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何江在哈佛大学2016毕业典礼上的演讲（中英版+个人简介）
哈佛生物系博士毕业生何江作为研究生优秀毕业生代表演讲。他是哈佛第一位享此殊荣的大陆学生。
何江演讲英文版
The Spider’s Bite
When I was in middle school, a poisonous spider bit my right hand. I ran to my mom for help—but instead of taking me to a doctor, my mom set my hand on fire. After wrapping my hand withseveral layers of cotton, then soaking it in wine, she put a chopstick into my mouth,and ignited the cotton. Heat quickly penetrated the cotton and began to roast my hand. The searing pain made me want to scream, but the chopstick prevented it. All I could do was watch my hand burn - one minute, then two minutes –until mom put out the fire.
You see, the part of China I grew up in was a rural village, and at that time pre-industrial. When I was born, my village had no cars, no telephones, no electricity, not even running water. And we certainly didn’t have access to modern medical resources. There was no doctor my mother could bring me to see about my spider bite.
For those who study biology, you may have grasped the science behind my mom’s cure: heat deactivates proteins, and a spider’s venom is simply a form of protein. It’s coolhow that folk remedy actually incorporates basic biochemistry, isn’t it? But I am a PhD student in biochemistry at Harvard, I now know that better, less painful and less risky treatments existed. So I can’t help but ask myself, why I didn’t
receive oneat the time?
Fifteen years have passed since that incident. I am happy to report that my hand is fine. But this question lingers, and I continue to be troubled by the unequal distribution of scientific knowledge throughout the world. We have learned to edit the human genome and unlock many secrets of how cancer progresses. We can manipulate neuronal activity literally with the switch of a light. Each year brings more advances in biomedical research-exciting, transformative accomplishments. Yet, despite the knowledge we have amassed, we haven’t been so successful in deploying it to where it’s needed most. According to the World Bank, twelve percent of the world’s population lives on less than $2 a day. Malnutrition kills more than 3 million children annually. Three hundred million peopleare afflicted by malaria globally. All over the world, we constantly see these problems of poverty, illness, and lack of resources impeding the flow of scientific information. Lifesaving knowledge we take for granted in the modern world is often unavailable in these underdeveloped regions.And in far too many places, people are still essentially trying to cure a spider bite with fire.
While studying at Harvard, I saw how scientific knowledge can help others in simple, yet profound ways. The bird flu pandemic in the 2000s looked to my village like a spell cast by demons. Our folk medicine didn’t even have half-measures to offer. What’s more, farmers didn’t know the difference between common cold and flu; they didn’t understand that the flu was much more lethal than the common cold. Most people were also unaware that the virus could transmit across different species. So when I realized that simple hygiene practices like separating different animal species could contain the spread of the disease, and that I could help make this knowledge available to my village, that was my first ―Aha‖ moment as a budding scientist. But it was more than that: it was also a vital inflection point in my own ethical development, my own self-understanding as a member of the global community.
Harvard dares us to dream big, to aspire to change the world. Here on this Commencement Day, we are probably thinking of grand destinations and big adventures that await us. As for me, I am also thinking of the farmers in my village. My experiencehere reminds me how important it is for researchersto communicateour knowledge to those who need it. Because by using the sciencewe already have, we
could probably bring my village and thousands like it into the world you and I take for granted every day. And that’s an impact every one of us can make!
But the question is, will we make the effort or not?
More than ever before,our society emphasizes science and innovation. But an equally important emphasis should be on distributing the knowledge we have to where it’s needed. Changing the world doesn’t mean thateveryone has to find the next big thing. It can be as simple as becoming better communicators, and finding more creative ways to pass on the knowledge we have to people like my mom and the farmers in their local community. Our society also needs to recognize that the equal distribution of knowledge is a pivotal step of human development, and work to bring this into reality.
And if we do that, then perhaps a teenager in rural China who is bitten by a spider will not have to burn his hand, but will know to seek a doctor instead.
