公众人物毕业演讲 第49期:肖恩库姆斯霍华德大学(5)

 　　And because of that, I've got to tell you the truth

　　这方面 我要给你们讲真相

　　that one of my favorite place was the Quad¹

　　Quad是我最喜欢的地方之一

　　You see, in my freshman² year, everybody asked me do I stay in Drew Hall

　　我在大一那年 所有人都问我是否待在Drew Hall楼

　　and I had to tell them, no, I stay in the Quad

　　我跟他们说 没有 我待在Quad

　　And I actually stayed there until I got kicked out

　　我一直待在那里 直到被人踢出来

　　Ain't that right, Robyn?

　　对吗 罗宾

　　I have my Howard girlfriend, she in the house

　　我曾在霍华德有一个女友 她在房里

　　I used to play in the Quad like

　　我会在Quad叫她

　　You're Robyn

　　罗宾

　　Come on down

　　下来

　　Now I've gone off topic for a second

　　我稍微有点跑题了

　　We're here today to celebrate

　　我们今天来这里是庆祝的

　　and I was just talking about our beautiful bison³ women

　　而我一直在讲霍华德大学美丽的"野牛"女生

　　that is never taken for granted⁴

　　这并不从来都是理所当然的

　　When we have so much power in here, I think we need to step up to hashtag

　　当我们有足够力量时 我认为我们应当开始#

　　All I want to say is bring back our girls now

　　我只想说 现在就把我们的女生找回来

　　Bring back out girls now

　　现在就把我们的女生找回来

　　My world was changed here at Howard

　　我的世界在霍华德得到了改变

　　On my second day of school

　　在我上学的第二天

　　I learned⁵ something that will change the course of my life for ever

　　我学到了之后会影响我一生的东西

　　I don't talk about the soft thing

　　这可不是一件轻松事

　　I was raised by a single mother in Harlem

　　我在纽约黑人区由单亲妈妈拉扯大

　　My dad Mr. Melvin Combs died when I was 3 years old

　　我三岁那年 父亲梅尔文·库姆斯就不在人世了

　　My mother always told me that he died in a car accident

　　我妈总跟我说 他是死于车祸

　　There was something about that. It just didn't feel right

　　我总感觉有点不对头

　　Something was in my soul that was telling me otherwise

　　我灵魂深处总觉得情况不是这样

　　So as soon as I get here, I went to the library

　　来到这里后 我马上就去了图书馆

　　and did some research

　　然后做了一些研究

　　I used the microfilm I found

　　我用我找到的微缩胶卷

　　to search through all the newspaper

　　到所有的报纸上进行搜索

　　and when I typed in my father's name and the day he died

　　键入父亲的名字和死亡日期后

　　I read in the answer in that news

　　我读到了相关新闻

　　that he had been murdered in a drug deal gone bad

　　他其实是因为毒品交易失败而被人谋杀的

1 quad   

n.四方院；四胞胎之一；v.在…填补空铅

参考例句：

• His rooms were on the left-hand side of the quad.他的房间位于四方院的左侧。
• She is a 34-year-old mother of quads.她是个生了四胞胎的34岁的母亲。

2 freshman   

n.大学一年级学生(可兼指男女)

参考例句：

• Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
• He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。

3 bison   

n.野牛

参考例句：

• American bison are very large.美洲野牛非常巨大。
• Herds of bison live in the park.公园内住有成群的野牛。

4 granted   

conj.假定，就算v.（退一步）承认( grant的过去式和过去分词 )；（尤指正式地或法律上）同意；准许；让渡

参考例句：

• The president granted a general amnesty for all political prisoners. 总统大赦了所有的政治犯。
• She feared she would not be granted re-entry into Britain. 她担心不会获准再次踏足英伦。

5 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。