初中英语阅读拓展 名人励志演讲 奏出生命中最美的乐曲素材（通用）

奏出生命中最美的乐曲Thank you! My name is Bono and I am a rock star. Dont get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited. And Im that guy. Id just like to say to the parents, your children are safe, your country is safe, the FCC has taught me a lesson and the only-the only four-letter word Im going to use today is P-E-N-N. (Safe.) Come to think of it, Bono is a four-letter word. The whole business of obscenity-I dont think theres anything certainly more unseemly than the sight of a rock star in academic robes. Its a bit like when people get their-put their King Charles spaniels in little tartan sweats and hats. Its sort of-its not natural, and it doesnt make the dog any smarter.谢谢！我叫博诺，是个摇滚音乐明星。别让我太激动，因为我一激动就会说出那四个字母的词了。我就是这种人。我只想跟各位家长说，你们的孩子很安全，你们的国家很安全。联邦通讯委员会给了我一个教训所以今天我要用的唯一的四个字母的单词就是P-E-N-N（宾夕法尼亚大学简称）。细想一下，Bono也是由四个字母构成的呀。整件事情都很怪异我想没有什么比摇滚明星穿着博士长袍更不合适的了。就像让查尔斯王子的西班牙猎犬穿上苏格兰格子上衣、戴上帽子一样既不自然，也没有变得更好看。Its true we were here before with U2 and I would like to thank them for giving me a great life, as well as you. Ive got a great rock and roll band that normally stand at the back when Im talking to thousands of people in a football stadium and they were here with me, I think it was seven years ago. Actually then I was with some other sartorial problems. I-I was wearing a mirror-ball suit at the time and I emerged from a forty-foot high revolving lemon. It was a sort of cross between a space ship, a disco and, actully, a plastic fruit.以前我和U2乐队一起来过这里，我要感谢他们给了我很棒的经历，就像你们一样。我有一支很棒的摇滚乐队。当我站在足球场上对着数千人演讲时，他们通常会在背后支持我。我想是七年前吧，他们也曾和我一起站在这里。实际上，那时我的表演服装有些奇怪。我穿着一身会反光的衣服，从一个40英尺高的旋转着的柠檬中现身。那个柠檬就像是宇宙飞船和迪斯科舞厅的混合产物，实际上是一个塑料水果。I think I guess it was at that point when your trustees decided to give me their highest honor. Doctor of Laws, wow! I know its an honor, and it really is an honor, but are you sure? Doctor of Law, -you know, all I can think about is the laws Ive broken. Yes! Laws of nature, laws of physics, laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and on a memorable night in the late seventies, I think it was Newtons law of motion. sickness. But, no, its true, my resume reads like a rap sheet. I have to come clean. Ive broke a lot of laws, and the ones I havent Ive certainy thought about. I have sinned in thought, word, and deed-and God forgive me. Actually God forgave me. But why would you? Im here getting a doctorate, getting respectable, getting in the good graces of the powers that be. I hope it sends you students a powerful message: Crime does pay.我想就是在那一刻你们学院的理事长决定授予我他们的最高荣誉法学博士！哇，太棒了。我知道这只是一种荣誉，它也的确是一种荣誉，但你们相信吗？法学博士提到这个，我所有能想到的就是我所违反过的法则。是的！自然法则，物理定律，宾夕法尼亚州的法律，还有在70年代末一个难忘的夜晚我所违反的法则，我想应该是牛顿的运动定律吧，我生病了，真糟糕！但这是真的，我的简历简直就像警局所存的前科档案。我必须承认，我违反了很多法律，而那些我没有违反的，也曾在我的考虑之内。我在思想、语言和行为上犯过错上帝原谅我吧！事实上，上帝已经宽恕了我。但是你们为什么要授予我此学位呢？我在这里获得了博士学位，赢得了尊重，受到了这一切带给我的恩惠。我希望传递给你们学生一个有力量的信息：犯了罪是一定会受到惩罚的。So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer, it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well, at best Ive got one of the two of those.因此，我满怀谦恭地接受这一荣誉，并且牢记英国剧作家约翰莫蒂默所说的话：“遵守法律不需要卓越的才华，只需要拥有常识和相对干净的手指甲。”我顶多只具备其中的一个条件。But no, I never went to college. Ive slept in some strange places, but the library wasnt one of them. I studied rock and roll and I grew up in Dublin in the 70s; music was an alarm bell for me. It woke me up to the world. I was 17 when I first saw The Clash, and it just sounded like revolution. The Clash were like: This is a public service announcement-with guitars. I was the kid in the crowd who took it at face value. Later I learned that a lot of the rebels were in it for the T-shirt. Theyd wear the boots but they wouldnt march. Theyd smash bottles on their heads but they wouldnt go to something more painful like a town hall meeting. By the way I felt like that myself until recently.