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The other day I went to an amusement park with my soon to be four-year-old son and I watched him play arcade games.
有一天我和我快四歲大的兒子去了游樂園，我看著他玩街機游戲。
He was incredibly focused, throwing his ball at the target.
他非常專注的把球往靶子上扔。
Jewish mother that I am, I skipped twenty steps, and was already imagining him as a major league player.
作為一名猶太母親，我跳過20個步驟，已經開始想象他是一個大聯盟的球員。
With what is his aim and his arm and his concentration, but then I realized what he want.
投球精準，手臂健壯，全神貫注，但是后來我意識到了他想要的是什么。
He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toys.
他玩這個是為了得到票以換取那些粗劣的塑料玩具。
The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it.
獎品遠比游戲過程令人興奮。
I of course want to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game's goals.
我當然想敦促他享受游戲的歡樂和挑戰，在練習中進步，表現優越而獲得滿足感，甚至是在達到游戲目標時的成就感。
But all these aspects were shaded by the little ten-cent plastic man, with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls.
但所有這些方面都被十美分的塑料小人玩具給遮蓋了，它有著可以粘在墻壁上的藍色手臂。
That was the prize.
這就是所謂獎品。
In a child's nature, we see many of our innate tendencies.
從一個孩子的天性中，我們看到了我們許多與生俱來的傾向。
I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.
我在他身上看到了自己，也許你們也看到了自身。
Prizes serve as false idols everywhere, prestige, wealth, fame, power.
獎品作為虛假偶像無處不在，聲譽，財富，名聲，力量。
You will be exposed to many of these, if not all.
你將會接觸到很多，至少也會碰到幾個。
Of course part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I've recruited some very coveted toys in my life, including a not so plastic, not so crappy one, an Oscar.
當然今天我被邀請來演講的部分原因除了我是一個驕傲的女校友外，是因為我在人生中收集了一些非常令人垂涎的玩具，不像塑料那么廉價，也不那么蹩腳，一座奧斯卡小金人。
So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not are not always to be trusted.
我們通常在畢業典禮演講上碰到的煩心事那就是取得了許多成功的人告訴你成功的果實并不總是值得信任。
But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and in fact instructed.
但是我認為矛盾實際上是可以協調的，并且具有教導意義。
Achievement is wonderful when you know why you're doing it.
成就是美好的，當你知道你為什么這么做的時候。
And when you don't know, it can be a terrible trap.
如果你不知道，它就可能變成可怕的陷阱。
