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be staring over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth.When I came here I had never written a 10-paper before. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I Had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself. I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously.In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurologist and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both. I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for ser iousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.When I got to my graduation, siting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films.I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others and help others do the same. I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it ? My Harvard degree represents, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theater is a trans-formative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imaging.。
娜塔莉·波特曼2015年哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿【英文】(4)The thing I’m saying is, make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now. As we get order,we get more realistic, and that includes about our own abilities or lack thereof. And that realism does us no favors. People always talk about d iving into things you’re afraid of. That never worked for me. If I’m afraid, I run away. And I would probably urge my child to do the same. Fear protects us in many ways. What has served me in diving into my own obliviousness. Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated. Well, it can be a good thing if it makes you try things you never might have tried. Your inexperience is an asset, and will allow you to think in original and unconventional ways. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces. So when he starts thinking of the note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be. You can compose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces. And you don’t take for granted the way how things are. The only way you know how to do things is your own way. You have will all go on to achieve great things. There is no doubt almost that. Each time you set out to do something new, your inexperience can either lead you down a path where you will conform to someone el se’s values, even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing. If your reasons are you own, your path, even if it’s a strange and clumsy path, will be wholly yours. And youwill control the rewards of that you do by making your internal life fulfilling.At the risk of sounding like a Miss America contestant, the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced have truly been the human interactions: spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization, meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya with Free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries tracking with gorilla conservationists in Rwanda. It’s a cliche, because it’s true, that helping others ends up helping your more than anyone. Getting out of your own concerns and caring about some else’s life for a while, reminds you that you are not the center of the universe. And that in the ways we’re generous or not, we can cha nge the course of someone’s life. Even at work, the small feat of kindness crew member, directors, fellow actors have shown me have had the most lasting impact.And of course, first and foremost, the center of my world is the love that I share my family and friends. I wish for you that your friends will be with you through it all as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated. My friends from school are still very close. We have nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each other s’ weddings. We’ve held each other at funerals and rocked each other’s new babies. We worked together on projects helped each other get jobs and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad ones. And now our children are creating a second generation of friendship as we look at them toddling together. Haggard and disheveled working parents that we are.Grab the good people around you and don’t let them go. The biggest asset this school offers you is agroup of peers that will both be your family and your school for life.I remember always being pissed at the spring here in Cambridge.Tricking us into remembering a sunny yard full of laughing frisbee throwers. After 8 months of dark freezing library dwelling. It was like the school has managed to turn on the good weather as a last memory we should keep in mind that would make us want to come back. But as I get farther away from my years here I know that the power of this school is much deeper than weather control. It changed the very question that I was asking to quote one of my favourite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel: To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be.Thank you. I can’t wait to see how you do all the beautiful things you will do.本文已影响人。
