因为疫情而被迫取消了两年的线下NYU毕业典礼,终于回来了!昨天,NYU紫罗兰填满了整个纽约洋基体育场。毕业学子们满心期待着的这一天终于到来,而Taylor Swift的出现更是让氛围直接拉满!
所有2022 NYU的毕业生一起见证了Taylor被授予荣誉艺术博士。
她也献上了近30分钟非常真诚的脱稿演讲。用自己的亲身经历告诉我们,人生本就是五味杂陈,没有人会永远一帆风顺,而我们能做的就是去面对它、克服它、并与之共存。很多事情经历过后才会发现,它或许并不是一件坏事。
Taylor的演讲不仅充满了人生哲理,还悄悄包含了许多你不熟悉的GRE高频词。追星的同时,可别错过高分秘籍了哦!
让我们一起来看看泰勒·斯威夫特NYU毕业典礼演讲的精彩片段包含着哪些GRE词汇吧~
“If they are here in this stadium, I hope you’ll find your own way to express your gratitude for all the steps and missteps that have led us to this common destination.”
“如果他们此刻在这个体育场,我希望你们能找到自己的方式来表达自己的感激,感谢一路以来为到达目的地所共同经历的得与失。”
“I know that words are supposed to be my ‘thing’, but I will never be able to find the words to thank my mom and my dad, and my brother, Austin, for the sacrifices they made every day so that I could go from singing in coffee houses to standing up here with you all today because no words would ever be enough.”
“我知道语言应该是我自己的‘东西’,但我永远无法找到合适的话来感谢我的妈妈和爸爸,还有我的兄弟Austin,感谢他们每天为我做出的牺牲,使我能够告别咖啡馆唱歌,最终和你们一起站在这里。没有任何语言是能足够表达这份感激的。”
霉霉在演讲的开头用自己的方式表达了对NYU以及身边重要的人们的感谢。你学会了吗?
在GRE中,表达感谢/感激有这些词:
appreciate 感激;理解
acknowledge 感激;承认
indebted 感激的,承蒙的
beholden 感谢;欠人情
grateful 感谢的,感激的
gratitude 感激,感谢
“Learn to live alongside cringe. No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe, you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively. Cringe is unavoidable over a lifetime. Even the term ‘cringe’ might someday be deemed ‘cringe.’”
“学会与难堪共存。无论你多么努力地避免避免,你都会在回顾你的生活时回想到你曾经的难堪。这些在一生中是无法避免的。甚至“cringe”这个词也有朝一日可能被视为‘难堪’。”
“In your life, you will inevitably misspeak, trust the wrong people, under-react, overreact, hurt the people who didn’t deserve it, overthink, not think at all, self sabotage, create a reality where only your experience exists... And I’m not gonna lie, these mistakes will cause you to lose things.”
“在你们的生活中,你不可避免地会说错话,相错人,反应不足,反应过度,伤害不值得的人,过度思考,完全不思考,自我破坏,创造一个只有你经验存在的现实...我没撒谎,这些错误会导致你失去一些东西。”
可不要只记得霉霉是如何表达“避免”的哦
避免在GRE中也是可能会考到的单词:
avert 避免;转移
abjure 避免
eschew 避开,回避
circumvent 避开,规避
bypass 避开,回避
shun 刻意避开,回避
skirt 回避,避开
stave off 暂时避开
inevitable 不可避免的,必然的
“So I became a young adult while being fed the message that if I didn’t make any mistakes, all the children of America would grow up to be perfect angels. However, if I did slip up, the entire earth would fall off its axis and it would be entirely my fault and I would go to pop star jail forever and ever. It was all centered around the idea that mistakes equal failure and ultimately, the loss of any chance at a happy or rewarding life.”
“因此,我成为了一个年轻的大人,同时被灌输了这样一个信息:如果我不犯任何错误,美国所有的孩子长大都会成为完美的天使。但是,如果我真的出错了,整个地球都会从它的轴心上掉下来,这完全是我的错,我会永远永远地被关进流行歌星的监狱。这一切都围绕着这样一个想法,即犯错等于失败,最终失去了任何幸福或有意义的生活的机会。”
“My experience has been that my mistakes led to the best things in my life. And being embarrassed when you mess up is part of the human experience. Getting back up, dusting yourself off and seeing who still wants to hang out with you afterward and laugh about it? That’s a gift.”
“我的经历让我明白:那些犯过的错为我的生活带来了最美好的事情。当你搞砸了事情之后的尴尬是人生中的必经之路,而最重要的是重振旗鼓,去关注身边那些共同笑对磨难的人。”
霉霉让我们对错误和失败又有了全新的理解,
那么GRE中的“错误”应该如何形容呢?
errant 错误的;不定的
erroneous 错误的
gaffe 错误,失态
invalidate 证明...错误
misconception 错误观念
blunder 愚蠢的错误,失误
bumble 犯错,搞砸
anachronistic 时代错误的
“I leave you with this: We are led by our gut instincts, our intuition, our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams. And you will screw it up sometimes. So will I. And when I do, you will most likely read about on the internet. Anyway…hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it.”
“我给大家留下这些话:我们是被内心深处的本能、直觉、欲望和恐惧、伤疤和梦想所引导的。有时你们会搞砸事情,我也一样。当然我沦落到如此地步的时候,你们大概率都已经在互联网上了解到了。无论如何……困难的事情都会发生在我们身上。我们会走出困境,我们会吸取教训,我们也会因此变得更有韧性。”
“恢复/走出困境”在GRE中可以这样形容:
recuperate 恢复(恢复健康)
rejuvenate 恢复活力
rehabilitate 康复,恢复
resilient 恢复快的;有韧性的
resurrect 恢复,使重现
restorative 恢复健康的,恢复活力的
retrieve 恢复,挽回
revert 恢复,重回
revitalize 使恢复活力
reactivate 恢复
其实不只是毕业生。任何人,尤其是在学生时代,面临决策分岔口时,总会不可避免地迷茫和不知所措。
我们会为犯过的错而惋惜,也会因受到的挫折而怀疑自我。但正如霉霉所言,没有完美的人生,错就错了,错误也会带来意外收获。无论遭遇什么困难,我们都会走出困境、会吸取教训、会成长、也会因此变得更有韧性。
希望霉霉的演讲能给予每一位毕业生一往无前的力量。今天,你们踏出校园,以一个更加独立的姿态继续前行。明天,你们将收获更加精彩的人生!!Congrats! You're on you now!!


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