摘要：从童星出道，娜塔丽波特曼不只是一个美丽的女演员，更是哈佛大学的高材生！今年早些时候作为优秀毕业生，波特曼在哈佛大学的毕业典礼上发飙毕业演讲！在演讲中波特曼说道，我定义了自己的价值，而不是哈佛的！这句最为打动毕业生们！

今年早些时间，奥斯卡影后娜塔莉·波特曼受邀在哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲，这位2003年毕业于哈佛大学的学霸影后讲述了她曾经的心路历程。在哈佛，娜塔莉经历了人生中最黑暗的阶段，缺乏自信又充满压力，甚至在面对教授时大哭。为了让自己配得上哈佛，她经历了深重的自我怀疑、挣扎和努力，最终发现自己最爱的仍是演戏。

她用亲身的经验和体会鼓励毕业生，找到自己人生的理由，发展自我而不是仅仅为了别人眼中的完美。“如果你的理由是属于你自己的，你的路即便是奇怪而坎坷的，也将是完全属于你自己的路。”

Hello, class of 2017.I am so honest to be here today. Dean Khurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.”Wow! This is so nice!””I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas? ”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.

2017届毕业生，你们好。今天来到这里非常荣幸，库拉那校长、各位家长、尤其是各位毕业生，非常感谢你们邀请我。首先，我必须得承认，因为否认不了，因为维基解密公布的索尼被黑资料中已经爆出，当我接到邀请时，我回复的是：“哇哦!这可太棒了!我得找几个搞笑写手代笔阿，你说呢?”这段天下皆知的最初回复背后的原因是，我们毕业日时有幸请来威尔法瑞尔做讲者，当时许多同学宿醉未醒，或者嗨劲没过，就想傻笑。所以我要承认，即便是毕业12年后的今天，我仍然对自己的价值毫无自信。我必须提醒自己，你来这里是有原因的.

Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999.When you guys were,to my continued shocked and horror, still in kindergarten.I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth.I would have to prove that I wasn’t just dumb actress.So I start with an apology. This won’t be very funny. I’m not a comedian.And I didn’t get a ghost writer.But I am here to tell you today.Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other people’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is dined by its own particular set of reasons.

我今天的感受跟我99年初到哈佛成为新生时的心情一样，说起这件事我还是很震惊，当时你们还上幼儿园呢。我感觉肯定是哪里出了错，感觉我的智商不配来这。而我每次开口说话时，都必须要证明我不知是个白痴女演员而已。所以我要先道个歉，这场演讲不会太搞笑，我不是个笑星，我也没找写手代笔，不过今天我在这里是要告诉你们，哈佛明天就要给你们毕业证书了，你们到这里是有原因的。有时你的不自信和无经验也会导致你去接受别人的期待、标准或价值，但你们要知道，无经验可以造就你们自己的路，一条没有“事情本应怎样做”之负担的路，一条由你自己的理由来定义的路。

That other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-yeas-old son. And I watch him play arcade games. He was incredible focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother than I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is his

arm and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toy. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.

前几天，我带着快四岁的儿子去游乐场，我看着他玩街机游戏，他玩的无比专注，努力朝着靶子投球。作为一名犹太裔老妈，我跳过20步，已经开始想象他成为大联盟球手，头球精准，手臂健壮，用心专注，但后来我才明白他想要的是什么。他玩投球是为了用票换取粗劣的塑料玩具，最终的奖励比游戏的过程更令他兴奋。我当然想鼓励他享受游戏的快乐和挑战，不断练习带来的进步，因表现出色而得到的满足感，甚至还有完成游戏目标时的成就感，但这些都比不过一毛钱的塑料小人。小人伸出黏黏的手臂，还可以贴在墙上，这就是奖励。从孩子的本性中，我们看到许多自己天生的偏好，我看到了我自己，也许你们也能。

Prizes serve as false idols everywhere(圣经里的false idol). Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.

随处可见，奖励被当成虚假偶像来崇拜，威望、财富、名声、权势，你们将来就算不会全部遇到，至少也会遇到其中几个。当然我今天来演讲的部分原因，除了我是个自豪的哈佛校友之外，就是我在生命中得到了一些非常令人羡慕的玩具：奥斯卡小金人。在毕业演讲时我们会撞到常见的烦事，那就是成功人士来告诉你，成功带来的结果并非那么值得信任。但我觉得这种矛盾可以被弥合，而且是有教导意义的。成就总是美妙的，但你得知道为何这样做。如果你不知道，它就会变成可怕的陷阱。

I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook ‘most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy ’or code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be staring over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think

that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-paper bore. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I Had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself.

