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Thank you, President Cowan, Mrs. President Cowen; distinguished guests, undistinguished guests--you know who you are, honored faculty and creepy Spanish teacher. So and thank you to all the graduating class of 2009, I realize most of you are hungover and have splitting headaches and haven't slept since Fat Tuesday, but you can't graduate till I finish, so listen up.
尊敬的考恩校長(zhǎng)，校長(zhǎng)夫人，尊貴的嘉賓，不知名的嘉賓——你們知道自己是誰(shuí)，不用介紹了，老師們還有令人害怕的西班牙語(yǔ)老師，感謝你們！感謝所有杜蘭大學(xué)2009屆畢業(yè)生們！我知道你們絕大多數(shù)還因?yàn)樗拮矶^痛欲裂，狂歡到今天都還沒有睡覺。但沒聽完我演講不能畢業(yè)，所以要注意聽了。
When I was asked to make the commencement speech, I immediately said yes. Then I went to look up what commencement meant. Which would have been easy if I had a dictionary, but most of the books in our house are Portia's, and they're all written in Australian. So I had to break the word down myself, to find out the meaning.
當(dāng)我應(yīng)邀來(lái)發(fā)表畢業(yè)演講時(shí)，我毫不猶豫就答應(yīng)了，然后我才去查畢業(yè)典禮是什么意思。如果我有字典的話就輕松多了，但我家里有的書大多都是波西亞的，而且都是澳式英語(yǔ)，所以我得自己拆分單詞，摸索它的意思。
Commencement: common, and cement. Common cement. You commonly see cement on sidewalks. Sidewalks have cracks, and if you step on a crack, you break your mother's back. So there's that. But I'm honored that you've asked me here to speak at your common cement.
Commencement由common和cement構(gòu)成，意思是“常見的水泥”。在人行道上你?？匆娝?。人行道上有裂縫，你踩到了裂縫，撞傷了你媽媽的背。意思就是這樣。但是我很榮幸應(yīng)邀給你們做“常見的水泥”的演講。
I thought that you had to be a famous alumnus-alumini-aluminum-alumis-you had to graduate from this school. And I didn't go to college here, and I don't know if President Cowen know, I didn't go to college at all. Any collge. And I'm not saying you wasted your time, or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.
我原以為要夠有名，并且必須是貴校的校友才能來(lái)這里演講。我沒在這兒上過大學(xué)，而且，不知道考恩校長(zhǎng)是否知道，我根本沒念過大學(xué)，沒上過任何大學(xué)。我不是說你們?cè)诶速M(fèi)時(shí)間和金錢。看看我，我可是超級(jí)成功的名人。
