公众人物毕业演讲第204期:杰雷诺2014爱默生学院(2)-英语课

时间：2019-01-25 作者：英语课 分类：公众人物毕业演讲

英语课

　　Smarten up, hey, smarten up, hey, smarten up聪明些嘿聪明些嘿聪明些

　　That was the cure for dyslexia
　　失读症就是这样治的
　　In fact, one day
　　实际上有一天
　　the guy in my high school called my mom and he said我的高中老师把我妈妈找来说
　　have you ever thought of taking Jay out of school你有没有想过把杰从学校领回去
　　You know, Mrs. Leno, education is not for everyone雷诺夫人教育并非对每个人都合适
　　And then he said, Jay works in McDonald's他说杰可以到麦当劳工作
　　you know they have a wonderful hamburger university program他们有一个很棒的汉堡大学项目
　　where they teach the kids how to make change教学生如何得到改善
　　it just could be a real opportunity for Jay这对杰而言是个很好的机会
　　I'm sitting there, going, hello, I'm in the room我则坐在那里说哈罗我在房间里
　　And like a lot of you, I was the class clown, and I'd like to show off和你们很多人一样我是班上的小丑喜欢哗众取宠I thought I'd like to go into show business我想进入脱口秀表演业
　　but I had never met anybody in show business in Massachusetts但我在马萨诸塞州从未碰到过任何脱口秀表演业的人And show business is one of those rare jobs or professions滑稽表演这个行业很独特
　　where people who know absolutely nothing about it feel free to give you advice对它一无所知的人都能随意提出建议
　　A neighbor lady, Mrs. Langell tell my mother我邻居兰盖尔夫人跟我妈说
　　you can't be a comedian 1 unless your father was a comedian父亲不是喜剧演员的人别想当喜剧演员
　　That's the way it is and how it would
　　情况就是这样
　　You can't do it unless your father was a comedian要当喜剧演员父亲必须是喜剧演员
　　I said okay, so I guess that's out
　　我说好吧不过这已经过时了
　　And then for some odd reason I went to Bentley School of Accounting 2 and Finance 3然后出于很独特的原因我进入了本特利会计与金融学校You know why?
　　知道为什么吗
　　Because it was close to my house
　　因为它离我家近
　　That's why I went there
　　这就是我去那里的原因
　　A dyslexic accountant, I lasted one semester一个失读症会计我在那待了一个学期
　　one semester
　　一个学期
　　Then Emerson College saved my life
　　然后爱默生学院挽救了我的人生
　　I remember somebody telling me there was this liberal arts college in Boston我记得有人告诉我波士顿的这家文科院校
　　where a lot of people like me ended up
　　很多和我一样的人都来到这里