近日，一位中國留學(xué)生在美國電影學(xué)院（American Film Institute，簡稱AFI）畢業(yè)典禮上的一段演講在網(wǎng)絡(luò)上熱傳。

這名中國留學(xué)生名叫孔樂琪 （Vanessa），是AFI編劇專業(yè)的學(xué)生。這段演講出自AFI今年8月份畢業(yè)典禮，當(dāng)時贏得臺上臺下陣陣掌聲和笑聲。

當(dāng)天，除她之外發(fā)言的都是獲得榮譽博士的業(yè)界大牛。

比如《教父》三部曲的美術(shù)指導(dǎo)迪安·塔沃拉里斯 （Dean Tavoularis）、曾獲金球獎終身成就獎的演員·福斯特 （Joie Foster），還有AFI校長李察·N·格萊德斯坦 （Richar N. Glastein） 等。
但樂琪充滿自信，妙語連珠，當(dāng)著眾多好萊塢大咖的面毫不怯場。
演講一開始，孔樂琪就幽默了一把。她不僅調(diào)侃外國人很難讀對中文名，還介紹了自己英文名的由來，拿德普“開涮 ” ：

Thank you so much Mr. Glastein for pronouncing my name right. Or at least trying to.

感謝格萊德斯坦先生念對了我的中文名，您真的盡力了。

I chose the name Vanessa when I was 13 years ol an maly in love with Johnny Depp,whose wife at the time was Vanessa Parais. Who woul have thought that 15 years later,I woul be here in Hollywoo. An Mr. Depp woul be entrenche in a very serious rock'n'roll career an ivorce twice,which means I have a chance now. At least he wouln't have to change that "Vanessa Forever" tattoo.

我十三歲時選了凡妮莎這個名字，因為我超愛約翰尼·德普，他當(dāng)時的妻子是凡妮莎·帕拉迪絲。誰能想到15年后我來到了好萊塢，德普先生卻把搖滾玩得風(fēng)生水起，還離了兩次婚，現(xiàn)在我的機會來了，而且他連那個 “摯愛凡妮莎”的文身都不用改。她還機智地找了個由頭，讓自己的名字和大名鼎鼎的·福斯特同框出現(xiàn)：

So Vanessa Kong is not my real name. Just like Dr. Joie Foster,whose real name is Alicia Christian Foster.

凡妮莎·孔不是我的真名，就像·福斯特教授一樣，她的真名是艾麗西亞·克里斯汀·福斯特。

I just couln't resist. This is probably the only chance I have to put my name an Dr. Foster's in the same sentence. I'm sorry. But not really.

我真的控制不住我自己，這可能是唯一一次機會，能讓我和福斯特教授的名字出現(xiàn)在一句話里。我為此道歉，但這真是太爽了！

除了各種抖包袱外，她也動情回憶了在AFI和同學(xué)們度過的美好時光，畫風(fēng)同樣詼諧幽默！

Never in my life have I imagine I coul be in an environment where we celebrate our ifferences,an fin our voices through the conservatory itself.Our obsessive-compulsive proucing family,our self-loving irecting family,our very sexy cinematography family,our paint-speckle prouction esign family,our pasty-face eiting family,an my brilliant,beautiful,employable screenwriting family.

我這輩子都沒有想過自己能身處這樣一個環(huán)境，這里鼓勵大家展示出不同之處，在學(xué)習(xí)中找到自己的聲音：制片系是強迫癥集中營，導(dǎo)演系的自戀狂堆成山，抵死性感的攝影系，油彩斑斑的美術(shù)系，面無血色的剪輯系，以及我們杰出、迷人、一心搬磚的編劇系。

conservatory [k?n's?rv?.t?ri]：n. 音樂（或戲劇）?？茖W(xué)校（或?qū)W院），溫室

孔樂琪就讀的美國電影學(xué)院 （AFI） 占據(jù)著好萊塢的有利位置，號稱電影人的搖籃。

校友都是電影行業(yè)的大咖，比如：

當(dāng)代美國非主流電影的代表人物大衛(wèi)·林奇 （Davi Lynch），他可是戛納電影節(jié)金棕櫚獎、威尼斯電影節(jié)終身成就金獅獎等國際大獎的得主

