You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

-- Tom Brokaw 汤姆·布罗考

你是受过教育的。你的证书就是你的学位。你可以把它看作通往美好生活的门票。让我请你想出一个替代方案。把它看作是你改变世界的门票。

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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

我抗议说，如果某个大国愿意让我永远思考什么是真的，做什么是对的，条件是把我变成一种时钟，每天早上在我起床之前就起床，那么我就应该立刻结束这个提议。

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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

生存的斗争不仅存在于物质世界，也存在于精神世界。理论是一种思维，它的生存权与它抵抗竞争对手灭绝的能力是相辅相成的。

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

正如我赞同一个年轻人身上有一点老人的气质一样，我对一个老人身上有一点年轻人的气质也同样感到高兴。遵守这条规则的人，身体可能会变老，但思想永远不会变老。

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There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.

很多人曾经在酒吧里见过我们，或者在深夜的广播里听过我们的歌。在我们发行单曲之前，我们已经做了四年。这对我们有好处。

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We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

我们希望耐克成为世界上最好的体育和健身公司。一旦你这么说了，你就有了重点。你最终不会得到翼尖或赞助下一个滚石世界巡演。

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I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.

我喜欢它的方方面面，我对任何媒介都没有偏好。我认为他们每个人都有自己的吸引力，我希望他们每个人都能以某种方式告诉对方。

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

有一种恒久不变的美，可能会被那些愿意看到事物本来面目的人所欣赏，他们只要求看到，不要求任何报酬。

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I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

我为我的学位写了一本小说，我很高兴我没有把它交给出版商。我很同情我的教授们，他们不得不读这本书。

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When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

当你有两个选择的时候，你要做的第一件事就是找第三个你没想过的，不存在的。

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When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

当人们问我关于我的故事时，我只会说一些积极的事情:帐篷柱子的时刻，巨大的地标检查点。

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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

教育止于学校，而教育止于生命。孩子是上天赐予的接受教育的对象。

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Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

科布住在球场外，好像他希望永远活着。他住在田野上，好像这是他生命的最后一天。

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I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.

我很高兴能够把我的美丽愿景带给其他人，他们可能会受到启发。

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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

各人眼中看为善。鹰不一定是乌鸦。

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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

好了，大家按身高的字母顺序排好队。

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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

每一个创造的行为首先都是毁灭的行为。

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

宽恕你的敌人，但永远不要忘记他们的名字。

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Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

信心是通往盛宴的门票，而不是盛宴。

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Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

阅读是去任何地方的打折机票。

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An educated people can be easily governed.

受过教育的人容易管理。

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I have actually five honorary degrees.

我有五个荣誉学位。

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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

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