Học tiếng Anh qua bài phát biểu của Taylor Swif | Tự học IELTS Speaking | ELSA Speak — Transcript

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1. 0:00hi i'm taylor
2. 0:01[Applause]
3. 0:06last time i was in a stadium this size i
4. 0:09was dancing in heels and wearing a
5. 0:11glittery leotard
6. 0:15this outfit is much more comfortable
7. 0:19i would like to say
8. 0:20a huge thank you to nyu's chairman of
9. 0:23the board of trustees
10. 0:25bill berkley
11. 0:27and all the trustees
12. 0:29and members of the board
13. 0:30nyu's president andrew hamilton
14. 0:33provost catherine fleming
15. 0:37and the faculty and alumni here today
16. 0:40who have made this day possible
17. 0:42i feel so
18. 0:44proud to share this day
19. 0:46with my fellow honorees susan hockfield
20. 0:49and felix matos rodriguez
21. 0:52who humble me
22. 0:54with the ways they improve our world
23. 0:56with their work
24. 1:05as for me
25. 1:06i'm 90 sure the main reason i'm here is
26. 1:09because i have a song called 22
27. 1:20and let me just say
28. 1:22i am
29. 1:23elated
30. 1:24to be here with you today as we
31. 1:26celebrate and graduate
32. 1:28new york university's class of 2022
33. 1:40not a single one of us here today has
34. 1:42done it alone
35. 1:43we are each
36. 1:45a patchwork quilt of those who have
37. 1:47loved us
38. 1:48those who have believed in our futures
39. 1:51those who showed us empathy and kindness
40. 1:55or told us the truth even when it wasn't
41. 1:57easy to hear
42. 1:59those who told us we could do it when
43. 2:01there was absolutely no proof of that
44. 2:05someone
45. 2:06read stories to you
46. 2:08and taught you to dream
47. 2:10and offered up some moral code of right
48. 2:14and wrong for you to try and live by
49. 2:17someone tried their best to explain
50. 2:21every concept in this insanely complex
51. 2:23world to the child that was you
52. 2:26as you asked a bazillion questions like
53. 2:29how does the moon work and why can we
54. 2:32eat salad but not grass
55. 2:36and maybe they didn't do it perfectly
56. 2:38no one ever can
57. 2:41maybe they aren't with us anymore
58. 2:43in that case i hope you'll remember them
59. 2:45today
60. 2:46if they are in this stadium i hope
61. 2:48you'll find your own way
62. 2:50to express your gratitude for all the
63. 2:52steps
64. 2:54and missteps
65. 2:55that have led us
66. 2:57to this common destination
67. 3:07i know that words are supposed to be my
68. 3:09thing but i will never be able to find
69. 3:11the words to thank my mom and dad
70. 3:14my brother austin for the sacrifices
71. 3:16they made every day so i could go from
72. 3:18singing in coffee houses to standing up
73. 3:21here with you all today because no words
74. 3:24would ever be enough
75. 3:31to all the incredible parents family
76. 3:34members
77. 3:35mentors
78. 3:36teachers
79. 3:37allies
80. 3:38friends and loved ones here today who
81. 3:41have supported these students
82. 3:43in their pursuit of educational
83. 3:45enrichment
84. 3:47let me say to you now
85. 3:49welcome to new york
86. 3:51it's been waiting for you
87. 4:02i'd like to thank nyu for making me
88. 4:05technically
89. 4:07on paper at least
90. 4:10a doctor
91. 4:13[Applause]
92. 4:17not the type of doctor you would want
93. 4:19around in case of an emergency
94. 4:22unless your specific emergency was that
95. 4:25you desperately needed to hear a song
96. 4:27with a catchy hook and an intensely
97. 4:29cathartic bridge section
98. 4:37or if your emergency was that you needed
99. 4:40a person who can name over 50 breeds of
100. 4:43cats in one minute
101. 4:45[Applause]
102. 4:48i never got to have
103. 4:50a normal
104. 4:51college experience per se
105. 4:54i went to public high school until 10th
106. 4:55grade
107. 4:57and then finished my education doing
108. 4:59homeschool work on the floors of airport
109. 5:01terminals
110. 5:02then i went out out on the road for
111. 5:05radio tour which sounds
112. 5:07incredibly glamorous
113. 5:09but in reality
114. 5:10it consisted of a rental car