還有執(zhí)導(dǎo)過《黑天鵝》等多部影響深遠(yuǎn)電影的達(dá)倫·阿倫諾夫斯基（Darren Aronofsky）。

而今年代表全校同學(xué)做畢業(yè)演講的孔樂琪，是第一位站上AFI畢業(yè)典禮演講臺的中國留學(xué)生。可以說十分優(yōu)秀了！

孔樂琪的演講風(fēng)趣幽默，語言生動，是很好的學(xué)習(xí)素材。一起來看看雙語版本吧！
Goo morning,everyone! 各位早上好！
Can you believe this is happening? We’re finally grauating. 不敢相信這一天終于到了，我們終于要畢業(yè)啦！
Thank you so much Mr. Glastein for pronouncing my name right. Or at least trying to. It is a har name to pronounce for non-native speakers. That’s why in the US,I go by Vanessa. 感謝格萊德斯坦先生念對了我的中文名，或者說至少盡力念了。對于非中文母語的人來說，我的名字很難念。這就是為什么我在美國叫凡妮莎。
So Vanessa Kong is not my real name. Just like Dr. Joie Foster,whose real name is Alicia Christian Foster. I just couln't resist. This is probably the only chance I have to put my name an Dr. Foster's in the same sentence. I'm sorry. But not really. 凡妮莎·孔不是我的真名，就像·福斯特教授一樣，她的真名是艾麗西亞·克里斯汀·福斯特。我真的控制不住我自己，這可能是唯一一次機會，能讓我和福斯特教授的名字出現(xiàn)在一句話里。我為此道歉，但這真是太爽了！
I chose the name Vanessa when I was 13 years ol an maly in love with Johnny Depp,whose wife at the time was Vanessa Parais. Who woul have thought that 15 years later,I woul be here in Hollywoo. An Mr. Depp woul be entrenche in a very serious Rock 'n' roll career an ivorce twice,which means I have a chance now. An he oesn’t have to change that "Vanessa Forever" tattoo. 我十三歲時選了凡妮莎這個名字，因為我超愛約翰尼·德普，他當(dāng)時的妻子是凡妮莎·帕拉迪絲。誰能想到15年后我來到了好萊塢，德普先生卻把搖滾玩得風(fēng)生水起，還離了兩次婚，現(xiàn)在我的機會來了，而且他連那個 “摯愛凡妮莎”的文身都不用改。
It is a great honor to give this speech. An honor I on't think I fully eserve. Even though this is,technically,a Chinese theatre an I am Chinese. 能夠站在這里演講是莫大的榮幸，我不敢說自己當(dāng)之無愧。雖然這里恰好是一個中國劇院，而我是一個中國人。（注：舉行畢業(yè)典禮的場館名叫好萊塢TCL中國大劇院，TCL Chinese Theatre）
Part of the reason I'm staning here is because I receive massive assistance from my Chinese fellows. That's 20 percent of the AFI population right there,which is pretty much the same percentage of Chinese people in the worl. Take my wor for it. I'm Chinese. I'm goo at math. It is true. We are taking over everything… one film school at a time. 我之所以能站在這里要歸功于我非常給力的中國同學(xué)，畢竟AFI百分之二十的學(xué)生都來自中國。差不多是中國人口占世界人口的比例了。相信我，我是中國人，數(shù)學(xué)很好的。這是真的，我們快要掌控一切了，一次搞定一家電影學(xué)院。
Jokes asie,the class of 2018 is a celebration of iversity. We are from all over the worl. From Norway to South Africa,from the Philippines to Israel,to some of the most exotic places in the worl: Molova,whatever that is; Georgia — the country,not the state,right Michael? An as far away as San Fernano Valley. Di I say that right,Mr. Seaka? 不開玩笑了。2018屆畢業(yè)生擁有多元化的文化背景，我們來自世界各地。從挪威到南非，從菲律賓到以色列，以及全球最具異域風(fēng)情的地區(qū)：摩爾多瓦——哎，管它是哪兒！還有格魯吉亞，那是個國家，不是一個州，我說得對吧麥克？還有遙遠(yuǎn)的圣費爾南多谷，我念對了嗎薩達(dá)卡先生？
My pathetic knowlege of worl geography an culture can barely make up for my ignorance. 我的世界地理文化知識真是少得可憐，基本彌補不了我的無知。
I remember when I first arrive at AFI two years ago,I was so in awe of everyone,everything. The majestic builing,these beautiful talente people way out of my league. I kept wonering if they mae a mistake amitting me. Maybe they thought I can pay my tuition because I'm some sort of crazy rich Asian — which is not the case. I mean I'm crazy all right,but I'm eabroke,just like my fellows. 我記得兩年前剛到AFI的時候，我對每個人、每件事都充滿敬畏。那莊嚴(yán)宏偉的建筑，集高顏值和才華于一身的同學(xué)，簡直和我不是一個次元的！我琢磨是不是學(xué)校搞錯了，居然讓我混了進(jìn)來。估計他們是覺得我是個瘋狂的、能付得起學(xué)費的亞洲土豪吧。有沒有搞錯！我承認(rèn)我很瘋狂，但是我可和其他同學(xué)一樣窮得叮當(dāng)響哇。

