公众人物毕业演讲 第242期:乔斯韦登2013卫斯理大学(2)

 　　I mean, it can't get more depressing

　　我是说 没有更让人沮丧的了

　　You have, in fact, already begun to die

　　你们实际上已经开始迈向死亡

　　You look great

　　你们气色很好

　　Don't get me wrong. And you know, you are youth and beauty不要误解我的话 你们年轻而美丽

　　You are at the physical peak

　　你们正值身体巅峰状态

　　Your bodies have just gotten off the ski slope on the peak of growth and potential你们的身体正处在生长和潜能的滑雪场顶端

　　and now comes the black diamond mogul run to the grave现在正使用各种滑雪技巧朝坟墓直奔而去

　　And the weird¹ thing is

　　奇怪的是

　　your body wants to die

　　你的身体希望死亡

　　On a cellular² level, that's what it wants就细胞层面而言 这正是它想要的

　　And that's probably not what you want

　　这可能不是你所想要的

　　I'm confronted by a great deal of grand and worthy³ ambition from this student body从你们这些学生那里 我了解到了各种宏图大志You want to be a politician, a social worker有人想当政治人物 社会工作者

　　You want to be an artist

　　有人想当艺术家

　　Your body's ambition: Mulch

　　但身体的志向是 粪土

　　Your body wants to make some babies

　　你们身体希望生出一些小孩

　　and then go in the ground and fertilize⁴ things然后到泥土中去滋养大地

　　That's it

　　就是这样了

　　And that seems like a bit of a contradiction这听起来有点矛盾

　　It doesn't seem even fair

　　甚至不公平

　　For one thing, we're telling you, "Go out into the world!"一边我们告诉你 "勇敢迈向世界吧"

　　exactly when your body is saying, "Hey, let's bring it down a notch一边你的身体却告诉你 "嘿 我们缓缓吧"

　　Let's take it down"

　　"让我们歇歇得了"

　　And it is a contradiction

　　这确实有些矛盾

　　And that's actually what I'd like to talk to you about这正是我想跟你们讲的

　　The contradiction between your body and your mind你身体和心智的矛盾

　　between your mind and itself

　　心智和它自身的矛盾

 

1 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

2 cellular   

adj.移动的；细胞的，由细胞组成的

参考例句：

• She has a cellular telephone in her car.她的汽车里有一部无线通讯电话机。
• Many people use cellular materials as sensitive elements in hygrometers.很多人用蜂窝状的材料作为测量温度的传感元件。

3 worthy   

adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的

参考例句：

• I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
• There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。

4 fertilize   

v.使受精，施肥于，使肥沃

参考例句：

• Fertilizer is a substance put on land to fertilize it.肥料是施在地里使之肥沃的物质。
• Reading will fertilize his vocabulary.阅读会丰富他的词汇。