公众人物毕业演讲 第253期:斯蒂芬科尔伯特2013弗吉尼亚大学(6)
时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：公众人物毕业演讲
英语课
Now I have to have all of you killed
现在我得把你们都杀了灭口
Now of course, many of you, you already know this当然 你们很多人已经知道这些
but for the uninitiated, let me explain
不过我要为不了解的人解释一下
When a member of the Seven dies
一名7帮会成员死的时候
a wither 1 of black magnolia shapes like a seven一株枯萎的黑木兰 形如7
appear they're grave
就像是在哀悼
and the University Chapel 2 chimes at seven second intervals而大学礼拜堂以7秒为间隔敲响钟声
on the seventh dissonant 3 chord, at seven past the hours钟声是7和弦 在整点后7分种敲响
All the group donations contained the number seven所有组织的捐款都包含数字7
like it's $777,777.77 grant
比如777,777美元77美分捐款
to fund to meet endowment
捐到捐赠基金
So it appears
看起来就像
that the way you qualify for the Sevens
要成为合格的7帮会成员
is by having crippling OCD
你需要有严重的强迫症
and you know what's good for that
你们知道什么对这个好
Adderall
阿得拉
Now what is not a secret?
什么不是秘密呢
It's the list of distinguished UVA alums
弗大的杰出校友名单不是秘密
which is as impressive
这让人印象深刻
as it was easy to copy and paste from Wikipedia你可以直接从维基百科复制粘贴
You've got Woodrow Wilson
有伍德罗·威尔逊
Robert Kennedy
罗伯特·肯尼迪
Janet Napolitano
珍妮特·纳波利塔诺
Katie Couric
凯蒂·库瑞克
Tina Fey
蒂娜·菲
the painter Georgia O'Keeffe
画家乔治亚·欧姬芙
I loved her paintings
我喜爱她的画作
They remind me of something I rarely saw at Hampden-Sydney它们让我想到了汉普敦-悉尼学院久违的东西
And of course
当然还有
Edgar Allan Poe
埃德加·爱伦·坡
or as his roommates called him Creepy Eddie或者按他室友的叫法 恐怖的埃迪
vt.使凋谢，使衰退，(用眼神气势等)使畏缩；vi.枯萎，衰退，消亡
- She grows as a flower does-she will wither without sun.她象鲜花一样成长--没有太阳就会凋谢。
- In autumn the leaves wither and fall off the trees.秋天，树叶枯萎并从树上落下来。
n.小教堂，殡仪馆
- The nimble hero,skipped into a chapel that stood near.敏捷的英雄跳进近旁的一座小教堂里。
- She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chapel.那个星期天的下午，她在小教堂的演出，可以说是登峰造极。