115. 5:13motels
116. 5:14and my mom and i pretending to have loud
117. 5:17mother-daughter fights with each other
118. 5:18during boarding so no one would want the
119. 5:21empty seat between us on southwest
120. 5:26as a kid
121. 5:28i always thought i would go away to
122. 5:29college
123. 5:30imagining the posters i would hang on
124. 5:33the wall of my freshman dorm
125. 5:35i even set the ending of my music video
126. 5:38from my song love story
127. 5:40at my fantasy
128. 5:42imaginary college where i meet a male
129. 5:45model reading a book on the grass and
130. 5:48with one
131. 5:49single glance we realized we had been in
132. 5:52love in our past lives
133. 5:56which is exactly what you guys all
134. 5:58experienced at some point in the last
135. 6:00four years right
136. 6:02[Applause]
137. 6:06but i
138. 6:07really can't complain
139. 6:08about not having a normal college
140. 6:10experience to you
141. 6:12because you
142. 6:14went to nyu during a global pandemic
143. 6:17being essentially locked into your dorms
144. 6:20and having to do classes over zoom
145. 6:23everyone in college during normal times
146. 6:25stresses about test scores but on top of
147. 6:28that
148. 6:30you also had to pass like a thousand
149. 6:32cova tests
150. 6:35i imagine
151. 6:36the idea of a normal college experience
152. 6:39was all you wanted to
153. 6:42but in this case
154. 6:44you and i both learned
155. 6:46that you don't always get all the things
156. 6:48in the bag that you selected from the
157. 6:50menu
158. 6:51in the delivery surface that is life
159. 6:54you get what you get
160. 6:57and as
161. 6:59i would like to say to you
162. 7:00wholeheartedly you should be very proud
163. 7:03of what you've done with it
164. 7:06today
165. 7:07you leave new york university
166. 7:10and then go out into the world
167. 7:12searching what's next
168. 7:14and so will i
169. 7:17[Music]
170. 7:24so as a rule
171. 7:26i try not to give anyone
172. 7:29unsolicited advice
173. 7:31unless they ask for it
174. 7:33i'll go into this more later i guess i
175. 7:36have been
176. 7:37officially solicited in this situation
177. 7:39to impart
178. 7:40whatever wisdom i might have to tell you
179. 7:43things that have helped me so far in my
180. 7:45life
181. 7:47please bear in mind that i in no way
182. 7:50feel qualified to tell you what to do
183. 7:53you've worked
184. 7:55and struggled and sacrificed and studied
185. 7:58and dreamed
186. 8:00your way here to dare
187. 8:02and so
188. 8:03you know what you're doing
189. 8:05you'll do things differently than i did
190. 8:07them
191. 8:08and for different reasons
192. 8:10so i won't tell you what to do because
193. 8:12no one likes that i will however
194. 8:15give you some life hacks i wish i knew
195. 8:18when i was starting out my dreams of a
196. 8:20career
197. 8:21and navigating life
198. 8:23love
199. 8:24pressure
200. 8:25choices
201. 8:26shame
202. 8:27hope and friendship
203. 8:30the first of which is
204. 8:32life
205. 8:33can be heavy
206. 8:35especially if you try to carry it all at
207. 8:37once
208. 8:40of growing up
209. 8:41and moving into new chapters of your
210. 8:43life
211. 8:44is about catch and release
212. 8:47what i mean by that is
213. 8:49knowing what things to keep
214. 8:51and what things to release
215. 8:53you can't carry all things
216. 8:56all grudges
217. 8:58all updates on your ex
218. 9:00all enviable promotions your school
219. 9:03bully got at the hedge fund his
220. 9:06uncle started
221. 9:09decide
222. 9:10what is yours to hold
223. 9:12and let the rest go
224. 9:14oftentimes the good things in your life
225. 9:17are lighter anyway
226. 9:18so there's more room for them
227. 9:21one toxic relationship
228. 9:23can outweigh so many wonderful simple
229. 9:26joys
230. 9:27you get to pick
231. 9:28what your life has time and room for
232. 9:32be discerning
233. 9:35secondly
234. 9:37learn to live
235. 9:38alongside
236. 9:40cringe
237. 9:45no matter
238. 9:46how hard you try to avoid being cringe
239. 9:50you will
