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美国驻华大使清华大学演讲 2010年：作出决定的一年 ——美国驻华大使洪博培的演讲 中国 北京 清华大学 2010年3月18日 2010: The Year of Decision --Remarks by Jon Huntsman, U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China Tsinghua University, Beijing, China March 18, 2010 It is a great pleasure to be able to speak to you today and celebrate – a little in advance – Tsinghua’s 100th anniversary. The United States has a special connection with this university. When Teddy Roosevelt was President, the U.S. government established a scholarship program for Chinese students with funds from the indemnity imposed on the Qing Dynasty for supporting the Boxer Rebellion. The “American Indemnity College” (Meiguo Peikuan Xuexiao), founded in 1911 through this program, helped some of China’s top students prepare for study in the U.S. 非常高兴今天能够对你们讲话并提前一点庆祝清华大学成立100周年。美国与这所大学有着特殊的关系。当泰迪·罗斯福还是总统的时候，美国政府用强加于清朝的支持义和团运动赔款之基金，为中国学生设立了一个奖学金项目。通过此项目而创立于1911年的“美国赔款学校”曾帮助中国优秀学生中的一些人准备在美国的学习。 Among the many prominent Chinese who benefited from this scholarship were the philosopher Hu Shih, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, the mathematician Kai Lai Chung, and the astronautical engineer Qian Xuesen, who later founded China’s rocket program. So successful was this program, in fact, that the Fulbright Scholarship – the premier American scholarship program today – was modeled after it. And as you know, in 1928, the American Indemnity College became Tsinghua University. We are pleased to be so intimately associated with your founding and evolution. And we celebrate with you 100 years of friendship, and Tsinghua’s proud history as one of China’s top academic institutions. 在众多著名的从这个奖学金受益的华人中，有哲学家胡适、诺贝尔物理奖得主杨振宁、数学家钟开莱以及后来开创了中国火箭项目的航天工程师钱学森。这个项目是如此成功，以至于，事实上，富布赖特奖学金计划——今日美国顶尖的奖学金计划——就是仿照它而来的。而正如你们所知，在1928年，美国赔款学校成为清华大学。我们很高兴能够如此密切地与你们的成立和发展相连。并且，我们与你们共庆100年的友谊及清华大学作为中国顶尖学术机构之一的骄傲历史。 A long-time China hand once told me that any time is an interesting time to be in China. But I would suggest to you that this year, the Year of the