耶鲁本科学院院长2024开学演讲：论公民身份
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:07 | President McInnis, Chaplain Saltillo, colleagues, good morning and good morning to the parents, | 麦克因尼斯总统 萨蒂洛牧师 各位同事 早上好 父母们 |
| 0:13 | guardians, family and friends of the incoming class. | 监护人、家属和新上课的朋友。 |
| 0:16 | As in my role as Dean of Yale College, | 作为耶鲁学院院长, |
| 0:19 | I thank you for everything you've done in guiding and supporting these young adults. | 我感谢你在指导和支持这些年轻的成年人方面所做的一切。 |
| 0:23 | I'm delighted that they and you are joining the Yale community. | 我很高兴他们和你加入耶鲁社区 |
| 0:29 | Students from the Class of 2028, | 2028级学生, |
| 0:31 | transfer students, Eli Whitney students, visiting international students, welcome to Yale. | 转校生 Eli Whitney学生 访问国际学生 欢迎来到耶鲁 |
| 0:44 | And I'd also like to extend a special welcome to our new president or a welcome back to | 我还想特别欢迎我们的新总统 或者欢迎他回来 |
| 0:49 | Mari McInnis, our new president. | 玛丽·麦金尼斯 我们的新总统 |
| 0:56 | Students in gathering here today, you join a great | 学生今天聚集在这里, 你加入一个伟大的 |
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| 1 | President McInnis, Chaplain Saltillo, colleagues, good morning and good morning to the parents, | 麦克因尼斯总统 萨蒂洛牧师 各位同事 早上好 父母们 |
| 2 | guardians, family and friends of the incoming class. | 监护人、家属和新上课的朋友。 |
| 3 | As in my role as Dean of Yale College, | 作为耶鲁学院院长, |
| 4 | I thank you for everything you've done in guiding and supporting these young adults. | 我感谢你在指导和支持这些年轻的成年人方面所做的一切。 |
| 5 | I'm delighted that they and you are joining the Yale community. | 我很高兴他们和你加入耶鲁社区 |
| 6 | Students from the Class of 2028, | 2028级学生, |
| 7 | transfer students, Eli Whitney students, visiting international students, welcome to Yale. | 转校生 Eli Whitney学生 访问国际学生 欢迎来到耶鲁 |
| 8 | And I'd also like to extend a special welcome to our new president or a welcome back to | 我还想特别欢迎我们的新总统 或者欢迎他回来 |
| 9 | Mari McInnis, our new president. | 玛丽·麦金尼斯 我们的新总统 |
| 10 | Students in gathering here today, you join a great | 学生今天聚集在这里, 你加入一个伟大的 |
| 11 | tradition shaped by the many generations of students who have come before you. | 在你们之前的几代学生形成了传统。 |
| 12 | More than 1,500 of you have come to New Haven from all over the world. | 来自世界各地的1500多人来到纽黑文. |
| 13 | You've come from | 你从这里来 |
| 14 | 1,100 different high schools and 23 of you most recently attended community college. | 1,100所不同的高中,最近有23所在社区学院就读。 |
| 15 | Among you are first robotics captains, jazz trombonists, employees of the month at your | 你们当中有第一批机器人队长 爵士乐演奏家 本月的员工 |
| 16 | local Panera, debate team captains and three sport varsity athletes. | 本地的帕内拉,辩论队队长和三名运动校队运动员. |
| 17 | About a fifth of you will be | 你们大概有五分之一的人 |
| 18 | in the first generation in your family to attend a four-year college and | 在你家庭的第一代 在四年制的大学和 |
| 19 | and more than a fifth of you have received Pell grants for low-income students. | 超过五分之一的人获得了Pell助学金。 |
| 20 | 49 of you were admitted through the Eli Whitney or transfer students programs and 20 of you | 你们中49人通过Eli Whitney或转学计划 录取了20人 |
| 21 | are U.S. military veterans. | 是美国退役军人 |
| 22 | And that's the largest number of veterans in the entering | 这是进场人数最多的老兵 |
| 23 | class in many years. | 很多年的班级 |
| 24 | You come to Yale from different religious backgrounds with different | 你来自不同宗教背景的耶鲁 |
| 25 | political beliefs, cultural traditions, ethnic, racial and national heritages. | 政治信仰、文化传统、族裔、种族和民族遗产。 |
| 26 | But amidst this | 但是在这里面 |
| 27 | great diversity you also share much in common. | 你们也有很多共同点。 |
| 28 | You are broad-minded people coming here to seek | 你们这些思想宽广的人来到这里寻求 |
| 29 | a liberal education with a strong commitment to learning and an excitement about what's ahead of | 自由主义教育 坚定的学习承诺 对未来事物的兴奋 |
| 30 | you. | 你们 |
| 31 | You're entering Yale College in the class of 2024 in the fall of 2024 and most of you will | 你进入耶鲁学院 在2024年秋天的班级 在2024年秋天 |
| 32 | graduate in 2028. | 2028年毕业. |
| 33 | This means among other things that we start the semester just as the Olympic | 也就是说我们开始学期 就像奥运一样 |
| 34 | Games conclude. | 游戏结束。 |
| 35 | So we're able to cheer for the many Ailes who've been representing the United | 因此,我们能够为许多艾莱人欢呼, 他们一直代表联合 |
