作者：李霞
出版社：中国纺织出版社
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震撼世界的声音：世界名人名校演讲集（英汉对照）试读：
前言
最鼓舞人心的英文读物，跟随伟人学习英语！
百年来最有力量的英文原声，100%提高你的英语听力。
20篇精挑细选的最有影响力的名校励志演讲，改变全球上万人的人生轨迹。
在西方文化中流传着这样的一种说法：政治家和成功人士都是善于运用晦涩词汇或漂亮语言，来阐述自己思想的高手，同时也是启迪他人的能手。在充满竞争的世界里，你需要运用这些人的智慧作为你人生的灯塔。如何把话说得漂亮，是一项重要的技能。想把自己的英文说得更加优美和更有力度吗？你可以听听这些名人们的声音，这些激励人心的演讲。
演讲，不仅是运用语言的学问，更是一种机智幽默应对人生的艺术，更是可以激励人心的呐喊。每一篇演讲都是这些成功人士经过深思熟虑，将他们的人生感悟，生活的艰辛和挫折，还有道德伦理和真知实践熔为一炉，再利用优美的语言巧妙地融为一体。
语言本身就是智慧的结晶。英语，不单只有语法或者词汇。英语的真正魅力并不在于用词的生涩和华丽，语法的复杂和冗长，而是在于用最简单的句式，精准的用词来打动人心。如奥巴马这样优秀的演讲者，他可以用简单的语言表达出史诗英雄般的气势和人格，这是一种可以瞬间蔓延、征服、感染和唤起众人心中激情与梦想的力量。还有乔布斯这样的精神领袖，他用简短而精湛的语言，将自己人整个人生做了一个完美的总结。演讲是沟通上的升华，是交流的最高境界，拥有者不可估量的社会作用和价值。一个字，一句话，都可以成为改变一个人一生的名言。
大学，不仅是人类智慧世代流传的殿堂，而且可以展望未来。哈佛大学、斯坦福大学、哥伦比亚大学、北京大学、清华大学、复旦大学……，这些享誉世界的名校人才荟萃，资源雄厚，是世人向往的神圣殿堂，一直都在以各自的方式追求着、思考着、实践着。作为知识与观念的前沿阵地，这些世界名校经常邀请各界名人在开学和毕业典礼或者其他重要时刻发表演讲。因此，演讲成为各大名校一条独特的风景线。
本书作者将大学和演讲这两种元素融合在一起，精选了20篇关于历史未来，战争和平，竞争合作等各个方面题材的演讲。这些演讲包含了各种真知灼见，谆谆教诲，殷切祝福，在这里你可以看到和听到政界名流的政见，商业精英的理性思考，公众人物的热情呐喊。他们虽然身份不同，但都态度真诚，他们的演讲或严肃或轻松，但都值得细细体味，受益无穷。
本书将原汁原味的英语演讲集成一册，为了方便读者的学习，采用了中英对照的方式呈现。在编排上，还设置了“演讲背景”“名校风采”等众多分栏，方便读者全方位进行了解。读者不仅能够享受地道的语言，精准的译文，还能领略文化的风采。
本书精选的演讲是英语学习的最好素材；译文流畅，是翻译练习的文本。背景介绍，引导读者能够更加准确、透彻地把握演讲的精髓。名校风采，则是为开拓视野开启的另一扇窗。与此同时，书中还对演讲中涉及的重点单词和名言进行了提炼分析，便于读者更好地理解和学习。
随书免费下载的现场原声录音，可以让读者畅游在美文的海洋，体味英语语言的华美之处。
走进名校的神圣殿堂，聆听名人的励志演讲，犹如与他们进行面对面的交流。亲爱的读者朋友，无论你是正在象牙塔中求学的学子，还是即将踏出校门的毕业生，抑或是职场中的打拼者和领导者，相信你们都能在愉悦的阅读过程中，享受一场绝佳的思想盛宴，你将与演讲者一起了解过去，把握现在，展望未来，得到心灵上的激励。编者2014.701 You Will Make a Difference in the WorldOprah Winfrey, A famous hostHarvard University, May 30th, 2013
"I do not beIieve in faiIure. It is not faiIure if you enjoyed the process."“我从不相信失败。如果能享受过程，就没什么失败可言。”Oprah Winfrey
背景故事“OMG，我竟然在哈——佛！”奥普拉·温弗瑞以这样富有激情的标志性方式开始了自己在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲。这位美国脱口秀天后，国际知名慈善家奥普拉·温弗瑞（Oprah Winfrey），在5月30日应邀至哈佛大学获颁荣誉法学博士学位，并在毕业典礼发表演说。她在演讲中回顾了她从一位来自密西西比州贫困地区的女孩成为脱口秀明星，到成功创办OWN电视台的经历，告诉毕业生生活的真谛在于内心道德和情感的修炼，鼓励毕业生们为社会带来变革。她敦促毕业生乐于接受挫折，视之为成长的契机，并在生活与事业中追求为他人服务的机会。她告诉毕业生：“人生没有失败这档事，所谓失败只是让人生转个弯。有时难免会陷入挣扎，卡在困境中，不过你想创造的人生故事会带着你走出去。”“不要问自己世界需要什么，问问是什么让你充满活力地活着，然后就去做，因为这世界需要的，就是一个个朝气蓬勃的人。”她说：“世界因你而不同。”
名人简介
董事长、制片人、主持人、演员，这一系列称呼还不足以全面描述温弗瑞的身份，在美国，“奥普拉法案”（Oprah Bill）、“奥普拉读书俱乐部”（Oprah's Book Club）、“奥普拉杂志”（Oprah Winfrey Magazine）、“奥普拉天使网站”（Oprah's Angel Network）等等无不显示这个黑人女子惊人的影响力。
如今，温弗瑞的个人净资产达到10亿美元，这个年过50至今仍单身的女人会大踏步走向何方，无人知晓。
作为一名黑人，更为当今世界上最具影响力的妇女之一，她的成就是多方面的：通过控股哈普娱乐集团的股份，掌握了超过10亿美元的个人财富；主持的电视谈话节目《奥普拉·温弗瑞秀》（The Oprah Winfrey Show），平均每周吸引3300万名观众，并连续16年排在同类节目的首位；奥普拉在1996年推出的一个电视读书会节目在美国掀起了一股读书热潮；她利用业余时间在大导演斯皮尔伯格的电影《紫色》中客串了一个角色，还荣获了当年奥斯卡最佳女配角的提名。
演讲赏析You Will Make a Difference in the WorldOprah Winfrey, A famous host Harvard University, May 30th, 2013