240. 9:52look back on your life
241. 9:54and cringe retrospectively
242. 10:03cringe
243. 10:04is unavoidable over a lifetime
244. 10:07even the term cringe might someday be
245. 10:10deemed cringe
246. 10:12i promise you
247. 10:14you're probably doing or wearing
248. 10:16something right now that you will look
249. 10:19back on later and find revolting and
250. 10:21hilarious
251. 10:23you can't avoid it so don't try to
252. 10:26for example i had a phase where for the
253. 10:30entirety of 2012 i dressed like a 1950s
254. 10:34housewife
255. 10:37but you know what i was having fun
256. 10:39trends and phases are fun
257. 10:42looking back and laughing is
258. 10:44fun and while we're talking about things
259. 10:47that make us squirm but really shouldn't
260. 10:50i'd like to say i'm a big
261. 10:52advocate for not hiding your enthusiasm
262. 10:55for things
263. 11:05it seems to me that there is a false
264. 11:07stigma
265. 11:08around eagerness
266. 11:09in our culture of unbothered
267. 11:12ambivalence
268. 11:14this outlook perpetuates the idea that
269. 11:16it's not cool to want it
270. 11:18the people who don't try are
271. 11:20fundamentally more chic than people who
272. 11:23do
273. 11:24and i wouldn't know because i've been a
274. 11:25lot of things but i've never been an
275. 11:27expert on chic but i'm the one who's up
276. 11:30here so you have to listen to me when i
277. 11:32say this
278. 11:36never
279. 11:37be ashamed
280. 11:38of trying
281. 11:40effortlessness is a myth
282. 11:43the people who wanted it the least
283. 11:46were the ones i wanted to date and be
284. 11:49friends with
285. 11:50in high school
286. 11:52the people who want it the most
287. 11:54are the people i now hire to work for my
288. 11:57company
289. 12:05i write it's i started writing songs
290. 12:07when i was 12.
291. 12:08and since then it's been the compass
292. 12:11guiding my life and in turn
293. 12:13my life guided my writing
294. 12:16everything i do
295. 12:17is just
296. 12:18an extension of my writing whether it's
297. 12:21directing videos or a short film
298. 12:24creating the visuals for a tour
299. 12:26or standing on a stage performing
300. 12:29everything is connected
301. 12:31by my love of the craft
302. 12:33the thrill of working through ideas and
303. 12:35narrowing them down
304. 12:36and polishing it all up in the end
305. 12:39editing waking up in the middle of the
306. 12:41night throwing out the old idea because
307. 12:44you just thought of a newer better one
308. 12:45or a plot device that ties the whole
309. 12:47thing together
310. 12:49there's a reason they call it a hook
311. 12:51sometimes a string of words
312. 12:53just
313. 12:54ensnares me and i can't
314. 12:56focus on anything until it's been
315. 12:58recorded or written down
316. 13:01as a songwriter i've never been able to
317. 13:03sit still
318. 13:04or stay in one creative place for too
319. 13:06long
320. 13:07i've made and released 11 albums and in
321. 13:10the process i've switched genre from
322. 13:12country
323. 13:14to pop to alternative to folk
324. 13:17and this might sound like a very
325. 13:20songwriter-centric
326. 13:22line of discussion
327. 13:23but in a way
328. 13:24i really do think
329. 13:26we are all
330. 13:28writers
331. 13:29and most of us
332. 13:31write in a different voice for different
333. 13:33situations
334. 13:34you write
335. 13:35differently in your instagram stories
336. 13:37than you do your senior thesis
337. 13:39you send a different type of email to
338. 13:41your boss than you do your best friend
339. 13:43from home
340. 13:44we are all
341. 13:46literary chameleons and i think it's
342. 13:48fascinating
343. 13:50it's just a continuation of the idea
344. 13:52that we are so many things
345. 13:54all the time
346. 13:55and
347. 13:56i know it can be really overwhelming
348. 13:58figuring out who to be
349. 14:00and when who you are now
350. 14:04and how to act in order to get where you
351. 14:06want to go
352. 14:07i have some good news
