公众人物毕业演讲第275期:米歇尔2013东肯塔基大学16

 o, you can either choose to use those opportunities

你可以选择使用这些机会

to continue fighting the fights that we've been locked in for decades

继续数十年来人类之间持续的冲突和斗争

or you can choose to reject those old divisions¹

你也可以选择摒弃这些旧的分化

and embrace² folks with a different point of view

拥抱具有不同见解的人们

And if you do that, the latter

如果你按照后面那种做法做了

who knows where it might take you

可以预计 你被引往何方

more importantly, where it might take our country

更重要的 我们的国家会被引往何方

So, those are my three questions

这就是我的三个问题

Who do you want to be?

你想成为谁

How will you serve others?

你将如何服务他人

And who will you include in your lives?

以及你生命中将包含谁

And let me just share just a little secret before I end

在结束演讲之前 请允许我分享一点秘籍

As someone who has hired and managed hundreds of young people over the course of my career

作为曾经招募并管理过成百上千位年轻人的人

the answers to those questions, believe

我负责任地告诉你们 以上问题的答案

me are far more important than you can ever imagine

肯定比你们想象的要重要得多

Whether it was during my time as a lawyer, as an administrator at a University

不管我是作为律师 作为学校管理者

a nonprofit manager, even now as First Lady

作为非盈利机构管理者 还是现在作为第一夫人

I have never once ask someone I was interviewing

我从来就没要求过我所面试的人

to explain a test score or a grade in a class

解释一次考试的分数或一门课的成绩

Never

从未有过

1 divisions   

n.分开( division的名词复数 )；分界线；分歧；分离

参考例句：

• The country's political divisions are deep-seated. 这个国家的政治分歧根深蒂固。
• The country's political divisions are deep-seated. 这个国家的政治分歧根深蒂固。

2 embrace   

vt.拥抱；包括；包围，环绕；n.拥抱，怀抱

参考例句：

• He held her to him in a warm embrace.他热列地拥抱她。
• The hills embrace the village.山丘环绕着村庄。