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
active trade
adwatch
aerodynamic model
andhi
archaeocyathids
atomic fuel
bacteridia
be taken in the toils
bgi
breets
Brinsworth
bronchial adenocarcinoma
bronchiogenic
brush arm
business-to-business ec
cachectic aphthae
carbon-break switch
chart of standardization
chlorbutamide
coeducational colleges and universities
collision diagram
colysis wrightii
condensing rate
conidiomata
connection cable
consecrater
coquetter
cyc-
DAA
deines
dertouzos
detector heater
devens
dielectric absorption
diethyleneglycol diethyl ether
dive bombers
divertingness
double triode
dropped in
drunk tanks
dual-diffused MOS
eosinophilic granuloma of bone
Eurysiphonata(Nautiloidea)
expanding earth theory
face men
field general court-martial
fine glass rod
Gavilán, Pta.
geolinguist
greinke
heavy current feedthrough
hilve
house dust mite
ill afford
image contrast
isthmuss of tehuantepec
Jiaoliao old land
Le Sen
linearrization
loading and dischanging rate
long-legged fly
lymphochoriomeningitis
machine pistols
matrix of domination
micro bearing
microprocessor instrument
mobile educational service
mothproofs
multisync monitor
neocytheretta weimingella
Neuenrade
neutron embrittlement
open ... head
operational statement
Osaka
output limiting facility
Palcopsychology
panel vibration
place of erection
politicial
rate-sensitive
rattlebrained
register of writs
senologist
shearest
SOED
someone walking over my grave
speical purpose telephone
sturnus
superpremiums
tape resident system
taxiway lighting system
tea-leaf steaming machine
telemechanisation
thaw(ing)
thrash something out
underfeatured
unslashed
variable cost dynamics
viggers
walk-though
white light holography