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
adjective dye
adrenal meduila
agreement for deed
Agrostis limprichtii
ambassadorial rank
anti resonance
armoricains
automotive engineers
average cost profit rate
Ban Mae Surin
barkin
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Boyle-Marriote's law
cage riding clearance
camper trailers
capital saving technical progress
chalcolite
cintractia fimbristylidis-kagiensis
coal black
cornicult
coumarinolignan
credit status
cross-body
damage limit
dead weight all told
detector with rolling grating
distributor transmitter
ebony tree
effeminizes
El Rubio
electrospark machining combinations
experimently
family ranunculaceaes
fault system
fleury algorithm
give someone a bit of curry
grantiid
haliverol
hoisting accessory
hyperdorism
ill-liking
inclosed
indium arsenide (inas)
ion retarding lens
lag weights
leadership
lemon meringue pies
Ligamentum stylomandibulare
limonia (neolimonia) remissa
litobrenthia grammodes
Macdoel
mentoposterior
multipad
Nawnghkio
neoplastic cell
neurohumoral regulation
new markets
nondirective interview
nuclear reactors for propulsion
number of resolved band
Obedien is better than politeness
oscillating batch charger
paddle type kneading machine
Paracetophenetidin
parallel rod array
partially linked block design
phonics-based
phosphorescence lifetime
pipe file
planing of stee plate
Plutarchs
poetrylike
re-pointed
realtime compression
recuperator furnace
ruffed
Rujiena
Saguenay R.
scrapeling
second-lines
shipbuilding subsidy
short range average cost
skeleton network
slipmeter
sorting network
speak in meeting
Sporoxeia latifolia
standard report writer
storm rails
subsequent orientation
sweetmix
teleradiometer
terminal-dependent subroutine
tetraethoxy silane
thickwires
toking
tongsman
umglazed
underwater appendages
unfoed
venae nasales externae
ventricular escape beat