珍惜現在，把握未來
耶魯大學是美國東北部老牌名校聯盟“常青藤聯盟”的成員，也是美國最具影響力的私立大學之一。每年畢業典禮常會有名人去做演講，今天小編爲大家選取的是託尼·布萊爾在耶魯大學的演講。
It is an honor to be here and say to the Yale college class of 2008: You did it; you came through; from all of us to you: congratulations.
能夠站在這裏在耶魯大學2008屆畢業典禮發表演講我深感榮幸。你們成功畢業了，你們走過來了：我們所有人向你們表示祝賀。
The issues you must wrestle with-the threat of climate change, food scarcity, and population growth, worldwide terror based on religion, the interdependence of world economy-my student generation would barely recognize. But the difference today is they are essentially global in nature.
你們必須解決的問題包括氣候變化帶來的威脅、食品短缺、人口激增、由宗教引發的世界範圍內的恐怖主義，以及世界經濟的相互聯繫。這在我的學生時代幾乎都沒有被意識到。但與以往不同的是，今天這些問題在本質上都是全球性的。
Your understand this. Yale has become a melting pot of culture, language and civilization. You are the global generation, so be global citizens.
你們瞭解這一點：耶魯已經成爲了文化、語言和文明的大熔爐。你們是全球性的一代。因此你們要成爲世界公民。
Each new generation finds the world they enter. But they shape the world they leave. So: what do you inherit and what do you pass on?
每一代尋找他們要進入的世界，然後又離開他們塑造的世界。因此：你們繼承什麼，又將傳遞什麼？
The history of humankind is marked by great events but written by great people.
People like you.
人類歷史以大事件爲標誌，而大事件由偉人來譜寫。
由你們這樣的人來譜寫。
Given Yale’s record of achievement, perhaps by you.
So to you as individuals, what wisdom, if any, have I learned?
鑑於耶魯歷來人才輩出，人類歷史可能就是由你們來書寫。
因此，從作爲個體的你們，如果我學到了新的東西，那麼這些新東西又是什麼呢？
First, in fact, keep learning. Always to be alive to the possibilities of the next experience, of thinking, doing and being.
When Buddha was asked, near the end of his life, to describe his secret, he answered bluntly: “I’m awake”.
So be awake.
事實上，首先我學會了學無止境。時刻積極投入到可能出現的新經歷、思考、行動和成長中。
當佛祖生命快要終結時，有人問他成爲聖人的祕訣，他坦誠相告：“常令省察，不令有失。”
所以要保持清醒。
Understand conventional wisdom, but be prepared to change it.
Feel as well as analyze; use you instinct alongside your reason. Calculate too much and you will miscalculate.
Be prepared to fail as well as to succeed, realist it is failure not success that defines character.
瞭解傳統的智慧，但也要做好準備改變它。
既要會分析又要會感知。直覺與理性並存。過於斤斤計較只會打錯算盤。
既要做好準備迎接成功也要做好準備迎接失敗。要知道，是失敗不是成功塑造人的性格。
布萊爾曾任英國首相，在其執政後，提出了關於經濟、社會發展的“第三條道路”新理念，致力於公共服務改革，發展經濟，促進社會公正。
從這篇演講中，我們可以看出布萊爾對青年力量的看重與信任。
