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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。
adj. 保守的，守旧的
n. 保守派(党),
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- He was attempting to repress and criminalize
- 他试图压制和定罪
- those who sympathized with an economic system that was, even then, failing
- 那些赞同哪怕在当时都已经很失败的经济体制的人
- McCarthy's Red Scare destroyed thousands of lives, but what was he so afraid of?
- 麦卡锡的红色恐惧让数以千计的人失去了生命 他害怕的是什么呢
- An idea in this case, communism that he and others deemed dangerous
- 是一种思想 也就是共产主义 他和一些人认为这种思想很危险
- But he was right about one thing, Ideas can be dangerous
- 不过他至少在一点上是正确的 思想确实危险
- They can change society
- 思想能够改变社会
- They can upend traditions
- 思想能够颠覆传统
- They can start revolutions
- 思想能够开启革命
- And that's why throughout history, those in authority have tried to repress the ideas that threaten their power, their religion, their ideology, or their reelection chances
- 这就是为什么历史上 那些权贵要抑制思想 避免这些思想威胁到 他们的权力 宗教 意识形态以及地位
- That was true for Socrates and Galileo
- 苏格拉底和伽利略是这样
- it was true for Nelson Mandela and Václav Havel
- 纳尔逊·曼德拉和瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔是这样
- and it has been true for Ai Wei Wei, Pussy Riot and the kids who made the "Happy" video in Iran
- 艾未未 造反猫咪乐队 以及在伊朗制作"快乐"视频的孩子们也是这样
- Repressing free expression is a natural human weakness
- 压抑自由言论表达是人类本性上的弱点
- and it is up to us to fight it at every turn
- 每次出现时 我们都需要同它进行斗争
- Intolerance of ideas whether liberal or conservative is antithetical to individual rights and free societies
- 对思想的不宽容 无论是自由还是保守派思想 都是同个人权利和自由社会背道而驰的
- and it is no less antithetical to great universities and first-rate scholarships
- 以上这些自然也适用于伟大大学和顶尖学者
- And there is an idea floating around college campuses including here at Harvard I think that scholars should be funded only if their work conforms to a particular view of justice
- 大学校园正流传着一种观点 我想哈佛也不例外 认为学者只有在研究符合特定正义观念的前提下 才应获得资助
- There's a word for that idea: censorship
- 这种观点可以用一个词来概括：审查
- And it is just a modern form of McCarthyism
- 这是麦卡锡主义的当代表现
- Think about the irony
- 想想这有多么讽刺
- In the 1950s, the right wing was attempting to repress left wing ideas
- 40年代 右翼试图抑制左翼思想
- Today, on many college campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas
- 而今天 在很多大学校园 自由派则开始抑制保守派思想
- even as conservative faculty members are at risk of becoming an endangered species
- 保守派教职员工甚至就快成为濒危物种
- And that is probably nowhere is true, more true than it is here in the Ivy League
- 这种情况尤其是在常春藤盟校最为突出
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| conservative | [kən'sə:vətiv] | 联想记忆 | ||
| irony | ['aiərəni] | |||
| particular | [pə'tikjulə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| repress | [ri'pres] | 联想记忆 | ||
| species | ['spi:ʃiz] | |||
| weakness | ['wi:knis] | |||
| intolerance | [in'tɔlərəns] | |||
| censorship | ['sensəʃip] | 联想记忆 | ||
| threaten | ['θretn] | |||
| liberal | ['libərəl] | 联想记忆 |
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