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不论是绘画、生物还是金融，如果你不去尝试做你喜欢的事，不去追求你认为最有意义的东西，你会后悔的。人生之路很长，总有时间去实施备选方案，但不要一开始就退而求其次。找个你喜欢的工作吧，要是你在醒着的时间里超过一半都在做不喜欢的事，你很难会感到幸福!
不论是绘画、生物还是金融，如果你不去尝试做你喜欢的事，如果你不去追求你认为最有意义的东西，你会后悔的。人生之路很长，总有时间去实施备选方案，但不要一开始就退而求其次。找个你喜欢的工作吧，要是你在醒着的时间里超过一半都在做你不喜欢的事，你很难会感到幸福!(本文为哈佛校长Drew Gilpin Faust给2008届本科毕业生的演讲)
In the curious custom of this venerable institution, I find myself standing before you expected to impart words of lasting wisdom. Here I am in a pulpit, dressed like a Puritan minister — an apparition that would have horrified many of my distinguished forebears and perhaps rededicated some of them to the extirpation of witches. This moment would have propelled Increase and Cotton into a true “Mather lather.” But here I am and there you are and it is the moment of and for Veritas.
这所备受尊崇的学校历来好学求知，所以你们期待我的演讲能传授永恒的智慧。我站在这个讲坛上，穿得像个清教徒牧师——这身打扮也许会把很多我的前任吓坏，还可能会让其中一些人重新投身于消灭女巫的事业中去，让英克利斯和考特恩父子出现在如今的“泡沫派对”上哈佛校长毕业典礼演讲哈佛校长毕业典礼演讲。但现在，我在台上，你们在底下，这是一个属于真理、追求真理的时刻。
You have been undergraduates for four years. I have been president for not quite one. You have known three presidents; I one senior class. Where then lies the voice of experience? Maybe you should be offering the wisdom. Perhaps our roles could be reversed and I could, in Harvard Law School style, do cold calls for the next hour or so.
你们已经求学四年，而我当校长还不到一年;你们认识三任校长，我只认识一个年级的大四学生。所以，智慧从何谈起呢?也许你们才是应该传授智慧的人哈佛校长毕业典礼演讲文章哈佛校长毕业典礼演讲出自http://www.gkstk.com/article/wk-78500001590983.html，转载请保留此链接！。或许我们可以互换一下角色，用哈佛法学院教授们随机点名提问的方式，让我在接下来的一个小时里回答你们的问题。
We all do seem to have made it to this point —more or less in one piece. Though I recently learned that we have not provided youwith dinner since May 22. I know we need to wean you from Harvard in afigurative sense. I never knew we took it quite so literally.
学校和学生们似乎都在努力让时间来到这一时刻，而且还差不多是步调一致的。我这两天才得知哈佛从5月22日开始就不向你们提供伙食了
虽然有比喻说“我们早晚得给你们断奶”，但没想到我们的后勤还真的早早就把“奶”给断了。
But let’s return to that notion of cold calls for a moment. Let’s imagine this were a baccalaureate service in the form of Q & A, and you were asking the questions. “What is the meaning of life,President Faust? What were these four years at Harvard for? President Faust,you must have learned something since you graduated from college exactly 40 years ago?” (Forty years. I’ll say it out loud since every detail of my life —and certainly the year of my Bryn M awr degree — now seems to be publicly available. But please remember I was young for my class.)
让我们把这个毕业典礼想象成一个问答式环节，你们是提问者哈佛校长毕业典礼演讲讲话致辞。“福斯特校长，生活的意义是什么?我们在哈佛苦读四年是为了什么?福斯特校长，从你四十年前大学毕业到现在，你肯定学到了不少东西吧?”(四十年了。我可以大声承认这个时间，因为我生活的每一个细节——当然包括我获得布尔茅尔学位的年份——现在好像都能公开查到。但请注意，当时我在年级里还算岁数小的。)