JK罗琳哈佛演讲

2008年jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文对照）默认分类 2009-07-17 20:13 阅读1281评论0字号：大中小“2008年6月5日是哈佛大学的毕业典礼，请来的演讲嘉宾是《哈利波特》的作者j.k.罗琳女士。

她的演讲题目是《失败的好处和想象的重要性》（the fringe benefits of failure,and the importance of imaginatio n）。

我读了一遍讲稿，觉得很好，很感染人。

她几乎没有谈到哈里波特，而是说了年轻时的一些经历。

虽然j·k·罗琳现在很有钱，是英国仅次于女皇的最富有的女人，但是她曾经有一段非常艰辛的日子，30岁了，还差点流落街头。

她主要谈的是，自己从这段经历中学到的东西。

”以下是英文文稿和中文翻译：text as delivered follows. copyright of jk rowling, june 2008 president faust, members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers, members of the faculty, proud parent s, and, above all, graduates. the first thing i would like to say is ?thank you.? not only he world?s largest gryffindor reunion. k. achievable goals: the first step to self improvement. actually, i have wrackedmy mind and heart for what i ought to say to you today. i have asked myself what iwish i had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons i have learned inthe 21 years that have expired between tha t day and this.agination.these may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but plea se bear with me.hose closest to me expected of me.i was convinced that the only thing i wanted to do, ever, was to write novels.however, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither ofwhom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusingpersonal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. i know that theirony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.d off down the classics corridor.i cannot remember telling my parents that i was studying classics; they mightwell have found out for the first time on graduation day. of all the subjects on thisplanet, i think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than greekmythology when it came to securing the keys to an exec utive bathroom.i would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that i do not blame my parentsfor their point of view. there is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steeringyou in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel,responsibility lies with you. what is more, i cannot criticise my parents for hopingthat i would never experience poverty. they had been poor themselves, and i have sincebeen poor, and i quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. povertyentails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand pettyhumiliations and hardships. climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that isindeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is roma nticised only by fools.what i feared most for myself at your age was not povert y, but failure.at your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where ihad spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little timeat lectures, i had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had beenthe measure of success in my life and that of my peers.i am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted andwell-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. talent and intelligencenever yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates, and i do not for a momentsuppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment. however, the fact that you are graduating from harvard suggests that you are notvery well-acquainted with failure. you might be driven by a fear of failure quiteas much as a desire for success. indeed, your conception of failure might not be toofar from the average person?s idea of success, so high have you already flown.every usual standard, i was the biggest failure i knew. now, i am not going tostand here and tell you that failure is fun. that period of my life was a dark one,and i had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since representedas a kind of fairy tale resolution. i had no idea then how far the tunnel extended,and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality. so why do i talk about the benefits of failure? simply because failure meant astripping away of the inessential. i stopped pretending to myself that i was anythingother than what i was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only workthat mattered to me. had i really succeeded at anything else, i might never have foundthe determination to succeed in the one arena i believed i truly belonged. i was setfree, because my greatest fear had been realised, and i was still alive, and i stillhad a daughter whom i adored, and i had an old typewriter and a big idea. and so rockbottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuilt my life. you might never fail on the scale i did, but some failure in life is inevitable.it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiouslythat you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.failure gave me an inner security that i had never attained by passing examinations.failure taught me things about myself that i could have learned no other way. idiscovered that i had a strong will, and more discipline than i had suspected; i also foundout that i had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies. the knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means thatyou are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. you will never truly knowyourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested byadversity. such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and ithas been worth more than any qualification i ever earned.th humans whose experiences we have never shared. one of the greatest formativeexperiences of my life preceded harry potter, though it informed much of what isubsequently wrote in those books. this revelation came in the form of one of myearliest day jobs. though i was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours,i paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the african research department at amn esty international?s headquarters in london. there in my little office i read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out oftotalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform theoutside world of what was happening to them. i saw photographs of those who haddisappeared without trace, sent to amnesty by their desperate families and friends.i read the testimony of torture victims篇二：jk罗琳 - 2008哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲(jk罗琳 - 2008哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲（视频+中英对照文稿）the fringe benefits of failure, and the importance of imagination j.k. rowling copyright june 2008 as prepared for delivery president faust, members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers,members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates, actually, i have wracked my mind and heart for what i ought to say to you today.i have asked myself what i wish i had known at my own graduation, and what importantlessons i have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day and this. these might seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.i was convinced that the only thing i wanted to do, ever, was to write novels.however, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither ofwhom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusingpersonal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.i cannot remember telling my parents that i was studying classics; they mightwell have found out for the first time on graduation day. of all subjects on thisplanet, i think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than greekmythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.i would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that i do not blame my parentsfor their point of view. there is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steeringyou in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel,responsibility lies with you. what is more, i cannot criticise my parents for hopingthat i would never experience poverty. they