公众人物毕业演讲 第256期:斯蒂芬科尔伯特2013弗吉尼亚大学(9)
时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：公众人物毕业演讲
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After all, I don't know if you've seen it
我不知道你们见过这个没有
This week's Time Magazine called you
本周的时代杂志把你们称作
lazy entitled narcissists
懒惰的自恋狂
who are part of the Me Me Me Generation
你们是"我我我一代"的一部分
So self obsessed 1, tweeting your Vines
如此自我沉醉 用推特发送Vine
hashtagging your Spotifys
为Spotify加标签
and Snapchatting your YOLOs
对YLO使用Snapchat
your generation needs everything to be about you
你们这一代需要一切都围绕着你们
And that's very upsetting to us baby boomers
这让我们婴儿潮这一代很不爽
because self-absorption is kind of our thing
因为自我陶醉本应是我们的东西
We are the original "Me Generation"
我们是最初的"自我一代"
We made the last 50 years all about us
我们让过去50年都围绕着我们
We took all the money
我们赚了所有的钱
we soaked up all the government services 我们攫取了所有的政府服务
and we've deep fried nearly everything in the ocean
我们炸透了几乎海洋里的一切
It may seem that all that's left for you is unpaid 2 internships
似乎留给你们的只剩下没有工钱的实习
Monday to Tuesday mail delivery
周一到周二的邮件递送
and thanks to global warming
还有得益于全球变暖
soon semester at sea
很快 海上学期
will mean sailing the coast of Ohio
就会成为沿俄亥俄洲海岸航行
Now in our defence, in my generation's defence
下面为我们这一代人辩护
how were we supposed to know that you were coming?
我们怎么知道你们正继往开来
We thought it went like this
我们以为是像这样
Every successive generation of mankind
一代人接一代人
and then us
然后是我们
roll credits
这就完了
but while
不过 虽然
we may be leaving you with an economy
我们留给你们的经济环境
with fewer job opportunities for the new graduate to slip into
对于新毕业生而言 工作机会可能确实更少了
while traditional paths may seem harder to find
虽然传统工作似乎更难寻找了
that also means
但这也意味着
that you may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson
你们能够比其他很多代人 更快学到艰难的一课
that you must always make the path for yourself
也就是 你必须为自己铺平道路
adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的
- He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
- The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。