名校勵(lì)志英語演講 第140期:敢于競(jìng)爭(zhēng) 勇于關(guān)愛(7)

[00:00.26]And so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics. 因此，把你們的價(jià)值觀、閱歷和洞察力都融于政治中吧！ [00:06.20]Dare to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics. 你們不僅要敢于在政治上有所作為，而且還要敢于創(chuàng)造一個(gè)完全不同的政治體系。 [00:13.58]Some have called you the generation of choice. 有人把你們這一代人稱為有選擇權(quán)利的一代。 [00:17.01]You've been raised with multiple choice tests, multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple lifestyles. 你們是在多項(xiàng)選擇測(cè)驗(yàn)、多渠道、多網(wǎng)站及多重生活方式中長(zhǎng)大的， [00:24.57]You've grown up choosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available to people in prior generations. 你們是在不停的選擇中長(zhǎng)大的，但這些選項(xiàng)既不為前人所致，也未為前人所用。 [00:34.00]You've been invested with far more personal power to customize your life, 你們被賦予了很多力量，擁有規(guī)劃自己人生的權(quán)利， [00:38.36]to make more free choices about how to live than was ever thought possible. 能夠比以往任何時(shí)候都更加自由地主宰自己的生活。 [00:44.48]And I think as I look at all the surveys and research that is done, 當(dāng)我看著你們完成的所有問卷調(diào)查和研究時(shí)， [00:49.35]your choices reflect not only freedom, but personal responsibility. 我認(rèn)為你們的選擇不僅反映了社會(huì)，也反映了你們的責(zé)任心。 [00:54.41]The social indicators, not the headlines, the social indicators tell a positive story: 是社會(huì)調(diào)查指標(biāo)，而不是頭版頭條新聞，讓我們感受到整個(gè)社會(huì)的進(jìn)步： [01:01.27]drug use and cheating and arrests being down, been pregnancy and suicides, drunk driving deaths being down. 吸毒、詐騙以及在押人數(shù)均呈下降趨勢(shì)；少女懷孕、自殺以及酒后駕車致死事件也在逐漸減少。 [01:09.36]Community service and religious involvement being up. 同時(shí)，參加社區(qū)服務(wù)及宗教活動(dòng)的人數(shù)呈上升趨勢(shì)。 [01:14.13]But if you look at the area of voting among 18 to 29 year olds, the numbers tell a far more troubling tale. 但是，18歲到29歲人群的投票選舉情況則令人擔(dān)憂。 [01:22.00]Many of you I know believe that service and community volunteerism is a better way 我知道，你們中許多人都認(rèn)為參加社區(qū)服務(wù)和志愿者活動(dòng) [01:28.41]of solving the issues facing our country than political engagement, 比參與政治活動(dòng)更能解決我們國(guó)家面臨的問題， [01:32.37]because you believe-choose one of the following multiples or choose them all-government either can't understand 因?yàn)槟銈冋J(rèn)為，政府往往趨于政治壓力，缺乏效率或無能、甚至是受金錢驅(qū)使而不能領(lǐng)會(huì)或作出正確選擇。 [01:41.06]or won't make the right choices because of political pressures, inefficiency, incompetence or big money influence. 你們這樣做可能是因?yàn)樯鲜鲈虻囊环N，也可能是因?yàn)樗羞@些原因。

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