公众人物毕业演讲 第241期:乔斯韦登2013卫斯理大学(1)

 　　Commencement address. It's going¹ well, it's going well毕业典礼演讲 准备就绪 一切顺利

　　Okay²

　　好

　　This is going to be great

　　这会很棒

　　This is going to be a good one. You guys are fun这将是很棒的演讲 你们这些伙计很有趣

　　It's going to go really well

　　一切都会非常顺利

　　Two roads diverged in a wood, and

　　森林中分出两条道路 然后…

　　No

　　不是

　　I'm not that lazy

　　我没有那么懒

　　I actually sat through many graduations

　　我经历过很多毕业典礼

　　When I was sitting where you guys are sitting我坐在你们所坐的位置时

　　the speaker was Bill Cosby

　　致辞者是比尔·寇司比

　　funny man Bill Cosby, he was very funny and he was very brief比尔·寇司比是个很有趣的人 演讲有趣而简练and I thanked him for that, but

　　为此我非常感谢他 但是

　　he gave us a message

　　他给我们的建议

　　that I really took with me

　　让我一直受用

　　that a lot of us never forgot

　　我们很多人都没忘记过

　　about changing the world

　　是关于改变世界的

　　He said, "you're not going to change the world, so don't try"他说 "你们无法改变世界 所以别试了"

　　That was it

　　这就完了

　　He didn't buy that back at all

　　他完全不打算自圆其说

　　And then he complained about buying his daughter a car然后他就开始抱怨给他女儿买车的事

　　and we left

　　然后我们就都走了

　　I remember thinking, "I think I can do better我在想 "我应该能讲得更好"

　　I think I can be a little more inspiring than that""应该比这要更具启发性一些"

　　And so, what I'd like to say to all of you所以 我想跟你们所有人说的是

　　is that you are all going to die

　　你们所有人都会死去

　　This is a good commencement speech

　　这是一个很好的毕业致辞

　　because I'm figuring it's only going to go up from here因为我想没有其它致辞会比这个更糟了

　　It can only get better, so this is good

　　只会越来越好 这很好

 

1 going   

n.去，离去，地面(或道路)的状况，工作情况；(复数形式）goings: 行为；adj.进行中的，流行的，现存的

参考例句：

• We're going to listen to a report this afternoon. 今天下午我们要去听报告。
• He hates leaving the office and going on holiday.他不愿离开办公室去度假。

2 Okay   

(=okey，O.K.)adj./adv.好，行，不错；n.同意

参考例句：

• The play is okay,but I still prefer the book.戏还可以，可我仍愿读原著。
• Is it okay with you if I borrow this book?我借这本书你不在意吧？