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可可网友们，大家好。本期，我们将听到两小段对话。Liz的老师带领她们来到了哈佛。仰视着这座知识殿堂，触摸着校园里的树木，一切似乎真的不再如此遥远。这样的时刻，一个新的梦想在心底坚定起来。
随后，就是为这个梦想采取具体措施了。其中，最重要的一环就是解决学费的问题。Liz将希望放在了高额奖学金上。
David: It looks like what you thought it would?
Liz: Better. Unattainably better.
David: Liz, they're just people.
Liz: Not people like me. Why not people like me? What made them so different? Because of where they were born? I was working as hard as I could, so I didn't end up on food stamps or hut sling. What... what if I work even more? I was so close to the skin now I can touch it.
David: It would be a reach. It's not impossible.…
Liz: Is there any other scholarships?
Secretary: That's quite a few.
Liz: Write 1500 words on the importance of the free market and the free world and win $500. Yeah, I don't lead need 70 of those every year.
Secretary: There was something brand new from the NYT, maybe I didn't put it in yet.
Liz: $12000 every year for 4 years.
Secretary: What do you have to do?
Liz: Attach a brief essay describing what you believe to be the most significant acadamic achievement and how you have overcome any challenges or obstacles. Can I have a copy of this?
I want to stand beside people in sidewalk and not be so far beneath them. I wanna go to Harvard and become very developed, read all the best books. Then I found myself thinking what if I just go crazy? And use my every potential to do that?
I have to do it. I have no choice.
David带领学生们来到了哈佛，这个世界上最著名的大学之一。看着人来人往，Liz的心也无法平静。老师问她，大学有没有她想象中的好。Liz回答说Better. Unattainably better.
比想象中的好。而且是，自己无法企及的好。Unattainably, 无法达到的，难以达到的。对此，老师的回答是，Liz, they’re just people. 他们也是人。
随后，在Liz的内心独白里，我们看到了这个倔强的小女孩儿的心意。我拼命努力，so I didn't end up on food stamps or hut sling. 这样就不至于落得靠food stamps粮票，来混饭吃。睡觉就在一个hut sling, 一张吊床上。可这样不够。what if I work even more? 如果，我比现在更努力呢？那层我以为一直罩着我的壳就在手边，似乎马上就可以捅破了。
暗下决心的Liz开始着手找奖学金。可是，大部分都完全不足以让她完成学业。好在一直都很亲和的秘书想起来了，一个brand new scholarship，brand new常常放在一起使用，表示“全新的，崭新的，最新的”。
纽约时报提供的这份高额奖学金要求申请者写出自己认为最了不起的学术成果，并描述自己是怎么样overcome any challenges or obstacles，战胜挑战和困难的。Obstacle, 障碍；妨碍。支撑Liz战胜困难的原因之一就是来自自己想要改变现状的强烈渴望，她希望自己能和其他人肩并肩的站在一起，而不是被踩在脚下。她要接受最好的教育，读最好的书。只有这样的愿望能刺激一个人use every potential to do a thing. 挖掘自己所有的潜能去做一件事。Potential, 潜力，能力。
电影《风雨哈佛路》是根据莉丝•默里(Liz Murray)的亲身经历拍摄的。Liz1980年出生于纽约市布朗克斯区，父母吸毒，15岁莉丝便无家可归。在居无定所，流浪街头的日子里，她用两年时间完成了高中四年的学业，以全优的成绩考入哈佛，并获得“《纽约时报》一等奖学金”。莉丝还曾获得“白宫计划榜样奖”，及美国脱口秀女王奥普拉•温弗瑞特别颁发的“无所畏惧奖”，更受到美国前总统克林顿的接见。如今，莉丝在全球各地发表演说，以激励人们跨越困境去追寻心中的梦想，赋予人生意义，实现自我价值。
好了。本期我们先到这里。下期，我们停在Liz去哈佛的风雨路上最后一站，也就是她争取奖学金时的感人对话。下期再见。
