珍惜现在，把握未来
耶鲁大学是美国东北部老牌名校联盟“常青藤联盟”的成员，也是美国最具影响力的私立大学之一。每年毕业典礼常会有名人去做演讲，今天小编为大家选取的是托尼·布莱尔在耶鲁大学的演讲。
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.
能够站在这里在耶鲁大学2008届毕业典礼发表演讲我深感荣幸。你们成功毕业了，你们走过来了：我们所有人向你们表示祝贺。
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.
你们必须解决的问题包括气候变化带来的威胁、食品短缺、人口激增、由宗教引发的世界范围内的恐怖主义，以及世界经济的相互联系。这在我的学生时代几乎都没有被意识到。但与以往不同的是，今天这些问题在本质上都是全球性的。
Your understand this. Yale has become a melting pot of culture, language and civilization. You are the global generation, so be global citizens.
你们了解这一点：耶鲁已经成为了文化、语言和文明的大熔炉。你们是全球性的一代。因此你们要成为世界公民。
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?
每一代寻找他们要进入的世界，然后又离开他们塑造的世界。因此：你们继承什么，又将传递什么？
The history of humankind is marked by great events but written by great People.
People like you.
人类历史以大事件为标志，而大事件由伟人来谱写。
由你们这样的人来谱写。
Given Yale’s record of achievement, perhaps by you.
So to you as individuals, what wisdom, if any, have I learned?
鉴于耶鲁历来人才辈出，人类历史可能就是由你们来书写。
因此，从作为个体的你们，如果我学到了新的东西，那么这些新东西又是什么呢？
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.
事实上，首先我学会了学无止境。时刻积极投入到可能出现的新经历、思考、行动和成长中。
当佛祖生命快要终结时，有人问他成为圣人的秘诀，他坦诚相告：“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.
了解传统的智慧，但也要做好准备改变它。
既要会分析又要会感知。直觉与理性并存。过于斤斤计较只会打错算盘。
既要做好准备迎接成功也要做好准备迎接失败。要知道，是失败不是成功塑造人的性格。
布莱尔曾任英国首相，在其执政后，提出了关于经济、社会发展的“第三条道路”新理念，致力于公共服务改革，发展经济，促进社会公正。
从这篇演讲中，我们可以看出布莱尔对青年力量的看重与信任。
