中国农村学子首登哈佛毕业演讲中英全文

第一篇：中国农村学子首登哈佛毕业演讲中英全文

中国农村学子首登哈佛毕业演讲

这位来自湖南农村的小伙何江是哈佛大学历史上第一位享此殊荣的中国大陆学生。他从全校数万名毕业生选拔中脱颖而出，在演讲中讲述了一个自己中学时代被毒蜘蛛咬伤的故事，进而推及到自己在哈佛大学所切身体会到的现金科技知识。他说：“作为一名科学家，积极地将我们所学会的知识传递给那些急需这些知识的人是多么的重要。”

美国东部时间2016年5月26日是哈佛的第365个毕业日，在这次的毕业典礼上，来自中国湖南的生物系博士生毕业生何江作为代表做了毕业典礼演讲。每年哈佛毕业典礼都会有三位学生做演讲，而今年，著名导演史蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格作为今年的特邀嘉宾登台演讲。

何江是中国大陆首位登上该演讲台的学生。作为一名从湖南农村长大的生物学博士生，何江用他的亲身经历——被蜘蛛咬伤的往事讲起，说明知识传播、知识分布资源平衡的重要性。在演讲过程中，他面带微笑、镇定自若，向世界展示了中国学子的风采。

以下为演讲全文：

When I was in middle school, a poisonous spider bit my right hand.I ran to my mom for help—but instead of taking me to a doctor, my mom set my hand on fire.After wrapping my hand with several layers of cotton, then soaking it in wine, she put a chopstick into my mouth,and ignited the cotton.在我上中学的时候，一只有毒蜘蛛咬伤了我的右手，我去找母亲帮忙，但是她没有找医生，却把我的手放在火上面。她用酒浸过的棉纱绕着我的手缠了好几层之后，在我的嘴里放了一根筷子，然后点燃了棉纱。

Heat quickly penetrated the cotton and began to roast my hand.The searing pain made me want to scream, but the chopstick prevented it.All I could do was watch my hand burnone minute, then two minutes –until mom put out the fire.棉纱上的温度很快上来了，我的手也开始发烫。这股灼痛让我想要大叫，不过我嘴里含着的筷子让我叫不出来。我唯一能做的就是看着我的手骨，一分钟过去了，两分钟过去了，直到母亲熄灭火。

You see, the part of China I grew up in was a rural village, and at that time pre-industrial.When I was born, my village had no cars, no telephones, no electricity, not even running water.And we certainly didn’t have access to modern medical resources.所以你看到，我是在中国的一个小山村里成长的，在那个时候，并不发达。在我出生的那个年代，我们村没车、没电话、也没电，甚至都没有自来水！且理所当然地，我没有接触现代医疗资源的办法。

There was no doctor my mother could bring me to see about my spider bite.For those who study biology, you may have grasped the science behind my mom’s cure: heat deactivates proteins, and a spider’s venom is simply a form of protein.It’s cool how that folk remedy actually incorporates basic biochemistry, isn’t it?

当我被蜘蛛咬伤时，并没有医生可以来治疗我。对于学生物学的人来说，你也许能找到我母亲治愈背后所包含的科学原理：热量能够让蛋白质失活，而蜘蛛的毒液都是蛋白质组成的。将这个土方子和生物化学基础联系起来很神奇，不是吗？

But I am a PhD student in biochemistry at Harvard, I now know that better, less painful and less risky treatments existed.So I can’t help but ask myself, why I didn’t receive one at the time? 不过我现在是一个在哈佛学习生物化学的博士生，我现在知道了一个更好的、不那么痛、危险系数更小的治疗方法。所以，我忍不住问我自己，为什么那个时候我不能接受更好的治疗吗？

Fifteen years have passed since that incident.I am happy to report that my hand is fine.But this question lingers, and I continue to be troubled by the unequal distribution of scientific knowledge throughout the world.距离那个事故发生已经十五年了，我很高兴地告诉你们：我的手现在恢复地很好。不过这个问题在我心里萦绕了很久，我也时常会被科学知识分布的不均衡问题所困扰。

We have learned to edit the human genome and unlock many secrets of how cancer progresses.We can manipulate neuronal activity literally with the switch of a light.Each year brings more advances in biomedical research-exciting, transformative accomplishments.我们曾学习过如何编辑人类基因谱，揭示了许多关于癌症的秘密。我们能够轻松地操控神经元的活动。生物医药研究每年都会有很多进步和令人振奋的变革、成就。

Yet, despite the knowledge we have amassed, we haven’t been so successful in deploying it to where it’s needed most.According to the World Bank, twelve percent of the world’s population lives on less than $2 a day.虽然我们取得了很多成就，但是我们却不能将这些成就传递到最需要它的地方。据世界银行统计数据表明，世界人口的12%一天的生活费不到2美元。

Malnutrition kills more than 3 million children annually.Three hundred million people are afflicted by malaria globally.All over the world, we constantly see these problems of poverty, illness, and lack of resources impeding the flow of scientific information.每年都有三百万的儿童死于营养不良。全球有三亿的人收到疟疾的影响。在全世界，我们能看到无数的贫困问题，病痛问题以及资源匮乏导致科学信息不流通的问题。

Lifesaving knowledge we take for granted in the modern world is often unavailable in these underdeveloped regions.And in far too many places, people are still essentially trying to cure a spider bite with fire.救生知识在现代化的世界是理所当然的，不过在经济欠发达地区却是高不可及的。所以，在许许多多地方，人们还是用火来治疗蜘蛛的咬伤。While studying at Harvard, I saw how scientific knowledge can help others in simple, yet profound ways.The bird flu pandemic in the 2000s looked to my village like a spell cast by demons.在哈佛学习期间，我知道了科学知识是如何用简单的又深刻的方式帮助到其他人的。2000年的一次流感使我的家乡像被恶魔下了诅咒一般。

Our folk medicine didn’t even have half-measures to offer.What’s more, farmers didn’t know the difference between common cold and flu;they didn’t understand that the flu was much more lethal than the common cold.Most people were also unaware that the virus could transmit across different species.我们的民间治疗根本找不到解决办法。更严重的是，农民们不知道普通的感冒和流感之间的区别。他们不明白流感比普通的感冒要致命地多。他们中的大多数人都对病毒在动物种类间的传播没有概念。

