演讲中英文翻译：

　　扎克伯格将他在5月25日在哈佛大学的毕业演讲全文放到了他的脸书主页上。全文如下：

　　President Faust, Board of Overseers, faculty, alumni, friends, proud parents, members of the ad board, and graduates of the greatest university in the world,

　　Faust校长，校监委员会成员们，老师、校友、朋友、自豪的家长们、管理委员会的委员们，以及全世界最伟大学校的毕业生们!

　　I’m honored to be with you today because, let’s face it, you accomplished something I never could. If I get through this speech, it’ll be the first time I actually finish something at Harvard. Class of 2017, congratulations!

　　今天和你们待在一起我备感荣幸，因为说实话，你们完成了一个我永远无法办到的成就。等我做完这个演讲，这将是我第一次在哈佛大学完成的某件事。2017的毕业班同学，祝贺你们!

　　I’m an unlikely speaker, not just because I dropped out, but because we’re technically in the same generation. We walked this yard less than a decade apart, studied the same ideas and slept through the same Ec10 lectures. We may have taken different paths to get here, especially if you came all the way from the Quad, but today I want to share what I’ve learned about our generation and the world we’re building together.

　　我本不可能是站在这里发表演讲的人，不仅仅因为我是一名辍学生，还因为其实我们是同一代人。我作为学生走在这个校园里，也就是不过十年前的事情。我们学习过同样的知识，同样在EC10课堂上补觉。尽管我们通过不同的方式来到这里，尤其那些来自Quad园区的同学(The Quad以前是Radcliffe College的女生宿舍。Radcliffe从1879至1977年是哈佛的女性学院，1977年汇入哈佛);但今天我想和你们分享的是，我对我们这代人的一些想法，和我们正在合力建设的这个世界。

　　But first, the last couple of days have brought back a lot of good memories.

　　首先，过去几天令我想起很多美好的回忆。

　　How many of you remember exactly what you were doing when you got that email telling you that you got into Harvard? I was playing Civilization and I ran downstairs, got my dad, and for some reason, his reaction was to video me opening the email. That could have been a really sad video. I swear getting into Harvard is still the thing my parents are most proud of me for.

　　你们当中多少人还确切记得，当初收到哈佛的录取通知邮件时在做什么?当时我正在玩《文明》游戏，然后我跑下楼，找到我的父亲，不过他的反应很奇怪，居然开始拍摄我打开邮件的过程。那个视频可能看着挺难过吧。但我发誓，被哈佛录取，是最令我父母为我感到骄傲的事情。

　　What about your first lecture at Harvard? Mine was Computer Science 121 with the incredible Harry Lewis. I was late so I threw on a t-shirt and didn’t realize until afterwards it was inside out and backwards with my tag sticking out the front. I couldn’t figure out why no one would talk to me -- except one guy, KX Jin, he just went with it. We ended up doing our problem sets together, and now he runs a big part of Facebook. And that, Class of 2017, is why you should be nice to people.

　　你们还记得在哈佛上的第一节课吗?我上的是计算机121，Harry Lewis老师超级棒。当时我要迟到了，于是抓了件T恤就套在身上，结果直到下午才发现我把它前后里外都穿反了，商标都露在前胸。然后我还纳闷怎么没人理我，除了一个人，KX Jin，他没有在意这些。之后，我们开始组队解决难题，现在他负责Facebook很大一块业务。这说明什么?2017的毕业生们，这说明为什么你们应该对别人友善一些。

　　But my best memory from Harvard was meeting Priscilla. I had just launched this prank website Facemash, and the ad board wanted to "see me". Everyone thought I was going to get kicked out. My parents came to help me pack. My friends threw me a going away party. As luck would have it, Priscilla was at that party with her friend. We met in line for the bathroom in the Pfoho Belltower, and in what must be one of the all time romantic lines, I said: "I’m going to get kicked out in three days, so we need to go on a date quickly."

　　但是我在哈佛最美好的回忆，是我遇见了Priscilla(扎克伯格的妻子)。当时我刚上线一个恶作剧网站Facemash，然后管理委员会表示“要见我”，所有人都认为我要被赶走了。我爸妈来帮我打包行李;我朋友帮我搞了个告别派对。幸运的事情就在这里，Priscilla和她朋友一起，来到了这个Party。我们在Pfoho Belltower的卫生间外排队时遇见了，接下来发生了一件永生难忘的浪漫事件——我说：“我三天后就要被赶出学校了，所以我们需要尽快开始约会。”

　　Actually, any of you graduating can use that line.

　　事实上，你们所有人都可以使用这个套路。

　　I didn’t end up getting kicked out -- I did that to myself. Priscilla and I started dating. And, you know, that movie made it seem like Facemash was so important to creating Facebook. It wasn’t. But without Facemash I wouldn’t have met Priscilla, and she’s the most important person in my life, so you could say it was the most important thing I built in my time here.

　　我没有被开除——我想办法留下来了。Priscilla开始和我约会。你们知道，那部电影(《社交网络》)说的Facemash对创造Facebook好像很重要似的。并非如此。但是没有Facemash的话，我遇不到Priscilla。她是我生命中最重要的人，所以从这个角度说，Facemash是我人生中做出的最重要的一样东西。

　　We’ve all started lifelong friendships here, and some of us even families. That’s why I’m so grateful to this place. Thanks, Harvard.

　　在这里，我们开始结交一生的挚友，甚至有的以后成为家人。这是为什么我对这里如此感激的原因。谢谢你，哈佛!

　　Today I want to talk about purpose. But I’m not here to give you the standard commencement about finding your purpose. We’re millennials. We’ll try to do that instinctively. Instead, I’m here to tell you finding your purpose isn’t enough. The challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.