Oh my goodness!I'm at Harvard!Wow!To President Faust, my fellow honorans, 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 fi fteen million dollars. And to you, members of the Harvard class of 2013！Hello!
Thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of your next chapter. To say that I'm honored doesn't even begin to quantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate from Harvard. Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge. And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary for myself, I consider today a defi ning milestone in a very long and a blessed journey. My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration. I'm going to address my remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the Quad.
Actually I was so honored I wanted to do something really special for you. I wanted to be able to have you look under your seats and there would be free master and doctor degrees, but I see you got that covered already. I will be honest with you. I felt a lot of pressure over the past few weeks to come up with something that I could share with you that you hadn't heard before because after all you all went to Harvard, I did not. But then I realized that you don't have to necessarily go to Harvard to have a driven obsessive Type A personality. But it helps. And while I may not have graduated from here, I admit that my personality is about as Harvard as they come. You know my television career began unexpectedly. As you heard this morning I was in the Miss Fire Prevention contest. That was when I was 16 years old in Nashville, Tennessee, and you had the requirement of having to have red hair in order to win up until the year that I entered. So they were doing the question and answer period because I knew I wasn't going to win under the swimsuit competition. So during the question and answer period the question came"Why, young lady, what would you like to be when you grow up?"And by the time they got to me, all the good answers were gone. So I had seen Barbara Walters on the"Today Show"that morning so I answered, "I would like to be a journalist. I would like to tell other people's stories in a way that makes a difference in their lives and the world."And as those words were coming out of my mouth, I went whoa!This is pretty good!I would like to be a journalist. I want to make a difference. Well, I was on television by the time I was 19 years old. And in 1986 I launched my own television show with a relentless determination to succeed at fi rst. I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew. Sound familiar to anybody here?Eventually we did make it to the top and we stayed there for 25 years.
