Good morning, dear graduates, faculty, and beloved families.
(各位毕业生、各位师长、各位亲友,上午好。)
Today we gather within these stone walls of the Main Quadrangle, beneath the summer sun, not to celebrate an end— but to honor the beginning of a lifelong journey.
For these past years, you have wrestled with hard ideas, kept watch through countless quiet nights in our libraries, and stood firm in rigorous debate.
You have learned to sit with doubt, to challenge assumptions, and to resist the lure of simple, convenient answers. That is the spirit of this university.
(过去数年,你们与艰深的命题对峙,在图书馆无数寂静长夜中坚守,在激烈严谨的思辨里站稳立场。
你们学会与疑惑共处,敢于挑战固有成见,拒绝轻易接纳那些廉价、浅显的答案——这正是芝大的精神内核。)
What you take away from this place is far more than a parchment degree.