偶像励志英语演讲 79:做真正的自己(1)

[00:00.16]Thank you, President Cowan, Mrs. President Cowen; 尊敬的考恩校长，校长夫人， [00:04.46]distinguished guests, undistinguished guests--you know who you are, honored faculty and creepy Spanish teacher. 尊贵的嘉宾，不知名的嘉宾——你们知道自己是谁，不用介绍了，老师们还有令人害怕的西班牙语老师，感谢你们! [00:11.00]So and thank you to all the graduating class of 2009, 感谢所有杜兰大学2009届毕业生们! [00:17.14]I realize most of you are hungover and have splitting headaches and haven't slept since Fat Tuesday, 我知道你们绝大多数还因为宿醉而头痛欲裂，狂欢到今天都还没有睡觉。 [00:21.48]but you can't graduate till I finish, so listen up. 但没听完我演讲不能毕业，所以要注意听了。 [00:27.21]When I was asked to make the commencement speech, I immediately said yes. 当我应邀来发表毕业演讲时，我毫不犹豫就答应了， [00:31.40]Then I went to look up what commencement meant. 然后我才去查毕业典礼是什么意思。 [00:36.08]Which would have been easy if I had a dictionary, 如果我有字典的话就轻松多了， [00:37.48]but most of the books in our house are Portia's, and they're all written in Australian. 但我家里有的书大多都是波西亚的，而且都是澳式英语， [00:44.19]So I had to break the word down myself, to find out the meaning. 所以我得自己拆分单词，摸索它的意思。 [00:50.24]Commencement: common, and cement. Common cement. Commencement由common和cement构成，意思是“常见的水泥”。 [00:57.22]You commonly see cement on sidewalks. 在人行道上你常看见水泥。 [01:00.51]Sidewalks have cracks, and if you step on a crack, you break your mother's back. 人行道上有裂缝，你踩到了裂缝，撞伤了你妈妈的背。意思就是这样 [01:06.00]So there's that. But I'm honored that you've asked me here to speak at your common cement. 。但是我很荣幸应邀给你们做“常见的水泥”的演讲。 [01:16.22]I thought that you had to be a famous alumnus-alumini-aluminum-alumis-you had to graduate from this school. 我原以为要够有名，并且必须是贵校的校友才能来这里演讲。 [01:22.28]And I didn't go to college here, 我没在这儿上过大学， [01:26.38]and I don't know if President Cowen know, I didn't go to college at all. Any collge. 而且，不知道考恩校长是否知道，我根本没念过大学，没上过任何大学。 [01:30.35]And I'm not saying you wasted your time, or money, 我不是说你们在浪费时间和金钱。 [01:34.01]but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity. 看看我，我可是超级成功的名人。

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