名校励志英语演讲 124:21世纪的挑战(18)

Now, you must re-imagine China again for a new century, and your generation must be at the heart of China's regeneration. 你们必须重新想象新世纪的中国，你们这一代必然处于中国复兴的中心。 The new century is upon us. All

名校励志英语演讲 125:珍惜现在 把握将来(1)

Thank you very much to thee. Thank you. It's a...So: after over 100 years of Class Days, finally you get a British speaker. 谢谢你们，谢谢你们。这...100多年过去了，你们终于迎来了一位英国演讲者。 What took you so long?

名校励志英语演讲 126:珍惜现在 把握将来(2)

Now I know you Yale guys are smart. So what can I tell you that you don't already think you know? 我知道耶鲁学子充满了智慧，所以我能说的有哪些是你们认为自己不知道的呢？ I can tell you something of the world as I see

名校励志英语演讲 127:珍惜现在 把握将来(3)

What is at stake is immense. Will those who believe in peaceful co-existence triumph, matching the growing economic power and wealth with a politics and culture at ease with the 21st Century? Or will the victors be those that seek to use that economi

名校励志英语演讲 129:珍惜现在 把握将来(5)

So to you as individuals, what wisdom, if any, have I learnt? 那么，你们作为个人，又学到了什么样的智慧呢？ First, in fact, keep learning. Always be alive to the possibilities of the next experience, of thinking, doing and being.

名校励志英语演讲 130:珍惜现在 把握将来(6)

A good test of a person is who turns up at their funeral and with what sincerity. Try not to sit the test too early, of course. 考验一个人是否可靠的方法是看他是否参加你的葬礼，在葬礼上是否虔诚。当然不要太早就考验

名校励志英语演讲 131:珍惜现在 把握将来(7)

At least let some of them into your lives. Giving lifts the heart in a way that getting never can. Maybe it really was Oscar Wilde who said: No one ever died, saying if only I had one more day at the office. 至少要让其中的一部分理想融入你

名校励志英语演讲 132:珍惜现在 把握将来(8)

But as a parent let me tell you something about parents. Despite all rational impulses, despite all evidence to the contrary, despite what we think you do to us and what you think we do to youand yes, it is often hell on both sidesthe plain, unvarnis

名校励志英语演讲 133:珍惜现在 把握将来(9)

My Dad greeted me. There were all his friends at the station. Beside me, their kids looked paragons of respectability. 我的父亲跟我打招呼，车站到处是他的朋友。那里除了我之外，其他小孩看上去都很体面。 He saw the

名校励志英语演讲 134:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(1)

It is such an honor and pleasure for me to be back at Yale, especially on the occasion of the 300th anniversary. I have had so many memories of my time here, and as Nick was speaking I thought about how I ended up at Yale Law School. And it tells a l

名校励志英语演讲 135:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(2)

But, Ive been very fortunate because Ive always had an idea in my mind about what I thought was important and what gave my life meaning and purpose. A set of values and beliefs that have helped me navigate the shoals, the sometimes very treacherous s

名校励志英语演讲 128:珍惜现在 把握将来(4)

The world in which you, in time to come, will take the reins, cannot afford a return to 20th century struggles for hegemony. 即将到来的时代是你们掌控的时代，决不能退回到20世纪的霸权争夺中去。 The characteristic of this

名校励志英语演讲 143:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(10)

Thirty-two years ago, I spoke at my own graduation from Wellesley, where I did call on my fellow classmates to reject the notion of limitations on our ability to effect change and instead to embrace the idea that the goal of education should be human

名校励志英语演讲 136:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(3)

I was there because of Billy Jean King promoting an HBO special about women in sports called Dare to compete. It was about Title IX and how we finally, thanks to government action, provided opportunities to girls and women in sports. 我去那儿是因

名校励志英语演讲 137:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(4)

I'm sure you'll receive good advice. You're got a great education to go back and reflect about what is right for you, but you eventually will have to choose and I hope that you will dare to compete. And by that I don't mean the kind of cutthroat comp

名校励志英语演讲 138:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(5)

They lack the freedom to choose their lifes path. Theyre imprisoned by circumstances of poverty and ignorance, bigotry, disease, hunger, oppression and war. 他们没有选择人生道路的自由。他们被贫穷、无知、偏执、疾病、饥饿、

名校励志英语演讲 139:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(6)

And thank you for caring enough to demand that our nation do more to help those that are suffering throughout this world with HIV/AIDS, to prevent this pandemic from spreading even further. 在此我要感谢那些呼吁我们国家给予全世界的艾

名校励志英语演讲 140:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(7)

And so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics. Dare to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics. Some have called you the generation of choice. You've been raised with multiple choice tests,

名校励志英语演讲 141:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(8)

Well, I admit there is enough truth in that critique to justify feeling disconnected and alienated. But at bottom, thats a personal cop-out and a national peril. Political conditions maximize the conditions for individual opportunity and responsibili

名校励志英语演讲 142:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(9)

It is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about; rather its a silent conspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our popular culture and in our prodigious consumerism. 在一个大众文化和高消费的国度