公众人物毕业演讲第204期:杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(2)

 　　Smarten up, hey, smarten up, hey, smarten up聪明些 嘿 聪明些 嘿 聪明些

　　That was the cure for dyslexia

　　失读症就是这样治的

　　In fact, one day

　　实际上 有一天

　　the guy in my high school called my mom and he said我的高中老师把我妈妈找来说

　　have you ever thought of taking Jay out of school你有没有想过把杰从学校领回去

　　You know, Mrs. Leno, education is not for everyone雷诺夫人 教育并非对每个人都合适

　　And then he said, Jay works in McDonald's他说 杰可以到麦当劳工作

　　you know they have a wonderful hamburger university program他们有一个很棒的汉堡大学项目

　　where they teach the kids how to make change教学生如何得到改善

　　it just could be a real opportunity for Jay这对杰而言是个很好的机会

　　I'm sitting there, going, hello, I'm in the room我则坐在那里说 哈罗 我在房间里

　　And like a lot of you, I was the class clown, and I'd like to show off和你们很多人一样 我是班上的小丑 喜欢哗众取宠I thought I'd like to go into show business我想进入脱口秀表演业

　　but I had never met anybody in show business in Massachusetts但我在马萨诸塞州从未碰到过任何脱口秀表演业的人And show business is one of those rare jobs or professions滑稽表演这个行业很独特

　　where people who know absolutely nothing about it feel free to give you advice对它一无所知的人都能随意提出建议

　　A neighbor lady, Mrs. Langell tell my mother我邻居兰盖尔夫人跟我妈说

　　you can't be a comedian¹ unless your father was a comedian父亲不是喜剧演员的人别想当喜剧演员

　　That's the way it is and how it would

　　情况就是这样

　　You can't do it unless your father was a comedian要当喜剧演员 父亲必须是喜剧演员

　　I said okay, so I guess that's out

　　我说 好吧 不过这已经过时了

　　And then for some odd reason I went to Bentley School of Accounting² and Finance³然后出于很独特的原因 我进入了本特利会计与金融学校You know why?

　　知道为什么吗

　　Because it was close to my house

　　因为它离我家近

　　That's why I went there

　　这就是我去那里的原因

　　A dyslexic accountant, I lasted one semester一个失读症会计 我在那待了一个学期

　　one semester

　　一个学期

　　Then Emerson College saved my life

　　然后 爱默生学院挽救了我的人生

　　I remember somebody telling me there was this liberal arts college in Boston我记得 有人告诉我波士顿的这家文科院校

　　where a lot of people like me ended up

　　很多和我一样的人都来到这里

 

1 comedian   

n.喜剧演员；滑稽演员

参考例句：

• The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
• The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。

2 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

3 finance   

n.财务管理，财政，金融，财源，资金

参考例句：

• She is an expert in finance.她是一名财政专家。
• A finance house made a bid to buy up the entire company.一家信贷公司出价买下了整个公司。