别放弃未来会更好毕业演讲
She may have lacked a home, but now this teen has top honors.
她也许是个无家可归的孩子,但是现在这个女孩拥有至高无上的荣誉。
A 17-year-old student who spent much of high school living bouncing around homeless shelters — and sometimes sleeping in her car — today graduated as valedictorian of her class at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County, Ga., just outside of Atlanta.
这个17岁的学生高中大部分时间都住在收容所,有时还得睡在车里。她就读于位于亚特兰大佐治亚州克莱顿县的查尔斯德鲁高中,今天作为所在班级的毕业生代表光荣毕业,并在毕业典礼上致告别辞。
Chelsea Fearce, who held a 4.466 GPA and scored 1900 on her SATs despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night,“I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on mats on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her graduation ceremony.
这位叫切尔西-菲尔斯的女孩高中绩点4.446,并在SAT考试中拿到1900分。高中期间,晚上收容所熄灯后她只能在用手机来学习,“我知道自己越来越强大。我无家可归。我的家人都睡在地板的垫子上,如果幸运的话,每天可以不止饱餐一顿。淋浴、食物和干净的衣服,这些对于我来说都是可望而不可及的`,” 菲尔斯在毕业演讲时说道。
Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day.“I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore,” she told WSBTV.
菲尔斯靠着对未来更好生活的向往克服了每天的困难。“我告诉自己不要放弃,因为未来会更好”,她对WSBTV新闻网的记者表示。
One of five children, Fearce's family sometimes had an apartment to live in, but at other times had to live in homeless shelters or even out of their car, if they had one.
菲尔斯家里一共有5个孩子,有时一家人还有公寓可以住,但有时不得不住在流浪收容所甚至车里(如果有车的话)。
“You’re worried about your home life and then worried at school. Worry about being a little hungry sometimes, go hungry sometimes. You just have to deal with it. You eat what you can, when you can.”
“你要担心家庭生活,甚至在学校的时候也会。还要担心有时会挨点饿,有时会很饿。你只能这样,有吃的时候就赶快吃。”
Miraculously, Fearce overcame the odds and even tested high enough to enroll in college classes half way through her high school career. She starts college next year at Spelman College as a junior where she is planning to study biology, pre-med.
菲尔斯奇迹般地克服了这种困境,甚至在高中才上到一半的时候就取得了足以进入大学的成绩。明年她就将作为一名大学新生就读于斯贝尔曼学院,开始大学生活,她计划在医学预科学习生物。
“Don’t give up. Do what you have to do right now so that you can have the future that you want,” Fearce said.
“不要放弃。现在就做你应该做的,这样你就会拥有梦想中的未来。” 菲尔斯说。
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