美国最高法院首席大法官约翰罗伯茨在他的儿子Jack就读的新罕布什尔州的卡迪根山中学（Cardigan Mountain School）毕业典礼上的致辞。
约翰·罗伯茨于2005 年 9 月由小布什总统提名，参议院批准通过，就任美国联邦最高法院的第 17 任首席大法官，成为美国两个世纪以来最年轻的首席大法官。
大法官罗伯茨与妻子简妮领养了一儿一女，他的儿子杰克·罗伯茨从位于新罕布什尔州的卡迪根山中学（Cardigan Mountain School）毕业。#奇速英语时文阅读#
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From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty.
在未来的人生中，我希望你们不时地受到不公正的待遇，你们会因此而明白公正的价值。我希望你们会遭受背叛，因为它将教会你们忠诚的重要性。
Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted.
很抱歉，但我会希望你们不时地感到孤独，这样你们就不会认为朋友是理所当然。
I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
我祝福你们不时会有坏运气，你们会因此意识到概率和运气在人生中扮演的角色，你们会明白你的成功并不完全是你应得的，而其他人的失败也并不完全是他们所应得的。
And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship.
相信你们会不时地遭遇失败，而当你们失败的时候，我希望你们的对手会因为你们的失败而幸灾乐祸，这会让你们意识到有风度的竞争精神的重要性。
I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion.
我希望你们会被忽视，你们会因此而意识到倾听他人的重要性，我也希望你们遭受刚刚好的痛苦，这能让你们学会同理心。
Whether I wish these things or not, they’re going to happen. And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes.
无论我是否祝福你们这些，它们都会发生。而你们是否从中获益，取决于你们是否能从自己的不幸中看明白它们想要传递的信息。
Now commencement speakers are also expected to give some advice. They give grand advice, and they give some useful tips. The most common grand advice they give is for you to be yourself.
It is an odd piece of advice to give people dressed identically, but you should — you should be yourself. But you should understand what that means.
通常毕业典礼的演讲者会给予大家一些有价值的建议。他们给予的最常见的建议是让你们做自己。这听上去有点奇怪，似乎人们给予的都是一样的建议，但希望你们明白，你们就应该做自己。
Unless you are perfect, it does not mean don’t make any changes. In a certain sense, you should not be yourself. You should try to become something better. People say ‘be yourself’ because they want you to resist the impulse to conform to what others want you to be.
But you can’t be yourself if you don"t learn who are, and you can’t learn who you are unless you think about it.
除非你们是完美的，这就意味着你们必须要作出改变。在某种意义上，你们不应该只是自己。你们应该尝试成为更好的自己。人们说“做自己”，是因为他们希望你们抵制冲动，不要成为别人想要的样子。但是，如果你们不尝试，你们就不可能做自己。
The Greek philosopher Socrates said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ And while ‘just do it’ might be a good motto for some things, it’s not a good motto when it’s trying to figure out how to live your life that is before you.
And one important clue to living a good life is to not to try to live the good life. The best way to lose the values that are central to who you are is frankly not to think about them at all.
希腊哲学家苏格拉底说，“未经思考的人生是不值得过的”。“Just Do it”可能是一个好的座右铭，但是当你们试图明白如何度过自己的人生时，这不是一个好的座右铭。拥有美好人生的一个最好的路径就是不要试图过轻松的人生。如果你们不思考，就会丢掉对自己至关重要的价值观。
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