名校励志英语演讲 第5期:给大学毕业生的几个忠告

[00:00.29]After nine years at Bell labs, I decided to leave that warm, cozy ivory tower for what I considered to be the “real world,” a university. 在贝尔实验室待了9年后，我决定离开这个温暖舒适的象牙塔，走进我眼中的“真实世界”——大学。 [00:11.15]Bell Labs, to quote what was said about Mary Poppins, was “practically perfect in every way,” 我对贝尔实验室的看法，可以引用玛丽·波平斯的话，“实际上十全十美”。 [00:16.23]but I wanted to leave behind something more than scientific articles. 但是，我想为世界留下更多东西，而不只是科学论文。 [00:20.34]I wanted to teach and I wanted to give birth to my own set of scientific children. 我要去教书，培育我自己在科学上的后代。 [00:26.50]Ted Geballe, a friend and distinguished colleague of mine at Stanford, 我在斯坦福大学有一个好友兼杰出同事泰德·格贝拉。 [00:30.32]went from Berkeley to Bell Labs to Stanford years earlier, 他也是从伯克利分校去了贝尔实验室，几年前又离开贝尔实验室去了斯坦福大学。 [00:34.02]described our motives best, and I quote: 他对我们的动机做出了最佳描述： [00:37.44]“The best part of working at a university is the students. “在大学工作，最大的优点就是能和学生们在一起。 [00:41.56]They come in fresh, enthusiastic, open to ideas, unscarred by the battles of life. They don’t realize it, 他们生机勃勃，充满热情，思想自由，还没被生活的重压改变。 [00:49.10]but they’re the recipients of the best our society can offer. 虽然他们自己没有意识到，但是他们是这个社会中你能找到的最佳接受者。 [00:53.59]If a mind is ever free to be creative, that’s the time. They come in believing textbooks are authoritative, 如果生命中只有一段时间是思想自由且充满创造力，那么那段时间就是在大学期间。 [01:00.37]but eventually they figure out that textbooks and professors don’t know everything, 进校时，学生们对课本上的一字一句毫不怀疑，渐渐地，他们发现课本和教授并不是无所不知的， [01:05.22]and then they start to think on their own. And then, I began learning from them.” 于是他们开始独立思考。从那时起，就是我开始向他们学习了。” [01:11.46]My students, post doctoral fellows, and the young researchers who worked with me at Bell Labs, 我在贝尔实验室、斯坦福大学和伯克利大学教过的学生、带过的博士后、 [01:17.15]Stanford, and Berkeley have been extraordinary. 合作过的年轻同事都非常优秀。 [01:20.07]Over 30 former group members are now professors, many at the best research institutions in the world, including Harvard. 他们中有30多人现在已经是教授了。他们所在的研究机构有不少是世界第一流的，其中就包括哈佛大学。 [01:27.40]I have learned much from them. Even now, in rare moments on weekends, 我从他们身上学到了很多东西。即使现在，我周末偶尔还会上网， [01:32.01]the remaining members of my biophysics group meet with me in the ether world of cyberspace. 和还在从事生物物理学的研究组成员在网络世界里相聚。

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