时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:公众人物毕业演讲


英语课

 There is no secret society out there


外面没有秘密帮会
that will tap you on the shoulder one night and show you the way
能够某天晚上轻拍你的肩膀 给你指明方向
because the true secret is
因为真正的秘密在于
your life will not be defined by the society that we have left you
你的生命并不是由我们留给你们的社会所定义
to paraphrase Robert Bolt
转述罗伯特·鲍特的一句话
society has no more idea of what you are than you do
社会对你一无所知 它只能看到你做了什么
because ultimately
因为最终
it has only your brains to think with
社会将只能通过你们的大脑来思考
Every generation must define itself
每一代人必须定义自身
and so make the world that suits itself
从而让世界适宜于自身
So
因此
if you must find your own path
如果你必须找到自己的道路
and we have left you no easy path
而且我们没有留下任何容易的道路
then decide now to choose the hard path
那么你们现在就必须选择难的道路
that leads to the life and the world that you want
从而获得你们想要的生活和世界
and don't worry
不要担心
if we don't approve of your choices
我们不赞同你们的选择
In our benign self absorption
在我们良性的自我陶醉中
I believe we have given you a gift
我相信我们给了你们一个礼物
a particular form of independence
一种特殊形态的独立性
because you do not owe the previous generation anything
因为你们不欠上一代人任何东西
Thanks to us
幸亏有我们
you owe it to the Chinese
你们只欠中国人的
So have the courage
你们要有勇气
to follow the example of your founder Thomas Jefferson
以你们学校的创建者托马斯·杰斐逊为榜样
the greatest mind of that most daring generation
以这位最大胆一代中的伟人为榜样
to create something new for yourselves
为你们自己创造全新的世界

学英语单词
Abadin
actinic dermatitis
aggh
aileron actuator
al-ashari
aluminium zinc
apyetous
ascoceracone
automatic monitored control system
background roller
balance delay
barber's
be situated
benzotoluide
bepurfurate
bicinchoninic acid
blythburgh
brittle bean
Brovaxin
bush hook
business setback
Buynovichy
cabin bulkhead
Cerro Largo, Dep.de
clitomachuss
clostridium perfringens epsilon toxins
Coacalco
cock rocket
combined emergency stop and throttle valve
concrete equivalent
cypridids
decentralized organization
econoboxes
eigensubspaces
endville
equulites leuciscus
estlins
expected profit under certainty
fatuism
first baseman
forwelewe
genus of algebraic number field
group ability test
hemo core
ilexin B
in-ceiling- type air conditioner
internal anchor fish tag
Java War
jute scrim
lethal equivalent value
leucadendrons
Lychnis fulgens
manhating
mastogram
megadouches
natural dance
neuroradiological
nonmetallic air channel
nonproductivity
North Franklin
nuclide computer tomograph scanning
onfields
orbital plexus
outgear
overspeed relay
P-gas
pack tilting device
phthalanone
pipe her eyes
piping down
plankwise
Primula sinodenticulata
principle of domination
pseudocercospora ecdysantherae
residual mechanical damage
resonance breaker
Roentgen-rayed
roof suspension swing frame
rule of stability
Saunders County
separating of grease
shade density
Ship of Flag of Convenience
simplex circuit
slitless spectroscopy
slumberwear
std input buffer
stupidoes
technological university
telegraph gong
threshing floors
titebond
Tolomako
torticolliss
ultrasonic technique (ut)
ungiving
viscounties
wet bottom furnace
wiggly
willbe
working back clearance angle