演讲文本

So if you want to change the world start singing when you're up to your neck in mud

如果你想改变世界 请下次在泥潭浸过颈部时 开始唱歌

Finally, in SEAL training there is a bell

最后 海豹训练有一个铜铃

A brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound for all the students to see

铜铃挂在训练处正中间 所有学员都能看到

All you have to do to quit, is ring the bell

要想退出训练 只需要将铜铃拉响

Ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at 5 o'clock

拉响铜铃后 你就不需要早上5点起床了

Ring the bell and you no longer have to be in the freezing cold swims

拉响铜铃后 你就不需要在刺骨的海水中游泳了

Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the runs, the obstacle course, the PT

拉响铜铃后 你就不再需要长跑 跨障碍训练和身体锻炼了

and you no longer have to endure the hardships of training

你就不再需要忍受训练的一切艰难困苦了

All you have to do is ring the bell to get out

要想退出训练 你只需拉响铜铃

If you want to change the world don't ever, ever ring the bell

如果你想改变世界 千万不要去拉铃

To the class of 2014, you are moments away from graduating

2014届毕业生 你们马上就要毕业

Moments away from beginning your journey through life

马上就要踏上人生的旅途

Moments away starting to change the world for the better

马上就要加入改变世界的行列中来

It will not be easy

这并不简单

But you are the class of 2014 the class that can affect the lives of 800 million people in the next century

但你们是2014届毕业生 你们在下世纪 将能够影响八亿人命运

Start each day with a task completed

每天从完成第一个任务开始

Find someone to help you through life

找到能够帮助你的同伴

Respect everyone

尊敬所有人

Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often but if take you take some risks

了解生命并不公平 你经常有可能失败 但只要你勇敢去冒一些险

step up when the times are toughest face down the bullies

在最艰难的时刻激发全力 不惧嘲笑

lift up the downtrodden and never ever give up

百折不挠 永不放弃

if you do these things, then next generation and the generations that follow

只要你能做到这些 下一代以及之后的子子孙孙

will live in a world far better than the one we have today and

就肯定都能生活在一个比现在好很多的世界

what started here will indeed have changed the world for the better

我们在这里开始做的事情 肯定能够让世界变得更好

Thank you very much

非常感谢

人物简介和演讲视频

人物简介

威廉·麦克雷文，1977年加入海豹突击队，四星级上将，曾指挥猎杀伊拉克高级将领和击毙本拉登行动，2011年8月，就任美国特种作战司令部总司令。麦克雷文是德克萨斯大学的校友，此番重回校园发表毕业典礼演讲，他将自己最初在海豹突击队训练时的经历分享给毕业生，并从中抽出哲理，作为对毕业生的建议。