只有巴拉克•奥巴马(Barack Obama)在莫尔豪斯学院(Morehouse College)的演讲中没有鼓励任何人改变世界。这可能是因为他觉得世界是他的职权所在。抑或是因为他自己知道改变世界有多难——就算你碰巧是美国总统也是如此。他不仅没能改变世界,他甚至都没能让他的人民放下枪支,也没能解决他自己国家的预算问题。
Instead of aiming so impossibly high, the graduates of 2013 would do better to start a bit lower. When they leave their campuses it will not be “Hello world!” but “Hello again, Mum and Dad!”
2013年的毕业生与其好高骛远,不如把起步的目标放低点可能更好。当他们离开校园时,他们可能会说的不是:“你好,世界!”而是“你们好,爸爸妈妈!”
This is the boomerang generation, and where most of them will be heading is straight back to their childhood bedrooms. What Ms Huffington, Mr Obama and Mr Immelt ought to have said was: change the world if you must, but it would be nice if you could help out by changing the bag in the vacuum cleaner first.
这是“飞去来器”的一代,他们中的多数人出校园后将径直回到他们儿时的卧室。赫芬顿、奥巴马和伊梅尔特应该说的是:如果你非要去做,那就去改变世界,不过先帮忙更换一下吸尘器里的袋子也不错。
They should then have followed up with stern words on the virtue of hard work. This sort of thing has fallen sadly out of fashion.
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