偶像勵志英語演講 第116期:直面恐懼(3)

On spring days like today, it is traditional for us to ponder the steer of the world all you areto help to make it a better place which implies things are somehow worse today, then we're uphere where you are sitting right now. I'm not so sure the plan of the earth, it was shape, wasthirty, no eighteen, no four years ago. That's not to say some better shape either. Refrainingfrom waxing, steering engine, comparing ours then to yours now, avoiding any talk of youkids these days, with your rap, your hip-hop, your snoopy dog, daddies with daddy pops, withyour feety sects, sending your quarter sense. A sober look shows that just as the world hasgotten to be a better place after all, it has also grown a bit worse, at the exact same rate. Onestep up, one step back to the cosmic balance between forward progress and cultural trade, itputs mankind on a belt curve as an existence. It shows small segments of joy, ease, andcomfort on equal proportion struggle on with little hope, when the fortune remains, theeither on the rise, on the winning, on this confounding tight so many damn things we growoblivious to the shifts in the quality of our lives. Graduation day is a proper occasion to put atoe in the global waters, and I think the mercury shows that things are much as they alwayshave been. 在今天的場合，照例該說些指點江山、勉勵各位通過努力讓世界變得更好的場面話。似乎是說現(xiàn)在的這個世界每況愈下，一代不如一代，我們來這里拯救世界。其實，跟三十年、十八年或四年前比起來，我并不覺得今天的世界變得更糟，只是，也沒有變得更好。不提打蠟技術(shù)、蒸汽操舵裝置，不拿我們那時候的和你們現(xiàn)在的比較，避免說一些你們現(xiàn)在的話題，你們的說唱樂，嘻哈樂，史努比狗狗，稱daddy為pop……不過冷靜地觀察一下，其實世界變得愈來愈好，但有些方面同時變得愈來愈糟。人類就是這樣，前進一步倒退一步，永遠沿曲線前進。經(jīng)過適當(dāng)?shù)钠床?，它帶來短時間的幸福、輕松和舒適。當(dāng)運氣還在，但既不上升也不能讓我們獲得成功，這個混淆的世界有太多的事情，讓我們察覺不到我們生活質(zhì)量的改變。畢業(yè)時正是我們可以在國際大形勢下一試身手的時候，我認為事物還是他們一直以來的樣子。 1. refrain from 克制;忍住; eg. Please refrain from smoking. 請勿吸煙。 eg. It may be wise to keep your opinions and refrain from criticizing everyone around you. 最好不要發(fā)表看法，盡量克制住，不要批評身邊的人。 2. compare to 與……相比; eg. I can only compare the experience to falling in love. 我只能把這段經(jīng)歷比作墜入愛河。 eg. What Bill made at his job is peanut compare to what paul made as an actor. 比爾工作所得和保羅當(dāng)演員的收入相比是微不足道的。 3. struggle on 勉力維持;在困難中堅持; eg. The rest of the world struggles on with its perpetual problems, poverty and debt. 世界上其他國家仍在苦苦同永恒的貧困和債務(wù)問題作斗爭。 eg. Only those who struggle on can achieve success. 只有那些克服困難堅持下來的人們才能取得成功。