史蒂芬·弗莱 | 回忆自己的大学时光

Hello my name's Stephen Fry and I was at Queens' from '78 to '81. A very long time ago, but not  in the history of a very old college, a college I always felt large enough for one to be able  to lose oneself and small enough for there to be a genuine sense of specialness and family, I'll almost say.

大家好，我是史蒂芬·弗莱，1978年到1981年我在（剑桥大学）王后学院读书。虽然已经是很久以前了，但在一座历史悠久的学院前却显得很短，几乎可以这样说，我一直觉得这个学院大到足以让人迷失自我，小到足以让人有一种真正的特殊性和家庭感。

One recognizes one's fellow Queens' people everywhere and we all feel, I think, that we shared something rather special within Cambridge. There are many colleges and they all have different characters and histories and so forth.

在任何地方，人们都能人认出王后学院的校友，而且我们都认为我们学院和剑桥大学有很多相同的特别之处。这里的很多大学都有不同的特点和历史渊源等。

While Queens' is perhaps one of the most beautiful of all the colleges, I say this and I kind of mean it, that were it a brutalist 1960s series of breeze blocks and drippy concrete but with the same people and the same ethos, I would be quite happy to go there because that's what you take away with you.

王后学院也许是所有学院中最漂亮的之一，我这样说意思是，它不仅有上世纪60年代的野蛮主义的煤渣砖墙和混凝土地面，更有志同道合者和共同信仰，我会很高兴去那里，因为那就是吸引你的东西。

It's a place, Queens', that I think, faster than other colleges, has embraced the need to move on, to develop, to change. In my last year, we finally became a co-educational establishment, thank goodness.

我觉得，相比其他大学，王后学院更快地融入了发展，前进，改变的需要。大学的最后一年，王后学院终于完成了男女共校的创举，谢天谢地。

And through the recent years I've had the honour of being an Honorary Fellow of the college. I've  seen just how important the pastoral life, the happiness, the the balance, the fairness,  the equity, the diversity, all these words that can seem you know just like box-ticking words mean everything to the College.

近年，我很荣幸成为王后学院的荣誉院士。我看到田园生活、幸福、平衡、公正、平等、多样性是多么的重要，所有这些看起来你都知道的词，就像方框勾选词，对学院来说意味着一切。

Nobody, as far as I can tell, who runs the college , none of the Fellows,  nor the President himself have any wish other than for Queens' to be filled with people from all over Britain and indeed the world who, regardless of their backgrounds, have something to offer and  will be given something to offer by the College. 

据我所知，管理学院的人、研究员或者校长本人除了希望王后学院吸引来自英国各地乃至全世界的人之外没有其他愿望，无论这些人的背景如何，他们都能成就学院，而学院也将成就他们。

It's a warm, friendly, welcoming place. It has  room for for growth and that's what I found. I look back on my time at Queens' and I realise that when I arrived, I was a confused and weird and frightened person convinced that everybody around  me was smarter and had had access to some sort of lesson in how to live that I had never had.  

这是一个温暖、友好、热情的地方。它有成长的空间，这就是我所发现的。回顾我在王后学院的日子，当初来到这里时，我感到困惑，奇怪和害怕，觉得我周围的每个人都更聪明，而且在如何生活方面获得了某种教训，而我从未有过。  

But I discovered that I could find ways to express and fulfill myself and I was given permission,  as it were, to live as myself. The academic work, yes it was important, but it was part  of a whole package and that's what makes Queens' very, very special.

但我发现，我可以找到表达和实现自己的方法，我可以有自己生活。学术工作，它确实很重要，但它是只是大学的一部分，这就是王后学院非常、非常特别的地方。

If you're an alumnus like me,  or an alumna, then I urge you. If you feel that the College has made a difference in your life,  your personality and the way you look at the world and what the world has given to you  since your time there, if you feel maybe that you owe it something, you owe the College something. I feel that and I hope you will too and I hope you'll be very generous. All the best!

如果你和我一样是男校友，或者女校友，那么我敦促你。如果你觉得大学改变了你的生活、你的个性和你看待世界的方式，以及从你进大学以来世界给了你什么，如果你觉得你可能欠它一些东西，那就是你欠了大学一些东西。我能感受到这点，希望你也会，同时我也希望你能非常慷慨大方！祝你们一切顺利！