汤姆-汉克斯在耶鲁大学毕业典礼上的演讲-英语课

时间：2019-02-07 作者：英语课 分类：阅读空间

英语课

　　Tom Hanks, Academy Award-winning actor, writer and director, addresses the Yale College Class of 2011 during the traditional Class Day speech and offers the graduates insight and encouragement.

　　NEW HAVEN 1 ——
　　Minutes before Yale's Class Day began, a tour guide stood on the stone fence outside Old Campus, shouting facts about the university's history as a mass of parents and well-wishers rushed past, seeking their own historic moments — and maybe a peek 2 at Tom Hanks.
　　The two-time Academy Award winner spoke 3 before an audience of 16,000, including 1,300 soon-to-be-graduating seniors wearing somber 4 robes and hats that made Kentucky Derby toppers seem staid in comparison.
　　Students wore, among every other conceivable thing that could be fastened to a head, Viking helmets, trapper caps, sparkling cowboy hats, a toilet seat and roll of toilet paper, a sign reading "Thanks Mom + Dad," and a proper-looking pink hat with a mass of naked Barbie dolls wired to it.
　　The tall blonde senior beneath it said that the Barbie hat was a tribute to her secret society, the Pundits 5. The group, famous for throwing naked parties, had recently gotten into hot water with the university for, quite predictably, throwing a naked party.
　　"It's like a royal wedding busted 6 out," said Hanks (wearing a Yale baseball cap), as he advised graduates not to turn off their electronic devices, telling them that later they could "compare your tweets and Facebook comments to see if anything memorable 7 went down," or post a video mix-up on YouTube.
　　"If it goes viral, you will be as popular as that cat playing with the paper bag," he said, earning laughs.
　　Hanks' speech was not short on jokes, but the main themes he returned to were serious — the difficulties, duties and responsibilities that the students would face following graduation.
　　"The future now rests with you, in your goofy hats, all because you went to Yale," said Hanks. "You are the anointed."
　　He warned students about technology's distractions 8 and the distinctly dark implications of the fact that everyone could, and many did, record anything and post it online.
　　"There is a Big Brother," said Hanks. "He is all of us and he lives in our search engines."

1 haven

n.安全的地方，避难所，庇护所

It's a real haven at the end of a busy working day.忙碌了一整天后，这真是一个安乐窝。
The school library is a little haven of peace and quiet.学校的图书馆是一个和平且安静的小避风港。

2 peek

vi.偷看，窥视；n.偷偷的一看，一瞥

Larry takes a peek out of the window.赖瑞往窗外偷看了一下。
Cover your eyes and don't peek.捂上眼睛，别偷看。

3 spoke

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说