So when I realized that simple hygiene practices like separating different animal species could contain the spread of the disease, and that I could help make this knowledge available to my village.所以我意识到简单的卫生治疗方法例如将动物隔离可以治疗这种病时，我可以用这种方式让我的家乡更快接受这种科学知识。That was my first “Aha” moment as a budding scientist.But it was more than that: it was also a vital inflection point in my own ethical development, my own self-understanding as a member of the global community.那是我作为生物科学家的第一次惊叹。不过也不仅仅就此而已：这也是我自身理念提升的至关重要的一个转折，也是关于我作为地球上一员的自我理解的转折。

Harvard dares us to dream big, to aspire to change the world.Here on this Commencement Day, we are probably thinking of grand destinations and big adventures that await us.哈佛鼓励我们有大梦想，去激励我们改变这个世界。在这个毕业日，我们也可以想象等待我们的伟大宏图。

As for me, I am also thinking of the farmers in my village.My experience here reminds me how important it is for researchers to communicate our knowledge to those who need it.Because by using the science we already have, we could probably bring my village and thousands like it into the world you and I take for granted every day.And that’s an impact every one of us can make!但是对于我来说，我还在想着我家乡的农民们。我的经历让我意识到，将知识传递给需要的人是多么重要。因为，运用我们所知道的知识，我们可以将知识传递到我的家乡和千万个像我家乡一样的地方带进这个我们在座每个人所习以为常的世界。

But the question is, will we make the effort , or not? 不过问题是，我们会不会尽力呢？

More than ever before,our society emphasizes science and innovation.But an equally important emphasis should be on distributing the knowledge we have to where it’s needed.很久之前，我们的社会就强调过科学和创新的重要性，但是同等重要的，我们应该强调将这些知识平等地传递给需要它的人的重要性。

Changing the world doesn’t mean that everyone has to find the next big thing.It can be as simple as becoming better communicators, and finding more creative ways to pass on the knowledge we have to people like my mom and the farmers in their local community.改变世界并不是说每个人都应该发现下一个伟大的东西。改变世界可以是简单的方式，比如成为一个更好的传播者，发现更多有创造力的传播知识给像我的妈妈和农民这样生活在未工业化地区的人的方式。Our society also needs to recognize that the equal distribution of knowledge is a pivotal step of human development, and work to bring this into reality.我们的社会也应当明白知识的平衡分布是人类进步不可或缺的一步，这需要我们的努力来实现。

And if we do that, then perhaps a teenager in rural China who is bitten by a spider will not have to burn his hand, but will know to seek a doctor instead.如果我们努力了，一个在中国农村的青少年被毒蜘蛛咬了的话，就不用再火疗而是去见医生了。

Thank you!谢谢！

---SG.YU

---2016.5.31

第二篇：这个中国农村学子,成哈佛毕业演讲首位华人代表汇总

这个中国农村学子，成哈佛毕业演讲首位华人代表

2016年05月27日 07:46 来源：凤凰资讯

近日，一篇《哈佛大学毕业典礼学生演讲代表将首现华人留学生》 的文章被国内外媒体广泛报道。哈佛校方确认该校生物系博士毕业生何江是第一位享此殊荣的中国大陆学生。当天，与他同台演讲的特邀嘉宾将是著名导演史蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格。

何江在美国实验室 长于湖南乡村，中科大才子，哈佛全额奖学金硕博连读，科学巨匠庄小威弟子，世界著名经济史学家尼尔弗格森邀请写书......关于何江的故事实在太多太多，对于这位身边的老朋友，我一直想为他写一篇文章来鼓励更多寒门出生的学子。就像何江接受中国青年报采访时说的一样：“教育能够改变一个人的生活轨迹，能够把一个人从一个世界带到另一个不同的世界。我希望我的成长经历，能给那些还在路上的农村学生一点鼓励，让他们看到坚持的希望。”

生于乡村，志存高远

与何江相识是在2014年的冬季，那天他帮助同为中科大毕业的校友搬进我住的House.第一眼见到他就能感到他与我们平常印象中的博士有些不同。面带微笑，神情爽朗，聊起天来思维缜密，头头是道。但最让我意外的是马上就博士毕业的他只有26岁。

何江出生在湖南长沙宁乡，一个偏僻落后的乡村。从小就立志要通过读书来改变人生。凭借自己不懈地努力，高考考入了中科大，这也是他人生第一次离开农村进入大城市。大学期间，何江就树立了自己的职业目标，那就是要向中科大最著名的校友之

一、华人科学巨匠、美国科学院双料院士--庄小威学姐学习。因此，他异常努力地做科学研究，盼望能在生物领域有一番自己的成就！功夫不负有心人，凭借优异的成绩，他获得了郭沫若奖学金，这也是中科大学生的最高荣誉。

在大家印象里，学霸往往都是只学习，不与社会接触，但与大部分的学霸不同的是，何江却非常喜欢社交。按照他自己准确的说法应该是喜欢有针对性的社交，就是每次向别人提出问题前，一定要做好充分的调查，要不然就不去社交。在大学期间，香港理工大学校长潘宗光曾经来科大进行交流讲座，何江听完讲座后，主动和潘校长交流，他的睿智和上进给潘校长留下了深刻印象。两人从此结成了远距离的师徒关系，一直保持着沟通交流。

圆梦哈佛，师承小威

虽然生于农村，长于农村，但何江却一直怀揣着一个出国梦。这很大程度上受到了他的学姐庄小威的影响。凭借着优异的学习成绩，加上学校导师和香港理工大学校长潘宗光的推荐信，何江顺利地申请到了哈佛生物系的博士学位，并获得了全额奖学金。大学毕业前，何江就立志要去哈佛找小威学姐。所以他主动地联系了这位之前只是在报纸和新闻上频繁出现的学姐。庄小威也非常器重和照顾 自己的中科大学弟，两人从此建立了师徒关系，何江也有幸在曾出过4、5位诺贝尔奖，享誉世界的哈佛化学系庄小威实验室做博士研究，而这一做就是5年。

导师庄小威与何江在一起(庄小威：中科大87年少年班学生，生于江苏省如皋市，是一位华裔美籍生物物理学家，美国国家科学院院士，哈佛大学化学与化学生物、物理学教授，创办有庄小威实验室。2015年12月，当选为中国科学院外籍院士。获奖无数的她，被誉为是中国科学界最接近诺贝尔奖的人。)问及在这位世界闻名的科学家身上学到最多的是什么时，何江毫不犹豫地说： “对科研的热情与专业！” “她是我的role model，她能教会我最前沿的科学该怎么做！她也可以告诉我“What is the next big thing！”

