时间:2019-01-18 作者:英语课 分类:偶像励志英语演讲


英语课

   President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty 1, proud parents, and, above all, graduates:


  尊敬的福斯特校长,哈佛集团的各位成员,监督理事会的各位理事,各位老师,各位自豪的家长,尤其是毕业生们:
  The first thing I would like to say is "thank you". Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea 2 I've endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint 3 at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world's largest Gryffindors' reunion.
  首先请允许我说一声谢谢。哈佛不仅给了我至高无上的荣誉,连日来一想到要发表这个毕业演说所经受的恐惧和紧张,更令我减肥成功。这真是“双赢”。现在,我只需要深呼吸几次,眯着眼睛看看前面的大红横幅,然后安慰自己,让自己相信我正在参加世界上最大的魔法学院聚会。
  Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished 4 British philosopher Baroness 5 Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormourly in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating 6 discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising 7 careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.
  发表毕业演说责任重大。至少我回想我当年的毕业典礼时是这么认为的。那天致辞的是英国著名的哲学家玛丽·沃诺克男爵夫人(编者注:玛丽·沃诺克男爵夫人,教育家,哲学家,存在主义作家,曾先后任职于牛津大学和剑桥大学,终身贵族)。回想她的演讲,对我完成这篇演讲稿有极大的帮助,因为我已完全不记得她当时讲了什么。这让我释然,让我不再担心我可能会无意中影响你们,使你们放弃在商业、法律或政治上的大好前途,转而醉心于成为一个快乐的魔法师。
  重点讲解:
  1. lose weight
  体重减轻;变瘦;
  eg. You must cut down on sugar to lose weight.
  你必须少吃糖以减轻体重。
  eg. Many of us have tried to lose weight and failed miserably 8.
  我们中很多人都努力要减肥,无奈均以惨败告终。
  2. win-win
  双赢;
  eg. This is a win-win situation all around.
  这是一个各得其所的局面。
  eg. Successful leaders view every conflict, even crises, as a win - win breakthrough.
  成功的领导者把每一次争执,甚至把危机也当成双赢的突破口。
  3. squint at
  眯着眼看;
  eg. The girl squinted 9 at the photograph.
  女孩觑着眼看那张照片。
  eg. The man squinted up at him.
  那名男子觑了他一眼。
  4. cast one's mind back to
  回想;追忆;
  eg. Cast your mind back to 1978, when Forest won the title.
  回想一下1978年福里斯特赢得冠军称号的时候。
  eg. Vera cast her mind back to her wedding day.
  维拉回想起她婚礼日的情景。
  5. reflect on
  沉思;深思;
  eg. We should all give ourselves time to reflect.
  我们都应该给自己时间好好想想。
  eg. I reflected on the child's future.
  我认真考虑了孩子的将来。
  6. turn out
  (以某种方式)发生;最后是;结果是;
  eg. Sometimes things don't turn out the way we think they're going to.
  有时事情并不像我们认为的那样发展。
  eg. It turned out that my surmise 10 was correct.
  结果表明我的推测没有错。
  背景介绍:
  罗琳从小喜欢写作和讲故事。24岁的她在前往伦敦的旅途中火车误点,一个瘦弱、戴着眼镜的黑发小巫师一直在车窗外对着她微笑,车外的草地上有一群牛,她的灵感突然迸发了。
  罗琳把这个叫哈利·波特的男孩的故事推向了世界。于是,哈利·波特诞生了——一个11岁小男孩,瘦小的个子,黑色乱蓬蓬的头发,明亮的绿色眼睛,戴着圆形眼镜,前额上有一道细长、闪电状的伤疤……哈利·波特成为风靡全球的小说人物。
  她的第一本书《哈利·波特与魔法石》前后共写了5年,这期间,她从葡萄牙回到了爱迪安堡。这本童话一出版便备受瞩目,好评如潮,大奖不断,其中包括英国国家图书奖儿童小说奖,以及斯马蒂图书金奖章奖,她的生活发生了天翻地覆的变化,她自己也一跃成为英国第三富婆。
  随后罗琳又分别于1998年与1999年创作了《哈利·波特与密室》和《哈利·波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》,进一步轰动世界。2000年7月,随着第四部《哈利·波特与火焰杯》的问世,世界范围的哈利·波特热持续升温,创造了出版史上的神话。到了2007年7月21日,哈利·波特系列的最后一部小说《哈利·波特与死亡圣器》发行,为这一系列小说划上句号。
  名人经典:
  The truth is one kind beautiful the fearful thing, needs to treat especially discretely 11.
  真相是一种美丽又可怕的东西,需要格外谨慎地对待。

