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
Acela Republican
alizarin brilliant pure blue
ataxic aphasia
bathing-machine
bioisotope
blabbermouths
Burravoe
cams
cipfas
circuit membrane
cleddau
combination hub
commercialist
copying cutting
coronavirus group ii winter dysentery
corridor trains
custom memory
democratic elections
deskfax
Dhārwār
disconnected truck
displaced poisson distribution
doaty
double flange wheel
dyluuye
early risers
electromagnetic hypersensitivity
electron impact-chemical ionization source
fascinators
fatteningly
ferrogarnet
final customer
free myocutaneous flap
gadding plant
guslari (serbia)
hand template
hand writing recognition
handwell
hewin
hoffenblum
honey pea
inframarginalia
Iraqi Intelligence Service
je
joist bridging
Khalil
Kuusankoski
Le Raysville
leben
Lenton
local area networks
locked-in stress
m-dimensional surface
magnetic powder-impregnated tape
management of leaving and entering the country
materials productivity
mephobarbitals
meteorologic bands
mid-air
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nem.con.
neocycasine
New Englandy
one sided alternative
oral liquid preparation
panidazole
parallax difference
payment-by-results
picture breakdown
pilot contactor
poison-tipped
police substation
population development
Portland Vase
Processus alaris
radar netting
relocking
remote manipulator system
rivanol gargle
save and preserve store
Sebezhskiy Rayon
Secemin
sego
self-sustaining chain reaction
sex-determmation
sharn-penny
Shingletown
sinewize
squinties
Staphbiotic
star-connected system
subscriber network
supplicators
Talachyn
tetraisoamyl
tubulated
twist boat form
undelaying
underwater power pack
vidigal
wood sugar waste