因......而出名英语作文英文回答：Hayden Christensen is a Canadian actor who is best known for his role as Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Christensen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on April 19, 1981. He began his acting career as a child, appearing in television commercials and small roles in films. Christensen's breakthrough role came in 2002, when he was cast as Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. He reprised the role in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005).Christensen's performance as Anakin Skywalker was praised by some critics, but he was also criticized for his wooden acting and lack of charisma. Despite the mixed reviews, Christensen's role in the Star Wars prequeltrilogy made him a household name.Since Star Wars, Christensen has appeared in a numberof films, including Shattered Glass (2003), Jumper (2008), and Takers (2010). He has also starred in the television series Life as We Know It (2004-2005) and The Virgin Suicides (2019).Christensen has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He has won two Saturn Awardsand one MTV Movie Award.Natalie Portman is an Israeli-American actress who is best known for her roles as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and as Nina Sayers in Black Swan (2010). Portman was born in Jerusalem, Israel, on June 9, 1981. She moved to the United States with her family when she wasthree years old. Portman began her acting career as a child, appearing in the film Léo n: The Professional (1994). She went on to star in a number of films, including Beautiful Girls (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Anywhere But Here (1999).Portman's breakthrough role came in 2002, when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Epis ode II – Attackof the Clones. She reprised the role in Star Wars: EpisodeIII – Revenge of the Sith (2005). Portman's performance as Padmé Amidala was praised by critics for her intelligence and strength.Since Star Wars, Portman has appeared in a number of films, including Garden State (2004), V for Vendetta (2005), and No Strings Attached (2011). She has also starred in the television series The Other Boleyn Girl (2003) and JaneEyre (2011).Portman has been nominated for four Academy Awards and has won one. She has also won three Golden Globe Awards,two BAFTA Awards, and one MTV Movie Award.中文回答：海登·克里斯滕森是一位加拿大演员，以在《星球大战》前传三部曲中饰演阿纳金·天行者而闻名。
人们常说少女是女孩成长过程中最清纯、美丽的时期，电影中也不例外，在众多好莱坞以及其他欧美电影中常常会有令人惊艳的少女出现，西方少女在11-19岁时是最美丽的年纪，现在看来，当年那些惊艳的少女们都已经成长为好莱坞当红的大明星，不过，我认为，在她们少女时期出演的电影中，才是最美的……《美国往事》（Once Upon a Time in America）女主角：珍妮弗·康奈利出演时的年龄：14岁少年德博拉(Deborah)的扮演者，真是美丽至极，尤其男主角偷看她跳舞的画面，实在是唯美。
《这个杀手不太冷》（Léon）女主角：娜塔丽·波特曼(Natalie Portman)出演时的年龄：13岁娜塔莉·波特曼1981年6月9日出生于以色列的耶路撒冷。
她的父亲是医生，还有个艺术家身份，同时也是她的经纪人的母亲。
很小的时候她便离开以色列来到华盛顿州。
几次搬家后，她的家庭终于定居纽约，她在纽约一直居住到高中毕业。
她以优等成绩毕业，且学业成绩使之可以进入哈福大学。
11岁时，她在一家比萨店里被经纪人发现。
原本她被定位为模特，但是她决定当一个演员。
她曾参加过很多现场表演，但在电影《杀手莱昂》(Léon，1994)里她的初次屏幕表演令人印象深刻。
之后她又在电影《盗火线》(Heat，1995)，《爱情尤物》(Beautiful Girls,1996)，和《火星人玩转地球》(Mars Attacks!，1996)中出演角色。
直到1999年娜塔莉才在北美票房收益4亿3千1百万的《星球大战前传I：魅影危机》(Star Wars:Episode I - The Phantom Menace，1999)里扮演阿米达拉女王而成名。
之后她又在两部批判性的正剧《芳心天涯》(Anywhere But Here，1999)，《甜心伊人》(Where the Heart Is，2000)和《偷心》(Closer，2004)里出演角色，并以《偷心》获得了一项奥斯卡提名。
娜塔莉波特曼2015哈佛毕业演讲Hello, class of 2015.I am so honest to be here today.Dean Khurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.”Wow! This is so nice!””I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas? ”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.2015届毕业生，你们好。
进音乐《we belong togther》第83届奥斯卡颁奖典礼于2011年2月27日在洛杉矶柯达剧院举行，之前呼声最高的娜塔莉波特曼成功凭借《黑天鹅》里德出色表现成功封后。
今天的英语名人堂就介绍给大家她的星路和选择。
进音乐《黑天鹅- Nina's Dream》赵：从最初站在镁光灯下到今天，昔日的女孩如今已长大，纯真依旧但是多了份成熟女人的自信与风情。
娜塔莉正用自己的实际行动向世界证明——她是好莱坞新一代演员中最具实力，最有前途的女星。
出生于圣城耶路撒冷的娜塔莉·波特曼家境优越，拉宾的年代，炮火连天的局面不得不使全家移民美利坚。
那一年波特曼只有三岁，不经世事，避过了触目惊心的烽烟，安谧祥和地生活在大洋彼岸，她的父亲是位著名的医师，身为艺术家的母亲而后成为她的经理人。
9岁的娜塔莉·波特曼在纽约一家披萨店里被星探发现，露华浓公司本想将她定位为模特，却被一口拒绝，从那时起，她就期待着成为一名演员。
赵：吕克·贝松的第一部英语电影在美国选角，这位怪蜀黍在丽芙·泰勒和娜塔莉·波特曼之间摇摆不定，前者个子太高了，后者又太小，不放弃的波特曼索性又到贝松跟前来了一轮表演，最终拿下电影全片的剧本。
这部片子就是《这个杀手不太冷》，青春叛逆的马蒂尔德惊艳绝伦，杀手庇护下的柔弱身影成功实现了抢镜，不过出名给她带来了无穷无尽的麻烦，为保隐私，她不得不把姓氏从赫许勒改为祖母家的波特曼，那一年，她仅仅12岁。
此时加在她身上的，是“萝莉代言人”的标签，《盗火线》里艾尔·帕西诺的继女，《火星人》中杰克·尼科尔森的女儿，《美丽佳人》中的早熟少女，演完这些后，波特曼相继推掉了《冰风暴》、《洛丽塔》和《罗密欧与朱丽叶》等片约。
一头扎进百老汇的剧院，是《安妮·弗兰克日记》的热烈排演，没有电影的喧嚣，却有谢幕时的掌声阵阵。
在好莱坞女星中，娜塔莉·波特曼算是个异数，她兢兢业业地完成了四年的学士课程。
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娜塔莉·波特曼2019哈佛毕业英文演讲稿奥斯卡影后，哈佛校友娜塔莉·波特曼近日重返母校，受邀在2019年哈佛毕业典礼发表演讲。
娜塔莉讲述了自己初入大学和拍电影时遭遇的挫折与挑战，鼓励毕业生去大胆走一条没有“事情本应怎样做”之负担的路，言语间真诚而。
视频有中英文对照，十分值得一看。
以下是娜塔莉·波特曼在哈佛的演讲：2019哈佛毕业演讲 (英文)：Hello, class of 2019.I am so honest to be here today.Dean Khurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.” Wow! This is so nice!” ”I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any idea s? ”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit that toda y, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999.When you guys were,to my continued shocked and horror, still in kindergarten.I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth.I would have to prove that I wasn’t just dumb actress.So I start with an apology. This won’t b e very funny. I’m not a comedian.And I didn’t get a ghostwriter.But I am here to tell you today.Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other p eople’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.That other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-yeas-old son. And I watch him play arcade games. He was incredible focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother than I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is hisarm and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toy. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.Prizes serve as false idols everywhere(圣经里的false idol). Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people whohave achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t real ly pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook ‘ most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy ’ or code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be staring over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-paper before. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I Had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulatethem to myself.I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurologist and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both.I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for se riousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter somehalf-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.When I got to my graduation, siting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films.I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others and help others do the same. I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it ? My Harvard degree represents, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theater is a trans-formative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imaging. Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most common question I’m asked:What designer are you wearing?What’s your fitness regime?Any makeup tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what might previously have thought was a stupid question.My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them.The wood paneled lecture halls,the colorful fall leaves,the hot vanilla Toscaninis,reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs.running through dining halls screaming.Ooh!Ah!City steps!City steps!City steps!City steps!It’s easy now to romanticize my time here.B ut Ihad some very difficult times here too.Some combination of being19,dealing with my first heartbreak,taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects,and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months,led me to some pretty dark moments,particularly during sophomore year.There were several occasions where I started crying in meetings with professors,overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off ,when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. Moments when I took on the motto for my school work:Done,Not good.If only I could finish my work,even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper.I felt I’ve accomplished a great feat,I repeat to myself:Done,Not good.A couple years ago,I went to Tokyo with my husband,and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant,I don’t even eat fish,I’m vegan.So that tells you how good it was.Even with just vegetable,this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about.The restaurant has six seats.My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice.We wondered why they don’t make a bigger restaurant,and be the most popular place in town.Our local friends explain to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small,and do only one type of dish:sushi or tempura or teriyaki.Because they want to do things well and beautiful.And it’s not about quantity.It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the particular.I’m st ill learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done.And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to,and of course to ourselves.In my professional life,it also took me time to find my own reason for doing my work.The first film I was in came out in1994.Again,appallingly,the year most of you were born,I was 13 years old upon the film’s release,and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim,[Ms Portman poses better than she acts],The film had a universally tepid critic response,and went on to bomb commercially.That film was called ‘The Professional,or Leon in Europe’ And today,20 years and 35 films later,it is still the film people approach me about the most,to tell me how much they loved it,how much it moved them,how it’s their favorite movie.I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures.I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals,rather than the foremost trophies in my industry/financial and critical success.And also these initial reaction could be false predictors of your work’s ultimate legac y.I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about,and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences.This thoroughly confused everyone around me:agents,producers,and audiences alike,I made Gotya’s Ghost,a foreign independent film and studied art history,visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition,I made V for Vendetta,studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground.I made Your Highness,a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight.I was able to own my meaning and not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.By the time I got to making Black Swan,the experience was entirely my own,I felt immune to the worst things anyone couldsay or write about me. And to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or not.It was instructive for me to see ballet dancers,once your technique gets to a certain level,the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or flaws.(怪异甚至瑕疵).One ballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced.You can never be the best,technically.Someone will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line.The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self.Authoring your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was about.I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director whom changed my last line in the movie to:It was perfect.Because my characte Nina is only artistically successful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself,not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others.So when Black Swan was successful financially and I began receiving accolades.I felt honored and grateful to have connected with people.But the true core of my meaning I had already established.And I needed it to be independent of people’s reactions to me.People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk.A scary challenge to try to portray a professional ballet dancer.But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drove me do