博士生活多姿多彩

何江坦言，哈佛最吸引他的地方是文理结合，充满创新的氛围。在这里，你能接触到世界上各行业最精英的人才。因此，在他入学的第一年，他就主动申请做本科生辅导员，因为他知道哈佛本科生是世界上最牛的本科生，他想去学习他们的领导力、创新力和表达能力并从中获得鼓舞。他也想知道像扎克伯格这样的人才是怎么去思考和学习的，同时这对他的英文能力也是一个提升的机会。他说这个工作让他最大的收获就是结交了很多思维开拓、充满创新意识的年轻人。何江很早就意识到，只搞科研不注重实践很难有出路，所以他经常去哈佛商学院听关于经济和商业的讲座。像在中科大一样，他还是一如既往地去拓展自己的人脉，向自己圈外的人学习。一次偶然的机会，他去参加了世界著名经济史学家尼尔弗格森的一个关于《经济全球化》的讲座。听完讲座后，何江大胆地去和他分享了自己对于全球化以及中国农村发展的看法。尼尔弗格森对这位与自己完全不在一个领域，却对经济全球化如此热情和有见地的学生产生了兴趣。当场，这位世界级的大忙人就问：“你这周三有时间吗？我想请你出来喝杯咖啡，我们好好聊聊这个话题。” 让何江没想到的是，吃饭当天，弗格森教授带来了好几位重量级教授，结果他们畅聊了4个小时。最后弗格森建议，你把你的故事写成一本书吧：从中国农村的变化来反应中国近30年的发展变化，因为你自己就是一个鲜活的例子。何江听完激动地答应了。

这一个承诺，让他整整付出了两年的努力，也几乎夺走了他的没有周末。何江坦言，写这本书对他来说是一个很大的挑战，因为毕竟英语不是自己的母语。但幸好他之前带的许多本科学生都乐意帮他修改语法和语式问题。如今这本书已经写完并在哈佛商学院教授的联系下，已经与出版社达成共识，最快在今年就能出版。让我们拭目以待。

创造历史，华人骄傲

在哈佛临近毕业季时，一位教授建议他可以尝试去申请做毕业典礼研究生的发言代表，因为哈佛学生都知道这是哈佛学生的最高荣誉。但是何江一开始听到这个建议完全没有自信，因为第一，他觉得自己是一个理科生，不像肯尼迪学院的学生那么善于演讲。第二，英语毕竟不是自己的母语，和众多native speakers比起来，还是会有劣势。但正如哈佛教育所倡导的，什么事情都要去尝试，万一实现了呢？

于是何江接受了教授的建议，从个人的经历出发，花了两个星期的时间写好了初稿。初选竞争异常激烈，有几百人的参选，在10几位教授的筛选后，何江成功的入围复赛。进入了复赛，让何江看到了希望，听说复赛只剩下4个人，而 4 且需要完全脱稿，他更加专注于演讲的质量。他找到肯尼迪学员专门负责public speaking训练的教授和许多之前认识的教授来帮他改稿子做训练。

也许是因为何江个人的经历刚好体现了哈佛教育改变人的理念，也许是哈佛还从来没有过一位中国本土来的学生做过学生代表演讲。何江最终从四位native speakers中成功突围，成为今年5月26日上代表哈佛研究生演讲的第一位华人代表。这是哈佛学生的最高荣誉，实在是值得我们骄傲。

MIT博后科研先锋

如今何江依然奋斗在科研的第一线，从哈佛博士毕业后，何江顺利进入了自己喜爱的MIT做博后工作。这也与他“科研一定要注重实践”的理想相一致。他现在研究的课题是“人体的3D打印与应用”，方向是3D打印人体肝脏，进行疾病模拟，研究肝炎病毒、疟疾以及癌症早期检测。这是一个属于盖茨基金会的项目，也是生物界最前沿的项目之一。目的是为了对抗危害人类的疾病研究。我真诚期待何江在科研界有更多的建树，继续创造属于他的，也属于我们的历史。

会养猪的父母，会读书的儿郎

“宁乡人会喂猪，宁乡人会读书。”在“耕读传家”传统文化影响深远的年代，“会养猪，会读书”无疑是对湖南宁乡这一地域人文的极大褒奖。在“寒门再难出贵子”之说盛行的当下，何江从宁乡农村走到了哈佛毕业典礼演讲台，用他的努力证明一个中国农村孩子到底能走多远。

5月26日，宁乡县坝塘镇停钟新村，相比较邻居的高墙大院，何江家没有围墙的粉色小楼很不起眼。早上9时，何江的妈妈曾献华打开微信跟儿子视频聊天：“江啊，不紧张吧？”

“还好咯，今天要早点休息，明天四五点钟就要起来准备哒。”哈佛博士的宁乡话依旧很标准。此时的波士顿已是深夜了，何江在做最后的演讲练习。“去美国后人还胖了。”曾献华满意地挂断视频。在父母眼里，何江没有太多的变化，离开宁乡求学11年，口音依旧。

何江是村里第一个考上重点大学的人，也是第一个念书念到美国去了的人，他的弟弟今年也硕士毕业了。

“村里就我屋里两个研究生。我们乡里土话讲，养儿不读书，不如养头猪。”何江父亲何毕成说。

何毕成高中文化，算是农村知识分子，比一般农民要有见识。何毕成怀念上世纪90年代，那时大家都夸宁乡人会读书，人们并不那么羡慕当官发财的，却特别羡慕会读书能考上名校的。在乡里，会读书的孩子往往是一个村子的榜样，有着莫大的荣耀。

到了新世纪，读书渐渐不像过去那么“高贵”了，但何毕成依旧有“万般皆下品、惟有读书高”的执念。

何江小时候，何家每年都要种20亩水稻，喂三四头母猪、十几头肉猪，两兄弟从小跟着扯猪草、搞“双抢”。何毕成喂猪很用心，那些年硬是靠着喂猪种田把孩子的学费都挣齐了。

“他们兄弟都晓得，爸爸妈妈寻钱（赚钱）不容易，他们不讲究吃穿，有书读就满足了。”曾献华说。再怎么辛苦，何家也没让兄弟两个成为“留守儿童”，一家人的生活清贫却完整。

村里也有人说话不好听的，说读了研究生又怎样，还不一定找个好工作呢，不一定赚到买房钱呢。其实，从何江大二开始，就不再需要家里给钱，他每年都可以拿到奖学金，并且在外勤工俭学，每个月还有钱寄回家里补贴家用。

