公众人物毕业演讲第18期:迈克尔·彭博哈佛大学2014毕业典礼演讲(10)-英语课

时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：公众人物毕业演讲

英语课

　　Let's get serious

　　让我们严肃一些
　　When 86 Americans are killed with guns every single day
　　每天都有86位美国人死于枪杀
　　and shootings regularly occur at our schools and universities
　　枪击事件也经常发生在校园中
　　including last week's tragedy at Santa Barbara
　　包括上周发生在圣巴巴拉的悲剧
　　it would be almost medical malpractice to say anything else
　　但除此之外再说什么估计都会被认为是医疗失当
　　But in politics as it is on far too many college campuses
　　在政治上也同很多大学校园中发生的一样
　　people don't listen to facts that run counter to their ideology 1
　　人们不愿意听到同自己意识形态想抵触的事实
　　They fear them
　　他们害怕它们
　　And nothing is more frightening to them than scientific evidence
　　而且没有什么比科学证据更让他们害怕的了
　　Earlier this year
　　今年早些时候
　　the State of South Carolina adopted new science standards for its public schools
　　南卡罗来纳州对公立学校采用了新标准
　　but the state legislature blocked any mention of natural selection 2
　　州议会竟然禁止人们提到自然选择
　　That's like teaching economics 3 without mentioning supply and demand
　　这就像是教经济学却不讲供需
　　Once again, you have to ask: What are they afraid of?
　　还是需要问那个问题他们害怕什么
　　The answer, of course, is obvious
　　答案很显然
　　Just as members of Congress fear data that undermines their ideological beliefs
　　同国会议员害怕数据破坏他们的意识形态一样
　　these state legislators fear scientific evidence
　　这些州议会议员害怕科学证据
　　that undermines their religious beliefs
　　破坏他们的宗教信念
　　And if you want proof of that, consider this
　　想要证据的人可以考虑这个
　　An 8-year-old girl in South Carolina
　　南卡罗来纳的一位八岁女孩
　　wrote to members of the state legislature
　　给州议会议员们写了一封信
　　urging them to make the woolly mammoth the official state fossil
　　请他们将猛犸象定为官方州化石
　　The legislators thought it was a great idea
　　州议员们认为这个主意很好
　　because a woolly mammoth fossil was found in the state way back in 1725
　　因为猛犸象化石早在1725年就发现于州里
　　But the state senate passed a bill defining the woolly mammoth as having been
　　然后州参议院通过的法案中却将猛犸象定义为
　　"created on the 6th day with the beasts of the field"
　　"创造于陆生动物创生的第六天"
　　You can't make this stuff up
　　这些东西不能胡编乱造
　　Here in 21st century America
　　在二十一世纪的美国
　　the wall between church and state remains under attack
　　教会和国家之间的壁垒仍在受到攻击
　　and it's up to all of us to man the barricades
　　这就需要我们来维持两者的分离
　　Unfortunately
　　很不幸的是
　　Unfortunately
　　很不幸的是
　　the same elected officials who put ideology and religion over data and science
　　将意识形态和宗教观念强加到枪支和进化论的
　　when it comes to guns and evolution are
　　这些民选官员大多也正是
　　often the most unwilling to accept the scientific data on climate change
　　不愿承认气候变化科学证据的那些人