| 36 | States and nine other countries at the Olympics and the Paralympics. | 参加奥运会和残奥会的国家和其他9个国家。 |
| 37 | The Games symbolize the | 游戏象征着 |
| 38 | striving for international harmony and an effort to channel the competition among nations into a | 努力促进国际和谐,努力将国家间的竞争引向 |
| 39 | peaceful pursuit. | 和平的追求。 |
| 40 | In ancient Greece where wars among city-states were common a truce would be held | 在古希腊,城邦之间的战争是常见的 休战 |
| 41 | every four years so that athletes could travel to the Games. | 每四年一次,使运动员可以前往参加运动会. |
| 42 | And today too we think of it as an | 而今天,我们也认为它是一个 |
| 43 | opportunity for international collaboration. | 国际合作的机会。 |
| 44 | Yale's have represented 10 countries at this year's Games | 耶鲁代表10个国家参加了今年的比赛 |
| 45 | and won medals for five different countries. | 并获得五个不同国家的奖牌. |
| 46 | Which reminds me of the feminist author Virginia | 这让我想起女权主义作家弗吉尼亚 |
| 47 | Wolf's comment that as a woman my country is the whole world. | 沃尔夫说,作为一个女人,我的国家是整个世界。 |
| 48 | Together as members of the class of | 一起成为 |
| 49 | 2028 you represent 55 countries and 52 United States territories and states. | 2028年 你代表55个国家和52个美国领土和州 |
| 50 | Way back in 1776 | 早在1776年 |
| 51 | the year of American independence future Yale President Timothy Dwight told the graduating | 美国独立之年 耶鲁总统蒂莫西·德怀特告诉毕业者 |
| 52 | class that they should consider themselves citizens of the world and we continue to emphasize | 我们继续强调 |
| 53 | international collaboration and engagement as a key part of a Yale education. | 国际合作和参与是耶鲁教育的一个关键部分。 |
| 54 | The journey you are | 你所经历的旅程 |
| 55 | political cycles of American life the presidential election so you have a special opportunity to | 美国政治周期 总统选举 所以你有特别的机会 |
| 56 | learn about democratic citizenship. | 了解民主公民意识。 |
| 57 | You may well have spent part of the summer following | 你可能已经度过了夏天 |
| 58 | the presidential election and the campaign season which have been extraordinary by any measure. | 总统大选和竞选季节,无论以何种标准来说都是非常的。 |
| 59 | Entering college now with many prominent Yalies in politics naturally raises the question of | 进入大学后,许多著名的雅利士人在政治领域 自然提出了一个问题: |
| 60 | what your college education has to do with democracy. | 你的大学教育与民主有关 |
| 61 | Yale College's mission statement | 耶鲁大学的任务说明 |
| 62 | says that we educate students to lead and serve in every sphere of human activity | 说我们教育学生在人类活动的每一个领域 领导和服务 |
| 63 | and here I want to emphasize that one word serve. | 我想在这里强调,一个字是有用的。 |
| 64 | You may lead and serve in many fields | 你可以领导和在很多领域服务 |
| 65 | academia the arts business law medicine the military science and technology and some of | 军事科学和技术,以及 |
| 66 | you will serve in government. | 你会为政府服务 |
| 67 | Elite institutions often speak about education for leadership | 精英机构经常谈论领导能力教育 |
| 68 | but citizenship is a relation among equals and we should be educating you for citizenship for | 但是,公民身份是平等之间的关系,我们应该教育你获得公民身份,因为 |
| 69 | participation on a level of equality with others. | 在与其他人平等的基础上参与。 |
| 70 | By virtue of coming to Yale you join a group with | 由于来到耶鲁 你加入一个团体 |
| 71 | disproportionate political power. | 不相称的政治权力。 |
| 72 | In congress and other powerful institutions today people who have | 今天在国会和其他有权力的机构里 |
| 73 | been to college hold most leadership roles. | 上大学时担任着大部分的领导职务。 |
| 74 | Over 95 percent of members of congress have college | 超过95%的国会议员有大学 |
| 75 | degrees as against only about 42 percent of adults in the general population. | 普通人口中只有42%的成年人拥有学位。 |
| 76 | Graduates of Yale are | 耶鲁大学的毕业生 |
| 77 | even more overrepresented in national leadership but remember that even if you go on to a role | 国家领导层中的比例甚至更高,但记住,即使你继续扮演角色, |
| 78 | as a leader you will be serving your equals. | 作为一个领导者,你将 服务你的平等。 |
| 79 | I encourage you to participate in democracy | 我鼓励你参与民主 |
| 80 | however you choose and to view your time at Yale as an opportunity to think about the contributions | 不管你选择什么 把你在耶鲁大学的时间看作是 思考贡献的机会 |
| 81 | you will make in your community or nationally or internationally when you graduate. | 毕业后,您将在社区、国家或国际范围内工作。 |
| 82 | Remember also | 记得 |
| 83 | {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}你应该对大学的其他成员 | |
| 84 | community with respect. | 尊重社区。 |
