我就期到在，加不少次的典，多特的演，但大多都是心不耐的。最常的就是有些民意代表上台是了取「人行」的，趁提高知名度，而且一的比一久，然台下的生和家都希望可以早束煎熬的程。我自己人目前有真正一能心的典演。今年在路上看到美波士斯利高中老卡洛（DavidMcCullough）的典演透半天，有人全部翻成中文放到路上，一得大，看完之後，我也有很多感。
卡洛在典上坦白的生：「You are not special」（你不特！），表示全美37千所高中有320人，你怎可能特呢？希望鼓生要清事，生命，好於自己的 特生活。12分的致影片被放到路上，短短一就超百人次，多人看了彷被上了一，引起友共。
卡洛在致分析道：「在全美3.7所高中至少有320生。其中有3.7人是生致代表、3.7名班、9.2名合唱、34和2185987鞋。」卡洛一步分析，就算你是百分之一的菁英人物，但依照此比例去算，在全球近70人口中，也有7000人跟你一秀，所以你不是最特的。」
我想到，我科到大、研究所，一路都是第一名，老以後，指的生，看著我家坑谷的和，要我不以此那就很假。年甚至了我那第一名的生取上台，得罪了校很多官，因那候我得的耀得之不易，然不能易放。
了卡洛的分析，我醒，全世界那多校那多年那多生，每年都有那多的第一名，些第一名最後都去哪了？真的有因那多第一名而改他的人生？最後不是一在上打，了家庭而五斗米折腰，我相信二十年後，他再看到年最引以的那些，也只剩下一抹淡然的微笑而已。
卡洛表示，「若所有人都是特的，那也都不特了。如果每人都有杯，就得一意也有，美人越越喜美，而不是真正的成就，我是不利的。」
天前我和小安他去了一位很知名的雕刻家，他有一些很特造型的道具，了源才知道都是上拆下的。
「？得拆自己的？」我地道。
『源回收就有一大堆呀！』雕刻爽朗的道。原很多人在搬家或是整理家，些就成了食之味，之可惜的肋，很多人毫不考地送去源回收。有的是家人世了，他的一也只有源回收的命，竟生者不能一子活在亡者的痛苦。於有者具有很重要意的，在人眼中也就只是一堆破塑和螺，比和箱都有值。
到，突然想到如果有一天我了人世，我家那坑谷的牌和，也是走上同一路吧。正所：「也空，名也空，眼荒郊土一封。」
卡洛的12分致醒不少生，最後他也鼓所有生去做任何你想做的事，不的别的，就因你而且相信它很重要。卡洛也，「人生中最美妙的趣，在於了解到你不特别，因每人都是一的。」
因每人都不特，所以做自己就好，不用想要去成其他人，也不用慕其他人。
有人：「四十以前而活，四十之後自己而活。」我也快要四十了，真的是好好想一想自己想要怎活。
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卡洛老「你不特」中英照全文
David McCullough, Jr. You Are Not Special
At Wellesley High School Commencement「你不特」大．卡洛老 於威斯利高中典http://lybio.net/david-mccullough-jr-you-are-not-special-commencement/speeches/Dr. Wong, Dr. Keough, Mrs. Novogroski, Ms. Curran, members of the board of education, family and friends of the graduates, ladies and gentlemen of the Wellesley High School class of 2012, for the privilege of speaking to you this afternoon, I am honored and grateful. Thank you.翁博士、基博士、渥果斯基女士、柯女士、教育局官、生的家人朋友、威斯利高中 2012 年班的女士、先生，我非常幸也十分感激能有在下午你致。。So here we are… commencement… life’s great forward-looking ceremony. And don’t say, “What about weddings?” Weddings are one-sided and insufficiently effective. Weddings are bride-centric pageantry. Other than conceding to a list of unreasonable demands, the groom just stands there. No stately, hey-everybody-look-at-me procession. No being given away. No identity-changing pronouncement. 因此，我在。典。生命中重要的前瞻性式。不要：「那婚呢？」婚是片面的、而且常常效果不佳。婚是以新娘中心的盛。除了同意一串不怎合理的要求外，新郎通常只能杵在那。有盛大的、大家盯著你瞧的伍行。有送，有身分的宣告。And can you imagine a television show dedicated to watching guys try on tuxedos? Their fathers sitting there misty-eyed with joy and disbelief, their brothers lurking in the corner muttering with envy. Left to men, weddings would be, after limits-testing procrastination, spontaneous, almost inadvertent… during halftime… on the way to the refrigerator. And then there’s the frequency of failure: statistics tell us half of you will get divorced. A winning percentage like that’ll get ou last place in the American League East. The Baltimore Orioles do better than weddings.你能想像有大家看著男士穿上燕尾服的目？他的父坐在那，眼眶中打著喜疑的水。他的兄弟溜到角落，低嘀咕、慕。在限考的冗拖延後，婚留男士的，往往只剩下恍神意地在中休息溜到冰箱那去喝罐料的利。事上，婚姻是有其失率的，指出在座的各位有一半未婚。成功的率低到你坐美主。巴的摩金的率都比婚姻的高。