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Follow Your Intuition Sentence 1: Because for the first 25 years of our lives,we are trained to listen to voices that are not our own. Parents and professors fill our heads with wisdom and information, and then employers and mentors take their place and explain how this world really works. 因为在我们生命的头25年里，我们被训练成听取别人意见的机器，大脑被父母和教授们的智慧和信息所填满，雇主和导师们也会发挥他们的作用，好给我们解释世界如何运作。 Because I was repressing my own point of view, because like in that Nilsson song, 'Everybody was talking at me, so I couldn't hear the echoes of my mind' 因为我一直在压抑自己的观点，就像那首尼尔森的歌，“每个人都和我叽叽喳喳，而我却听不到自己内心的声音”。 be trained to 被训练做某事 fill sth. with sth. 用...填满... Fill in the blank with the words you hear in the following conversation. 请把听到的单词填到空白处。 wisdom (n.)智慧 wise (adj.)睿智的 It is a wise decison to study English. 学习英语是个明智的决定。 mentor (n.)导师 take sb's place 占据某人的地方 repress (v.)压抑 I repressed my desire to cry when I found my computer died and all my work was gone. 当我发现电脑死机了文件还没保存的时候，我克制住没有哭。 echo (n.)回音 Sentence 2: Your conscience shouts, 'here's what you should do,' while your intuition whispers, 'Here's what you could do.' Listen to that voice that tells you what you could do. Nothing will define your character more than that. 你的良心喊道：这是你应该做的。而你的直觉轻声细语说：这是你可以做的。请倾听那个告诉你可以做什么的声音，只有这个声音才能定义你自己。 conscience (n.)良心 Won't your conscience bother you even a little bit? 你的良心难道没有一点点困扰吗？ shout (v.)大喊 intuition (n.)直觉 I just had an intuition. It was him! He put poison in the water! 我有直觉，就是他在被害者的水中下毒了！ whisper (v.)低语 define (v.)定义 definition (n.)定义 Sentence 3: I hope all of you find that sense of mission. Don't turn away from what's painful. Examine it. Challenge it. 我希望你们都能找到使命感。不要逃避痛苦，审视它，质疑它。 You are the future innovators, motivators, leaders and caretakers. 你们是未来的创新者、推动者、领导者和关爱者。 sense of sth. 某种感觉 sense of humor/responsibility 幽默/责任感 I've got no sense of direction. 我没有方向感。 mission (n.)任务 turn away from 逃离/逃避 examine (v.)检查，审视 exam (n.)考试 challenge (v.&n.)挑战，质疑 innovator (n.)创新者 innovation (n.)创新 motivator (n.)推动者 motivate (v.)激发，激励 caretaker (n.)管理员，关爱者 Sentence 4: In your defining moments, do not let your morals be swayed by convenience or expediency. Sticking to your character requires a lot of courage. 在你的决定性时刻，不要让你的道德被眼前之事所左右。坚持自己的角色需要巨大的勇气。 defining (adj.)决定性的 sway (v.)摇摆，动摇 Thees swayed in wind. 树在风中摇曳。 convenience (n.)方便 expediency (n.)权宜之计，不得已而做的事 stick to sth. 坚持某事 require (v.)要求，需要 require sb. to do sth. 要求某人做某事 Don't require me to do anything, I have to listen to my intuition. 不要要求我做任何事，我得听听我内心得声音。 courage (n.)勇气 Sentence 5: The only answer to more hate is more humanity. We gotta repair -- we have to replace fear with curiosity. 'Us' and 'them' -- we'll find the 'we' by connecting with each other. And by believing that we're members of the same tribe. And by feeling empathy for ervry soul -- even Yalies. 憎恨得唯一答案是人性。我们必须修复这个世界，必须用好奇替代恐惧。我们可以通过连接“我们”和“他们”来找到彼此，坚信双方都属于同一个部落，并和每一个灵魂都产生共鸣。即使耶鲁的人也是如此。 humanity (n.)人类，人性，仁慈(=mercy) Show your humanity/mercy. 请您仁慈，高抬贵手。 gotta = have got to 必须，肯定 You gotta be kidding me. 你一定是在逗我。 repair (v.)修复 replace (v.)替换，替代 AI will never replace human being completely. 人工智能永远也不会完全取代人类。 connect with 与...建立联系 tribe (n.)部落 empathy (n.)共鸣，同情 feel empathy for sb. 与某人产生共鸣 亲身实践的重要性 Seeing is not enough. We should have a sense of mission. Go out there and make something happen. Because we are the future innovators, motivators, leaders and caretakers.
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