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xx年北京奥运会开幕词 　　篇一：xx诺贝尔奖开幕词 　　Opening Address 　　Speech by Dr Marcus Storch, Chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, 10 December xx. 　　Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, 　　On behalf of the Nobel Foundation, I would like to welcome you to this years Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. I would especially like to welcome the Laureates and their families to this ceremony, whose purpose is to honour the Laureates and their contributions to science and literature. We send our warmest regards to Professor Nambu, who was unable to come to Stockholm. 　　Earlier today in Oslo, Peace Prize Laureate Martti Ahtisaari was honoured “for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts”. 　　According to the will of Alfred Nobel, the task of the Nobel Foundation – through the prize-awarding institutions – is to choose those in science and culture who have made the greatest contributions to human progress. Thus our task is not to predict the future, but to describe to the best of our ability what has happened. 　　This should not prevent us from describing the experiences we have gathered during the more than 100 years that the Nobel Foundation has existed. 　　The basis of all human development is knowledge. The most important contributions come from universities. It is therefore logical to try to describe how a university can best perform its task. 　　As I see it, a university has three main tasks: 　　1. To be the memory of society 　　2. To be the cutting edge of society and 　　3. To be the critical mirror of society. 　　Let me comment on these three tasks. 　　To be the memory of society implies passing on to the next generation what we know today. 　　In Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll said: “It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.” Our know-how – the base – is constantly growing, which implies that the requirements for passi