白巖松耶魯大學(xué)演講：中國夢美國夢

In the past twenty years, China has faced three American presidents, but till coming to Yale today, I never realized that China really just faced one university. Although, through these three presidents, I understand that the quality of Yale graduates is not so even.

過去的20年,中國一直在跟美國的三任總統(tǒng)打交道,但是今天到了耶魯我才知 道,其實(shí)他只跟一所學(xué)校打交道。但是透過這三位總統(tǒng)我也明白了,耶魯大學(xué)的畢 業(yè)生的水準(zhǔn)也并不很平均。

Let me begin my main subject and let me give it a title, called My Story and the Chinese Dream Behind It. I want to talk about five particular years. The first is 1968. That year I was born. But it was also a chaotic year for the world. In France, there was this huge street disturbance, and in America, too. Then President Kennedy was assassinated. However, I really did not cause all of these! But that year what we remember more was the assassination of Mr. Martin Luther King. Although he fell that year, his words "I have a dream" stood up, not only stood up in America, but across the whole world.

接下來就進(jìn)入我們這個(gè)主題,或許要起個(gè)題目的話應(yīng)該叫《我的故事以及背 后的中國夢》。我要講五個(gè)年份,第一要講的年份是1968年。那一年我出生了。但 是那一年世界非常亂,在法國有它的這個(gè),巨大的街頭的騷亂,在美國也有,然后 美國的總統(tǒng)肯尼迪遇刺了,但是的確這一切的原因都與我無關(guān)。但是那一年我們更 應(yīng)該記住的是馬丁?路德?金先生遇刺,雖然那一年他倒下了,但是"我有一個(gè)夢想"的這句話卻真正地站了起來,不僅在美國站起來,在全世界站起來。

But sadly, not only for me, but for almost all Chinese, we did not know such a dream. It was hard to describe each Chinese as having his or her own dream* China and America were so far apart, no less far apart than the Moon and the Earth. But I didn't care about any of that. All I cared about was could I have a full meal. Clearly, I was born at a very inconvenient time,not only for China, but even for the world, there were problems.

但是當(dāng)時(shí)很遺憾,不僅僅是我,幾乎很多的中國人并不知道這個(gè)夢想,因?yàn)楫?dāng) 時(shí)中國人,每一個(gè)個(gè)人很難說擁有自己的夢想。中國與美國的距離非常遙遠(yuǎn),不亞 于月亮與地球之間的距離。但是我并不關(guān)心這一切,我只關(guān)心我是否可以吃飽。很 顯然,我的出生非常不是時(shí)候,不僅對于當(dāng)時(shí)的中國來說,對于世界來說,似乎都 有些問題。

In 1978,ten years later,I was 10. I still lived in the very little city that had only 200 thousand people at the time I was born. It was 2000 km from Beijing. If you wanted to read the newspaper from Beijing, you waited three days. So for us, there was no such thing as news. That year my grandfather passed away. Two years before that my father passed away. So there was just my mother left to take care of me and my brother. Her monthly salary was not even ten dollars. As a result, even though I was 10,the word "dream" was still not in my vocabulary, and I would never think of it. I could not see hope in this family, but only felt bitter cold every winter. Where we lived was close to the Soviet Union. Yet the 1978 in which I could not see hope was also the year that a huge change took place, whether for China or for the relationship between China and America. That is a date that everybody here today should remember.

1978年,十年之后。我10歲,我依然生活在我出生的時(shí)候,那個(gè)只有20萬人 的非常非常小的城市里。它離北京的距離有2000公里,它要想了解北京出的報(bào)紙的 話,要在三天之后才能看見,所以對于我們來說,是不存在新聞這個(gè)說法。那一年 我的爺爺去世了,而在兩年前的時(shí)候我的父親去世了,所以只剩下我母親一個(gè)人要 撫養(yǎng)我們哥倆,她一個(gè)月的工資不到10美元。因此即使10歲了,夢想這個(gè)詞對我來 說,依然是一個(gè)非常陌生的詞匯,我從來不會去想它。我看不到這個(gè)家庭的希望, 只是會感覺,那個(gè)時(shí)候的每一個(gè)冬天都很寒冷,因?yàn)槲宜�生活的那個(gè)城市離蘇聯(lián)更 近。但是就在我看不到希望的1978年的時(shí)候,不管是中國這個(gè)國家,還有中國與美 國這兩個(gè)國家之間,發(fā)生了非常巨大的變化,那是一個(gè)我們在座的所有人,今天都該記住的年份。

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