永远不要为尝试而感到羞愧 - 泰勒的毕业典礼演讲 - Never Be Ashamed of Trying - Taylor’s Commencement Speech

永远不要为尝试而感到羞愧 - 泰勒的毕业典礼演讲 - Never Be Ashamed of Trying - Taylor’s Commencement Speech
I guess I have been officially solicited in this situation to impart whatever wisdom I might have to tell you things that have helped me so far in my life.
我想我正式被邀请，是为了在这里下分享我的一些经验之谈，这些都是至今为止帮助我走过人生路的宝贵财富。
Please bear in mind that I in no way feel qualified to tell you what to do.
请谨记，我并不觉得自己有资格指导你们该做什么。
You've worked and struggled and sacrificed and studied and dreamed your way here today.
你们努力奋斗、痛苦挣扎、牺牲了一些东西、勤奋学习、勇敢梦想，才走到了今天这里。
And so, you know what you're doing you'll do things differently than I did them and for different reasons.
因此，你们清楚自己在做什么，你们做事方式和理由都将与我不同。
So I won't tell you to what to do 'cause no one likes that.
因此，我不会对你指手画脚，毕竟没人喜欢被这样对待。
I will, however, give you some life hacks, I wish I knew when I was starting out my dreams of a career and navigating life, love, pressure, choices, shame, hope, and friendship.
然而，我还是想分享一些人生小技巧给你，这些是我在刚开始追逐职业梦想和面对生活、爱情、压力、选择、羞耻、希望及友谊时希望自己早点知道的。
The first of which is, life can be heavy especially if you try to carry it all at once.
首先要告诉你的是，生活有时会显得沉重，尤其是当你试图同时肩负所有时。
Part of growing up and moving into new chapters of your life is about catch and release.
成长以及步入人生新阶段的过程中，很大一部分是学会抓住与放手。
What I mean by that is, knowing what things to keep and what things to release.
我的意思是，懂得哪些东西该留下，哪些东西应该放手。
You can't carry all things, all grudges, all updates on your ex, all enviable promotions your school bully got at the hedge fund his uncle started.
你无法承载所有事物，比如所有的怨恨、前任的种种动态、以及那个曾在学校欺负你的人在他叔叔开的对冲基金里获得的令人羡慕的晋升。
Decide what is yours to hold and let the rest go.
决定什么是你该保留的，其余的则放手。
Oftentimes, the good things in your life are lighter anyway, so there's more room for them.
通常，生活中美好的事情本身就比较轻盈，所以留给它们的空间也更多。
One toxic relationship can outweigh so many wonderful, simple joys.
一段有毒的关系往往能压过许多美好而简单的喜悦。
You get to pick what your life has time and room for.
你可以选择自己的生活中要给什么留时间和空间。
Be discerning.
要明智选择。
Secondly, learn to live alongside cringe.
其次，学会忍受尴尬。
No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe, you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively.
无论你怎样努力避免尴尬，回头看自己的生活，你总会感到尴尬不已。
Cringe is unavoidable over a lifetime.
尴尬在一生中是难以避免的。
Even the term cringe might someday be deemed cringe.
甚至有一天，“尴尬”这个词本身也可能被认为很尴尬。
I promise you're probably doing or wearing something right now that you will look back on later and find revolting and hilarious.
我敢打赌，你现在在做或穿的某样东西，日后回想起来的时候，你会觉得既恶心又好笑。
You can't avoid it, so don't try to.
你无法避免，所以不必尝试。
For example I had a phase where for the entirety of 2012, I dressed like a 1950's housewife.
例如，我曾有一段时间，在2012年的整年里，我打扮得就像1950年代的家庭主妇。
But you know what? I was having fun.
不过，你知道吗？我当时很享受。
Trends and phases are fun.
流行和阶段本身就充满乐趣。
Looking back and laughing is fun.
回头看看，笑笑也挺有意思的。
And while we're talking about things that make us squirm but really shouldn't, I'd like to say I'm a big advocate for not hiding your enthusiasm for things.
在谈到那些本不该让我们尴尬却让我们有些不自在的事情时，我想说，我非常支持坦率地展示自己对事物热情的行为。
It seems to me that there is a false stigma around eagerness in our culture of unbothered, ambivalence.
在我们这个追求“漠不关心”的矛盾文化中，我认为人们对于热情有一种不该有的负面印象。
This outlook perpetuates the idea that it's not cool to want it.
这种看法进一步强化了这样一个观念，即表现出对事物的渴望是不酷的。
That people who don't try are fundamentally more chic than people who do.
那些不努力的人看起来比那些真正付出努力的人更“酷”。
And I wouldn't know because I've been a lot of things, but I've never been an expert on chic.
我不清楚，因为我尝试过很多东西，但我从未精精通做一个“酷”人。
But I'm the one who's up here, so you have to listen to me when I say this: never be ashamed of trying.
但我是站在这里演讲的人，所以你们得听我说：永远不要因为努力而羞愧。
Effortlessness is a myth.
毫不费力纯属幻想。
The people who wanted it the least were the ones I wanted to date and be friends with in high school.
那些最不渴望成功的人，可能是我在高中时最想约会和交朋友的人。
The people who want it the most are the people I now hire to work for my company.
而那些最渴望成功的人，会变成我现在为自己的公司雇佣的员工。
I started writing songs when I was 12.
我从12岁起就开始写歌了。
And since then it's been the compass guiding my life, and in turn, my life guided my writing.
从那时起，写歌就成了指引我人生方向的罗盘。反之，我的生活也激发了我的写作灵感。
Everything I do is just an extension of my writing, whether it's directing videos or a short film, creating the visuals for a tour, or standing on a stage performing.
我所做的一切，无论是导演视频、拍摄短片、为巡演设计视觉效果，还是站在舞台上进行表演，都是我写作的延伸。
Everything is connected by my love of the craft, the thrill of working through ideas and narrowing them down, and polishing it all up in the end, editing.
一切都与我对这门工艺的热爱密切相关，从兴奋地探索想法、逐步细化到最后的打磨和编辑。
Waking up in the middle of the night, throwing out the old idea because you just thought of a new or better one, or a plot device that ties the whole thing together.
有时半夜醒来，因为想到了新点子或更好的想法而摒弃原先的想法，或想到一个能把整件事串联起来的情节手法。
There's a reason they call it a hook.
歌曲中最勾人的地方被称为‘钩子’，是有原因的。
Sometimes a string of words just ensnares me and I can't focus on anything until it's been recorded or written down.
有时，一串文字深深吸引了我，除非将其录下或写下，否则我难以集中注意力。
As a songwriter I've never been able to sit still or stay in one creative place for too long.
作为作曲家，我无法长时间安坐或停留在同一个创作空间。
I've made and released 11 albums and in the process, I've switched genre from country to pop, to alternative to folk.
我已经制作并发布了11张专辑，在此过程中，我的音乐风格也从乡村转变到流行，再到另类，最后是民谣。
And this might sound like a very songwriter-centric line of discussion, but in a way I really do think we are all writers.
这话听起来可能像一个作曲家的发言，但我真的认为，我们每个人都是写作者。
And most of us write in a different voice for different situations.
而且大多数情况下，我们会根据不同情境用不同的语调来写作。
You write differently in your Instagram stories than you do your senior thesis.
你Instagram的故事里的写作风格，与撰写毕业论文时的风格截然不同。
You send a different type of email to your boss than you do your best friend from home.
你发给老板的邮件与发给你最好的朋友的邮件风格迥异。
We are all literary chameleons and I think it's fascinating.
我们都是文字上的变色龙，我认为这非常有趣。【贝贝英语网】