I graduated from the University of Life. All right? I received a degree from the School of Hard Knocks. And our colors were black and blue, baby. I had office hours with the Dean of Bloody Noses. All right? I borrowed my class notes from Professor Knuckle Sandwich and his Teaching Assistant, Ms. Fat Lip Thon Nyun. That’s the kind of school I went to for real, okay?
I believe we are finally creating the scientific and technological tools to turn the world into a neighborhood. And that gives you an amazing ethical opportunity no one has ever had before. I hope you will use to the tool of technology to do what you already had it in your heart to do. To connect. To make of this world a brotherhood and a sisterhood.
“Recharge one’s batteries” 通常用来表示 “某人非常疲劳，需要通过放松来恢复体力、养精蓄锐”。这个表达将身体的精力值比作 “battery（电池）” 的电量，而补充精力就相当于 “recharge（充电）”。
I hope you will hold tightly to the community you’ve built here because whatever life brings, your success will be sweetened and your setbacks softened if you can share them together. Most of all, I hope you will find happiness and joy, meaning and fulfillment, and a life that gives to you all that you ask of it.
“Hit the road” 通常被用在某人正要或即将踏上一段旅程时，意思是 “出发，上路”。它也常用来提出自己就要 “离开一个活动，比如一场聚会”。
Impermanence is the natural state of the universe. Everything changes, all the time. Sometimes those changes are so imperceptible we’re not always conscious of them. But nothing stays the same forever. And this fact of impermanence is something we’re all aware of.
It’s OK to be scared. In fact, if you weren’t scared, I’d be scared for you. But let me repeat something that the most extraordinary, certainly one of the most extraordinary men I’ve ever known said. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. Let your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
“Lose one’s nerve” 的意思是 “屈服于恐惧和焦虑，失去了做某件事情的勇气，惊慌失措”。人们常常用这个表达来劝他人 “别害怕”：“Don’t lose your nerve.”。
No matter how cliché it may sound, you will never truly be successful until you learn to give beyond yourself. Empathy and kindness are the true signs of emotional intelligence. Enjoy the process of your search without succumbing to the pressure of results…trust your gut……keep throwing darts at the dart board…..don’t listen to the critics and you will figure it out.
“Brave something out” 的意思是 “勇敢面对或耐心处理一个困难而不愉快的情况”。
First off, I want to thank the teachers and faculty of Broad Run High School for first considering and then inviting me to speak here. It was flattering, I am touched and humbled, and you have made a grave mistake. I’m being paid for this, right? Oh, wait, there’s some advice, right off the bat – always get paid.
“True grit” 的意思是 “坚强的意志力”，常常用来强调某人有勇气和决心达成定下的目标或兑现许下的承诺。这里，名词 “grit” 指 “勇气，毅力”。
After Samuel Clemens became famous as the writer Mark Twain, he started giving humorous lectures at age 31. “Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands” was his favorite lecture. He gave a version of this speech in his debut as a professional platform entertainer in San Francisco in 1866 and gave it almost 100 times until 1873.
What’s been at the edge of your awareness that you’ll place in that letter so it’s nearer to your core. How you might bridge your own dreams and those of a family in the periphery with its own heartbreakingly simple goal: “Stay nourished. Stay safe.”
在非正式英语中，可以将 “经常在海滩消遣、游玩的人” 称作 “beach bum（海滩客）”。
We’re never going to achieve perfection. Certainly not in a democracy. But we can do better. And it’s a slow process of doing better each and each generation. With setbacks, with failures, but then we keep on going. Our grandparents, our parents. It’s that process that ultimately is a great responsibility for all of us. But it is also a remarkable privilege to make this world better.
“At the crack of dawn” 的意思是 “一天开始的时候”，也被用来表示 “天一亮、一大早就发生了某件事情”。名词 “dawn” 指 “日出的时候，黎明”。
Don’t get hung up on what other people say is practical. Instead, steer your ship into the choppy seas. Look for the rough spots, the problems that seem too big, the complexities that other people are content to work around. It’s in those places that you will find your purpose. It’s there that you can make your greatest contribution.
“A home from home” 用来表示 “一个让你非常舒适自在的地方，在这里可以感受到像在自己家里时那样的安逸”。
“A country mile” （直译为 “乡间的一英里” ）通常用来形容 “一个地方非常遥远”。 这可能是由于乡间小路总是迂回曲折，不像大路那样笔直，所以 “乡间的一英里” 仿佛更远。在日常使用中，这个表达不仅可以描述具体距离的遥远，也可以用来形容 “两个事物的质量对比起来相差甚远，其中一个比另一个差远了”
