偶像励志英语演讲 第104期:如何解决这个世界最严重的不平等(14)
时间:2019-01-18 作者:英语课 分类:偶像励志英语演讲
Don't let complexity 1 stop you. Be activists 2. Take on the big inequities. I feel sure it will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
不要让这个世界的复杂性阻碍你前进。要成为一个行动主义者。将解决人类的不平等视为己任。我敢肯定它将成为你生命中最重要的经历之一。
You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had. You have awareness 3 of global inequity, which we did not have. And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment 4 you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with modest effort. You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.
在座的各位毕业生,你们所处的时代是一个神奇的时代。当你们离开哈佛的时候,你们拥有的技术,是我们那一届学生所没有的。你们已经了解到了世界上的不平等,而我们那时对此还一无所知。有了这样的了解之后,要是你再置那些你可以帮助的人们于不顾,就将受到良心的谴责。只需一点小小的努力,你就可以改变那些人的生活。你们比我们具有更强的能力。你们必须尽早开始,尽可能更长地坚持下去。
And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments 5 alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.
我希望,30年后你们还会再回到哈佛,回顾你们用自己的天赋和能力所做出的一切,我希望,在那个时候,你们用来评价自己的标准,不仅仅是你们的专业成就,而且还包括你们为改变这个世界深刻的不平等所做出的努力,以及你们如何善待那些远隔千山万水、除了同为人类之外与你们毫无共同之处的人们。
Good luck.
祝你们好运!
重点讲解:
1. carry on
继续;接着;坚持;
eg. Rachael Carr intends to carry on teaching.
雷切尔·卡尔打算继续教书。
eg. Her bravery has given him the will to carry on with his life and his work.
她的勇气激发了他继续生活和工作的意愿。
2. reflect on
沉思;深思;
eg. I need time to reflect on your offer.
我需要时间来考虑你的建议。
eg. I often reflect on my schooldays.
我经常回忆起我上学的日子。
3. judge on
评判;评价;
eg. It is dangerous to judge on the basis of first impressions.
凭藉初次印象进行判断是危险的。
eg. Teachers always judge their students on the final examination.
老师常根据期末考试来评价他们的学生。
4. nothing but
只有,仅仅;
eg. Fame brought her nothing but misery 6.
名声只给她带来了痛苦。
eg. They are lacking in nothing, but real happiness.
除了真正的幸福以外,他们什么都不缺。
5. in common
共同的,相同的;
eg. He had very little in common with his sister.
他和姐姐几乎没有什么共同语言。
eg. In common with most Italian lakes, access to the shores of Orta is restricted.
和大部分意大利湖泊一样,奥尔塔湖岸不对公众开放。
- Only now did he understand the full complexity of the problem.直到现在他才明白这一问题的全部复杂性。
- The complexity of the road map puzzled me.错综复杂的公路图把我搞糊涂了。
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
- Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
- He has never suffered the torment of rejection.他从未经受过遭人拒绝的痛苦。
- Now nothing aggravates me more than when people torment each other.没有什么东西比人们的互相折磨更使我愤怒。
- It was one of the President's greatest accomplishments. 那是总统最伟大的成就之一。
- Among her accomplishments were sewing,cooking,playing the piano and dancing. 她的才能包括缝纫、烹调、弹钢琴和跳舞。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》