公众人物毕业演讲 第122期:2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(2)

 　　And, I'm not quite that old while I'll look it in some days

　　虽然我还没那么老 但是多些日子就会的

　　But I also am glad to be here because of the record of this great university

　　另外一个让我很高兴来到这里的原因是这所优秀大学的纪录

　　And I wanna try to talk about not only Howard's leadership in preparing people for science, engineering, technology and mathematics careers

　　我想说的不只是霍华德大学在帮助人们为科学 工程 技术 数学事业做好准备这方面的领导力

　　Not only the record of the medical school in addressing the health disparities

　　不只是关注医疗不公问题的医学院的纪录

　　And I have to say this, for the rest of my family, the phenomenal success you have in producing women surgeons which I'm impressed with

　　我还要说 代表我的家人你们在培养女性外科医生方面所取得的非凡成就让我印象深刻

　　But more importantly for me, is the national leadership Howard has shown across all these disciplines and all the ones I didn't mention in service

　　但对我来说更重要的还是霍华德大学在所有这些方面以及我没有提到的方面的公共服务上表现出的全国领导力

　　I thank you for the community service you have done here while you're at Howard

　　我感谢你们在霍华德大学期间所做的社会服务工作

　　I thank you for your interest in doing this around the world

　　我感谢你们对于在全世界范围内服务的兴趣

　　I have pulled from my records

　　我查了我的资料

　　The number of commitments involving Howard University students or faculty¹ made through the Clinton Global Initiative² Network...

　　有霍华德学生及教工通过克林顿全球行动网络参与的项目的数量

　　There were ten, ten different commitments

　　达到了十项 十个不同的项目

　　The most recent of which is that Howard is one of thirteen medical schools commited to totally retrain the healthcare workforce in Rwanda

　　最近的一项是 包括霍华德在内的十三所医学院致力于彻底重新培训卢旺达医疗人员的项目

　　And why this is important is Rwanda was devastated as we all know by its genocide

　　这对卢旺达来说很重要 因为我们都知道它曾被大屠杀所毁

1 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。

2 initiative   

n.主动性，首创精神，主动权（的行动），倡议

参考例句：

• He went to see the headmaster on his own initiative.他主动去看望校长。
• His employer had described him as lacking in initiative and drive.雇主说他缺乏进取心和干劲。