公众人物毕业演讲 第219期:马克·贝尼奥夫南加大2014毕业典礼演讲(5)

 　　And I went and then I talked to my boss

　　我找到我的老板

　　Larry Ellison is the CEO of Oracle¹ and I said I'm kind of甲骨文CEO拉里·埃里森 我说

　　Not feeling that great. I think I need to take some time off我感觉不大好 我想我需要放空一下

　　He said, go for it, good idea. Very supportive他说 去吧 好主意 他很支持我

　　So there I was, kind of a lost thirtysomething这就是我了 一个迷失的三十多岁中年人

　　And I did what all lost thirtysomethings to do和所有迷失的三十多岁中年人一样

　　I went to India

　　我去了印度

　　And I went India and I took with me one of my really good friends Arjun Gupta我去印度时带上了一个很好的朋友 阿儿琼·古普塔And we were touring India

　　我们去印度旅行

　　Arjun was born in New Delhi but he's never been through India阿儿琼出生于新德里 但从未在印度旅行过

　　And I wanted to go through India

　　我想到印度去旅行

　　And I had all this time off

　　我有很多时间

　　But I was going to make good use of it and do something I couldn't normally do我打算用这些时间做一些平常不能做的事情

　　And we had all these great cities from the north to the south from the east to the west我们去了很多伟大的城市 从北到南 从东到西

　　And then I'll tell you something amazing happened之后 很奇妙的事情发生了

　　Arjun and I ended up in a little hut

　　阿儿琼和我最终落脚到了一个小屋

　　A little hut in a little area of India in the south这个小屋位于印度南部

　　Called Kerala and a little city called Trivandrum喀拉拉邦的一座小城市 特里凡得琅

　　And Arjun and I were sitting in a little hut with a guru我和阿儿琼在小屋下同一位大师一起打坐

　　A guru is an incredible female saint

　　大师是一位伟大的女性圣人

　　All the saints in the south of India are female印度南部的圣人都是女性

　　And we were kind of confessing our lives

　　我们忏悔了自己的人生

　　And our worries and our concerns and our anxieties and our fears道出自己的担忧 焦虑和恐惧

　　And talking about life and what we had accomplished and讲我们在生活中取得了什么成就

　　You know that we want to change and we're on our quest说我们希望改变 并正在追寻

　　And we're sitting there in that hut

　　我们坐在小屋下

　　It's kind of fun and amazing at the same time and这很有趣 很奇妙

　　Incense was kinda wafting over us and candles were flickering香的气味从我们面前飘过 蜡烛在我们眼前闪烁Monks were chanting

　　僧侣在我们耳边诵经

　　And Arjun was getting ready to start this new venture capital company and阿儿琼当时准备开一家风险投资公司

　　He decided to take out his business plan

　　他打算讲出他的经营计划

　　And he took out his business plan, he started reading it to the saint他把他的经营计划讲给这位圣人听

 

1 oracle   

n.神谕，神谕处，预言

参考例句：

• In times of difficulty,she pray for an oracle to guide her.在困难的时候，她祈祷神谕来指引她。
• It is a kind of oracle that often foretells things most important.它是一种内生性神谕，常常能预言最重要的事情。