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That's how I've come to feel about the Yale experience—grateful. I studied hard, I played hard, and I made a lot of lifelong friends. What stays with you from college is the part of your education you hardly ever notice at the time. It's the expectations and examples around you, the ideals you believe in, and the friends you make.
我很感激耶魯大學給我們提供了這么好的讀書環境。讀書期間，我堅持“用功讀書，努力玩樂”，結交了許多讓我終生受益的朋友。大學期間，常陪伴你身邊的那些東西是你學習生涯的一部分，但是那時你卻從來沒有注意過。那時大家對你們的期望，是你身邊值得你學習的榜樣，是你堅持的理想，以及諸多你結交的朋友...
In my time, they spoke of the "Yale man." I was really never sure what that was. But I do think that I'm a better man because of Yale. All universities, at their best, teach that degrees and honors are far from the full measure of life. Nor is that measure taken in wealth or in titles. What matters most are the standards you live by, the consideration you show others, and the way you use the gifts you are given.
我那個時代，常常聽到大家說“耶魯人”。我從不確定那是什么意思。但是因為耶魯，因為有了在耶魯深造的經歷，我變成了一個更加優秀的人！許多大學都在盡力教導學生，學位和榮譽并非衡量人生的一切標準。財富和頭銜也不能用來衡量人生。衡量人生的關鍵在于你的生活準則、你對他人的體恤以及你如何運用你的天賦。
Now you leave Yale behind, carrying the written proof of your success here, at a college older than America. When I left here, I didn't have much in the way of a life plan. I knew some people who thought they did. But it turned out that we were all in for ups and downs, most of them unexpected. Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story. And along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
現在你們即將低著從這所比美國歷史還要悠久的大學獲得的證明你們成功的證書離開耶魯。我從這里畢業時，還沒有仔細規劃我的人生。我認識一些人，他們認為自己對人生做了規劃。但結果表明，生活不可能一帆風順，人生道路跌宕起伏，免不了會經歷坎坷。生活自由軌跡，生活充滿挑戰，生活譜寫著自己的故事，而歷經漫漫人生路，我們才開始發現自己并不是這些故事的譜寫者。
