名校勵志英語演講 第139期:敢于競爭 勇于關(guān)愛(6)

[00:00.22]And thank you for caring enough to demand that our nation do more to help those 在此我要感謝那些呼吁我們國家給予全世界的艾滋病患者 [00:05.49]that are suffering throughout this world with HIV/AIDS, to prevent this pandemic from spreading even further. 更多幫助、抑制艾滋病傳播的人。 [00:14.23]And I'll also add, dare enough to care about our political process. 我還想再強調(diào)一點，那就是勇于去關(guān)注我們政治進程。 [00:19.42]You know, as I go and speak with students I'm impressed so much, not only in formal settings, on campuses, 你們知道嗎，每當我跟學生交談時，不管是在正式場合還是在校園里， [00:28.14]but with my daughter and her friends, about how much you care, about how willing you are to volunteer and serve. 或是在與我的女兒及她的朋友們交談時，他們對社會的關(guān)注以及他們志愿為他人服務(wù)的精神都給我留下了深刻的印象。 [00:36.00]You may have missed the last wave of the dot.com revolution, 你們也許已經(jīng)錯過了互聯(lián)網(wǎng)革命的最后一個革命浪潮， [00:42.04]but you've understood that the dot.community revolution is there for you every single day. 但是你們應該已經(jīng)明白，互聯(lián)網(wǎng)革命期待你們每一天都能參與。 [00:48.19]And you've been willing to be part of remarking lives in our community. 而且我相信你們一直很樂意成為改造社會的一份子。 [00:53.05]And yet, there is a real resistance, a turning away from the political process. 然而，很多人都對政治持有排斥心理，會對政治避而不談。 [00:58.51]I hope that some of you will be public servants and will even run for office yourself, 我希望你們中的一些人能成為人民的公仆、甚至能親自參加競選， [01:05.31]not to win a position to make and impression on your friends at your 20th reunion, 而不是謀取高職只為能在20年同學聚會上炫耀。 [01:10.57]but because you understand how important it is for each of us as citizens to make a commitment to our democracy. 因為你們明白，我們每一個人作為公民都有義務(wù)為我們的民主事業(yè)做出貢獻，這一點很重要。 [01:19.59]Your generation, the first one born after the social upheavals of the 60's and 70's, 你們這一代人生于60到70年代社會動蕩的末期， [01:26.21]in the midst of the technological advances of the 80's and 90's, are inheriting an economy, 成長于80至90年代技術(shù)革命期間，你們所面臨的經(jīng)濟體制、 [01:34.35]a society and a government that has yet to understand fully, or even come to grips with, our rapidly changing world. 社會體制和政府機構(gòu)，已經(jīng)清楚地意識到這是一個日新月異的世界，并開始認真對待這個瞬息萬變的世界。

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