公众人物毕业演讲第350期:梅琳达2013在杜克大学(9)-英语课

时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：公众人物毕业演讲

英语课

We were reading all these morbidity 1 and mortality ratios but in 2001, I want to take my first foundation trip to really see the people behind the statistics

分析所有这些发病率和死亡率数据但在2001年我第一次从基金会走出去真正看到数据背后真实的人
I went to India and Thailand and so when I was in the foot of the Himalayas I was in a village. I toured the village most of the day
我去了印度和泰国我到了喜马拉雅山脚下我到了一个村庄整天都在村庄考察
Spent a lot of time with the villagers and the people At the end of the day a woman invited me into her home
同很多村民们谈话这一天最后一位女性邀请我到她家中
And I have to admit I didn't quite know what to expect And as we walked into her small home, she pulled two lawn chairs off of the nail from her kitchen wall
我承认我想不到接下来会发生什么我们步入她的小房子里她从厨房墙面的钉子上拿下两把躺椅
And they were those aluminum 2 kind of folding lawn chairs. You know what, that itchy fabric seat you might've sat on a few for a few hours in Krzyzewskiville She whipped them out and put them on a back porch
这是那种铝制的折叠躺椅你们应该知道上面铺有令人发痒的面料你们排队买篮球票时可能坐过她拿出这两把躺椅放到后阳台上
And what she wanted to do was gaze up at the Himalayas and it reminded me of that my family used to use those same lawn chairs in Dallas We'd sit out in the back patio at night gazing at the stars
她是想坐在这里仰望喜马拉雅山这让我回想起我和家人在达拉斯时也是在后院睡在这种躺椅上其乐融融地看星星
And this woman wanted to talk to me about what my family life was like what inspired me She wanted to tell me the dreams and the hopes she had for her children and her family
这位女性问我我的家庭生活是怎样的是什么激我奋进她跟我讲她对她的子女和家人的希望和梦想
As I left her village and I was traveling home I realized that the biggest difference between her and me was not what we dreamt about
离开这个村庄后回家途中我认识到她和我最大的差异并不在于梦想是什么
But about how hard it was going to be for her to make her dreams come true Now some people assume that Bill and I are too rich
而在于实现梦想的难度她要比我大得多有些人会说比尔和我太富有
To make a connection with somebody who's poor even if we have the right intent but I want to tell you that words like rich and poor
不会同那些穷人真正建立联系哪怕我们的意图是好的但我想告诉你们的是富有和贫穷
They don't define who we are They don't define who we are as human beings The universe is like computer code in that way
并不能定义我们是谁并不能定义我们作为人类的存在宇宙在这方面就像计算机代码一样
It's binary There's life and then there's everything else
它是二进制的一面是生活一面是一切其它事物