Mr. president校长先生I have the high honor to present Mr. Sean Combs我很荣幸为你介绍肖恩·库姆斯先生to receive at your hand the honorary degree of doctor of humanities请你亲手将人文学荣誉博士学位授予他Sean Combs肖恩·库姆斯dynamic groundbreaking global entrepreneur活力四射的全球开拓性企业家creative, visionary, dedicated humanitarian and innovative philan

Only this family could take one of its sons who already had three name changes只有这个大家庭能够接受一个已经改过三次名字的儿子and give him a fourth, Dr. Combs并给他第四个名字 库姆斯博士I know the board of trustees are looking at me back there like我知道校董们肯定正坐在后面想this is not the regular type of commencement speech that we&#39re used to这可不

Excuse me抱歉Throughout my life, I have rushed to some of my greatest moments在我这一生中 我匆匆错过了很多伟大的时刻and I said if I made it to this point and when I made it to this point我曾经说过 如果我能走到这一天I would take my time and I would look at each and every one of you我会花时间看看你们每一个人So let me take my time and look at you下面给

And to all of the Board of Trustees, I truly thank you我还要由衷地感谢校董会全体成员And I have to send a shout out to the members of the class of 1964我还要为1964届毕业生喝彩Happy 50th50周年快乐You all know you all are going to have to turn up tonight right?你们都知道今晚会出席对吧Alright now, ain&#39t no party like a Diddy party好 没有什么派对能比

So now I&#39m trying to figure out现在我不得不考虑am I going to give myself up this situation自己是否应该退出do I take cab然后打的过去do I take a train或是坐火车过去But as soon as that goes into my mind但就在我有放弃的念头时all I see is news cameras all around me我看到周围有很多新闻摄像机and they&#39re going laugh记者们开始笑起来We are live for the marathon我们

Okay, I see some of you will need to talk to yourselves a little bit我认为你们有些人应该对自己说一下Start on Monday周一开始if you aren&#39t talking to yourself like crazy and you don&#39t know how powerful you are如果你不知道自己有多强大you know, you will need to start to talk to yourself in a mirror你每天早上可以对着镜子问自己every morning, do

Right there, in that library就在那个图书馆里I realized我意识到there is nothing greater than a mother&#39s love and desire to protect her child没有什么比母亲的爱和想保护孩子的心更伟大nothing没有什么比得了I also decided that I will live my life in a way to make her proud我还决定以让她自豪的方式过好我这一生I decided to embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of m

For a lot of people, the distance between their dreams and their reality is intimidating在很多人看来 梦想和现实之间的差距太吓人and they get stuck they get paralyzed他们因此变得无力 不敢往前just like I was in that marathon就像我在马拉松中的情况那样and the only way forward前进的唯一办法is to be real about what it&#39s going to take for you to achieve

It took me 26 years to get on this stage如今 我花了26年才走到这一步And I give all glory to God这份荣耀属于上帝26, that&#39s the same amount as marathon26 和马拉松一样的数字God works in mysterious ways, you see上帝的设计很神秘 看到了吗You just gotta pay attention to signs out there你需要关注上帝的启示Sometimes, you gotta be still有时 你需要坚持You know I&#3

I want to thank my family right there too in the front row and they came from everywhere我还要感谢来到现场的我的家人There you go. I see you谢谢你们 我看到你们了But Howard became my family too霍华德也成了我的家It gave me a second home它给了我第二个家When I couldn&#39t afford a place to live我找不到住的地方时it was my Howard friends多亏了我在霍华德的朋友们Hall P

You will change the world你们将能改变世界Let that sink in记住这一点You will change the world你们将能改变世界I want you to take the craziest dream you&#39ve ever had我要你们勇敢去做最疯狂的梦that dream that you&#39re too embarrassed to tell anyone about哪怕这个梦想让你觉得讲出来很不好意思and I want you to go out there我希望你们努力去实现I want you to make it a

Don&#39t clap for me. I want you to clap for yourselves不要给我鼓掌 我希望你们给自己鼓掌I can&#39t wait for you to live in a world that you are about to create我等不及想看你们生活在自己创造的世界中I can&#39t wait to witness the crazy dreams that you are going to make real我等不及想见证你们那些疯狂梦想的实现I can&#39t wait to watch you change the world

