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1、学生会的老师就像这个大家庭里的家长，他(她)们慈爱而又严厉，老师们教会我们做人，教会我们学习，教会我们工作。老师对我们的关心与疼爱我们始终看在眼里，记在心里哈弗毕业典礼致辞英文哈弗毕业典礼致辞英文Oh my goodness! Im at Harvard! Wow! To President Faust, my fellow honorans, Carlthat was so beautiful, thank you so much, and James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson, Harvard faculty, with a special bow to m
2、y friend Dr. Henry Lewis Gates. All of you alumni, with a special bow to the Class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars. And to you, members of the Harvard class of XX! Hello!我的天啊!我在哈.佛!真的!尊敬的Faust校长、和我一起获得荣誉学位的各位，Carl(注：Carl Muller哈佛校友会主席)，真是太棒了，谢谢你们!还有James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson和哈佛的教
3、职工们，特别感谢我的朋友Henry Lewis Gates博士(注：美国知名黑人教授)!感谢所有的哈佛校友，特别要感谢88届的毕业生，你们为哈佛捐出一亿一千五百万美元(注：哈佛历史上最多的一次同一班次校友捐款)。所有XX届的各位毕业生们!大家好!I thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of your next chapter. To say that Im honored doesnt even begin to q
4、uantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate from Harvard. Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge. And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary
5、 for myself, I consider today a defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey. My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration. Im going to address my remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the Quad.感谢
6、你们让我成为你们人生这一篇章的结束与下一篇章开始的纽带。对我而言，荣幸根本无法表达我内心深处对哈佛授予我荣誉学位的感激之情。不是每个来自密西西比州的农村小姑娘都能来到剑桥城的(注：哈佛位于波士顿郊剑桥城)。我可以告诉你们，当我今天早上坐在这个台上，为你们和我自己流下眼泪的时候，我觉得今天是我漫长并被祝福的人生旅途中的一个里程碑。我希望今天我能为你们带来一些启发。我的演讲是为那些曾在人生中感到自卑或觉得自己没有优势，甚至觉得生活一团糟的人，这就是我给哈佛带来的演讲。Actually I was so honored I wanted to do something really special
7、for you. I wanted to be able to have you look under your seats and there would be free master and doctor degrees but I see you got that covered already. I will be honest with you. I felt a lot of pressure over the past few weeks to come up with something that I could share with you that you hadnt he
8、ard before because after all you all went to Harvard, I did not. But then I realized that you dont have to necessarily go to Harvard to have a driven obsessive Type A personality. But it helps. And while I may not have graduated from here I admit that my personality is about as Harvard as they come.
9、 You know my television career began unexpectedly. As you heard this morning I was in the Miss Fire Prevention contest. That was when I was 16 years old in Nashville, Tennessee, and you had the requirement of having to have red hair in order to win up until the year that I entered. So they were doin
10、g the question and answer period because I knew I wasnt going to win under the swimsuit competition. So during the question and answer period the question came “Why, young lady, what would you like to be when you grow up?” And by the time they got to me all the good answers were gone. So I had seen
11、Barbara Walters on the “Today Show” that morning so I answered, “I would like to be a journalist. I would like to tell other peoples stories in a way that makes a difference in their lives and the world.” And as those words were coming out of my mouth I went whoa! This is pretty good! I would like t
12、o be a journalist. I want to make a difference. Well I was on television by the time I was 19 years old. And in 1986 I launched my own television show with a relentless determination to succeed at first. I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every y
13、ear, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew. Sound familiar to anybody here? Eventually we did make it to the top and we stayed there for 25 years.其实我真的很荣幸，因此我想为你们做些特别的事。我想要跟你们说，请看你们座位下面有免费硕士或博士学位证书，但是我发现你们已经有了。说实话，在过去的几个星期我感到很大的压力，因为我想要跟你们分享一些你们从没听到过的东西，毕竟你们都上了哈佛，而我没有。但后来我意识到其实并不是一定要上哈佛
14、才能有一个驱动性强迫型的A型人格，当然上了哈佛还是有帮助的。虽然我没有从哈佛毕业，但我认为我的性格和哈佛的毕业生是一样。大家都知道，我的电视事业生涯开始的出乎意料。正如你们早上听到的，我当时在参加“防火小姐”比赛。那年我16岁(注：奥普拉出生于1954年，今年59岁)，在田纳西州的纳什维尔。在我参加比赛那年之前，想赢的话你必须得是红头发女孩。在进行问答环节时，因为我知道我在泳装比赛中不会赢，所以当问答环节问道：“年轻的女士，你长大后想做什么?为什么?”等轮到我回答的时候，好答案都被之前的参赛者说完了。因为那天早上我正好在“今日秀”中看到了芭芭拉怀特女士，所以我说：“我想成为一名新闻工作者，我想
15、成为为人民带来一些在某种程度上能改变人民生活和改变世界的故事。”当我说出这些话时，我觉得：“哇!还挺不错的!我想做个记者，我要做出一番事业。”后来，19岁时我上了电视。在1986年，我推出了我自己的电视节目，一开始就下定决心要成功。我以前对比赛很紧张，后来我和自己竞争，每年设立一个更高的目标，一步一步地推到极限。对大家来说听着挺熟悉吧?最终，我们成功达到巅峰，并在那里待了25年。The “Oprah Winfrey Show” was number one in our time slot for 21 years and I have to tell you I became pretty
16、comfortable with that level of success. But a few years ago I decided, as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground. So I ended the show and launched OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. The initials just worked out for me. So one year later after launching OWN, nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop. Not just a flop, but a big bold flop they call it. I can still remember