“我崽懂事、孝顺。”曾献华笑容舒畅。他是有温度的学霸，不是冰冷的书呆子

小满时节，雨雾缭绕，宁乡县一中，午休中的校园很安静，离高考还有最后10天时间，“备战”的气氛已浓到极致。

高三633班，每个学生课桌边都是大箱书籍资料。没有午休的喻遥从复习资料中抬起头，他说：“我们春晖班的学生都是农村出来的，读书是我们的出路。”师兄何江，让这些农村孩子看到了可以到达的高度。

高二学生的神情要轻松许多。“他太牛了！” 648班的陈羽峰在走廊里说起何江。陈羽峰的高考目标是浙江大学，现在他有了更多想法：“也许我还可以像何江一样走得更远一点呢。”

2005年，何江从宁乡一中345班毕业，考入中国科技大学。2009年，他以优异的成绩入读哈佛大学，硕博连读，主攻生物技术领域。“我们太需要这样的人这样的故事了，让孩子们的偶像不仅仅是娱乐明星、体育明星。”宁乡县委宣传部干部张进良说。

何江的英语老师谢芳，与何江关系很好，上大学的时候，何江每个假期都会回来看她，去美国以后，每年正月初一也都要打电话给她拜年。在谢芳看来，何江视野开阔、目标明确，他从进大学起就准备出国，进行托福考试，一个寒假9天背了9000个单词。此外，何江很大胆，英语口语不好，却敢上台发言，善于表现自己。

“何江是那种头脑清晰、有目标、有决断的学生，从高二就立志学生物科学，”何江的生物老师周海英说，何江的学习非常高效，能主动参与到教学中来。在学校负责团委工作的黄燕老师，还记得何江是一次辩论赛上的最佳辩手，何江的口才一直让她印象深刻，“他是学霸，但不是书呆子，综合素质很突出，人很活跃。”

何江在学校还有一个外号叫“佛祖”，同窗卢丝雨解释说：“因为他总是笑笑的，从来不会抱怨和生气，有双手合十的虔诚感恩。”有年初冬，天气很冷了，何江还穿着一双旧凉鞋，几个同学就合计送了他一双新球鞋。“何江当时很感动，有些不知所措，只想一下教会大家100道数学题来回馈就好。”

哈佛毕业典礼上的“湘音”

“哈佛的教育教会我们学生敢于拥有自己的梦想，勇于立志改变世界。在毕业典礼这样一个特别的日子，我们在座的毕业生都会畅想我们未来的伟大征程和冒险。我在此刻不可避免地还会想到我的家乡。”

波士顿时间5月26日上午10时，何江在哈佛大学的毕业典礼演讲台上，发出了一个中国学子的声音，台下掌声雷动。

在毕业典礼上进行演讲，这是哈佛给予毕业生的最高荣誉，当天与何江同台演讲的特邀嘉宾是著名导演史蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格。这次申请毕业典礼演讲，历经3轮选拔才正式入选。“哈佛往届毕业生代表大多是文科学生，我提出了一个不同的理科生视角，这可能是打动评委的关键原因。”何江谦虚地说。

他的演讲内容从个人故事讲起，谈到他在中国农村的成长经历，谈及他在哈佛大学做的生物医学研究，以及如何将他的研究成果向世界更多的地方传播。而更重要的是，他希望让更多中国农村的学子看到：“教育能够改变一个人的生活轨迹，能够把一个人从一个世界带到另一个不同的世界。”

在美国华人世界，何江也引起了不小的波澜。

“竞争这个演讲的机会很不容易，每年有几千名研究生毕业，去申请的每个人都有一个很棒的故事，” 哈佛大学2011级基础医学博士生刘浩说，在美国有很多优秀的中国留学生，何江是其中的一员，他积极申请哈佛毕业典礼演讲，也展现了中国学生的自信。

新泽西州医药代表梁山说，何江能在语言不通的陌生环境里站稳脚跟，在世界最顶尖的大学演讲台上发表演讲，受到美国华人的很大关注。

定居德克萨斯州的杨扬，带着家里两个中学生观看了何江的演讲视频：“这对孩子们很有教育意义。”

从哈佛大学分子细胞生物学系博士毕业，何江将进入麻省理工学院进行博士后研究，方向是3D打印人体肝脏。他还写了一本介绍家乡风土人情的新书，即将在美国出版。

未来，何江还将走得更远。

附：何江哈佛毕业典礼演讲全文：

蜘蛛咬伤轶事

在我读初中的时候，有一次，一只毒蜘蛛咬伤了我的右手。我问我妈妈该怎么处理---我妈妈并没有带我去看医生，她而是决定用火疗的方法治疗我的伤口。她在我的手上包了好几层棉花，棉花上喷撒了白酒，在我的嘴里放了一双筷子，然后打火点燃了棉花。热量逐渐渗透过棉花，开始炙烤我的右手。灼烧的疼痛让我忍不住想喊叫，可嘴里的筷子却让我发不出声来。我只能看着我的手被火烧着，一分钟，两分钟，直到妈妈熄灭了火苗。

你看，我在中国的农村长大，在那个时候，我的村庄还是一个类似前工业时代的传统村落。在我出生的时候，我的村子里面没有汽车，没有电话，没有电，甚至也没有自来水。我们自然不能轻易的获得先进的现代医疗资源。那个时候也没有一个合适的医生可以来帮我处理蜘蛛咬伤的伤口。

在座的如果有生物背景的人，你们或许已经理解到了我妈妈使用的这个简单的治疗手段的基本原理：高热可以让蛋白质变性，而蜘蛛的毒液也是一种蛋白质。这样一种传统的土方法实际上有它一定的理论依据，想来也是挺有意思的。但是，作为哈佛大学生物化学的博士，我现在知道在我初中那个时候，已经有更好的，没有那么痛苦的，也没有那么有风险的治疗方法了。于是我便忍不住会问自己，为什么我在当时没有能够享用到这些更为先进的治疗方法呢？

蜘蛛咬伤的事故已经过去大概十五年了。我非常高兴的向在座的各位报告一下，我的手还是完好的。但是，我刚刚提到的这个问题这些年来一直停在我的脑海中，而我也时不时会因为先进科技知识在世界上不同地区的不平等分布而困扰。现如今，我们人类已经学会怎么进行人类基因编辑了，也研究清楚了很多个癌症发生发展的原因。我们甚至可以利用一束光来控制我们大脑内神经元的活动。每年生物医学的研究都会给我们带来不一样突破和进步---其中有不少令人振奋，也极具革命颠覆性的成果。然而，尽管我们人类已经在科研上有了无数的建树，在怎样把这些最前沿的科学研究带到世界最需要该技术的地区这件事情上，我们有时做的差强人意。世界银行的数据显示，世界上大约有12%的人口每天的生活水平仍然低于2美元。营养不良每年导致三百万儿童死亡。将近3亿人口仍然受到疟疾的干扰。在世界各地，我们经常看到类似的由贫穷，疾病和自然匮乏导致的科学知识传播的受阻。现代社会里习以为常的那些救生常识经常在这些欠发达或不发达地区未能普及。于是，在世界上仍有很多地区，人们只能依赖于用火疗这一简单粗暴的方式来治理蜘蛛咬伤事故。