But this ceremony… commencement… a commencement works every time. From this day forward… truly… in sickness and in health, through financial fiascos, through midlife crises and passably attractive sales reps at trade shows in Cincinnati, (parents get that) through diminishing tolerance for annoyingness, through every difference, irreconcilable and otherwise, you will stay forever graduated from high school, you and your diploma as one, ‘til death do you part.可是典式，每次都能利。今後，真的，不管你生病或健康、困、中年危，是在辛辛那提的展售遇到相得去的售小姐，(家都得)，或你事物容忍度越越低、也遭遇到可解的或束手策的各改，不管怎，你都地所高中了。你，你的文合一，至死不渝。No, commencement is life’s great ceremonial beginning, with its own attendant and highly appropriate symbolism. Fitting, for example, for this auspicious rite of passage, is where we find ourselves this afternoon, the venue. Normally, I avoid clichés like the plague, wouldn’t touch them with a ten-foot pole, but here we are on a literal level playing field. That matters. That says something. And your ceremonial costume… shapeless, uniform, one-size-fits-all. Whether male or female, tall or short, scholar or slacker, spray-tanned prom queen or intergalactic X-Box assassin, each of you is dressed, you’ll notice, exactly the same. And your diploma… but for your name, exactly the same.然而，事情也不然如此。典是生命中大式性的端。有其自身的者高度象徵性的意涵。例如，透加得的成年，我在下午、合找到了自己。一般而言，我避免人的腔。碰都不想碰(一)。但此刻我在大家公平的技(二)，些就得重要了。它透露著某些重要息。看看你的典服，毫造型、大小一致。不管是男女、高矮、或不、皮成棕褐色的舞女王是 X-Box 的星刺客(三)，你每人，注意到了，都穿著一模一的衣服。至於你的文，除了你的名字以外，也都得完全相同。All of this is as it should be, because none of you is special.You’re not special. You are not exceptional.一切本如此，因你，不特。
你不特，你不不同。Contrary to what your U9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing 7th grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you… you’re nothing special.管你有座 U9 足球杯(四)，有亮的七年成，而且你信世上存在著紫色肥胖恐，有那位笑咪咪的斯先生(五)和狂的西阿姨，管你的女超人天上下救你，很抱歉，你是什特的。Yes, you’ve been pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble-wrapped. Yes, capable adults with other things to do have held you, kissed you, fed you, wiped your mouth, wiped your bottom, trained you, taught you, tutored you, coached you, listened to you, counseled you, encouraged you, consoled you and encouraged you again. You’ve been nudged, cajoled, wheedled and implored. You’ve been feted and fawned over and called sweetie pie. 是的，你一直尊、生、被溺、被保、被美的泡泡。是的，那些正忙著其他事的大人，是把你捧在手心、吻你、你、你擦嘴巴、替你擦屁股、你、教你、引你、指你、聆你、你、鼓你、安慰你，然後再一次地鼓你。你曾被人推示好、被巧哄、被情款待、被奉承好，甚至被喊作甜心派。Yes, you have. And, certainly, we’ve been to your games, your plays, your recitals, your science fairs. Absolutely, smiles ignite when you walk into a room, and hundreds gasp with delight at your every tweet. Why, maybe you’ve even had your picture in the Townsman. And now you’ve conquered high school… and, indisputably, here we all have gathered for you, the pride and joy of this fine community, the first to emerge from that magnificent new building…是的，你有。而且，我都去你的比、你的、你的奏、你的科展。你走房看到每人上起笑容、你便一推特文章底下就起百，甚至 Townsman 上曾刊出你的照片(六)。而在，你完成了高中，而且，庸置疑地，我全了你而聚集在，你身社的耀和喜，身第一位那座宏新大走出的生。