A great life doesn&#39t happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be.?非凡的人生不是无根之木，无源之水。它需要合理分配自己的时间、精力、心思，为实现自 己的生活目标而努力。Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up your life to

Though there is much to be concerned about, there is far, far more for which to be thankful. Though life&#39s goodness can at times be overshadowed, it is never outweighed.尽管有很多事让人忧虑，但相比而言，值得感激的是要多得多。尽管生命的美好又是被蒙上阴影，但它的价值却永远不会被超越。For every single act that is senselessly destructive, there are thousan

The wholeness of life健全的人生Once a circle missed a wedge.从前，一只圆圈缺了一块楔子。The circle wanted to be whole,它想保持完整，so it went around looking for its missing piece.便四处寻找那块楔子。But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly,由于不完整，所以它只能慢慢地滚动。it admired the flowers along the way.一路上，它对花儿露出

Whatever happened to the silly season?今年的新闻饥荒期是怎么回事？You know, that time of the year when the wisdom of the 1st century poet Horace is adopted by news editors,新闻饥荒期，众所周知，就是每年记者们对公元1世纪的诗人贺拉斯说过的一句至理名言进行实践的一段时期。&quotMix a little foolishness with your serious plans, it&#39s lovely to be silly at the righ

It&#39s not easy to knuckle down to the responsibilities of a working week and a wounded world after the excitements of the Olympic experience which has taken us all by surprise. There&#39s a rather strange story in the Christian gospels which might be of help to us. It tells how Jesus goes up a mou

Life is like a piano: white keys are happy moments and black keys are sad moments. But remember both keys are played together to give sweet music。生活就像一架钢琴：白键是快乐，黑键是悲伤。但是，要记住只有黑白键的合奏才能弹出美妙的音乐。Life comes in a package. This package includes happiness and sorrow, failure and success, hope and despair. L

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!生活中，有时强烈的思念使我们恨不得一把将所爱的人从梦中拽出来，紧紧地拥入怀中。Dream what you want to dream go where you want to go be what you want to be,做自己想做的梦；去自己想去的地方；做自己想做的人吧！because you have only one life a

Four seasons to fill up a year&#39s time,四个季节把一年的时间填满，A person&#39s heart also contains four seasons.人的心灵也包含着四个季节。In the spring of his youthful, in an instant,在他朝气蓬勃的春天，一瞬间，Clear handsome reward absorbed all of beauty.清晰的俊赏吸收了美的一切。In summer, he loved the young mind在他的夏天，他爱把年轻思想In the spring mining n

Once a circle missed a wedge.从前有个圆圈，它丢失了一小段。The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece.它想变得完整，于是它到处寻找它所丢失的那部分。But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way.由于不完整，它只能滚的非常慢。在路上，它羡慕过花儿。It chatted with wo

Despite implicit and explicit questions of my right to be in an elite space, I&#39m proud to report that when I graduated,我不知道自己是否能算精英阶层，但我很骄傲地宣称，I was the first black woman to earn a PhD in astrophysics in Yale&#39s then 312-year history.我，一名黑人女性，获得天体物理学博士学位，在耶鲁大学312年历史中是第一个。I am now part of a smal

One of my favorite examples of liminal excellence comes from the late Dr. Claudia Alexander,我最欣赏的一位具有交叉才能的榜样是已故的克劳迪娅·亚历山大博士，a black woman plasma physicist, who passed away this past July after a 10-year bout with breast cancer.她是一名黑人女性，等离子物理学家，她与乳腺癌斗争了10年之久，于7月份刚刚过世。She was a NASA project scientist

Great things happen at intersections.交叉点是个产生奇迹的地方。In fact, I would argue that some of the most interesting things of the human experience occur at the intersections,实际上，我想说，人类历史上许多最伟大的事情都发生在交叉点，in the liminal space, where by liminal I mean the space in-between.发生在中间地带，所谓中间地带，意思是位于交汇处的空间。There&#39s f

After receiving my master&#39s at Fisk, I went on to Yale to complete my PhD.在菲斯克大学获得硕士学位后，我去了耶鲁大学，完成了博士学业。Once I was physically occupying the space that would ultimately give way to my childhood aspirations, I anticipated a smooth glide to the PhD.看来，只要我占据了有利位置，踏上通往博士之路，实现我的儿时梦想，获得博士学位就是分分钟的事。It be

So with this realization in mind, I decided to embrace all of the different versions of myself带着这种认识，我决定接受一个截然不同的自己，even allow myself to reinvent myself at times.甚至允许自己以全新的面貌出现。So for example, in high school, I have to confess I was a mega-nerd.比如，在高中的时候，我不得不承认我是个书呆子。I had no sense of fashion -- thi

I&#39ve lived the entirety of my life in the in-between,我一直生活在向交地带，in the liminal space between dreams and reality, race and gender, poverty and plenty, science and society.徜徉于梦想和现实，种族和性别，贫穷与富足，科学和人文之间。I am both black and a woman. Like the birth of stars in the heavenlies,我是黑人，又是女性。就如同星辰的诞生一般，this r

