jk羅琳-2008哈佛大學畢業典禮上的演講-資料下載頁

　　

【正文】 orts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by ：我不會因為父母的觀點，而責怪他們。埋怨父母給你指錯方向是有一個時間段的。當你成長到可以控制自我方向的時候，你就要自己承擔責任了。尤其是，我不會因為父母希望我不要過窮日子，而責怪他們。他們一直很貧窮，我后來也一度很窮，所以我很理解他們。貧窮并不是一種高貴的經歷，它帶來恐懼、壓力、有時還有絕望，它意味著許許多多的羞辱和艱辛。靠自己的努力擺脫貧窮，確實可以引以自豪，但貧窮本身只有對傻瓜而言才是浪漫的。What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but ，最害怕的不是貧窮，而是失敗。At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my ，明顯缺乏在大學學習的動力，我花了太久時間在咖啡吧寫故事，而在課堂的時間卻很少。我有一個通過考試的訣竅，并且數年間一直讓我在大學生活和同齡人中不落人后。I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and welleducated, you have never known hardship or and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and ，因為你們年輕、有天份，并且受過良好的教育，就從來沒有遇到困難或心碎的時刻。擁有才華和智慧，從來不會使人對命運的反復無常有所準備；我也不會假設大家坐在這里冷靜地滿足于自身的優越感。However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very wellacquainted with might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for , your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person39。s idea of success, so high have you already flown ，你們是哈佛畢業生的這個事實，意味著你們并不很了解失敗。你們也許極其渴望成功，所以非常害怕失敗。說實話，你們眼中的失敗，很可能就是普通人眼中的成功，畢竟你們在學業上已經達到很高的高度了。Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic exceptionally shortlived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both e to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I ，我們所有人都必須自己決定什么算作失敗，但如果你愿意，世界是相當渴望給你一套標準的。所以我承認命運的公平，從任何傳統的標準看，在我畢業僅僅七年后的日子里，我的失敗達到了史詩般空前的規模：短命的婚姻閃電般地破裂，我又失業成了一個艱難的單身母親。除了流浪漢，我是當代英國最窮的人之一，真的一無所有。當The Benefits of JK Rowling at Harvard 3 年父母和我自己對未來的擔憂，現在都變成了現實。按照慣常的標準來看，我也是我所知道的最失敗的人。Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a ，我不打算站在這里告訴你們，失敗是有趣的。那段日子是我生命中的黑暗歲月，我不知道它是否代表童話故事里需要歷經的磨難，更不知道自己還要在黑暗中走多久。很長一段時間里，前面留給我的只是希望，而不是現實。So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only workthat mattered to I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my ？因為失敗意味著剝離掉那些不必要的東西。我因此不再偽裝自己、遠離自我，而重新開始把所有精力放在對我最重要的事情上。如果不是沒有在其他領域成功過，我可能就不會找到，在一個我確信真正屬于的舞臺上取得成功的決心。我獲得了自由，因為最害怕的雖然已經發生了，但我還活著，我仍然有一個我深愛的女兒，我還有一個舊打字機和一個很大的想法。所以困境的谷底，成為我重建生活的堅實基礎。第三篇：jk羅琳在哈佛大學畢業典禮上的演講JK羅琳在哈佛大學畢業典禮上的演講JK羅琳在哈佛大學畢業典禮上的演講作者： 阮一峰日期： 2008年6月17日一、今年6月5日是哈佛大學的畢業典禮，請來的演講嘉賓是《哈利波特》。她的演講題目是《失敗的好處和想象的重要性》（The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination）。我讀了一遍講稿，覺得很好，很感染人。她幾乎沒有談到哈里波特，而是說了年輕時的一些經歷。雖然JK羅琳現在很有錢，是英國僅次于女皇的最富有的女人，但是她曾經有一段非常艱辛的日子，30歲了，還差點流落街頭。她主要談的是，自己從這段經歷中學到的東西。去年的演講嘉賓是比爾蓋茨，我翻譯了他的演講，影響挺大。今年，我繼續翻譯，有興趣的朋友可以在網上找到原文和視頻。二、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。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 c