公众人物毕业演讲 第157期:比尔·奈马萨诸塞大学2014(4)

 　　Skyrocketed to over 50 cents a liter 2 dollars a gallon, everybody

　　猛涨到50多美分一升2美元一加仑 大伙

　　Now we're the last country

　　我们是最后一个国家

　　I'm hoping someday we'll get leaders in gasoline as well as other things

　　我希望有一天我们能够有汽油及其它东西的领袖

　　Back then we were still in the throes of the disco era

　　当时 我们还处在迪斯科年代

　　We had leisure suits the Chevy Vega the Ford¹ Pinto

　　我们有休闲套装雪佛兰织女星福特平托

　　I mean everybody these were things that no designer, no engineer and especially no lawyer could be proud of

　　我想跟大家说的是这些绝对不是设计师 工程师 特别是律师会感到自豪的

　　Now we're in the depth of the most serious environmental crisis in human history

　　现在我们正处在人类历史上最严重的环境危机之中

　　in that I include the most recently Ice Age because things are happening faster than ever before

　　这包括最近的一次冰期因为一切都比任何时候发生得更迅猛

　　but I believe you all can help us avoid disaster but I'm also hoping you can help us avoid another disco era

　　不过我相信你们所有人能够帮助我们避免灾难我也相信 你们能够帮助我们避免另一次迪斯科年代

　　When my great-grandmother refused to let my grandmother go for a ride on the Wright Brothers' new flying machine in College Park Maryland

　　当我的曾祖母拒绝让我祖母在马里兰大学帕克分校登上莱特兄弟新发明的飞行机器时

　　there were about one and three quarters of a billion people in the world

　　世界总人口大约只有17.5亿

　　During World War II while my father worked a shovel in the Japanese Prisoner of War camp

　　在二战时期我父亲在日本战俘营做劳工

　　and my mother was a Navy lieutenant and a cryptographer working to decipher the German enigma code

　　而我母亲则是一位海军上尉她的工作是破解德军密码

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n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。