在我读初中的时候，有一次，一只毒蜘蛛咬伤了我的右手。我问我妈妈该怎么处理---我妈妈并没有带我去看医生，她而是决定用火疗的方法治疗我的伤口。
她在我的手上包了好几层棉花，棉花上喷撒了白酒，在我的嘴里放了一双筷子，然后打火点燃了棉花。热量逐渐渗透过棉花，开始炙烤我的右手。灼烧的疼痛让我忍不住想喊叫，可嘴里的筷子却让我发不出声来。我只能看着我的手被火烧着，一分钟，两分钟，直到妈妈熄灭了火苗。
你看，我在中国的农村长大，在那个时候，我的村庄还是一个类似前工业时代的传统村落。在我出生的时候，我的村子里面没有汽车，没有电话，没有电，甚至也没有自来水。我们自然不能轻易的获得先进的现代医疗资源。那个时候也没有一个合适的医生可以来帮我处理蜘蛛咬伤的伤口。
在座的如果有生物背景的人，你们或许已经理解到了我妈妈使用的这个简单的治疗手段的基本原理：高热可以让蛋白质变性，而蜘蛛的毒液也是一种蛋白质。这样一种传统的土方法实际上有它一定的理论依据，想来也是挺有意思的。但是，作为哈佛大学生物化学的博士，我现在知道在我初中那个时候，已经有更好的，没有那么痛苦的，也没有那么有风险的治疗方法了。于是我便忍不住会问自己，为什么我在当时没有能够享用到这些更为先进的治疗方法呢？
蜘蛛咬伤的事故已经过去大概十五年了。我非常高兴的向在座的各位报告一下，我的手还是完好的。但是，我刚刚提到的这个问题这些年来一直停在我的脑海中，而我也时不时会因为先进科技知识在世界上不同地区的不平等分布而困扰。现如今，我们人类已经学会怎么进行人类基因编辑了，也研究清楚了很多个癌症发生发展的原因。我们甚至可以利用一束光来控制我们大脑内神经元的活动。每年生物医学的研究都会给我们带来不一样突破和进步——其中有不少令人振奋，也极具革命颠覆性的成果。
然而，尽管我们人类已经在科研上有了无数的建树，在怎样把这些最前沿的科学研究带到世界最需要该技术的地区这件事情上，我们有时做的差强人意。世界银行的数据显示，世界上大约有12%的人口每天的生活水平仍然低于2美元。营养不良每年导致三百万儿童死亡。将近3亿人口仍然受到疟疾的干扰。在世界各地，我们经常看到类似的由贫穷，疾病和自然匮乏导致的科学知识传播的受阻。现代社会里习以为常的那些救生常识经常在这些欠发达或不发达地区未能普及。于是，在世界上仍有很多地区，人们只能依赖于用火疗这一简单粗暴的方式来治理蜘蛛咬伤事故。
在哈佛读书期间，我有切身体会到先进的科技知识能够既简单又深远的帮助到社会上很多的人。本世纪初的时候，禽流感在亚洲多个国家肆虐。那个时候，村庄里的农民听到禽流感就像听到恶魔施咒一样，对其特别的恐惧。乡村的土医疗方法对这样一个疾病也是束手无策。农民对于普通感冒和流感的区别并不是很清楚，他们并不懂得流感比普通感冒可能更加致命。而且，大部分人对于科学家所发现的流感病毒能够跨不同物种传播这一事实并不清楚。
于是，在我意识到这些知识背景，及简单的将受感染的不同物种隔离开来以减缓疾病传播，并决定将这些知识传递到我的村庄时，我的心里第一次有了一种作为未来科学家的使命感。但这种使命感不只停在知识层面，它也是我个人道德发展的重要转折点，我自我理解的作为国际社会一员的责任感。
哈佛的教育教会我们学生敢于拥有自己的梦想，勇于立志改变世界。在毕业典礼这样一个特别的日子，我们在座的毕业生都会畅想我们未来的伟大征程和冒险。对我而言，我在此刻不可避免的还会想到我的家乡。我成长的经历教会了我作为一个科学家，积极的将我们所会的知识传递给那些急需这些知识的人是多
么的重要。因为利用那些我们已经拥有的科技知识，我们能够轻而易举的帮助我的家乡，还有千千万万类似的村庄，让他们生活的世界变成一个我们现代社会看起来习以为常的场所，而这样一件事，是我们每一个毕业生都能够做的，也力所能及能够做到的。
但问题是，我们愿意来做这样的努力吗？
比以往任何时候都多，我们的社会强调科学和创新。但我们社会同样需要注意的一个重心是分配知识到那些真正需要的地方。改变世界并不意味着每个人都要做一个大突破。改变世界可以非常简单。它可以简单得变成作为世界不同地区的沟通者，并找出更多创造性的方法将知识传递给像我母亲或农民这样的群体。同时，改变世界也意味着我们的社会，作为一个整体，能够更清醒的认识到科技知识的更加均衡的分布，是人类社会发展的一个关键环节，而我们也能够一起奋斗将此目标变成现实。
如果我们能够做到这些，或许，将来有一天，一个在农村被毒蜘蛛咬伤的少年或许不用火疗这样粗暴的方法来治疗伤口，而是去看医生得到更为先进的医疗护理。
美国东部时间5月26日上午10点，哈佛大学生物系博士毕业生何江作为优秀研究生代表发表演讲。何江是哈佛大学历史上第一位享此殊荣的中国大陆学生。
这位1988年出生于湖南农村、家境一般的中国学生，凭借自己的努力，在
娜塔莉波特曼2015哈佛毕业演讲
Hello, class of 2015.I am so honest to be here today.Dean Khurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.” Wow! This is so nice!” ”I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas? ”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.
