2007年VOA标准英语-Virginia Tech Awards Posthumous Ph.D. to Indone
时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(五月)
Blacksburg, Virginia
15 May 2007
The university in the southern U.S. state of Virginia where a student killed 27 other students and five faculty 1 members last month held graduation ceremonies last week.
Among the graduates were those students who died in the shooting rampage. Virginia Tech awarded posthumous 2 degrees to 18 undergraduates and five graduate students. A promising 3 young man from Indonesia was among those to receive advanced degrees. Sondang Sirait of VOA's Indonesian service has more.
It was a touching 4 moment for the Lumbantoruan family, accepting a posthumous Ph.D. diploma on behalf of their slain 5 son, Partahi Mamora, better known as Mora, who died in the Virginia Tech shooting in April.
The tragedy has left the family broken-hearted. His mother still struggles with the fact that her only hope is gone.
And his father, a retired 6 army lieutenant 7 colonel, wears a necklace with Mora's picture, a ring engraved 8 with Mora's name, his blood-stained watch, and he carries a wallet containing dollar bills, also stained with Mora's blood.
But he says he carries no hard feelings for Mora's killer 9 and won't file any lawsuit 10. "We hope our son's sacrifice will bring peace, well-being 11, love and forgiveness. We forgive the killer, who shot Mora brutally 12 and pray that God may forgive him."
Mora was one of 16 Indonesian students at Virginia Tech, an excellent student who had been working toward a Ph.D. in environmental and water resources engineering after obtaining a master's degree in geo-technical engineering.
Professor Panos Diplas, a Virginia Tech expert on environmental fluid mechanics, was one of Mora's two advisers 14. "What we were trying to do,” said Diplas, “was we were trying to combine his expertise 15 from geotechnical with some other issues in water resources, trying to come up with a project to capitalize on his geo-technical background to break some new ground within environmental and water resource engineering."
Mora's other adviser 13 was geo-technical engineering professor Marte Gutierrez, who at the time of Mora's death had been waiting for results of a study they both conducted on how to design better ways for vehicles to move in difficult terrains 16.
It was Mora's intelligence and good manners that left a deep impression on Professor Gutierrez, who plans on creating a web site in honor of his beloved student. "People should not remember the way he died, but the way he lived, the way he tried to improve his life, and I hope that he will remain as a model for many young people who want to study and improve their lives, because it's by studying that you become a better person," said the professor.
- 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。
- He received a posthumous award for bravery.他表现勇敢,死后受到了嘉奖。
- The legendary actor received a posthumous achievement award.这位传奇男星在过世后获得终身成就奖的肯定。
- 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。
- The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
- His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
- He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
- He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官,递上了一张简短的便条进去。
- The silver cup was engraved with his name. 银杯上刻有他的名字。
- It was prettily engraved with flowers on the back. 此件雕刻精美,背面有花饰图案。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
- They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
- He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
- He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
- My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福,却被误解为多管闲事。
- The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
- A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。
- They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
- Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
- a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
- She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。
- We were amazed at his expertise on the ski slopes.他斜坡滑雪的技能使我们赞叹不已。
- You really have the technical expertise in a new breakthrough.让你真正在专业技术上有一个全新的突破。