毕业季Graduation.pptxVIP

;Graduation;;;;;The Fringe Benefits of Failure;The Fringe Benefits of Failure;I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name[叫出名字] one less useful than Greek mythology[神学] when it came to securing the keys to an executive[宽敞舒适的] bathroom. 我不曾记得告诉过他们自己正在研习古典，也许在毕业那天他们才真正发现。在这个星球上的所有课程中，他们应该很难再找到比希腊神学更没用的课程了，它根本不可能用来取得一把进入一间宽敞舒适卫生间的钥匙。 ;I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis[插一句], that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry[逾期] date on blaming your parents for steering[指导,掌舵] you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. 这里需要澄清的是，我并不责怪我的父母。因为埋怨他们指错方向的时候已经过了，这时的你们已经成熟到能够自己驾驭人生的方向盘，责任需自负。 ;What is more, I cannot criticize my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling[使人高贵的] experience. Poverty entails[使承担] fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty[琐碎的] humiliations and hardships. 我还想说，我不能因为自己希望永不经历贫穷而现实并非如此就怨恨父母。他们自身贫穷，我也因此而贫穷，而贫穷并非是可以拿来显示自己高尚、受人尊崇的经历，对于他们的这种观点我也坚决支持。贫穷带来的是恐惧、压力，有时甚至是沮丧。它意味着数不尽的琐碎羞辱和辛酸。;Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools. 当然，依靠自己的力量从中爬出来确实值得自豪和骄傲，尽管如此，只有傻瓜才会认为贫穷本身是浪漫的。;What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack[诀窍] for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers. 在你们这么大的时候，我最害怕的并不是贫穷，而是失败。尽管当时我明显匮乏在学校念书的劲头，因为很少去听课，而大部分时间里我是在咖啡吧写故事中度过的，但我明白顺利通过考试的诀窍。而考试