jk羅琳在哈佛大學08年畢業典禮上的演講raw(編輯修改稿)

　

【文章內容簡介】 ight evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people39。s lives simply by how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people39。s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique your nationality sets you great majority of you belong to the world39。s only remaining way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your is your privilege, and your you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice。if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless。if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine am nearly have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for are my children39。s godparents, the people to whom I39。ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I39。ve used their names for Death our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never e again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime today, I can wish you nothing better than similar tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom:As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what wish you all very good you very much.（ University Commencement University, MA第二篇：JK羅琳在哈佛大學畢業典禮上的演講她首先說了自己如何構思演講稿，以及選擇的兩個演講主題。President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, ，哈佛集團的各位成員，監管理事會的各位理事，各位老師，各位自豪的家長，以及最重要的各位畢業生同學，The first thing I would like to say is 39。thank you.39。 Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this mencement address have made me lose winwin situation!Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world39。s largest Gryffindor ，就是“謝謝”。不僅因為哈佛給了我這樣非同一般的榮譽，還因為為了構思今天的演講，我忍受了幾個星期的擔驚受怕、茶飯不思的生 活，使得我體重減輕。這真可謂“雙贏”啊！現在，我唯一要做的就是深呼吸，偷偷看一眼四周飄揚的紅色旗幟，讓自己相信真的來到了世界上最大的“格蘭芬多” 聚會。Delivering a mencement address is a great responsibility。or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own mencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can39。t remember a single word she liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics for the giddy delights of being a gay ，是一項巨大的責任，令我倍感壓力。直到我回憶起了自己的畢業典禮，才稍稍放松。那一次的演講嘉賓是杰出的英國哲學家瑪麗沃 諾克。回想她的演講，極大地幫助我寫作自己的演講稿，因為我發現一點也不記得她的任何一句話了。這個發現讓我如釋重負，不再害怕自己在不經意間就對你們產 生影響，讓你們放棄在商業、法律、政治方面的大好前途，去追求成為一個快樂巫師的那種令人眩暈的愉悅。You see? If all you remember in years to e is the 39。gay wizard39。 joke, I39。ve e out ahead of Baroness Mary goals: the first step to self ？如果多年以后，你們只記得我講的這個“快樂巫師”的笑話，我就已經超過瑪麗沃諾克了。可以實現的目標，是自己改進的第一步。38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that have expired between that day and ，我真的是絞盡腦汁，思索今天自己到底應該講什么。我問自己，當年我畢業的時候，希望知道哪些事情；以及21年后的今天，我又從人生中得到哪些重要的經驗教訓。I have e up with two this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called 39。real life39。, I want to extol the crucial importance of 。這個美妙的日子，我們聚集一堂，慶祝你們在學業上的成功，但是我決定跟你們說說失敗的好處。以及當你們站在所謂“真實世界”的門檻之上的時候，我要頌揚想象力的重要性。These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with ，但是請聽下去。三、她開始回憶自己大學畢業時的情景：Looking back at the 21yearold that I was at graduation, is a slightly unfortable experience for the 42yearold that she has my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of ，回想自己21歲畢業時的情景，是一種稍稍令人不安的經歷。回到21年之前，我正遭受煎熬，不知道在自己內心的追求與父母對我的期望之間，應該如何平衡。I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write , my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, ，我確信自己一生中唯一想做的事情，就是去寫小說。但是，我的父母出身貧寒，沒有受過大學教育。他們認為，我那些不安分的想象力只是一種怪癖，根72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 本不能用來還房貸，或者掙來養老金。我現在知道，