Thank you very much.
非常感謝。非常感謝。
Thank you, Dr. Johnson.
謝謝你,約翰遜博士。
Well, it is really great to be back at university again.
嗯,再次回到大學(xué)真是太好了。
The thing that I wanted to tell you today is this: Education is important.
今天我想告訴你們的是:教育很重要。
When I came to the US, I was only thinking about being a carpenter, but I could not read the newspaper.
我剛來(lái)到美國(guó)的時(shí)候,我只想成為一名木匠,但是我讀不懂報(bào)紙。
And I could not understand the news on television or movies or anything like this.
我看不懂電視或電影之類的新聞。
So, I entered the city college to take English classes for foreign students.
所以,我進(jìn)入了城市學(xué)院上為外國(guó)學(xué)生準(zhǔn)備的英語(yǔ)課。
I was very proud that I was going to a college because no one in my family ever went to any college or to any university.
我很自豪我要上大學(xué),因?yàn)槲壹依餂](méi)有人上過(guò)大學(xué)。
You know, when you’re 15 years old in my country, you finish school and then you learn a trade.
你知道,在我的國(guó)家,當(dāng)你15歲時(shí),你完成學(xué)業(yè),然后學(xué)習(xí)一門手藝。
And that’s exactly what I did.
我就是這么做的。
When I was 15 years old, I learned how to be a carpenter.
當(dāng)我15歲的時(shí)候,我學(xué)會(huì)了如何成為一個(gè)木匠。
A year later, I came to America.
一年后,我來(lái)到了美國(guó)。
Luckily, I met a very good teacher who encouraged me to take some math classes, business classes, and history classes, and I became a full-time college student.
幸運(yùn)的是,我遇到了一位非常好的老師,他鼓勵(lì)我上一些數(shù)學(xué)課、商科課和歷史課,我成了一名全日制大學(xué)生。
And today, when I look back, I’m so happy because you never know where life will take you.
幸運(yùn)的是,我遇到了一位非常好的老師,他鼓勵(lì)我上一些數(shù)學(xué)課、商科課和歷史課,我成了一名全日制大學(xué)生。
All of a sudden, I started making money because I was really good at math.
突然間,我開(kāi)始賺錢了,因?yàn)槲覕?shù)學(xué)很好。
You know, how work out everything with math is so important.
你知道,用數(shù)學(xué)來(lái)解決所有問(wèn)題是多么重要。
This is something that I learned when I started my own business, which is doing really well.
這是我創(chuàng)業(yè)時(shí)學(xué)到的東西,我的生意做得很好。