But do not get the idea you’re anything special. Because you’re not.但，千不要以你就有什特的，因你有。The empirical evidence is everywhere, numbers even an English teacher can’t ignore. Newton, Natick, Nee… I am allowed to say Needham, yes? …that has to be two thousand high school graduates right there, give or take, and that’s just the neighborhood N’s. Across the country no fewer than 3.2 million seniors are graduating about now from more than 37,000 high schools.所不在。甚至英文老都不忽略(七)。牛、提克、尼…我可以提「尼」(八)？光是就有近 2000 高中生，而且只是近社而已。此此刻，整美有超 320 高中生 3 7 千所高中。That’s 37,000 valedictorians… that’s 37,000 class presidents… 92,000 harmonizing altos… 340,000 swaggering jocks… 2,185,967 pairs of Uggs. But why limit ourselves to high school? After all, you’re leaving it. So think about this: even if you’re one in a million, on a planet of 6.8 billion that means there are nearly 7,000 people just like you. Imagine standing somewhere over there on Washington Street on Marathon Monday and watching 6,800 ‘yous’ go running by. 也意味著，有 3 7 千位生代表。3 7 千生(九)。9 2 千和男高音。34 育健。281 靴子被穿在上。但，何限在高中呢？竟你地方。所以，不妨著想，即便你是中一的菁英，但地球上有 68 人口，那代表世界上有近 7 千像你的人。想像你站在盛街，那正星期一拉松比，然後看著 6 千 8 百「你」你身旁擦身而。And consider for a moment the bigger picture: your planet, I’ll remind you, is not the center of its solar system, your solar system is not the center of its galaxy, your galaxy is not the cener of the universe. In fact, astrophysicists assure us the universe has no center; therefore, you cannot be it.[applause] Neither can Donald Trump… which someone should tell him… although the hair is quite a phenomenon.接著，我把野再拉大一。你所的地球，我提醒你，不是太系的中心。你的太系不是河系的中心。你的河系也不是宇宙的中心。事上，太空物理家告我，宇宙有所的中心。因此，你然也不可能是。(大家鼓掌)。然，唐德．川普(美大亨)也不是。或某人告他事。管他的酷炫的。“But, Dave,” you cry, “Walt Whitman tells me I’m my own version of perfect! Epictetus tells me I have the spark of Zeus!” And I don’t disagree. So that makes 6.8 billion examples of perfection, 6.8 billion sparks of Zeus.You see, if everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.「但，大老…」你大喊著，「惠特曼(美人)告我，我就是自己的完美版本阿。艾匹克提塔斯(古希人)也，我有宙斯的火花。」此我不反。只是，按照法，世上便有了 68 完本版本，有 68 道宙斯的火花。你看，每人都是特的，便有人是特的了。如果每人都拿到，那毫意。In our unspoken but not so subtle Darwinian competition with one anotherwhich springs, I think, from our fear of our own insignificance, a subset of our dread of mortality we have of late, we Americans, to our detriment, come to love accolades more than genuine achievement. We have come to see them as the point and we’re happy to compromise standards, or ignore reality, if we suspect that’s the quickest way, or only way, to have something to put on the mantelpiece, something to pose with, crow about, something with which to leverage ourselves into a better spot on the social totem pole.在近年不明而易的文模式中此我相信它源自人於自身渺小的恐害怕死亡的某心我美人，是喜美大於真的成就，然而是有害的。我必看待一。我是於妥、忽事，以是最快或是唯一的方式，能把某件物品(指杯)放在壁架上，其拍照留念，人自自擂，能我在社柱上取得更好的位置(十)。