大学毕业感言(一)
我们没合适的词来形容孤独的背面,但如果有,我要说,那就是我的今生所求。那是我在耶鲁找到的,我感激的,以及我害怕失去的——明早我们在毕业典礼之后醒来,要离开这片地方的时候。
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life. What I’m grateful and thankful to have found at Yale, and what I’m scared of losing when we wake up tomorrow after Commencement and leave this place.
这感觉说不上是爱,也不是什么同志情怀;只是当你和其他人,许许多多的人一起相互依靠、同舟共济的感觉。和你在同一战线上的同学。你坐着等别人去付帐单。某个晚上凌晨四点却没人有睡觉的意思。那个听吉他声的夜晚。或是什么我们早已记不清的晚上。我们经历过,走过,看过,笑过,感同身受过。还有毕业典礼上满天飞舞的帽子。
It’s not quite love and its’ not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team. When the check is paid and you stay at the table. When it’s four A.M. and no one goes to bed. That night with the guitar. That night we can’t remember. That time we did, we went, we saw, we laughed, we felt. The hats.
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