在哈佛读书期间，我有切身体会到先进的科技知识能够既简单又深远的帮助到社会上很多的人。本世纪初的时候，禽流感在亚洲多个国家肆虐。那个时候，村庄里的农民听到禽流感就像听到恶魔施咒一样，对其特别的恐惧。乡村的土医 疗方法对这样一个疾病也是束手无策。农民对于普通感冒和流感的区别并不是很清楚，他们并不懂得流感比普通感冒可能更加致命。而且，大部分人对于科学家所发现的流感病毒能够跨不同物种传播这一事实并不清楚。

于是，在我意识到这些知识背景，及简单的将受感染的不同物种隔离开来以减缓疾病传播，并决定将这些知识传递到我的村庄时，我的心里第一次有了一种作为未来科学家的使命感。但这种使命感不只停在知识层面，它也是我个人道德发展的重要转折点，我自我理解的作为国际社会一员的责任感。

哈佛的教育教会我们学生敢于拥有自己的梦想，勇于立志改变世界。在毕业典礼这样一个特别的日子，我们在座的毕业生都会畅想我们未来的伟大征程和冒险。对我而言，我在此刻不可避免的还会想到我的家乡。我成长的经历教会了我作为一个科学家，积极的将我们所会的知识传递给那些急需这些知识的人是多么的重要。因为利用那些我们已经拥有的科技知识，我们能够轻而易举的帮助我的家乡，还有千千万万类似的村庄，让他们生活的世界变成一个我们现代社会看起来习以为常的场所，而这样一件事，是我们每一个毕业生都能够做的，也力所能及能够做到的。

但问题是，我们愿意来做这样的努力吗？

比以往任何时候都多，我们的社会强调科学和创新。但我们社会同样需要注意的一个重心是分配知识到那些真正需要的地方。改变世界并不意味着每个人都要做一个大突破。改变世界可以非常简单。它可以简单得变成作为世界不同地区的沟通者，并找出更多创造性的方法将知识传递给像我母亲或农民这样的群体。同时，改变世界也意味着我们的社会，作为一个整体，能够更清醒的认识到科技知识的更加均衡的分布，是人类社会发展的一个关键环节，而我们也能够一起奋斗将此目标变成现实。

如果我们能够做到这些，或许，将来有一天，一个在农村被毒蜘蛛咬伤的少年或许不用火疗这样粗暴的方法来治疗伤口，而是去看医生得到更为先进的医疗护理。

第三篇：比尔盖茨 哈佛演讲 中英

Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world’s worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty … the prevalence of world hunger … the scarcity of clean water …the girls kept out of school the children who die from diseases we can cure?

哈佛是否应该鼓励教授解决世界上存在的严重不平等？哈佛的学生是不是应该多关注一些全球贫富不均、粮食短缺、水资源稀缺、女童辍学的问题？以及那些因无法接受有效治疗而死亡的孩子？

Should the world’s most privileged people learn about the lives of the world’s least privileged?

世界上最衣食无忧的人是否应该了解那些挣扎在死亡边缘的人们的生活？

These are not rhetorical questions – you will answer with your policies.这并非言语修辞，这些问题只能用行动回答。

My mother, who was filled with pride the day I was admitted here – never stopped pressing me to do more for others.A few days before my wedding, she hosted a bridal event, at which she read aloud a letter about marriage that she had written to Melinda.My mother was very ill with cancer at the time, but she saw one more opportunity to deliver her message, and at the close of the letter she said: ―From those to whom much is given, much is expected.‖

我的母亲一直为我考上哈佛而自豪，也一直督促我回报社会。我结婚的前几天的仪式上，她高声朗读自己写给我妻子的信。当时我母亲已经是癌症晚期，但她坚持要用这个机会表达自己的观点。信的最后 她念道：―获益越多，责任越大。‖

When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given – in talent, privilege, and opportunity – there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from us.想想我们获得了什么——天赋，特权，机遇——世界寄予殷切的期望。

In line with the promise of this age, I want to exhort each of the graduates here to take on an issue –a complex problem, a deep inequity, and become a specialist on it.If you make it the focus of your career, that would be phenomenal.But you don’t have to do that to make an impact.For a few hours every week, you can use the

growing power of the Internet to get informed, find others with the same interests, see the barriers, and find ways to cut through them.我希望每位毕业生承担起这样一种责任—— 参与解决人类不平等的问题，如果你献身这项事业，你的影响力将会是惊人的。既便不打算以此为业，你一样可以有所作为。每周只需要花几个小时，就可以利用互联网获取信息、找到志同道合的朋友、设法解决一两个问题。

Don't let complexity stop you.Be activists.Take on the big inequities.It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.不要畏难，尽管放手去做。它将是你生命中最宝贵经历。

You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time.As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had.You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have.And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little effort.You have more than we had;you must start sooner, and carry on longer.这是一个神奇的时代。今天的科技是我年轻时不曾体验的。你们对不平等现象的认识远远超过我们这代人。面对这种不平等，你们更容易受良心的谴责。行动起来，时不我待。

And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy.I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world’s deepest inequities … on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.30年后当你再次回到哈佛的时候，我希望看到你用自己的天赋和精力做了哪些事。不仅用专业成就来衡量成功，还要看你是如何解决人类根深蒂固的不平等问题。你是怎样对待那些与你相隔万里、迥然不同的人的。

Good luck.同学们，祝你们好运！

第四篇：奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲中英

奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲：人生唯一目标就是做真实的自己 oh my goodness!im at haaaaaarvard!thats how oprah winfrey began her speech at harvard university graduation ceremony—in her spirited, signature way.winfrey also received an honorary doctor of law degree from the university before taking to the podium.温弗瑞演讲中4条最励志的语录

谈失败的好处 there is no such thing as failure.failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.世间并不存在“失败”，那不过是生活想让我们换个方向走走罢了。learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.要从错误中吸取教训，因为你的每一次经历、尤其是你犯下的错误，都将帮助你、推动你更好地做自己。

