【中英】美国副总统切尼在上海复旦大学的演讲.doc

美国副总统切尼在上海复旦大学的演讲 Remarks by U.S. Vice President at Fudan University April 15, 2004 Fudan University, Shanghai, China 2004年4月15日 复旦大学，中国上海 THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Mayor Han, I appreciate the kind words of introduction. And were delighted to be here today. My wife and I are privileged to have the opportunity once again to travel in China. We are grateful for the welcome we have received, especially for the kind of reception here at Fudan University. We thank you for the honor, and we bring you good wishes from President George W. Bush and the people of the United States. 切尼副总统：韩市长，非常感谢您。谢谢您做介绍时的友好言辞。今天我们很高兴来到这里。我夫人与我为有这次机会再次来到中国访问感到荣幸，感谢贵国对我们的欢迎，特别感谢复旦大学的热情接待。我们为此感到不胜荣幸，谢谢你们。我们此行带来了布什总统和美国人民的良好祝愿。 I know that many of you will soon graduate from this great university. I am told the standards are extremely demanding here, and a degree from Fudan University signifies years of hard work and discipline. I congratulate each one of you on your achievement, and I commend your teachers for upholding the tradition of excellence that marks the 99-year history of Fudan University. 我知道在座的许多人很快就要从这所优秀的大学毕业。我听说贵校有极为严格的标准，得到复旦大学的学位代表着多年的刻苦攻读。我祝贺在座各位学业有成。我赞赏诸位老师承上启下，发扬复旦长达九十九年的优良传统。 I hardly need to tell you that you are beginning careers in a nation remarkably different from just a generation ago. My first glimpse of China came in 1975, when I traveled to Beijing with President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. That was only three years after President Richard Nixon had paid his historic visit to your country. Mao Zedong still held power. The aftershocks of the Cultural Revolution were still being felt. There were some hopes of reform, but people largely kept those hopes to themselves. 无庸讳言，仅与你们上一代人相比，在诸位事业生涯起步之时，贵国的情况已发生翻天覆地的变化。我在1975年第一次访问中国，当时我陪同福特总统和基辛格国务卿前往北京，距尼克松总统对贵国具有历史意义的访问仅短短三年的时光。当时毛泽东仍然在位，文化大革命的余波尚未平息。虽然人们对改革抱有一些希望，但这些希望大都隐藏在人们心中。 Those were the latter years of a difficult era for the people of China. When America and China set ou