But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people’s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities.…… That is your privilege, and your burden.
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在 J·K·罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲 留言：
But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people’s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities.…… That is your privilege, and your burden.
在这里我觉得burden应译为负担,and做连接词在这里并不表示并列关系,而是表示轻微的转折关系,即他们的这些才智与学历是他们的优势,但从另外一方面而言又是一种负担,一种拖累. 这样的翻译就与前面所有内容呼应了,因为罗琳的巨大成功源自与极度失败的体验,这也是为什么她在这段话中用But开头的原因.
2008-11-10 10:38:36