我高中是在长岛一家公立学校Syoseet高中，我们学校的女生都拿着Prada包，烫直了头发，而他们的口音，是我这个9岁从康州搬来的女孩为了融入而一直在模仿的。因为我年纪太老，所以我上高中时互联网刚兴起，同学都不太在意我演员的身份，我在学校出名是因为我的背包比我的人还大，而且我满手都是消正液，因为我不喜欢笔记本上出现划掉的痕迹。毕业年册中我被评为“最可能成为智力竞赛选手”的人，换句话说，就是最呆的书呆子。星战EP1刚上映，我就来到哈佛读书，我知道我得重新建立别人对我的看法了，我害怕大家以为我只是靠名声才进了哈佛，担心他们觉得我配不上这里严格的智力标准。其实真相也差不多如此，我来哈佛之前从没写过10页的论文，我都不知道自己写没写过5页的论文。我被一位同学的淡定眼神刺激并吓坏，他是Dalton或者Exeter高中的名校生，他说跟高中相比，哈佛的作业量是小菜一碟，我是完全应付不来。我觉得一周读完一千页书是不可想象的，而写出50页的论文是我永远都做不到发的。我完全不知道该怎样表达我的意图，我连跟自己说清楚都做不到。

I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.

我从11岁起就在演戏，但我认为演戏是轻佻且无意义的。我出身书香门第，非常在意别人是否把我当回事。跟我不敢发声相比，大一时新生培训的第一天，五个不同的同学分别跟我这样自己介绍。他们说，我将来会当美国总统，记得我跟你说过这句话。严肃的说，他们的名字是伯尼桑德斯、马克卢比奥、泰德克鲁兹、巴拉克奥巴马和希拉里克林顿。说正经的，我相信他们每一个人，他们的态度和自信本身就足以证明他们的预言，而我确无法摆脱自我怀疑。我入学只是因为我是名人，别人就是这样看我的，我也是这样看我自己。在不自信的驱使下，我决定要在哈佛找到严肃而有意义的事情，来改变世界，让世界更美好。

At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurologist and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both

In my professional life,it also took me time to find my own reason for doing my work.The first film I was in came out in 1994.Again,appallingly,the year most of you were born,I was 13 years old upon the film’s release,and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim,[Ms Portman poses better than she acts],The film had a universally tepid critic response,and went on to bomb commercially.That film was called ‘The Professional,or Leon in Europe’And today,20 years and 35 films later,it is still the film people approach me about the most,to tell me how much they loved it,how much it moved them,how it’s their favorite movie.I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures.I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals,rather than the foremost trophies in my industry/financial and critical success.And also these initial reaction could be false predictors of your work’s ultimate legacy.I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about,and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences.This thoroughly confused everyone around me:agents,producers,and audiences alike,I made Gotya’s Ghost,a foreign independent film and studied art history,visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition,I made V for Vendetta,studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground.I made Your Highness,a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight.I was able to own my meaning and not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.

在我的职业生活中，我花了许多时间，寻找我自己做事的原因。我的第一部电影在1994年上映，又是一件很吓人的事，那年你们大部分人才出生。电影出来时我才13岁，至今我仍能一字不差的复述纽约时报对我的评价：波特曼小姐摆造型的功力比演戏强很多。这部电影得到的所有评价都是不温不火，而商业方面则是惨败，这部电影叫做《这个杀手不太冷》。而到今天，过了20年，拍完了35部电影之后，它仍是人们见到我时最常提到的片子，他们告诉我多爱这部片子，这片子多感人，说这是他们最爱的电影。我感到很幸运，我首次参演的电影，起初在所有的标准和衡量上来看都是一场灾难，我很早就学到，我的价值应该来自于电影拍摄过程的体验，来自触碰人心的可能，而不是我们行业最首要的荣誉：商业和影评方面的成功。而且，最初的反响可能会错误预测了你的作品最终的价值。于是我开始只挑那些我热爱的事情来做，只选那些我知道能汲取到有意义经验的工作。这让我周围的所有人都彻底困惑，经纪人、制片人、还有观众都是如此。我拍了外国独立电影《戈雅之灵》，为此我学习艺术史，连续四个月我每天研读戈雅和西班牙裁判所。我拍了动作片《V字仇杀队》，为此我学习了所有自由战士相关的东西，他们也被叫做恐怖主义者。我拍了大麻喜剧《王子殿下》，我连续笑了整整三个月。我可以决定我自己的价值，而不是让票房或名声来决定。

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