Thank you very, very much, President Keohane. Mrs. Gorbachev, Trustees, faculty, parents, and I should say, Julia Porter, class president, and certainly my new best friend, Christine Bicknell -- and, of course, the Class of 1990. I am really thrilled to be here today, and very excited, as I know all of you must be, that Mrs. Gorbachev could join us. 非常感谢您，基奥汉校长。戈尔巴乔夫夫人、董事会成员、教职员工、各位家长，当然还有朱莉娅·波特——学生会主席，以及我新结识的挚友克里斯汀·比克内尔——当然，还有1990届的毕业生们。我今天真的非常高兴来到这里，也非常激动，我知道你们所有人也一定都很激动，因为戈尔巴乔夫夫人能够与我们一同出席。
These are exciting times. They're exciting in Washington, and I have really looked forward to coming to Wellesley. I thought it was going to be fun. I never dreamt it would be this much fun. So, thank you for that. 这是一个激动人心的时代。在华盛顿是这样，我也一直期待着来到韦尔斯利学院。我原以为这会很有趣，但从未想到会如此有趣。所以，谢谢你们。
More than ten years ago, when I was invited here to talk about our experiences in the People's Republic of China, I was struck by both the natural beauty of your campus and the spirit of this place. 十多年前，当我受邀来到这里讲述我们在中国的经历时，我被你们校园的自然美景和这里的精神所打动。
Wellesley, you see, is not just a place but an idea -- an experiment in excellence in which diversity is not just tolerated, but is embraced. The essence of this spirit was captured in a moving speech about tolerance given last year by a student body president of one of your sister colleges. She related the story by Robert Fulghum about a young pastor, finding himself in charge of some very energetic children, hits upon the game called "Giants, Wizards, and Dwarfs." 韦尔斯利，你知道的，不仅仅是一个地方，而是一种理念——一场追求卓越的实验，在这个实验中，多样性不仅被容忍，而且被拥抱。这种精神的精髓体现在去年一所姐妹学院的学生会主席关于宽容的感人演讲中。她讲述了罗伯特·富尔格姆的一个故事：一位年轻的牧师发现自己要负责一群非常活跃的孩子，于是想到了一个叫做"巨人、巫师和矮人"的游戏。
"You have to decide now," the pastor instructed the children, "which you are -- a giant, a wizard, or a dwarf?" At that, a small girl tugging at his pants leg, asked, "But where do the mermaids stand?" And the pastor tells her there are no mermaids. And she says, "Oh yes there are -- they are. I am a mermaid." "你们现在必须决定，"牧师指导孩子们，"你们是什么——巨人、巫师还是矮人？"这时，一个小女孩拉着他的裤腿问："但是美人鱼站在哪里呢？"牧师告诉她没有美人鱼。她说："不，有的——她们存在。我就是一条美人鱼。"
Now this little girl knew what she was, and she was not about to give up on either her identity, or the game. She intended to take her place wherever mermaids fit into the scheme of things. "Where do the mermaids stand? All of those who are different, those who do not fit the boxes and the pigeonholes?" 现在，这个小女孩知道自己是谁，她不打算放弃自己的身份，也不打算放弃这个游戏。她打算在美人鱼适合的任何地方找到自己的位置。"美人鱼站在哪里？所有那些与众不同的人，那些不适合任何盒子和分类的人？"
"Answer that question," wrote Fulghum, "And you can build a school, a nation, or a whole world." As that very wise young woman said, "Diversity, like anything worth having, requires effort -- effort to learn about and respect difference, to be compassionate with one another, to cherish our own identity, and to accept unconditionally the same in others." "回答这个问题，"富尔格姆写道，"你就能建立一所学校、一个国家或整个世界。"正如那位非常聪明的年轻女士所说："多样性，就像任何值得拥有的东西一样，需要努力——努力去了解和尊重差异，彼此同情，珍惜自己的身份，并无条件地接受他人同样的身份。"
You should all be very proud that this is the Wellesley spirit. Now I know your first choice today was Alice Walker -- guess how I know! -- known for The Color Purple. Instead you got me -- known for the color of my hair. Alice Walker's book has a special resonance here. At Wellesley, each class is known by a special color. For four years the Class of '90 has worn the color purple. Today you meet on Severance Green to say goodbye to all of that, to begin a new and a very personal journey, to search for your own true colors. 你们都应该为这是韦尔斯利精神而感到自豪。现在我知道你们今天的首选是爱丽丝·沃克——猜猜我怎么知道的！——她因《紫色》一书而闻名。但你们得到的是我——因头发颜色而闻名。爱丽丝·沃克的书在这里有特殊的共鸣。在韦尔斯利，每个班级都以一种特殊的颜色而闻名。90届学生四年来一直穿着紫色。今天，你们在塞弗伦斯绿地相聚，告别这一切，开始一段新的、非常个人化的旅程，去寻找你们自己真正的颜色。
In the world that awaits you, beyond the shores of Lake Waban, no one can say what your true colors will be. But this I do know: You have a first class education from a first class school. And so you need not, probably cannot, live a "paint-by-numbers" life. Decisions are not irrevocable. Choices do come back. And as you set off from Wellesley, I hope that many of you will consider making three very special choices. 在等待着你们的世界里，在瓦班湖的彼岸，没有人能说出你们真正的颜色会是什么。但我知道这一点：你们接受了一流学校的一流教育。因此，你们不必，也可能无法，过一种"按数字涂色"的生活。决定不是不可撤销的。选择可以重来。当你们从韦尔斯利出发时，我希望你们中的许多人会考虑做出三个非常特别的选择。
