名校勵志英語演講 第114期:21世紀的挑戰(zhàn)(8)

[00:00.34]Last year, President Jiang and I asked senior Chinese and American law enforcement officials to step up our cooperation against these predators, 去年，我和江主席請求中美雙方的高級執(zhí)法官員加強合作，打擊這些犯罪分子， [00:11.44]to stop money from being laundered, to stop aliens from being cruelly smuggled, 防止洗錢，防止在惡劣的條件下走私人口， [00:17.18]to stop currencies from being undermined by counterfeiting. 防止偽幣破壞貨幣的信用。 [00:21.19]Just this month, our drug enforcement agency opened an office in Beijing, 就在本月，我們的緝毒署在北京開設了辦事處。 [00:28.18]and soon Chinese counter narcotics experts will be working out of Washington. 不久，中國的緝毒專家也將在華盛頓開展工作。 [00:35.44]In the 21st century, your generation must make it your mission to ensure that today's progress does not come at tomorrow's expense. 在二十一世紀，你們年輕一代的使命是必須保證今天的進步發(fā)展不以明天為代價。 [00:48.47]China's remarkable growth in the last two decades has come with a toxic cost, 中國過去20年來的快速增長以遭受有素污染物的毒害為代價， [00:55.14]pollutants that foul the water you drink and the air you breathe—the cost is not only environmental, 貴國人民飲用的水和呼吸的空氣都已遭受污染。這種代價不僅僅體現(xiàn)在環(huán)境方面， [01:03.55]it is also serious in terms of the health consequences of your people and in terms of the drag on economic growth. 對人民的健康也造成了嚴重的危害，而且還會阻礙經(jīng)濟的發(fā)展。 [01:13.32]Environmental problems are also increasingly global as well as national. 環(huán)境問題正在變得日趨全球化和全國化。 [01:19.01]For example, in the near future, if present energy use patterns persist, 例如，在不久的將來，如果目前的能源使用模式不改變， [01:25.41]China will overtake the United States as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, 中國將超過美國成為世界最大的溫室氣體的排放國。 [01:33.18]the gases which are the principal cause of global warming. 溫室氣體是全球性升溫的主要原因。

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