公众人物毕业演讲第53期:肖恩库姆斯霍华德大学(9)

You will change the world

你们将能改变世界

Let that sink in

记住这一点

You will change the world

你们将能改变世界

I want you to take the craziest dream you've everhad

我要你们勇敢去做最疯狂的梦

that dream that you're too embarrassed to tell anyone about

哪怕这个梦想让你觉得讲出来很不好意思

and I want you to go out there

我希望你们努力去实现

I want you to make it a reality

努力让梦想变为现实

I don't want you to dream. I want you to do

除了梦想 我还希望你们着手去做

Let me tell you about this dream that I had, this crazy dream

我给你们讲讲我做过的疯狂的梦

It's 10 years ago

这是十年前

I've decided to run the New York City marathon

我决定去跑纽约市马拉松赛

I want to raise money for the public school system

希望借此给公立学校系统筹钱

I raise $2 million

我要筹两百万美元

I even got a call from Oprah

欧普拉还打电话给我

who said that if I beat her marathon time

如果我能突破她的马拉松时间

she would donate a lot of money to the course

她愿意为我捐很多钱

but there was a catch

但这有个问题

I had to finish the whole thing. I had to finish the entire race

我需要跑完整个马拉松赛

Now the marathon is 26.2 miles

马拉松全长26.2英里

Have any of you been on a treadmill for one mile?

你们在跑步机上跑过哪怕1英里吗

With 26.2 miles

这可是26.2英里

there were a lot of brothers and sisters running that thing

有很多兄弟姐妹都在参赛

Now here's the crazy point

疯狂的地方在这里

the recommended training time for marathon is six months

马拉松的推荐训练时间是六个月

but I came up with this idea where only eight weeks left to train

但我想到要跑马拉松时 只剩下八周训练时间

only had eight weeks

只有八周

Nobody believed I would finish, everybody thought I was crazy

没人相信我能完成 大家都认为我疯了

but there was something in me that just wouldn't listen to them

不过我不会听别人怎么说我