名校勵志英語演講 第154期:跨越物質(zhì)的藩籬 讓世界今非昔比(11)

[00:00.05]I'm talking about an approach to life, a quality of mind and a quality of heart, 我所指的是一種生活方式，一種精神和心理品格， [00:06.56]a willingness to follow your passion regardless of whether they lead to fortune and fame, 愿意追隨自己的激情，不管它是否能帶來財富和名望， [00:12.45]a willingness to question conventional wisdom and rethink old dogmas. 愿意質(zhì)疑傳統(tǒng)的價值觀，重新思考陳舊的教條、 [00:16.48]A lack of regard for all the traditional markers of status and prestige, 蔑視一切代表地位和特權(quán)的傳統(tǒng)標(biāo)志，去做有意義的事， [00:22.42]and a commitment instead to doing what's meaningful to you, what helps others, what makes a difference in this world. 去做有利于他人的事，去做能改變世界的事。 [00:32.37]That's the spirit that led a band of patriots, not much older than most of you, 正是由于這種精神，才涌現(xiàn)出了一群愛國者， [00:48.03]to take on an empire and to start this experiment in democracy we call America. 那時他們并不比你們大多少，卻肩負了國家的使命，開始在這個我們稱之為美國的國家試行民主。 [00:54.59]It's what drove young pioneers west to Arizona and beyond. 正是由于這種精神，年輕的拓荒者開始向西挺進，走向亞利桑那和更遠的地方。 [01:01.46]It's what drove young women to reach for the ballot, what inspired a 30-year-old escaped slave to run an underground railroad to freedom. 正是由于這種精神，年輕的婦女開始爭取選舉權(quán)。這種力量給了一名30歲的奴隸通過地下鐵路逃向自由的勇氣， [01:10.22]It's what inspired a young man named Cesar to go out and help farm workers, 促使一位名叫塞薩爾的年輕人挺身幫助農(nóng)場工人， [01:18.53]what inspired a 26-year-old preacher to lead a bus boycott for justice. 促使一位26歲的牧師為了正義發(fā)起了一場拒乘公交汽車的運動。 [01:26.55]It's what led firefighters and police officers in the prime of their lives up the stairs of those burning towers 他使得風(fēng)華正茂的消防人員和警察沖向熊熊燃燒的雙子塔的樓梯； [01:34.35]and young people across this country to drop what they were doing and come to the aid of a flooded New Orleans. 也使得全國的年輕人扔下手中的工作前來支援遭受洪災(zāi)的新奧爾良人。

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