娜塔莉波特曼哈佛大学演讲 第3期

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　　The girls I went to school with had Prada bag and flat-ironed hair and they spoke¹ with an accent, I who had moved here at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked² to fit in. Florida oranges. Chocolate, Cherries. 和我一起上学的女孩们有普拉达手袋，拉直了头发，她们说话带有的口音，是我9岁从康涅狄格搬到这里后为了融入一直致力模仿的。佛罗里达橘子，巧克力樱桃。

　　Since I'm ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. 因为我太老了，在我高中的时候互联网才刚刚开始兴起。

　　People didn't really pay that much attention to the fact that I was an actress. 大家并不怎么在意我是一个演员。

　　I was known mainly in school for having a backpack bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands, because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my notebooks. 我在学校为人所知的主要原因是有一个比自己还大的背包，手上总是有涂改液，因为我讨厌在我的笔记本上看到叉。

　　I was voted for my senior yearbook most likely to be a contestant⁴ on Jeopardy⁵ or code for nerdiest. 我在毕业年鉴中被评选为最可能成为智力竞赛选手的人，通俗来说就是最呆的书呆子。

　　When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars Episode one. 我在哈佛上学那年星球大战一刚上映。

　　I knew I would be starting over in terms of how people viewed me. 我知道我需要重建别人对我的看法了。

　　I feared people would assume I gotten in just for being famous, and that they will think that I was not worthy⁶ of the intellectual rigor⁷ here. 我担心人们会认为我只是靠知名度被录取的，他们会认为我配不上这里严苛的智力水平。

　　And it would not have been far from the truth. 其实事实上八九不离十。

　　When I came here I never written a 10-page paper before. 我来到这里前从未写过一份10页纸长的论文。

　　I'm not even sure I'd written a 5-page paper. 我甚至不确定我能写出5页纸长的论文。

　　I was alarmed and intimidated⁸ by the calm eyes of fellow students, who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload⁹ here was easy. 我被同学们冷静的眼神刺激并吓到了，他们从道尔顿或埃克塞特毕业，认为和高中相比，这里的作业量少之又少。

　　I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading a thousand pages a week with unimaginable. 我完全不知所措，认为一礼拜看完一千页书籍简直无法想象。

　　That writing a fifty-page thesis is just something I could never do. 写一篇50页的论文我永远都不可能做得到。

　　I had no idea how to declare my intentions. 我完全不知道该怎么表达我的意图。

　　I couldn't even articulate them to myself. 我对自己都无法解释。

　　I've been acting¹⁰ since I was 11, but I thought acting was too frivolous¹¹ and certainly not meaningful. 我从11岁就开始演戏，但是我认为演戏是轻佻且无意义的。

　　I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. 我出身书香门第，非常在意别人是否把我当回事。

　　In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation¹² freshman¹³ year, five separate students introduce themselves to me by saying I'm going to be President. Remember I told you that. 跟我的不敢言明相比，大一新生培训的第一天，5位同学分别对我自我介绍说：我将来会成为总统。记住我今天跟你说的话。

　　Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted³ Cruz, Barack Obama, and Hilary Clinton. 严肃地说，他们的名字分别是伯尼桑德斯，马克卢比奥，泰德克鲁兹，巴拉克奥巴马和希拉里克林顿。（调侃总统候选人）

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