新型コロナから復活のトム・ハンクスによる感動スピーチ全文

新型コロナウイルス感染をいち早く公表し、
闘病の末、見事復活を果たしたトム・ハンクスが
オハイオ州ライト州立大学の演劇・ダンス・映画学部の
オンライン卒業式に祝辞を寄せ、
「全米が泣いた」と話題になっています。
※トム・ハンクスのスピーチ全文和訳はこちら

Contents

1 セレブとして新型コロナウイルス感染を初公表
2 自宅からビデオメッセージ「選ばれし者たちよ」
3 トム・ハンクスの2020卒業生にむけたスピーチ全文
4 新しい時代を生きる私たちへのメッセージ

セレブとして新型コロナウイルス感染を初公表

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Hello folks. @ritawilson and I want to thank everyone here Down Under who are taking such good care of us. We have Covid-19 and are in isolation so we do not spread it to anyone else. There are those for whom it could lead to a very serious illness. We are taking it one-day-at-a-time. There are things we can all do to get through this by following the advice of experts and taking care of ourselves and each other, no? Remember, despite all the current events, there is no crying in baseball. Hanx

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3月、撮影のために訪れていたオーストラリアで
新型コロナウイルスに感染し、
セレブとして初めて感染の事実を公表していたトム・ハンクス。
現地での治療後、アメリカに戻ってからも
自宅での隔離生活を続けていました。
現地時間の4月11日、アメリカNBCの人気コメディ番組
「サタデー・ナイト・ライブ（SNL）」の
約1カ月ぶりとなる新エピソードに
自宅から生中継でサプライズ登場し、
新型コロナウイルス感染から回復後、
初めて公の場で元気な姿を見せたことが話題となっていました。

自宅からビデオメッセージ「選ばれし者たちよ」

トム・ハンクスの2020卒業生にむけたスピーチ全文

I’m here to say congratulations. Congratulations to you chosen ones. I am calling you the chosen ones because you have been chosen in many ways. First, by the temperament and discipline you’ve lived by, by the creative fires that are inside of you and the instinctive lunges of your desires. There is something about you – all of you – in your upbringing and your background and your conscious memories and your ongoing mysteries, something that has driven you to complete your courses and achieve your selected challenges and cross the rubicon of your time there, your studies at Wright State.

You succeeded because of the aid and the love of others that are in your lives, without a doubt. But you’ve succeeded mostly because you, and you alone, chose to do so. You are the chosen ones. You are the chosen ones because of a fate unimagined when you began your Wright State adventures. You started in the olden times, in the world back before the great pandemic of 2020. You will talk of those earlier years in your lives just that way, “Well, that was back before the COVID-19. That was before the great pandemic.” Part of your lives will forever be identified as “before” in the same way other generations tell time like, “Well, that was before the war. That was before the internet. That was before Beyonce.” The word “before” is going to carry great weight with you.

Today, you mark your graduation, which has come during the restructuring of time and of science, of our own national will and of a worldwide commonwealth. You have finished Wright State during the great reset, the great reboot. You’ve gone from student to graduate when more has been expected of you than to just be an American. You have had to be responsible Americans. You have had to be good Americans. Good Americans who made the sacrifices that have saved lives.

引用元:Tom Hanks honors 2020 graduates with virtual Ohio commencement speech: ‘The chosen ones’