353. 14:09it's totally up to you
354. 14:12i have some terrifying
355. 14:14news it's totally up to you
356. 14:19i said to you earlier
357. 14:20that i don't ever offer advice unless
358. 14:23someone asked me for it and now i'll
359. 14:25tell you why
360. 14:27as a person who started my very public
361. 14:29career
362. 14:30at the age of 15
363. 14:32it came with a price
364. 14:34and that price
365. 14:35was years
366. 14:36of unsolicited advice
367. 14:40being the youngest person in every room
368. 14:43for over a decade
369. 14:45meant
370. 14:46that i was constantly being issued
371. 14:48warnings
372. 14:49from older members of the music industry
373. 14:52media interviewers executives and this
374. 14:55advice
375. 14:57often presented itself
376. 14:59as thinly veiled warnings
377. 15:02see i was a teenager
378. 15:04at a time when our society was
379. 15:06absolutely obsessed with the idea
380. 15:09of having perfect
381. 15:11young female role models
382. 15:14it felt like every interview i did
383. 15:18included slight barbs by the interviewer
384. 15:21about me one day
385. 15:23running off the rails
386. 15:25and that meant a different thing
387. 15:27to every person who said it to me so
388. 15:30i became a young adult while being fed
389. 15:32the message
390. 15:33that if i didn't make
391. 15:35any mistakes
392. 15:37all the children of america would grow
393. 15:40up to be perfect angels
394. 15:45however if i did slip up
395. 15:47the entire earth would fall off its axis
396. 15:49and it would be entirely my fault and i
397. 15:51would go to pop star jail
398. 15:53forever and ever
399. 15:56it was all centered around the idea
400. 15:59that mistakes
401. 16:01equal
402. 16:02failure
403. 16:03and ultimately
404. 16:05the loss
405. 16:06of any chance at a happy or rewarding
406. 16:09life
407. 16:11this
408. 16:11has not been my experience
409. 16:15my experience has been that my mistakes
410. 16:19led to the best things in my life
411. 16:23and
412. 16:24being embarrassed when you mess up
413. 16:26it's part of the human experience
414. 16:28getting back up
415. 16:30dusting yourself off
416. 16:32and seeing who still wants to hang out
417. 16:34with you afterward and laugh about it
418. 16:36that's a gift
419. 16:38the times i was told no
420. 16:40or wasn't included
421. 16:43wasn't chosen didn't win didn't make the
422. 16:46cut
423. 16:47looking back it really feels like those
424. 16:49moments
425. 16:51were as important if not more crucial
426. 16:54than the moments i was told yes
427. 16:57not being invited
428. 16:59to the parties and sleepovers in my
429. 17:01hometown
430. 17:03made me feel hopelessly lonely
431. 17:06but because i felt alone
432. 17:08i would sit in my room and write the
433. 17:10songs that would get me
434. 17:12a ticket somewhere else
435. 17:14having label executives in nashville
436. 17:17tell me
437. 17:18that only 35 year old housewives
438. 17:21listened to country music
439. 17:23and there was no place for a 13 year old
440. 17:25on their roster
441. 17:27made me cry in the car on the way home
442. 17:30but then
443. 17:31i'd post my songs on my myspace
444. 17:34and yes myspace
445. 17:38and i would message with other teenagers
446. 17:40like me who loved country music but just
447. 17:42didn't have anyone singing from their
448. 17:43perspective
449. 17:45having journalists write in-depth
450. 17:48oftentimes critical pieces about who
451. 17:50they perceive me to be
452. 17:52made me feel like i was living in some
453. 17:54weird simulation
454. 17:57but it also made me look inward
455. 17:59to learn about who i actually am
456. 18:02having the world treat my love life like
457. 18:05a spectator sport in which i lose every
458. 18:08single game
459. 18:09was not a great way to date in my teens
460. 18:11and
461. 18:12twenties but it taught me
462. 18:15to protect my private life fiercely
463. 18:19being publicly humiliated over and over
464. 18:21again at a young age was excruciatingly
465. 18:24painful
466. 18:25but it forced me
