公众人物毕业演讲 第245期:乔斯韦登2013卫斯理大学(5)

 　　It will always be in conflict¹

　　总会有矛盾斗争

　　If you accept that, everything gets a lot better如果你接受这一事实 一切都会好得多

　　The other reason is

　　另一个原因是

　　because you are establishing your identities² and your beliefs因为你在建立自己的身份和信念

　　you need to argue yourself down, because somebody else will你需要驳倒自己 否则其他人就会这样做

　　Somebody's going to come at you

　　有人会找到你

　　and whatever your belief, your idea, your ambition不管你有什么信念 想法 抱负

　　somebody's going to question it

　　总有人会提出质疑

　　And unless you have first, you won't be able to answer back除非你先自省 否则你无法对这些质疑作出回答you won't be able to hold your ground

　　否则你无法坚持立场

　　You don't believe me, try taking a stand on just one leg不相信我的话 你可以一只脚站着试试

　　You need to see both sides

　　你需要同时看到两面

　　Now, if you do, does this mean that you get to change the world?

　　如果这样做了 这就意味着你能改变世界吗

　　Well, I'm getting to that, so just chill

　　我马上就会说到 放轻松

　　All I can say to this point is

　　这方面 我只能说

　　I think we can all agree that the world could use a little changing我想我们都会赞同 世界需要改变一下

　　I don't know if your parents have explained this to you about the world我不知道你们父母有没有给你解释世界的这个方面but we broke it

　　但是 我们将它打破

　　we're sorry

　　我们很抱歉

　　it's a bit of a mess

　　这有点乱

　　It's a hard time to go out in there

　　步入社会会遇到很多困难

　　And it's a weird time in our country

　　而且我们国家现在处于一个奇怪的时期

　　The thing about our country isoh, it's nice, I like it我们国家现在 哦 这很好 我喜欢

　　it's not long on contradiction or ambiguity并不注重矛盾或模棱两可

　　It's not long on these kinds of things

　　并不注重这样一些东西

　　It likes things to be simple, it likes things to be pigeonholed它希望事物都很简单 喜欢进行简单分类

　　good or bad, black or white, blue or red

　　好或坏 黑或白 蓝或红

 

1 conflict   

n.冲突，矛盾，争执；vi.争执，撞斗，冲突，抵触

参考例句：

• Your statement is in conflict with the rest of the evidence.你的陈述同其余证据有矛盾。
• The conflict between them seems ceaseless.他们之间冲突似乎没个止息。

2 identities   

身份( identity的名词复数 )； 同一性； 个性； 同一人

参考例句：

• Please note the identities in the two cases. 请注意这两个案子的相同之处。
• The planners decided to preserve their distinct identities. 设计者们决定保留他们各自的特色。