[哈佛校长的演讲]Good bye and good luck

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today, i speak from this podium a final time as your president. as i depart, i want to thank all of you - students, faculty, alumni and staff - with whom i have been privileged to work over these past years. some of us have had our disagreements, but i know that which unites us transcends that which divides us.

今天，我将以校长的身份，最后一次在这个讲台上演讲。即将离任前，我要感谢诸位学生、教师、校友和员工，而且非常荣幸在过去的5年里能与你们共事。我们中的一些人意见不尽相同，但是，我知道，我们的共识远远超越分歧。

some things look different to me than they did five years ago. the world that today’s harvard’s graduates are entering is a profoundly different one than the world administrators entered.

在我看来，现在于5年前不同了。今天的哈佛毕业生正在进入的世界和管理人员当年所进入的世界相比已是大相径庭了。

it is a world where opportunities have never been greater for those who know how to teach children to read, or those who know how to distribute financial risk; never greater for those who understand the cell and the pixel; never greater for those who can master, and navigate between, legal codes, faith traditions, computer platforms, political viewpoints.

现今世界，机遇对于这些人来说是空前的：他们知道如何教子女阅读；他们知道如何组合投资；他们懂得【计算机科学】基本存储单元和像素概念；他们能掌握各种法典、传统信仰、计算机平台、政治观点并在其中游刃有余。

it is also a world where some are left further and further behind - those who are not educated, those trapped in poverty and violence, those for whom equal opportunity is just a hollow phrase.

同时，现今世界，一些人越来越落后于时代。这些人没受过教育、深陷于贫穷和暴力、平等机遇对他们而言，仅是一句空话。

scientific and technological advances are enabling us to comprehend the furthest reaches of the cosmos, the most basic constituents of matter, and the miracle of life.

科技进步正在使我们能够探索宇宙的边陲、物质最基本的成分及生命的奇迹。

at the same time, today, the actions, and inaction, of human beings imperil not only life on the planet, but the very life of the planet.

与此同时，今天，人类所做的及没能做到的事情，不仅危害到这个星球上的生命，也危害到该星球的寿命。

globalization is making the world smaller, faster and richer. still, 9/11, avian flu, and iran remind us that a smaller, faster world is not necessarily a safer world.

全球化正在使地球变得愈来愈小、愈来愈快和愈来愈富有。尽管如此，9/11、禽流感及伊朗提醒我们，更小更快的世界决不意味着其更安全。

our world is bursting with knowledge - but desperately in need of wisdom. now, when sound bites are getting shorter, when instant messages crowd out essays, and when individual lives grow more frenzied, college graduates capable of deep reflection are what our world needs.

我们正处于一个知识爆炸的世界之中，不过，迫切需要智慧。现在，在（新闻采访的）原声摘要播出变得愈来愈短，即时信息淘汰了杂记文，个人生活变得如痴如狂之际，这个世界还是需要能够深思的大学生。

for all these reasons i believed - and i believe even more strongly today - in the unique and irreplaceable mission of universities.

考虑到这些理由，我过去信仰，而今天甚至更加强烈地信仰大学独特的、无可取代的使命。

universities are where the wisdom we cannot afford to lose is preserved from generation to generation. among all human institutions, universities can look beyond present norms to future possibilities, can look through current considerations to emergent opportunities.

大学是人类把不可或缺的智慧世代流传的殿堂。就人类所有公共机构而言，仅仅大学，能够超越当前的准则，注意到未来的可能性；能通过目前的判断，注意到突发的机遇。

and among universities, harvard stands out. with its great tradition, its iconic reputation, its remarkable network of 300,000 alumni, harvard has never had as much potential as it does now.

哈佛在大学中间，鹤立鸡群。凭其伟大的传统、因袭声誉及其非凡的300000校友网，哈佛的潜力前所未有。

and yet, great and proud institutions, like great and proud nations at their peak, must surmount a very real risk: that the very strength of their traditions will lead to caution, to an inward focus on prerogative and to a complacency that lets the world pass them by.