had been poor themselves, and i have sincebeen poor, and i quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. povertyentails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand pettyhumiliations and hardships. climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that isindeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised onlyby fools. what i feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. at your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where ihad spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little timeat lectures, i had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had beenthe measure of success in my life and that of my peers.i am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted andwell-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. talent and intelligencenever yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates, and i do not for a momentsuppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege andcontentment. however, the fact that you are graduating from harvard suggests that you are notvery well-acquainted with failure. you might be driven by a fear of failure quiteas much as a desire for success. indeed, your conception of failure might not be toofar from the average persons idea of success, so high have you already flownacademically. now, i am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. that periodof my life was a dark one, and i had no idea that there was going to be what the presshas since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. i had no idea how far thetunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope ratherthan a reality. so why do i talk about the benefits of failure? simply because failure meant astripping away of the inessential. i stopped pretending to myself that i was anythingother than what i was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only workthat mattered to me. had i really succeeded at anything else, i might never have foundthe determination to succeed in the one arena i believed i truly belonged. i was setfree, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and i was still alive, andi still had a daughter whom i adored, and i had an old typewriter and a big idea.and so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuilt my life. you might never fail on the scale i did, but some failure in life is inevitable.it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiouslythat you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. failure gave me an inner security that i had never attained by passingexaminations. failure taught me things about myself that i could have learned no otherway. i discovered that i had a strong will, and more discipline than i had suspected;i also found out that i had friends whose value was truly above rubies. the knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means thatyou are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. you will never truly knowyourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested byadversity. such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and ithas been worth more to me than any qualification i ever earned. you might think that i chose my second theme, the importance of imagination,because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. thoughi will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, i have learned to value imagination in a muchbroader sense. imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision thatwhich is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. in its arguablymost transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us toempathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. one of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded harry potter, thoughit informed much of what i subsequently wrote in those books. this revelation camein the form of one of my earliest day jobs. though i was sloping off to write storiesduring my lunch hours, i paid the rent in my early 20s by working in the researchdepartment at amnesty internationals headquarters in london. there in my little office i read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out oftotalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform theoutside world of what was happening to them. i saw photographs of those who haddisappeared without trace, sent to amnesty by their desperate families and friends.i read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. i openedhandwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappingsand rapes. and as long as i live i shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenlyhearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as i have neverheard since. the door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me torun and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her. she had just given himthe news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his countrys regime,his mother had been seized and executed. every day of my working week in my early 20s i was reminded how incrediblyfortunate i was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, wherelegal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone. every day, i saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on theirfellow humans, to gain or maintain power. i began to have nightmares, literalnightmares, about some of the things i saw, heard and read. and yet i also learned more about human goodness at amnesty international thani had ever known before. amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisonedfor their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have. the power of human empathy,leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. ordinary people,whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbersto save people they do not know, and will never meet. my small participation in thatprocess was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life. unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, withouthaving experienced. they can think themselves into other peoples minds, imaginethemselves into other peoples places. of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morallyneutral. one might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much asto understand or sympathise.i might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that i do notthink they have any fewer nightmares than i do. choosing to live in narrow spacescan lead to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. i thinkthe wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. they are often more afraid. one of the many things i learned at the end of that classics corridor down whichi ventured at the age of 18, in search of something i could not then define, was this,written by the greek author plutarch: what we achieve inwardly will change outerreality. that is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day ofour lives. it expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world,the fact that we touch other peoples lives simply by existing. but how much more are you, harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other peopleslives? your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earnedand received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. even yournationality sets you apart. the great majority of you belong to the worlds onlyremaining superpower. the way you vote, the way you篇三：jk罗琳 2008哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲the fringe benefits of failure, and the importance of imagination j.k. rowlingtercentenarytheatre, june 5, 2008 失败的好处和想象力的重要性哈佛大学毕业典礼j.k. 罗琳2008年6月5日presidentfaust, members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers, membersofthefaculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates, 福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，首先请允许我说一声谢谢。

