李希光在2010年新闻与传播学院新生开学典礼上的发言(英文).docVIP

李希光：在2010年新闻与传播学院新生开学典礼上的发言（英文） Respected faculty, dear students, ladies and gentlemen, ??? It is my great pleasure to extend my warmest congratulations to the opening of 2010 academic year. I also warmly welcome all of you coming from almost all of the world to study at Tsinghua University. ??? Confucius told his students 2,000 years ago,“It is a great pleasure? to have friends coming to visit you from far away.” ??? It is really a big moment in your life since tomorrow you will start your academic study at a university which you feel proud of. But your future success is not defined by your success in the entrance examinations to Tsinghua. ??? What should be the defining moments of your life? What events will shape you in extraordinary ways, which will eventually make Tsinghua feel proud of you, instead of you feel proud of Tsinghua? ???? Looking at the youthful faces sitting in front of me, my mind goes back to my own youth day. In the summer of 1982, I was among the first group of college graduates. I felt so proud of myself when most of the young people were still laboring in villages, coal mines and factories. ??? After I graduated from university, I was assigned a job with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with theoretical physicists most of my time. ????One day, Prof. Qian Sanqiang, father of Chinese atomic bomb, asked me to go to the India embassy, acting as an interpreter at the dinner. During the dinner, the Indian Ambassador stood up and gave a speech. He said,” standing in front of Prof. Qian Sanqiang, I feel so humble. Mr. Qian knows everything about nothing but I know nothing about everything.” ??? I was totally confused and did not know how to translate the sentences into Chinese. ??? Later, a particle physicist explained to me that nothing is dark matter. Dark matter is inferred to exist from gravitational effects on background radiation. Dark matter constitutes 80% of the matter in the universe, while ordinary matter makes up only 20%. ???