名校励志英语演讲 第171期:服务-衡量成功的真正标准(12)

[00:00.34]And you will definitely have your share of setbacks. Count on it. Your best laid plans will be consumed by obstacles. 你们肯定会遇到挫折。要想到这一点。你们深思熟虑的计划可能因为挫折而泡汤。 [00:09.45]Your excellence ideas will be peppered with flaws. 你们卓越的想法难免会有瑕疵。 [00:13.42]You will be confronted with financial strains as your loans become due and salaries fall short of both expectations and expenses. 当你们的贷款到期、工资低于期望值而且不能满足花费时，你们将会遇到财务紧张的情况。 [00:24.05]You will make mistakes that will shatter your confidence. 你们难免会犯错误，这将摧毁你们的自信心。 [00:28.24]You will make compromises that will test your convictions. 你们难免会妥协，这将挑战你们的信念。 [00:31.38]You will find that there is rarely a clear and direct path to any of your visions. 你们将会发现，几乎没有一条道路会明朗而直接地通向理想。 [00:38.15]And you will find that you'll have to readjust again and again and again. 你们将会发现不得不再三调整。 [00:43.34]And there may be times when you wonder whether it's all worth it. And there may be moments when you just want to quit. 也许你们在某些时刻怀疑自己的理想是否有价值。也许在某些时候，你们想放弃。 [00:52.09]But in those moments, those inevitable moments, I urge you to think about this day. Look around you.Look around you. 但是在那些时候，在那些不可避免的时刻，我希望你们回想一下今天。看看你们周围。 [01:05.40]There are thousands of hardworking people who have helped you get to this point, 看看这成千上万为帮助你们走到今天而努力工作的人， [01:13.08]people who are celebrating with you today, who are praying for you every single day, 还有今天和你们一起庆祝的人，每一天都为你们祈祷的人， [01:18.14]and others who couldn't be here, for whatever reason. 以及不管出于什么原因不能来到这里的其他人。 [01:21.31]I want you to think of the people who sacrificed for you—you know that— 我要你们想想那些为你们做过牺牲的人——你们知道—— [01:26.47]family members who worked a third job to get you through, who took on the extra shifts to get you through, 他们就是你们的家人，为了让你们顺利毕业，他们身兼三职；为了让你们顺利毕业，他们加班加点地工作； [01:33.45]who put off doing something important for themselves to get you to this day. 为了你们能达到今天的成就，他们将自己的大事一拖再拖。

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