T h e F r i n g e B e n e f i t s o f F a i l u r e,a n d t h e I m p o r t a n c e o f I m a g i n a t i o n H a r v a r d U n i v e r s i t y C o m m e n c e m e n t A d d r e s s J.K.R o w l i n g T e r c e n t e n a r y T h e a t r e,J u n e5,2008 失败的好处和想象力的重要性哈佛大学毕业典礼J.K.罗琳2008年6月5日President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates,福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们：The first thing I would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindors' reunion.首先请允许我说一声谢谢。

something,unless you live so cautiously/that you might as well
not have lived at all-in which case,you fail by defaule.
Failure gave me an inner security/that I had never
to survive its vicissitudes.
你可能不曾经历过我所经历的惨痛失败，但生活中遭遇失败在所难免。
永远不失败是不可能的 ，除非你谨小慎微，这样还不如从未在世上活过
——但那样也难逃失败，因为你已经不战而败。
失败让我内心感到安全，这种安全感是顺利通过考试所无法给予的。失败
J.K Rowling's 2008 Harvard Commencenment Address
You might never fail on the scale I did,but some failure
in life is inevitable.Itis impossible/tolive without failing at
你们才能在生活你起落浮沉中得以生存。
21-year-old self/that personal of happiness lies in knowing
that/life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievevment.
Your qualification,your CV,are not your life,thought you will
meet many people of my age and older/who confuse the

失败的附加值和想象力的重要性——JK罗琳在哈佛的演讲福斯特校长，校理事会和校务监督委员会的成员们，各位老师，各位骄傲的父母们，还有最重要的，毕业生们：首先我要说谢谢，不只是因为哈佛给了我莫大的荣誉，也是因为这几个礼拜一直思考怎么做这个毕业演讲带来的焦虑和担忧让我成功地减了肥。

真是喜上加喜！现在我只需要做几个深呼吸，偷偷看着那面红色的旗子，然后骗自己说我正在一个受过世界最优秀的教育的哈利波特们的大会上。

做一个毕业演讲的责任很大。

但是当我回忆了一下我毕业的时候听到的毕业演讲以后，我改变了我的想法。

那天来做演讲的人是英国著名的哲学家baroness mary warnock 。

回忆她的演讲真的对我写这个稿子帮助很大，因为我发现我连一个字都不记得了。

这个发现让我大大地松了一口气，我不再担心有的人会因为我演讲而放弃他们很有前途的经济、法律或者是政治方面的工作，而为了放纵的快乐成为一名同性恋巫师。

你们看，就算你们以后回忆起我的演讲时只能记得这个“同性恋巫师”的笑话，我仍然会觉得自己比baroness mary warnock成功。

取得个人成功的第一步——给自己一个可以达到的目标。

实际上，为了想出合适的话题，我把自己弄得心力交瘁。

我问过我自己：“我希望我毕业的时候知道什么？”在这毕业之后的二十一年里，我又学到了那些宝贵的知识呢？我有两个答案。

在这个美好的日子里，在我们欢聚在一起庆祝你们取得的学术上的成就的时候，我决定要告诉你们失败的好处。

同时，因为你们已经站在了“现实”的门槛上，我打算赞美一下想象力的至关重要性。

这两个选择看起来奇怪而又相互矛盾，但请耐心地听我说完。

回头看刚毕业的21岁的我，让今天已经42岁的我感到一些不舒服。

21岁，我的生命到现在为止的前一半的时候，我努力地试图在自己的野心和家人的期望之间取得一个平衡。

我一直坚定地相信，我唯一想做的事情，就是写作。

但是我的父母，出生于贫寒家庭，从未上过大学，他们把我过于活跃的想象力看作一种只属于个人的怪癖，既不能用来偿还抵押贷款，又不能用来领福利救济。

JK罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼的演讲《哈利.波特》的作者罗琳于6月5日参加了哈佛大学2008年的毕业典礼，被授予荣誉学位，并作为特邀嘉宾做了标题为《The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination》（失败的额外收益与想象力的重要性）的演讲。

以下，是译言的翻译。

标题：《失败的额外收益与想象力的重要性》（原文）作者：J.K.罗琳浮士德主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，大学的员工，自豪的父母，以及所有的毕业生们：首先我想说的是“谢谢你们”。

这不仅因为哈佛给了我非比寻常的荣誉，而且为了这几个礼拜以来，由于想到这次毕业典礼演说而产生的恐惧与恶心让我减肥成功。

这真是一个双赢的局面！现在我需要做的就是一次深呼吸，眯着眼看着红色的横幅，然后欺骗自己，让自己相信正在参加世界上受到最好教育群体的哈立波特大会。

做毕业典礼演说是一个重大的责任，我的思绪回到了自己的那次毕业典礼。

那天的演讲者是一位英国的杰出哲学家Baroness Marry Warnock. 对她演讲的回忆对我写这篇演讲稿帮助巨大，因为我发现她说的话我居然一个字都没有记住。

这个发现让我释然，使我得以继续写完演讲稿，我不用再担心，那种想成为"gay wizard"（harry porter中的魔法大师）的眩晕的愉悦，可能会误导你们放弃在商业、法律、政治领域的大好前途。

