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I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children's godparents, the people to whom I've been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I've took their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.
我的演讲即将结束。对你们，我有最后一个希望，也是我21岁时就有的一个希望。毕业那天与我坐在一起的朋友们现在是我终身的挚交，他们是我孩子的教父或教母，是我处于困境时可以求助的人，是在我用他们的名字给《哈利·波特》中的“食死徒”起名而不会起诉我的人。我们在毕业典礼时坐在了一起，因为我们关系亲密，因为我们共同分享了那永远都不能重来的时光。当然，也因为假想要是我们中的任何人竞选首相，那照片将是极有价值的证明。
So today, I can wish you nothing better than similar friendships. And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom:
所以今天我能送给你们的最好的祝福，就是希望你们能拥有这样的友谊。我希望，即使明天你们不记得我说过的任何一个字，你们还能记得古罗马哲学家塞内加的一句至理明言。我当年没有顺着事业的阶梯向上攀爬，转而与他在古典文学的殿堂相遇，他的古老智慧给了我人生的启迪：
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
生活就像故事一样，不在于长短，而在于品质，这才是最重要的。
I wish you all very good lives.
祝愿你们拥有美好的生活。
Thank you very much.
非常感谢大家。
