一年一度毕业季筹备毕业演讲_BEC初级作文

一年一度毕业季筹备毕业演讲

斯蒂芬•科尔伯特(Stephen Colbert)在弗吉尼亚大学(University of Virginia)向学生们提出的建议就恰当得多，也时髦得多。这位讽刺演员一开场就嘱咐大家把手机都开着：“花点时间关注下我的推特(Twitter)账户，以免我在演讲期间发布任何推特消息。”我希望毕业生们听从了这一建议——我在YouTube上看这个演讲的视频时就感觉到受教了。

Alas, he then went and spoiled it all by telling the students to “choose the hard path that leads to the life and the world that you want”. But who says the hard path is a better bet than the easy one? And as to the world that we want – that isn’t on offer. So the trick for graduates is surely to make do with the world we have.

唉，他接下来的话把这次演说完全毁掉了，他建议学生“选择那条通向你们想要的生活、想要的世界的艰难道路”。谁说艰难道路就一定是比轻松道路更好的选择？至于我们想要的世界——这东西概不出售。所以说，毕业生们需要掌握的显然是如何适应我们现在所处的世界。

Only Barack Obama in his address at Morehouse College refrained from urging anyone to change the world. That may be because he feels the world is his prerogative. Or it may be because he alone knows how hard it is to change it – even if you happen to be the President of the United States. Not only has he failed to change the world, he can’t even get people to give up guns or fix the budget in his own country.