偶像勵志英語演講 第119期:直面恐懼(6)
So actually there is a Big Brother. But he's not a malevolent fiction, he's actually all of us andhe lives in our search engines. So no matter how many times I do the calculations, I come upwith a social job, the positives bounce the negatives, the axis equal the wise, and our hopesweigh as much as our fears, but I hesitated on that last one because fear, good lord, fear is apowerful physiological force in 2011.
所以事實(shí)上還是有“老大哥”。但是他不是惡毒的、虛幻的，他就是我們大家，而且他就在我們的搜索引擎里。所以，世界空間是變好還是變壞，不管我怎么算，答案都是它們打成平手。正面和負(fù)面的發(fā)展彼此抵消、蠢人和聰明人一樣多、希望與恐懼兩者并存。但是我對后者有些猶豫，因?yàn)榭謶?，天啊，恐懼?011年一股非常強(qiáng)大的生理力量。
We here, up in the stands and surrounding your graduation class, look to you as we do everyyear, hoping you will now somehow, through your labors, free us from what we have come tofear, and we have come to fear many things. Fear has become the commodity that sells ascertainly as sex. Fear is cheap. Fear is easy. Fear gets attention. Fear is spread as fast asgossip and is just as glamorous, juicy and profitable. Fear twists facts into fictions thatbecome indistinguishable from ignorance. Fear is a profit-churning go-to with a wholemarket--being your whole family.
我們站在這里的演講臺上，周圍是即將畢業(yè)的你們，像每年一樣，期待你們會通過你們的努力，讓我們不再恐懼，而我們已對許多事情充滿恐懼?？謶殖闪撕芎觅u的商品，跟性一樣?？謶趾芰畠r，很容易制造，又引人注意。它傳播快速、八卦聳動，而且有利可圖。它把事實(shí)與虛構(gòu)攪和在一起，讓人由于無知而無法辨別?？謶志褪抢麧櫟臄嚢杵?，有廣泛的市場，也可以進(jìn)入你的家里。
You're sitting in the house, one day, watching a game on TV not long ago along came apreamble for the local nightly news, "Are our schools poisoning our children?"
某一天，當(dāng)你在家里看電視的球賽轉(zhuǎn)播，看到了一則當(dāng)?shù)匾归g新聞的預(yù)告：“學(xué)校是否在毒害我們的小孩?”
That story in summer is hot bikinis at night eleven. In that I had school-age kids, at the time Ifeared, they were, in fact, being poisoned at school, and summer was a few weeks away. So, Iturned in to get to school.
夏天晚上11點(diǎn)時聽到那個故事簡直讓人眼前一亮。因?yàn)榧依镉行『⒃谏蠈W(xué)，我擔(dān)心孩子們正在學(xué)校里受到毒害，而且馬上就是夏天了，我特地在當(dāng)晚收看。
1. come up with
想出，提出(計劃、想法等);
eg. I don't think he can come up with any clever move.
我看他也沒有什么高招。
eg. Scientists in different countries, working independently of each other, have come up withvery similar results.
各國科學(xué)家各自獨(dú)立進(jìn)行研究都得到了非常相似的結(jié)果。
2. come to do sth.
(經(jīng)歷漫長的過程或時間后)開始(做某事);
eg. She said it so many times that she came to believe it.
這件事她說了太多遍，以至自己都開始相信了。
eg. Although it was a secret wedding, the press did eventually come to hear about it.
盡管是場秘密的婚禮，媒體最終還是聽到了消息。
3. free sb. from sth.
把某人從某事中釋放出來;使某人擺脫某事;
eg. The wide application of electronic computers in science and technology will free man fromthe labour of complicated measurement and computation.
電子計算機(jī)在科學(xué)技術(shù)方面廣泛的應(yīng)用將使人們從復(fù)雜的計量和計算中擺脫出來。
eg. Even the wise are not always free from error.
智者千慮，必有一失。
所以事實(shí)上還是有“老大哥”。但是他不是惡毒的、虛幻的，他就是我們大家，而且他就在我們的搜索引擎里。所以，世界空間是變好還是變壞，不管我怎么算，答案都是它們打成平手。正面和負(fù)面的發(fā)展彼此抵消、蠢人和聰明人一樣多、希望與恐懼兩者并存。但是我對后者有些猶豫，因?yàn)榭謶?，天啊，恐懼?011年一股非常強(qiáng)大的生理力量。
We here, up in the stands and surrounding your graduation class, look to you as we do everyyear, hoping you will now somehow, through your labors, free us from what we have come tofear, and we have come to fear many things. Fear has become the commodity that sells ascertainly as sex. Fear is cheap. Fear is easy. Fear gets attention. Fear is spread as fast asgossip and is just as glamorous, juicy and profitable. Fear twists facts into fictions thatbecome indistinguishable from ignorance. Fear is a profit-churning go-to with a wholemarket--being your whole family.
我們站在這里的演講臺上，周圍是即將畢業(yè)的你們，像每年一樣，期待你們會通過你們的努力，讓我們不再恐懼，而我們已對許多事情充滿恐懼?？謶殖闪撕芎觅u的商品，跟性一樣?？謶趾芰畠r，很容易制造，又引人注意。它傳播快速、八卦聳動，而且有利可圖。它把事實(shí)與虛構(gòu)攪和在一起，讓人由于無知而無法辨別?？謶志褪抢麧櫟臄嚢杵?，有廣泛的市場，也可以進(jìn)入你的家里。
You're sitting in the house, one day, watching a game on TV not long ago along came apreamble for the local nightly news, "Are our schools poisoning our children?"
某一天，當(dāng)你在家里看電視的球賽轉(zhuǎn)播，看到了一則當(dāng)?shù)匾归g新聞的預(yù)告：“學(xué)校是否在毒害我們的小孩?”
That story in summer is hot bikinis at night eleven. In that I had school-age kids, at the time Ifeared, they were, in fact, being poisoned at school, and summer was a few weeks away. So, Iturned in to get to school.
夏天晚上11點(diǎn)時聽到那個故事簡直讓人眼前一亮。因?yàn)榧依镉行『⒃谏蠈W(xué)，我擔(dān)心孩子們正在學(xué)校里受到毒害，而且馬上就是夏天了，我特地在當(dāng)晚收看。
1. come up with
想出，提出(計劃、想法等);
eg. I don't think he can come up with any clever move.
我看他也沒有什么高招。
eg. Scientists in different countries, working independently of each other, have come up withvery similar results.
各國科學(xué)家各自獨(dú)立進(jìn)行研究都得到了非常相似的結(jié)果。
2. come to do sth.
(經(jīng)歷漫長的過程或時間后)開始(做某事);
eg. She said it so many times that she came to believe it.
這件事她說了太多遍，以至自己都開始相信了。
eg. Although it was a secret wedding, the press did eventually come to hear about it.
盡管是場秘密的婚禮，媒體最終還是聽到了消息。
3. free sb. from sth.
把某人從某事中釋放出來;使某人擺脫某事;
eg. The wide application of electronic computers in science and technology will free man fromthe labour of complicated measurement and computation.
電子計算機(jī)在科學(xué)技術(shù)方面廣泛的應(yīng)用將使人們從復(fù)雜的計量和計算中擺脫出來。
eg. Even the wise are not always free from error.
智者千慮，必有一失。
