公众人物毕业演讲第48期:肖恩库姆斯霍华德大学(4)

Only this family could take one of its sons whoalready had three name changes

只有这个大家庭能够接受一个已经改过三次名字的儿子

and give him a fourth, Dr. Combs

并给他第四个名字 库姆斯博士

I know the board of trustees are looking at me backthere like

我知道校董们肯定正坐在后面想

this is not the regular type of commencement speech that we're used to

这可不是我们习惯的那种常规毕业演讲

Waste time first of all

一开始就浪费了一堆时间

We're changing things out here, you feel me?

我们正在改变规则 感觉到了吗

and thanks to this board right here

这多亏了在座的各位校董

It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up Magazine

我要谈的是梦想 我过去常常读Word Up杂志

Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine

崇拜豪华大轿车中的Salt-n-Pepa和Heavy D

And then I went and enrolled into Howard Universe

之后我被录取到霍华德大学

I can still remember my first day at Howard Universe

我还记得自己在霍华德大学度过的第一天

I walked up that hill

我爬到山上

past the Quad through the main gate

通过大门 经过Quad

I made a ride on to the Yard

我骑车去了Yard

My mind was blown

我感到非常震撼

See, I'm from New York

知道吗 我来自纽约

And New York has its own world and I rarely traveled outside in New York

纽约有自己独特的世界 我很少外出到纽约进行游览

So my mind was blown

我当时觉得很震撼

when I saw so many beautiful shades of brown

我是第一次看到这么多漂亮的棕肤色身影

I never heard so many accents

我第一次听到这么多种口音

I've never seen so many beautiful women

我第一次见到这么多漂亮的女士

And we all know that Howard has the most beautiful intelligent women in a world

我们都知道 霍华德拥有全世界最美丽聪慧的女性

# be clear, # be clear

我明确提醒一下 这里值得#