　　今天我想谈谈目标(Purpose)，但是我不是来给你们做一些程序化的宣言，告诉你们如何发现目标的。我们是千禧一代，我们会出于直觉和本能发现目标。相反地，我站在这里要说的，是仅仅发现目标还不够。我们这代人面临的挑战，是创造一个人人都能有使命感的世界。

　　One of my favorite stories is when John F Kennedy visited the NASA space center, he saw a janitor carrying a broom and he walked over and asked what he was doing. The janitor responded: "Mr. President, I’m helping put a man on the moon".

　　我最喜欢的一个故事，是约翰?F?肯尼迪访问美国宇航局太空中心时，看到了一个拿着扫帚的看门人。于是他走过去问这人在干什么。看门人回答说：“总统先生，我正在帮助把一个人送往月球。”

　　Purpose is that sense that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, that we are needed, that we have something better ahead to work for. Purpose is what creates true happiness.

　　目标是我们意识到我们是比自己更大的东西的一部分，是我们被需要的、我们需要更为之努力的东西。目标能创造真正的快乐。

　　You’re graduating at a time when this is especially important. When our parents graduated, purpose reliably came from your job, your church, your community. But today, technology and automation are eliminating many jobs. Membership in communities is declining. Many people feel disconnected and depressed, and are trying to fill a void.

　　今天，你在这个特别重要的时刻毕业了。当你父母毕业的时候，目标很大程度上来自工作、教会、社群。但是今天，技术和自动化正在代替很多工作，社区成员人数也在下降。许多人感到沮丧，感到自己被隔离开来了，同时也在努力填补空白。

　　As I’ve traveled around, I’ve sat with children in juvenile detention and opioid addicts, who told me their lives could have turned out differently if they just had something to do, an after school program or somewhere to go. I’ve met factory workers who know their old jobs aren’t coming back and are trying to find their place.

　　当我走过很多地方的时候，我曾和许多被拘留的、阿片类药物成瘾的孩子们坐在一起，他们告诉我如果他们有事可做，参加课后活动或者有地方可去，他们的人生会变得很不一样。我也遇到过很多工厂的工人，他们没法再从事之前从事的工作了，所以试图找到新的能做的事。

　　To keep our society moving forward, we have a generational challenge -- to not only create new jobs, but create a renewed sense of purpose.

　　为了保持社会的进步，我们身负挑战——不仅仅是创造新的工作，还要创造新的目标。

　　I remember the night I launched Facebook from my little dorm in Kirkland House. I went to Noch’s with my friend KX. I remember telling him I was excited to connect the Harvard community, but one day someone would connect the whole world.

　　我还记得在Kirkland House的小宿舍中创造Facebook的那晚。我和我的朋友KX去了Noch。我记得我告诉他，我很开心能把哈佛的社群连接起来，但是有一天，有人会把整个世界都连接起来。

　　The thing is, it never even occurred to me that someone might be us. We were just college kids. We didn’t know anything about that. There were all these big technology companies with resources. I just assumed one of them would do it. But this idea was so clear to us -- that all people want to connect. So we just kept moving forward, day by day.

　　我完全没有想到这个人会是我们。当时我们还只是大学生，对此还并不了解。所有这些大型技术公司都有资源，我只是认为其中一个大公司会做到这一点。但是，我对这个想法很确信——所有人都想和彼此连接，所以我们一直在朝这个方向努力前进。

　　I know a lot of you will have your own stories just like this. A change in the world that seems so clear you’re sure someone else will do it. But they won’t. You will.

　　我知道你们中的很多人也会有类似的故事。你觉得很多人都在改变世界，然而他们并没有，而你会。

　　But it’s not enough to have purpose yourself. You have to create a sense of purpose for others.

　　但是，光有目标是不够的。你必须拥有心系他人的目标。

　　I found that out the hard way. You see, my hope was never to build a company, but to make an impact. And as all these people started joining us, I just assumed that’s what they cared about too, so I never explained what I hoped we’d build.

　　意识到这点非常难。我从来没想过创造一个公司，我想要的是创造影响力。越来越多的人加入我们，我假设他们跟我关心的是同样的东西，所以我从来没解释过我到底希望建立什么。

　　A couple years in, some big companies wanted to buy us. I didn’t want to sell. I wanted to see if we could connect more people. We were building the first News Feed, and I thought if we could just launch this, it could change how we learn about the world.

　　几年来，一些大公司想要收购我们。我拒绝了。我想知道是否能连接更多的人。我们正在建立第一个新闻流(News Feed)，当时我想，如果我们能做到这一点，它可能会改变我们学习世界的方式。

　　Nearly everyone else wanted to sell. Without a sense of higher purpose, this was the startup dream come true. It tore our company apart. After one tense argument, an advisor told me if I didn’t agree to sell, I would regret the decision for the rest of my life. Relationships were so frayed that within a year or so every single person on the management team was gone.

　　几乎所有人都想让我把公司卖了。没有更高远的使命感，这个创业公司不可能梦想成真。经过激烈的争论后，一位顾问跟我说，如果我不同意出售，我会后悔一辈子。一年左右的时间里，当时的管理层几乎都走了。

　　That was my hardest time leading Facebook. I believed in what we were doing, but I felt alone. And worse, it was my fault. I wondered if I was just wrong, an imposter, a 22 year-old kid who had no idea how the world worked.

　　这是我在Facebook时最艰难的时刻。我相信我们在做的东西，但是我也感到孤独。更糟糕的是，当时我觉得这是我的错。我在想是不是我错了，一个22岁的小孩，都不知道世界是怎么运转的。

　　Now, years later, I understand that is how things work with no sense of higher purpose. It’s up to us to create it so we can all keep moving forward together.

　　多年以后的今天，我明白了那是因为没有更高的目标。是否创造它取决于我们，所以我们能一起前进。