克林顿西安之行演讲.pptVIP

Thank you for your key to the city and for this magnificent welcome. Here in this ancient capital, China seems very young to me tonight. Xi’an was perhaps the most open and culturally advanced city in the entire world. 感谢你们赠送的“城市之匙”和对我的盛情欢迎。今夜在古都西安，我看到了中国的青春活力。西安或许曾是全世界最开放，文化最先进的城市。 From this place, trade routes extended through Asia to Europe and Africa. And to this place, great thinkers came, spreading philosophy and new ideas that have contributed to the greatness of China. 贸易之路从这里开始，贯穿亚洲，绵延至欧洲和非洲。伟大的思想家们也曾来到这里，传播哲学与新思想，这些都为中国的繁盛做出了贡献。 I look forward to seeing the Terracotta Warriors, the old city walls, the Muslin quarter, I also look forward to learning more about China’s contributions to the store of human knowledge from medicine and printing to the mathematics and astronomy, discoveries of which so much of the whole world progress is based on. 我很期待参观兵马俑，古城墙，回民街，也希望了解到更多中国在医学、印刷术和数学、天文学上对人类知识库的贡献，诸多的世界进步都是基于这些。 And I want to see more of the new nation you are building on a scale even the emperors could not have foreseen. 同时，我也很想一睹你们正在大规模建设的新国家，这规模甚至是连千古帝王都未能预见的。 China that gave us printing, now boasts fax machines, computers and cell phones. Xi’an is home to film makers, internet explorers, and business people of every description. Here in this city, famous for calligraphy, a new chapter in China’s story is being written. 中国曾以印刷术而著称，而现在以传真机、电脑和手机而闻名遐迩。许多电影制片人，软件开发者以及各界商业精英都诞生于西安。这座以书法闻名于世的城市正在书写中国历史的新篇章。 We Americans admire your accomplishments, your hard work, your creativity and vision, your efforts against hunger and poverty, and your work with us on peace and stability in Korea and South Asia, a new day is dawning in for the Chinese people. For China’ greatness lies as always with its people. 我们美国人钦佩你们的成就、勤奋、创新、远见，赞赏你们对抗饥饿贫穷的努力，也感谢你们在朝鲜和南亚的和平稳定问题上与我们合作。中国人民即将迎来全新的一天，因为中国人民是中国伟大成就的缔造者。 Our history has convinced Americans that the greatness of any coun