名校励志英语演讲 129:珍惜现在 把握将来(5)(在线收听) |
So to you as individuals, what wisdom, if any, have I learnt? 那么,你们作为个人,又学到了什么样的智慧呢?
First, in fact, keep learning. Always be alive to the possibilities of the next experience, of thinking, doing and being.
事实上,首先就是要不断学习。要时刻至尊被迎接新的生活、不断思考、积极行动。
When Buddha was asked, near the end of his life, to describe his secret, he answered bluntly: "I'm awake".
佛陀临终前,人们要求他讲述成为圣人的秘诀,他坦率地说:“因为我头脑清醒”。
So be awake.Understand conventional wisdom, but be prepared to change it.
所以,要保持头脑清醒。要了解传统的智慧,但要准备改变它。
Feel as well as analyse; use your instinct alongside your reason. Calculate too much and you will miscalculate.
不仅要学会分析,还要学着用心感受。直觉与推理并存,因为算计太多难免会出错。
Be prepared to fail as well as to succeed, and realise it is failure not success that defines character.
不仅要接受成功,也要准备经历失败。因为是失败而非成功塑造了性格。
I spent years trying to be a politician failing at every attempt and nearly gave up.
多年来我为了立足政坛一直不断努力,但却屡遭失败,以致我几乎想要放弃。
I know you're thinking: I should have.
我知道你们一定在想:我本来就应该放弃。
Sir Paul McCartney reminded me that the first record company the Beatles approached rejected them as a band no-one would want to listen to.
保罗·麦卡特尼先生提醒我,甲壳虫乐队联系的第一家唱片公司把他们拒之门外,理由是没人想听他们这样的音乐。
Be good to people on your way up because you never know if you will meet them again on your way down.
当你事业顺利的时候要善待他人,因为你永远不会知道,你遭遇挫折的时候是否会遇到他们。
Judge someone by how they treat those below them not those above them.
评价一个人,要看他们怎样对待比自己地位低的人,而不是看他们怎样对待比自己高的人。
Be a firm friend not a fair-weather friend.
要做一个可靠的朋友,而不是靠不住的酒肉朋友。
It is your friendships, including those friends you made here at Yale, at this time, that sustain and enrich the human spirit.
是友谊,包括现在你们在耶鲁大学结交的朋友之间的友谊,维持并丰富人类的精神。
保罗·麦卡特尼爵士(Sir James Paul McCartney)大英帝国最高骑士勋章的拥有者(Most Excellent Order of the British Empire,简称 MBE),Paul McCartney于1942年6月18日在利物浦出生,是一位英国歌手,音乐人,音乐创作家,多种乐器演奏家,诗人,企业家,画家,唱片制作人,电影制作人,动物保护者。他的事业在于他成为披头士乐队成员时攀上了颠峰。他作为The Beatles 的成员创建者之一入选了摇滚名人堂。Paul McCartney 与 John Lennon的组合是史上最成功最有影响力的歌曲创作组合,他们写下了许多摇滚史上最流行的歌曲。离开Beatles之后,Paul McCartney 成为了一名成功的独唱者并和他的第一任妻子Linda Eastman McCartney,歌手、作曲家Denny Laine组成了Wings乐队。近年来,他长期活跃于电影配乐,古典音乐和电子音乐,并作为独唱艺术家,发行了众多的歌曲。
Paul McCartney 与John Lennon是在披头士里的主要创作人,而很多Paul McCartney在这时期写的歌,包括 "Hey Jude"、"Eleanor Rigby"、"Yesterday" 以及 "Let It Be" 都经常被列为流行音乐史上最佳的歌曲。另一首他写的披头士歌 "Helter Skelter" 经常被指为史上第一首重金属 (Heavy Metal) 音乐。 |
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