名校勵(lì)志英語(yǔ)演講 第125期:珍惜現(xiàn)在 把握將來(lái)(1)

[00:02.16]Thank you very much to thee. Thank you. It's a... 謝謝你們，謝謝你們。這... [00:06.31]So: after over 100 years of Class Days, finally you get a British speaker. 100多年過(guò)去了，你們終于迎來(lái)了一位英國(guó)演講者。 [00:15.03]What took you so long? Did that little disagreement of 1776 really rankle so much? 是什么讓你們等了這么長(zhǎng)時(shí)間？難道是因?yàn)?776年那次小小分歧而耿耿于懷？ [00:23.06]And why now? Is it because British election campaigns only last four weeks? 那為什么又選擇現(xiàn)在呢？難道是因?yàn)橛?guó)的大選僅僅持續(xù)了四個(gè)星期？ [00:27.28]For whatever reason, it is an honour to be here and to say to the Yale College Class of 2008: 無(wú)論出于何種原因，能來(lái)到這里讓我倍感榮幸。耶魯大學(xué)2008屆的畢業(yè)生們，我想對(duì)你們說(shuō)： [00:39.17]you did it; you came through; from all of us to you: congratulations. 你們順利完成了學(xué)業(yè)，你們?nèi)サ牧顺晒?，我們大家都要恭喜你們，你們干得非常好? [00:45.53]The invitation to a former British Prime Minister to address a college which boasts five former Presidents, 貴校培養(yǎng)出了5位美國(guó)總統(tǒng)、很多副總統(tǒng)和難以數(shù)計(jì)的參議院， [01:03.29]many former Vice Presidents and Senators too numerous to mention, 卻邀請(qǐng)一位前英國(guó)首相來(lái)發(fā)表演講， [01:08.09]is either to give me an exaggerated sense of my own importance or you a reduced sense of yours. 這要么是夸大了我的重要性，要么就是減小了你們的重要性。 [01:15.32]It was Churchill or Oscar Wilde—and there is a difference—who called us two nations divided by a common language and so we are. 是丘吉爾還是奧斯卡·王爾德——這兩人當(dāng)然是有區(qū)別的——把英美兩國(guó)說(shuō)成是由一種相同的語(yǔ)言劃分的兩個(gè)不同的國(guó)家，你們可以從我 今天的出場(chǎng)來(lái)判斷這一點(diǎn)，事實(shí)確實(shí)如此。 [01:28.41]Here I am at Yale and set to come back for the fall semester. 現(xiàn)在我來(lái)到耶魯，并打算今年秋天來(lái)這里任職。 [01:37.17]My old Oxford tutor was, I'm afraid, horrified to hear I had been taken on by Yale. 我恐怕，我在牛津的老導(dǎo)師聽(tīng)到我在耶魯任職會(huì)感到驚駭。 [01:42.26]His worries were all for Yale I may say. 我可以說(shuō)，他的擔(dān)憂全是為了耶魯。 [01:46.04]He said: "I only hope for their sake you are going there to learn rather than teach." 他說(shuō)：“為了耶魯，我只希望你是去那兒學(xué)習(xí)，而不是教書。”

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