The first is to believe in something larger than yourself, to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time. I chose literacy because I honestly believe that if more people could read, write, and comprehend, we would be that much closer to solving so many of the problems that plague our nation and our society. 第一个选择是相信比自己更大的事物，参与我们这个时代的一些伟大理念。我选择扫盲事业，因为我真诚地相信，如果更多的人能够阅读、写作和理解，我们就会离解决困扰我们国家和社会的许多问题更近一步。
And early on I made another choice, which I hope you'll make as well. Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you're talking about life -- and life really must have joy. It's supposed to be fun. 很早以前，我做出了另一个选择，我希望你们也能做出同样的选择。无论你谈论的是教育、职业还是服务，你谈论的都是生活——生活确实必须有快乐。生活本应是有趣的。
One of the reasons I made the most important decision of my life, to marry George Bush, is because he made me laugh. It's true, sometimes we've laughed through our tears, but that shared laughter has been one of our strongest bonds. Find the joy in life, because as Ferris Bueller said on his day off, "Life moves pretty fast; and you don't stop and look around once in a while, you're going to miss it." 我做出人生中最重要决定的原因之一，就是嫁给乔治·布什，因为他让我笑了。这是真的，有时我们是含泪而笑，但这种共同的笑声是我们最牢固的纽带之一。在生活中寻找快乐吧，因为正如费里斯·布勒在他的休息日所说："生活过得很快；如果你不偶尔停下来看看周围，你会错过很多东西。"
(I'm not going to tell George you clapped more for Ferris than you clapped for George.) （我不会告诉乔治你们为费里斯鼓掌比为乔治鼓掌更多。）
The third choice that must not be missed is to cherish your human connections: your relationships with family and friends. For several years, you've had impressed upon you the importance to your career of dedication and hard work. And, of course, that's true. But as important as your obligations as a doctor, a lawyer, a business leader will be, you are a human being first. And those human connections --- with spouses, with children, with friends -- are the most important investments you will ever make. 第三个不能错过的选择是珍惜你们的人际关系：你们与家人和朋友的关系。几年来，你们一直被告知奉献和努力工作对你们的职业生涯有多重要。当然，这是真的。但作为一名医生、律师或商业领袖的责任无论多么重要，你首先是一个人。而这些人际关系——与配偶、孩子、朋友的关系——是你将做出的最重要的投资。
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent. 在你生命的尽头，你永远不会后悔没有多通过一次考试、多赢得一个裁决或多完成一笔交易。你会后悔没有花时间与丈夫、孩子、朋友或父母在一起。
We are in a transitional period right now -- fascinating and exhilarating times, learning to adjust to changes and the choices we, men and women, are facing. As an example, I remember what a friend said, on hearing her husband complain to his buddies that he had to babysit. Quickly setting him straight, my friend told her husband that when it's your own kids, it's not called babysitting. 我们现在正处于一个过渡时期——这是一个迷人而令人振奋的时代，学习适应变化以及我们男女所面临的选择。举个例子，我记得一位朋友说过，当她听到丈夫向他的朋友们抱怨说他不得不照看孩子时，她很快纠正了他，告诉他当孩子是你自己的时，这不叫照看孩子。
Now maybe we should adjust faster; maybe we should adjust slower. But whatever the era, whatever the times, one thing will never change: fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children, and you must hug your children, and you must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house. 也许我们应该适应得更快一些；也许我们应该适应得更慢一些。但无论什么时代，无论什么时期，有一件事永远不会改变：父亲和母亲，如果你有孩子，他们必须是第一位的。你必须给你的孩子读书，你必须拥抱你的孩子，你必须爱你的孩子。你作为一个家庭的成功，我们作为一个社会的成功，不取决于白宫里发生的事情，而取决于你家里发生的事情。
For over fifty years, it was said that the winner of Wellesley's annual hoop race would be the first to get married. Now they say, the winner will be the first to become a C.E.O. Both of those stereotypes show too little tolerance for those who want to know where the mermaids stand. So I want to offer a new legend: the winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream -- not society's dreams -- her own personal dream. 五十多年来，人们说韦尔斯利年度 hoop race 的获胜者将是第一个结婚的人。现在他们说，获胜者将是第一个成为首席执行官的人。这两种刻板印象都对那些想知道美人鱼站在哪里的人缺乏宽容。所以我想提出一个新的传说：hoop race 的获胜者将是第一个实现她梦想的人——不是社会的梦想——而是她自己的个人梦想。
And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse -- and I wish him well. 谁知道呢？在座的某个地方甚至可能有人有一天会追随我的脚步，作为总统的配偶主持白宫——我祝他好运。
Well, the controversy ends here. But our conversation is only beginning. And a worthwhile conversation it has been. So as you leave Wellesley today, take with you deep thanks for the courtesy and the honor you have shared with Mrs. Gorbachev and with me. 好了，争议到此结束。但我们的对话才刚刚开始。这是一次值得的对话。所以当你们今天离开韦尔斯利时，请带着对你们与戈尔巴乔夫夫人和我分享的礼遇和荣誉的深深感谢。
Thank you. God bless you. And may your future be worthy of your dreams. 谢谢你们。上帝保佑你们。愿你们的未来无愧于你们的梦想。