The"Oprah Winfrey Show"was number one in our time slot for 21 years and I have to tell you I became pretty comfortable with that level of success. But a few years ago I decided, as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, fi nd new territory, break new ground. So I ended the show and launched OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. The initials just worked out for me. So one year later after launching OWN, nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a fl op. Not just a fl op, but a big bold fl op they call it. I can still remember the day I opened up USA Today and read the headline"Oprah, not quite standing on her OWN."I mean really, USA Today?Now that's the nice newspaper!It really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life. I was stressed and I was frustrated and quite frankly I was actually……I was embarrassed. It was right around that time that President Faust called and asked me to speak here and I thought you want me to speak to Harvard graduates?What could I possibly say to Harvard graduates, some of the most successful graduates in the world in the very moment when I had stopped succeeding?So I got off the phone with President Faust and I went to the shower. It was either that or a bag of Oreos. So I chose the shower. And I was in the shower a long time and as I was in the shower the words of an old hymn came to me. You may not know it. It's"By and by, when the morning comes."And I started thinking about when the morning might come because at the time I thought I was stuck in a hole. And the words came to me"Trouble don't last always"from that hymn, "this too shall pass."And I thought as I got out of the shower I am going to turn this thing around and I will be better for it. And when I do, I'm going to go to Harvard and I'm going to speak the truth of it!So I'm here today to tell you I have turned that network around!
And it was all because I wanted to do it by the time I got to speak to you all so thank you so much. You don't know what motivation you were for me, thank you. I'm even prouder to share a fundamental truth that you might not have learned even as graduates of Harvard unless you studied the ancient Greek hero with Professor Nagy. Professor Nagy, as we were coming in this morning, said, "Please Ms. Winfrey, walk decisively."
I shall walk decisively.
This is what I want to share. It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you're constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages, not to mention the Myth of Icarus, predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this：there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. Now when you're down there in the hole, it looks like failure. So this past year I had to spoon-feed those words to myself. And when you're down in the hole, when that moment comes, it's really okay to feel bad for a little while. Give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost, but then here's the key, learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are. And then fi gure out what is the next right move. And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G. P.S. that can tell you which way to go. Because now and forever more when you Google yourself, your search results will read"Harvard, 2013".And in a very competitive world that really is a calling card because I can tell you as one who employs a lot of people when I see"Harvard"I sit up a little straighter and say, "Where is he or she?Bring them in."It's an impressive calling card that can lead to even more impressive bullets in the years ahead：lawyer, senator, C. E.O.，scientist, physicist, winners of Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes or late night talk show host. But the challenge of life I have found is to build a résumé that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be but it's a story about who you want to be. It's a résumé that doesn't just tell a story about what you want to accomplish but why. A story that's not just a collection of titles and positions but a story that's really about your purpose. Because when you inevitably stumble and fi nd yourself stuck in a hole, that is the story that will get you out. What is your true calling?What is your dharma?What is your purpose?For me that discovery came in 1994 when I interviewed a little girl who had decided to collect pocket change in order to help other people in need. She raised a thousand dollars all by herself and I thought, well if that little 9-year-old girl with a bucket and big heart could do that, I wonder what I could do?So I asked for our viewers to take up their own change collection and in one month, just from pennies and nickels and dimes, we raised more than three million dollars that we used to send one student from every state in the United States to college. That was the beginning of the Angel Network.
And so what I did was I simply asked our viewers, "Do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life. Give me your time or your talent, your money if you have it."And they did. Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can. And together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes Rita and Katrina. So the Angel Network-I have been on the air for a long time-but it was the Angel Network that actually focused my internal G. P.S. It helped me to decide that I wasn't going to just be on TV every day but that the goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.
Because what had become clear to me, and I want you to know, it isn't always clear in the beginning because as I said I had been on television since I was 19 years old. But around'94 I got really clear. So don't expect the clarity to come all at once, to know your purpose right away, but what became clear to me was that I was here on Earth to use television and not be used by it；to use television to illuminate the transcendent power of our better angels. So this Angel Network, it didn't just change the lives of those who were helped, but the lives of those who also did the helping. It reminded us that no matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and more importantly it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.
I saw something on the"Bill Moore Show"recently that so reminded me of this point. It was an interview with David and Francine Wheeler. They lost their 7-year-old son, Ben, in the Sandy Hook tragedy. And even though gun safety legislation to strengthen background checks had just been voted down in Congress at the time that they were doing this interview, they talked about how they refused to be discouraged. Francine said this, she said, "Our hearts are broken but our spirits are not. I'm going to tell them what it's like to fi nd a conversation about change that is love, and I'm going to do that without fi ghting them."And then her husband David added this, "You simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesn't agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over. And we cannot do that any longer. The problem is too enormous. There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light."In our political system and in the media we often see the refl ection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested. And yet, I know you know the truth. We all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout Washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle. Not my channel, by the way. We understand that the vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger background checks because they realize that we can uphold the Second Amendment and also reduce the violence that is robbing us of our children. They don't have to be incompatible.
