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What we want, the common denominator that I found in every single interview, is we want to be validated. We want to be understood.
我在每次訪談中發(fā)現(xiàn)我們的共同之處，就是我們想要被認(rèn)可、被理解。
I have done over 35,000 interviews in my career and as soon as that camera shuts off everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way asks this question "Was that okay?"
我的職業(yè)生涯中進(jìn)行過大約35000個(gè)訪談，每每在攝像機(jī)的鏡頭關(guān)閉后，幾乎所有人都不可避免地轉(zhuǎn)向我，用他們各自的方式詢問著同一個(gè)問題“像這樣可以嗎？”
I heard it from President Bush, I heard it from President Obama.
布什總統(tǒng)這樣問過，奧巴馬總統(tǒng)這樣問過。
I've heard it from heroes and from housewives.
我在英雄的口中聽到過這個(gè)疑問，同樣也在家庭主婦的口中聽說過這句話。
I've heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes.
我聽受害者這樣問，也聽過那些有罪行的人們這樣問。
I even heard it from Beyonce and all of her Beyonceness.
我甚至聽過碧昂斯和她的粉絲們這樣問。
She finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says "Was that okay?"
碧昂斯結(jié)束表演之后，把麥克風(fēng)遞到我手中，問道：“像我這樣可以嗎？”
Friends and family, yours, enemies, strangers in every argument in every encounter, every exchange I will tell you they all want to know one thing: was that okay?
我都可以篤定地告訴你們，朋友或家人、支持者或敵人、每次爭論或邂逅的陌生人，有關(guān)每一次交流的對(duì)象，他們都想知道一件事兒——“像這樣可以嗎？
Did you hear me? Do you see me? Did what I say mean anything to you?
你聽得見我嗎？你看的見我嗎？我之所言是否對(duì)你有些許意義？”
And even though this is a college where Facebook was born my hope is that you would try to go out and have more face-to-face conversations with people you may disagree with.
盡管這里是Facebook誕生的大學(xué)，我還是希望你們能夠脫離虛擬，盡可能多的和那些與你意見相左的人進(jìn)行一些面對(duì)面的交流。
That you'll 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 doesn't cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody else's shoes and recognize all that we share as a people.
你們要有勇氣去直視他們的雙眼，去聆聽他們的觀點(diǎn)，并且確保這世界的高速、距離和陌生感不會(huì)讓我們失去站在他人的立場的能力和我們的共同之處。
This is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation.
這是你作為一個(gè)個(gè)體或是為了整個(gè)國家的成功必須要做到的。
"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.
“一定存在可以使光明驅(qū)逐黑暗的方法。”一位孩子在12月一個(gè)普通的星期五被殺害的父親如是說道。
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.
所以無論你愿意稱她為靈魂、精神、抑或是更高尚的自我，天資什么的，我知道，我們內(nèi)心深處的星星之火總能夠點(diǎn)燃我們——只要你愿意讓自己被點(diǎn)亮。
And as a young girl from rural Mississippi I learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be Barbara Walters.
作為一個(gè)來自密西西比州農(nóng)村的年輕姑娘，我早就知道，成為自己比假裝成芭芭拉更容易。
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.
縱使我對(duì)自己的堅(jiān)守是因?yàn)槲蚁胍蔀榘虐爬穑蚁Ｍ业淖讼癜虐爬⒄勍孪癜虐爬e止像芭芭拉。直到有一天晚上，我在電視上讀新聞的時(shí)候，我把“Canada”讀成“Can-a-da”，這讓我自己都沒忍住大笑起來。
Couldn't 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.
我在電視上把自己層層剖析，我笑個(gè)不停。隨后真正的自我脫穎而出，我突然就想通了，“哦，天哪，與其成為芭芭拉，我可以成為一個(gè)更出色的奧普拉。”
I know that you all might have a little anxiety now and hesitation about leaving the comfort of college and putting those Harvard credentials to the test.
我非常理解在你們即將離開大學(xué)象牙塔一樣舒服單純的生活，把你們?cè)诠鹄锓e累的經(jīng)驗(yàn)?zāi)贸鋈?shí)踐的時(shí)候，或多或少會(huì)有些焦慮與猶豫不決。
