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Joss Whedon '87 - 2013 Wesleyan University Commencement Speech - Official/乔斯·韦登卫斯理大学2013届毕业典礼演讲
Award-winning writer, director, and producer Joss Whedon '87 shared some unforgettable advice with the Class of 2013 at the 181st Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 26, 2013. Wesleyan conferred an honorary doctor of letters upon Whedon at the ceremony, which was held on Andrus Field. 获奖作家，导演，制片人乔斯·韦登87共享一些难忘的建议在星期日第一百八十一的毕业典礼上，2013级，2013年5月26日。卫斯理授予名誉文学博士在惠顿在仪式，这是Andrus场举行。
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英汉双语对照剧本
Commencement address. It's going well, it's going well
毕业典礼演讲 准备就绪 一切顺利
Okay
This is going to be great
这会很棒
This is going to be a good one. You guys are fun
这将是很棒的演讲 你们这些伙计很有趣
It's going to go really well
一切都会非常顺利
Two roads diverged in a wood, and --
森林中分出两条道路 然后…
I'm not that lazy
我没有那么懒
I actually sat through many graduations
我经历过很多毕业典礼
When I was sitting where you guys are sitting
我坐在你们所坐的位置时
the speaker was Bill Cosby
致辞者是比尔·寇司比
funny man Bill Cosby, he was very funny and he was very brief
比尔·寇司比是个很有趣的人 演讲有趣而简练
and I thanked him for that, but
为此我非常感谢他 但是
he gave us a message
他给我们的建议
that I really took with me
让我一直受用
that a lot of us never forgot
我们很多人都没忘记过
about changing the world
是关于改变世界的
He said, "you're not going to change the world, so don't try"
他说 "你们无法改变世界 所以别试了"
That was it
这就完了
He didn't buy that back at all
他完全不打算自圆其说
And then he complained about buying his daughter a car
然后他就开始抱怨给他女儿买车的事
and we left
然后我们就都走了
I remember thinking, "I think I can do better
我在想 "我应该能讲得更好"
I think I can be a little more inspiring than that"
"应该比这要更具启发性一些"
And so, what I'd like to say to all of you
所以 我想跟你们所有人说的是
is that you are all going to die
你们所有人都会死去
This is a good commencement speech
这是一个很好的毕业致辞
because I'm figuring it's only going to go up from here
因为我想没有其它致辞会比这个更糟了
It can only get better, so this is good
只会越来越好 这很好
I mean, it can't get more depressing
我是说 没有更让人沮丧的了
You have, in fact, already begun to die
你们实际上已经开始迈向死亡
You look great
你们气色很好
Don't get me wrong. And you know, you are youth and beauty
不要误解我的话 你们年轻而美丽
You are at the physical peak
你们正值身体巅峰状态
Your bodies have just gotten off the ski slope on the peak of growth and potential
你们的身体正处在生长和潜能的滑雪场顶端
and now comes the black diamond mogul run to the grave
现在正使用各种滑雪技巧朝坟墓直奔而去
And the weird thing is
奇怪的是
your body wants to die
你的身体希望死亡
On a cellular level, that's what it wants
就细胞层面而言 这正是它想要的
And that's probably not what you want
这可能不是你所想要的
I'm confronted by a great deal of grand and worthy ambition from this student body
从你们这些学生那里 我了解到了各种宏图大志
You want to be a politician, a social worker
有人想当政治人物 社会工作者
You want to be an artist
有人想当艺术家
Your body's ambition: Mulch
但身体的志向是 粪土
Your body wants to make some babies
你们身体希望生出一些小孩
and then go in the ground and fertilize things
然后到泥土中去滋养大地
That's it
就是这样了
And that seems like a bit of a contradiction
这听起来有点矛盾
It doesn't seem even fair
甚至不公平
For one thing, we're telling you, "Go out into the world!"
