奥巴马美国军事学院(20)

American leadership 美国领导 In each of these cases, we should not expect change to happen overnight 所有这些情况下 我们都不应当指望变化在一夜间实现 That's why we form alliances not just with governments, but also with ordinary people 正因为如此 我们才同政府 甚至普通民众建立起联盟 For unlike other nations, America is not afraid of individual empowerment we are strengthen...

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奥巴马美国军事学院(19)

Technology is empowering civil society in ways that no iron fist can control 科技让公民社会变得更加强大这是任何"铁拳"都无法掌控的 New breakthroughs are lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty 新的突破正让数以亿计的人摆脱贫困 And even the upheaval of the Arab World reflects the rejection of an authoritarian order that was anything but stable 甚至阿拉伯...

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奥巴马美国军事学院(21)

This should be one of the hard-earned lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan where our military became the strongest advocate for diplomacy and development 这是伊拉克和阿富汗的艰苦经历告诉我们的我们的军队已经成为外交和发展最有力的倡导者 They understood that foreign assistance is not an afterthought something nice to do apart from our national defense, apart from our national securi...

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奥巴马美国军事学院(23)

We have been through a long season of war 我们经历了漫长的战争 We have faced trials that were not foreseen 我们面临过无法预见的考验 And we've seen divisions about how to move forward 也产生过关于如何前进的分歧 But there is something in Gavin's character 不过加文有一种品质 There is something in the American character that will always triumph 我们美国人具有一种品质 这...

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奥巴马美国军事学院(15)

Similarly, despite frequent warnings from the United States and Israel and others the Iranian nuclear program steadily advanced for years 类似地 不顾美国 以色列等国家的频繁警告伊朗一意孤行 多年来一直推进着核计划 But at the beginning of my presidency we built a coalition that imposed sanctions on the Iranian economy while extending the hand of diplomacy to the Iranian governm...

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奥巴马美国军事学院(14)

Now, there are a lot of folks, a lot of skeptics who often downplay the effectiveness of multilateral action 有很多质疑者 经常贬低多边行动的有效性 For them, working through international institutions like the U.N. or respecting international law is a sign of weakness 在他们看来 通过联合国这样的国际机构 或是尊重国际法来解决问题 是美国示弱的信号 I think they're wrong 我认...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(7)

Not to be afraid of a failure, the opportunity to begin again 不会因为失败而感到畏惧 有机会从头再来 This whole thing comes down in the end to what do we think the future would be better if we face it with open hands or closed fists. 这一切说到底 都取决于 我们认为要以张开的双手还是握紧的双拳 来面对未来 才能让未来变得更好 One of the things that heartened me when President Obam...

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米歇尔·奥巴马在欧柏林学院毕业典礼上的演讲

Hi! How are you all doing? Are you sure?Well, let me just tell you, it is beyond a pleasure and an honor to be here with all of you today. I want to start by thanking President Krislov for that very kind introduction, as well as all of the trustees, the faculty, the staff here at Oberlin. I also want to tell you how proud and how moved I am to receive this honorary degree fr...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(9)

Now, in addition of that we now know that it is scientifically true 此外 有一个铁的事实我们都已经知道了 I spent three billion dollars of your money to finish the sequencing of human genome 就是我花了你们三十亿美元 用来完成人类基因测序 Now all the people in the sciences will tell you what has happened for that, it's the best money we have spended 现在 所有科学界的人们都会...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(12)

Perhaps we'll never know what tipped the scales for those young men who did that terrible thing at the Boston Marathon 也许我们永远不会得知是什么 让那些年轻人决定在波士顿马拉松赛上做出如此可怕的事情 Perhaps we will never fully understand what happened to that young man who drove the car bomb into Times Square 也许我们永远不会明白 那个将汽车炸弹开进时报广场的年轻人是怎么...

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拉加德在伊利诺伊理工大学2015年毕业典礼上的演讲

Good morning. It is a great honor to return to IIT and celebrate together. I would like to thank President Anderson for his kind invitation and all of you for your warm welcome. I would also like to thank all faculty members who have done so much to bring us here today. Let me start with a full disclosure of my highly personal interest in today’s ceremony. I am the proud mot...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(11)

And the person with the highest measured IQ here, in this entire crowd, the biggest genius here went into another room 然后再选出你们当中智商最高的人让这位最聪明的人进另一个房间 And then we just kept feeding questions in there 然后我们不停地向两组问问题 How do you solve this problem? That's um… 如何解决这个问题? 比如说 How can we end world hunger? 如何能解决世界饥...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(15)

I said, through my interpreter, what's the word in your… do you have a word in your language that could be a name that means new beginning? 我通过翻译问她 你们有没有一个词 你们的语言中有没有一个能用来做名字的词语 意为新的开始 And this woman got a big smile on her face, and she said to me through the interpreter, she said yes, lucky for you 这位女士挂着大大的笑容 通...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(6)

So there is a lot of inequality in this world 所以说这个世界有太多的不平等 There is a lot of instability in this world 这个世界有太多的不稳定 Manifested by the financial crisis that had quickly spread across the world, but also in how all these wonderful open borders could lead to what happened to a Boston Marathon 这体现在了金融危机能够在世界范围内快速扩散 也体现在那些美妙...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(13)

Because of the disaster, a longstanding civil conflict in Indonesia was settled 由于这场灾难 印度尼西亚的长期民事冲突得到了解决 Because we brought back the fishing to them together, 因为我们重振了他们的捕鱼业 We brought new opportunities to grow and sell coffee to them together 我们为他们带来了种植和销售咖啡的新机会 But in every disaster as you remember from Katrina and as w...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(10)

The other thing is, before we get too arrogant about this 但别骄傲 另外一件事就是 We all spend 99.5% of our time to think about the 0.5% of us is different. 我们每个人都花费99.5%的时间 去想我们那0.5%的不同 Don't we? All of us 是吧 我们所有人 You walk down to the street, by a store window and you see your reflection 你在街上走 在商店窗户上看到了自己的映像 You think, oh I ...

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Snapchat创始人斯皮格尔在南加州大学毕业典礼上的演讲

Dean Ellis, honored guests, faculty, family, friends, and the Class of 2015, I cannot begin to express my gratitude for your generosity today. Thank you so much for inviting me to join you in celebrating your graduation! Three years ago, I could never have comprehended such an opportunity. Thank you, thank you, thank you. About three years ago today, I was right where you ar...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(4)

We were like this on the lawn at Georgetown just across the town 我们就像这样坐在城那边乔治敦的草地上 It started out to be a clear day 一开始还天朗气清 Then all of a sudden, this huge storm cloud came over 突然之间暴风云袭来 And the lightening began to dance in the sky 天空中开始电闪雷鸣 And a Howard graduate, the mayor of Wasington D.C., Walter Washington stood up at the po...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(5)

They simply did whatever was at hand in whatever form it present itself to put food on the table and if they had a family, to support their families 他们不过是按照其所呈现的形式做些手头的事情 把食品放在桌子上 如果他们有家庭的话 那就是供养家人 You have a choice 你们则可以选择 The only bit of personal advice I have is this: 我所能给予的唯一的一点个人建议是 Try to do something ...

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苹果CEO库克在乔治·华盛顿大学2015毕业典礼上的演讲

Hello GW. Thank you very much, President Knapp, for that kind intro. Alex, trustees, faculty and deans of the university, my fellow honorees, and especially you the class of 2015. Yes. Congratulations to you, to your family, to your friends that are attending today's ceremony. You made it. It's a privilege, a rare privilege of a lifetime to be with you today. And I t...

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