全球最佳毕业演讲我祝你不幸并且痛苦（中英全文）约翰·罗伯茨：现任美国首席大法官美国当地时间2026年7月3日，《华盛顿邮报》放出了一个约翰·罗伯茨在卡迪根山中学（Cardigan Mountain School）的毕业演讲视频，迅速引发网友关注，《泰晤士报》等随后也进行了报道。《华盛顿邮报》评论说：罗伯茨首席大法官本年度最好的作品，不是某个案子的判决书，而是在儿子毕业典礼上的致辞。万朋教育给大家整理了这份演讲稿（中英文对照翻译），是不是本年度全球最佳毕业演讲？你看了就知道！Rain,somebody said,is like confetti from heaven.So even the heavens are celebrating this morning,joining the rest of us at this wonderful commencement ceremony.有人说，雨就像天上的五彩纸屑。因此，即使是今天早上的天空也在庆祝，在这个精彩的毕业典礼上与我们大家一起庆祝。Before we go any further,graduates,you have an important task to perform because behind you are your parents and guardians.在我们继续前进之前，毕业生们，你们有一个重要的任务要做，因为你们的身后是你们的父母和监护人。Two or three or four years ago,they drove into Cardigan,dropped you off,helped you get settled and then turned around and drove back out the gates.It was an extraordinary sacrifice for them.They drove down the trail of tears back to an emptier and lonelier house.两三年或四年前，他们开车进了卡迪根，让你下车，帮你安顿下来，然后转身把车开回大门。这是对他们的巨大牺牲。他们沿着小径流着眼泪，回到了一个更空旷、更孤独的房子。They did that because the decision about your education,they knew,was about you.It was not about them.That sacrifice and others they made have brought you to this point.But this morning is not just about you.It is also about them,so I hope you will stand up and turn around and give them a great round of applause.Please.他们这样做是因为，他们知道关于你的教育的决定在于你自己。这与他们无关。他们所做的牺牲是把你带到这里。但今天早上不只是你。这也是关于他们的，所以我希望你能站起来，转过身来，给他们热烈的掌声。请。Now when somebody asks me how the remarks at Cardigan went,I will be able to say they were interrupted by applause.现在，当有人问我卡迪根的演讲是怎么样的，我就能说他们被掌声打断了。Congratulations,class of 2026.You’ve reached an important milestone.An important stage of your life is behind you.I’m sorry to be the one to tell you it is the easiest stage of your life,but it is in the books.While you’ve been at Cardigan,you have all been a part of an important international community as well.And I think that needs to be particularly recognized.恭喜你,2026级。你已经达到了一个重要的里程碑。你生命的一个重要阶段就在你身后。我很抱歉要告诉你这是你生命中最容易的阶段，但它在书中。当你在卡迪根的时候，你也都是一个重要的国际社会的一部分。我认为这需要特别的认识。Now around the country today at colleges,high schools,middle schools,commencement speakers are standing before impatient graduates.And they are almost always saying the same things.They will say that today is a commencement exercise.‘It is a beginning,not an end.You should look forward.’现在全国各地的大学、中学、中学、毕业典礼上的演讲者都站在没有耐心的毕业生面前。他们总是说同样的话。他们会说今天是毕业典礼。“这是一个开始，而不是结束。你应该向前看”And I think that is true enough,however,I think if you’re going to look forward to figure out where you’re going,it’s good to know where you’ve been and to look back as well.我认为这是千真万确的，但是，我认为如果你想知道你要去哪里，很高兴知道你在哪里，也可以回顾一下。And I think if you look back to your first afternoon here at Cardigan,perhaps you will recall that you were lonely.Perhaps you will recall that you were a little scared,a little anxious.And now look at you.You are surrounded by friends that you call brothers,and you are confident in facing the next step in your education.我想如果你回想一下你在卡迪根的第一个下午，也许你会想起你很孤独。也许你会记得你有点害怕，有点焦虑。现在看看你。你被朋友们包围，你称他们为兄弟，你有信心面对你教育阶段的下一步。It is worth trying to think why that is so.And when you do,I think you may appreciate that it was because of the support of your classmates in the classroom,on the athletic field and in the dorms.And as far as the confidence goes,I think you will appreciate that it is not because you succeeded at everything you did,but because with the help of your friends,you were not afraid to fail.想知道为什么会这样？这是个值得去思考的问题。当你这样做的时候，我想你会很感激，因为你的同学在教室里，在运动场上，在宿舍里支持你。就信心而言，我认为你会明白这并不是因为你做了所有的事情，而是因为在朋友的帮助下，你不怕失败。