The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance ofImagination
Harvard mencement Address
. Rowling
Tercentenary Theatre, June 5, 2008
失败的好处和想象力的重要性
哈佛大学毕业典礼
. 罗琳
2008年6月5日
President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,
members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates,
福斯特主席,哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员,
各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们:
The first thing I would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinaryhonour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving mencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do istake deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largestGryffindors' reunion.
首先请允许我说一声谢谢。哈佛不仅给了我无上的荣誉,连日来为这个演讲经受的恐惧和紧张,更令我减肥成功。这真是一个双赢的局面。现在我要做的就是深呼吸几下,眯着眼睛看看前面的大红横幅,安慰自己正在世界上最大的魔法学院聚会上。
Delivering mencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mindback to my own graduation. mencement speaker that day was the distinguished Britishphilosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously inwriting this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberatingdiscovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you toabandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy del
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