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I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset!
我高中是在長島一家公立學(xué)校，Syoseet高中，哦，你好啊，Syoseet！
The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair.
我們學(xué)校的女生都拿著Prada包，燙直了頭發(fā)。
And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in.
而他們的口音，是我這個(gè)9歲從康州搬來的女孩為了融入而一直在模仿的。
Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries.
佛羅里達(dá)橘子，巧克力櫻桃。
Since I'm ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school.
因?yàn)槲夷昙o(jì)太老，所以我上高中時(shí)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)剛興起。
People didn't really pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress.
同學(xué)都不太在意我演員的身份。
I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands
我在學(xué)校出名是因?yàn)槲业谋嘲任业娜诉€大，而且我滿手都是消正液，
because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books.
因?yàn)槲也幌矚g筆記本上出現(xiàn)劃掉的痕跡。
I was voted for my senior yearbook 'most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy' or code for nerdiest.
畢業(yè)年冊中我被評為“最可能成為智力競賽選手”的人，換句話說，就是最呆的書呆子。
When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1,
《星球大戰(zhàn)前傳1》剛上映，我就來到哈佛讀書，
I knew I would be staring over in terms of how people viewed me.
我知道我得重新建立別人對我的看法了。
I feared people would have assumed I'd gotten in just for being famous,
我害怕大家以為我只是靠名聲才進(jìn)了哈佛，
and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here.
擔(dān)心他們覺得我配不上這里嚴(yán)格的智力標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
And it would not have been far from the truth.
其實(shí)真相也差不多如此。
When I came here I had never written a 10-paper before.
我來哈佛之前從沒寫過10頁的論文。
I'm not even sure I've written a 5-page paper.
我都不知道自己寫沒寫過5頁的論文。
I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter
我被一位同學(xué)的淡定眼神刺激并嚇壞，他是Dalton或者Exeter高中的名校生，
who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy.
他說跟高中相比，哈佛的作業(yè)量是小菜一碟。
I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable,
我是完全應(yīng)付不來，我覺得一周讀完一千頁書是不可想象的，
that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do.
而寫出50頁的論文是我永遠(yuǎn)都做不到的。
I had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn't even articulate them to myself.
我完全不知道該怎樣表達(dá)我的意圖。我連跟自己說清楚都做不到。
