Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you. I will not do that, and I’ll tell you why.
“通常来致辞的人都会祝你们好运,或是心想事成,但我不会这么做。”
“我很遗憾的告诉你们,这算是你们人生最容易的时光了,虽然连这也已经成为了过去式。”
From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice.
“我希望你们在未来岁月中,不时遭遇不公对待,这样才会理解公正的价值所在。”
I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty.
“我希望你尝到背叛的滋味,这样你才能领悟到忠诚之重要。”
Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted.
“抱歉,我还希望你们时常感到孤独,唯有如此,你才不会视朋友为理所当然。”
I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
“我祝福你人生旅途中时常运气不佳,
唯有如此
你才意识到概率和机遇在人生中扮演的角色,
进而理解你的成功并不完全是命中注定,
而别人的失败也不是天经地义。"
And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure.It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship.
“当你偶尔失败时,我愿你的对手时不时地会幸灾乐祸。这样你才能懂得互相尊重的竞技精神的重要。”
I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion.
“我希望你被人无视,唯有如此,你才懂得倾听他人有多重要。”
and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion.
“我祝福你遭受切肤之痛,
唯有如此
才能让你感同身受,从而对别人有同情的理解。”
以上图片来源:中国日报双语新闻(Chinadaily_Mobile)
听听这些大实话,
保证让你神清气爽,提神醒脑……
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“不管我有没有这样祝福你们,这些事都会发生,能不能因此成长受益,就看你如何面对逆境。”
最后,他以Bob Dylan的《Forever Young》歌词做结尾。
“愿上帝庇佑,护你前路;愿你美梦均可成真;愿你与人为善,相互扶持;愿你建成通往群星的天梯;稳妥沿它而上;愿你永远年轻;愿你成为正直之人;愿你成就真实自我;愿你永远感知真理,看向身边无尽光明;愿你勇敢无惧,坚强可靠;愿你永远年轻,拥有纯洁之心;愿你双手永远忙碌,愿你脚步永远轻盈;在变故横生之时,愿你根基牢靠;愿你心中永远充满快乐,愿你的歌声永远嘹亮;愿你永远年轻。”
人生就是这么意外,当个大法官不一定走红,但这个毕业致辞却让他红遍社交媒体。看来还是负能量提神醒脑啊!
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