公众人物毕业演讲第49期:肖恩库姆斯霍华德大学(5)

And because of that, I've got to tell you the truth

这方面 我要给你们讲真相

that one of my favorite place was the Quad

Quad是我最喜欢的地方之一

You see, in my freshman year, everybody asked medo I stay in Drew Hall

我在大一那年 所有人都问我是否待在Drew Hall楼

and I had to tell them, no, I stay in the Quad

我跟他们说 没有 我待在Quad

And I actually stayed there until I got kicked out

我一直待在那里 直到被人踢出来

Ain't that right, Robyn?

对吗 罗宾

I have my Howard girlfriend, she in the house

我曾在霍华德有一个女友 她在房里

I used to play in the Quad like

我会在Quad叫她

You're Robyn

罗宾

Come on down

下来

Now I've gone off topic for a second

我稍微有点跑题了

We're here today to celebrate

我们今天来这里是庆祝的

and I was just talking about our beautiful bison women

而我一直在讲霍华德大学美丽的"野牛"女生

that is never taken for granted

这并不从来都是理所当然的

When we have so much power in here, I think we need to step up to hashtag

当我们有足够力量时 我认为我们应当开始#

All I want to say is bring back our girls now

我只想说 现在就把我们的女生找回来

Bring back out girls now

现在就把我们的女生找回来

My world was changed here at Howard

我的世界在霍华德得到了改变

On my second day of school

在我上学的第二天

I learned something that will change the course of my life for ever

我学到了之后会影响我一生的东西

I don't talk about the soft thing

这可不是一件轻松事

I was raised by a single mother in Harlem

我在纽约黑人区由单亲妈妈拉扯大

My dad Mr. Melvin Combs died when I was 3 years old

我三岁那年 父亲梅尔文·库姆斯就不在人世了

My mother always told me that he died in a car accident

我妈总跟我说 他是死于车祸

There was something about that. It just didn't feel right

我总感觉有点不对头

Something was in my soul that was telling me otherwise

我灵魂深处总觉得情况不是这样

So as soon as I get here, I went to the library

来到这里后 我马上就去了图书馆

and did some research

然后做了一些研究

I used the microfilm I found

我用我找到的微缩胶卷

to search through all the newspaper

到所有的报纸上进行搜索

and when I typed in my father's name and the day he died

键入父亲的名字和死亡日期后

I read in the answer in that news

我读到了相关新闻

that he had been murdered in a drug deal gone bad

他其实是因为毒品交易失败而被人谋杀的