名校勵志英語演講 第125期:珍惜現在 把握將來(1)
謝謝你們，謝謝你們。這...100多年過去了，你們終于迎來了一位英國演講者。
What took you so long? Did that little disagreement of 1776 really rankle so much? And why now? Is it because British election campaigns only last four weeks?
是什么讓你們等了這么長時間?難道是因為1776年那次小小分歧而耿耿于懷?那為什么又選擇現在呢?難道是因為英國的大選僅僅持續(xù)了四個星期?無論出于何種原因，能來到這里讓我倍感榮幸。
For whatever reason, it is an honour to be here and to say to the Yale College Class of 2008: you did it;you came through; from all of us to you:congratulations.
耶魯大學2008屆的畢業(yè)生們，我想對你們說：你們順利完成了學業(yè)，你們去的了成功，我們大家都要恭喜你們，你們干得非常好。
The invitation to a former British Prime Minister to address a college which boasts five former Presidents, many former Vice Presidents and Senators too numerous to mention, is either to give me an exaggerated sense of my own importance or you a reduced sense of yours.
貴校培養(yǎng)出了5位美國總統、很多副總統和難以數計的參議院，卻邀請一位前英國首相來發(fā)表演講，這要么是夸大了我的重要性，要么就是減小了你們的重要性。
It was Churchill or Oscar Wilde—and there is a difference—who called us two nations divided by a common language and so we are.
是丘吉爾還是奧斯卡•王爾德——這兩人當然是有區(qū)別的——把英美兩國說成是由一種相同的語言劃分的兩個不同的國家，你們可以從我今天的出場來判斷這一點，事實確實如此。
Here I am at Yale and set to come back for the fall semester. My old Oxford tutor was, I'm afraid, horrified to hear I had been taken on by Yale. His worries were all for Yale I may say. He said: "I only hope for their sake you are going there to learn rather than teach."
現在我來到耶魯，并打算今年秋天來這里任職。我恐怕，我在牛津的老導師聽到我在耶魯任職會感到驚駭。我可以說，他的擔憂全是為了耶魯。他說：“為了耶魯，我只希望你是去那兒學習，而不是教書。”
