公众人物毕业演讲 第53期:肖恩库姆斯霍华德大学(9)
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：公众人物毕业演讲
英语课
You will change the world
你们将能改变世界
Let that sink in
记住这一点
You will change the world
你们将能改变世界
I want you to take the craziest dream you've ever had
我要你们勇敢去做最疯狂的梦
that dream that you're too embarrassed to tell anyone about
哪怕这个梦想让你觉得讲出来很不好意思
and I want you to go out there
我希望你们努力去实现
I want you to make it a reality
努力让梦想变为现实
I don't want you to dream. I want you to do
除了梦想 我还希望你们着手去做
Let me tell you about this dream that I had, this crazy dream
我给你们讲讲我做过的疯狂的梦
It's 10 years ago
这是十年前
I've decided 1 to run the New York City marathon
我决定去跑纽约市马拉松赛
I want to raise money for the public school system
希望借此给公立学校系统筹钱
I raise $2 million
我要筹两百万美元
I even got a call from Oprah
欧普拉还打电话给我
who said that if I beat her marathon time
如果我能突破她的马拉松时间
she would donate a lot of money to the course
她愿意为我捐很多钱
but there was a catch
但这有个问题
I had to finish the whole thing. I had to finish the entire race
我需要跑完整个马拉松赛
Now the marathon is 26.2 miles
马拉松全长26.2英里
Have any of you been on a treadmill 2 for one mile?
你们在跑步机上跑过哪怕1英里吗
With 26.2 miles
这可是26.2英里
there were a lot of brothers and sisters running that thing
有很多兄弟姐妹都在参赛
Now here's the crazy point
疯狂的地方在这里
the recommended training time for marathon is six months
马拉松的推荐训练时间是六个月
but I came up with this idea where only eight weeks left to train
但我想到要跑马拉松时 只剩下八周训练时间
only had eight weeks
只有八周
Nobody believed I would finish, everybody thought I was crazy
没人相信我能完成 大家都认为我疯了
but there was something in me that just wouldn't listen to them
不过我不会听别人怎么说我
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
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