演讲文本

Life doesn't always present you with the perfect opportunity at the perfect time

生活不会总在完美时间将完美机遇放到你的面前

Opportunities come when you least expect them

机遇经常出现在你最不指望它们出现的时候

or when you're not ready for them

或是你没有做好准备的时候

Rarely are opportunities presented to you in the perfect way

机遇很少会以完美方式出现在你的面前

in a nice little box with a yellow bow on top

放在扎有蝴蝶结的精美礼品盒中

Here, open it, it's perfect, you'll love it

给 打开它 它很完美 你会喜欢它的

Opportunities, the good ones

好的机遇

they're messy

都很杂乱

and confusing and hard to recognize

令人困扰 难于辨别

They're risky

风险很大

They challenge you

挑战不小

But things happened so fast

不过一切都会很快发生

because our world is changing so much

这是世界的快速发展使然

You have to make decisions without perfect information

你需要在没有完美信息的情况下作出决定

You have to make decisions based on the fact that the world

你做决定时 需要考虑到世界

is going to continue to change

会持续变化

Believe that the status quo will be supplanted by something better

需要相信现状总会被更好的事物所取代

that someone's crazy business idea will become real and important

有些人的疯狂经营理想会实现 并变得很重要

Believe that this technology however small today is going to be big in the future

相信现在看起来很不起眼的技术 以后会产生深远影响

It could make life better, easier, more meaningful

会让生活更好 更容易 更有意义

for millions of people maybe billions

造福数以百万计 甚至数以十亿计的人

Believe that this groundbreaking cancer research is going to save lives

相信这个开创性癌症研究将能挽救无数生命

Believe that next year, Johns Hopkins Lacrosse will win a national championship

相信明年 约翰霍普金斯长曲棍球队能够获得全国冠军

Look, I know

看 我知道

that the opportunity I had with Google may seem one-of-a-kind

谷歌给我的这种机遇可能看起来像是独一无二的

but think how much our world has changed since you've all grown up

但想想在你们成长起来的这段时间里 世界变化了多少

think of the new companies, technologies, discoveries just in your lifetimes

想想这期间出现了多少新公司 新技术 新发现

Smartphones came out when you were in high school

智能手机在你们读高中的时候出现

and now you can't live without them

现在你们已经离不开它了

人物简介和演讲视频

人物简介

Youtube首席执行官苏珊·沃西基在约翰霍普金斯大学2014年毕业典礼上的演讲。苏珊·沃西基是谷歌旗下全球最大视频网站Youtube的CEO，在2014年福布斯全球权势女性榜中排名第12。演讲中，她讲解了自己人生中的三个故事，包括谷歌两位创始人是如何在她家车库中开始创业的，包括谷歌视频的失败以及谷歌对Youtube的兼并。她从自己的这些亲身经历中，给学生提出了一些饱含哲理的建议。