The purpose for this talk is twofold: first, to say directly to every black, Latina, indigenous,我今天演讲的目的有两个：第一，我想告诉所有黑人、拉丁裔人、原住民、First Nation or any other woman or girl who finds herself resting at the blessed intersection of race and gender,第一民族或者其他任何种族的女人和女孩，她们被搁置在种族和性别的交叉地带，that you can be anythi

While there was certainly the acute pain of the encounter,尽管这样的遭遇让人极度痛苦，但问题的关键在于，the real issue is that my appearance can tell anyone anything about my ability.我的出现能让大家看到我的能力。Beyond that, though, it underscores that the women of color in STEM除此之外，值得注意的一点是，在STEM领域工作的非白人女性所遭遇到的阻碍，do not experience the

I was born in Korea -- the land of kimchi raised in Argentina,我在泡菜之国--韩国出生；在阿根廷长大，where I ate so much steak that I&#39m probably 80 percent cow by now可能因为吃太多牛排，我觉得现在我80%的成分是牛；and I was educated in the US, where I became addicted to peanut butter.然后我在美国接受教育，在这儿又对花生酱爱得无法自拔。During my childhood, I felt

But reinventing yourself can be very hard. You can face a lot of resistance at times.但是重塑自己是非常难的。你时常会遇到许多阻碍。When I was nearly done with my PhD, I got bitten by that entrepreneurial bug.在我快拿到博士学位的时候，我开始心心念念想创业。I was in Silicon Valley, and so writing a thesis in the basement didn&#39t seem as interest

Everyone, please think of your biggest personal goal.请大家想想你们最大的人生目标。For real -- you can take a second.实际的人生目标。你得想一会儿。You&#39ve got to feel this to learn it.你有感觉知道你的目标。Take a few seconds and think of your personal biggest goal, okay?花几秒钟想想人生最大的目标，好么？Imagine deciding right now that you&#39re going to

I began my college experience just after my family had fallen apart.我的大学生涯伊始，家庭就分崩离析。Our financial situation disintegrated just after my father&#39s departure from our lives.随着父亲离我们而去，家里的经济状况急转直下。This thrust my mother, my sister and I out of the relative comfort of middle-class life and into the alm

Now, today my identity quest is no longer to find my tribe.现在我对自己身份的追寻不再是为了找到我的部族。It&#39s more about allowing myself to embrace all of the possible permutations of myself而是为了允许我接受自己所有的可能性，形成自身的多元化，and cultivating diversity within me and not just around me.而不仅仅是周边环境的多元化。My boys now are three years an

We&#39re holding hands, staring at the door.我们手牵着手，盯着门口。My siblings and I were waiting for my mother to come back from the hospital.我和兄弟姐妹们在等着妈妈从医院回来。She was there because my grandmother had cancer surgery that day.因为那天是我的外婆做癌症手术的日子。Finally, the doors opened, and she said, &quotShe&#39s gone. She&#3

It goes like this: 163 people across four separate tests.比如这个：163个人进行4组不同测试。Everyone wrote down their personal goal.每个人写下他们各自的目标。Then half of them announced their commitment to this goal to the room, and half didn&#39t.然后一半实验的人在房间里宣布他们的目标承诺，另一半人保守目标。Then everyone was given 45 minutes of work that wo

At an airport I overheard a father and daughter during their last moments together. Her flight was ready for boarding and they were standing near the departure gate. They hugged and he said, I love you, I wish you enough.在机场我无意中听到父女俩在最后分别时刻的谈话。女儿正准备上飞机，他们站在飞机门附近。他们拥抱着，父亲说：我爱你，我希望你能知足常乐，尽享人生。She in t

Hiding from the rain and snow逃离雨雪的侵袭Trying to forget but I won&#39t let go费尽心机 也止不住想你Looking at a crowded street熙熙攘攘人群里Listening to my own heartbeat却只闻我心跳声音So many people all around the world人间的大地无数的生灵Tell me where do I find someone like you girl哪有另一个你何处去追寻Take me to your heart take me to your soul请

If I were to live the life twice.如果有来生I would like to be a tree.要做一棵树Standing in the dust firmly,结成永恒without happiness and sadness.没有悲欢的姿势A half of my body will be sleeping in the earth peacefully.一半在尘土里安详A half of my body will be dancing with the wind joyfully.一半在风里飞扬A half of my body will be provi

At ten years old, I was falsely accused by a teacher of leng a jump rope on the playground. She assigned me the outrageous punishment of writing 5000 sentences. I refused.10岁时老师冤枉我把跳绳落在操场上，竟然罚我写5000个句子，我没同意。She sent me to the principal&#39s office. He used a wooden paddle and beat my buttocks and ba

I used to believe that love meant putting everyone else and their needs first, before my own. While I do think there is some truth to that, in the sense that being a giving person is one of the ultimate acts of being a loving person, I came to realize that I must give to and love myself first and fo

I&#39ve seen the world我已看遍世间繁华，Done it all, had my cake now历经沧桑，人已老，Diamonds, brilliant, and Bel-Air now如今有钻石珠宝，名声显赫，坐拥豪宅，Hot summer nights mid-July七月中旬，炎热的夏日夜晚，When you and I were forever wild过去你和我放荡不羁无止尽，The crazy days, the city lights疯狂的日子，在城市霓虹下，The way you&#39d play with me like a child你像是小孩子一般