你们看，如果你们在若干年后能记住“gay wizard”这个笑话，我就比Barkoness Mary Warnock有进步了。

所以，设定一个可以实现的目标是个人进步的第一步。

实际上，我已经绞尽脑汁、费劲心思去想今天我应该讲什么好。

我问自己：我希望在自己毕业那天已经知道的是什么，而又有哪些重要的教训是我从那天开始到现在的21年间学会的。

我想到了两个答案。

在今天这个愉快的日子，我们聚在一起庆祝你们学习上的成功时，我决定和你们谈谈失败的收益。

jk罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文）resident Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates,致Faust校长，哈佛集团以及哈佛监事委员会的各位成员，各位教职员工，众多自豪的家长，以及最为重要的——各位毕业生们：The first thing I would like to say is 'thank you.' Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I've experienced at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and fool myself into believing I am at the world's best-educated Harry Potter convention.我想要说的第一句话是“谢谢你们”。

这份感谢不仅来自于哈佛赋予我如此非同寻常的荣誉，更是由于几个星期以来每当我想到今天的致词就会觉得头晕恶心，因而终于成功的减肥了。

这就是“双赢”啊!现在，我只需要深呼吸几次，瞄几眼红色的横幅，然后装模作样的让自己相信，我正身处世界上受过最好教育的哈里波特迷的盛大集会之中。

Delivering a commencement address is a greatresponsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.毕业典礼上致词意味着极大的责任——我这样想着，直到我开始回想我自己的毕业典礼。

J.K.罗琳：不要害怕失败2008年哈佛大学毕业典礼致辞J.K.罗琳：英国作家著有《哈利〃波特》系列福特斯校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位自豪的家长，以及最重要的各位毕业生同学：我想说的第一句话，就是“谢谢”。

不仅因为哈佛给了我这样非同一般的荣誉，还因为为了构思今天的演讲，我忍受了几个星期的担惊受怕、茶饭不思的生活，使得我体重减轻。

这真可谓“双赢”啊！现在，我唯一要做的就是深呼吸，偷偷看一眼四周飘扬的红色旗帜，让自己相信真的来到了世界上最大的“格兰芬多”聚会。

在毕业典礼上发表演讲，是一项巨大的责任，令我倍感压力。

直到我回忆起了自己的毕业典礼，才稍稍放松。

那一次的演讲嘉宾是杰出的英国哲学家玛丽〃沃诺克。

回想她的演讲，极大地帮助我写作自己的演讲稿，因为我发现一点也不记得她的任何一句话了。

这个发现让我如释重负，不再害怕自己在不经意间就对你们产生影响，让你们放弃在商业、法律、政治方面的大好前途，去追求成为一个快乐巫师的那种令人眩晕的愉悦。

你们明白吗？如果多年以后，你们只记得我讲的这个“快乐巫师”的笑话，我就已经超过玛丽〃沃诺克了。

可以实现的目标，是自己改进的第一步。

实际上，我真的是绞尽脑汁，思索今天自己到底应该讲什么。

我问自己，当年我毕业的时候，希望知道哪些事情；以及21年后的今天，我又从人生中得到哪些重要的经验教训。

我得到了两个回答。

这个美妙的日子，我们聚集一堂，庆祝你们在学业上的成功，但是我决定跟你们说说失败的好处，以及当你们站在所谓“真实世界”的门槛之上的时候，我要颂扬想象力的重要性。

这样的主题可能看上去有点异想天开和自相矛盾，但是请听下去，对于一个42岁的妇女来说，回想自己21岁毕业时的情景，是一种稍稍令人不安的经历。

回到21年之前，我正遭受煎熬，不知道在自己内心的追求与父母对我的期望之间，应该如何平衡。

当时，我确信自己一生中唯一想做的事情，就是去写小说。

但是，我的父母出生贫寒，没有受过大学教育。

罗琳哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿罗琳哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿2008年6月5日是哈佛大学的毕业典礼，请来的演讲嘉宾是《哈利波特》的作者J.K.罗琳女士。

她的演讲题目是《失败的好处和想象的重要性》(The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination)。

她几乎没有谈到哈里波特，而是谈及年轻时一段非常艰辛的日子和对人生的思考。

”以下是英文文稿和中文翻译：The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of ImaginationHarvard University Commencement AddressJ.K. RowlingCopyright June 2008As prepared for deliveryPresident Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.The first thing I would like to say is ‘thank you.’ Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindor reunion.Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can’t remembe r a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics for the giddydelights of becoming a gay wizard.You see? If all you remember in years to come is the ‘gay wizard’ joke, I’ve come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals: the first step to self improvement.Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that have expired between that day and this.I have come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called ‘real life’, I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me.I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. I know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.So they hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents’ car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.。

2008年jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文对照）默认分类 2009-07-17 20:13 阅读1281评论0字号：大中小“2008年6月5日是哈佛大学的毕业典礼，请来的演讲嘉宾是《哈利波特》的作者j.k.罗琳女士。

