时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:六级英语晨读经典


英语课

  Speech Given by Colin Lucas at Beijing University(科林·卢卡斯在北京大学的演说)

牛津大学副校长科林·卢卡斯在北京大学的演说

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues:

Because I am the Vice-Chancellor of the oldest of the foreign universities represented here today, I have been chosen to speak on their behalf. I am pleased to be their voice in presenting our heartfelt congratulations to the professors, teachers, researchers and students of Peking University on the 100th anniversary of its foundation.

Our universities form a great intellectual community round the world. Science has no nationality; knowledge belongs to everyone.

Our universities creat new knowledge. They teah this knowledge, together with that of other universities and also the best of the great storehouse of knowledge, which those who came before us have uncovered, tested and accumulated.

All universities contibute to the prosperity and success of their country. They also conserve 1 the culture and inheritance specific to their country's civization. But, they do more. Knowledge is secure only when it is hard won by the independent tests of accuracy, rational explanation and ture. So, when we teach our students skills, we also give them values. On the one side, these are values for personal and civic 2 conduct. On the other side, these values underwrite the personal need for independent understanding which is the source of human creativity.

These duties give universities a high responsibility. They are rooted in a great and fine tradition of honesty. university is a beacon 3 of light in its own society and, by its association with its sisters, its knowledge and its values are spread wide.

A tradition is not built easily ir quickly. During one hundred years, Peking University has been fashioning its tradition. Present and future members of the University! We hope to see you elaborate and consolidate 4 your tradition. We hope to see you become a keystone of the intellectual community. In your next century, we hope to see you contribute to the international academic movement as a whole, as more and more of you numbers come to paticipate in the activities of your sister universities.

Congratulations, Peking University on your first century of achievement!



1 conserve
vt.保存,保护,节约,节省,守恒,不灭
  • He writes on both sides of the sheet to conserve paper.他在纸张的两面都写字以节省用纸。
  • Conserve your energy,you'll need it!保存你的精力,你会用得着的!
2 civic
adj.城市的,都市的,市民的,公民的
  • I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
  • The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。
3 beacon
n.烽火,(警告用的)闪火灯,灯塔
  • The blink of beacon could be seen for miles.灯塔的光亮在数英里之外都能看见。
  • The only light over the deep black sea was the blink shone from the beacon.黑黢黢的海面上唯一的光明就只有灯塔上闪现的亮光了。
4 consolidate
v.使加固,使加强;(把...)联为一体,合并
  • The two banks will consolidate in July next year. 这两家银行明年7月将合并。
  • The government hoped to consolidate ten states to form three new ones.政府希望把十个州合并成三个新的州。
学英语单词
'tween-deck
accounting application program
actuating error
amine 220
at the end of one's patience
ben-veniste
biological ageing
bipositive
bonobos
Box and Jenkins model
breakpoints
bromoallylene
carbolized gelatin
carbothdrate metabolism
Castro, R.del
chain radar beacon
china silver
clearing house agent
commencement of operation
commerial service authorization
Corelli, Marie
coulston
dead reckoning longitude
diet drink
discomfortable
drawing pins
Dunbaria nivea
education act of 1944 (england)
electric phonograph
engine generator set
flush-mounted array
FM-AM converter
Fox, Michael J.
frog throat
gardenheier
gunpoke
half-wave dipole antenna
harro
herniated
Hom functor
hoot owls
index number of nominal wages
injection-type
installability test
iris dehiscence
Jablonica
key modulation
Key Rate Duration
Lynd R.
madinne
mash
maximed
maximum transverse force
McManaman
mesameboid
methyl tertiary butyl ether
micro flip-flop
middle agess
mixed effect model
mob mind
motivation training
mud-wrestling
mycorhodin
myogenic paralyses
Negra, Loma
NUMARC (Nuclear Management and Resources Council)
onoclea orientalis hook.
pancoast
Paso de Patria
passing signal
pectin powder
pick-up value
pitch of arch
planning date
poculiform
polder land
pontarddulais
precedented
Prunus serrulata Lindl.
pseudorhombus cinnamomeus
reintegrative
Ribes acuminatum
risteme
rule against accumulation
scandias
second class ore
sophisticated technique
suffice as
sulphonic acids
t-lite
thrust bearing assembl
Towage Contract on Lumpsum Basis
transmembrane control
transport properties
trust fund appropriation
us can
valnet
vinaigre
we'le
wear glasses
weyand
wide-rangings