公众人物毕业演讲 第157期:比尔·奈马萨诸塞大学2014(4)
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：公众人物毕业演讲
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Skyrocketed to over 50 cents a liter 2 dollars a gallon, everybody
猛涨到50多美分一升2美元一加仑 大伙
Now we're the last country
我们是最后一个国家
I'm hoping someday we'll get leaders in gasoline as well as other things
我希望有一天我们能够有汽油及其它东西的领袖
Back then we were still in the throes of the disco era
当时 我们还处在迪斯科年代
We had leisure suits the Chevy Vega the Ford 1 Pinto
我们有休闲套装雪佛兰织女星福特平托
I mean everybody these were things that no designer, no engineer and especially no lawyer could be proud of
我想跟大家说的是这些绝对不是设计师 工程师 特别是律师会感到自豪的
Now we're in the depth of the most serious environmental crisis in human history
现在我们正处在人类历史上最严重的环境危机之中
in that I include the most recently Ice Age because things are happening faster than ever before
这包括最近的一次冰期因为一切都比任何时候发生得更迅猛
but I believe you all can help us avoid disaster but I'm also hoping you can help us avoid another disco era
不过我相信你们所有人能够帮助我们避免灾难我也相信 你们能够帮助我们避免另一次迪斯科年代
When my great-grandmother refused to let my grandmother go for a ride on the Wright Brothers' new flying machine in College Park Maryland
当我的曾祖母拒绝让我祖母在马里兰大学帕克分校登上莱特兄弟新发明的飞行机器时
there were about one and three quarters of a billion people in the world
世界总人口大约只有17.5亿
During World War II while my father worked a shovel in the Japanese Prisoner of War camp
在二战时期我父亲在日本战俘营做劳工
and my mother was a Navy lieutenant and a cryptographer working to decipher the German enigma code
而我母亲则是一位海军上尉她的工作是破解德军密码
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