英文演讲录 比尔·克林顿：点燃世界(2)

There are so many people who feel that they're losing out in the modern world, because people either don't see they more, they see them only as members of groups that they feel threatened by.

有太多的人觉得他们在现代世界中迷失了自己，因为没有人更多地关注他们，只把他们看作是受到某种威胁的群体中的一员。

The young people pushing for immigration reform, clinging to DACA and DAPA, hoping to make their way in a country where their future is uncertain, feel that way.

推动移民改革的年轻人执着于DACA和DAPA计划，他们有一种感觉，希望这些计划在一个前途未卜的国家取得成功。

The young people in the Black Lives Matter movement feel that way.

“黑人生命也是命”运动中的年轻人有这种感觉。

But so do the coal miners in communities where their present is bleak¹ and they think their future is bleaker², and they think all of us who want to fight climate change don't give a rip about the wreckage³ of their lives.

但在一些社区，煤矿工人也是如此，他们现在情况黯淡，他们认为他们的未来更加黯淡，他们认为我们所有想要与局势变化作斗争的人丝毫都不会关心他们生活的残骸。

It's everywhere. When we try to drift apart in an interdependent age, all we do is build up the negative and reduce the positive forces of interdependence.

这种想法无处不在。在一个相互依赖的时代，当我们试图彼此疏远时，我们所做的一切只是建立了相互依赖的负面力量，减少了积极力量。

What does set the world on fire mean anyway?

点燃世界之火到底是什么意思？

It means you can set the world on fire by the power of your imagination, by the gift of your passion, by the devotion of your heart and your skills to make your life richer and to lift others; or it means you can set the world on fire.

这意味着你可以通过你的想象力、你的激情、你真诚的奉献和你的技能让你的生活更加丰富，同时让别人受益，也意味着你可以轰动世界。

You have to decide, but because the world is interdependent, you can't take a pass.

你必须做出决定，但因为世界是相互依存的，你不能逃避。

I think the future begins by accepting the wonderful instruction of our very first Jesuit pope.

我认为未来开始于我们接受第一位耶稣会教皇的精彩教导。

Pope Francis has fostered a culture of encounter.

方济各教皇培养了一种相遇文化意识。

Where my foundation works in Africa and the hills of central Africa, nobody's got any kind of wheel transportation, so everybody meets each other on foot,

我的基金会在非洲和中部非洲的山区工作的地方，没人有任何形式的轮式交通工具，所以每个人都是步行相遇的，

and when people pass each other on path and one says, "Good morning. Hello. How are you?"

当人们在小路上路过彼此的时候，一个人说，“早上好，你好”，

the response translated into English is, "I see you. I encounter you. You are real to me."

翻译成英语的回答是，“我看到你了。我遇到你了。你对我来说是真实的。”

Think about all the people today, yesterday and tomorrow, you will pass and not see.

“想一想今天、昨天和明天所有的人，你将会遇见和看不到的。

1 bleak   

adj.(天气)阴冷的；凄凉的；暗淡的

参考例句：

• They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
• The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。

2 bleaker   

阴冷的( bleak的比较级 )； （状况）无望的； 没有希望的； 光秃的

参考例句：

• Horoscopes are merely harmless escapism from an ever-bleaker world. 占星术只不过是让人逃避越发令人沮丧的世界的无害消遣罢了。
• On the ground the mood is bleaker. 具体形势更加严峻。

3 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。