公众人物毕业演讲 第256期:斯蒂芬科尔伯特2013弗吉尼亚大学(9)

 After all, I don't know if you've seen it

我不知道你们见过这个没有

This week's Time Magazine called you

本周的时代杂志把你们称作

lazy entitled narcissists

懒惰的自恋狂

who are part of the Me Me Me Generation

你们是"我我我一代"的一部分

So self obsessed¹, tweeting your Vines

如此自我沉醉 用推特发送Vine

hashtagging your Spotifys

为Spotify加标签

and Snapchatting your YOLOs

对YLO使用Snapchat

your generation needs everything to be about you

你们这一代需要一切都围绕着你们

And that's very upsetting to us baby boomers

这让我们婴儿潮这一代很不爽

because self-absorption is kind of our thing

因为自我陶醉本应是我们的东西

We are the original "Me Generation"

我们是最初的"自我一代"

We made the last 50 years all about us

我们让过去50年都围绕着我们

We took all the money

我们赚了所有的钱

we soaked up all the government services 我们攫取了所有的政府服务

and we've deep fried nearly everything in the ocean

我们炸透了几乎海洋里的一切

It may seem that all that's left for you is unpaid² internships

似乎留给你们的只剩下没有工钱的实习

Monday to Tuesday mail delivery

周一到周二的邮件递送

and thanks to global warming

还有得益于全球变暖

soon semester at sea

很快 海上学期

will mean sailing the coast of Ohio

就会成为沿俄亥俄洲海岸航行

Now in our defence, in my generation's defence

下面为我们这一代人辩护

how were we supposed to know that you were coming?

我们怎么知道你们正继往开来

We thought it went like this

我们以为是像这样

Every successive generation of mankind

一代人接一代人

and then us

然后是我们

roll credits

这就完了

but while

不过 虽然

we may be leaving you with an economy

我们留给你们的经济环境

with fewer job opportunities for the new graduate to slip into

对于新毕业生而言 工作机会可能确实更少了

while traditional paths may seem harder to find

虽然传统工作似乎更难寻找了

that also means

但这也意味着

that you may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson

你们能够比其他很多代人 更快学到艰难的一课

that you must always make the path for yourself

也就是 你必须为自己铺平道路

1 obsessed   

adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的

参考例句：

• He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
• The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。

2 unpaid   

adj.未付款的，无报酬的

参考例句：

• Doctors work excessive unpaid overtime.医生过度加班却无报酬。
• He's doing a month's unpaid work experience with an engineering firm.他正在一家工程公司无偿工作一个月以获得工作经验。