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
adjustment in direction
anomuran
Automatic Styles
bankruptcy amendment act
Bavendorf
be in doubt
bicentennially
brass scrap
bread-paste
bring the water to someone's mouth
bung
button ferns
chiasmatic groove
Chāh-e Khoshāb
closing error in departure
colorimetric standard
Cortisoni
counter rope
denomination currency
dispatcher telephone device
earth atmospheric optics
echo depth sounding sonar
electron beam processing machine
element 105
end-of-the-year
equivoke
finds out
foreign investment audit bureau
fullfeatured
Gas Carburising
gingals
gryposis Penis
hammer stroke
healthing
High Energy Astronomy Observatory
hypnagogic hallucination
illegal publication
in big strides
inquart
interbit
interstage coupling method
invariance requirement
ionospher
Kibangou
Late Gothic
lime-washed
logon (log on,log-on)
Lutrinae
Madeleines, Anse des
Methymazol
Nadeine
net cage
nonstriker
only as a matter of form
orphan pseudovirion
osmates
ox blood
P.M.E.
particulate hybrid
pegmatite uranium deposit
pillarlet
platinum difluoride
play out
plum pine
pore reducer mask
post-mortems
potagre
pull by
randomized act
reflecting interface
remodeled electric automobile
resonance blocking
screenlike
scsasmsbsrsisdsgses-s
Sembilan, Selat
separation of spectra
service aid
short memory
sichuan-style
side placement method
skull-face
stacked-up
stay-line method
sun worshipers
tert-amyl isovalerate
thermal NO x
throatfuls
timit
top-arch
track stresses
trivial movement
truzman
unpillaged
UNRPR
Urin-tek
value of statistical item
vannus
well enclosure
x ray burster
Ylikiiminki
Yoribon