2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(1)

Thank you very much 非常感谢 First of all, thank you 首先 谢谢你们 I thank you and Dr. Paula WhetselRibeau 谢谢你们 还有宝拉?威索尔里博博士 Thank you for meeting me outside with your daughter 谢谢你带着你女儿在外面接我 As a father of a grown daughter, 作为一个成年女儿的父亲 I wonder if you had shared my experience 我不知道你是否也有过我这样的经历 It's humbling, rewarding...

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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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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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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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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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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(14)

Now I have two points to make 我想说的有两点 First, this man who had lost nine of his ten children led me through that camp with a smile on his face, 第一 这个男人失去了自己十个孩子中的九个 带着我参观营地的时候面带笑容 and never talked about anything but what those other people needed and what he wanted me to do for them 除了大家需要什么 和他希望我能为大家做些什么之外 从未提...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(2)

And, I'm not quite that old while I'll look it in some days 虽然我还没那么老 但是多些日子就会的 But I also am glad to be here because of the record of this great university 另外一个让我很高兴来到这里的原因是这所优秀大学的纪录 And I wanna try to talk about not only Howard's leadership in preparing people for science, engineering, technology and mathematics careers...

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2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(3)

All the hospitals but one in the capital city were destroyed 首都只剩下一所医院未被毁掉 I, working with my friend Dr. Paul Farmer, helped rebuild them in every part of the country 我跟我的朋友保罗·法默博士一起帮助重建这个国家各地的医院 But they don't want to take any foreign assistance from anybody to do anything after 2020 但是他们不想在2020年之后继续接受任何类型的外国...

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2012年Michael Lewis普林斯顿大学(5)

They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives 他们不愿承认机会事件 在他们生命中所扮演的角色 There is a reason for this the world does not want to acknowledge it either 他们这么认为是有原因的 这个世界也不愿意承认运气的角色 I wrote a book about this, called Moneyball 为这我写了一本书 叫《点球成金》 It was ostensibly about baseball but was in fac...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (37)克林顿告别演说

My fellow citizens,tonight is my last opportunity to speak to you from the Oval Office as your president. 同胞们,今晚是我最后一次作为你们的总统,在白宫椭圆形办公室向你们做最后一次演讲。 I am profoundly grateful to you for twice giving me the honor to serve,to work for you and with you to prepare our nation for the 21st century. 我从心底深处感谢你们给了我2次机会和荣誉,为你...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (38)肯尼迪航天计划演讲

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained,and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. 我们踏上新的航程,为了获取新的知识,为了赢得新的权利,获取并运用权利,应该是为了全人类的进步。 For space science, like nuclear science and all technology,has no conscience of its own. 空间科学,正如核科学以及其他技术...

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