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《阿甘正传》男演员汤姆·汉克斯Tom Hanks2011年5月在耶鲁大学Yale College第310届毕业典礼的演讲。2011年5月23日, 耶鲁大学举行第310届毕业典礼. 汤姆·汉克斯(Tom Hanks)当天受邀发表了一段演讲。
Tom Hanks, Academy Award-winning actor, writer and director, addresses the Yale College Class of 2011 during the traditional Class Day speech and offers the graduates insight and encouragement.
Minutes before Yale's Class Day began, a tour guide stood on the stone fence outside Old Campus, shouting facts about the university's history as a mass of parents and well-wishers rushed past, seeking their own historic moments — and maybe a peek2 at Tom Hanks.
The two-time Academy Award winner spoke3 before an audience of 16,000, including 1,300 soon-to-be-graduating seniors wearing somber4 robes and hats that made Kentucky Derby toppers seem staid in comparison.
Students wore, among every other conceivable thing that could be fastened to a head, Viking helmets, trapper caps, sparkling cowboy hats, a toilet seat and roll of toilet paper, a sign reading "Thanks Mom + Dad," and a proper-looking pink hat with a mass of naked Barbie dolls wired to it.
The tall blonde senior beneath it said that the Barbie hat was a tribute to her secret society, the Pundits5. The group, famous for throwing naked parties, had recently gotten into hot water with the university for, quite predictably, throwing a naked party.
"It's like a royal wedding busted6 out," said Hanks (wearing a Yale baseball cap), as he advised graduates not to turn off their electronic devices, telling them that later they could "compare your tweets and Facebook comments to see if anything memorable7 went down," or post a video mix-up on YouTube.
"If it goes viral, you will be as popular as that cat playing with the paper bag," he said, earning laughs.
Hanks' speech was not short on jokes, but the main themes he returned to were serious — the difficulties, duties and responsibilities that the students would face following graduation.
"The future now rests with you, in your goofy hats, all because you went to Yale," said Hanks. "You are the anointed."
He warned students about technology's distractions8 and the distinctly dark implications of the fact that everyone could, and many did, record anything and post it online.
"There is a Big Brother," said Hanks. "He is all of us and he lives in our search engines."
The graduates, said Hanks, must not live in fear, but rather in faith, helping9 others — especially the returning veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — to cultivate the faith to carry on.
"Your job is to stand on the fulcrum10 between fear and faith. Fear at your back and faith in front of you … move always forward and … tweet out a picture of the results," said Hanks.
Student speeches and prizes followed, with Yalies speaking about the joys of attending the school and the sadness of leaving it.
Senior Riley Scripps Ford11 talked about how the school had taught students to fall in love with ideas, disciplines and places around a campus that had become their home.
Class Day, a Yale tradition that is held the day before commencement, ended with students waving handkerchiefs as they sang "Bright College Years." As might be expected from a college with more than 30 singing groups, the rendition was relatively13 in tune14.
Commencement is scheduled for Monday morning.
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1 haven | |
n.安全的地方,避难所,庇护所 | |
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vi.偷看,窥视;n.偷偷的一看,一瞥 | |
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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adj.昏暗的,阴天的,阴森的,忧郁的 | |
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n.某一学科的权威,专家( pundit的名词复数 ) | |
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adj. 破产了的,失败了的,被降级的,被逮捕的,被抓到的 动词bust的过去式和过去分词 | |
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n.使人分心的事[人]( distraction的名词复数 );娱乐,消遣;心烦意乱;精神错乱 | |
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