2015届毕业生，你们好。今天来到这里非常荣幸，库拉那校长、各位家长、尤其是各位毕业生，非常感谢你们邀请我。首先，我必须得承认，因为否认不了，因为维基解密公布的索尼被黑资料中已经爆出，当我接到邀请时，我回复的是：“哇哦！这可太棒了！我得找几个搞笑写手代笔阿，你说呢？”这段天下皆知的最初回复背后的原因是，我们毕业日时有幸请来威尔法瑞尔做讲者，当时许多同学宿醉未醒，或者嗨劲没过，就想傻笑。所以我要承认，即便是毕业12年后的今天，我仍然对自己的价值毫无自信。我必须提醒自己，你来这里是有原因的.
Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999.When you guys were,to my continued shocked and horror, still in kindergarten.I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth.I would have to prove that I wasn’t just dumb actress.So I start with an apology. This won’t be very funny. I’m not a comedian.And I didn’t get a ghost writer.But I am here to tell you today.Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other people’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.
我今天的感受跟我99年初到哈佛成为新生时的心情一样，说起这件事我还是很震惊，当时你们还上幼儿园呢。我感觉肯定是哪里出了错，感觉我的智商不配来这。而我每次开口说话时，都必须要证明我不知是个白痴女演员而已。所以我要先道个歉，这场演讲不会太搞笑，我不是个笑星，我也没找写手代笔，不过今天我在这里是要告诉你们，哈佛明天就要给你们毕业证书了，你们到这里是有原因的。有时你的不自信和无经验也会导致你去接受别人的期待、标准或价值，但你们要知道，无经验可以造就你们自己的路，一条没有“事情本应怎样做”之负担的路，一条由你自己的理由来定义的路。
That other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-yeas-old son. And I watch him play arcade games. He was incredible focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother than I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is his
arm and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toy. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.
前几天，我带着快四岁的儿子去游乐场，我看着他玩街机游戏，他玩的无比专注，努力朝着靶子投球。作为一名犹太裔老妈，我跳过20步，已经开始想象他成为大联盟球手，头球精准，手臂健壮，用心专注，但后来我才明白他想要的是什么。他玩投球是为了用票换取粗劣的塑料玩具，最终的奖励比游戏的过程更令他兴奋。我当然想鼓励他享受游戏的快乐和挑战，不断练习带来的进步，因表现出色而得到的满足感，甚至还有完成游戏目标时的成就感，但这些都比不过一毛钱的塑料小人。小人伸出黏黏的手臂，还可以贴在墙上，这就是奖励。从孩子的本性中，我们看到许多自己天生的偏好，我看到了我自己，也许你们也能。
Prizes serve as false idols everywhere(圣经里的false idol). Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.
随处可见，奖励被当成虚假偶像来崇拜，威望、财富、名声、权势，你们将来就算不会全部遇到，至少也会遇到其中几个。当然我今天来演讲的部分原因，除了我是个自豪的哈佛校友之外，就是我在生命中得到了一些非常令人羡慕的玩具：奥斯卡小金人。在毕业演讲时我们会撞到常见的烦事，那就是成功人士来告诉你，成功带来的结果并非那么值得信任。但我觉得这种矛盾可以被弥合，而且是有教导意义的。成就总是美妙的，但你得知道为何这样做。如果你不知道，它就会变成可怕的陷阱。
I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook ‘ most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy ’ or code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be staring over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think【2016年,哈佛,毕业演讲英文稿】
that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-paper before. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I Had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself.
我高中是在长岛一家公立学校Syoseet高中，我们学校的女生都拿着Prada包，烫直了头发，而他们的口音，是我这个9岁从康州搬来的女孩为了融入而一直在模仿的。因为我年纪太老，所以我上高中时互联网刚兴起，同学都不太在意我演员的身份，我在学校出名是因为我的背包比我的人还大，而且我满手都是消正液，因为我不喜欢笔记本上出现划掉的痕迹。毕业年册中我被评为“最可能成为智力竞赛选手”的人，换句话说，就是最呆的书呆子。星战EP1刚上映，我就来到哈佛读书，我知道我得重新建立别人对我的看法了，我害怕大家以为我只是靠名声才进了哈佛，担心他们觉得我配不上这里严格的智力标准。其实真相也差不多如此，我来哈佛之前从没写过10页的论文，我都不知道自己写没写过5页的论文。我被一位同学的淡定眼神刺激并吓坏，他是Dalton或者Exeter高中的名校生，他说跟高中相比，哈佛的作业量是小菜一碟，我是完全应付不来。我觉得一周读完一千页书是不可想象的，而写出50页的论文是我永远都做不到发的。我完全不知道该怎样表达我的意图，我连跟自己说清楚都做不到。
I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.
