介绍： My name is Samuel West, I'm an actor and sometimes a director. I was Chair of the national Campaign for the Arts for many years, and now I'm a trustee of its successful organization the Campaign for the Arts.
我是萨缪尔·韦斯特，我是一名演员，有时也担任导演。我曾多年主持“全国艺术运动”，现在是该组织下属成功机...

介绍： My name is Samuel West, I'm an actor and sometimes a director. I was Chair of the national Campaign for the Arts for many years, and now I'm a trustee of its successful organization the Campaign for the Arts.
我是萨缪尔·韦斯特，我是一名演员，有时也担任导演。我曾多年主持“全国艺术运动”，现在是该组织下属成功机构“艺术运动”的理事。
I think the biggest problem in the world at the moment it comes down to an empathy deficit. We're not practiced at imagining what things are like for other people. That's where the humanities come in. Because humanities graduates are traditionally good at that sort of critical thinking, good at making that sort of imaginative leap. 
我认为，当今世界最大的问题归根结底在于同理心的缺失。我们不习惯设身处地去想象他人的处境，这就是人文学科的价值地方。因为从传统意义上说，人文学科的毕业生擅长这种批判性思维，善于进行富有想象的推演。
On a day like this to mark the extraordinary hard work, the endless essay crisis, the massive numbers of cups of coffee. Take a moment to realize how powerful that room is and how educated, how clever in extraordinary and difficult ways, how so few people will understand the subject of your PHD perhaps.
在这样一个日子里，我们要纪念那非凡的辛勤付出、无休止的论文危机，以及数不清的咖啡杯。不妨静下心来体会那间考场的力量感，体会你们受过的良好教育、你们以非凡而艰难的方式显现的聪明睿智，以及只有极少数人能理解你们博士论文的主题。
But how important it is for that to exist because it's new knowledge, new work. That's a a massive thing, a massive step forward, massive battle against the forces of ignorance. I love that. It's lovely to be here.
但它的存在是多么重要，因为那是新知识，是新成果。这是一件了不起的事，是向前迈出的巨大一步，是对抗无知势力的伟大斗争。我热爱这一切。能来到这里感觉的真的很好。
Personally, it's a huge pleasure and honor of course. My 10-year-old asked me, “are you getting this for your acting”, and I said: no, I don't think I am really. I think I'm getting it for shouting a bit and getting cross.
就个人而言，这当然是莫大的喜悦与荣幸。我10岁的孩子问我：“这是因为你的表演才获得的吗？”我说：不，我觉得并非如此。我想是因为偶尔大喊大叫和发发脾气才获得的。
I've been a very vociferous advocator for proper Arts funding since...well, since I began to think really. One of my favorite games when people survived lockdown was to imagine surviving it without any artistic products whatsoever. No music, no comedy, no films, no games, video or otherwise. Because they get designed.
自从我开始真正思考以来，我一直都是艺术资金保障的坚定倡导者。在人们经历疫情封锁期时，我最喜欢玩的一个游戏就是想象完全没有艺术作品的情况下如何生存。没有音乐、没有喜剧、没有电影、没有游戏、没有视频，游戏及其他形任何式（的娱乐）。因为这些都是人为设计的。
Try and do it without those and then see how sane you are at the end of six months. And then say you're not into the humanities. I probably grew up at the point where Britain was best funded in terms of affordable access to the Arts, and we are cashing that check 45 years later.
试着在没有这些的情况下生活，然后看看六个月后你还能不能保持理智。到时候再来说你对人文学科不感兴趣。我成长的那个年代，堪称英国在艺术普及方面的资金投入的黄金时代，而45年后的今天，我们仍在兑现那张支票。
But we're also simultaneously squeezing that pipe of talent and opportunity. dry by removing that funding and removing that opportunity I I don't like that. So I don't shut up about it. We need to keep those opportunities as open and as available, as possible.
但与此同时，我们却在通过削减资金、剥夺机会，将人才与机遇的源泉榨干。这种做法令人难以接受，所以我对此喋喋不休。我们必须尽可能保持这些机会的开放性与可及性。
If you think that your talent might lie in the Arts of the humanities, don't take the first well-suited hand that offers you cash. Because the sort of things you've learned to do here, and the sort of subjects you may be studying, and the sort of areas of expertise you may be going into are not necessarily the best paid, but they are some of the most important and we can't afford to lose you. That's what I would say.
若你认为自己的天赋可能在于人文学科领域，切莫轻易接受第一个向你抛出橄榄枝的合适人选。因为你在此习得的专业技能、所研习的学科方向以及未来可能深耕的领域，虽未必属于高薪岗位，却至关重要——我们绝不能失去这样的人才。这正是我的建议。