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Particularly to the landmarks here the Duke Gardens, I often went there to study and when I was stressed out for those finals
特別是這里的地標(biāo)杜克公園 我讀書時(shí)經(jīng)常到那里學(xué)習(xí)也經(jīng)常到那里緩解期末考試的壓力
Yesterday, I went there in the afternoon after the rain to get centered before this speech but besides the landmarks
昨天下午的雨后 我又去了那里為這次演講做準(zhǔn)備不過除了地標(biāo)之外
For me there's a deep feeling of connection to the people here to the people and friends that i've made over those 4 years on this campus And I doubt there is one word
我記憶最深刻的 還是和這里的人之間的聯(lián)系和我共度四年校園生活的伙伴們的聯(lián)系如果要說有一個(gè)詞
That really pulls together that shared combination of all the things that all of us label, under that term "Duke" but the best word that I can think of
可以將杜克大學(xué)所有人及所有事所共有的特質(zhì)概括起那么我認(rèn)為這個(gè)詞便是
Is "connected" Connected that's a word I'd like to discuss with you today on your Graduation Day
聯(lián)系聯(lián)系就是今天在畢業(yè)日 我要跟你們討論的主題
I left home in August, 1982 From Dallas, Texas, I travel to Durham and my parents marked that rite of passage with a terrific present:
1982年8月我離開老家從德州達(dá)拉斯來到達(dá)勒姆父母為我這次人生重要之旅送上了特別的禮物
It was a typewriter, a B12 Olympus portable typewriter The best thing about it was it weighed only 12 pounds, carrying in case and all It was during my time at Duke
一臺(tái)打字機(jī) 奧林巴斯B12便攜打字機(jī)它的最大優(yōu)點(diǎn)在于只有12磅重 可以放到箱子里正是在杜克讀大學(xué)的那段時(shí)間
That really computers took over and replaced the typewriter as being the thing of choice to write your papers And we computer science department students
計(jì)算機(jī)真正取代了打字機(jī)的地位成為寫論文的首選工具當(dāng)時(shí)我們這些計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)系的學(xué)生
We resented you humanities majors because you were hogging our machines to write your papers and what that meant was that
最討厭你們這些文科生了因?yàn)槟銈兝鲜前哉嘉覀兊臋C(jī)器來寫論文這害得我們
I spent a lot of hours in basement of some very creepy building on this campus particularly the biological sciences building We would be in the basement of that building
不得不長時(shí)間待在某些陰森建筑的地下室里特別是生物科學(xué)樓我們會(huì)在這棟樓的地下室里
