历史上的十大著名毕业演讲

Some speeches are so memorable we can quote them at will. But few of the m are commencement speeches. How many of us can recall the commence ment speech at ourcollege graduation?

一些令人难忘的演讲我们都能如数家珍，但其中只有少数是毕业演讲。多少人还能回想起那些年自己在毕业典礼上听过的演讲呢？

What if a commencement speech was not something to be endured, but to be treasured? Andwhat if, instead of the same tired sentiments to "go forward and seize the day," the 20-minute address dispensed a glimpse of humanit y's higher self? Thankfully, some of those exist. Butit's not all rainbows and b utterflies. Many memorable speeches have a touch of the macabre that fore shadow the underbelly of adulthood. After reading dozens of transcripts and viewinghours of footage, we've distilled 10 famous commencement speeche s to their essence. Somespeeches are memorable because of their time in h istory or because millions watched it online.Some were later published as boo ks. At least one became a hit song. Here they are, in chronological order.

假如一场演讲不会让人昏昏欲睡而是被人津津乐道，假如没有无病呻吟，而是与时俱进,把20分钟演讲的关注点放在―如何提升自我‖上面，这样的毕业演讲是不是会让你毕生难忘呢？还好，这样的演讲还是存在的，而且它们也不全是镜花水月。许多令人难忘的演讲一针见血地指出了成人世界的软肋。在翻阅了成打的手抄文本、观看了大量的影像带后，我们精心挑选了10个著名的演讲并提取了他们演讲中的精华。一些演讲因其所处的历史时期亦或是过高的点击量而令人难忘，一些后来还被收录在相关书籍中。每一个演讲在当时都掀起了思想的浪潮。下面就为你一一呈现！

10.President John F. Kennedy at American University, 1963

10.1963年，约翰·F·肯尼迪总统于美利坚大学

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the sameair. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mo rtal."

―我们都居住在这个小小的星球上，这是你我之间最基本的连接纽带。我们呼吸着同样的空气，我们都珍视子女们的未来，我们最终都会离开这个世界‖。

This commencement address had a higher purpose. Just months after the Cuban missile crisis with the Soviet Union, when nuclear war was still a real t hreat, President John. F. Kennedyused the occasion to deliver a peace-laced t alk to the entire world. The speech, which took amonth to craft, was written i n secret because he feared Pentagon officials would oppose its conciliatory t one. Kennedy asked Americans to consider their attitudes:

"Too many of us thinkis impossible. Too many think it is unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads tothe conclusion that war is inevitabl e ... We need not accept that view ... Among the manytraits the peoples of o ur two countries have in common, none is stronger than our mutualabhorrenc e of war." Kennedy then announced that he, Nikita Khrushchev and Britain's HaroldMacmillan would be entering talks about a comprehensive test ban tr eaty and that the U.S.wouldn't conduct further nuclear tests as long as no ot her country did either.

这篇毕业演讲因其所处的时代背景而影响深远。就在几个月前，美国虽然结束了与苏联的―古巴导弹危机‖，然而核战争还是一个真实存在的威胁。肯尼迪总统选择在这样的场合用演讲向全世界传递了一个和平的信号。肯尼迪为这篇演讲苦心构思了一个月，因担心自己安抚性的语调会遭到国防部的反对,他决定秘密地完成这篇演讲。肯尼迪恳请美国人反思自己的态度：―我们中的许多人认为‗和平‘是不可能的、是不现实的。然而，这是一种危险的失败主义观念。这种观念得出的结论是，战争不可避免…我们并非一定要接受这种观点…在我们两国人民的诸多共性中，最显著的莫过于我们对战争的共同憎恶。‖之后肯尼迪宣布，他将同苏联最高领导人赫鲁晓夫、英国首相哈罗德·麦克米兰进行关于―全面禁止核试验条约‖的商讨与谈话。他将承诺：只要他国不先进行进一步核试验，美国也决不会做核试验第一国。演讲后不过几天，华盛顿和克里姆林宫架设了一次专线。在演讲结束后的两个月，也就是1963年8月5日，三国领导人共同签署了《受限制核试验公约》。这是在全面裁军后的又一重大利好。