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Thank you, President Torres. Welcome, Governor Patrick. Thank you, everyone, for being here.
謝謝托雷斯校長，歡迎帕特里克州長的到來，感謝到場的所有人。
When the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony arrived on these shores in 1630,
當馬薩諸塞灣殖民地的居民1630年第一次登上海岸時，
they came as dissenters -- rejecting institutions of their English homeland.
他們還是一群反叛者，他們并不認可他們的祖國英國設(shè)立的各個機構(gòu)。
But I have always found it striking that here in the wilderness, where mere survival was the foremost challenge,
但有一件事總讓我感到震驚，因為在這樣一片僅僅生存下去就已經(jīng)是巨大挑戰(zhàn)的荒野上，
they so rapidly felt compelled to found this seat of learning so that New England, in the words of William Hubbard of the Class of 1642,
他們居然很快就發(fā)現(xiàn)這里適合辦學(xué)，用1642級的威廉·哈伯德的話來說，
so the New England "might be supplied with persons fit to manage the affairs of both church and state."
可以給新英格蘭輸送人才，幫助管理教堂和各州事務(wù)。
Church, state, and College. Three institutions they deemed essential to this Massachusetts experiment.
在他們看來，教堂、州以及大學(xué)在馬薩諸塞實驗中扮演著至關(guān)重要的角色。
Three institutions to ensure that the colonists, as Governor John Winthrop urged, could be "knit together as one" in a new society in a brave new world.
正如州長約翰·溫斯洛普所說，設(shè)置這三個機構(gòu)可以幫助把殖民地居民在一個新世界里擰成一股繩。
Dozens of generations have come and gone since then,
自那時起至今已經(jīng)過去了數(shù)百年，
and the University's footprint has expanded considerably beyond a small cluster of wooden buildings.
這所大學(xué)的發(fā)展已經(jīng)遠遠超出了幾棟矮小的木制建筑。
But we have never lost faith in the capacity of each generation to build a better society than the one it was born into.
但我們始終相信，每一代都可以創(chuàng)造出一個比上一代更好的世界。
We have never lost faith in the capacity of this College to help make that possible.
我們始終相信學(xué)校可以幫助我們做到這一點。
As an early founder, Thomas Shepard put it, we hope to graduate into the world people who are, in his words, "enlarged toward the country and the good of it."
就像早期創(chuàng)始人托馬斯·謝帕德說的：“我們希望在畢業(yè)后所見到的那個世界里，人人為了這個國家變得更好而努力。”