n.才能;学院,系;(学院或系的)全体教学人员
  • He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
  • He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。
n.作呕,恶心;极端的憎恶(或厌恶)
  • Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕期常有恶心的现象。
  • He experienced nausea after eating octopus.吃了章鱼后他感到恶心。
v. 使变斜视眼, 斜视, 眯眼看, 偏移, 窥视; n. 斜视, 斜孔小窗; adj. 斜视的, 斜的
  • A squint can sometimes be corrected by an eyepatch. 斜视有时候可以通过戴眼罩来纠正。
  • The sun was shinning straight in her eyes which made her squint. 太阳直射着她的眼睛,使她眯起了眼睛。
adj.卓越的,杰出的,著名的
  • Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
  • A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。
n.男爵夫人,女男爵
  • I'm sure the Baroness will be able to make things fine for you.我相信男爵夫人能够把家里的事替你安排妥当的。
  • The baroness,who had signed,returned the pen to the notary.男爵夫人这时已签过字,把笔交回给律师。
解放,释放( liberate的现在分词 )
  • Revolution means liberating the productive forces. 革命就是为了解放生产力。
  • They had already taken on their shoulders the burden of reforming society and liberating mankind. 甚至在这些集会聚谈中,他们就已经夸大地把改革社会、解放人群的责任放在自己的肩头了。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
adv.痛苦地;悲惨地;糟糕地;极度地
  • The little girl was wailing miserably. 那小女孩难过得号啕大哭。
  • It was drizzling, and miserably cold and damp. 外面下着毛毛细雨,天气又冷又湿,令人难受。 来自《简明英汉词典》
斜视( squint的过去式和过去分词 ); 眯着眼睛; 瞟; 从小孔或缝隙里看
  • Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel. 他把枪顶肩,眯起眼睛瞄准。
  • I squinted through the keyhole. 我从锁眼窥看。
v./n.猜想,推测
  • It turned out that my surmise was correct.结果表明我的推测没有错。
  • I surmise that he will take the job.我推测他会接受这份工作。
分离地,离散地
  • The mesh is the outcome of discretely decomposing the continuous space. 网格是对连续空间进行离散剖分的结果。
  • The sensitive flesh must choose the product which discretely these mark sensitive flesh may use. 敏感型肌肤也要谨慎挑选那些标明敏感肌肤可以使用的产品。
学英语单词
admittance comparator
alkali spot
Amishness
annoints
basic lead carbonate
bee-flower
Binghamton
Bittorf phenomenon
bone lever
bus coupling
calophya mangiferae
Campo Formoso
cerc-
cetyltriethylammonium bromide
congestive headache
constrictors constrictors
cottone
crackhouse
cracking unit evaporator
cymetery
damage caused by waves
deferred payment letter of credit
demand the assignment of a right
diagonallage
disaffectedly
e waves
ethyldiphenylphosphine
eurohubs
exchange of pow
eyelid forceps
fibrosing adenomatosis
flexible payment
flush type
footcontroller
golden hordes
hand-writings
helminth prevalence
homologous to
hyaloplasm(pfeffer 1877)
hypoblasts
il-
immersion method
in-betweens
insectariums
instructology
iodine disulfide
joint school
Karlee
Kirkstead
knaggie
kneeholes
Kondinin
middle stump
mineral law
moisture as charged
montejo
multibarreled
neps
nonaual
O. Ni
occelli
ochlerotatus (finlaya) watteni
oil damping
on ground of
ortho amide
ossa tigris
parakrithella oblongata
partial processes
pelokonite
perpusillous
pertemps
phenoplast
prairie white-fringed orchids
prospecting hammer
really and truly
red deer(cervus elaphus)
reentry mechanics
remote procedure calls
resource allocation algorithm
rock shachiang
ronaldsway
s.k
salaried staff
saturable choke
seeds visibly weathered or poor in quality
shunt DC machine
sit-in
Slade
subcommissural organ
supersensibly
taret organ
terzas
test of predictive power of a model
test of unusual use
thiocyanoacetates
top aileron
total water solubles
transistor-transistor logic (ttl)
two way lock
ungravelly
Venae anteriores cerebri