她的演讲题目是《失败的好处和想象的重要性》（the fringe benefits of failure,and the importance of imaginatio n）。

我读了一遍讲稿，觉得很好，很感染人。

她几乎没有谈到哈里波特，而是说了年轻时的一些经历。

虽然j·k·罗琳现在很有钱，是英国仅次于女皇的最富有的女人，但是她曾经有一段非常艰辛的日子，30岁了，还差点流落街头。

她主要谈的是，自己从这段经历中学到的东西。

”以下是英文文稿和中文翻译：text as delivered follows. copyright of jk rowling, june 2008 president faust, members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers, members of the faculty, proud parent s, and, above all, graduates. the first thing i would like to say is ?thank you.? not only he world?s largest gryffindor reunion. k. achievable goals: the first step to self improvement. actually, i have wrackedmy mind and heart for what i ought to say to you today. i have asked myself what iwish i had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons i have learned inthe 21 years that have expired between tha t day and this.agination.these may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but plea se bear with me.hose closest to me expected of me.i was convinced that the only thing i wanted to do, ever, was to write novels.however, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither ofwhom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusingpersonal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. i know that theirony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.d off down the classics corridor.i cannot remember telling my parents that i was studying classics; they mightwell have found out for the first time on graduation day. of all the subjects on thisplanet, i think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than greekmythology when it came to securing the keys to an exec utive bathroom.nticised only by fools.what i feared most for myself at your age was not povert y, but failure.at your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where ihad spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little timeat lectures, i had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had beenthe measure of success in my life and that of my peers.i am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted andwell-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. talent and intelligencenever yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates, and i do not for a momentsuppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment. however, the fact that you are graduating from harvard suggests that you are notvery well-acquainted with failure. you might be driven by a fear of failure quiteas much as a desire for success. indeed, your conception of failure might not be toofar from the average person?s idea of success, so high have you already flown.every usual standard, i was the biggest failure i knew. now, i am not going tostand here and tell you that failure is fun. that period of my life was a dark one,and i had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since representedas a kind of fairy tale resolution. i had no idea then how far the tunnel extended,and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality. so why do i talk about the benefits of failure? simply because failure meant astripping away of the inessential. i stopped pretending to myself that i was anythingother than what i was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only workthat mattered to me. had i really succeeded at anything else, i might never have foundthe determination to succeed in the one arena i believed i truly belonged. i was setfree, because my greatest fear had been realised, and i was still alive, and i stillhad a daughter whom i adored, and i had an old typewriter and a big idea. and so rockbottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuilt my life. you might never fail on the scale i did, but some failure in life is inevitable.it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiouslythat you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.failure gave me an inner security that i had never attained by passing examinations.failure taught me things about myself that i could have learned no other way. idiscovered tha t i had a strong will, and more discipline than i had suspected; i also foundout that i had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies. the knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means thatyou are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. you will never truly knowyourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested byadversity. such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and ithas been worth more than any qualification i ever earned.th humans whose experiences we have never shared. one of the greatest formativeexperiences of my life preceded harry potter, though it informed much of what isubsequently wrote in those books. this revelation came in the form of one of myearliest day jobs. though i was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours,i paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the african research department at amn esty international?s headquarters in london. there in my little office i read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out oftotalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform theoutside world of what was happening to them. i saw photographs of those who haddisappeared without trace, sent to amnesty by their desperate families and friends.i read the testimony of torture victims篇二：jk罗琳2008哈佛毕业演讲稿福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们：banners and convince myself that i am at the world’s largest gryffindors reunion.首先请允许我说一声谢谢。

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jk罗‎琳大家一定是熟悉的，‎她就是有名的哈利波特‎的创作者，在她在哈佛‎大学毕业之际，一篇关‎于不要害怕失败的演讲‎影响了很多在校大学生‎，下面管理资料网与你‎一起回顾jk罗琳的毕‎业演讲，献给毕业季的‎你jk罗琳20‎1X哈佛毕业典礼演讲‎稿中英文resi‎d ent Faust‎, members ‎o f the Har‎v ard Corpo‎r ation and‎the Board‎of Overse‎e rs, membe‎r s of the ‎f ault, pro‎u d parents‎,and, abo‎v e all, gr‎a duates,‎致Faust校长，哈‎佛集团以及哈佛监事委‎员会的各位成员，各位‎教职员工，众多自豪的‎家长，以及最为重要的‎各位毕业生们：‎The fi‎r st thing ‎I ould lik‎e to sa is‎thank ou.‎Not onl h‎a s Harvard‎given me ‎a n extraor‎d inar hono‎u r, but th‎e eeks of ‎f ear and n‎a usea I ve‎experiene‎d at the t‎h ought of ‎g iving thi‎s menement‎address h‎a ve made m‎e lose eig‎h t. A in-i‎n situatio‎n! No all ‎I have to ‎d o is take‎deep brea‎t hs, squin‎t at the r‎e d banners‎and fool ‎m self into‎believing‎I am at t‎h e orlds ‎b est-eduat‎e d Harr Po‎t ter onven‎t ion.我想要‎说的第一句话是谢谢‎你们。

罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲尊敬的校长、教授和各位同学们：大家好！首先非常感谢哈佛大学给予我这次难得的演讲机会。

站在这里，我感到十分荣幸，也深感责任重大。

今天，我想与大家分享一些我在经历中获得的人生智慧和价值观。

让我先向大家问一个问题：你们对成功的定义是什么？是金钱？是地位？还是名望？这些确实是我们生活中不可忽视的方面，但我想告诉大家，成功并不仅仅局限于这些表面的成就。

我相信，成功的定义需要是一个多维度的观念。

首先，成功必须是有意义的。

不能仅仅为了金钱而努力，而是要追求那些让自己和他人都受益的事物。

比如，通过创新和创造来改变社会，通过服务和奉献来帮助他人。

只有这样，我们才能真正达到内心的满足和成就感。

其次，成功需要是全面的。

我们不能只关注某个方面的成功，而忽略其他方面的发展。

例如，光有财富而没有健康，又有何意义呢？或许在追逐成功的过程中，我们会忽略一些重要的东西，比如家庭、友情、健康等等。

我们必须找到一个平衡，做到全面发展，才能真正的成功。

最后，成功需要是可持续的。

成功不是一蹴而就的，也不是短期的获得。

成功是一个漫长的过程，需要我们持之以恒地努力和坚持。

成功不仅是达到目标，还需要保持和发展。

只有持之以恒，才能使我们的努力和付出变得有意义和有价值。

那么，如何追求成功呢？首先，我们要有一个明确的目标。

目标是成功的起点，是我们努力的方向。

我们必须清晰地知道自己要追求什么，然后制定相应的计划和策略来实现目标。

其次，我们要不断地学习和成长。

成功是基于我们的能力和知识的。

我们要时刻保持好奇心，勇于尝试新的事物，不断学习和掌握新的知识和技能。

只有这样，我们才能适应和应对不断变化的环境和挑战。

最后，我们要有坚强的意志力和毅力。

成功是一个充满困难和挑战的过程。

我们需要克服困难、抵御诱惑，坚持不懈地向目标努力。

不要害怕失败，因为失败是成功的前奏，是我们积累经验和成长的机会。

只要我们坚持下去，相信自己，成功就在不远处。

在结束我演讲之前，我想给大家分享一句话：成功是一种心态，不是目标。

JK罗琳哈佛毕业典礼英语演讲稿：激励人心Ladies and gentlemen,It is an absolute honor for me to be standing before you today, on the esteemed grounds of Harvard University - a world-renowned institution that has produced some of the greatest minds in history. As a writer, I must say that I never imagined I would be delivering a speech on this platform, which is why I am very grateful to have this opportunity to talk to you all today.My journey to this moment has been a long one, but it has been filled with valuable lessons that have shaped me into the person I am today. As some of you may know, I came from humble beginnings, and it is safe to say that success was not handed to me on a silver platter. I had to work hard, persevere, and believe in myself even when others did not. And let me tell you, that mindset has carried me far - much farther than I ever imagined possible.But enough about me - I am here today to talk to you about something much bigger than myself. I want to talk about you. I want to talk about the bright minds that are sittingbefore me - the people who will go on to change the world in unimaginable ways. Because, let's face it, that's what Harvard is all about, right? It's about providing a space for some of the greatest thinkers in the world to come together and use their talents for the greater good.But here's the thing - the road to success is never easy. And I know some of you may feel a sense of pressure or uncertainty about what the future holds. Believe me, I understand that feeling all too well. But the truth is, every single person who has ever achieved anything great has had to face obstacles and overcome them to get where they are today. And that's where I want to offer some words of encouragement.First and foremost, never underestimate the power of hard work. Yes, I know it sounds clich茅, but hear me out. Success is not about luck or chances - it's about putting in theeffort and the time to make things happen. And when I say effort, I am not just referring to putting in long hours or sacrificing sleep. I am talking about being consistent, being disciplined, and being willing to learn from your mistakes. Because trust me, you will make mistakes - but it's how you bounce back from them that matters most.Secondly, always stay true to your principles. In thisday and age, it's all too easy to be swayed by the opinionsof others or to succumb to societal pressures. But let metell you, that is not a path to success. Success comes from being authentic, from listening to your heart, and fromstaying true to the values that define who you are. And Iknow that sounds simplistic, but in a world where everythingis changing at lightning speed, it is those principles thatwill anchor you and keep you grounded.Finally, never stop dreaming. Never give up on the things that you are passionate about, no matter how far-fetched they might seem at the time. Because the truth is, sometimes the most brilliant ideas come from the most unlikely places.Think about it - if I had told you twenty years ago that a story about a boy wizard would become a global phenomenon,you might have thought I was crazy. But by daring to dream, I was able to bring my vision to life - and who knows, youmight just be the next person to do the same.In conclusion, I want to leave you with one final thought. Right now, the world may seem like a daunting and uncertain place. But I truly believe that the people sitting before me are the ones who will change that. You are the future leaders,the innovators, and the thinkers who will shape the world for generations to come. And I have every faith that you willrise to that challenge, that you will work hard, stay true to your principles, and most importantly - never stop dreaming.Thank you, Harvard, for inviting me to speak today, and good luck to all of you on your journeys ahead.。

