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Yet now, nearly four centuries later, we find ourselves in a challenging historical moment.
而在將近四百年后的現在，我們來到了一個充滿挑戰的歷史性時刻。
How do we "enlarge" our graduates in a way that benefits others as well?
畢業生應該如何提高自己，讓自己成為對別人有用的人呢？
Shepard spoke of enlarging "toward" -- toward, as he put it, "the country and the good of it."
謝帕德說過，提高自己是為了讓這個國家變得更好。
Are we succeeding in educating students oriented toward the betterment of others?
那我們是否成功地教育了學生們要為了他人的幸福而努力呢？
Or have we all become so caught up in individual and personal achievements, opportunities, and appearances
還是說我們都局限于個體和個人的成就、機遇和外表，
that we risk forgetting our interdependence, our responsibilities to one another and to the institutions meant to promote the common good?
而喪失了自己的獨立性，以及對他人、對致力于公共利益的機構的責任感呢？
This is the era of the selfie -- and the selfie stick.
這是一個自拍（自私）的時代，也是自拍貼紙的時代。
Now don't get me wrong: There is much to love about selfies, and two years ago in my Baccalaureate address
不要弄錯了我的意思：自拍當然值得喜歡，兩年前我在畢業典禮致辭的時候
I concluded by urging the graduates to send such pictures along so we could keep up with them and their post-Harvard lives.
還督促畢業生們給我發他們的照片，好讓我了解他們畢業后的生活。
But think for a moment about the implications of a society that goes through life taking its own picture.
但請思考一下，一個由生活中經常自拍的人組成的社會代表著什么。
That seems to me a quite literal embodiment of "self-regarding" -- a term not often used as a compliment.
在我看來，這就是利己主義的具象，利己主義這個詞一般不會用來表達贊美。
In fact, Merriam-Webster's dictionary offers "egocentric," "narcissistic," and "selfish" as synonyms.
韋氏詞典給這個詞的同義詞是以自我為中心的、自戀的、自私的。
We direct endless attention to ourselves, our image, our "Likes," just as we are encouraged -- and in fact encourage our students
我們對自身投入了無限的關注，包括我們的形象、我們的喜好等，正如別人鼓勵我們，我們也鼓勵學生去做的那樣，
to burnish resumes and fill first college and then job or graduate school applications with endless lists of achievements
仔細打磨你的簡歷，先填好你的大學，然后在工作經歷和研究生申請表上填上你那些數不清的成就，
with examples, to borrow Shepard's language, of constant enlargements of self.
舉個例子，用謝帕德的話來說，無限放大你自己。
As one social commentator has observed, we are ceaselessly at work building our own brands.
一位社會評論家發現，人的一生都在無休止的打造自己的品牌。
We spend time looking at screens instead of one another.
我們在屏幕上花費了大把時間，而不愿意看看身邊的人。
Large portions of our lives are hardly experienced: They are curated, shared, Snapchatted and Instagrammed -- rendered as a kind of composite selfie.
人生的一大部分我們都沒有認真體驗過，而是把它們策劃并分享到snapchat和instagram上，就像一張綜合了各項因素的自拍。