it.I was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefully unprepared to do.And so the very inexperience that in college had made me feel insecure.and made me want to play by others’ rules.Now is making me actually take risks.I didn’t even realize were risks.When Darren asked me if I could do ballet,I told him that I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed.When it quickly became clear that preparing for the film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina.It made me work a million times harder and of course the magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect.Butthe point is,if I had known my own limitations,I never would have taken the risk.And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences.And that I not only felt completely free,I also met my husband during the filming.Similarly,I just directed my first film,A Tale of Love in Darkness.I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me.The film is a period film,completely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year old child as a costar.All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of,as I was completely unprepared for them.but my complete ignorance to my own limitation looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair.Once there,I had to figure it all out,and my belief that I could handle these things contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so was only half the battle.The other half was very hard work.The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career.Now clearly I’m not urging you to go and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so!Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions,and allows for a lot effects that make up for mistakes.The thing I’m saying is,make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now.Aa we get older,we get more realistic,and that includes about our abilities or lack thereof.And that realism does us no favors.People always talk about diving into things you’re afraid of.That never worked for me.If I’m afraid,I run away.And I would probably urge my child to do the same.Fear protects us in many ways.What has served me is diving into my obliviousness.Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids,and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated.Well, it can be a good thing if it makes you try you never might have tried.You inexperience is an asset,and will allowyou to think in original and unconventional ways.Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces,so when he starts thinking of the note and existing piece immediately comes to mind.Just starting out one of your biggest strengths,is not knowing how things are supposed to be.You can compose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces.And you don’t tak e for granted the way how things are.The only way you know how to do things is your own way.You here will go on to achieve great things.There is no doubt about that.Each time you set out to do something new,your inexperience can either lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else’s values,or you can forge your own path.Even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing.If your reason are your own.Your path,even if it is a strange and clumsy path,will be wholly yours.And you will control the rewards of what you do,but making your internal life fulfilling .At the risk of sounding like America contestant,the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced have truly been the humaninteraction:spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization,meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya;with Free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries,tracking with gorilla conservationists(自然保护主义) in Rwanda.It’s a cliche(这是老生常谈),because it’s true,that helping others ends up helping you more than anyone.Getting out of your concerns,and caring about some else’s life for a while,reminds you that you are not the center of the univer se.And that in the ways we’re generous or not,we canchange the course of someone’s life.Even at work,the small feat of kindness,crew members,directors,fellow actors have shown me,have had the most lasting impact.And of course,first and foremost,the center of my world,is the love that I share with my family and friends.I wish you that your friends will be with you through it all,as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated.My friends from school are still very close.We have nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each others’ weddings.We’ve held each other at funerals,and rocked each other’s new babies.We worked together on projects,helped each other get jobs,and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad ones.And now our children are creating a second generation of friendship,as we look at them toddling together.Haggard and disheveled working parents(疲惫而凌乱的上班族家长) that we are.Grab the good people around you and don’t let them go.The biggest asset this school offers you,is a group of peers that will both be your family and your school for life.I remember always being pissed at the spring here in Cambridge.Tricking us into remembering,a sunny yard full of laughing frisbee throwers.(阳光洒满院子，人们扔着飞盘欢声笑语的场景).After 8 months of dark dwelling.It was like the school has managed to turn on the good weather,as a last memory we should keep in mind that would make us want to come back.But as I get further away from my years here,I know the power of this school is much deeper than weather control.It changed the very question that I was asking.T o quote one of my favorite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel:T o be or not to be is not the question,the vital question is:how to be and how not to be. Thank you. I can’t wait to see how you do all the beautiful things youwill do.。
