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1、U.S.EnergySecretaryStevenChu'saddressatHarvard’sAfternoonExercisesMadamPresidentFaust,membersoftheHarvardCorporationandtheBoardofOverseers,faculty,family,friends,and,mostimportantly,today’sgraduates,thankyouforlettingmesharethiswonderfuldaywithyou.IamnotsureIcanliv
2、euptothehighstandardsofHarvardCommencementspeakers.Lastyear,J.K.Rowling,thebillionairenovelist,whostartedasaclassicsstudent,gracedthispodium.Theyearbefore,BillGates,themega-billionairephilanthropistandcomputernerdstoodhere.Today,sadly,youhaveme.Iamnotwealthy,butatl
3、eastIamanerd.IamgratefultoreceiveanhonorarydegreefromHarvard,anhonorthatmeansmoretomethanyoumightcaretoimagine.Yousee,Iwastheacademicblacksheepofmyfamily.MyolderbrotherhasanM.D./Ph.D.fromMITandHarvardwhilemyyoungerbrotherhasalawdegreefromHarvard.WhenIwasawardedaNob
4、elPrize,Ithoughtmymotherwouldbepleased.Notso.WhenIcalledheronthemorningoftheannouncement,shereplied,“That’snice,butwhenareyougoingtovisitmenext.”Now,asthelastbrotherwithadegreefromHarvard,maybe,atlast,shewillbesatisfied.AnotherdifficultywithgivingaHarvardcommenceme
5、ntaddressisthatsomeofyoumaydisapproveofthefactthatIhaveborrowedmaterialfrompreviousspeeches.Iaskthatyouforgivemefortworeasons.First,inordertohaveimpact,itisimportanttodeliverthesamemessagemorethanonce.Inscience,itisimportanttobethefirstpersontomakeadiscovery,butiti
6、sevenmoreimportanttobethelastpersontomakethatdiscovery.Second,authorswhoborrowfromothersarefollowinginthefootstepsofthebest.RalphWaldoEmerson,whograduatedfromHarvardattheageof18,noted“Allmybestthoughtswerestolenbytheancients.”Picassodeclared“Goodartistsborrow.Great
7、artistssteal.”Whyshouldcommencementspeakersbeheldtoahigherstandard?Ialsowanttopointouttheironyofspeakingtograduatesofaninstitutionthatwouldhaverejectedme,hadIthechutzpahtoapply.Iammarriedto“DeanJean,”theformerdeanofadmissionsatStanford.Sheassuresmethatshewouldhaver
8、ejectedme,ifgiventhechance.WhenIshowedheradraftofthisspeech,sheobjectedstronglytomyuseoftheword“rejected.”Sheneverrejectedapplicants;herlettersst