2.on her own biggest personal failure.谈自身最大的失败

我突然想到某首古老赞美诗中的一句话：“困难只是暂时的”，我遇到的麻烦同样会有结束的一天。然后我想，我会将这一页翻过去，我会好起来的。

谈职业生涯所做访谈的共同性 beyonce in all her beyonce-ness...they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you? 我发现，我所有的访谈有一个共同性，那就是人人都希望自己被认可、被理解。they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you? 我的采访对象都想知道：“我的表现ok吗？你听到我看到我吗？我说的话对你有价值吗？”

4.on the key to success and happiness.谈成功和快乐的关键 you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal.there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.如果你只认准一个目标，那你就能获得真正的成功和快乐。人生确实只有一个目标，那就是：最大程度地、最真实地展现自己。

“不要问自己世界需要什么，问问是什么让你精神抖擞地活着，然后就去做，因为世界所需要的就是一个个朝气蓬勃的人。”篇二：奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲

奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲：人生唯一目标就是做真实的自己 oprah winfrey: oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr.henry lewis gates.oprah winfrey: all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.oprah winfrey: and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013!hello!oprah winfrey: and we understand that most americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because its possible to both enforce our篇三：奥普拉2013年哈佛大学毕业演讲(英文版)oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my 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 2013!hello!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 the day i opened up usa today and read the headline oprah, not quite standing on her own.i mean really, usa today? now thats the nice newspaper!it really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life.i was stressed and i was frustrated and quite frankly i was actually i was embarrassed.and it was all because i wanted to do it by the time i got to speak to you all so thank you so much.you dont know what motivation you were for me, thank you.im even where is he or she? bring them in.its an impressive calling card that can lead to even and so what i did was i simply asked our viewers do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life.give me your time or your talent your money if you have it.and they did.extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.and together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes rita and katrina.so the angel network i have been on the air for a long time, but it was the angel network that actually focused my internal g.p.s.it helped me to decide that i wasnt going to just be on tv every day but that the goal of my shows, added this, you simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesnt agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over.and we cannot do that any longer.the problem is too enormous.there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light.in our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested.and yet, i know you know the truth.we all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle.not my channel, by the way.we understand that the vast majority of people in this and we understand.i know you do because you went to harvard.there are people from both parties and no party believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education because here in the richest nation on earth we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity.so the question is what are we going to do about it? really what are you going to do about it? maybe you agree with these beliefs.maybe you dont.maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, class of 2013, are passionate about.maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government.maybe you want to launch your own television show.or maybe you simply want to collect some change.your parents would appreciate that about now.the point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change.each of you has been blessed with this enormous disappointed, youd be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers.thats who you are.this generation your generation i know has developed a finely honed radar for b.s.can you say b.s.at harvard? the spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that saturates so much of our national debate.i know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic-an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all that youll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesnt cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody elses shoes and recognize all that we share as a people.this is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation.there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light, says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary friday in december.so whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is i know this, there is a light inside each of you all of us that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it.and as a young girl from rural mississippi i learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be barbara walters.although when i first started because i had barbara in my head i would try to sit like barbara, talk like barbara, move like barbara and then one night i was on the news reading the news and i called canada can-a-da, and that was the end of me being barbara.i cracked myself up on tv.couldnt stop laughing and my real personality came through and i figured out oh gee, i can be a much better oprah than i could be a pretend barbara.oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my 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 2013!hello!a personality.but it helps.and while i may not have graduated from here i admit that my 比尔·盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲

尊敬的bok校长，rudenstine前校长，即将上任的faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位同学： 有一句话我等了三十年，现在终于可以说了：“老爸，我总是跟你说，我会回来拿到我的学位的！” i want to thank harvard for this timely honor.ill be changing my job next year „

and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。明年，我就要换工作了（注：指从微软公司退休）??我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位，这真是不错啊。i applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.for my part, im just happy that the crimson has called me harvards most successful dropout.i guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class „ i did the best of everyone who failed.我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴，你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。哈佛的校报称我是“哈佛大学历史上最成功的辍学生”。我想这大概使我有资格代表我这一类学生发言??在所有的失败者里，我做得最好。but i also want to be recognized as the guy who got steve ballmer to drop out of business school.im a bad influence.thats why i was invited to speak at your graduation.if i had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.但是，我还要提醒大家，我使得steve ballmer（注：微软总经理）也从哈佛商学院退学了。因此，我是个有着恶劣影响力的人。这就是为什么我被邀请来在你们的毕业典礼上演讲。如果我在你们入学欢迎仪式上演讲，那么能够坚持到今天在这里毕业的人也许会少得多吧。

harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me.academic life was fascinating.i used to sit in on lots of classes i hadnt even signed up for.and dorm life was terrific.i lived up at radcliffe, in currier house.there were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew i didnt worry about getting up in the morning.thats how i came to be the leader of the anti-social group.we clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.对我来说，哈佛的求学经历是一段非凡的经历。校园生活很有趣，我常去旁听我没选修的课。哈佛的课外生活也很棒，我在radcliffe过着逍遥自在的日子。每天我的寝室里总有很多人

一直待到半夜，讨论着各种事情。因为每个人都知道我从不考虑第二天早起。这使得我变成了校园里那些不安分学生的头头，我们互相粘在一起，做出一种拒绝所有正常学生的姿态。radcliffe是个过日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多数男生都是理工科的。这种状况为我创造了最好的机会，如果你们明白我的意思。可惜的是，我正是在这里学到了人生中悲伤的一课：机会大，并不等于你就会成功。

我在哈佛最难忘的回忆之一，发生在1975年1月。那时，我从宿舍楼里给位于albuquerque的一家公司打了一个电话，那家公司已经在着手制造世界上第一台个人电脑。我提出想向他们出售软件。

