Lee Academy 校园活动——2019届毕业典礼Josh Holt校长致辞（节选）

　　On behalf of Lee Academy in the US, all of our teachers and staff, I would like to welcome all of you to the second American Lee Academy International School graduation.

　　亲爱的家长朋友们，亲友们，教职工领导同志们，教员及我们尊敬的来宾朋友，还有最为重要的美国Lee Academy高级中学的毕业班同学们，欢迎来到我们第二届毕业典礼。

　　Imagine, when your children arrived at ALAIS, they entered as young caterpillars, crawling on tree branches and leaves, exploring the world but not certain where it would lead.

　　想象一下，当您的孩子们到达ALAIS时，他们就好比一只只幼小的毛毛虫，在树枝和树叶上爬行，探索这个神奇的世界，但不确定它会通向哪里。

　　 Throughout their education at ALAIS, the grew exponentially as they ate from the trees of knowledge, matured under the light of wisdom, and then spun a cocoon around themselves, where they soaked in the knowledge and wisdom and experiences of their lives and education until they have reached this moment.

　　在ALAIS的整个教育过程中，他们从知识之树中进食，在智慧之光下成长，然后在ALAIS的熏陶下，慢慢结成一个个茧，在那里他们沉浸在知识和智慧之中，并不断的从ALAIS的生活和教育吸取经验，直到此刻。

　　This evening is a not only the official declaration that our students are graduates of American Lee Academy International School of Shanghai; it is the celebration of these young men and women – once caterpillars, then enclosed in a cocoon – who are, this very evening, breaking through their cocoons as beautiful, strong, and adventurous butterflies, fully prepared to spread their wings and fly off into the great futures they have before them.

　　今晚不仅仅是正式宣布我们的学生从美国Lee Academy高级中学（上影校区）毕业; 更是庆祝Lee的毕业生们破茧而出，成为一只只美丽，勇敢和具有冒险精神的蝴蝶们，你们将展翅高飞，冲向属于你们无限可能的未来。

　　Before I formally pronounce these young men and women graduates of ALAIS, I would like to share a selection from one of my favorite poems, a poem that captures this moment as a moment of beginning a new journey in life.

　　在我正式宣布ALAIS的学子们毕业生之前，我想分享一首我最喜欢的诗之节选，这首诗把这一刻描绘成开始人生新旅程的时刻。

　　From “Songs of the Open Road,” by Walt Whitman

　　Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,

　　Healthy, free, the world before me,

　　The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.

　　Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,

　　Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,

　　Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,

　　Strong and content I travel the open road.

　　The earth, that is sufficient,

　　沃尔特惠特曼的《开放之路之歌》

　　我轻松愉快走上大路，

　　我健康自由，世界在我面前，

　　长长褐色的大路在我面前，指向我想去的任何地方。

　　从此我不再希求好运气，我自己就是好运气，

　　从此我不再抱怨，不再迟疑，什么也不需要，

　　消除了闷在屋里的晦气，放下了书本，摆脱了苛刻的责难，

　　我强壮满足，迈步走上大路。

　　大地，有它就足够了，

　　On behalf of Lee Academy, and ALAIS teachers and staff, I now formally pronounce these young men and women graduates of American Lee Academy International School of Shanghai!

　　我现在代表Lee Academy和ALAIS的教职工全体成员正式宣布美国Lee Academy高级中学（上影校区）2019届毕业生正式毕业！