And we understand that most Americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12，000，000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because it's possible to both enforce our laws and at the same time embrace the words on the Statue of Liberty that have welcomed generations of huddled masses to our shores. We can do both.
And we understand. I know you do because you went to Harvard. There are people from both parties, and no party, [who]believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education because here in the richest nation on Earth, we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity. So the question is, what are we going to do about it?Really, what are you going to do about it?Maybe you agree with these beliefs. Maybe you don't. Maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, Class of 2013，are passionate about. Maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government. Maybe you want to launch your own television show. Or maybe you simply want to collect some change. Your parents would appreciate that about now.
The point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change. Each of you has been blessed with this enormous opportunity of attending this prestigious school. You now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the life of our country. When you do that, let me tell you what I know for sure. That's when your story gets really good. Maya Angelou always says, "When you learn, teach. When you get, give. That my friends are what gives your story purpose and meaning."So you all have the power in your own way to develop your own Angel Network and in doing so, your class will be armed with more tools of infl uence and empowerment than any other generation in history. I did it in an analog world. I was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20，000，000 viewers a day. Now here in a world of Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and Tumbler, you can reach billions in just seconds. You're the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in 2008.And when the pundits said, they said they talked about you, they said you'd be too disappointed, you'd be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers. That's who you are.
This generation, your generation, I know, has developed a fi nely honed radar for B. S.Can you say"B. S."at Harvard?The spin and phoniness and artifi cial nastiness that saturates so much of our national debate. I know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic-an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all empathy. I have to say that the single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people, was that there is a common denominator in our human experience. Most of us, I tell you we don't want to be divided. What we want, the common denominator that I found in every single interview, is we want to be validated. We want to be understood. I have done over 35，000 interviews in my career and as soon as that camera shuts off, everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way asks this question"Was that okay?"I heard it from President Bush, I heard it from President Obama. I've heard it from heroes and from housewives. I've heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes. I even heard it from Beyonce and all of her Beyonceness. She fi nishes performing, hands me the microphone and says, "Was that okay?"Friends and family, yours, enemies, strangers in every argument in every encounter, every exchange I will tell you, they all want to know one thing：was that okay?Did you hear me?Do you see me?Did what I say mean anything to you?And even though this is a college where Facebook was born, my hope is that you would try to go out and have more face-to-face conversations with people you may disagree with.
That you'll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesn't cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody else's shoes and recognize all that we share as a people. This is imperative, for you as an individual, and for our success as a nation.
"There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light, "says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary Friday in December. So whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is I know this, there is a light inside each of you, all of us, that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it. And as a young girl from rural Mississippi I learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be Barbara Walters. Although when I fi rst started because I had Barbara in my head I would try to sit like Barbara, talk like Barbara, move like Barbara and then one night I was on the news reading the news and I called Canada"Can-a-da,"and that was the end of me being Barbara. I cracked myself up on TV. Couldn't start laughing and my real personality came through and I fi gured out, oh gee, I can be a much better Oprah than I could be a pretend Barbara.
I know that you all might have a little anxiety now and hesitation about leaving the comfort of college and putting those Harvard credentials to the test. But no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way, you will fi nd true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this：to fulfi ll the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you.
Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said,"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive."The world needs……People like Michael Stolzenberg from Fort Lauderdale.
When Michael was just 8 years old, Michael nearly died from a bacterial infection that cost him both of his hands and both of his feet. And in an instant, this vibrant little boy became a quadruple amputee and his life was changed forever. But in losing who he once was Michael discovered who he wanted to be. He refused to sit in that wheelchair all day and feel sorry for himself, so with prosthetics he learned to walk and run and play again. He joined his middle school lacrosse team and last month when he learned that so many victims of the Boston Marathon bombing would become new amputees, Michael decided to banish that darkness with light. Michael and his brother, Harris, created Mikeysrun. com to raise $1 million for other amputees—by the time Harris runs the 2014 Boston Marathon. More than 1，000 miles away from here these two young brothers are bringing people together to support this Boston community the way their community came together to support Michael. And when this 13-year-old man was asked about his fellow amputees he said this,"First they will be sad. They're losing something they will never get back and that's scary. I
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