jk罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文）jk罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文）的人类的邪恶加诸于同胞的证据，这样的罪恶仅仅是为了获得或者维持权力。

我开始做恶梦，彻头彻尾的恶梦，梦到那些我看到、听到和读到的事情。

然而，在国际特赦组织里我还了解了很多关于人类的好的一面，有些是我从不知道的。

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people s minds, imagine themselves into other people s places.Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain fortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces can lead to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfullyunimaginative see more monsters. They are often moreafraid.What is more, those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters. For without ever mitting an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.际特赦组织调动了几千人，他们从未因自己的信念而被折磨或监禁，他们代表那些饱受折磨的人并为之行事。

J.K.罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼（2008年）上的演讲(双语）The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination Harvard University Commencement Address（失败的好处和想象力的重要性）President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates,福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们：首先请允许我说一声谢谢。

哈佛不仅给了我无上的荣誉，连日来为这个演讲经受的恐惧和紧张，更令我减肥成功。

这真是一个双赢的局面。

现在我要做的就是深呼吸几下，眯着眼睛看看前面的大红横幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的魔法学院聚会上。

发表毕业演说是一个巨大的责任，至少在我回忆自己当年的毕业典礼前是这么认为的。

那天做演讲的是英国著名的哲学家Baroness Mary Warnock，对她演讲的回忆，对我写今天的演讲稿，产生了极大的帮助，因为我不记得她说过的任何一句话了。

这个发现让我释然，让我不再担心我可能会无意中影响你放弃在商业，法律或政治上的大好前途，转而醉心于成为一个快乐的魔法师。

你们看，如果在若干年后你们还记得“快乐的魔法师”这个笑话，那就证明我已经超越了Baroness Mary Warnock。

建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。

Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today.I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation,and what important lessons I have learned in the 21years that has expired between that day and this.实际上，我为今天应该和大家谈些什么绞尽了脑汁。

jk罗琳2008哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿篇一：2008年JK罗琳：哈佛毕业典礼演讲2008年JK罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文对照）默认分类2009-07-17 20:13阅读1281评论0字号：大中小“2008年6月5日是哈佛大学的毕业典礼，请来的演讲嘉宾是《哈利波特》的作者J.K.罗琳女士。

她的演讲题目是《失败的好处和想象的重要性》（The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination）。

我读了一遍讲稿，觉得很好，很感染人。

她几乎没有谈到哈里波特，而是说了年轻时的一些经历。

虽然J·K·罗琳现在很有钱，是英国仅次于女皇的最富有的女人，但是她曾经有一段非常艰辛的日子，30岁了，还差点流落街头。

她主要谈的是，自己从这段经历中学到的东西。

”以下是英文文稿和中文翻译：Text as delivered follows.Copyright of JK Rowling, June 2008President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation andthe Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.The first thing I would like to say is ?thank you.? Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at t he world?s largest Gryffindor reunion.Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can?t remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics for thegiddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.You see? If all you remember in years to come is the ?gay wizard? joke, I?ve come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnoc k. Achievable goals: the first step to self improvement. Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought tosay to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that have expired between tha t day and this.I have come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called ?real life?, I want to extol the crucial importance of im agination.These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what t hose closest to me expected of me.I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, orsecure a pension. I know that the irony strikes with t he force of a cartoon anvil, now.So they hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents? car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an exec utive bathroom.I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entailsfear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the me asure of success in my life and that of my peers.I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of uuffled privilege and contentment.However, 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 theaverage person?s idea of success, so highhave you already flown.Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears that my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and byevery usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew. Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any lightat the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing theonly work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became t he solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it ispainfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualificationI ever earned.So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone?s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of myearliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International?s headquarters in London.There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I read the testimony of torture victims 篇二：罗琳2008年哈佛大学毕业演讲The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance ofImaginationHarvard University Commencement AddressJ.K. RowlingTercentenary Theatre, June 5, 2008失败的好处和想象力的重要性哈佛大学毕业典礼J.K. 罗琳2008年6月5日President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents,and, above all, graduates, 福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们：The first thing I would like to say is thank you. Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinaryhonour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving thiscommencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do istake deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largestGryffindors reunion. 首先请允许我说一声谢谢。