我很担心，他们会发觉我是一个住在宿舍的学生，从而挂断电话。但是他们却说：“我们还没准备好，一个月后你再来找我们吧。”这是个好消息，因为那时软件还根本没有写出来呢。就是从那个时候起，我日以继夜地在这个小小的课外项目上工作，这导致了我学生生活的结束，以及通往微软公司的不平凡的旅程的开始。what i remember above all about harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence.it could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging.it was an amazing privilege – and though i left early, i was transformed by my years at harvard, the friendships i made, and the ideas i worked on.不管怎样，我对哈佛的回忆主要都与充沛的精力和智力活动有关。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有压力，有时甚至会感到泄气，但永远充满了挑战性。生活在哈佛是一种吸引人的特殊待遇??虽然我离开得比较早，但是我在这里的经历、在这里结识的朋友、在这里发展起来的一些想法，永远地改变了我。but taking a serious look back „ i do have one big regret.但是，如果现在严肃地回忆起来，我确实有一个真正的遗憾。i left harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world –

the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.我离开哈佛的时候，根本没有意识到这个世界是多么的不平等。人类在健康、财富和机遇上的不平等大得可怕，它们使得无数的人们被迫生活在绝望之中。i learned a lot here at harvard about new ideas in economics and politics.i got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.我在哈佛学到了很多经济学和政治学的新思想。我也了解了很多科学上的新进展。but humanitys greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.但是，人类最大的进步并不来自于这些发现，而是来自于那些有助于减少人类不平等的发现。不管通过何种手段——民主制度、健全的公共教育体系、高质量的医疗保健、还是广泛的经济机会——减少不平等始终是人类最大的成就。i left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country.and i knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.我离开校园的时候，根本不知道在这个国家里，有几百万的年轻人无法获得接受教育的机会。我也不知道，发展中国家里有无数的人们生活在无法形容的贫穷和疾病之中。it took me decades to find out.我花了几十年才明白了这些事情。you graduates came to harvard at a different time.you know more about the worlds inequities than the classes that came before.in your years here, i hope youve had a chance to think about how – in this age of accelerating technology – we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.在座的各位同学，你们是在与我不同的时代来到哈佛的。你们比以前的学生，更多地了解世界是怎样的不平等。在你们的哈佛求学过程中，我希望你们已经思考过一个问题，那就是在这个新技术加速发展的时代，我们怎样最终应对这种不平等，以及我们怎样来解决这个问题。

imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause – and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives.where would you spend it? 为了讨论的方便，请想象一下，假如你每个星期可以捐献一些时间、每个月可以捐献一些钱——你希望这些时间和金钱，可以用到对拯救生命和改善人类生活有最大作用的地方。你会选择什么地方？ for melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.对melinda（注：盖茨的妻子）和我来说，这也是我们面临的问题：我们如何能将我们拥有的资源发挥出最大的作用。during our discussions on this question, melinda and i read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country.measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis b, yellow fever.one disease i had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year – none of them in the united states.在讨论过程中，melinda和我读到了一篇文章，里面说在那些贫穷的国家，每年有数百万的儿童死于那些在美国早已不成问题的疾病。麻疹、疟疾、肺炎、乙型肝炎、黄热病、还有一种以前我从未听说过的轮状病毒，这些疾病每年导致50万儿童死亡，但是在美国一例死亡病例也没有。we were shocked.we had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them.but it did not.for under a dollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just werent being delivered.我们被震惊了。我们想，如果几百万儿童正在死亡线上挣扎，而且他们是可以被挽救的，那么世界理应将用药物拯救他们作为头等大事。但是事实并非如此。那些价格还不到一美元的救命的药剂，并没有送到他们的手中。if you believe that every life has equal value, its revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not.we said to ourselves: this cant be true.but if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.如果你相信每个生命都是平等的，那么当你发现某些生命被挽救了，而另一些生命被放弃了，你会感到无法接受。我们对自己说：“事情不可能如此。如果这是真的，那么它理应是我们努力的头等大事。” so we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it.we asked: how could the world let these children die? 所以，我们用任何人都会想到的方式开始工作。我们问：“这个世界怎么可以眼睁睁看着这些孩子死去？” the answer is simple, and harsh.the market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it.so the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.答案很简单，也很令人难堪。在市场经济中，拯救儿童是一项没有利润的工作，政府也不会提供补助。这些儿童之所以会死亡，是因为他们的父母在经济上没有实力，在政治上没有能力发出声音。but you and i have both.但是，你们和我在经济上有实力，在政治上能够发出声音。we can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism – if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities.we also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.我们可以让市场更好地为穷人服务，如果我们能够设计出一种更有创新性的资本主义制度——如果我们可以改变市场，让更多的人可以获得利润，或者至少可以维持生活——那么，这就可以帮到那些正在极端不平等的状况中受苦的人们。我们还可以向全世界的政府施压，要求他们将纳税人的钱，花到更符合纳税人价值观的地方。if we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world.this task is open-ended.it can never be finished.but a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.如果我们能够找到这样一种方法，既可以帮到穷人，又可以为商人带来利润，为政治家带来选票，那么我们就找到了一种减少世界性不平等的可持续的发展道路。这个任务是无限的。它不可能被完全完成，但是任何自觉地解决这个问题的尝试，都将会改变这个世界。i believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.我相信，问题不是我们不在乎，而是我们不知道怎么做。all of us here in this yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts, and yet we did nothing – not because we didnt care, but because we didnt know what to do.if we had known how to help, we would have acted.此刻在这个院子里的所有人，生命中总有这样或那样的时刻，目睹人类的悲剧，感到万分伤心。但是我们什么也没做，并非我们无动于衷，而是因为我们不知道做什么和怎么做。如果我们知道如何做是有效的，那么我们就会采取行动。

为了将关心转变为行动，我们需要找到问题，发现解决办法的方法，评估后果。

第五篇：比尔盖茨哈佛毕业演讲稿(中英版)

比尔盖茨哈佛毕业演讲稿

President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates: 尊敬的Bok校长，Rudenstine前校长，即将上任的Faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位同学：

I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.” 有一句话我等了三十年，现在终于可以说了：“老爸，我总是跟你说，我会回来拿到我的学位的！”

I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor.I'll be changing my job next year„and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。明年，我就要换工作了（注：指从微软公司退休）„„我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位，这真是不错啊。

I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me “Harvard's most successful dropout.” I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class„I did the best of everyone who failed.我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴，你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。哈佛的校报称我是“哈佛大学历史上最成功的辍学生”。我想这大概使我有资格代表我这一类学生发言„„在所有的失败者里，我做得最好。

But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school.I'm a bad influence.That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation.If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.但是，我还要提醒大家，我使得Steve Ballmer（注：微软总经理）也从哈佛商学院退学了。因此，我是个有着恶劣影响力的人。这就是为什么我被邀请来在你们的毕业典礼上演讲。如果我在你们入学欢迎仪式上演讲，那么能够坚持到今天在这里毕业的人也许会少得多吧。

Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me.Academic life was fascinating.I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn't even signed up for.And dorm life was terrific.I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House.There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning.That's how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group.We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.对我来说，哈佛的求学经历是一段非凡的经历。校园生活很有趣，我常去旁听我没选修的课。哈佛的课外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe过着逍遥自在的日子。每天我的寝室里总有很多人一直待到半夜，讨论着各种事情。因为每个人都知道我从不考虑第二天早起。这使得我变成了校园里那些不安分学生的头头，我们互相粘在一起，做出一种拒绝所有正常学生的姿态。

Radcliffe was a great place to live.There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types.That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean.This is Where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn't guarantee success.Radcliffe是个过日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多数男生都是理工科的。这种状况为我创造了最好的机会，如果你们明白我的意思。可惜的是，我正是在这里学到了人生中悲伤的一课：机会大，并不等于你就会成功。One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call From Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the world's first personal computers.I offered to sell them software.我在哈佛最难忘的回忆之一，发生在1975年1月。那时，我从宿舍楼里给位于Albuquerque的一家公司打了一个电话，那家公司已经在着手制造世界上第一台个人电脑。我提出想向他们出售软件。

I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me.Instead they said: “We're not quite ready, come see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn't written the software yet.From that moment, I worked day and night on this little extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.我很担心，他们会发觉我是一个住在宿舍的学生，从而挂断电话。但是他们却说：“我们还没准备好，一个月后你再来找我们吧。”这是个好消息，因为那时软件还根本没有写出来呢。就是从那个时候起，我日以继夜地在这个小小的课外项目上工作，这导致了我学生生活的结束，以及通往微软公司的不平凡的旅程的开始。What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence.It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging.It was an amazing privilege„and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships I made, and the ideas I worked on.不管怎样，我对哈佛的回忆主要都与充沛的精力和智力活动有关。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有压力，有时甚至会感到泄气，但永远充满了挑战性。生活在哈佛是一种吸引人的特殊待遇„„虽然我离开得比较早，但是我在这里的经历、在这里结识的朋友、在这里发展起来的一些想法，永远地改变了我。But taking a serious look back„I do have one big regret.但是，如果现在严肃地回忆起来，我确实有一个真正的遗憾。

I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world--the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.我离开哈佛的时候，根本没有意识到这个世界是多么的不平等。人类在健康、财富和机遇上的不平等大得可怕，它们使得无数的人们被迫生活在绝望之中。

I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country.And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.我离开校园的时候，根本不知道在这个国家里，有几百万的年轻人无法获得接受教育的机会。我也不知道，发展中国家里有无数的人们生活在无法形容的贫穷和疾病之中。

It took me decades to find out.我花了几十年才明白了这些事情。

You graduates came to Harvard at a different time.You know more about the world's inequities than the classes that came before.In your years here, I hope you've had a chance to think about how--in this age of accelerating technology--we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.在座的各位同学，你们是在与我不同的时代来到哈佛的。你们比以前的学生，更多地了解世界是怎样的不平等。在你们的哈佛求学过程中，我希望你们已经思考过一个问题，那就是在这个新技术加速发展的时代，我们怎样最终应对这种不平等，以及我们怎样来解决这个问题。

Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause--and you wanted to spend that time and money Where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives.Where would you spend it? 为了讨论的方便，请想象一下，假如你每个星期可以捐献一些时间、每个月可以捐献一些钱——你希望这些时间和金钱，可以用到对拯救生命和改善人类生活有最大作用的地方。你会选择什么地方？ For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.对Melinda（注：盖茨的妻子）和我来说，这也是我们面临的问题：我们如何能将我们拥有的资源发挥出最大的作用。

During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries From diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country.Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever.One disease I had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year ? none of them in the United States.在讨论过程中，Melinda和我读到了一篇文章，里面说在那些贫穷的国家，每年有数百万的儿童死于那些在美国早已不成问题的疾病。麻疹、疟疾、肺炎、乙型肝炎、黄热病、还有一种以前我从未听说过的轮状病毒，这些疾病每年导致50万儿童死亡，但是在美国一例死亡病例也没有。

We were shocked.We had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them.But it did not.For under a dollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just weren't being delivered.我们被震惊了。我们想，如果几百万儿童正在死亡线上挣扎，而且他们是可以被挽救的，那么世界理应将用药物拯救他们作为头等大事。但是事实并非如此。那些价格还不到一美元的救命的药剂，并没有送到他们的手中。

If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not.We said to ourselves: “This can't be true.But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.” 如果你相信每个生命都是平等的，那么当你发现某些生命被挽救了，而另一些生命被放弃了，你会感到无法接受。我们对自己说：“事情不可能如此。如果这是真的，那么它理应是我们努力的头等大事。”

So we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it.We asked: “How could the world let these children die?” 所以，我们用任何人都会想到的方式开始工作。我们问：“这个世界怎么可以眼睁睁看着这些孩子死去？”

The answer is simple, and harsh.The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it.So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.答案很简单，也很令人难堪。在市场经济中，拯救儿童是一项没有利润的工作，政府也不会提供补助。这些儿童之所以会死亡，是因为他们的父母在经济上没有实力，在政治上没有能力发出声音。But you and I have both.但是，你们和我在经济上有实力，在政治上能够发出声音。

We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism ? if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering From the worst inequities.We also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.我们可以让市场更好地为穷人服务，如果我们能够设计出一种更有创新性的资本主义制度——如果我们可以改变市场，让更多的人可以获得利润，或者至少可以维持生活——那么，这就可以帮到那些正在极端不平等的状况中受苦的人们。我们还可以向全世界的政府施压，要求他们将纳税人的钱，花到更符合纳税人价值观的地方。

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world.This task is open-ended.It can never be finished.But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.如果我们能够找到这样一种方法，既可以帮到穷人，又可以为商人带来利润，为政治家带来选票，那么我们就找到了一种减少世界性不平等的可持续的发展道路。这个任务是无限的。它不可能被完全完成，但是任何自觉地解决这个问题的尝试，都将会改变这个世界。

I am optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics who claim there is no hope.They say: “Inequity has been with us since the beginning, and will be with us till the end ? because people just„don't„care.” I completely disagree.在这个问题上，我是乐观的。但是，我也遇到过那些感到绝望的怀疑主义者。他们说：“不平等从人类诞生的第一天就存在，到人类灭亡的最后一天也将存在。——因为人类对这个问题根本不在乎。”我完全不能同意这种观点。I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.我相信，问题不是我们不在乎，而是我们不知道怎么做。