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哈佛校长毕业典礼演讲 　　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XX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。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.　　这是一个利益在前，道德在后的时代。金钱、地位、权力，已经成为世人追逐的唯一之物，道德和价值观的培育，却渐渐被人遗忘。壁立千仞，无欲则刚。但愿你们不要让利益掩盖良心，以厚德载物自许。我们所追求的，理应是较名与利更能持久的东西。　　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。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