我从11岁起就在演戏，但我认为演戏是轻佻且无意义的。我出身书香门第，非常在意别人是否把我当回事。跟我不敢发声相比，大一时新生培训的第一天，五个不同的同学分别跟我这样自己介绍。他们说，我将来会当美国总统，记得我跟你说过这句话。严肃的说，他们的名字是伯尼桑德斯、马克卢比奥、泰德克鲁兹、巴拉克奥巴马和希拉里克林顿。说正经的，我相信他们每一个人，他们的态度和自信本身 就足以证明他们的预言，而我确无法摆脱自我怀疑。我入学只是因为我是名人，别人就是这样看我的，我也是这样看我自己。在不自信的驱使下，我决定要在哈佛找到严肃而有意义的事情，来改变世界，让世界更美好。
At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurologist and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both.
I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.
年仅18岁的我已经演了7年戏，以为自己在大学里找到一条更加严肃和深刻的路，所以大一那年秋天我决定修神经生物学和高等现代希伯来文学，因为我很严肃、很智慧。不用说，我两科都应该挂掉。顺便说下，我拿到了B，而且直到今日，每周末我还要烧小雕像供奉保佑成绩注水的异教神灵。但当我为了希伯来语课的ABC以及神经应答的不同机制而挣扎时，我看到朋友们写关于帆船的论文，写流行文化杂志，看到教授讲童话故事和黑客帝国，我发现，为了严肃而严肃，这本身就是一种虚荣，是一种模棱两可，是为了反抗我想象出的自我而采取的一种姿态。我当演员当然是有原因的，我爱我的职业。我从我的同伴和导师们身上看到，这不只是一个可以接受的理由，这是最棒的理由。
When I got to my graduation, siting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films. I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others and help others do the same. I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it ? My Harvard degree represents, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theater is a trans-formative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imaging. Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most common question I’m asked:What designer are you wearing?What’s your fitness regime?Any makeup tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what might previously have thought was a stupid question.My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them.The wood paneled lecture halls,the colorful fall leaves,the hot vanilla Toscaninis,reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs.running through dining halls screaming.Ooh!Ah!City steps!City steps!City steps!City steps!
当年毕业典礼时，坐在你们今天坐的地方，我花了四年时间来寻找其他的东西来让我开心。我对自己坦白，我真是等不及回去拍更多的电影了。我想要讲述故事，想想别人的生活，并帮助别人做到同样的事。我找到了，或者说重拾了我的理由。你们现在拿到了奖励，那就是你们手中的哈佛毕业证，但你背后的理由是什么？哈佛学位对我来说，是我在这里被激发的好奇心和创造力，是我维系的友谊，是格莱安姆教授告诉我不要去描述光线是怎样照进花朵的，而要描述花朵投下的影子，是斯卡里教授谈到戏剧是一种变革性的宗教力量，是凯瑟琳教授向我们展示视皮质只靠想象就可以被激活。虽然这些知识并不能帮我回答最常遇到的问题：你穿哪个设计师的作品？你的健身秘诀是什么？能说几个化妆小贴士吗？但从那之后我再没有因此前我可能会觉得愚蠢的问题而为自己感到羞愧。我的哈佛学位以及其他奖项都
是我的经历的象征。木制地板的讲堂、多彩的秋叶、热香草托斯卡尼尼、在图书馆软椅上阅读精彩小说、在食堂里边跑边喊：“哦！城市脚步！”
It’s easy now to romanticize my time here.But Ihad some very difficult times here too.Some combination of being 19,dealing with my first heartbreak,taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects,and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months,led me to some pretty dark moments,particularly during sophomore year.There were several occasions where I started crying in meetings with professors,overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off ,when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. Moments when I took on the motto for my school work:Done,Not good.If only I could finish my work,even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper.I felt I’ve accomplished a great feat,I repeat to myself:Done,Not good.
