名校励志英语演讲 104:执着于你的梦想(9)

Now, what did this 92 year-old black woman do that deserved such great honor? What did she do? Well, in 1955, the days of racial segregation, she had refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. She had refused. Her simple refusal to move t

名校励志英语演讲 105:执着于你的梦想(10)

My motherin-law, Eunice Kennedy ShriverI always like to mention her, because it gets me on the good side of hershe, for instance, started an organization called Special Olympics. She stared Special Olympics which is for people with mental disabilitie

名校励志英语演讲 98:执着于你的梦想(3)

And today I want to talk to you a little bit about the dreams, about the dreams of your future, and dreams for this country. 今天，我想跟你们谈谈梦想，关于畅想你们未来的梦想，关于中国的梦想。 I want to talk to you a l

名校励志英语演讲 114:21世纪的挑战(8)

Last year, President Jiang and I asked senior Chinese and American law enforcement officials to step up our cooperation against these predators, to stop money from being laundered, to stop aliens from being cruelly smuggled, to stop currencies from b

名校励志英语演讲 115:21世纪的挑战(9)

If the nations of the world do not reduce the gases which are causing global warming, sometime in the next century there is a serious risk of dramatic changes in climate which will change the way we live and the way we work, which could literally bur

名校励志英语演讲 116:21世纪的挑战(10)

The evidence is clear that does not have to happen. You will actually have more rapid economic growth and better paying jobs, leading to higher levels of education and technology if we do this in the proper way. But you and the university, communitie

名校励志英语演讲 117:21世纪的挑战(11)

In the 21st century, your generation will have a remarkable opportunity to bring together the talents of our scientists, doctors, engineers into a shared quest for progress. Already the breakthroughs we have achieved in our areas of joint cooperation

名校励志英语演讲 118:21世纪的挑战(12)

From the windows of the White House, where I live in Washington, D.C., the monument to our first President, George Washington, dominates the skyline. It is a very tall obelisk. But very near this large monument there is a small stone which contains t

名校励志英语演讲 119:21世纪的挑战(13)

These are the ideals that were at the core of our founding over 220 years ago. These are the ideas that led us across our continent and onto the world stage. These are the ideals that Americans cherish today. 这些就是220年前美国立国的核心理

名校励志英语演讲 120:21世纪的挑战(14)

Today we do not seek to impose our vision on others, but we are convinced that certain rights are universalnot American rights or European rights or rights for developed nations, but the birthrights of people everywhere, now enshrined in the United N

名校励志英语演讲 112:21世纪的挑战(6)

Today, technology has made us all virtual neighbors. From laptops to lasers, from microchips to megabytes, an information revolution is lighting the landscape of human knowledge, bringing us all closer together. Ideas, information, and money cross th

名校励志英语演讲 113:21世纪的挑战(7)

On the Indian subcontinent, just as most of the rest of the world is moving away from nuclear danger, India and Pakistan risk sparking a new arms race. We are now pursuing a common strategy to move India and Pakistan away from further testing and tow

名校励志英语演讲 111:21世纪的挑战(5)

In the face of these challenges new systems of training and social security will have to be devised, and new environmental policies and technologies will have to be introduced with the goal of growing your economy while improving the environment. Eve

名校励志英语演讲 110:21世纪的挑战(4)

As a result you have lifted literally hundreds of millions of people from poverty. Per capita income has more than doubled in the last decade. Most Chinese people are leading lives they could not have imagined just 20 years ago. 因此，贵国帮助成

名校励志英语演讲 109:21世纪的挑战(3)

I come here today to talk to you, the next generation of China's leaders, about the critical importance to your future of building a strong partnership between China and the United States. 你们是中国下一代的领导者。我今天要跟你们讲

名校励志英语演讲 108:21世纪的挑战(2)

I am, however, grateful that this day is different in one important respect from another important occasion 79 years ago. In June of 1919, the first president of Yenching University, John Leighton Stuart, was set to deliver the very first commencemen

名校励志英语演讲 107:21世纪的挑战(1)

Thank you. Thank you, President Chen, Chairmen Ren, Vice President Chi, Vice Minister Wei.We are delighted to be here today with a very large American delegation, including the First Lady and our daughter, who is a student at Stanford, one of the sch

名校励志英语演讲 121:21世纪的挑战(15)

Economic security also can be an essential element of freedom. It is recognized in the United Nations Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. In China, you have made extraordinary strides in nurturing that liberty, and spreading freedom fr

名校励志英语演讲 122:21世纪的挑战(16)

The question is, where do we go from here? How do we work together to be on the right side of history together? More than 50 years ago, Hu Shi, one of your great political thinkers and a teacher at this university, said these words: Now some people s

名校励志英语演讲 123:21世纪的挑战(17)

In the world we live in, this global information age, constant improvement and change is necessary to economic opportunity and to national strength. Therefore, the freest possible flow of information, ideas, and opinions, and a greater respect for di