可是，就像伟大和自豪的国家在其鼎盛时期一样，它们必须克服一个完全不能掉以轻心的危险因素：它们传统的绝对强势将会导致谨小慎微、追求内部特权及自满，这将使它们不能与时俱进.

and so i say to you that our university today is at an inflection point in its history. at such a moment, there is temptation to elevate comfort and consensus over progress and clear direction, but this would be a mistake. the university’s matchless resources - human, physical, financial - demand that we seize this moment with vision and boldness. to do otherwise would be a lost opportunity. we can spur great deeds that history will mark decades and even centuries from now. if harvard can find the courage to change itself, it can change the world.

今天，哈佛正处于其历史的转折点。此时此刻的自然倾向是，把贪图舒适和随波逐流留凌驾于进步和方向性之上，但，这可能是错误的。大学无与伦比的资源¬—人、财、物—要求我们远见卓识和勇敢地抓住这个时机，否则，将会坐失良机。我们能推动将会被历史永世铭记的伟大的事业。如果哈佛能找到勇气来改变自己，它就能改变世界。

第二篇：英语演讲稿：good bye and good luck

some things look different to me than they did five years ago. the world that today’s harvard’s graduates are entering is a profoundly different one than the world administrators entered.

it is also a world where some are left further and further behind - those who are not educated, those trapped in poverty and violence, those for whom equal opportunity is just a hollow phrase.

scientific and technological advances are enabling us to comprehend the furthest reaches of the cosmos, the most basic constituents of matter, and the miracle of life.

at the same time, today, the actions, and inaction, of human beings imperil not only life on the planet, but the very life of the planet.

globalization is making the world smaller, faster and richer. still, 9/11, avian flu, and iran remind us that a smaller, faster world is not necessarily a safer world.

our world is bursting with knowledge - but desperately in need of wisdom. now, when sound bites are getting shorter, when(本站隆重推荐好范文网：wwW.) instant messages crowd out essays, and when individual lives grow more frenzied, college graduates capable of deep reflection are what our world needs.

for all these reasons i believed - and i believe even more strongly today - in the unique and irreplaceable mission of universities.

and among universities, harvard stands out. with its great tradition, its iconic reputation, its remarkable network of 300,000 alumni, harvard has never had as much potential as it does now.

第三篇：good luck charlie 英语演讲

hello, everybody. recently i’ve been watching an american tv series which i found very interesting. today, i’m going to introduce it to all of you.

its name is good luck charlie.

good luck charlie is an original disney channel television comedy, which premiered april 4, 2014. it revolves around a denver family, the duncans, as they try to adjust to the birth of their fourth child, charlotte "charlie" duncan. in each episode, the big sister teddy duncan creates a video diary containing advice for charlie about their family and life as a teenager. teddy tries to show charlie what she might go through when she is older in the video diaries. each video diary ends with teddy saying the same phrase, "good luck, charlie."

when the parents return to work, they ask their three older children to help raise their little sister. at the same time, the children are trying to deal with school and typical social challenges in their lives.

now, i’m going to show you the main characters. ? teddy duncan

she is charlie's older and only sister, as well as the second oldest of the duncan children. feeling that she will not be around for long when charlie is grown, she produces and directs video diaries for her.

? pj duncan

he is the eldest. he and teddy often fight, although they care about each other, and he usually gets along well with his younger brother, gabe. he often appears awkward, sometimes mindless and childish, but has shown on many occasions to be resourceful, creative and intelligent.

? gabe duncan

he is the middle children, being the younger brother of teddy and pj, and older brother of charlie. he is a prankster, and a troublemaker, often sarcastic and lazy, but can also be dutiful and determined at times.? charlie duncan

she is the title character and the youngest of the duncan children. she is always happy and seldom

cries. charlie can also be mischievous at times. many of the duncan family's adventures revolve around her. ? amy duncan

she is the mother of four kids .she works as a hospital nurse and she is dutiful, protective and comedic. she loves her family, and does everything she can to care for and protect them.

? bob duncan

he is the father of four kids. he owns his own pest control company, "bob's bugs be gone". he loves bugs and attends the bug convention every year.

