[英语学习]广外高翻学院专题口译训练材料.docVIP

Full text of the remarks by Craig Barrett, Intel Corporate Chairman at Sun Yat-sen University Well, distinguished faculty, students, it is a pleasure to be on any university campus, but to be on the university site with so many students in such a large university is indeed a pleasure. today I wanted to briefly talk about the world as a whole and then come down and talk a little bit about China, and then a little bit about university and then a little bit about you as students and what you might expect going forward. If you look at the world as a whole I think there are two major changes that have taken place in last ten years and have influenced all of our futures. Err…The first is that practically every country in the world now is part of the world free economic system, part of the world free trade system as others say, easy interchange of goods and services between most countries. And this is a major change from where we were only a few years ago. Err… About half of the world’s population has joined the free economic system in the last ten years, China is included, India, Russia, Eastern Europe, some of Latin America. So there has been a major change in the world free economic structure, which means that if you are in any one country, you can deal with any other country, especially in goods and services and ideas which are knowledge based.// The other change that has taken place in the last ten years is associated with technology and the Internet. Today it’s very easy to communicate between any two spots on the earth. It is very inexpensive to do so, such as you can transfer knowledge, transfer information and communicate anywhere in the world today for almost nothing. And if you take these two major changes together, what it means is, eh there’s great opportunity in the world as well as great competition. And the competition is what drives us and the opportunity is what drives us. And so every country has to accommodate this change. Every country has to acco