感谢Tilghman主席 各位校董和朋友们

　　Parents of the Class of 2012 wherever they put you

　　2012年级的家长们

　　Members of the Class of 2012

　　普林斯顿2012年级的同学们

　　Why don't you give yourself a round of applause?

　　为什么不给自己一次掌声呢？

　　So the next time you look around a church and see everyone dressed in black it'll be awkward to do that. But enjoy the moment

　　下一次你在一所教堂里 看到大家都穿成黑色的时候 像这样欢呼就很尴尬了 享受这一刻吧

　　Thirty years ago I sat where you sat

　　30年前 我坐在你所坐的地方

　　I must have listened to some older person share his life experiences

　　我一定也听过某位年长的人分享他的人生经历

　　I don't remember a word of it

　　但我已经一点都不记得了

　　I couldn't even tell you who spoke

　　我连是谁发言都没印象了

　　And you won't be able to either

　　你们也不会记得吧

　　What I do remember, vividly, is graduation

　　而在我记忆中仍栩栩如生的 是毕业

　　I'm told you're meant to be excited, maybe even relieved let you... getting out of you, and maybe all of you are

　　他们告诉我你应该很激动 或者感到轻松 先不说你们……但也许你们现在就是这样

　　I was not. I was totally outraged

　　我却不同 我义愤填膺

　　Here I'd gone and given them four of the best years of my life and this is how they rewarded me, by throwing me out

　　我来到这里给了他们我人生中最好的四年 而他们就是这样报答我的 把我踢走

　　At that moment I was sure of only one thing

　　在那时我只确信一件事

　　I was of no possible economic value to the outside world

　　我对外面的世界没有任何经济价值

　　I'd majored in art history, for a start

　　我修的是艺术史 那是我的起点

　　Even then this was regarded as an act of insanity

　　即使在当时这也被视为疯子的行为

　　I was almost certainly less prepared than you are for the marketplace

　　我为市场做的准备一定差过 几乎在座的每一个人

　　Yet somehow I have wound up somehow rich and famous

　　而现在我竟摇身一变成了富人和名人