公众人物毕业演讲(MP3+字幕)第85期:米歇尔奥巴马迪拉德大学(11)

But that's still no excuse to stand on the sidelines

但这不能成为我们袖手旁观的借口

Because we know that today

因为我们知道 如今

education is still the key to real and lasting freedom

教育仍然是真正持久自由的关键

it is still true today

现如今仍然如此

So it is now up to us

现在轮到我们

to cultivate that hunger for education in our own lives and in those around us

来满足自己和周围其他人对教育的渴望

And we know that hunger is still out there we know it

我们知道很多人仍然对教育非常渴望

We see it in students like DeShawn and Nicole and

德肖恩和妮可这些学生就是如此

all of you who scraped and clawed so you could make it to this day

你们很多人也都克服了重重阻碍才走到今天

We see it in the single moms who work three jobs

有些单亲母亲甚至要打三份工

so their kids might have a shot at earning a degree like yours

才能让她们的孩子获得同你们一样的学位

We see that hunger all around the world

这份渴望在全世界范围内无处不在

in that young woman named Malala who was shot on her school bus in Pakistan

名叫马拉拉的巴基斯坦少女在校车上惨遭枪击

just for speaking out in support of girls getting an education

仅仅因为她在公开场合发表言论支持女性教育

and the more than 200 girls

还有200多名女孩

kidnapped from their own school in Nigeria for wanting an education

由于希望接受教育 在尼日利亚的学校遭到绑架

young people who are knowingly risking their lives every day just to go to school

每天都有年轻人为了上学 不顾自己的生命

And in fact, you've seen that hunger right here at Dillard

实际上 迪拉德大学也充满了这种渴望

your valedictorian, three salutatorians are

毕业典礼上致辞的第一名和三位第二名毕业生

all from Nigeria

都来自尼日利亚

They studied hard at an early age

他们经过早年的努力学习

earned scholarships to come here to this university

才获得奖学金并来到这所大学

achieved 4.0 GPAs

获得了4.0的GPA

And now they are off pursuing master's degrees, work in software development

现在 他们正准备继续研读硕士学位 从事软件开发

teaching math and science to young people here in the United States

教美国年轻人数学和科学知识

See, now, that's the kind of hunger for education that we have to

这就是我们需要在整个社会上

reignite in all of our communities

重新点燃的对教育的渴望