467. 18:27to devalue the ridiculous notion
468. 18:29of minute by minute
469. 18:31ever fluctuating social relevance and
470. 18:34likability
471. 18:37[Applause]
472. 18:46getting cancelled on the internet
473. 18:48and nearly losing my career
474. 18:51gave me an excellent knowledge of all
475. 18:53the types of wine
476. 18:57[Applause]
477. 19:01i know i sound
478. 19:03like a consummate optimist but i'm
479. 19:05really not
480. 19:07i lose perspective all the time
481. 19:10sometimes
482. 19:11everything
483. 19:12just feels completely pointless
484. 19:16i know the pressure
485. 19:18of living your life through the lens of
486. 19:20perfectionism
487. 19:22and i know that i'm talking to a group
488. 19:24of perfectionists because you are here
489. 19:26today
490. 19:27graduating from nyu
491. 19:35so this might be hard for you to hear
492. 19:39in your life
493. 19:41you will inevitably
494. 19:43misspeak
495. 19:45trust the wrong person
496. 19:47under react
497. 19:49overreact
498. 19:50hurt the people who didn't deserve it
499. 19:53overthink
500. 19:54not think at all
501. 19:56self-sabotage
502. 19:58create a reality
503. 19:59where only your experience exists
504. 20:02ruin perfectly good moments for yourself
505. 20:04and others deny any wrongdoing
506. 20:07not take the steps to make it right feel
507. 20:09very guilty
508. 20:11let the guilt eat at you hit rock bottom
509. 20:14finally address the pain you caused try
510. 20:16to do better next time
511. 20:18rinse repeat
512. 20:22[Applause]
513. 20:28and i'm not gonna lie
514. 20:30these mistakes
515. 20:32will cause you to lose things
516. 20:35i'm trying to tell you
517. 20:37that losing things
518. 20:39doesn't just mean losing
519. 20:41a lot of the time when we lose things
520. 20:44we gain things too
521. 20:47now you leave the structure and
522. 20:48framework
523. 20:49of school
524. 20:51and chart your own path
525. 20:53every choice you make leads to the next
526. 20:55choice which leads to the next and i
527. 20:57know it's hard
528. 20:58to know
529. 20:59which path to take
530. 21:01there will be times in life where you
531. 21:02need to stand up for yourself
532. 21:05times when the right thing is actually
533. 21:07to back down and apologize
534. 21:10times when the right thing is to fight
535. 21:12times when the right thing is to turn
536. 21:14and run
537. 21:16times to hold on with all you have
538. 21:19and times to let go with grace
539. 21:22sometimes the right thing to do is to
540. 21:24throw out the old schools of thought in
541. 21:26the name of progress and reform
542. 21:30sometimes the right thing to do is to
543. 21:32sit and listen to the wisdom of those
544. 21:34who have come before us
545. 21:36how will you know
546. 21:38what the right choice is in these
547. 21:40crucial moments
548. 21:42you won't
549. 21:43how do i give advice to this many people
550. 21:46about their life choices
551. 21:49i won't
552. 21:50the scary news is
553. 21:52you're on your own now
554. 21:55but the cool news is
555. 21:57you're on your own now
556. 22:02[Applause]
557. 22:07i leave you with this
558. 22:09we are led
559. 22:10by our gut instincts
560. 22:12our intuition
561. 22:14our desires and fears our scars and our
562. 22:17dreams
563. 22:19and you will screw it up sometimes
564. 22:22so will i
565. 22:24and when i do you will most likely read
566. 22:26about it on the internet
567. 22:29anyway hard things will happen to us
568. 22:32we will recover
569. 22:34we will learn from it
570. 22:36we will grow more resilient because of
571. 22:38it
572. 22:39and as long as we are fortunate enough
573. 22:41to be breathing
574. 22:43we will breathe in
575. 22:45breathe through
576. 22:47breathe deep
577. 22:49and breathe out
578. 22:51and i am a doctor now so i know how
579. 22:53breathing works
580. 22:56i hope you know
581. 23:00how proud
582. 23:01i am
583. 23:02to share this day with you
584. 23:05we're doing this together
585. 23:07so let's just keep dancing like we're
586. 23:10the class of 22.
587. 23:12[Applause]