And if you did fail,you got up and tried again.And if you failed again,you got up and tried again.And if you failed again,it might be time to think about doing something else.But it was not just success,but not being afraid to fail that brought you to this point.如果你失败了，你站起来再试一次。如果你失败了，你就站起来再试一次。如果你再次失败，可能是时候考虑做些别的事情了。但这不仅是成功，也是不害怕失败让你走到这一步。Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you.I will not do that,and I’ll tell you why.现在，毕业典礼的演讲者通常也会祝你好运，并向你致以良好的祝愿。我不会那样做，我会告诉你为什么。From time to time in the years to come,I hope you will be treated unfairly,so that you will come to know the value of justice.在今后的岁月里，我希望你们能受到不公平的对待，这样你们就会知道正义的价值。I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty.我希望你会遭受背叛，因为那会教会你忠诚的重要性。Sorry to say,but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted.很抱歉这么说，但我希望你偶尔会感到孤独，这样你就不会把朋友当成理所当然。I wish you bad luck,again,from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.愿你们偶尔运气不佳，这样才会意识到机遇在人生中的地位，进而理解你们的成功并非命中注定，别人的失败也不是天经地义。And when you lose,as you will from time to time,I hope every now and then,your opponent will gloat over your failure.It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship.当你们偶尔遭遇失败时，愿你们受到对手幸灾乐祸的嘲弄，这才会让你们理解体育精神的重要性。I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others,and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion.愿你们偶尔被人忽视，这样才能学会倾听；感受到切肤之痛，才能对别人有同情的理解。Whether I wish these things or not,they’re going to happen.And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes.无论我怎么想，这些迟早会来临。而你们能否从中获益，取决于能否参透人生苦难传递的信息。Now commencement speakers are also expected to give some advice.They give grand advice,and they give some useful tips.The most common grand advice they give is for youto be yourself.It is an odd piece of advice to give people dressed identically,but you should—you should be yourself.But you should understand what that means.现在，参加毕业典礼的人也会给出一些建议。他们给了大建议，并给出一些有用的建议。最常见的建议是“做自己”。但你得明白其中真意。Unless you are perfect,it does not mean don’t make any changes.In a certain sense,you should not be yourself.You should try to become something better.People say‘be yourself’because they want you to resist the impulse to conform to what others want you to be.But you can’t be yourself if you don’t learn who are,and you can’t learn who you are unless you think about it.如果你并非足够完美，就必须作出改变。这时，你就不能光想着做自己，必须不断自我完善。别人说“做自己”，是希望你抵制按他人意愿随波逐流的冲动。但如果连你都不知道自己要成为什么样的人，是不可能“做自己”的，而如果不思考这些，你也不可能知道自己想成为什么样的人。The Greek philosopher Socrates said,‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’And while‘just do it’might be a good motto for some things,it’s not a good motto when it’s trying to figure out how to live your life that is before you.And one important clue to living a good life is to not to try to live the good life.The best way to lose the values that are central to who you are is frankly not to think about them at all.希腊哲人苏格拉底说过，“未经自省的人生没有意义。”对某些事情而言，“just do it”是不错的座右铭，但在你想明白自己想要什么样的人生之前，这个座右铭可不咋滴。生活美好的一条重要准则就是不要试图享受好生活。失去那些对你来说至关重要的价值观，最好的方法就是不要去想它们。So that’s the deep advice.Now some tips as you get ready to go to your new school.Other the last couple of years,I have gotten to know many of you young men pretty well,and I know you are good guys.But you are also privileged young men.And if you weren’t privileged when you came here,you are privileged now because you have been here.My advice is:Don’t act like it.这就是深层的建议。现在准备好去新学校的一些建议。在过去的几年里，我很了解你们很多年轻人，我知道你们都是好人。但你们也是有特权的年轻人。如果你来到这里时没有特权，因为你来过这里，所以现在享有了特权。我的建议是:不要表现得像它。When you get to your new school,walk up and introduce yourself to the person who is raking the leaves,shoveling the snow or emptying the trash.Learn their name and call them by their name during your time at the school.Another piece of advice:When you pass by people you don’t recognize on the walks,smile,look them in the eye and say hello.The worst thing that will happen is that you will become known as the young man who smiles and says hello,and that is not a bad thing to start with.You’ve been at a school with just boys.Most of you will be going to a school with girls.I have no advice for you.