2023年美国国务卿克里在波士顿学院毕业典礼上英语演讲稿.docx

此资料由网络收集而来，如有侵权请告知上传者立即删除。资料共分享，我们负责传递知识。 美国国务卿克里在波士顿学院2023年毕业典礼上英语演讲稿 　　Your Eminence Cardinal O’Malley, Father President Leahy, Father Monan, Father Devino, members of the faculty, my fellow recipients of honorary degrees, parents, siblings, and the distinguished class of 2023: Congratulations to everybody here today. 　　You know I thought I had a lot to worry about as I was listening to the introduction, betweenAfghanistan and Iran and so forth. But now I’m worried about where Challenger is. (Laughter.)I will leave here knowing that Boston College liberates eagles. (Laughter.) 　　It’s a great honor to be with you. You all might remember from English class that the greatAmerican novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can’t go home again. Or maybe you know thatquote because it’s the same thing that your parents are telling you now. (Laughter.) 　　Well, Wolfe had obviously never been to Boston College. It is nice to be off an airplane, but myfriends, it is great to be home. I am really happy to be here. (Applause and cheers.) 　　I know that many of you stayed up all night so you could see your last sunrise at BC. (Cheers.)Some of you thought it would never come, graduation that is. I’ve got news for you: Some ofyour parents and professors didn’t think so either. (Laughter.) 　　Now, I notice a lot of you are wearing shades. It won’t work, folks. I’ll still hear you snoring. (Laughter.) 　　I was on the campus of one of your rivals yesterday in New Haven. And while I let them knowthat they could be proud of their title in men’s hockey last year, I also had to put it inperspective: Yale is still four titles behind BC. (Cheers and applause.) 　　There are many things actually that Yale and Boston College have in common, but one isprobably the most powerful: mutual dislike of Harvard. (Laughter.) Although to be fair,hundreds of schools don’t like Harvard very much. 　　As Secretary of State, I track many factions and rivalries around the world. BC versus NotreDame is at the top of my list. Of course, there’s also Alec Baldwin versus the NYPD. (Laughter.)Beyonce’s sister versus Jay Z. (Laughter and cheers.) And then there’s the rivalry: Red Soxand Yankees. (Cheering and applause.) We absolutely loved the last ten years: Yankees – oneWorld Series, and Red Sox – three. That’s my kind of rivalry, folks. (Cheers.) 　　Now BC reminds us today that though rivalries can be overcome, here today you have honoreda Holy Cross alumnus, the great Bob Cousy, who, as you heard earlier in his degreepresentation, won 117 games at Boston when he was coaching here. Eighty-five years old andthe Celtics could have used him this year. (Laughter.) 　　So we have with us today a great legend, but most importantly an amazing person, anamazing player, and three other extraordinary builders of community, all of whom I am veryhonored to share degrees with today. Their lives and their selfless service are testimony to thefact that Boston College is an amazing place. 　　Over the past years, you have all been blessed to experience a special quality that has alwaysdefined BC: the welcoming spirit of this community. That has been a distinguishingcharacteristic of Boston College since its first days, when it opened its doors to Irishimmigrants and Catholics who were barred from other schools. 　　When I came here more than 40 years ago, I want you to know that I felt that welcomefirsthand. I had, as you heard, served in war, and when I came home, I worked to end it. It wasa turbulent time – for our country, for me personally. It was a time of division anddisillusionment. 　　But because of one thoughtful man of conscience, one member of the Boston Collegecommunity, I found a home right here. 　　Many of you today might not even recognize the name of Father Robert Drinan. He was thedean of the Law School and he was running for Congress when I first visited him on thecampus. 　　And what impressed me most about Father Drinan – whether on Chestnut Hill or Capitol Hill –was that he made no apologies for his deep and abiding Catholic commitment to the weak, thehelpless, the downtrodden. 　　〞;If a person is really a Christian,〞; Father Drinan would say, “;they will be in anguish over globalhunger, injustice, over the denial of educational opportunity.〞; 　　In fact, it was Father Drinan who encouraged me to study law at BC, even when it wasn’t theobvious path. I had come to law school from a different background than my classmates. I’dserved in the Navy, just turned 30, and had a young family. 　　And because of where I’d been and what I’d seen, I came to Boston College with a set ofnagging questions. I had confronted my own mortality head-on during the war, where faithwas as much a part of my daily life as the battle itself. In fact, I wore my rosary around myneck hoping for protection. 　　But on closer examination, I realized my wartime r