No longer is it how you play the game, no longer is it even whether you win or lose, or learn or grow, or enjoy yourself doing it… Now it’s “So what does this get me?” As a consequence, we cheapen worthy endeavors, and building a Guatemalan medical clinic becomes more about the application to Bowdoin than the well-being of Guatemalans.我始不在乎如何比、不管是、不管有成、或是有有中得趣，我所心的成：「件事能我什好？」一，我只把每一份努力得廉，把焦放在建瓜地拉中心登大的用，而非瓜地拉人的福祉。It’s an epidemic and in its way, not even dear old Wellesley High is immune… one of the best of the 37,000 nationwide, Wellesley High School… where good is no longer good enough, where a B is the new C, and the mid-level curriculum is called Advanced College Placement. And I hope you caught me when I said “one of the best.” I said “one of the best” so we can feel better about ourselves, so we can bask in a little easy distinction, however vague and unverifiable, and count ourselves among the elite, whoever they might be, and enjoy a perceived leg up on the perceived competition. But the phrase defies logic. By definition by definition there can be only one best. You’re it or you’re not.想法是具有染性的。我史悠久、全美 3 7 千所高中最好之一的威斯利高中也法免。在，我是得好要更好，乙等多算是丙等，中等程其是大修程。我希望你注意到我提到的「最好之一」法。我之所以「最好之一」，是因使我得以自我感良好，使我沉浸在草率分法所的喜中，管它模糊且缺乏考。我以自己也是菁英之一，些菁英的身分何，然後在自我想像中的，想像自己於先地位。但句其有，照道理，最好的只有一，你是就是，不是就不是。If you’ve learned anything in your years here I hope it’s that education should be for, rather than material advantage, the exhilaration of learning. You’ve learned, too, I hope, as Sophocles assured us, that wisdom is the chief element of happiness. Second is ice cream… just a just an fyi. I also hope you’ve learned enough to recognize how little you know… how little you know now… at the moment… for today is just the beginning. It’s where you go from here that matters.如果你在些年到了任何西，我希望你了解教育的真在於的趣，而非世俗的收。我希望你到索福克里斯(雅典悲作家)曾的「智慧是快的主要成分」句。第二成分是冰淇淋…粹..供考。我也希望，你能到你所知道的有多少。你所的有多少，此此刻。不今天只是端，日後的不才是。As you commence, then, and before you scatter to the winds, I urge you to do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance. Don’t bother with work you don’t believe in any more than you would a spouse you’re not crazy about, lest you too find yourself on the wrong side of a Baltimore Orioles comparison. Resist the easy comforts of complacency, the specious glitter of materialism, the narcotic paralysis of self-satisfaction. Be worthy of your advantages.在你的此刻，在你即乘翔之前，我希望你能基於真正相信其重要性才去做任何事情。不要心去理那些你都不相信的事物。但也不要在巴的摩金的比中坐。不要太志得意、不要被物主的亮光惑、也不要被自我美化的幻象催眠。珍你的。And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer; and as surely as there are commencements there are cessations, and you’ll be in no condition to enjoy the ceremony attendant to that eventuality no matter how delightful the afternoon.，持泛地。乎於值自尊的建立，是生命的精神食。培及保持道德理性，展良好的品格。勇敢地想，付行，好好思考自己的人生。可能去你周遭的每一件事物每一人。而且，要把握，正一分一秒地流逝。各位也要得，凡事有始就有束。不管你有多享受今天的美好午後光，典落幕。The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement, not something that will fall into your lap because you’re a nice person or mommy ordered it from the caterer. You’ll note the founding fathers took pains to secure your inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happinessquite an active verb, “pursuit” which leaves, I should think, little time for lying around watching parrots roller skate on Youtube.