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本视频是前纽约市长、彭博社创始人迈克尔·彭博在哈佛大学2014年毕业典礼上的演讲。彭博目前拥有330亿美元资产，位列全球富豪榜第16位。普通毕业典礼演讲都是对学生提出建议和希望，但这次演讲有所不同，彭博通篇都在抨击美国社会和大学中非正统思想受到抑制的情况，抨击标榜自由和宽容者的伪善。彭博要求哈佛毕业生能有开放的思想，学会聆听他人的意见，哪怕是自己并不赞同甚至强烈反对的意见。
n. 崇拜，爱慕，做礼拜
vi. 做礼拜
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- Joined together they form a sacred trust that holds the basis of our democratic society
- 两者结合在一起 构成了维持民主社会根基的神圣信赖
- But let me tell you that trust is perpetually vulnerable to the tyrannical tendencies of monarchs, mobs, and majorities
- 但我要告诉大家 这种信赖是很脆弱的 特别是在君主 暴民 多数的专横倾向下
- And lately, we've seen those tendencies manifest themselves too often both on college campuses and in our society
- 最近 这种倾向经常出现在 我们的大学校园和社会中
- That's the bad news
- 这是个坏消息
- and unfortunately, I think both Harvard and my own city of New York, have been witnesses to this trend
- 而且很不幸的是 哈佛 以及我自己的城市纽约 也都见证过这种趋势
- First, for New York City, Several years ago, as you may remember some people tried to stop the development of a mosque a few blocks from the World Trade Center site
- 首先 在纽约市 你们可能记得 几年前 有些人强烈反对 在世贸中心旧址几个街区远的地方建一座清真寺
- It was an emotional issue and polls showed that two-thirds of Americans were against a mosque being built there
- 这是一个情感问题 民意调查显示 超过2/3的美国人都反对在那里建清真寺
- Even the Anti-Defamation League, widely regarded as the country's most ardent defender of religious freedom declared its opposition to the project
- 即便是反诽谤联盟 这一被公认为全国宗教自由最热情的捍卫者 也毫不掩饰对该项目的反对
- The opponents held rallies and demonstrations
- 反对者进行着集会和示威
- They denounced the developers and they demanded that city government stop its construction
- 谴责开发者 要求市政府停止这项工程
- That was their right and we protected their right to protest
- 这是他们的权利 我们保护他们的抗议权
- But they could not have been more wrong
- 但他们的观点绝对是错误的
- And we refused to cave in to those demands
- 我们拒绝屈从
- The idea that government would single out a particular religion and block its believers and only its believers from building a house of worship in a particular area
- 政府如果单独选出某种宗教 阻止而且只阻止其信徒 在特定地点建立宗教活动场所
- is diametrically opposed to the moral principles that gave rise to our great nation
- 这绝对是和伟大美国的道德原则背道而驰的
- and the constitutional protections that have sustained it
- 这应是宪法保护所不允许的
- Our union of 50 states rests on the union of two values: freedom and tolerance
- 美国这个五十州联邦依赖于两大价值的结合 自由和宽容
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| worship | ['wə:ʃip] | |||
| constitutional | [.kɔnsti'tju:ʃənl] | |||
| opposition | [.ɔpə'ziʃən] | |||
| ardent | ['ɑ:dənt] | 联想记忆 | ||
| tolerance | ['tɔlərəns] | |||
| issue | ['iʃju:] | |||
| emotional | [i'məuʃənl] | |||
| vulnerable | ['vʌlnərəbl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| protest | [prə'test] | 联想记忆 | ||
| manifest | ['mænifest] | 联想记忆 |
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