2017年哈佛校长福斯特哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲-0627.docxVIP

哈佛校长福斯特2017年哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲Address by President Drew Faust at Harvard University CommencementTercentenary Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.May 25, 2017哈佛大学背景补充：Harvard University is devoted to excellencein致力于在....领域追求卓越teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders 培养领袖in many disciplines who make a difference globally享誉世界. Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University, which is based in位于.... Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of在校学生多达over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world.哈佛校长演讲全文如下：Good afternoon. My remarks at this moment in our Commencement rituals毕业典礼仪式 are officially titled a “Report to the Alumni.”The first time I delivered them, in 2008, I was the only obstacle between all of you and J.K. Rowling JK罗琳. I looked out on a sea of许多；人山人海 eager children, costumed Dumbledores（阿不思·邓布利多是哈利波特系列丛书中的人物，他是霍格沃茨魔法学校校长，被公认为是当代最伟大的巫师。）, and Quidditchbrooms (魁地奇扫帚，魁地奇是电影《哈利波特》中的一种对抗运动。) waving impatiently in the air. Today, you await Mark Zuckerberg, whose wizardry(巫术、魔法) takes a different form, one that has changed the world, and although he doesn’t seem to have inspired an outbreak of hoodies, we certainly do have some costumes in this audience today. I see we are now handing out blankets.This is a day of joy and celebration, of happy endings and new beginnings, of families and friends, of achievements and hopes. It is also a day when we as a university perform our most important annual ritual, affirming once again the purposes that animate激励 us and the values that direct and inspire us.I want to speak today about one of the most important – and in recent months, most contested 争议的– of these values. It is one that has provoked debate, dissent, confrontation, and even violence on campuses across the country (可拆开翻译，处理为：激起争论、造成不满和导致对抗，甚至在全国各大校园引发暴力), and one that h