Hello, everyone, and congratulations to the Class of 2020, as well as your parents, your teachers, and everyone who helped you get to this day. I never imagined I'd be giving a commencement speech with no live（活的） audience from my backyard（后院）, but it's giving me a much deeper understanding for what our YouTube creators（创造者） go through. I certainly never thought I'd be sharing a virtual（[计] 虚拟的） stage with the former（在前的） President, a First Lady, a Lady Gaga, and a Queen Bee（蜂）, not to mention BTS. I don't think this is the graduation ceremony（典礼） any of you imagine. At a time when you should be celebrating all the knowledge you've gained（获得）, you may be grieving（使悲痛） what you've lost. The moves（动） you plan, the jobs you earned, and the experiences you were looking forward to.
In bleak（阴冷的） moments like these, it can be difficult to find hope. So let me skip（跳过） right to the end and tell you what happens. You will prevail（流行）. That's not really the end of the speech, so don't get too excited. The reason I know you'll prevail is because so many others have done it before you. A hundred years ago, the Class of 1920 graduated（授予…学位） into the end of a deadly（致命的） pandemic（全国流行的）.
Fifty years ago, the Class of 1970 graduated in the midst（中部） of Vietnam War. And nearly 20 years ago, the Class of 2001 graduated just months before 9/11. There are notable（值得注意的） examples like this. They had to overcome（克服） new challenges（挑战）, and in all cases, they prevailed. The long arc（弧（度）） of history tells us we have every reason to be hopeful（有希望的）. So, be hopeful.
There is an interesting trend（倾向） I've noticed. It's very conventional（符合习俗的） for every generation（一代） to underestimate（ 低估） the potential of the following one. It's because they don't realize that the progress of one generation becomes the foundational premise（前提） for the next. And it takes a new set（[数] 集合） of people to come along and realize all the possibilities. I grew up without much access（通路） to technology. We didn't get our first telephone till（ 直到） I was 10.
I didn't have regular access to a computer until I came to America for graduate school.