主播：嚴(yán)喆-2016年應(yīng)屆畢業(yè)生 嘉賓：John McAuley-曾就職于聯(lián)合國(guó)總部 錄制地點(diǎn)：上海，香港 嚴(yán)喆就讀于上海外國(guó)語(yǔ)大學(xué)研究生部，專業(yè)是應(yīng)用語(yǔ)言學(xué)。讀研期間，嚴(yán)喆曾到意大利，德國(guó)留學(xué)。2016年春天，嚴(yán)喆回到上海，寫畢業(yè)論文，順利完成答辯。2016年夏天，嚴(yán)喆即將畢業(yè)了！6月23日，嚴(yán)喆將迎來(lái)畢業(yè)典禮。 John McAuley是嚴(yán)喆本科時(shí)的外教，曾在2015年初為我們帶來(lái)過第69期節(jié)目《The Daffodil Principle水仙花法則》，第120期《回顧2015》。John曾在紐約聯(lián)合國(guó)總部工作過10年，后來(lái)分別在日本，非洲，臺(tái)灣，大連工作過，現(xiàn)在在香港工作和生活。6月23日，John也將到上海參加嚴(yán)喆的畢業(yè)典禮。 John即將64歲了，有著豐富人生閱歷的他為所有畢業(yè)生送出自己的畢業(yè)贈(zèng)言： Hello dear listeners, this is John McAuley, a friend of your host-Yan Zhe. I would like just to say some words of very warm and heart-felt congratulation for the listeners among us who this late spring or early summer have graduated or are going to graduate very soon. Graduation is a very personal event. It’s a great personal achievement. Somebody who has struggled and persevered for several years to reach this point. So it is a personal event but it is also a family event. Family and friends who love you, who have been supporting you over these years, making this possible, they have great pride in you now. And so that is a wonderful, wonderful thing to be feeling. And then so, it is personal, it is a family event but it is also a social event that society is able to allow young people to take some years off so that their minds are to be nourished, so that their hearts be nourished and so that they can more professionally and be able to contribute to that society. And so, having graduated years ago, I would like to welcome the newest graduates into our society, the society in which all of our listeners and our host is already a part of. I’d just like to say one thing. You know, after graduation, a lot of people say, “Well, now I am on a ladder, the ladder for career, the ladder for relationships, the ladder for perhaps marriage or some type of professional life.” And all that is true, but I think, a lot of us feel like, you know, we are all kind of on the same road. We are all kind of on the same ladder. But you know actually, I’m gonna be 64 in a very few short days. Actually, that is not true. When you look at your schooling, just think of how different everybody was in your class, then you think of the different majors they are, so the different ways of studying, the different things you studied, the different kind of like little cultures within the university, you know, science people, or sports people or arts people or language people, it isn’t all the same. So when you are studying in your life, continue to live that difference. That difference really nourishes your heart, really develops your mind. And don’t lose that. Not all of are on the same exact path. And so when you are beginning to look for a job, beginning your relationships, beginning your professional career or your work situation, I think what you have to do is---- “Ask yourself not what is my first step, my second step. Ask yourself what is my goal. At the end of my life, what do I ideally want? And then, the steps to get there become clearer. ” “不要問你自己人生的第一步，第二步是什么。問問你自己目標(biāo)是什么？人生結(jié)束的時(shí)候，最想得到的是什么？然后，通往那里的步伐就會(huì)更加清晰” So, as an old man, that’s my little insight into postgraduate life. So again, congratulations, especially to graduates and it’s also so nice to be connecting to this all our listeners again. Bye bye. 墊樂 老狼-同桌的你 The O&`&Neill Brothers - Ode To Joy 錄制：嚴(yán)喆，John ; 制作|編輯: 永清 文字及墊樂歸作者或版權(quán)方所有 圖片源于網(wǎng)絡(luò) 微信公眾號(hào)：為你讀英語(yǔ)美文 官方新浪微博：@為你讀英語(yǔ)美文