偶像勵(lì)志英語演講 64:執(zhí)著于你的夢想(8)

[00:00.33]Recently, as you probably maybe have read, Rosa Parks, a former seamstress married to a barber, married to a hairdresser, died, 最近羅莎·帕克斯去世了，你們可能已經(jīng)看到了相關(guān)報(bào)道。她曾是一名裁縫，嫁給了一個(gè)理發(fā)師， [00:10.07]and she lay in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capital in Washington. 但現(xiàn)在她卻長眠于美國首都華盛頓國會(huì)大廈的圓形建筑里，受世人敬仰。 [00:15.09]People from around America came to say farewell to her 來自美國各個(gè)州的人們都來向她告別， [00:18.46]and to thank her for changing our history and for changing our society. 感謝她改變了我們的歷史、改變了我們的社會(huì)。 [00:23.56]Now, what did this 92 year-old black woman do that deserved such great honor? 這位92歲的黑人婦女到底做了什么竟能獲得如此殊榮? [00:29.15]What did she do? 她做過什么? [00:30.22]Well, in 1955, the days of racial segregation, 955年，美國那時(shí)還處于種族隔離時(shí)期， [00:34.58]she had refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. 羅莎·帕克斯在公交車上拒絕把座位讓給一個(gè)白人。 [00:39.24]She had refused. 沒錯(cuò)，她拒絕讓座給白人。 [00:40.53]Her simple refusal to move to the back of the bus put into motion events that led to my country's great civil rights movement. 她拒絕到公交車車尾這一簡單的舉動(dòng)推動(dòng)了美國偉大的民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)的進(jìn)展。 [00:49.47]The small protest of a woman that maybe weighed less than 100 pounds, brought down a racist system. 一位體重不足100磅的女人的一個(gè)小小的抗議竟瓦解了種族主義制度。 [00:57.54]As you can see, the individual can make a difference. 由此你們可以看到，個(gè)人可以產(chǎn)生深遠(yuǎn)的影響。 [01:02.07]Let me tell you about another individual, 讓我再給你們講述一個(gè)人， [01:03.53]Ken Behring, a millionaire California businessman 這個(gè)人就是加利福尼亞州的百萬富翁肯·貝林，他是一位商人， [01:07.05]who found his passion in giving wheelchairs to poor and physically disabled people all around the globe, including China. 他對援助輪椅情有獨(dú)鐘，曾向包括中國在內(nèi)的全世界各個(gè)國家的貧困殘疾人捐助輪椅。 [01:15.04]He says that he has met people who have spent years in rooms with no window, 他說他曾見過一些殘疾人連續(xù)數(shù)年待在沒有窗戶的屋子里， [01:19.31]just lying there and staring up at the ceiling, never seeing the outside world 只是躺在那兒盯著天花板看，看不到外面的世界， [01:23.39]unless someone was willing to pick up that person and take them outside to show them the world. 除非有人愿意扶起他們，帶他們?nèi)タ赐饷娴氖澜纭? [01:29.23]He says that it's no wonder so many of those physically disabled people dream about being a bird. 他說難怪那么多殘疾人都夢想著自己能成為一只小鳥呢。

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