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Requiring scholars and commencement speakers, for that matter 因此 要求学者和毕业典礼发言者 to conform to certain political standards 遵循特定政治标准 undermines the whole purpose of a university 会侵蚀整个大学的存在意义 This spring 今年春 it has been disturbing to see a number of college commencement speakers withdraw 很让人不安的是 很多大学毕业典礼演讲者都被撤销了 or have ...

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And it is that union of values that the 正是这两大价值的结合 terrorists who attacked us on September 11th, 2001 让2001年9月11日及2013年4月15日 and on April 15th, 2013 found most threatening 袭击我们的恐怖分子感到恐惧 To them, we were a God-less country 在他们看来 我们是一个不信神的国家 But in fact, there is no country 但事实上 没有任何国家 that protects the core of every fai...

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I'm sure all of today's graduates have read 我敢肯定 今天毕业的学生肯定都读过 John Stuart Mill's On Liberty 约翰.斯图尔特.密尔的《论自由》 But just let me read a short passage from it 请允许我将其中的一小段读给大家听 "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is "强迫别人不能发表意见的邪恶" that it is robbing the human race "...

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In the 2012 presidential race, according to Federal Election Commission data 96 percent of all campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty and employees 2年总统选举中 根据联邦选举委员会数据 常春藤盟校教职员工有96%的捐赠 went to Barack Obama 都给了巴拉克·奥巴马 Ninety-six percent There was more disagreement among the old Soviet Politburo 96%前苏联政治局的差异 than there is...

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Thank you, Katie 感谢凯蒂 and thank you to President Faust, the Fellows of Harvard College, the Board of Overseers 感谢佛斯特校长 哈佛大学部成员 监事会 and all the faculty, alumni, and students who have welcomed me back to campus 还有迎接我回校园的所有教职员工 校友和学生 I'm excited to be here 能来到这里我很激动 not only to address the distinguished graduates and alumni ...

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He was attempting to repress and criminalize 他试图压制和定罪 those who sympathized with an economic system that was, even then, failing 那些赞同哪怕在当时都已经很失败的经济体制的人 McCarthy's Red Scare destroyed thousands of lives 麦卡锡的红色恐惧让数以千计的人失去了生命 but what was he so afraid of? 他害怕的是什么呢 An idea in this case, communism 是一种思想 也就是共产...

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Joined together 两者结合在一起 they form a sacred trust that holds the basis of our democratic society 构成了维持民主社会根基的神圣信赖 But let me tell you that trust is perpetually vulnerable 但我要告诉大家 这种信赖是很脆弱的 to the tyrannical tendencies of monarchs, mobs, and majorities 特别是在君主 暴民 多数的专横倾向下 And lately, we have seen those tendencies manifest t...

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My personal connection to Harvard began back in 1964 我个人同哈佛的联系始于1964年 when I graduated from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore 我从约翰霍普金斯大学毕业 and matriculated here at the B-School 被录取到这里的商学院 You're probably asking yourself or maybe whispering to the person next to you 你们或许在想 或是正在同旁边的人窃窃私语说 How did he ever get into Harvard Busin...

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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...

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As a former chairman of Johns Hopkins 作为约翰霍普金斯大学前任主席 I strongly believe that a university's obligation 我坚信一所大学的职责 is not to teach students what to think but to teach students how to think 并不是教学生思考什么 而是教学生如何思考 And that requires listening to the other side 这就需要倾听不同意见 weighing arguments without prejudging them 不带偏见地...

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Now, don't get me wrong: scientific skepticism is healthy 别误解我的意思 科学怀疑主义是有好处的 But there is a world of difference between scientific skepticism that seeks out more 但是寻找更多证据的科学怀疑主义同意识形态上 evidence and ideological stubbornness that shuts it out 拒绝科学证据的顽固不化是有本质差别的 Given the general attitude of many elected officials tow...

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