Yale President Peter Salovey: Caring for Our Neighbours
Graduates of the Class of 2020, family members, and friends: It is a privilege to be able to speak with you, even in this unusual way. I know you would rather be on campus — and I wish you could be here — but I am glad we can all do our part to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 and stay healthy.
2020届全体毕业生及其家人和朋友们： 我很荣幸能在此给大家讲话，尽管方式不同于以往。我深知你们更愿意到校园现场（我也希望你们能在这里），但我也为我们都各尽所能地减少新冠肺炎的传播，同时保持身体健康而深感欣慰。
This crisis has been a wake-up call for all of us. It has stretched health care systems to the breaking point. It has threatened economies, both household and global.
这场危机给我们大家敲响了警钟。它将医疗卫生系统逼近至崩溃的边缘；它威胁着我们的经济，小至家庭，大到全球。
And, like many tragedies, it has exposed the vast gulf between the most fortunate and the most vulnerable. Long after the pandemic itself has subsided, we will need to commit ourselves to finding new and creative solutions to these long-term problems.
和诸多悲剧相似，疫情暴露了最幸运和最弱势的群体之间的巨大鸿沟。 当这场全球大流行病最终退去，我们仍需致力于寻求解决这些长期存在的问题的创新方案。
It may be too early to say what we have learned from all of this. But at the least, we see more sharply than before our interdependence as a human community. Our deep levels of connection and need for one another are a weakness that infectious diseases exploit. But our interdependence is also a source of strength and vitality in uncertain times — indeed, all of the time.
现在要谈我们从中学到了什么或许为时过早，但至少有一点我们看得比以前更加清楚，那就是我们作为人类共同体的相互依存。我们之间深层次的连结和对彼此的需要成为了被传染病利用的弱点。但是，我们之间的相互依存也是这个不确定时期力量和活力的源泉，实际上，在任何时期皆是如此。
Many of us have found inspiration in the sacrifices of frontline hospital and health care workers; in the commitment of essential staff; and in the contributions of public health experts and legions of volunteers. All around us, we have seen ordinary people transformed into heroes.
从一线医院和医护人员的牺牲中，从坚守岗位的工作人员的尽职承诺中，从公共卫生专家和志愿者队伍的无私奉献中，我们许多人倍受鼓舞。我们亲眼见证一个个普通人变成了英雄。
When this crisis is over, this is the lesson I hope we will carry with us: That we must act with urgent concern and compassion for the neighbors we know personally and those we do not; for people down the street, and for those on the other side of the globe.
当这场危机结束后，我希望我们一起铭记这个教训：我们必须对我们认识和不认识的邻舍抱着同样迫切的关怀和同情，他们既包括你的街坊，也包括地球另一面的人。
Yet in the face of disappointment and hardship, you have remained committed to your studies. You have continued to invent, imagine, and create. You have stayed connected with friends and family members. You have rejected isolation in favor of community. You have strengthened the ties that bind us together as a university and as a human family.
然而，面对失望和困难，你们能不忘学业，坚持发明、想象和创造；你们与亲朋好友们紧密相连；你们拒绝孤立、拥抱社区。你们加强了我们作为一所大学和人类大家庭的联结。
And today, I encourage you to think of the Good Samaritan in a new light: not how great or amazing he was, but how ordinary he was. Life calls each of us, average human beings, to acts of extraordinary courage.
今天，我鼓励大家用一种全新的眼光来看待那位善良的撒玛利亚人（注：该故事出自《圣经·新约·路加福音》第10章25-37节），不是他有多伟大或多令人赞叹，而是他有多普通。生活召唤我们每个人，每一个普普通通的人，带着非凡勇气去行动。
These are no ordinary times. The world needs each of you, prepared to tackle whatever challenges come your way. I am confident that, with eyes open and hearts full of compassion, you will take Yale's mission of light and truth to neighbors near and far.
这不是普通的时代。世界需要你们每一个人，做好迎接前方任何挑战的准备。诸位视野开阔，满怀同情，我相信，你们将把耶鲁 “光明与真理” 的使命传递给咫尺与天涯的邻舍。
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