我没上过大学，我在一些陌生的地方睡过觉，但图书馆除外。我学的是摇滚音乐，在70年代的都柏林长大。音乐对我来说如同警钟，它唤醒了我，让我开始关注这个世界。我17岁那年第一次见到碰撞乐队，他们的音乐听起来像一次革新。这支乐队“用吉他演奏音乐，性质却是公益事业。”而我当时只是人群中的一个看热闹的小孩。后来我了解到，许多反叛者加入这支乐队只是为了得到一件T恤衫。他们会穿靴子，但他们不游行。他们会往头上砸瓶子，但不会去市政议会厅这些让人感到痛苦的地方。顺便说一句，就在前不久，我也喜欢那样做。I didnt expect change to come so slow. So agonizingly slow. I didnt realize that the biggest obstacle to political and social progress wasnt the Free Masons, or the Establishment, or the boot heal of whatever you consider the Man to be. It was something much more subtle. As the provost just referred to, a combination of our own indifference and the Kafkaesque labyrinth of nos you encounter as people vanish down the corridors of bureaucracy.我没有料想到变革来得如此之慢，慢得让人痛苦。我也没有意识到，政治和社会进步的最大障碍不是共济会，不是国教会，也不是权势集团，而是一些更为微妙的东西。就像院长刚刚说到的，是我们自身的冷漠和荒谬而令人困惑的事物的结合，就像人们在官僚主义的道路上迷失自己的那种感觉一样。So that for better or worse that was my education. I came away with a clear sense of the difference music could make in my own life, in other peoples lives if I did my job right. -Which, if youre a singer in a rock band, means avoiding the obvious pitfalls like, say, a mullet hairdo. If anyone here doesnt know what a mullet is by the way, your educations certainly not complete. Id ask for your money back. For a lead singer like me, a mullet is, I would suggest, arguably more dangerous than a drug problem. Yes, I had a mullet in the 80s.所以，不管是好还是坏，那就是我所接受的教育。当我离开时，我清醒地意识到，如果我做好自己的工作，音乐将会对我的生活以及他人的生活产生巨大的影响作为摇滚乐队的一名歌手，就意味着要避免犯一些显而易见的错误，比如留个胭脂鱼发型。如果有人不知道什么是胭脂鱼发型，那么他所接受的教育就绝对是不全面的，我得把你的学费给要回来。关于胭脂鱼发型，我可以给大家一个提示，像我这样的乐队主唱，留那个发型比吸毒还危险。没错，我在80年代确实留过胭脂鱼发型。Now this is the point where the members of the faculty star smiling uncomfortably and thinking maybe they should have offered me the honors-the honorary bachelors degree instead of the full blown doctorate-he should have been the bachelors one, hes talking about mullets and stuff. And if theyre asking what on earth Im doing here, I think its a fair question. What am I doing here? And more to the point-what are you doing here? Because if you dont mind me saying so: this is a strange ending to an Ivy League educatin. Four years in these historic halls thinking great thoughts, and now youre sitting in a stadium better suited for football, listening to an Irish rock star give a speech that is so far mostly about himself. What are you doing here?现在，各位教师可能会无奈的笑了，他们也许在想，授予我一个荣誉学士学位已经绰绰有余了，而不应授予我学院最高的博士学位，因为我只是在谈论诸如胭脂鱼发型一类的废话。如果他们要问，我到底在这儿干什么，我想这是一个很好的问题。我在这儿做什么呢？更切题一点你们在这儿干什么呢？如果你们不介意的话，我想说，对于常春藤盟校的教育而言，这是一个奇怪的终点。你们在这些历史悠久的殿堂里度过了四年，不断思考着那些伟大的思想，而现在你们却坐在这个更适合踢足球的体育场上，听一个爱尔兰的摇滚歌手做一个几乎全是关于他自己的演讲。你们在这儿干什么呢？Actually I saw something in-in the paper last week about Kermit the Frog giving a commencement address somewhere. One of the students was complaining, I worked my ass off for four years to be addressed by a sock? You have worked your ass off for this. For four years youve been buying, trading, and selling everything youve got in this marketplace of ideas. The intellectual hustle. Your pockets are full, even if your parents are empty, and now youve got to figure out what to spend it on.实际上，我在上周的报纸上看到一篇报道称青蛙科密特在某一所大学发表了毕业演讲。其中有个学生抱怨到：“我在这儿努力学习了四年，难道只为了听这个小丑在这里发表毕业演讲？”