你们中的某些当然还是经历了严峻的考验获得了真才实学的。几年前我曾经招了一个来自西点军校的实习生。她开始工作前刚完成了一个长达数周的训练项目,在这个项目里她甚至连睡觉的时候都得穿着防弹背心。她的文笔十分的好,而且格外谦虚。现在的她正在阿富汗对抗恐怖分子。
If you're like that intern, please feel free to feel sorry for yourself. Just remember she doesn't.
如果你也像那个实习生一样,你有权利对你的生活觉得不满。但请记住,她从来没有那么想过。
Unfortunately, dear graduates, chances are you're nothing like her. And since you're no longer children, at least officially, it's time someone tells you the facts of life. The other facts.
但是亲爱的毕业生们,也许你们远没有达到她的成就。你们已然不是小孩儿了,至少现在有人该告诉你一些关于人生的实情了。一些其他的实情。
Fact One is that, in our "knowledge-based" economy, knowledge counts. Yet here you are, probably the least knowledgeable graduating class in history.
首先要说的是,在这个知识决定命运的经济环境中,知识依然是很受重视的。但可惜你们也许是这么多年来最缺乏知识的一届毕业生。
A few months ago, I interviewed a young man with an astonishingly high GPA from an Ivy League university and aspirations to write about Middle East politics. We got on the subject of the Suez Crisis of 1956. He was vaguely familiar with it. But he didn't know who was president of the United States in 1956. And he didn't know who succeeded that president.
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