? ivy wentzteddy’s best friend emmettpj’s best friend mrs. dabneythe family’s neighbor

this tv show is not only funny, but sometimes educational as well. from this tv series, i can know some american traditions, like some festivals, the prom for seniors and so on. you can watch this tv series for fun when you relax. i hope you’ll enjoy it. thank you！

第四篇：luck and success

what contributes to success? it's believed that everyone is wondering to clarify it. some claim that success only roots in diligent work and everlasting trial and error, whereas others insist fortune is also an indispensable key to success. as far as i'm concerned, industry and luck are both chief factors of success, while it varies in the ratio of one factor to the other with each individual.

diligence is acknowledged by almost everyone unable to be omitted in search of success. all the hard work in the world can't make up for bad luck. however, hard work can invite good luck for us. as we can see, the forerunners in diverse field, no matter what backgrounds they are born or grow in, are all characterized by diligence. take jack ma, the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of alibaba group and chairman of alibaba, for example and it comes as no surprise that he went through one hardship after another before his final success. after an extremely slow dial-up connection, he got half a page with difficulty and started the tough establishment of china' page. once he said, others can copy my websites, whereas nobody can copy my hardship during the five years. finally, he achieved a fabulous success.

despite the fact that merit of industry had a decisive import on one's success, luck still plays a supporting role and has a lot to do with success, too. success without some luck is almost impossible. without fortune, how could it be that columbus discovered america, enriched his sponsors and changed history? without fortune, how could it be that so many sports stars obtain the gold medal in the olympics? when it comes to success, luck just resembles the dropped apple knocking on head of newton, since it can mean being in the right place to meet someone, or having the right skills to get a job done.

in conclusion, people who work hard help make their own luck by being ready when opportunity knocks. in the road to success, diligence always goes hand in hand with luck.

第五篇：a good teacher, a good luck

i have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. it might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

我相信一名好老师就是一名伟大的艺术家，而且相信好的老师和伟大的艺术家一样难得。教书也许是一门最伟大的艺术，因为它的媒体是人的大脑和灵魂。

i shall speak only of my first teacher because in addition to the other things, she brought discovery.

我特别要说一说我的第一位老师，她教会我们其他知识，也教会我们如何探求知识。

she aroused us to shouting, book waving discussions. she had the noisiest class in school and she didn’t even seem to know it. we could never stick to the subject. she breathed curiosity into us so that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands like captured fireflies.

她让我们大声讨论，挥舞着书本。她的课堂是全校最乱的课堂，而她对此却好像全然不知。我们从不会拘泥于一个科目上。她培养我们的好奇心，让我们自己去发现事实和真理，把它们攥在手中，像被捕捉的萤火虫一样。

she was fired and perhaps rightly so, for failing to teach fundamentals. such things must be learned. but she left a passion in us for the pure knowable world and she inflamed me with a curiosity which has never left. i could not do simple arithmetic but through her i sensed that abstract mathematics was very much like music.

她因未能教授我们基础知识而被解雇了，或许这理由很正当，因为这些知识一定要学。但是她给我们留下了对纯粹的可知世界的热情；她燃起我求知的热情，这种热情前所未有。我虽然不会计算简单的算术题，但是通过她，我感到抽象的数学与音乐非常地相似。when she was relieved, a sadness came over us but the light did not go out. she left her signature on us, the literature of the teacher who writes on minds. i suppose that to a large extent i am the unsigned manuscript of the high school teacher. what deathless power lies in the hands of such a person.

当她被解聘时，我们都很难过，但是那片光明并没有消失。她给我们留下她的签名，那是老师写在我们心中的作品。我想在很大程度上，我正是那位中学老师未经签名的手稿。这样一个人拥有多么永恒的力量啊。

i can tell my son who looks forward with horror to fifteen years of drudgery that somewhere in the dusty dark a magic may happen that will light up the years... if he is very lucky.

我可以告诉我那恐惧地等待15年寒窗之苦的儿子，如果他非常幸运的话，在一片混沌黑暗中，也许会有神奇的事情发生，使他的学生时代一片光明。

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