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That responsibility is quintessentially the work of universities -- calling upon our shared human heritage to invent a new future
這項責任由大學肩負，我們要用人類留下的遺產(chǎn)去打造新的未來，
the future that will be created by the thousands of graduates who leave here today.
這個未來將由今天即將離開的數(shù)千名畢業(yè)生創(chuàng)造。
Our work is about that ongoing commitment -- not to a single individual or even one generation or one era
而我們的工作就是履行未竟的承諾--它不是對某個人、某代人或者某個時代的承諾，
but to a larger world and to the service of the age that is waiting before it.
而是對更大的世界和對那個等候已久的時代的承諾。
In 1884, my predecessor Charles William Eliot unveiled a statue of John Harvard
1884年，我的前輩查爾斯·威廉·艾里奧特揭開了約翰·哈佛的雕像，
and spoke of the good that can come from the study of what we might call the "enlarged" life of the man whose name this university bears.
他說我們應(yīng)該研究哈佛先生的充實人生，向他學習，哈佛先生的名字后來被用來給這所學校命名。
Eliot said: "He will teach that the good which men do lives after them, fructified and multiplied beyond all power of measurement or computation.
艾里奧特說：“他會教導我們，一個人做下的善事會形成深遠的影響，在他之后，這種善會開花結(jié)果，它的影響不可度量。
He will teach that from the seed which he planted... have sprung joy, strength, and energy ever fresh,
他會教導我們，他種下的種子會結(jié)出快樂、力量與活力的果實，
blooming year after year in this garden of learning, and flourishing... as time goes on, in all fields of human activity."
它年復一年的在這座花園里成長壯大，最終隨著時間的推移，出現(xiàn)在各個領(lǐng)域的人類活動里。”
In other words, that statue we paraded past this afternoon is not simply a monument to an individual,
也就是說，我們今天中午參觀過的那座雕像紀念的不僅僅是某個人，
but to a community and an institution constantly renewing itself.
更是一個常常自我更新的社群和教育機構(gòu)。
Your presence here today represents an act of connection and of affirmation of that community and of this institution.
大家今天出現(xiàn)在這里就代表著一種聯(lián)結(jié)和對這個社群和機構(gòu)的認可。
It is a recognition of Harvard's capacity to propel you toward lives and worlds beyond your own.
它表示你們認可哈佛對你們的人生道路，對你們超越自我有所幫助。
I thank you for the commitment that brought you here today.
感謝大家遵守承諾到場。
I wish you joy, strength, and energy ever fresh. Thank you very much.
祝愿大家生活愉快，充滿力量。謝謝大家。