如今浪漫的回想求学时光是很容易的，但我也有过非常艰苦的日子。年方19岁，初次因分手而心碎，吃了有问题的避孕药，后来因为导致抑郁的副作用而停产，而且冬天几个月不下楼，看不到阳光，合在一起造成了很黑暗的时光。尤其是在我大二那年，曾经几次在跟教授会面时失声痛哭，不知自己该怎样努力而崩溃，连早上从床上爬起来都成问题。那段时间我对功课的座右铭是：做完，不怎样。只要能完成作业，就算让我吃超级大包酸味软糖都行，能写完一份10页的论文就好。我觉得自己完成了伟大的功绩，我不断对自己说：做完，不怎样。
A couple years ago,I went to Tokyo with my husband,and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant,I don’t even eat fish,I’m vegan.So that tells you how good it was.Even with just vegetable,this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about.The restaurant has six seats.My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice.We wondered why they don’t make a bigger restaurant,and be the most popular place in town.Our local friends explain to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small,and do only one type of dish:sushi or tempura or teriyaki.Because they want to do things well and beautiful.And it’s not about quantity.It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the particular.I’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done.And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to,and of course to ourselves.
几年前，我跟我老公去东京玩，吃到了最美味的寿司饭店。我不吃鱼的，我是素食主义者，所以你们知道该有多好吃了。即便只是蔬菜，那寿司都是梦幻般的味道，饭店只有六个座位。老公和我很惊讶，怎会有人把米饭做得如此超绝，我们纳闷他们为何不把店做大一点，做成全城最火爆的饭店。当地的朋友跟我们解释，东京所有最棒的饭店都是这么小，而且只做一样料理：寿司或天妇罗或照烧。因为他们想要把事情做好做漂亮，关键不在于数量，而是对某事追求至善至美的过程中的愉悦。我现在仍在学习，关键是做好，而可能不是做完。做某事时的快乐、敬业和炉火纯青，可以给我们服务的对象带来一种特定的享受，当然也让我们自己得到享受。
oh my goodness! im at harvard! wow! to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl
that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson,
harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr. henry lewis gates. all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen
million dollars. and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013! hello! a personality. but it helps. and while i may not have graduated from here i admit
that my 奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲：人生唯一目标就是做真实的自己 oh my goodness! im at
haaaaaarvard! thats how oprah winfrey began her speech at harvard university
graduation ceremony—in her spirited, signature way. winfrey also received an
honorary doctor of law degree from the university before taking to the podium. 温弗瑞演讲中4条最励志的语录 谈失败的好处
there is no such thing as failure. failure is just life trying to move us in another
direction.
世间并不存在“失败”，那不过是生活想让我们换个方向走走罢了。 learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are. 要
从错误中吸取教训，因为你的每一次经历、尤其是你犯下的错误，都将帮助你、推动你更好
地做自己。
2. on her own biggest personal failure. 谈自身最大的失败
我突然想到某首古老赞美诗中的一句话：“困难只是暂时的”，我遇到的麻烦同样会有结
束的一天。然后我想，我会将这一页翻过去，我会好起来的。 谈职业生涯所做访谈的共同性 beyonce in all her beyonce-ness ... they all want to know: was that okay? did
