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
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additional base point
advancing wave
aim-crier
aspector
at a proper time
banking steam turbine
Battery Switchover
be next of kin
blindingness
borsches
branchite
bullethole
california tuna
Carpophthora
change partners
chicken-turtle
condenser receiver
congruent transformation
continental glacier
corpora fibrosum simplex
Corydalis tomentella
cosmic abundance
coulisses
crown control
curry house
cut her loose
cycleanorine
dargans
degage
dependent power operating mechanism
dry infusion
economize manpower and material resources
eitan
epitonium townsendi
fail-safe equipment
far-away
first person
fluctuating echo
focal conscious
foetid gland
foundation improvement
fuel farm
fumaric acid dimethyl ester
gelatinization temperature
get one's wish
give someone the sack
glaciologically
Gossampinus malabarica
grassy area
gutta percha cone
hakea lissospermas
half-power beam width
heating medium outlet
heating resisting metal
high temperature flame
hundred-and-fifteenth
Inverkirkaig
isobutyric acid amyl ester
large-amplitude-slosh liquid dynamics
latta
law of honour
Mariscus aristatus
menyuer
mercury scoop
molded sugar cane
multipurpose meter
natural electric field
network number
nucleon gas
O-type gun
over-cultivation
physical occupancy
provincial auditor general
Radcliff report
regular hemimorphic class
resel
robertson
s line
sale and lease-back transactions
screw-thread steel
sea lettuce (ulva lactuca)
shaped graphite brick
spycatching
structure fomula
sudden wealth syndrome
supersavers
sweet-tooth
synoptic radio meteorology
the whole bit
Theobroma L.
Thomson submachine gun
three primes theorem
traditionbound
traducible
transgenderizes
turridrupa albofasciata
two-fold door
vacciniforme
video relay service
water quality forecast
willmott