你们努力了，过去的四年里，你们在这个思想市场里不断买卖交易，整日忙忙碌碌。即使父母的钱包空了，你们的钱包仍是鼓鼓的，现在你们该想想自己把钱花在了什么地方。Well, the going rate for change is not cheap. Big ideas are expensive. The University has had its share of big ideas. Benjamin Franklin had a few. So did Justice Brennen and in my opinion so does Judith Rodin. What a gorgeous girl. They all know-They all knew that if youre gonna be good at your word, if youre gonna live up to your ideals and your education, its gonna cost you.若想获得改变就必须会出代价，塑造伟大思想的成本更是高昂。这所大学汇集了许多伟大的思想，本杰明富兰克林、贾斯汀斯布仑南都为这所大学贡献了一些伟大的思想。另外，我认为还有朱迪斯罗丹，她是多么优秀的一个女孩呀。这些伟大的思想家都知道，如果想要信守诺言，不辜负自己的理想和自己所受的教育，就必须付出代价。So my question I suppose is: Whats the big idea? Whats your big idea? What are you willing to spend your moral capital, your intellectual capital, your cashes, your sweat equity in pursing outside of the walls of the University of Pennsylvania?因此我想问大家：伟大的理想是什么？你们的伟大理想是什么？当你们离开宾夕法尼亚大学追求自己的梦想时，你们将把自己的道德资本、智力资本、金钱及辛勤劳动投入到什么样的事业当中？Theres a really great-truly great Irish poet, his name is Brendan Kennelly, and he has this epic poem called the Book of Judas, and theres a line in that poem that never leaves my mind. It says:If you want to serve the age, betray it. What does that mean to betray the age?伟大的爱尔兰诗人布兰登肯奈利曾写了一首史诗，名为犹大之书，其中有一句让我永生难忘，“如果你想对时代有所贡献，那么就去背叛它吧！”背叛时代意味着什么？Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, its foibles; its phony moral certitudes. It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths. Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was-which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.对我来说，背叛时代意味着揭露它的自负、缺点和伪善的道德信条；它意味着揭露时代的秘密，直面更为残酷的事实。每个时代都有许多道德盲点。我们也许看不到，但我们的下一代却能看到。奴隶制就是一个盲点，只有为那个时代做出伟大贡献的人们才会如此称呼它，因为他们了解这种制度的荒唐和野蛮。本富兰克林成为宾夕法尼亚废除奴隶制委员会主席时就称其为奴隶制。Segregation. There was another one. America sees this now but it took a civil rights movement to betray their age. And 50 years ago the U.S. Supreme Court betrayed the age. May 17, 1954, it says here, Brown vs. Board of Education came down and put the lie to the idea that separate can ever really be equal. Amen to that.种族隔离，这是另一个盲点。现在美国已经意识到了这一点，但却是从全国的民权运动开始背叛那个时代的。50年前，美国最高法院背叛了时代。1954年5月17日，布朗诉求教育委员会案胜诉，揭穿了“隔离但平等”这一谎言。阿门。Fast forward 50 years.-May 17, 2020. What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now? What are the blind spots of our age? Whats worth spending your post-Penn lives trying to do or undo? It might be something simple. It might be something as simple as our deep down refusal to believe that every human life has equal worth. Could that be it? Could that be it? Each of you will probably have your own answer, but for me that is it. And for me the proving ground has been Africa.50年很快就过去了。今天2020年5月17日，我们要背叛哪些思想呢？我们对自己说了什么谎呢？我们这个时代的盲点是什么？离开宾夕法尼亚大学后，什么值得去做什么不值得去做？答案也许非常简单，就像我们在内心深处拒绝相信每一个生命都有相同的价值一样简单。是我说的那样吗？是那样吗？你们每个人也许都将会有自己的答案，但对我来说确实是这样的。非洲就是最好的证明。Africa makes a mockery of what we say, at least what I say, about equality and questions our pieties and our commitments because theres no way to look at whats happening over there and its effect on all of us and conclude that we actually consider Africans as our equals before God. There is no chance.非洲的状况是对我们所言的嘲弄，至少是对我所言的平等的嘲弄，是对虔诚和承诺的质疑。因为那儿正在发生着的一切及其对我们所有人的影响无法推出我们所认为的“在上帝面前，非常人和我们是平等的”这样的结论。绝不可能推出这样的结论。