out of my league：比自己優(yōu)越很多的人

broke：一文不名的；破產(chǎn)的

So for a while the first year,I was in a constant state of anxiety. I in’t know how to make friens. An I woul always stay at home an isolate. But that situation change immeiately after we starte our cycle one shoot. 在第一學(xué)年，有段時間，我一直很焦慮。我不知道怎么交朋友，總是呆在家里、與世隔絕。但是這種情形在我們完成第一次攝制作業(yè)后，就立刻好轉(zhuǎn)了。
You know what transcens all linguistic an cultural barriers? Hunger an sleep eprivation.We barely ha time for the essential things in life after we starte cycle one. We in't have coffee on campus,an salas on foo trucks cost 80 ollars. It was super easy to make friens. 你知道有什么能超越一切語言和文化壁壘？是饑餓和缺覺！當(dāng)我們拍攝時，吃飯和睡覺時間少之又少。校園里沒有咖啡，快餐車的沙拉要賣80美元……這種情況下，交朋友簡直太容易了！
"Hey,I'm starving! Do you wanna go out an grab some foo?" “我餓死了！出去吃點兒什么吧！”
"Sure." “好?。　?br>An then we're friens. 然后大家就是朋友了。
I suspect this is a eliberate strategy of the aministration — a tough love kin of eal,because collaboration is hel so high at AFI. An what is the most efficient way to force a bunch of ambitious prou young artists to bon? Structure,iscipline-specific,accreite torture. 我懷疑一切都是學(xué)校有意為之，大概是所謂嚴(yán)厲的愛吧。在AFI，我們要時刻高舉團隊合作的大旗。有什么辦法能最有效率地團結(jié)一群雄心勃勃、驕傲的年輕藝術(shù)家呢？那就是有組織、有紀(jì)律、有許可地折磨他們。
It is goo that we have a cafe on campus now,thanks to Mr. Glastein. Next step is lobbying for something with a Michelin star. 還好我們現(xiàn)在有咖啡店了，這多虧了格萊德斯坦先生！下一步是游說他們引進(jìn)米其林星級餐廳。

lobby：游說

But seriously,we have benefite immensely from the collaboration we've ha for the past two years. An I'm so grateful for all my classmates. The searing agony of collaboration mae us a sort of family. 說真的，在過去兩年的合作中，我們受益匪淺。我對班上的同學(xué)充滿了感激之情，痛苦的合作與磨合，讓我們成為了一家人。
Never in my life have I imagine I coul be in an environment where we celebrate our ifferences,an fin our voices through the conservatory itself. Our obsessive-compulsive proucing family,our self-loving irecting family,our very sexy cinematography family,our paint-speckle prouction esign family,our pasty-face eiting family,an my brilliant,beautiful,employable screenwriting family. 我這輩子都沒有想過自己能身處這樣一個環(huán)境，這里鼓勵大家展示出不同之處，在學(xué)習(xí)中找到自己的聲音。制片系是強迫癥集中營，導(dǎo)演系的自戀狂扎堆，無比性感的攝影系，油彩斑斑的美術(shù)系，面無血色的剪輯系，以及我們杰出、迷人、一心搬磚的編劇系。

One of the screenwriting rules I learne from my secon-year feature mentor,who shall remain nameless — Mr. Stan Chervin — completely altere my view on life. He sai,an I quote,"There shoul be only one shtup scene in the screenplay. A secon shtup only unermines the first."Now for people who on't speak Yiish,"shtup" is slang for sex. An for the benefits of our Chinese parents,我們結(jié)婚以后才能做的事情就是shtup. I tol them "shtup" means the activity we o for the first time after guests leave on our weing night.

我從研二電影編劇導(dǎo)師那里學(xué)到了一條劇本創(chuàng)作的原則——我就不說他的名字了——斯坦·切爾文先生，他徹徹底底地改變了我的人生觀。我引用一下他的話，“香艷場景在劇本里只能出現(xiàn)一次，第二次只會削弱第一次的效果?！?不會意第緒語的朋友們，“shtup”的意思就是sex。為了能讓我們中國父母聽懂，（中文）我們結(jié)婚以后才能做的事情就是shtup。我剛剛對他們說，shtup就是婚宴當(dāng)晚賓客散去后，夫妻才會做的運動。

Ever since I hear this from Stan,I just couln't get over how profoun this rule is. I mean,think about it. A great shtup scene in a script is a significant life-changing moment that only happens once.Just like our time here at AFI,it is meaningful,elicate an perfect in its singularity. It shoul be cherishe an harnesse.

自從聽了斯坦教授這句話，我總是忍不住想這真是太深刻了。我的意思是試想一下，劇本里面的香艷場景，那是能改變?nèi)松闹匾獣r刻，只會出現(xiàn)一次。正如我們在AFI度過的時光，那樣意義非凡，美妙動人，也因只有一次而完美無比。我們要珍惜和好好利用這段時光。

We've ha these two years to fin our voices,to buil our craft,to experiment,to be crazy,to fail an cry,to lift each other back up,an ultimately to embrace our imperfections.So as we sit here,basking in the afterglow of our AFI shtup,like all goo shtups,we've one something right,we've one something embarrassingly wrong. But now it is time for us,class of 2018,to get out there,an show Hollywoo how we,AFI fellows,shtup!

兩年時間，我們尋找自己的心聲，創(chuàng)作作品，反復(fù)嘗試，瘋狂過，失敗過，大哭過，我們相扶相守，最終擁抱接納了自己的不完美。我們坐在這里，回味著在AFI的香艷時光。就像所有美妙瞬間一樣，我們做過正確的事情，也犯過非常尷尬的錯誤。2018屆畢業(yè)生們，現(xiàn)在是時候沖出去，讓好萊塢見識見識，我們AFI的學(xué)生，是多么香艷！

Thank you very much!

謝謝大家！

【微語】祝你在國外的留學(xué)之旅順利，學(xué)有所成，前程似錦。