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Thank you! My name is Bono and I am a rock star. Don't get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited. And I'm that guy. I'd just like to say to the parents, your children are safe, your country is safe, the FCC has taught me a lesson and the only--the only four-letter word I'm going to use today is P-E-N-N. (Safe.) Come to think of it, "Bono" is a four-letter word. The whole business of obscenity--I don't think there's anything certainly more unseemly than the sight of a rock star in academic robes. It's a bit like when people get their--put their King Charles spaniels in little tartan sweats and hats. It's sort of--it's not natural, and it doesn't make the dog any smarter.
謝謝！我叫博諾，是個搖滾音樂明星。別讓我太激動，因為我一激動就會說出那四個字母的詞了。我就是這種人。我只想跟各位家長說，你們的孩子很安全，你們的國家很安全。聯邦通訊委員會給了我一個教訓——所以今天我要用的唯一的四個字母的單詞就是P-E-N-N（賓夕法尼亞大學簡稱）。細想一下，Bono也是由四個字母構成的呀。整件事情都很怪異——我想沒有什么比搖滾明星穿著博士長袍更不合適的了。就像讓查爾斯王子的西班牙獵犬穿上蘇格蘭格子上衣、戴上帽子一樣——既不自然，也沒有變得更好看。
It's true we were here before with U2 and I would like to thank them for giving me a great life, as well as you. I've got a great rock and roll band that normally stand at the back when I'm talking to thousands of people in a football stadium and they were here with me, I think it was seven years ago. Actually then I was with some other sartorial problems. I--I was wearing a mirror-ball suit at the time and I emerged from a forty-foot high revolving lemon. It was a sort of cross between a space ship, a disco and, actully, a--a plastic fruit.
以前我和U2樂隊一起來過這里，我要感謝他們給了我很棒的經歷，就像你們一樣。我有一支很棒的搖滾樂隊。當我站在足球場上對著數千人演講時，他們通常會在背后支持我。我想是七年前吧，他們也曾和我一起站在這里。實際上，那時我的表演服裝有些奇怪。我穿著一身會反光的衣服，從一個40英尺高的旋轉著的檸檬中現身。那個檸檬就像是宇宙飛船和迪斯科舞廳的混合產物，實際上是一個塑料水果。
