名校励志英语演讲 140:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(7)
时间:2019-01-18 作者:英语课 分类:名校励志英语演讲
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And so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics. Dare to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics. Some have called you the generation of choice. You've been raised with multiple choice tests, multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple lifestyles. You've grown up choosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available to people in prior generations.
因此,把你们的价值观、阅历和洞察力都融于政治中吧!你们不仅要敢于在政治上有所作为,而且还要敢于创造一个完全不同的政治体系。有人把你们这一代人称为有选择权利的一代。你们是在多项选择测验、多渠道、多网站及多重生活方式中长大的,你们是在不停的选择中长大的,但这些选项既不为前人所致,也未为前人所用。
You've been invested with far more personal power to customize your life, to make more free choices about how to live than was ever thought possible. And I think as I look at all the surveys and research that is done, your choices reflect not only freedom, but personal responsibility.
你们被赋予了很多力量,拥有规划自己人生的权利,能够比以往任何时候都更加自由地主宰自己的生活。当我看着你们完成的所有问卷调查和研究时,我认为你们的选择不仅反映了社会,也反映了你们的责任心。
The social indicators 1, not the headlines, the social indicators tell a positive story: drug use and cheating and arrests being down, been pregnancy 2 and suicides, drunk driving deaths being down. Community service and religious involvement being up. But if you look at the area of voting among 18 to 29 year olds, the numbers tell a far more troubling tale. Many of you I know believe that service and community volunteerism is a better way of solving the issues facing our country than political engagement, because you believe-choose one of the following multiples or choose them all-government either can't understand or won't make the right choices because of political pressures, inefficiency 3, incompetence 4 or big money influence.
是社会调查指标,而不是头版头条新闻,让我们感受到整个社会的进步:吸毒、诈骗以及在押人数均呈下降趋势;少女怀孕、自杀以及酒后驾车致死事件也在逐渐减少。同时,参加社区服务及宗教活动的人数呈上升趋势。但是,18岁到29岁人群的投票选举情况则令人担忧。我知道,你们中许多人都认为参加社区服务和志愿者活动比参与政治活动更能解决我们国家面临的问题,因为你们认为,政府往往趋于政治压力,缺乏效率或无能、甚至是受金钱驱使而不能领会或作出正确选择。你们这样做可能是因为上述原因的一种,也可能是因为所有这些原因。
政治生涯
纽约州国会参议员
任期:2001年1月3日——2009年1月21日
前任:丹尼尔·帕特里克·莫伊尼汉
继任:科尔斯顿·吉里布兰德
希拉里是一位富有争议的政治人物,普遍认为其具有浓厚的自由主义色彩。2000年,希拉里搬迁到纽约并当选美国参议院议员,成为第一位获得公职的第一夫人和纽约州第一位女性参议员。她的竞选策略和丈夫比尔·克林顿相似,即以满足选民的实际物质利益为主要手段,同时更加偏重于健康、儿童、社区等妇女关心的话题。就任参议员以来,希拉里一面维持自由派选民的支持,一面在争夺中间派的选票上面颇下苦心,包括投票支持伊拉克战争。
但是,民众对她的看法改变不大,绝大多数人仍认为希拉里属于自由派,保守派更对她深恶痛绝。随着伊拉克战争局面的持续恶化,希拉里又转变态度,开始反对布什政府的内政外交,这也为她后来的总统竞选留下了把柄。
在2006年11月7日进行的美国中期选举中,希拉里以绝对优势连任纽约州参议员,得票中以女性选民居多。
(仪器上显示温度、压力、耗油量等的)指针( indicator的名词复数 ); 指示物; (车辆上的)转弯指示灯; 指示信号
- The economic indicators are better than expected. 经济指标比预期的好。
- It is still difficult to develop indicators for many concepts used in social science. 为社会科学领域的许多概念确立一个指标仍然很难。
n.怀孕,怀孕期
- Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
- Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。
n.无效率,无能;无效率事例
- Conflict between management and workers makes for inefficiency in the workplace. 资方与工人之间的冲突使得工厂生产效率很低。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- This type of inefficiency arises because workers and management are ill-equipped. 出现此种低效率是因为工人与管理层都能力不足。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.不胜任,不称职
- He was dismissed for incompetence. 他因不称职而被解雇。
- She felt she had been made a scapegoat for her boss's incompetence. 她觉得,本是老板无能,但她却成了替罪羊。