时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:晨读英语美文60篇


英语课

Speech Given by Colin Lucas at Beijing University(科林·卢卡斯在北京大学的演说)


牛津大学副校长科林·卢卡斯在北京大学的演说


Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues:


Because I am the Vice-Chancellor of the oldest of the foreign universities represented here today, I have been chosen to speak on their behalf. I am pleased to be their voice in presenting our heartfelt congratulations to the professors, teachers, researchers and students of Peking University on the 100th anniversary of its foundation.


Our universities form a great intellectual community round the world. Science has no nationality; knowledge belongs to everyone.


Our universities creat new knowledge. They teah this knowledge, together with that of other universities and also the best of the great storehouse of knowledge, which those who came before us have uncovered, tested and accumulated.


All universities contibute to the prosperity and success of their country. They also conserve 1 the culture and inheritance specific to their country's civization. But, they do more. Knowledge is secure only when it is hard won by the independent tests of accuracy, rational explanation and ture. So, when we teach our students skills, we also give them values. On the one side, these are values for personal and civic 2 conduct. On the other side, these values underwrite the personal need for independent understanding which is the source of human creativity.


These duties give universities a high responsibility. They are rooted in a great and fine tradition of honesty. university is a beacon 3 of light in its own society and, by its association with its sisters, its knowledge and its values are spread wide.


A tradition is not built easily ir quickly. During one hundred years, Peking University has been fashioning its tradition. Present and future members of the University! We hope to see you elaborate and consolidate 4 your tradition. We hope to see you become a keystone of the intellectual community. In your next century, we hope to see you contribute to the international academic movement as a whole, as more and more of you numbers come to paticipate in the activities of your sister universities.


Congratulations, Peking University on your first century of achievement!



1 conserve
vt.保存,保护,节约,节省,守恒,不灭
  • He writes on both sides of the sheet to conserve paper.他在纸张的两面都写字以节省用纸。
  • Conserve your energy,you'll need it!保存你的精力,你会用得着的!
2 civic
adj.城市的,都市的,市民的,公民的
  • I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
  • The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。
3 beacon
n.烽火,(警告用的)闪火灯,灯塔
  • The blink of beacon could be seen for miles.灯塔的光亮在数英里之外都能看见。
  • The only light over the deep black sea was the blink shone from the beacon.黑黢黢的海面上唯一的光明就只有灯塔上闪现的亮光了。
4 consolidate
v.使加固,使加强;(把...)联为一体,合并
  • The two banks will consolidate in July next year. 这两家银行明年7月将合并。
  • The government hoped to consolidate ten states to form three new ones.政府希望把十个州合并成三个新的州。
学英语单词
3-furylboric acid
a single entity
Aeschynanthus superbus
alliterational
angle deflectin
Argyrokastron
artificial forest regeneration
autographize
automatic booster control
automatic data rate changer
autonomic nervous system (ans)
benesh
bluffin'
brevirostrine
briefing centre
Bugrino
cab-operated overhead crane
cheiracanthium filiapophysium
chemical engineering thermodynamics
chemical tissue test
communication executive
community agency
community facility
construction site plan
Corylopsis alnifolia
Cravit
Curonian
curve fitting compaction
Dandenong Ra.
dapphniphyllum longistylium chien
dating routine
declaration of income
deposits of one-year maturity
double photogrammetric chamber
enad
erogenous zones
external vocal sac
family viverridaes
fin-line
gang sawing technique
Gaussian amplifier
geographic synecology
Glen Canyon
Grosser Galtenberg
herf
hidden conductor
hydrorubeanic acid
infra-acoustic frequency
instrument landing system glide path
Iodine-123-IMP
Jerusalem artichoke sunflower
jonquils
keep sb under restraint
kerplops
kleren
loss of flesh
NHSR
no-alcohol
non metallic inorganic coating
nonlinear estimation routine
odontoblast process
oleometers
option feature
outboarder
panifications
pay-claim
period vector
poison arrow frog
primehood
ratos
razy
recipient stream
redshifting
reimaginings
remote feed control
renal failures
rice-field eel
ride the fence
Rubus ellipticus
rule of conflict of laws
saecg
sclerocele
scooched
seaquake
secondary treatment
Shalav
shrimpin'
sisted
Skene, Loch of
storyless
subacute myelo-optico-neuropathy
superior rectuss
Techsci
thiol chelating agent
treating heat syndrome with cold methods
trolnitrate
unequivocalnesses
unindustrious
utriculosaccular duct (or sacculo-utricular canal)
vitrificacious
warehouse keeper's order
water transparency recorder