名校励志英语演讲 第129期:珍惜现在 把握将来(5)

[00:00.19]So to you as individuals, what wisdom, if any, have I learnt? 那么，你们作为个人，又学到了什么样的智慧呢？ [00:04.16]First, in fact, keep learning. Always be alive to the possibilities of the next experience, of thinking, doing and being. 事实上，首先就是要不断学习。要时刻至尊被迎接新的生活、不断思考、积极行动。 [00:14.13]When Buddha was asked, near the end of his life, to describe his secret, he answered bluntly: "I'm awake". 佛陀临终前，人们要求他讲述成为圣人的秘诀，他坦率地说：“因为我头脑清醒”。 [00:22.31]So be awake.Understand conventional wisdom, but be prepared to change it. 所以，要保持头脑清醒。要了解传统的智慧，但要准备改变它。 [00:30.18]Feel as well as analyse; use your instinct alongside your reason. Calculate too much and you will miscalculate. 不仅要学会分析，还要学着用心感受。直觉与推理并存，因为算计太多难免会出错。 [00:41.11]Be prepared to fail as well as to succeed, and realise it is failure not success that defines character. 不仅要接受成功，也要准备经历失败。因为是失败而非成功塑造了性格。 [00:50.34]I spent years trying to be a politician failing at every attempt and nearly gave up. 多年来我为了立足政坛一直不断努力，但却屡遭失败，以致我几乎想要放弃。 [00:55.36]I know you're thinking: I should have. 我知道你们一定在想：我本来就应该放弃。 [00:58.33]Sir Paul McCartney reminded me that the first record company the Beatles approached rejected them as a band no-one would want to listen to. 保罗·麦卡特尼先生提醒我，甲壳虫乐队联系的第一家唱片公司把他们拒之门外，理由是没人想听他们这样的音乐。 [01:06.39]Be good to people on your way up because you never know if you will meet them again on your way down. 当你事业顺利的时候要善待他人，因为你永远不会知道，你遭遇挫折的时候是否会遇到他们。 [01:13.20]Judge someone by how they treat those below them not those above them. 评价一个人，要看他们怎样对待比自己地位低的人，而不是看他们怎样对待比自己高的人。 [01:19.39]Be a firm friend not a fair-weather friend. 要做一个可靠的朋友，而不是靠不住的酒肉朋友。 [01:21.56]It is your friendships, including those friends you made here at Yale, at this time, that sustain and enrich the human spirit. 是友谊，包括现在你们在耶鲁大学结交的朋友之间的友谊，维持并丰富人类的精神。

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