you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you? 我发现，我所有的访谈有一个共同性，那就是人人都希望自己被认可、被理解。 they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what
i said mean anything to you? 我的采访对象都想知道：“我的表现ok吗？你听到我看到我吗？我说的话对你有价值
吗？”
4. on the key to success and happiness. 谈成功和快乐的关键
you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal. there really
is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of
yourself as a human being. 如果你只认准一个目标，那你就能获得真正的成功和快乐。人生确实只有一个目标，那
就是：最大程度地、最真实地展现自己。 “不要问自己世界需要什么，问问是什么让你精神抖擞地活着，然后就去做，因为世界
所需要的就是一个个朝气蓬勃的人。”篇三：2013-5-31_奥普拉哈佛大学毕业演讲(译文) 感谢你们让我成为你们人生这一篇章的结束与下一篇章开始的纽带。对我而言，荣幸根
本无法表达我内心深处对哈佛授予我荣誉学位的感激之情。不是每个来自密西西比州的农村
小姑娘都能来到剑桥城的（注：哈佛位于波士顿郊剑桥城）。我可以告诉你们，当我今天早上
坐在这个台上，为你们和我自己流下眼泪的时候，我觉得今天是我漫长并被祝福的人生旅途
中的一个里程碑。我希望今天我能为你们带来一些启发。我的演讲是为那些曾在人生中感到
自卑或觉得自己没有优势，甚至觉得生活一团糟的人，这就是我给哈佛带来的演讲。 后来我和自己竞争，每年设立一个更高的目标，一步一步地推到极限。对大家来说听着
挺熟悉吧？最终，我们成功达到巅峰，并在那里待了25年。 “奥普拉秀”在同一时间段的电视节目中连续21年排名第一，我必须说我对于这个成功
非常的满足。但是几年前，我觉得，在人生的某一时刻，你必须重新来过，找到新的领域，
实现新的突破。所以我离开了“奥普拉秀”，以我的名字命名推出了我自己的电视网络“奥普【2016年,哈佛,毕业演讲英文稿】
拉·温福瑞电视网”，缩写正好是“own（自己的）”。在奥普拉·温福瑞电视网推出一年后，
几乎所有的媒体都认为我的新项目是失败的。不仅仅是失败，他们称之为一个大写的失败。
我还记得有一天我打开《今日美国报》时看到头条新闻说“ 奥普拉搞不定?自己的?电视网”。
不是吧，今日美国报啊？真是份好报纸....这正是去年我职业生涯最低谷的时刻。我压力超
大近乎崩溃，老实说，我感到羞愧。就在那个时候，faust校长打电话邀请我到哈佛做毕业
演讲。我 心想：“你让我给哈佛的毕业生演讲?我能跟这些世界上最成功的毕业生说什么？而我已
经不再成功。”我挂了faust校长的电话后去洗了个澡。要么去吃奥利奥要么去洗澡，我选择
了洗澡。那个澡我洗了很长时间，在洗澡的时候我突然想到某首古老赞美诗中的一句话，你
可能没听过“终于，清晨来临...”，之后我就想，我的黎明也许要来了。因为那时我觉得我
被困在一个洞里了。我又想到那首古老赞美诗中的一句话：“困难只是暂时的，都会过去...”
当我走出浴室时，我想：我遇到的麻烦同样会有结束的一天，我会将这一页翻过去，我会好
起来的，等我做到了，我就去哈佛，把这个真实的故事告诉大家！今天我来了并且想告诉你
们我已经把“奥普拉·温福瑞电视网”带上正轨了。 这一切都是因为我想在来哈佛之前把事情做好，所以非常感谢你们！你们不知道你们给
了我多大的动力，谢谢！我甚至能更骄傲地来和各位分享一个基本的真理。作为哈佛的毕业
生你也未必知道，除非你上过nagy教授的课程知道古希腊英雄人物。在今天早上来的路上，
nagy教授说：“温福瑞女士，请坚决地向前走。” i shall walk decisively.我应该坚决地
向前走。
这就是我想分享的。无论你已经达到怎样的成就，在某个节点，你会发现你会跌倒，因
为如果你一直不断的在做我们每个人做的事：不断设定更高的目标。如果你一直不断把你自
己推向更高的目标，你将在某一点上落下，更不必说伊卡洛斯能预测你会跌倒的神话。当你
真的跌倒时我想让你知道，并请记住：“世间并不存在失败，那不过是生活想让我们换个方向
走走罢了，现在当你在人生谷底，那看起来像是失败。”在过去的一年里，这些话支撑着我自
己。当你到了人生谷底，到那时候，你可以难过一段时间，给自己时间去哀悼你认为你可能
失去的一切，但关键在于：从每个失败和遭遇中学习特别是你的每个错误，都会教并迫使你
成为真正的自己，然后想想接下来怎么做。生活的重点在于建立内在道德、情感的定位系统，
它能为你指路，因为现在或将来当你在谷歌上搜索你自己，结果会是“哈佛2013毕业生”。
在这个竞争激烈的世界，那的确是块敲门砖。我作为一个雇佣过很多人的人，可以说当我听
到哈佛的毕业生，我都会坐直一点，然后说“他/她在哪，带来见我”。这是一个令人印象深【2016年,哈佛,毕业演讲英文稿】
刻的敲门砖，在未来的日子里那的确是颗有力的子弹：成为律师、议员、老板、科学家、物
理学家，诺贝尔奖普利策奖获得者或者晚间脱口秀主持人。然而来自生活的挑战并不是做个
履历简单地告诉大家你想做什么，而是你想成为什么样的人。
哈佛校长2016毕业演讲：谁来讲述你的故事? 只有你自己
当你告诉别人你的故事，是为了发现真正的你，而不是那个别人认为你应该成为的那个你!听别人的建议，但是做你自己的决定!
——哈佛校长 Drew Gilpin Faust
去从事你真正关心的事业吧，无论是物理还是神经科学，无论是金融还是电影制片。如果你想好了目的地，就直接往那里去吧。这就是我的“停车位理论”：不要因为觉得肯定没有停车位了，就把车停在距离目的地10个街区远的地方。直接去你想去的地方，如果车位已满，你总可以再绕回来。
哈佛校长2016毕业演讲：谁来讲述你的故事? 只有你自己
人们也许会说哈佛是天堂，充满了各种难以想象的机遇和好运——确实，我们每个人都有幸在她漫长而成功的历史中占有一席之地。但这也对我们提出了要求：我们有责任走出自己的舒适区，寻找属于我们的挑战，践行哈佛奋斗不息的精神。
在我准备今天演讲的时候，我想到了音乐剧《汉密尔顿》中最后那首歌里的问题： 谁来讲述你的故事?
