公众人物毕业演讲 第253期:斯蒂芬科尔伯特2013弗吉尼亚大学(6)

 　　Now I have to have all of you killed

　　现在我得把你们都杀了灭口

　　Now of course, many of you, you already know this当然 你们很多人已经知道这些

　　but for the uninitiated, let me explain

　　不过我要为不了解的人解释一下

　　When a member of the Seven dies

　　一名7帮会成员死的时候

　　a wither¹ of black magnolia shapes like a seven一株枯萎的黑木兰 形如7

　　appear they're grave

　　就像是在哀悼

　　and the University Chapel² chimes at seven second intervals而大学礼拜堂以7秒为间隔敲响钟声

　　on the seventh dissonant³ chord, at seven past the hours钟声是7和弦 在整点后7分种敲响

　　All the group donations contained the number seven所有组织的捐款都包含数字7

　　like it's $777,777.77 grant

　　比如777,777美元77美分捐款

　　to fund to meet endowment

　　捐到捐赠基金

　　So it appears

　　看起来就像

　　that the way you qualify for the Sevens

　　要成为合格的7帮会成员

　　is by having crippling OCD

　　你需要有严重的强迫症

　　and you know what's good for that

　　你们知道什么对这个好

　　Adderall

　　阿得拉

　　Now what is not a secret?

　　什么不是秘密呢

　　It's the list of distinguished UVA alums

　　弗大的杰出校友名单不是秘密

　　which is as impressive

　　这让人印象深刻

　　as it was easy to copy and paste from Wikipedia你可以直接从维基百科复制粘贴

　　You've got Woodrow Wilson

　　有伍德罗·威尔逊

　　Robert Kennedy

　　罗伯特·肯尼迪

　　Janet Napolitano

　　珍妮特·纳波利塔诺

　　Katie Couric

　　凯蒂·库瑞克

　　Tina Fey

　　蒂娜·菲

　　the painter Georgia O'Keeffe

　　画家乔治亚·欧姬芙

　　I loved her paintings

　　我喜爱她的画作

　　They remind me of something I rarely saw at Hampden-Sydney它们让我想到了汉普敦-悉尼学院久违的东西

　　And of course

　　当然还有

　　Edgar Allan Poe

　　埃德加·爱伦·坡

　　or as his roommates called him Creepy Eddie或者按他室友的叫法 恐怖的埃迪

 

1 wither   

vt.使凋谢，使衰退，(用眼神气势等)使畏缩；vi.枯萎，衰退，消亡

参考例句：

• She grows as a flower does-she will wither without sun.她象鲜花一样成长--没有太阳就会凋谢。
• In autumn the leaves wither and fall off the trees.秋天，树叶枯萎并从树上落下来。

2 chapel   

n.小教堂，殡仪馆

参考例句：

• The nimble hero,skipped into a chapel that stood near.敏捷的英雄跳进近旁的一座小教堂里。
• She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chapel.那个星期天的下午，她在小教堂的演出，可以说是登峰造极。

3 dissonant   

adj.不和谐的；不悦耳的

参考例句：

• His voice is drowned by the dissonant scream of a siren outside.她的声音被外面杂乱刺耳的警报声吞没了。
• They chose to include all of these dissonant voices together.他们把那些不和谐的声音也放在了里面