时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:白领英语晨读


英语课
A Harvard commencement is a special occasion.How could anyone not have been thrilled by this morning's assembly?25,000people packed in the Harvard yard to celebrate one of the great occasions of life.I loved it all,and I love this great gathering 1 again and I've especially enjoyed my 25th reunion。

  哈佛大学的毕业典礼是一个特别的时刻。有谁不会为今早的集会感到激动呢?两万五千人聚集在哈佛广场上来庆祝生命中的盛大时刻之一。我喜欢它,非常喜欢这次集会,非常高兴能第25次参加校友会。

 I believe in you,all of you here,individually and as a group.The cynics say you are motivated principally by greed and that ultimate1y you will care for nothing other than yourselves.But the cynics are wrong.You care about each other,you cherish freedom,you treasure justice,you seek truth.And finally,I believe in America.Cynics will say we've lost our ways that the American century is at its end.But again,the cynics are wrong.Ainerica is stiIl the model to which the world aspires 2.Almost everywhere in the world the values that the US has proclaimed,defended ,and tried to live are now rising.In the end we face a fundamental chice:cynicism or faith,each equally capable of taking root in our souls and shaping our lives as self fulfilling prophecies.I believe we must open our hearts to each other and build on all the vast and creative possibilities of America.This is a task for a confident people,which is what we have been throughout our history and what we still are in our deepest character.I believe in our future.

  我相信你们,这里的每一个人,无论是个人还是作为一个整体。愤世嫉俗者称,你们主要被贪欲所驱使,最终你们除了自己以外对什么都会漠不关心。但他们错了。你们相互关心,你们珍惜自由,你们崇尚公正,你们追求真理。然而最终,我相信美国。愤世嫉俗者会说,我们迷失了自己的方向,美国时代已一去不复返。但他们又错了。美国仍是世界所瞩目的典范,几乎世界的每一个角落,美国所声称捍卫的和生存着的价值观都在为越来越多的人所接受。最终我们将面临一项重要的抉择:犬儒主义还是信仰,二者都能在我们的灵魂中扎根,并像一个自我预言的实现一样来塑造我们的生活。我相信我们必须对他人开启我们的心灵,并依赖于美国的巨大的富于创造力的可能性。我们在自己书写的历史上充当的角色,在心灵深处我们仍然所充当的角色,这是一个充满信心的民族s的任务。我相信我们的未来。

1 gathering
n.集会,聚会,聚集
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
2 aspires
v.渴望,追求( aspire的第三人称单数 )
  • The fame to which he aspires was beyond his reach. 他追求的名誉乃是他所不能及的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • An old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop a thousand li. 老骥伏枥,志在千里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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AAAAs
abnormal flood level
aesthetic diagnosis
airfoil mean line
all comes to all
arpaillange
back measurement
birthmark
bitrexes
blast furnace block
briza maxima l.
castor oil capacitor
Changsaduk
charge difference
cities
colouring
commission printer
common ratio effect (allais)
compartment dryer
configutor
constant-voltage motor
cudgel one's brain s
Dneprovskoye
dog-and-pony shows
earthy gypsum
eats dirt
endeavorer
entrapped cold shot
fabrianoes
Florida yew
fluvioglacial deposit
follow-up ship
full duplex primary station
fusibility diagram
gaseous insulant
Gband
genders
go behind
gomal p. (gumal p.)
gradient-like diffeomorphism
gritrocks
gummy bear
heptarchists
Higashituno
host plant specificity
hydraulic jumbo
hypo elimination
hysterical blindness
ibi
interior ministry
jammeh
Levite
Liebig
Liparis resupinata
Lord Northcliffe
malengine
Maundy Thursday
meetin'
merrinesses
milk pea
mo(u)ld inhibitor
monocharged
naphthameine
nasty
natterjack
Neumann line
nongardener
oleum aurantii amari
own-branded
oxygen scavenging
phenylaminopyrimidine
pilijanine
porphyrizes
position light
premachandra
prised
pulse transistor
review formation
ryft
scheduled exercise
shift microoperation
shoot for the stars
shotman
side-stream treatment
silylenes
single axial mode operation
stock-index futuress
subreligions
sulfated bitter spring
surrounding rock pressure
talamini
transaction table
trichiliocosm
tuppenny-ha'penny
Tuscola County
two-input multiplexer
tyre vulcanizer
u nu
U.S. Congress
Una District
wet dropsy
zepto-watt