公众人物毕业演讲第353期:奥普拉2013在哈佛大学(2)

 　　Getting teary for you all, and getting teary for myself. I consider today a defining milestone¹ in a very long and an bless journey.

　　为你们 也为我自己喜极而泣我认为 今天是一段漫长美好的旅途中的一个标志性里程碑

　　My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration I'm going to address my remarks to anybody, this is a speech for the quad².

　　今天我唯一的希望就是自己可以成为灵感的源泉我要对那些感到自卑与失落的人这些话只在这里说哦

　　Actually I was so honored. I wanted to do something really special for you.

　　我确实深感荣幸我想为你们做一些特别的事情

　　I wanted to be able to have you look under your seats and there would be free, a free... Master and doctor degrees but I see, I see you got that covered, already.

　　我也很想在你们的座位下面放点礼物赠送给你们一些硕士与博士学位但看来你们已经有了

　　I will be honest with you, and I felt a lot of pressure over the past few weeks. To come up with something that I could share with you.

　　说实话在过去的几周内 我感到压力非常大不知该与你们分享哪些

　　That you hadn't heard before, because after all, you all went to Harvard. I did not. But then I realized that you don't have to necessarily go to Harvard.

　　你们闻所未闻的内容才好毕竟你们都进了哈佛深造 而我却没有但后来我意识到 并不一定要来哈佛

　　To have the driven obsessive³ type A personality But it helps. And Well, I may not have graduated from here.

　　才能塑造出A型强迫症人格的但来这还是有用的虽然我没从这里毕业

1 milestone   

n.里程碑；划时代的事件

参考例句：

• The film proved to be a milestone in the history of cinema.事实证明这部影片是电影史上的一个里程碑。
• I think this is a very important milestone in the relations between our two countries.我认为这是我们两国关系中一个十分重要的里程碑。

2 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。

3 obsessive   

adj. 着迷的, 强迫性的, 分神的

参考例句：

• Some people are obsessive about cleanliness.有些人有洁癖。
• He's becoming more and more obsessive about punctuality.他对守时要求越来越过分了。