我想这个问题奠定了你们过去四年大学生活的基调，也将对你们未来作为哈佛毕业生和校友的生活产生深远的影响，无论是作为公民或是领袖——
谁，来讲述你的故事?
是你，你要来讲述你的故事!
这就是今天我要对你们说的话：讲你自己的故事，一个充满了无限可能性和新秩序的崭新故事，这是每一代人的任务，也是现在摆在你面前的任务。你在哈佛所接受的文理博雅教育，将会用以下三种重要方式，帮助你去完成这项任务。
听别人的建议，做你自己的决定
讲述你的故事意味着发现你自己是谁——而不是成为别人认为你的谁。你要参考别人的意见，但要做出自己的决定。讲述一个别人定义好的或别人希望听到的故事，那太容易了。
哈佛的传奇人物之一、可敬的彼得·戈麦斯教授曾说：“不要让任何人替你把话说完。”戈麦斯教授自己经常“自相矛盾”，令人难以捉摸，但永远忠于他自己：他是一位剑桥市的共和党人(注：在哈佛所在的剑桥市，共和党是少数派);他是一位浸礼会的牧师，但同时是个同性恋(注：基督教大多不支持同性恋);他是朝圣者协会的会长，同时又是一位黑人(注：朝圣者协会白人居多)。
他对自己的信仰坚定不移，他不为外人的期望牵挂束缚。他说：“我的不同寻常，让开启新的对话变为可能。”
开启与他人的对话，倾听他人的故事
开启新的对话，这是我的下一个重点。讲述我们自己的故事并不意味着只关注我们自己。讲故事是与他人对话，借此探寻更远大的目标、探索其他的世界、探究不同的思维方式——你所受的教育不是一个真空的大泡沫。
如果我们只讲述单一的故事，那将是危险的，就像诺大的场地只有一个逃生口，令所有人变得异常脆弱。单一的故事不一定是假的，但它是不完整的。所有的故事都很重要，不能把单一角度的故事变成唯一的故事。
过去四年，你们感受到了倾听他人故事的益处，也体验到了忽略他人故事所带来的危险。只有意识到，世界上充满了各种各样的故事，我们才能想象一个不一样的未来。21世纪的医疗是什么样?能源是什么样?移民是什么样?城市将如何设计?面对这些问题，你要问的不是“我会成为什么样的人”，而是
我能解决什么问题?
“在不安和不确定中，不断修正你的故事”
这也引出了最后一个重点：不断修正。每个故事其实都只是一个草稿，我们连最古老的传说都会不断拿来重提——不管是汉密尔顿将军的故事、美国独立战争的史诗、亦或是哈佛自己的历史。
好的教育之所以好，是因为它让你坐立不安，它强迫你不断重新认识我们自己和我们周遭的世界，并不断去改变。
斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格将在毕业典礼上为我们演讲，他就曾经这样解释他创作的基石：“恐惧是我的动力。当我濒临走投无路的时候，那也是我遇见最好的想法的时候。”
大学，不正是这样一个让每一个人都接受挑战、让每一个人都产生不确定性的地方吗? 就这样，大学四年间，你都一直在学习重新讲述你的故事：寻找你自己的声音，将自己放入一个故事中——无论是对气候变化采取反抗行动，发现你对统计学的热衷，还是发起了一项有意义的运动，你亲眼目睹故事不断被重新讲述。
不要妥协，直奔你的目标
这些年，我一直在告诉大家：追随你所爱!
去从事你真正关心的事业吧，无论是物理还是神经科学，无论是金融还是电影制片。如果你想好了目的地，就直接往那里去吧。这就是我的“停车位理论”：不要因为觉得肯定没有停车位了，就把车停在距离目的地10个街区远的地方。直接去你想去的地方，如果车位已满，你总可以再绕回来。
所以在这里，我想祝贺你们，2016届的哈佛毕业生们。别忘了你们来自何处，不断改变你的故事，不断重写你的故事。我相信这项任务除了你们自己，谁也无法替你们完成!
