名校勵志英語演講 第38期:如何解決這個世界上最嚴重的不平等?

[00:00.00]For a few hours every week, you can use the growing power of the Internet to get informed, 每個星期只用幾個小時，你就可以通過互聯(lián)網(wǎng)日益增長的效力得到信息， [00:06.67]find others with the same interests, see the barriers, and find ways to cut through them. 找到志同道合的朋友，發(fā)現(xiàn)困難所在并找到解決它們的途徑。 [00:13.59]Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. 不要讓這個世界的復雜性阻礙你前進。要成為一個行動主義者。 [00:21.06]It will be one of the great experiences of your lives. 將解決人類的不平等視為己任。它將成為你生命中最重要的經歷之一。 [00:26.76]You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. 在座的各位畢業(yè)生，你們所處的時代是一個神奇的時代。 [00:31.93]As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had. 當你們離開哈佛的時候，你們擁有的技術是我們那一屆學生所沒有的。 [00:37.77]You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have. 你們已經了解到了世界上的不平等，而我們那時還不知道這些。 [00:42.75]And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you 了解了這些之后，要是你再棄那些你可以幫助的人們于不顧， [00:49.19]if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very small effort. 就將受到良心的譴責，只需一點小小的努力，你就可以改變那些人們的生活。 [00:54.55]You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer. 你們比我們擁有更大的能力;你們必須盡早開始，盡可能長時期堅持下去。 [01:01.26]And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now 我希望，30年后你們還會再回到哈佛， [01:07.28]and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. 想起你們用自己的天賦和能力所做出的一切。 [01:12.82]I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, 我希望，在那個時候，你們用來評價自己的標準，不僅僅是你們的專業(yè)成就， [01:19.59]but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities ... 還包括你們?yōu)楦淖冞@個世界深刻的不平等所做出的努力， [01:25.54]on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity. 以及你們如何善待那些遠隔千山萬水、除了同為人類之外與你們毫無共同之處的人們。 [01:34.29]Good luck. 最后，祝各位同學好運。

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