And because of that, I&#39ve got to tell you the truth这方面 我要给你们讲真相that one of my favorite place was the QuadQuad是我最喜欢的地方之一You see, in my freshman year, everybody asked me do I stay in Drew Hall我在大一那年 所有人都问我是否待在Drew Hall楼and I had to tell them, no, I stay in the Quad我跟他们说 没有 我待在QuadAnd I actually sta

And yes I checked it clear没错 我很确信Now I know that you&#39ve heard the cliche quote that你们肯定听过一句名言life is a marathon not a sprint生命是马拉松 而不是冲刺And I&#39m going to tell you that sometimes我要告诉你们 有时you don&#39t even have the time to prepare for your marathon你甚至连为马拉松做准备的时间都没有See I only had eight weeks我就只有八周

I did that with the class of 2014 exactly我和2014届毕业生这样做了The class of 20142014届毕业生I am so proud of you我为你们感到自豪so proud of you非常自豪But I want to ask you a real question不过我想问一个很实际的问题Do you know how powerful you are?你们知道自己有多强大吗Today is not my day今天不是我的日子Today is not belong to anyone on this stage今天不属于台上的任

I made a decision. Now I was going to see that decision through我下的决定就一定要贯彻Now, that sounds all good. I&#39m talking to myself这听起来很好 我跟自己讲Oh, that sounds good. But it&#39s 26.2 miles ahead of me前面不过也就只有26.2英里嘛Now we get to the day of marathon到了马拉松赛当天I&#39m feeling good. I just knew I was going to win

So I had 2 choices我有两种选择either I was going to sit in that failure and give up一是在失败中消沉 放弃or I was going to make a decision to step out of the darkness二是从黑暗中走出来You see when you are in that darkness当你处在黑暗之中时you want to sit down, wait for the light to come你可能会坐着等光明的来临When you are in that darkness处在黑暗之中时

Thank you very much非常感谢First of all, thank you首先 谢谢你们I thank you and Dr. Paula WhetselRibeau谢谢你们 还有宝拉?威索尔里博博士Thank you for meeting me outside with your daughter谢谢你带着你女儿在外面接我As a father of a grown daughter,作为一个成年女儿的父亲I wonder if you had shared my experience我不知道你是否也有过我这样的经历It&#39s humbling, rewarding

Not to be afraid of a failure, the opportunity to begin again不会因为失败而感到畏惧 有机会从头再来This whole thing comes down in the end to what do we think the future would be better if we face it with open hands or closed fists.这一切说到底 都取决于 我们认为要以张开的双手还是握紧的双拳 来面对未来 才能让未来变得更好One of the things that heartened me when P

So there is a lot of inequality in this world所以说这个世界有太多的不平等There is a lot of instability in this world这个世界有太多的不稳定Manifested by the financial crisis that had quickly spread across the world, but also in how all these wonderful open borders could lead to what happened to a Boston Marathon这体现在了金融危机能够在世

We were like this on the lawn at Georgetown just across the town我们就像这样坐在城那边乔治敦的草地上It started out to be a clear day一开始还天朗气清Then all of a sudden, this huge storm cloud came over突然之间暴风云袭来And the lightening began to dance in the sky天空中开始电闪雷鸣And a Howard graduate, the mayor of Wasington D.C., Walter Wash

They simply did whatever was at hand in whatever form it present itself to put food on the table and if they had a family, to support their families他们不过是按照其所呈现的形式做些手头的事情 把食品放在桌子上 如果他们有家庭的话 那就是供养家人You have a choice你们则可以选择The only bit of personal advice I have is this:我所能给予的唯一的一点个人建议是Try to do somethi

And, I&#39m not quite that old while I&#39ll look it in some days虽然我还没那么老 但是多些日子就会的But I also am glad to be here because of the record of this great university另外一个让我很高兴来到这里的原因是这所优秀大学的纪录And I wanna try to talk about not only Howard&#39s leadership in preparing people for science, engineering, technol

All the hospitals but one in the capital city were destroyed首都只剩下一所医院未被毁掉I, working with my friend Dr. Paul Farmer, helped rebuild them in every part of the country我跟我的朋友保罗·法默博士一起帮助重建这个国家各地的医院But they don&#39t want to take any foreign assistance from anybody to do anything after 2020但是他们不想在2020年之后继续

President Obama: Thank you! Hello, Howard! H-U!Audience: You know!President Obama: H-U!Audience: You know!President Obama: Thank you so much, everybody. Please, please, have a seat. Oh, I feel important now. Got a degree from Howard. Cicely Tyson said something nice about me.Audience member: I love