公众人物毕业演讲 第127期:2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(6

 　　So there is a lot of inequality in this world

　　所以说这个世界有太多的不平等

　　There is a lot of instability in this world

　　这个世界有太多的不稳定

　　Manifested¹ by the financial crisis² that had quickly spread across the world, but also in how all these wonderful open borders could lead to what happened to a Boston Marathon

　　这体现在了金融危机能够在世界范围内快速扩散 也体现在那些美妙的开放边境政策 最后会导致波士顿马拉松爆炸案的发生

　　Two boys come here, looking for a college education, seem to be doing well,

　　那两个年轻人来到美国 寻求高等教育 好像过得还不错

　　and this or that or the other thing goes wrong and they decided³ that the only way their lives can have meaning is to take some other people's lives away

　　不晓得被什么刺激了 他俩决定 只有夺取别人的生命 他们的生命才有意义

　　There were not empowered, as you are

　　他们没有被赋予那种能力 不像你们

　　Just about a year before, you remember that another young man try to blow off a car bomb in Time Square in New York

　　你们应该还记得大概一年前 有个小伙子试图在纽约时报广场引爆汽车炸弹

　　He and his wife got college degrees in America

　　他和他的妻子都在美国获得了大学文凭

　　He had a job and a home and a home mortgage⁴ and then like a lot Americans, he lost it

　　他有工作 还贷款买了房子 但跟很多美国人一样 他搞砸了

　　Most of us who are raised to face failure in the face and fix ourselves up, go back to work and make some good happen

　　我们大部分人都被教育 要敢于直面失败 重整旗鼓 重新努力 重回正轨

　　And I hope you would do that

　　我希望你们也会这么做

　　But somehow he thought this isolated⁵ him from the rest of the world the only way his life could matter is that he took away the lives of people he didn't even know

　　但不知为何 他觉得失败让他与世界隔绝 唯一能实现他生命价值的方式 就是夺取陌生人的生命

　　So the first decision we have to make, before we can get all the policies and all the things that would change the world for the better, is to share the future.

　　所以我们要做的第一个决定 在我们制定出所有可能将世界 变得更好的政策和其他事情之前 就是我们需要共享未来

　　To try to create a world of shared prosperity⁶, where there's shared responsibility, where everybody can be a part of a community as long as they believe in certain values,

　　要努力创造一个共享繁荣 共担责任的世界 在那里每个人都能成为社会的一份子 只要他们共持一定的价值观

　　including equal treatment and the absence of violence and the opportunity to begin again.

　　包括一视同仁和杜绝暴力 还有重新开始的机会

1 manifested   

[医]已显示的，证明的

参考例句：

• Social tensions were manifested in the recent political crisis. 最近的政治危机显示了社会关系的紧张。
• Her actions manifested a complete disregard for personal safety. 她的行动表明她全然不顾个人安危。

2 crisis   

n.危机，危急关头，决定性时刻，关键阶段

参考例句：

• He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明，在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
• The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。

3 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

4 mortgage   

n.抵押，抵押贷款；vt.抵押

参考例句：

• He's having a lot of trouble paying his mortgage every month.他付每月的抵押借款利息有很大的困难。
• The bank refused to accept any mortgage on land.银行拒绝接受任何土地抵押。

5 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。

6 prosperity   

n.繁荣，昌盛，成功

参考例句：

• I wish you the life of happiness and prosperity. 我祝你生活幸福、万事如意。
• A prosperity never seen before appeared in the countryside.农村出现了前所未有的繁荣。