名校励志英语演讲 第38期:如何解决这个世界上最严重的不平等
日期:2012-08-15 11:23

(单词翻译:单击)

演讲原文

For a few hours every week, you can use the growing power of the Internet to get informed, find others with the same interests, see the barriers, and find ways to cut through them.
每个星期只用几个小时,你就可以通过互联网日益增长的效力得到信息,找到志同道合的朋友,发现困难所在并找到解决它们的途径。

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
不要让这个世界的复杂性阻碍你前进。要成为一个行动主义者。将解决人类的不平等视为己任。它将成为你生命中最重要的经历之一。

You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had. You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have. And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very small effort. You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.
在座的各位毕业生,你们所处的时代是一个神奇的时代。当你们离开哈佛的时候,你们拥有的技术是我们那一届学生所没有的。你们已经了解到了世界上的不平等,而我们那时还不知道这些。了解了这些之后,要是你再弃那些你可以帮助的人们于不顾,就将受到良心的谴责,只需一点小小的努力,你就可以改变那些人们的生活。你们比我们拥有更大的能力;你们必须尽早开始,尽可能长时期坚持下去。

Knowing what you know, how could you not?
知道了你们所知道的一切,你们怎么可能不采取行动呢?

And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities ... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.
我希望,30年后你们还会再回到哈佛,想起你们用自己的天赋和能力所做出的一切。我希望,在那个时候,你们用来评价自己的标准,不仅仅是你们的专业成就,还包括你们为改变这个世界深刻的不平等所做出的努力,以及你们如何善待那些远隔千山万水、除了同为人类之外与你们毫无共同之处的人们。

Good luck.
最后,祝各位同学好运。

热词空间

torment
vt. 折磨
eg. He was constantly tormented with headache.
他不断受到头痛的折磨。

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重点单词
  • globaladj. 全球性的,全世界的,球状的,全局的
  • abandonv. 放弃,遗弃,沉溺 n. 放纵
  • professionaladj. 职业的,专业的,专门的 n. 专业人员
  • awarenessn. 认识,意识,了解
  • inequityn. 不公平,不公正
  • reflectv. 反映,反射,归咎
  • humanityn. 人类,人性,人道,慈爱,(复)人文学科
  • consciencen. 良心,责任心,顾忌
  • complexityn. 复杂,复杂性,复杂的事物
  • tormentn. 苦痛,拷问 v. 使苦恼,拷问