充的人生、特的人生、有意的人生，是一得的成就。但那不因你是好人就天而降，或是你母出面替你打就能得。我的元，心力替我固了生命、自由幸的追求等不可的利。相活的一，「追求」。今日你才得以在碎，舒服躺著看 YouTube 上溜冰的影片。The first President Roosevelt, the old rough rider, advocated the strenuous life. Mr. Thoreau wanted to drive life into a corner, to live deep and suck out all the marrow. The poet Mary Oliver tells us to row, row into the swirl and roil. Locally, someone… I I forget who… from time to time encourages young scholars to carpe the heck out of the diem. The point is the same: get busy, have at it.第一任斯福，一位老的士，提倡勤的人生。作家梭著居的生活，活得深刻，品生命的精髓。人．利佛告我，划行，划行到漩，且享受其。在本地，有人…我忘了是…(：是他自己)，常常鼓莘莘子活在下。些的重都是一的：「起，力去做。」Don’t wait for inspiration or passion to find you. Get up, get out, explore, find it yourself, and grab hold with both hands. Now, before you dash off and get your YOLO tattoo, ah let me point out the illogic of that trendy little expressionbecause you can and should live not merely once, but every day of your life.不要枯等感情敲。起身吧，出去，大冒，勇敢探索，好好把握。在，在你匆匆跑去上「YOLO」的刺青前，我你出下流行的不合之其你不能也不只活一次，而是要好好活在每一天的下。Rather than You Only Live Once, it should be You Live Only Once… but because YLOO doesn’t have the same ring, we shrug and decide it doesn’t matter. None of this day-seizing, though, this YLOOing, should be interpreted as license for self-indulgence. Like accolades ought to be, the fulfilled life is a consequence, ah a gratifying byproduct. It’s what happens when you’re thinking about more important things.其你只能活一次(YOLO)，不如人生法重(YLOO)。不因YLOO有相同的音，所以我肩，得那不太重要。把握今朝不被曲解自我沉溺的藉口。如同美的本，充的生活也是一果，一令人喜的副品。你用心在重要的事物上面，的果往往自浮。Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Go to Paris to be in Paris, not to cross it off your list and congratulate yourself for being worldly. 登上山，不是了插上旗，而是能迎向挑，享受新空，好好欣底下的美景。爬上去，所以你可以看到世界，而不是了世界可以看到你。去巴黎，就好好巴黎，不是把了它旅清上去，然後祝自己又去一家。Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion and those who will follow them. And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special.Because everyone is.用自由意志、造力立思考能力，不是了自身的足，而是了他人的福祉其他的那些 68 人口，以及未的下一代子。然後，你就人中真正大且充奇趣的真理：「私，是我所能自己最棒的事情。」生命最甜美的滋味，就在於，你我都到我不特。因每人都是。Congratulations. Good luck. Make for yourselves, please, for your sake and for ours, extraordinary lives.恭喜各位。祝大家好。了自己，也了大家，好好打造自己不凡的人生。=======================================================一：not touch … with a ten-foot pole 英文俚，意思是不想干涉或介入。二：literal level playing field 的法源於美式足球，原本是指地面平坦，不有哪的因跑下坡或上坡得分，造成其中一方不公平的情形。後慢慢泛用於商或上，指大家你我公平的。三：intergalactic X-Box assassin，X-Box 微於 2001 年推出之一款型，intergalactic X-Box assassin 某一角色。四：U9 soccer，U9 指的是 under 9 years old，意思是九以下之足球。五：Mister Rogers 美童目主持人，是一笑嘻嘻的。六：Townsman 威斯利中社的一份刊物，也有路版。七：甚至英文老都不忽略。英文老人印象就是差？好。八：Newton, Natick, Needham 都是附近的中，我猜 Needham 跟威斯利中有互相的味道。九：class president 相於生，如果指班不只有 3 7 千。十：social totem pole 似所的 social ladder，指一人在群的位。
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