An amazing event happened here in Philadelphia in 1985-Live Aid-that whole We Are the World phenomenon the concert that happened here. Well after that concert I went to Ethiopia with my wife, Ali. We were there for a month and an extraordinary thing happened to me. We used to wake up in the morning and the lift-the mist would be lifting. Wed see thousands and thousands of people whod been walking all night to our food station where we were working.1985年，在费城举行了一件盛事，一场名为“四海一家，现场援助”的现场义演在那里举行。义演之后，我和妻子阿里去了埃塞俄比亚。我们在那里呆了一个月，这期间发生了一件令人又难以置信的事情。那时我们通常在晨雾散开的清晨醒来，看到成千上万的人们连夜步行来到我们工作的食品救助站。And one man-I was standing outside talking to the-the translator-his beautiful boy and he was saying to me in Amharic, I guess it was-I was saying I cant understand what hes saying-and this nurse who spoke English and Amharic said to me, hes saying, Will you take his son? Hes saying please take his son, he-he. would be a great son for you. And I was looking puzzled and he said, You must take my son because if you dont take my son, my son will surely die. If you take him he will go-go back to where he is Ireland and get an education.-Probably like the ones were talking about today. And of course I said-I had to say no, that was the rules there and I walked away from that man, Ive never really walked away from it. But I think about that-that boy and that man and thats when I started this journey thats brought me here into this stadium.有一天，我站在外面，和翻译聊天时，有一个男人带着一个漂亮的男孩过来跟我说话，我猜他说的是阿姆哈拉语，我说我听不懂他说的是什么。于是这个既会讲英语又会讲阿姆哈拉语的护士告诉我，他在问我能否带走他的孩子。他说请带走这个孩子吧，他将会是一个懂事的好孩子。我很困惑，但他又接着说：“你一定要带走我的孩子，否则他一定会死的。如果你把他带到爱尔兰，他将能受到良好的教育。”也许就像我们今天所讨论的教育。按照那里的规定，我不得不拒绝了他，然后走开。但是，我从未真正走开，我一直在想着那个人和那个孩子，这也是我开始这段旅程来这里演说的原因。Because at that moment I became the worst scourge on Gods green earth, a rock star with a cause. Krikee. Except it isnt the cause. Seven thousand Africans dying every day of preventable, treatable disease like AIDS? Thats not a cause-thats an emergency. And when the disease gets out of control because most of the population live on less than a dollar a day? Thats not a cause, thats an emergency. And when resentment builds because of unfair trade rules and the burden of unfair debt, that are debts by the way that keep Africans poor? Thats not a cause-thats an emergency. So-We Are The World, Live Aid, start me off. You know, it was an extraordinary thing and really that event was about charity. But 20 years on Im not that interested in charity. Im interested in justice. Theres a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity.因为那一刻，我成为了这个绿色地球上最痛苦的人，一个肩负使命的摇滚明星。上帝啊，这不是一项事业。每天有7000非洲人死于可预防、可治疗的疾病，比如艾滋病。这不是一项事业而是燃眉之急。这种疾病失控是因为这里大部分人每天的生活费不足一美元。这不是可以慢慢解决的事情，这是燃眉之急呀。不公平的贸易规则和不平等的债务使非洲无法摆脱贫困，这造成人们的怨恨。这不是一项事业，而是燃眉之急。因此“四海一家，现场援助”等活动使我开始了这段非凡的旅程，而且这些事情完全是慈善性质的。但是，20年之后，我不再对慈善那么感兴趣了，我感兴趣的是公平。慈善和公平是有区别的。非洲对公平的渴求如同慈善一样多。Equality for Africa is a big idea. Its a big expensive idea. I see that the Wharton graduates now getting out the math on the back of their programs. Numbers are intimidating, arent they? But not to you! But the scale-the scale of the suffering and the scope of the commitment, they often numb us into a kind of indifference. Wishing for the end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa is like wishing that gravity didnt make things so damn heavy. We can wish it, but what the hell can we do about it?赋予非洲平等是一项伟大而耗资巨大的事业。我看到沃顿商学院的毕业生已经在计算它的成本了。数目大得惊人，不是吗？但对你们来说不是这样的。苦难的沉重和责任的重大往往使我们麻木，漠不关心。对终结非洲的艾滋病和极度贫困的希望，如同希望引力不要让物体那么重一样。我们可以抱有希望，但我们究竟能为此做些什么呢？Well, more than we think. We cant fix every problem-corruption, natural calamities are part of the picture here-but the ones we can we must. The debt burden, as I say, unfair trade, as I say, sharing our knowledge, the intellectual copyright for lifesaving drugs in a crisis, we can do that. And because we can, we must. Because we can, we must. Amen.