一边我们告诉你 "勇敢迈向世界吧"
exactly when your body is saying, "Hey, let's bring it down a notch
一边你的身体却告诉你 "嘿 我们缓缓吧"
Let's take it down"
"让我们歇歇得了"
And it is a contradiction
这确实有些矛盾
And that's actually what I'd like to talk to you about
这正是我想跟你们讲的
The contradiction between your body and your mind
你身体和心智的矛盾
between your mind and itself
心智和它自身的矛盾
I believe these contradictions and these tensions
我认为这些矛盾 这些张力
are the greatest gift that we have
是我们所拥有的最伟大天赋
and hopefully, I can explain that
希望我能解释明白
But first let me say
首先我要说的是
when I talk about contradiction
我说的矛盾
I'm talking about something that is a constant in your life and in your identity
是始终出现在你生命和身份中的
not just in your body but in your own mind
不仅是在你的身体里 还在你的心智里
in ways that you may recognize or you may not
其存在方式 你们可能意识到 也可能没有意识到
Let's just say, hypothetically
我们来考虑一种假设情景
that two roads diverged in the woods
森林中分出两条路
and you took the path less traveled
而你选择了人少的那条路
Part of you is just going, "Look at that path! Over there, it's much better
你的一部分会说 "看那条路 那条 它要好得多"
Everyone is traveling on it
"大家都走那条路"
It's paved, and there's like a Starbucks every 50 yards"
"路铺得很好 而且每50码就有一家星巴克"
This is wrong
这是错的
In this one, there's nettles
这条路上有荆棘
and Robert Frost's body--
罗伯特·弗罗斯特的尸体
somebody should have moved that I think--
应该有人会把它挪开 我想
it just feels weird
反正看起来很怪
And not only is your mind telling you this
不仅仅是你的心智告诉你这个
it is on that other path
它实际就在另外那条路上
it is behaving as though it is on that path
它的表现就像它在那条路上一样
It is doing the opposite of what you are doing
做着同你所做的相反的事情
And for your entire life, you will be doing, on some level, the opposite--
在你整个一生当中 某种程度上 你会做相反的事情
not only of what you were doing--but of what you think you are
不仅是你所做的事情 还有你认为你是谁
That is just going to go on
这会一直持续下去
What you do with all your heart, you will do the opposite of
不管你尽力去做什么 你都会做相反的事情
And what you need to do
你所需要做的
is to honor that
是尊重这个事实
to understand it, to unearth it
去理解它 去挖掘它
to listen to this other voice
去倾听这个相反的声音
All right, I'm losing this now, because
我现在要把帽子摘掉
otherwise it's coming off in a dramatic fashion at the wrong time
否则它肯定会在错误的时候 以很丢脸的方式飞出去
I know. I worked on this hair for a long time, so
我知道 我头发很久前就这样了
I had to bust it out
我需要去生发了
You have, which is a rare thing
你们有一个很特别的东西
that ability and the responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself
也就是 倾听自身异议的能力和责任
to at least give it the floor, because it is the key--
至少是让它展现出来 因为这很关键
not only to consciousness, but to real growth
不仅对意识而言 也对实际生长而言
To accept duality is to earn identity
接受二元性 才能获得个人身份
And identity is something that you are constantly earning
个人身份是你们一直在努力获得的事物
It is not just who you are
它不仅仅是你是谁
It is a process that you must be active in
这是一个你必须积极参与的过程
It's not just parroting your parents or the thoughts of your learned teachers
这不仅仅是机械模仿父母或博学的老师的思维方式
It is now more than ever about understanding yourself so you can become yourself
现在需要更多地理解自己 从而让你成为真正的自己
I talk about this contradiction, and this tension
我讲了这个矛盾 这个张力
there's two things I want to say about it
关于这个 我有两点要说的
One, it never goes away
一是 它永远不会消失
And if you think that achieving something, if you think that solving something
如果你认为达到什么高度 解决什么问题
if you think a career or a relationship will quiet that voice
或者拥有什么职业或关系就能平息这个声音
it will not
那你就错了
If you think that happiness means total peace
如果你认为幸福就是完全的平静
you will never be happy
那你将永远无法幸福
Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace
平静来自于对你内心深处永远无法平静这一事实的接受
It will always be in conflict
总会有矛盾斗争
If you accept that, everything gets a lot better
如果你接受这一事实 一切都会好得多
The other reason is
另一个原因是
because you are establishing your identities and your beliefs
因为你在建立自己的身份和信念
you need to argue yourself down, because somebody else will
你需要驳倒自己 否则其他人就会这样做
Somebody's going to come at you
有人会找到你
and whatever your belief, your idea, your ambition
不管你有什么信念 想法 抱负
somebody's going to question it
总有人会提出质疑
And unless you have first, you won't be able to answer back
除非你先自省 否则你无法对这些质疑作出回答
you won't be able to hold your ground
否则你无法坚持立场
You don't believe me, try taking a stand on just one leg
不相信我的话 你可以一只脚站着试试
You need to see both sides
你需要同时看到两面
Now, if you do, does this mean that you get to change the world?