当你去到新学校时，请走上前向那个正在耙树叶、铲雪或倒垃圾的人介绍自己。记住他们的名字，在学校的时候叫他们的名字。另一条忠告:当你走过那些你不认识的人的时候，微笑，看着他们的眼睛，向他们问好。最糟糕的事情是，你会成为一个微笑着打招呼的年轻人，而这并不是一件坏事。你在一所只有男生的学校里。你们大多数人会去一所有女孩子的学校。我不能给你任何建议。The last bit of advice I’ll give you is very simple,but I think it could make a big difference in your life.Once a week,you should write a note to someone.Not an email.A note on a piece of paper.It will take you exactly 10 minutes.Talk to an adult,let them tell you what a stamp is.You can put the stamp on the envelope.Again,10 minutes,once a week.我给你的最后一点建议很简单，但我认为它会给你的生活带来很大的改变。你应该给某人一周写一封信。不是电子邮件。一张纸上一个留言。你只需花10分钟时间。跟大人交谈，让他们告诉你邮票是什么。你可以把邮票贴在信封上。又一个10分钟，保持每周一次。I will help you,right now.I will dictate to you the first note you should write.It will say,‘Dear[fill in the name of a teacher at Cardigan Mountain School].’Say:‘I have started at this new school.We are reading in English.Football or soccer practice is hard,but I’m enjoying it.Thank you for teaching me.’我现在就帮你。我将向你说明你应该写的第一张便条。它会说:“亲爱的[填满了卡迪根的老师的名字]。”说:“我从这所新学校开始。我们正在用英语阅读。足球或足球，训练很难，但我很享受。谢谢你教我。”Put it in an envelope,put a stamp on it and send it.It will mean a great deal to people who—for reasons most of us cannot contemplate—have dedicated themselves to teaching middle school boys.As I said,that will take you exactly 10 minutes a week.By the end of the school year,you will have sent notes to 40 people.Forty people will feel a little more special because you did,and they will think you are very special because of what you did.No one else is going to carry that dividend during your time at school.把它放在信封里，贴上邮票，寄出去。这对那些为了我们大多数人无法思考的原因而献身于教导中学男生的人来说意义重大。就像我说的，你每周只需要10分钟。到学年结束的时候，你会给40个人发笔记。40个人会觉得有点特别，因为你做到了，他们会认为你很特别，因为你所做的。在你上学的时候，没有人会带着这种红利。Enough advice.I would like to end by reading some important lyrics.I cited the Greek philosopher Socrates earlier.These lyrics are from the great American philosopher,Bob Dylan.They’re almost 50 years old.He wrote them for his son,Jesse,who he was missing while he was on tour.It lists the hopes that a parent might have for a son and for a daughter.They’re also good goals for a son and a daughter.The wishes are beautiful,they’re timeless.They’re universal.下面，我将以一段著名歌词结束我的致辞。刚才，我引用了希腊哲人苏格拉底的名言。而这些歌词，则来自伟大的美国哲人，鲍勃·迪伦。这些歌词已有50年历史，是迪伦当年巡回演出期间，思子心切，写给儿子杰西的。歌词表达了家长对子女的美好期盼，这些期盼是美好的、永恒的，也是普世的。They’re good and true,except for one:It is the wish that gives the song its title and its refrain.That wish is a parent’s lament.It’s not a good wish.他们是好的，也是真实的，除了一个:这是给歌曲标题和副歌的愿望。这是父母的哀痛。这不是一个好愿望。So these are the lyrics fromForever Youngby Bob Dylan:这就是鲍勃迪伦的《永远年轻》的歌词：May God bless and keep you always,愿上帝庇佑，护你前路，May your wishes all come true,愿你美梦均可成真，May you always do for others，and let others do for you.愿你与人为善，相互扶持。May you build a ladder to the stars,愿你可以造一把采摘繁星的云梯，And climb on every rung,稳妥沿它而上，May you stay forever young,愿你永远年轻，May you grow up to be righteous,愿你长大后正直无私，May you grow up to be true,愿你懂事时真实善良，May you always know the truth,愿你永远感知真理，And see the lights surrounding you.看向身边无尽光明。May you always be courageous,愿你永远勇敢无畏，Stand upright and be strong,坚韧不拔，意志坚强，May your hands always be busy,愿你总是忙碌充实，May your feet always be swift,愿你脚步永远轻盈，May you have a strong foundation,愿你根基牢固，When the winds of changes shift.在变故横生之时。ay r heart always be joy,愿你的心总是充满快乐，ay r song always be sung,愿你的歌曲能够永远被人传唱，ay stay forever you愿你永远年轻。Thanku.谢谢。
