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4.0 yards per carry and 1600 receiving yards your senior year When I graduated from Stanford, my father, grandfather crowded around me.
你高中最后一年4.0的平均沖球碼數和1600的接球總碼數我從斯坦福畢業時 我父親 祖父圍著我
They grabbed the program and they said I see you didn't graduate magna cum laude.
他們拿起畢業證書說我看到你沒有以極優等成績畢業
You didn't graduate summa cum laude You just graduated thank you, Lordy. I'm out of here.
沒有以最優等成績畢業你只是普通畢業 我沒臉待在這里了
And here I am at Yale coming to my graduation, my final graduation.
后來我讀耶魯最后一次參加自己的畢業典禮
My father walks out to me and says, it's about time boy you've got more degrees in the month of July and you're not hot.
我父親跑來跟我說 是時候了 兒子你在七月份獲得了更多的學位 但沒有公司搶著要你
Get a job And the sad thing is.
找份工作去最為悲催的是
As a politician, my father still looks at me and says, get a job And so my parents have their stories, 2 of which I want to share with you.
作為政治人物 我父親仍然對我說 找份工作去我的父母有他們的故事 我想同你們分享兩個
And then I'm done about vision and please understand that when my mom, my sweet mother, my sweet grandmother.
這樣我就把異象講清楚了請大家理解 我親切的母親 親切的祖母
When they tell a story, they each have a pension, for accuracy and detail When they tell me a story, even if i've heard it before.
講故事時都非常在意準確和細節她們講故事時 哪怕故事我原來聽過
I pay attention because I'm gonna learn something and get another fact.
我也會集中注意力因為我總能學到新知識
When my father and my grandfather, 2 extraordinary man I loved them dearly but when they tell a story.
而我父親和祖父 這兩位我深愛的杰出人士他們講故事時
They have a pension for hyperbole and exaggeration Their stories gets so dramatic.
則非常在意夸張和夸大他們的故事非常具有戲劇性
My father I tell you, he says, son, I was born poor Now you would heckle me if I said that.
我父親他說 兒子 我出生時很窮現在我如果這么說 你可以詰問我
Don't you tell those people I was poor because I was just po, p-o, I couldn't afford the other 2 letters.
別告訴別人說我很窮因為我只是po 我負擔不起poor的另外兩個字母
And I'm telling you though weather changed over the times, he tells stories.
我告訴你們他講的故事中 天氣總會不斷變化
Every single story was a storm, but then eventually the hail began.
他講的每個故事都是一場風暴 但最后冰雹開始下落
And I'm telling you the hail moved from every single ball a sport has.
而且我告訴你們冰雹會經歷體育中各種球的大小
It was first the hail of the size of golf balls then the hail of the size of base balls.
首先高爾夫球那么大的冰雹然后是壘球那么大的冰雹