这比我们想象的更为复杂。我们无法解决所有的问题腐败和自然灾害是无法抵抗的但对于力所能及的问题，我们必须竭尽所能地去解决。我认为，外债负担、不公平贸易、知识共享以及危急时刻救命药物的知识产权问题，我们是可以做到的。因为我们可以做到，那我们就必须去做。我们可以做到，就要竭尽所能。阿门。This is the straight truth, the righteous truth. Its not a theory; its a fact. The fact is that this generation-yours, my generation-that can look at the poverty. Were the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, We can be the first to end this sort of stupid, extreme poverty, where, in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in its belly. We can be the first generation. It might take a while, but we can be that generation that says no to stupid poverty. Its a fact. Its a fact. The economists confirm it. Its an expensive fact but, cheaper than say the Marshall Plan that saved Europe from communism and fascism. And cheaper I would argue than fighting wave after wave of terrorisms new recruits. Thats the economics department over there, very good.这就是现实，真正的现实。不是理论，而是现实。现实就是我们这代人和你们这代人要直面贫困，我们是第一代能够穿越大洋直面非洲的贫困和疾病的人，我们这样说：“我们也可以成为结束这种荒谬的极度贫困的第一代人，在这个丰裕的时代，那里的孩子正因为肚子里没有食物而死去，”我们可以成为这第一代人。也许解决这一问题需要很长时间，但我们可以成为对这种荒谬的贫困说“不”的第一代人。这就是事实，这就是事实！经济学家证实，解决这一问题耗资巨大，但却比从共产主义和法西斯主义中拯救欧洲的“马歇尔计划”耗资要少得多，也比一浪高过一浪的反恐部队的开支要少得多。那边就是经济系的学生吧，真是太好了。Its a fact. So why arent we pumping our fists in the air and cheering about it? Well, probably because when we admit we can do something about it, weve got to do something about it. For the first time in history we have the know-how, we have the cash, we have the lifesaving drugs, but do we have the will?这就是事实。为什么我们没有挥舞着拳头欢呼呢？也许是因为如果我们承认了我们可以做出行动，我们就得有所作为。有史以来第一次，我们拥有了解决方法、资金以及救命的药物，但是我们有决心吗？Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, at the Liberty Bell, I met a lot of Americans who do have the will. From arch-Are you here? Theres the three million of them over there-From arch religious conservatives to young secular radicals, I just felt an incredible overpowering sense that this was possible, yesterday. Were calling it the ONE campaign to put an end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa. They believe we can do it, so do I.昨天，在费城的自由钟下，我见到很多有此决心的美国人，他们中有忠实信教的保守派这里有吗？那边有300万人也有年轻不信教的激进分子。当时我强烈感觉到这是有可能的。我们称之为统一战役，一次终结非洲的艾滋病和极度贫困的战役。他们相信我们能够取得成功，我也相信。I really, really do believe it. And I just want you to know, I think this is obvious, but Im not really going in for the warm fuzzy feeling thing. Im not a hippy. I do not have flowers in my hair. I come from punk rock, alright? The Clash wore army boots not Brikenstocks, alright? I believe America can do this! I believe that this generation can do this. In fact I want to hear an argument about why we shouldnt.我真的非常相信这一点。很明显，我只是想让你们了解事实。但我并不是为了充满暖意而虚幻的感觉做这件事。我不是嬉皮士，也不把花戴在头上，我来自一支朋克乐队，碰撞乐队穿的是军靴而不是舒适的勃肯鞋。我相信美国人可以做到。我相信你们这一代人可以做到。事实上，我想听听否定的声音，告诉我为什么我们做不到。I know idealism is not playing on the radio right now. You dont see it on TV. Irony is on heavy rotation, the knowingness, the smirk, the tired joke. Ive tired them all out but Ill tell you this, outside this campus-and even inside it-idealism is under siege, beset by materialism, narcissism and all the other isms of indifference: baggism, shaggism, raggism, thatism, graduationism, chismism, I dont know. Wheres John Lennon when you need him.我知道现在的广播上、电视上都不会有理想主义，而讽刺圆滑、全知全能、幸灾乐祸和枯燥无味的笑话却比比皆是。这些我都经历过，但现在我要告诉你们的是，在这个校园外甚至在校园里理想主义遭到了其他势力的攻击，比如物质主义、自恋主义以及各种类型的冷漠主义，如灯笼裤主义、蓬乱主义、褴褛主义、