偶像励志英语演讲 第79期:做真正的自己(1)(在线收听

  Thank you, President Cowan, Mrs. President Cowen; distinguished guests, undistinguished guests--you know who you are, honored faculty and creepy Spanish teacher. So and thank you to all the graduating class of 2009, I realize most of you are hungover and have splitting headaches and haven't slept since Fat Tuesday, but you can't graduate till I finish, so listen up.
尊敬的考恩校长,校长夫人,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!感谢所有杜兰大学2009届毕业生们!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。但没听完我演讲不能毕业,所以要注意听了。
When I was asked to make the commencement speech, I immediately said yes. Then I went to look up what commencement meant. Which would have been easy if I had a dictionary, but most of the books in our house are Portia's, and they're all written in Australian. So I had to break the word down myself, to find out the meaning.
当我应邀来发表毕业演讲时,我毫不犹豫就答应了,然后我才去查毕业典礼是什么意思。如果我有字典的话就轻松多了,但我家里有的书大多都是波西亚的,而且都是澳式英语,所以我得自己拆分单词,摸索它的意思。
Commencement: common, and cement. Common cement. You commonly see cement on sidewalks. Sidewalks have cracks, and if you step on a crack, you break your mother's back. So there's that. But I'm honored that you've asked me here to speak at your common cement.
Commencement由common和cement构成,意思是“常见的水泥”。在人行道上你常看见水泥。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。但是我很荣幸应邀给你们做“常见的水泥”的演讲。
I thought that you had to be a famous alumnus-alumini-aluminum-alumis-you had to graduate from this school. And I didn't go to college here, and I don't know if President Cowen know, I didn't go to college at all. Any collge. And I'm not saying you wasted your time, or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.
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。我没在这儿上过大学,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。我不是说你们在浪费时间和金钱。看看我,我可是超级成功的名人。
重点讲解:
1. listen up
听我说;
eg. Okay, listen up, guys. We've got to talk a little about how you look.
好了,听我说,各位。我们需要谈谈大家的形象问题。
eg. Stop wagging your chin for a minute and listen up!
暂时别讲话了。注意听!
2. break down
分解;将…分成若干部分;
eg. The report breaks down the results region by region.
报告将调查结果按地区分成若干部分。
eg. These rules tell us how a sentence is broken down into phrases.
这些规则告诉我们一个句子是怎样分解成若干短语的。
3. step on
踩;踏;跨步;迈步;
eg. Be careful not to step on the crops.
当心别踩了庄稼。
eg. He do not even say "sorry" when he step on my toe.
他踩了我的脚连“对不起”也不说一声。
背景资料:
艾伦风趣自然的风格似乎与生俱来,她在杜兰大学的演讲延续了自己的幽默风格,艾伦拆分了commencement,在“笑”果十足的短短的演说中透露自己艰辛的成长历程,让人从中受到很大鼓舞。她还给毕业学生们以诚恳的建议,让毕业生受益匪浅。
名人经典:
And really when I look back on it, I wouldn't change a thing. I mean, it was so important for me to lose everything becasue I found out what the most important thing is, is to be true to yourself. And ultimately, that's what's gotten me to this place. I don't live in fear. I'm free. I have no secrets. And I know I'll always be OK, because no matter what, I know who I am.
当我回首这些往事的时候,我一点也不会改变。因为我发现,即使失去一切,最重要的是做真正的自己。最终,我来到了这里。我不再恐惧,我感觉很自在,也不再有秘密,而且我知道一切都会好的,因为无论如何,我知道我是谁。

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