英语阅读：在千年首脑峰会上的演讲(双语).docVIP

美联英语提供：英语阅读：在千年首脑峰会上的演讲（双语） 两分钟做个小测试，看看你的英语水平 /test/kuaisu.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 Address to the Millennium Summit在千年首脑峰会上的演讲 Madam President (of Finland), 总统女士（芬兰）， Mr. President (of Namibia), 总统先生（纳米比亚）， Excellencies, 诸位阁下， Ladies and Gentelemen, 女士们,先生们： I am deeply honored to welcome you all. 在此欢迎诸位,我深感荣幸。 Never before have the leaders of so many nations come together in a single Assembly. This is a unique event. A unique opportunity. And therefore a unique responsibility. You, ladies and gentlemen, are the leaders to whom the worlds peoples have entrusted their destiny. They look to you to protect them from the great dangers of our time; and too ensure that all of them can share in its great achievements. 这么多国家的领导人聚集一堂参加同一次大会，这是前所未有的事情。这是一件非比一般的盛事，这是一次极不寻常的机会。因此，诸位负有独特的责任。女士们，先生们，你们是领导者，世界各国人民已经将他们的命运托付于你们。他们期望你们保护他们,不让他们遭受我们这个时代的严重危害：他们期望你们确保他们能够分享我们这个时代所取得的伟大成就。 In an age when human beings have learnt the code of human life, and can transmit their knowledge in seconds from one continent to another, no mother in the world can understand why her child should be left to die of malnutrition or preventable disease. No one can understand why they should be driven from their home, or imprisoned or tortured for expressing their beliefs. No one can understand why the soil their parents tilled has turned to desert, or why their skills have become useless and their family is left hungry. 现今,人类已经破解了生命的密码，并且能够在几秒钟之内将知识从一个大陆传输到另一个大陆。在这样一个时代，世界上没有一个母亲能够理解为什么她的孩子竟然无人救助、死于营养不良或者本来可以预防的疾病。没有一个人能够理解为什么袒露自己信念的人居然被逐出家园，被囚禁牢中，甚至被拷打折磨。没有一个人能够理解为什么他们的父辈辛勤耕耘过的土地变成了荒漠,为什么他们的劳动技能变得毫无用处，为什么他们的家人忍饥挨饿。 People know that these challenges cannot be met by one country alone, or by one government alone. Change cannot be held back by frontiers. Human progress has always come from individual and local initiatives, freely devised and then freely adapted elsewhere. 大家知道,这些难题单靠一个国家是解决不了的,也不可能单靠一届政府就能解决的。疆土边境不可能阻止变革。人类的进步总是来自于个人和局部的首创精神；这些首创精神是被自由地创造出来，然后经过自由发挥，适用于其他地方。 Your job, as political leaders,