文档介绍:奥普拉·温弗瑞斯坦福大学毕业典礼英语演讲稿
Feelings, Failure and Finding Happiness
感觉、失败及寻找幸福
Thank you, President Hennessy, and to thetrustees and the faculty, to all of the parents andgrandparents, to you, the Stanford graduates. Thank you for letting me share this amazing daywith you.
Hennessy校长,全体教员,家长,还有斯坦福的毕业生门,非常感谢你们。感谢你们让我和你们分享这美好的一天。
I need to begin by letting everyone in on a little secret. The secret is that Kirby Bumpus,Stanford Class of '08, is my goddaughter. So, I was thrilled when President Hennessy asked meto be your Commencement speaker, because this is the first time I've been allowed on campussince Kirby's been here.
我决定透漏一个小秘密给大家来作为这次演讲的开始。这个秘密就是Kirby Bumpus,斯坦福2008年的毕业生,是我的义女。所以当Hennessy校长让我来做演讲时,我受宠若惊,因为自从Kirby来这上学以来,这是我第一次被允许到斯坦福来。
You see, Kirby's a very smart girl. She wants people to get to know her on her own terms, shesays. Not in terms of who she knows. So, she never wants anyone who's first meeting her toknow that I know her and she knows me. So, when she first came to Stanford for new studentorientation with her mom, I hear that they arrived and everybody was so welcoming, andsomebody came up to Kirby and they said, "Ohmigod, that's Gayle King!Because a lot ofpeople know Gayle King as my BFF [best friend forever].
正如你们知道的那样Kirby是一个非常聪明的女