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Michelle Obama 3月22日上午在北大斯坦福中心的演讲 在Michelle Obama短短二十分钟的演讲中，她围绕海外留学和文化交流的主题与在座中美留学生展开讨论，首先慰问马航失联一事，接着以中国古语“读万卷书，行万里路”鼓励年轻人进行跨国交流，吸收多国文化，共同携手迎接未来，她提出“现在是公民外交的新时代”，自由地表达和实现自我是每个公民的权利。 附Michelle Obama演讲中英文全文： Thank you. Well, ni-hao. (Laughter.) It is such a pleasure and an honor to be here with all of you at this great university, so thank you so much for having me. Now, before I get started today, on behalf of myself and my husband, I just want to say a few very brief words about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As my husband has said, the United States is offering as many resources as possible to assist in the search. And please know that we are keeping all of the families and loved ones of those on this flight in our thoughts and prayers at this very difficult time. Now with that, I want to start by recognizing our new Ambassador to China, Ambassador Baucus; President Wang; Chairman Zhu; Vice President Li; Director Cueller; Professor Oi, and the Stanford Center; President Sexton from New York University, which is an excellent study abroad program in Shanghai; and John Thornton, Director of the Global Leadership Program at Tsinghua University. Thank you all for joining us. But most of all, I want to thank all of the students who are here today. And I particularly want to thank Eric Schaefer and Zhu Xuanhao for that extraordinary English and Chinese introduction. That was a powerful symbol of everything that I want to talk with you about today. See, by learning each other’s languages, and by showing such curiosity and respect for each other’s cultures, Mr. Schafer and Ms. Zhu and all of you are building bridges of understanding that will lead to so much more. And I’m here today becauseI know that our future depends on connections like these among young peoplelike you across the globe. That’s why when my husband and I travel abroad, we don’t just visit palaces and parliaments and meet with heads of state. We also come to schools like this