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毕业典礼上,前辈们的致辞往往都是充满祝福、慷慨激昂,让毕业生们对未来有无限美好的憧憬。而美国最高法院首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨(John Roberts)在儿子Jack就读的新罕布什尔州的卡迪根山中学(Cardigan Mountain School)毕业典礼上的致辞,却非常与众不同。他没有祝福毕业生们有个光明美好的未来,却祝愿他们遭遇各种不幸;他直面现实,希望这些来自上层社会的孩子们多一点坏运气,希望他们经历风雨,正视生活中的不公正和人生可能面临的失败,感恩父母、老师和社会,做最好的自己。一起来听听这篇机智幽默、妙语连珠、提神醒脑的演讲(节选)吧。
Graduation ceremony, the predecessors’ speeches are often full of blessing, impassioned, so that graduates have infinitely bright future vision. The speech by John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, during his graduation ceremony at Cardigan Mountain School in New Hampshire, where his son Jack was studying, was very different. He did not wish the graduates a bright and beautiful future, but wished them all sorts of misfortune; he confronted the reality and hoped that these children from the upper class would have a little more bad luck and hoped that they would experience the storm and face the injustices in life and Life may face failure, Thanksgiving parents, teachers and the community, to be the best of their own. Listen to this witty humor, punchline, refreshing speech (excerpt) it.