名人励志英语演讲 第151期:感觉失败及寻找幸福(13)

 　　Not a small topic this is, finding happiness. But in some ways I think it's the simplest of all. Gwendolyn Brooks 1 wrote a poem for her children. It's called "Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward". And she says at the end, "Live not for battles won./ Live not for the-end-of-the-song./ Live in the along." She's saying, like Eckhart Tolle, that you have to live for the present. You have to be in the moment. Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

　　追求幸福并不是一个小话题，但在某种程度上来说又是最简单的话题。格温多琳·布鲁克林曾给她的孩子们写了一首诗，诗名是《寄语青少年：关于向前迈进的寄语》。她在诗的最后写道：不要为了战胜而生活，不要为了结局而生活，要活在当下。她的意思和埃尔托克·托拉一样，你应当为了现在而活，你要活在当下。无论过去发生了什么都不应该影响到现在，因为生活就是过好现在。
　　But I think she's also saying, be a part of something. Don't live for yourself alone. This is what I know for sure: In order to be truly happy, you must live along with and you have to stand for something larger than yourself. Because life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward you have to give back. And to me, that is the greatest lesson of life. To be happy, you have to give something back.
　　我想她还在说，去参与一些事。不要仅仅为了自己而生活。我非常确定的是：为了追求真正的幸福，你必须为了一些更有意义的事而生活，而不是只为了自己而活。因为生活就是相互给予。有所付出才能不断前行。这对我来说是人生中最重要的经验。想要得到幸福，你就必须学会给予。
　　I know you know that, because that's a lesson that's woven into the very fabric 2 of this university. It's a lesson that Jane and Leland Stanford got and one they've bequeathed to you. Because all of you know the story of how this great school came to be, how the Stanfords lost their only child to typhoid at the age of 15. They had every right and they had every reason to turn their backs against the world at that time, but instead, they channeled their grief and their pain into an act of grace. Within a year of their son's death, they had made the founding grant for this great school, pledging to do for other people's children what they were not able to do for their own boy.
　　我知道你们明白这个教训，因为它已经深深地融入了斯坦福。这个经验是简和利兰德·斯坦福给你们的馈赠。因为你们所有的人都知道这所伟大的大学是如何建成的。斯坦福夫妇的独子在15岁时得了伤寒离开了他们。在那个时候他们有充分的权利和理由去憎恨这个世界，但是他们却用优雅的行动疏导了心中的悲伤，在他们儿子死后不到一年时，他们已经为这所伟大的大学筹集了建设经费，并发誓要为别人的孩子做一些没能给自己的孩子做到的事情。
　　重点讲解：
　　1. in some ways
　　（某个）方面；（某）点；
　　eg. In some ways, the official opening is a formality.
　　从某些方面来说，正式的开幕仪式只不过是走个形式。
　　eg. These paintings are in some ways a reminder 3 that earthly pleasures are ephemeral.
　　这些画在某种意义上提醒人们世俗的享乐是短暂的。
　　2. for sure
　　无疑；肯定；
　　eg. One thing's for sure, Astbury's vocal 4 style hasn't changed much over the years.
　　有一点可以肯定，阿斯特伯里的演唱风格多年来没怎么改变。
　　eg. Even to this day we don't know what happened for sure.
　　即使到现在我们也不确定究竟发生了什么。
　　3. channel sth. into sth.
　　将……专注于；集中于……；
　　eg. Stephen is channelling his energies into a novel called Blue.
　　斯蒂芬正集中精力写一部名为《蓝色》的小说。
　　eg. Channel all your efforts into this one project, and you will succeed.
　　把你所有的努力都引导到这一个项目上来，你就会成功的。
　　名人简介：
　　活动年表（二）
　　1976 在巴尔的摩的WJZ-TV电视台当记者和一个晚间新闻节目的联合主持人，并遇到助理导演盖尔·金，金后来成为她最亲密的朋友。
　　1978 在WJZ-TV电视台，从晚间节目调至早间节目《人们在谈论》，任该节目联合主持人。
　　1984 在芝加哥主持《芝加哥早晨》节目。
　　1985 遇到将成为她“重要的另一半”的斯特德曼·格雷厄姆和请她出演《紫色姐妹花》（一译《紫色》）中索菲娅一角的昆西·琼斯，后因此片获奥斯卡奖提名。
　　1986 她主持的节目易名为《奥普拉·温弗瑞节目》，并被金氏兄弟公司并购，通过电视辛迪加向全美播送。出演根据理查德·赖特小说改编的电影《土生子》。在芝加哥一湖边购买了公寓。出席朋友玛丽亚·施赖弗和阿诺德·施瓦辛格在马萨诸塞州海恩尼斯举行的婚礼。
　　1987 在离开田纳西州立大学十多年后，奥普拉被授予语言表达与戏剧学位，并在学位授予典礼上致辞。
　　1988 被国际电视与广播协会授予“年度广播员”称号，是获得这一称号的最年青的人。在获得自己节目的所有权和控制权后，她开始制作自己的节目。她将自己的电视公司命名为“哈普”，并购买了影视设备，成为第一位拥有影视公司的女黑人。她在印地安那州购买了一座农场，后又购买了另外两座住宅，一座位于科罗拉多州，一座位于加利福尼亚州。她的朋友兼助手比利·里佐死于艾滋病，她弟弟后来也死于该病。
　　1989 杰弗里·李死于艾滋病。与一位投资人共同开了一家名为“怪异”的餐馆。