演讲稿

Thank you, all. Thank you, President Spar, Ms. Golden, President Tilghman, Members of the Board of Trustees, distinguished faculty, proud swelling parents and family, and gorgeous Class of 2010. If you are all really, really lucky, and if you continue to work super hard, and you remember your thank you notes and everybody's name; and you follow through on every task that's asked of you and also somehow anticipate problems before they even arise and you somehow sidestep disaster and score big.
感谢今天到场的所有听众，撒皮主席，戈登女士，迪格曼主席，董事会的全体成员，尊敬的全体教员们，自豪的家长们，以及出色的2010届毕业生们，谢谢你们的捧场。如果你们足够幸运，如果你们继续努力工作，并且铭记你要感谢的每个人的名字，努力完成每项交给你们的任务，并且能够在发生问题之前未卜先知，及时避免这些问题的发生，那么你就能够避开灾难并且取得巨大成功。
If you get great scores on your LSATS, or MSATS, or ERSATS or whatever. And you get into your dream grad school or internship which then leads to a super job with a paycheck commensurate with responsibilities of leadership or if you somehow get that documentary on a shoe-string budget and it gets accepted at Sundance and maybe it wins Sundance and then you go on to be nominated for an Oscar and then you win the Oscar.
如果你们在各种入学考试中取得好成绩，如法学院入学考试、医学院入学考试等，并且进入了你们梦寐以求的研究院，或者获得了某个岗位的实习机会，这些都为你将来找到一份薪水与你的领导能力相称的好工作铺平了道路；或者你用极小的预算拍摄的纪录片入选了圣丹斯电影节并得了奖，然后得到了奥斯卡提名，并赢得了奥斯卡奖。

重点讲解+名人简历

重点讲解：
1. follow through
完成；进行到底；
eg. I was trained to be an actress but I didn't follow it through.
我接受过演员培训，但是我没有坚持下去。
eg. He decided to follow through with his original plan.
他决定把最初的计划执行到底。
2. get into
获准（入学）；被录取；
eg. I was working hard to get into Cambridge.
我为能上剑桥大学而刻苦学习。
eg. I will study hard and try to get into a law school.
我会努力学习争取上一所法律学校。
3. commensurate with
（比例）相当的，相称的；
eg. Employees are paid salaries commensurate with those of teachers.
给员工的薪水与老师拿的薪水相当。
eg. Her low salary is not commensurate with her abilities.
她的薪水很低，与她的能力不相称。

背景资料：
巴纳德学院（Barnard College）是美国的一所私立女子文理学院，七姐妹学院之一。创建于1889年，1900年起并入哥伦比亚大学，但仍保有独立的董事会与财政机构，而学士学位则由哥伦比亚大学授予。学校位于纽约曼哈顿晨边高地，占地面积约四英亩。校名则是以原哥伦比亚学院（现哥伦比亚大学）院长费雷德里克·巴纳德（Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard）的名字命名的。

名人经典：
My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world, that comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wilder world who need my help.
生活在这个世界上，我的幸福感和目标来自于富有感情地研究这个世界，来自于对工作的热情与投入，来自于保持敏锐与活泼，与所爱的人保持联系，以及接触更广阔世界里需要我帮助的人。