戳穿名人演讲的六大招数

　　丘吉尔曾受邀在某校毕业典礼上讲话。在校长冗长的介绍后，他只说了一句话：“永远，永远，永远不要放弃。”(Never, never, never give up.)就走下讲台。这被称为历史上最短的毕业演讲。其实，这是一个误传。丘吉尔1941年在哈罗公学演讲时提到过这句话，但过程却并没有这么传奇。

　　每到毕业季，各大高校都会请来名人给毕业生做演讲。当这样的演讲多了，其内容不仅算不上传奇，甚至可能难免俗套。让我们来一起看看名人演讲的六大招数吧!

　　名人演讲第一招：套近乎

　　演讲之初先要营造轻松的氛围，演讲者们深谙这个道理，于是各种开场方式悉数登场。

　　Thank you for that nice reception and thank you Virginia for the incredible introduction. I thought some of them were about somebody else. (Tim Cook)

　　谢谢大家，谢谢弗吉尼亚(主持人)那么卖力地推销我。我一度以为她在介绍别人呢。(蒂姆库克)

　　名人演讲第二招：自嘲

　　自嘲几乎是大部分名人演讲的必杀技。不过注意哦，这种自嘲有时候可能是一种变相的吹嘘。

　　I know exactly what it feels like to be sitting in your seat, listening to some old gasbag give a long-winded commencement speech.

　　我十分清楚你们现在坐在台下的感受：听我们这些老家伙絮叨，老生常谈。(拉里佩奇)

　　I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I’m just happy that the Crimson has called me “Harvard’s most successful dropout”. I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class…I did the best of everyone who failed. (Bill Gates)

　　我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴，你们拿到学位可比我容易多了。我值得称道的也只有被哈佛的校报称作“哈佛大学历史上最成功的辍学生”了。我想这大概使我有资格代表我这一类学生发言……在所有的失败者里，我做得最好。(比尔盖茨)

　　名人演讲第三招：哭穷

　　功成名就的演讲者们肯定少不了要分享下自己过去辛酸的经历，好让台下的学子们“开心开心”。

　　A mere 7 years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. (J.K. Rowling)

　　毕业7年之后，我遭遇了彻底的失败。我那极其短暂的婚姻走到了尽头，再加上失业，作为一个单身母亲，我沦落到穷困潦倒的境地，就差无家可归了。(JK罗琳)

　　I did everything. I shucked oysters, I was a hostess, I was a bartender, I was a waitress, I painted houses, I sold vacuum cleaners, I had no idea. And I thought I’d just finally settle in some job, and I would make enough money to pay my rent. (Ellen DeGeneres)

　　我那时什么工作都做，剥过牡蛎、做过迎宾、酒保、服务员、粉刷房子、卖吸尘器，我完全不知道自己想做什么。我只想随便找个工作糊口，能有钱付得起房租就行。(艾伦德杰尼勒斯)

　　名人演讲第四招：挫折与抉择

　　几乎每个成功人士的背后，好像都至少有一次面临挫折和抉择，然后绝处逢生的经历。

　　I listened and waited for Professor Childs to say how well written my thesis was. He didn’t. And so after about 45 minutes I finally said, “So. What did you think of the writing?” “Put it this way,” he said. “Never try to make a living at it.” (Michael Lewis)

　　我等待着希望听到蔡尔兹教授告诉我我的论文写得多么好。但他没有。于是等了45分钟后，我终于开口问，“那你怎么评价我的写作呢?” “这么说吧，”他说，“千万不要靠这个谋生。”(迈克尔刘易斯)

　　I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work. She told me I should go for it. (Jeff Bezos)

　　16年前，我萌生了创办亚马逊的想法。那时我刚刚30岁，结婚才1年。我告诉妻子想辞去工作，然后去做这件疯狂而且很可能失败的事情。她告诉我，我应该放手一搏。(杰夫贝索斯)

　　名人演讲第五招：温情回归

　　每当提到自己的家人，演讲者们都是充满自豪感和温情的。此情此景，常常令人动容。

　　A long time ago, in this cold September of 1962, there was a Steven’s co-op at this very university. That co-op had a kitchen with a ceiling that had been cleaned by student volunteers. Picture a college girl named Gloria, climbing up high on a ladder, struggling to clean that filthy ceiling. Standing on the floor, a young boarder named Carl was admiring the view. And that’s how they met. They were my parents.

　　很久以前，1962年的寒冷9月，这座校园里有一家史蒂文消费合作社，学生志愿者负责打扫厨房的天花板。想象这样一幅场景：一位名叫格洛里亚的女大学生，爬上了高高的梯子，努力地打扫那脏兮兮的天花板。另一位名叫卡尔的寄宿生站在地上，对此情此景钦佩不已。这是他俩的初次邂逅。他们就是我的父母。(拉里佩奇)

　　When I was awarded a Nobel Prize, I thought my mother would be satisfied. Not so. When I called her on the morning of the announcement, she replied, “That’s nice, but when are you going to visit me next.” (Steven Chu)

　　我得到诺贝尔奖的时候，我想我妈妈会高兴。但是我错了。消息公布的那天早上，我给她打电话，她听了只说：”这是好消息，不过我想知道，你打算什么时候来看我?”(朱棣文)

　　名人演讲第六招：引经据典

　　他们演讲时说的话经常被我们拿来当励志名言，但其实呢，他们自己也需要励志名言。

　　Jimmy Stewart, as Elwood P. Dowd in the movie “Harvey” got it exactly right. He said: “Years ago my mother used to say to me, ‘In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.’” Well, for years I was smart… I recommend pleasant. (Steven Chu)

　　电影《我的朋友叫哈维》中，斯图尔特扮演的艾尔伍德说得很对。他说：”多年前，母亲曾对我说：活在这个世界上，你要么做一个聪明人，要么做一个好人。”我做聪明人已经好多年了。但我推荐你们做好人。(朱棣文)

　　One of the things he (Jon Snoddy) told me was to wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. He said when you’re pissed off at somebody and you’re angry at them, you just haven’t given them enough time. (Randy Pausch)

　　他(乔恩史诺地)告诉我，给人们足够的时间，人人都会有让你惊讶和叹服的一面。他说，当你对别人怨恼愤怒时，你只是还没有给他们足够的时间。(兰迪波许)

　　名人演讲的的形式似乎都差不多，最重要的，是他们的经历。他们付出了远超出常人的努力，并承受了一般人难以忍受的痛苦和挫折。正是他们这些或暗淡或闪耀的故事，和他们为梦想不懈努力的执着，成为我们将他们铭记的理由。

　　最后，让我们一起欣赏名演讲中原创或引用的名言吧。

　　Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.求知若渴，虚心若愚。(史蒂夫乔布斯引用凯文凯利)

　　Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.经验是你求之不得后的收获。(兰迪波许)

　　Never lose the child-like wonder.永远不要失去孩童般的好奇心。(兰迪波许)

　　As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.人生就像故事：不在于长短，而在于质量，这才是最重要的。(JK罗琳引用塞内加)

　　Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results.精神错乱是指一遍遍地重复却期待不一样的结果。(蒂姆库克引用爱因斯坦)

　　Be true to yourself and everything will be fine.做真实的你，一切都会没事的。(艾伦德杰尼勒斯)