如果这样做了 这就意味着你能改变世界吗
Well, I'm getting to that, so just chill
我马上就会说到 放轻松
All I can say to this point is
这方面 我只能说
I think we can all agree that the world could use a little changing
我想我们都会赞同 世界需要改变一下
I don't know if your parents have explained this to you about the world
我不知道你们父母有没有给你解释世界的这个方面
but we broke it
但是 我们将它打破
we're sorry
我们很抱歉
it's a bit of a mess
这有点乱
It's a hard time to go out in there
步入社会会遇到很多困难
And it's a weird time in our country
而且我们国家现在处于一个奇怪的时期
The thing about our country is--oh, it's nice, I like it--
我们国家现在 哦 这很好 我喜欢
it's not long on contradiction or ambiguity
并不注重矛盾或模棱两可
It's not long on these kinds of things
并不注重这样一些东西
It likes things to be simple, it likes things to be pigeonholed--
它希望事物都很简单 喜欢进行简单分类
good or bad, black or white, blue or red
好或坏 黑或白 蓝或红
And we're not that. We're more interesting than that
但我们不是这样 我们比这更复杂有趣
And the way that we go into the world
而我们进入这样一个世界
understanding is to have these contradictions in ourselves
需要理解我们自身内部的矛盾
and see them in other people and not judge them for it
看到其他人也是如此 而且不以此评判他们
To know that
要知道这一点
in a world where debate has kind of fallen away
在这个辩论日益减少
and given way to shouting and bullying
并让步于大喊大叫和恃强凌弱的世界
that the best thing is not just the idea of honest debate
最好的事不是诚实辩论
the best thing is losing a debate
而是输掉辩论
because it means that you learnt something and you changed your position
因为这意味着你学到了什么东西 并且你改变了想法
The only way really to understand your position and its worth
真正理解你的想法及其价值的唯一方式
is to understand the opposite
是去理解它的相反面
That doesn't mean the crazy guy on the radio who is spewing hate
我指的不是在广播中发泄憎恨的疯子
it means the decent human truths of all the people
而是所有觉得有必要倾听那个人的话的
who feel the need to listen to that guy
人们的人类真实感受
You are connected to those people
你同那些人联系在一起
They're connected to him
他们同他联系在一起
You can't get away from it
你无法脱离它
This connection is part of contradiction
这个联系就是矛盾的一部分
It is the tension I was talking about
这就是我所说的张力
This tension isn't about two opposite points
张力指的不是两个相对立的点
it's about the line in between them
而是连接它们之间的直线
and it's being stretched by them
它由它们所拉伸
We need to acknowledge and honor that tension
我们需要认识并尊重这种张力
and the connection that that tension is a part of
以及该张力作为一部分所形成的联系
Our connection not just to the people we love
我们的联系不仅仅是同我们所爱之人的联系
but to everybody including people we can't stand and wish weren't around
还应当包括同我们无法忍受 不愿接触之人的联系
The connection we have is part of what defines us on such a basic level
这种联系是基础层面上定义我们的一部分
Freedom is not freedom from connection
自由不是脱离联系的自由
Serial killing is freedom from connection
连环杀人是脱离联系的自由
Certain large investment firms have established freedom from connection
有些大投资公司建立起了脱离联系的自由
But we as people never do
但我们作为人从不这样
and we're not supposed to, and we shouldn't want to
我们也不该这样 我们也不想这样
We are individuals, obviously, but we are more than that
我们很显然是一些个人 但我们并不止这些
So here's the thing about changing the world
下面是关于改变世界
It turns out that's not even the question, because you don't have a choice
这实际上都不是问题 因为你们没有选择
You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is
你们将要改变世界 这实际上是由世界的属性所决定的
You do not pass through this life, it passes through you
不是你经过这一生 而是这一生从你身旁经过
You experience it, you interpret it, you act
你只是体会它 解释它 然后你采取行动
and then it is different
然后它就会变得不同
That happens constantly
这会持续发生
You are changing the world
你们在改变世界
You always have been, and now
你们一直都在如此 而现在
it becomes real on a level that it hasn't been before
在之前所未有过的层面上 它变得真实
And that's why I've been talking only about you and the tension within you
正因为此 我一直只讨论你们 以及你们心中的张力
because
因为
you are not in a clichd sense, but in a weirdly literal sense, the future
你们是未来 这不是陈词滥调 它具有奇特的字面意义
After you walk up here and walk back down, you're going to be the present
你们上台来 然后下台去 你们会成为当下
You will be the broken world
你们将成为这个被打破的世界
and the act of changing it in a way that you haven't been before
而且你们将以从未有过的方式改变它
You will be so many things
你们将有很多作为
and the one thing that I wish I'd known and want to say
有一点我希望我早点知道 而且告诉你们
is, don't just be yourself
也就是 别只成为你自己
Be all of yourselves
成为所有的自己
Don't just live
不要只是活着
Be that other thing connected to death
还要联系到另一端的死亡
Be life. Live all of your life
过好生活 尊重所有的生活
Understand it, see it, appreciate it
理解它 看透它 感激它
And have fun. Thank you
并过得开心 谢谢
