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I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children's godparents, the people to whom I've been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I've took their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.
我的演講即將結(jié)束。對(duì)你們，我有最后一個(gè)希望，也是我21歲時(shí)就有的一個(gè)希望。畢業(yè)那天與我坐在一起的朋友們現(xiàn)在是我終身的摯交，他們是我孩子的教父或教母，是我處于困境時(shí)可以求助的人，是在我用他們的名字給《哈利·波特》中的“食死徒”起名而不會(huì)起訴我的人。我們?cè)诋厴I(yè)典禮時(shí)坐在了一起，因?yàn)槲覀冴P(guān)系親密，因?yàn)槲覀児餐窒砹四怯肋h(yuǎn)都不能重來(lái)的時(shí)光。當(dāng)然，也因?yàn)榧傧胍俏覀冎械娜魏稳烁?jìng)選首相，那照片將是極有價(jià)值的證明。
So today, I can wish you nothing better than similar friendships. And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom:
所以今天我能送給你們的最好的祝福，就是希望你們能擁有這樣的友誼。我希望，即使明天你們不記得我說(shuō)過的任何一個(gè)字，你們還能記得古羅馬哲學(xué)家塞內(nèi)加的一句至理明言。我當(dāng)年沒有順著事業(yè)的階梯向上攀爬，轉(zhuǎn)而與他在古典文學(xué)的殿堂相遇，他的古老智慧給了我人生的啟迪：
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
生活就像故事一樣，不在于長(zhǎng)短，而在于品質(zhì)，這才是最重要的。
I wish you all very good lives.
祝愿你們擁有美好的生活。
Thank you very much.
非常感謝大家。
