时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:六级英语晨读经典


英语课

  Speech Given by Colin Lucas at Beijing University(科林·卢卡斯在北京大学的演说)

牛津大学副校长科林·卢卡斯在北京大学的演说

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues:

Because I am the Vice-Chancellor of the oldest of the foreign universities represented here today, I have been chosen to speak on their behalf. I am pleased to be their voice in presenting our heartfelt congratulations to the professors, teachers, researchers and students of Peking University on the 100th anniversary of its foundation.

Our universities form a great intellectual community round the world. Science has no nationality; knowledge belongs to everyone.

Our universities creat new knowledge. They teah this knowledge, together with that of other universities and also the best of the great storehouse of knowledge, which those who came before us have uncovered, tested and accumulated.

All universities contibute to the prosperity and success of their country. They also conserve 1 the culture and inheritance specific to their country's civization. But, they do more. Knowledge is secure only when it is hard won by the independent tests of accuracy, rational explanation and ture. So, when we teach our students skills, we also give them values. On the one side, these are values for personal and civic 2 conduct. On the other side, these values underwrite the personal need for independent understanding which is the source of human creativity.

These duties give universities a high responsibility. They are rooted in a great and fine tradition of honesty. university is a beacon 3 of light in its own society and, by its association with its sisters, its knowledge and its values are spread wide.

A tradition is not built easily ir quickly. During one hundred years, Peking University has been fashioning its tradition. Present and future members of the University! We hope to see you elaborate and consolidate 4 your tradition. We hope to see you become a keystone of the intellectual community. In your next century, we hope to see you contribute to the international academic movement as a whole, as more and more of you numbers come to paticipate in the activities of your sister universities.

Congratulations, Peking University on your first century of achievement!



1 conserve
vt.保存,保护,节约,节省,守恒,不灭
  • He writes on both sides of the sheet to conserve paper.他在纸张的两面都写字以节省用纸。
  • Conserve your energy,you'll need it!保存你的精力,你会用得着的!
2 civic
adj.城市的,都市的,市民的,公民的
  • I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
  • The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。
3 beacon
n.烽火,(警告用的)闪火灯,灯塔
  • The blink of beacon could be seen for miles.灯塔的光亮在数英里之外都能看见。
  • The only light over the deep black sea was the blink shone from the beacon.黑黢黢的海面上唯一的光明就只有灯塔上闪现的亮光了。
4 consolidate
v.使加固,使加强;(把...)联为一体,合并
  • The two banks will consolidate in July next year. 这两家银行明年7月将合并。
  • The government hoped to consolidate ten states to form three new ones.政府希望把十个州合并成三个新的州。
学英语单词
acclamatory
air-cooled type
alligator mississippiensis
approximate depth contour
area of responsibility
armillaria matsutake formosana
atherix cincta
automatic power reduction
Belle Mead
bismuth oxyiodopyrogallate
bloom butts
bourbon metal
Brilliant Blue FCF
Britten
cardiac malformation
carving kits
certain annuity
cesium chlorostannate
chilean nuts
chondroblastic osteogenic sarcoma
chromosome dosimetry
citrus limons
classroom social psychology
consensus project
contiguous graphics
continuous annealing oven for silicon steel sheet
control office equipment of CTC
counter-approach
cput (central processing unit)
cultural roots
decasepalous
diamido
dispatched
disulphonated
double pipe brine cooler
dramaturges
driffield (great driffield)
ears are flapping
en echelon structure
erratic formula
Esidri
fats
field-enhanced emission
financial accountability system
fire at
focus knob
foodyr
fooligan
formal game
fruit sherbet
furol
gas fitters
Gaultheria notabilis
grinds
heresays
hermaphrodite brigs
initial charging
inumber
Isen-zaki
Khelyulya
kkk
lencophenga (lencophenga) bellula
let someone down a peg or two
lightweight thread
lignum vitaes
microohm
mounteine
multi start
musculus semitendionosus
nail-plat
nonsubstantive
noony
Nuytsia
official referee
participation system
PIMI
pissoirs
polyserine
rattlesnake ore
refusniks
rockfill timber crib
segrin
Shīrwān Māzin
social dominance theory
steam outlet pipe
Strix occidentalis
subhumerate
tallageable
the millennium
through-swim
tooghed beater
trephinations
Trumbidiidae
two-step verification
underwater noise
unkindlier
unquibblingly
washing-up machine
watchdog function theory
Zeelander
Zharsu
zygorhynchus exponens