Thank you so much for inviting me. The senior class committee.非常感谢你们邀请我。

感谢大四学生会。

It's genuinely one of the most exciting thing I've ever been asked to do.这真是我被邀请过的最令人兴奋的一件事。

I have to admit primarily because I can't deny it.我不得不承认，这主要是因为我没法儿否认它。

As it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that when I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email :"wow this is so nice."因为维基解密公布的索尼被黑资料中爆出了我受邀之时的邮件回复：“哇哦，这真是太棒了。

”"I'm gonna need some funny ghost writers, any ideas?"“我得去物色几个搞笑代笔啊，你有啥建议么？”This initial response now blessedly public with from the knowledge at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrell as class speaker, and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high, mainly wanted to laugh.这段人尽皆知的最初回复背后的原因是我们毕业日时有幸请到了威尔法瑞尔做演讲，当时我们中的大多数都宿醉未醒，或刚开始嗨起来，于是只想笑。

So I have to admit that today, even twelve years after graduation. I'm still insecure about my own worthiness.所以我不得不承认，即使是在毕业十二年后的今天，我依然对自己的价值毫无自信。

I have to remind myself today you are here for a reason.我不得不提醒自己，今天你在这里是有原因的。

Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard as a freshman in 1999 when you guys were to make continued shock and horror still in kindergarten.今天的感觉很像我在1999年来到哈佛大学时那样，对此我很震惊，因为你们那时还在上幼儿园。

I felt like there'd been some mistake that I wasn't smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I open my mouth I would have to prove I wasn't just a dumb actress.我感觉一定有哪儿弄错了，我的智商根本不配来这里，每次我开口说话都必须证明我不只是一个愚蠢的女演员。

So I start with an apology, this won't be very funny.所以我得先道歉，这个演讲并不是很有趣。

I'm not a comedian and I didn't get a ghost writer.我不是一个喜剧演员，我也没有找代笔。

But I am here to tell you today Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow.但今天我在这里告诉你，哈佛明天会给你们所有人发文凭。

You are here for a reason.你们在这里是有原因的。

Sometimes your insecurities and you're an experienced may lead you to embrace other people's expectations, standards or values.有时你的不自信和缺乏经验会使你接受别人的期望，标准或价值观。

But you can harness that inexperience to carve out here path one that is free the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.但你们要知道，无经验可以造就你自己的路，一条没有“事情应该怎么做的负担”的路，一条由自己的理由来定义的路。

The other day I went to an amusement park with my soon to be four-year-old son and I watched him play arcade games.有一天我和我快四岁大的儿子去了游乐园，我看着他玩街机游戏。

He was incredibly focused, throwing his ball at the target.他非常专注的把球往靶子上扔。

Jewish mother that I am, I skipped twenty steps, and was already imagining him as a major league player.作为一名犹太母亲，我跳过20个步骤，已经开始想象他是一个大联盟的球员。

With what is his aim and his arm and his concentration, but then I realized what he want.头球精准，手臂健壮，全神贯注，但是后来我意识到了他想要的是什么。

He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toys.他玩这个是为了得到票以换取那些粗劣的塑料玩具。

The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it.奖品远比游戏过程令人兴奋。

I of course want to urge him to take joy and the challenge if the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game's goals.我当然想敦促他享受游戏的欢乐和挑战，在练习中进步，表现优越而获得满足感，甚至是在达到游戏目标时的成就感。

But all these aspects were shaded by the little ten-cent plastic man, with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls.但所有这些方面都被十美分的塑料小人玩具给遮盖了，它有着可以粘在墙壁上的蓝色手臂。

That was the prize.这就是所谓奖品。

In a child's nature, we see many of our innate tendencies.从一个孩子的天性中，我们看到了我们许多与生俱来的倾向。

I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.我在他身上看到了自己，也许你们也看到了自身。

Prizes serve as false idols everywhere, prestige, wealth, fame, power.奖品作为虚假偶像无处不在，声誉，财富，名声，力量。

You will be exposed to many of these, if not all.你将会接触到很多，至少也会碰到几个。

Of course part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I've recruited some very coveted toys in my life, including a not so plastic, not so crappy one, an Oscar.当然今天我被邀请来演讲的部分原因除了我是一个骄傲的女校友外，是因为我在人生中收集了一些非常令人垂涎的玩具，不像塑料那么廉价，也不那么蹩脚，一座奥斯卡小金人。

So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not are not always to be trusted.我们通常在毕业典礼演讲上碰到的烦心事那就是取得了许多成功的人告诉你成功的果实并不总是值得信任。

But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and in fact instructed.但是我认为矛盾实际上是可以协调的，并且具有教导意义。

Achievement is wonderful when you know why you're doing it.成就是美好的，当你知道你为什么这么做的时候。

And when you don't know, it can be a terrible trap.如果你不知道，它就可能变成可怕的陷阱。

I went to a public high school on Long Island. Syosset high school. Ooh, Hello Syosset.我念的是长岛的公立高中。