jk罗琳2019哈佛毕业典礼演讲(中英文)·罗琳，毕业于英国埃克塞特大学，是一位英国知名奇幻小说家，代表作为《哈利·波特》系列作品。

罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲,,,,,,,福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们"",’-!,’首先请允许我说一声谢谢。

哈佛不仅给了我无上的荣誉，连日来为这个演讲经受的恐惧和紧张，更令我减肥成功。

这真是一个双赢的局面。

现在我要做的就是深呼吸几下，眯着眼睛看看前面的大红横幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的格兰芬多聚会上。

;,,发表毕业演说是一个巨大的责任，至少在我回忆自己当年的毕业典礼前是这么认为的。

那天做演讲的是英国著名的哲学家，对她演讲的回忆，对我写今天的演讲稿，产生了极大的帮助，因为我不记得她说过的任何一句话了。

这个发现让我释然，让我不再担心我可能会无意中影响你放弃在商业，法律或政治上的大好前途，转而醉心于成为一个快乐的魔法师有快乐和同性恋的意思。

?,--你们看，如果在若干年后你们还记得"快乐的魔法师"这个笑话，那就证明我已经超越了。

建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。

,,21实际上，我为今天应该和大家谈些什么绞尽了脑汁。

我问自己什么是我希望早在毕业典礼上就该了解的，而从那时起到现在的21年间，我又得到了什么重要的启示。

,,我想到了两个答案。

在这美好的一天，当我们一起庆祝你们取得学业成就的时刻，我希望告诉你们失败有什么样的益处;在你们即将迈向"现实生活"的道路之际，我还要褒扬想象力的重要性。

,这些似乎是不切实际或自相矛盾的选择，但请先容我讲完。

21--,42--,,回顾21岁刚刚毕业时的自己，对于今天42岁的我来说，是一个稍微不太舒服的经历。

可以说，我人生的前一部分，一直挣扎在自己的雄心和身边的人对我的期望之间。

,,,,,,我一直深信，自己唯一想做的事情，就是写小说。

这是一个惊人的声明，但在我们生活的每一天无数次被证实。我们与外部世界的有不可推卸的关联，事实上，我们以我们的存在接触的其他人的生命。
但哈佛大学的2008级的毕业生们，多少人可能去触及其他人的生命？你的智力，您的辛勤工作能力，你已经获得了和受到的教育，给你独特的地位，和独特的责任。即使您的国籍把你与别人分开了，你们绝大部份属于世界上仅存的超级大国。你们表决的方式，你们生活的方式，你们抗议的方式，你们给你们的政府带来的压力，具有的影响超出了您们的国界。这是你们的特权，和你的负担。
但事实上，你是从哈佛大学毕业，您不是很熟悉失败。您害怕失败与渴望成功。事实上，您构想的失败可能和一般人的对成功的看法不会太远，你们已经站在一个如此高的地方。
最终，我们所有人都必须自己决定什么构成失败，但如果你让，世界是相当渴望给你一套准则。因此，我认为公平地说，从任何传统的标准看，在我毕业仅仅七年后的日子，我的失败达到了史诗的规模。一个非常短命的破裂的婚姻，失业，一个单亲家长，像在现代英国的穷人一样，只是还没有无家可归。我的父母对我的担心和我对自己的担心，都在眼前。按照惯常的标准，我是我知道的最大的失败者。
福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位员工，各位老师，家长、同学们；
首先请允许我说一声谢谢，哈佛给予我的不仅仅是无上的荣誉，还有连日来因为一想到这个演讲，带来的恐惧和恐惧导致的的阵阵恶心让我减肥成功。这真是一个双赢的局面。现在我不得不深呼吸，眯着眼睛看着眼前的大红横幅、安慰自己只是在世界上最大的矮人的大会上。
这些似乎是不切实际或似是而非的选择，但请原谅我。
让一个已经42岁的人回顾在她毕业时的21岁，是一个稍微不舒服的经历。可以说，我人生的前一部分，我一直挣扎在我自己的雄心和身边的人对我的期望两者之间取得平衡。我一直深信，我唯一想做的事，是写小说。不过，我的父母，两人都来自贫穷的背景和没有任何一人上过大学，坚持认为，我过度的想象力是一个令人惊讶的个人怪癖，绝不可支付按揭，或安全的退休金。