时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:公众人物毕业演讲


英语课

 There is no secret society out there


外面没有秘密帮会
that will tap you on the shoulder one night and show you the way
能够某天晚上轻拍你的肩膀 给你指明方向
because the true secret is
因为真正的秘密在于
your life will not be defined by the society that we have left you
你的生命并不是由我们留给你们的社会所定义
to paraphrase Robert Bolt
转述罗伯特·鲍特的一句话
society has no more idea of what you are than you do
社会对你一无所知 它只能看到你做了什么
because ultimately
因为最终
it has only your brains to think with
社会将只能通过你们的大脑来思考
Every generation must define itself
每一代人必须定义自身
and so make the world that suits itself
从而让世界适宜于自身
So
因此
if you must find your own path
如果你必须找到自己的道路
and we have left you no easy path
而且我们没有留下任何容易的道路
then decide now to choose the hard path
那么你们现在就必须选择难的道路
that leads to the life and the world that you want
从而获得你们想要的生活和世界
and don't worry
不要担心
if we don't approve of your choices
我们不赞同你们的选择
In our benign self absorption
在我们良性的自我陶醉中
I believe we have given you a gift
我相信我们给了你们一个礼物
a particular form of independence
一种特殊形态的独立性
because you do not owe the previous generation anything
因为你们不欠上一代人任何东西
Thanks to us
幸亏有我们
you owe it to the Chinese
你们只欠中国人的
So have the courage
你们要有勇气
to follow the example of your founder Thomas Jefferson
以你们学校的创建者托马斯·杰斐逊为榜样
the greatest mind of that most daring generation
以这位最大胆一代中的伟人为榜样
to create something new for yourselves
为你们自己创造全新的世界

学英语单词
accouterments
acoustical property
activated petroleum coke
air carriers
apply sth to
bankruptcy costs
beach terrace
binetrakin
Brani, Pulau
caliculus ophthalmicus
Caput radii
card image transaction
cardinalises
charge coupled device camera
coil circuit
computerized telephone
cybertrails
cyttopsis rosea
debouched
demand file
demonopathy
desalvo
disappearance point
double rotary engine
dressed fish
Elbenyl dye
electron plasma
EMPSKED
epinephelus undulosus
exponentiator
facultative microganism
family Cephalotaxaceae
genus vaccarias
Gonadocrinins
grounded hummock
h shares
haploglobin
heat proof material
helicoid surface
hexopyranoses
hierarchical directed graph
hukkas
ice-contact terrace
intencion
Kitasatosporia
Koulikoro, Région de
law of persons
linbeck
liquid helium vessel
loss of moisture
make a balk of good ground
mercurial salivation
Microsoft Transaction Server
mishallowed
monotemporal
morning glory syndrome
newsouth
noches
on-off keying (ook) modulation
Orobanche mongolica
pan process
paumes
picture measuring apparatus
preinitializes
pyometras
real algebraic number
recut tire
renewal of tree
rotating disk electrode
Saad
Samcheok
sand-rubbed finish
saturated salt-water drilling fluid
search and rescue operational control
sector air defense commander
Sejerslev
semen cucurbitae
separado
sieve
slanting readjustment
slope fan
source related limits
spinal subarachnoid hemorrhage
splitrate
stalinize
standing rule of court
strategic transformation
structural mill
sulfochlorophenol S
superconductive suspension
supplement unemployment benefit
supporting treatment
surface-to-air guided weapon (sagw)
theaters of operations
through composed
tibbetts
Todrazoline
tooth ripple
unilateralis
Venosum
well-inclined
zooxanthellate frame-builders