时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:TED演讲国际问题篇


TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(2) - 英语课
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   Well, I'm the girl in that story, and the secret documents that I was interested in were located in this building, 对,我就是故事里的小女孩,而我感兴趣的秘密就藏在这栋楼里,


  the British Parliament, and the data that I wanted to get my hands on were the expense receipts of members of Parliament. 那就是英国议会,而我想拿到手的资料就是下院议员的花费收据。
  I thought this was a basic question to ask in a democracy. 我认为这是在民主社会最基本需要知道的东西。
  It wasn't like I was asking for the code to a nuclear bunker, or anything like that, 我又不是在要求知道核武器堆的密码或者类似的,
  but the amount of resistance I got from this Freedom of Information request, you would have thought I'd asked something like this. 但是,我为了知道这冠上“信息自由”的信息,可是费了不少的功夫才冲破重重阻碍,其间的困难是你不能预想到的。
  So I fought for about five years doing this, and it was one of many hundreds of requests that I made, not 我大概用了五年的时间才有今天的结果,而这只是我所提出需要了解的几百种信息的中的一点,
  I didn't, Hey, look, I didn't set out, honestly, to revolutionize the British Parliament. That was not my intention. 不过,我要说,我没有想要彻底改革英国议会。那根本不是我的意图。
  I was just making these requests as part of research for my first book. 我只是在为了我出第一本书做出的一点努力。
  But it ended up in this very long, protracted 1 legal battle 但是我确意想不到的打了这么久的官司,
  and there I was after five years fighting against Parliament in front of three of Britain's most eminent 2 High Court judges 经过长达五年与英国高院三位最杰出法官的较量,
  waiting for their ruling about whether or not Parliament had to release this data. 等待他们决定议会是否应该公开这些信息。
  And I've got to tell you, I wasn't that hopeful, because I'd seen the establishment. 今天我必须告诉你,原本并不是那么有希望,因为我见证了议会的建立。
  I thought, it always sticks together. I am out of luck. 我觉得议会做事一般是不透露的。我可能没有运气找到什么吧。
  Well, guess what? I won. Hooray. 但是,你们猜猜?我胜利了。啊哈!

adj.拖延的;延长的v.拖延“protract”的过去式和过去分词
  • The war was protracted for four years. 战争拖延了四年。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • We won victory through protracted struggle. 经过长期的斗争,我们取得了胜利。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.显赫的,杰出的,有名的,优良的
  • We are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.我们正期待一位著名科学家的来访。
  • He is an eminent citizen of China.他是一个杰出的中国公民。
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