Thank you, thank you, President Faust, and Paul Choi, thank you so much. It`s an honor and a thrill to address this group of distinguished alumni and supportive friends and cavelling parents. We`ve all gathered to share in the joy of this day, so please join me in congratulating Harvard`s Class of 2016. I can remember my own college graduation, which is easy, since it was only 14 years ago. How many of you took 37 years to graduate? Because, like most of you, I began college in my teens, but sophomore year, I was offered my dream job at Universal Studios, so I dropped out. I told my parents if my movie career didn`t go well, I`d re-enroll.It went all right.But eventually, I returned for one big reason. Most people go to college for an education, and some go for their parents, but I went for my kids. I`m the father of seven, and I kept insisting on the importance of going to college, but I hadn`t walked the walk. So, in my fifties, I re-enrolled at Cal State -- Long Beach, and I earned my degree.I just have to add: It helped that they gave me course credit in paleontology for the work I did on Jurassic Park. That`s three units for Jurassic Park, thank you. Well I left college because I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and some of you know, too -- but some of you don`t. Or maybe
you thought you knew but are now questioning that choice. Maybe you`re sitting there trying to figure out how to tell your parents that you want to be a doctor and not a comedy writer. Well, what you choose to do next is what we call in the movies the character-defining moment. Now, these are moments you`re very familiar with, like in the last Star Wars: The Force Awakens, when Rey realizes the force is with her. Or Indiana Jones choosing mission over fear by jumping over a pile of snakes. Now in a two-hour movie, you get a handful of character-defining moments, but in real life, you face them every day. Life is one strong, long string of character-defining moments. And I was lucky that at 18 I knew what I exactly
wanted to do. But I didn’t know who I was. How could I? And how could any of us? Because for the first 25 years of our lives, we are trained to listen to voices that are not our own. Parents and professors fill our heads with wisdom and information, and then employers and mentors take their place and explain how this world really works. And usually these voices of authority make sense, but sometimes, doubt starts to creep into our heads and into our hearts. And even when we think, that`s not quite how I see the world, it`s kind of easier to just to nod in agreement and go along, and for
a while, I let that going along define my character. Because I was repressing my own point of view, because like in that Nilsson song, ‘Everybody was talkin’ at me, so I couldn’t hear the echoes of my mind.’ And at first, the internal voice I needed to listen to was hardly audible, and it was hardly noticeable -- kind of like me in high school. But then I started paying more attention, and my intuition kicked in. And I want to be clear that your intuition is different from your conscience. They work in tandem, but here`s the distinction: Your conscience shouts, "here`s what you should do", while your intuition whispers, "here`s what you could do." Listen to that voice that tells you what you could do. Nothing will define your character more than that. Because once I turned to my intuition, and I tuned into it, certain projects began to pull me into them, and others, I turned away from. And up until the 1980s, my movies were mostly, I guess what you could call ‘escapist.’ And I don`t dismiss any of these movies -- not even 1941. Not even that one. And many of these early films reflected the values that I cared deeply about, and I still do. But I was in a celluloid bubble, because I`d cut my education short, my
worldview was limited to what I could dream up in my head, not what the world could teach me. But then I directed The Color Purple. And this one film opened my eyes to experiences that I never could have imagined, and yet were all too real. This story was filled with deep pain and deeper truths, like when Shug Avery says, ‘Everything wants to be loved.’ My gut, which was my intuition, told me that more people needed to meet these characters and experience these truths. And while making that film, I realized that a movie could also be a mission. I hope all of you find that sense of mission. Don`t turn away from what`s painful. Examine it. Challenge it. My job is to create a world that lasts two hours. Your job is to create a world that lasts forever. You are the future innovators, motivators, leaders and caretakers. And the way you create a better future is by studying the past. Jurassic Park writer Michael Crichton, who graduated from both this college and this medical school, liked to quote a favorite professor of his who said that if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree. So history majors: Good choice, you’re in great shape...Not in the job market, but culturally.
The rest of us have to make a little effort. Social media that we’re inundated and swarmed with is about the here and now. But I’ve been fighting and fighting inside my own family to get all my kids to look behind them, to look at what already has happened. Because to understand who they are is to understand who were were, and who their grandparents were, and then, what this country was like when they emigrated here. We are a nation of immigrants -- at least for now. So to me, this means we all have to tell our own stories. We have so many stories to tell. Talk to your parents and your grandparents, if you can, and ask them about their stories. And I promise you, like I have promised my kids, you will not be bored. And that’s why I so often make movies based on real-life events. I look to history not to be didactic, ‘cause that’s just a bonus, but I look because the past is filled with the greatest stories that have ever been told. Heroes and villains are not literary constructs, but they’re at the heart of all history.
And again, this is why it’s so important to listen to your internal whisper. It’s the same one that compelled Abraham Lincoln and Oskar Schindler to make the correct moral choices. In your defining moments, do not let your morals be swayed by
convenience or expediency. Sticking to your character requires a