大学英语作文写作:Natalie PortmanNatalie Portman 娜塔莉波特曼The movie Leon is very popular around the world, though it has been showed for more than 20 years. Everybody is impressed by the mature girl in the movie, the girl’s actress is Natalie Portman. Since then, Natalie starts her successful performance career. She is the embodiment of beauty and the wisdom.电影《这个杀手不太冷》在全世界都很受欢迎，虽然它上映超过20年。
大家都会电影里面的那个成熟的女孩印象很深刻，这个女孩的扮演者是娜塔莉波特曼。
从这部电影起，娜塔莉就开始了她成功的演艺事业。
她是美丽和智慧的象征。
Natalie is really beautiful, but the more important thing is that she is good at performance. Most female actresses are famous for their perfect looking, but Natalie works so hard,she keeps focusing on her acting and she wants to prove herself. During the last decade, Natalie acted different roles and she won the Oscar for her film Black Swan. She acted so well and the prize she won proved that she was a successful actress.娜塔莉很漂亮，但是更为重要的是她擅长表演。
She is the graduate from the department of psychology in Harvard University.她是哈佛大学心理学学士。
She starred in the film of the Professional.她曾以《这个杀手不太冷》红遍全球。
She also portrayed the combination of white swan and black swan.她塑造的黑天鹅和白天鹅的合体让人印象深刻。
She is Natalie Portman, the newly best actress for the 2011 Academy Award.她就是2011年第83届奥斯卡新科影后娜塔莉·波特曼。
17 years ago, she cast the role of Mathilde in the film the Professional, since then, she was hailed as a child star with uncommonly skilled performance. For most people, young Natalie easily achieved this role for her uniqueness; however，things didn't seem like that.17年前，娜塔莉·波特曼扮演《这个杀手不太冷》中马蒂尔德的角色，那时她还是一个演技不成熟的童星。
很多人都认为都是上天的眷顾使得娜塔莉轻松的得到这个角色。
可是这一切并不如大家想象的那般美好。
Though she was discovered at the age of 10 by a modeling scout when she expressed her interests in acting rather than modeling, she was sent to the acting agents then she got the chance to take a screening test in the professional. She wasn't approved by the director until she begged him for another chance to play a new scene. And finally she got the chance to let the world remember her.尽管在10岁时，被模特星探相中，但极具个性的小波特曼立即就表明了自己只对表演感兴趣，这才有了《这个杀手不太冷》的试镜机会。
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娜塔莉讲述了自己初入大学和拍电影时遭遇的挫折与挑战，鼓励毕业生去大胆走一条没有“事情本应怎样做”之负担的路，言语间真诚而励志。
视频有中英文对照，十分值得一看。
以下是娜塔莉·波特曼在哈佛的演讲：201X哈佛毕业演讲 (英文)：Hello, class of 201X.I am so honest to be here today.Dean Khurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do.I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leakedin the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.” Wow! This is sonice!” ”I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas? ”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999.When you guys were,to my continued shocked and horror, still in kindergarten.I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that everytime I opened my mouth.I would h ave to prove that I wasn’t just dumb actress.So I start with an apology. This won’t be very funny. I’m not a comedian.And I didn’t get a ghost writer.But I am here to tell you today.Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are herefor a reason. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other people’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your ownpath, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.That other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-yeas-old son. And I watch him play arcade games. He was incredible focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother than I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major leagueplayer with what is hisarm and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized whathe want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappyplastic toy. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it.I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achievingthe game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the 10cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.Prizes serve as false idols everywhere(圣经里的false idol). Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these,if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speaktoday beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve rec ruited somevery coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not socrappy one: an Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I thinkof the commencement address people who have achieved a lot tellingyou that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset! The girls I went to school with hadPrada bags and flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Si nce I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t really paythat much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook ‘ mostlikely to be an contestant on Jeopardy ’ or code for nerdiest. WhenI got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, Iknew I would be staring over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-paper before. I’m not even sureI’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. Iwas completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I Had no idea how to declare my intentions. Icouldn’t even articulate them to myself.I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. Incontrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember Itold you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do inHarvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurologist and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both.I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as Iwas fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around mewriting papers on sailing and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what。
