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And while I'm on the subject of water creatures, there's an expression they use a lot in the news business.
既然說到了水中生物，那就跟你們說一個新聞界廣泛使用的說法，
"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck.
“如果長得像鴨子，游泳像鴨子，叫起來也像鴨子，那么它很可能就是一只鴨子。
Unless it has been auto corrected, and then we're all ducked."
除非它被自動糾正過，那樣的話，我們就都被蒙蔽了。”
The message here -- pretty simple: Life isn't all that complicated.
這句話的意思很簡單--生活并沒有那么復雜。
Things are what they are. Don't read into everything. Just do your best and try to do no harm.
事情就是它本身的樣子。不要做過多解讀。只要做到最好，不要傷害別人。
So here are my hopes for you graduates.
以下是我對你們畢業生的幾點希望。
When you take off your cap and gown today, I sincerely hope you have clothes on underneath.
今天當你們脫下學士帽和學士服后，我真誠地希望你們里面還穿著衣服。
But I also hope you realize that just learning to navigate college fosters a quality that social scientists call "grit."
但我也希望你們意識到，大學培養的是一種品質，社會學家稱之為“堅毅”。
It means when you fall down, and you will, you will dust yourself off and keep going.
它指的是當你摔倒時--你會摔倒的，你會撣掉灰塵，繼續前進。
As you travel through life, I hope you leave deep footprints behind,
我希望你們在一生的旅程中，能在身后留下深深的腳印。
not as a result of all the people you've stepped on to get ahead,
這些腳印不是你為了獲得成功而盛氣凌人地對待他人所留下的，
but rather as a result of all the lives you have lifted along the way.
而是你在一路上幫助他人所留下的。
And 20 or 30 years from now, I hope you're sitting where your family is today,
從現在起二三十年后，我希望你們坐在你們家人今天坐的地方，
clutching tissues and beaming with pride, remembering your own graduation and thinking,
手里緊緊捏著紙巾，驕傲地眉開眼笑，回想著自己的畢業典禮，心里想著，
"You know, that commencement speaker wasn't half wrong, whatever her name was."
“你瞧，那次畢業典禮的演講人所說的并不全錯，不管她叫什么名字。”
Congratulations and good luck.
恭喜你們，祝你們好運！