| 85 | So what does this type of leadership and service mean especially today | 那么,这种领导和服务意味着什么,特别是今天 |
| 86 | when division and polarization have coarsened public discourse? | 何时分裂和两极分化使公众的言论更加紧张呢? |
| 87 | In Yale College we offer a | 在耶鲁大学 我们提供 |
| 88 | liberal education. | 自由主义教育. |
| 89 | The word liberal in this expression does not mean politically liberal | 自由一词在表达上并不代表政治自由 |
| 90 | but both senses of the word have their root in liberty or freedom. | 但两种感觉都根植于自由或自由 |
| 91 | The liberal education you're | 你是自由主义教育 |
| 92 | about to pursue is focused on your general intellectual social and ethical development | 将追求的焦点是 你的一般智力 社会和道德发展 |
| 93 | and not exclusively on career preparation and a liberal education has traditionally since ancient | 而不是专门从事职业准备和自由教育 |
| 94 | times meant an education appropriate for free citizens. | 时代意味着适合自由公民的教育。 |
| 95 | The American form of this education | 这种教育的美国形式 |
| 96 | has grown up alongside our democracy. | 与我们的民主并肩成长。 |
| 97 | In many ways as you come to college you have the opportunity | 在很多方面,当你来到大学 你有机会 |
| 98 | to exercise your liberty. | 行使你的自由。 |
| 99 | You have great freedom in how you spend your time, choose your courses | 在如何度过你的时间,选择你的课程方面 你有极大的自由 |
| 100 | and chart your own path. | 并规划自己的道路。 |
| 101 | You will have opportunities to study history or political science or global | 你将有机会研究历史或政治学或全球 |
| 102 | affairs in order to learn more about how governments work but just as important is | 为了更多地了解政府如何运作,但同样重要的是 |
| 103 | the opportunity to talk with and learn from people who have very different backgrounds | 有机会与具有非常不同背景的人交谈和学习; |
| 104 | and ideas from your own. | 还有你自己的想法 |
| 105 | Find those people who see the world differently from you | 找到那些与你不同的人 |
| 106 | and make friends with whom you can respectfully disagree. | 并结交你们所争论的朋友。 |
| 107 | Most of you live in the United States | 你们大多住在美国 |
| 108 | but many of you are citizens of other countries. | 你们中许多人是其他国家的公民。 |
| 109 | I myself came here from Canada as an international | 我本人从加拿大来到这里,作为一个国际 |
| 110 | student. | 学生。 |
| 111 | It's not that far away but still and I had an opportunity to learn a lot about American | 虽然不远,但我还是有机会了解美国人 |
| 112 | democracy. | 民主主义。 |
| 113 | Now some of you may go home and run for office someday. | 你们中有些人可能有一天会回家竞选公职 |
| 114 | One notable world leader who | 著名世界领袖 |
| 115 | graduated from Yale, Ernesto Zedillo, served as president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000. | 耶鲁大学毕业,埃内斯托·塞迪略,1994年至2000年担任墨西哥总统. |
| 116 | President | 庭长 |
| 117 | Zedillo now teaches here and once you're a sophomore you can sign up for his class on the economic | 塞迪略现在在这里教书,一旦你大二,你可以报名参加他的经济课 |
| 118 | evolution of the Latin American and Caribbean countries. | 拉丁美洲和加勒比国家的演变。 |
| 119 | President Zedillo played a major role | 塞迪略总统发挥了重要作用 |
| 120 | in guiding Mexico from one-party rule to modern multi-party democracy and in remarks to the Mexican | 指导墨西哥从一党制走向现代多党民主,对墨西哥人讲话 |
| 121 | Congress shortly after his party lost the legislative elections of 1997, here is what President Zedillo | 国会在1997年立法选举失败后不久, |
| 122 | had to say about Mexican democracy. | 不得不说墨西哥民主 |
| 123 | I've always been confident that free and open competition | 我一直相信自由公开的竞争 |
| 124 | would enable each of us to shoulder our commitment to democracy in the practice of a genuine ethic | 将使我们能够在真正道德的实践中承担我们对民主的承诺。 |
| 125 | of political responsibility. | 政治责任。 |
| 126 | An ethic of responsibility that includes unwavering defense | 责任道德,包括坚定的防卫 |
| 127 | of our laws and respect for our institutions, an ethic of responsibility that encourages tolerance | 我们的法律和尊重我们的制度,一种鼓励容忍的责任道德 |
| 128 | and restraint, not confrontation and rancor. | 和克制,而不是对抗和愤怒。 |
| 129 | President Zedillo speaks not only for Mexican | 塞迪略总统不仅代表墨西哥人 |
| 130 | democracy but also for all democratic nations. | 民主,但也适用于所有民主国家。 |
| 131 | Beyond political victory or any policies that we | 超越政治胜利或任何我们的政策 |
| 132 | influence by voting, we share a commitment to the rule of law, to sustaining democratic institutions | 我们共同致力于法治、维持民主机构 |
| 133 | and to the tolerance that encourages dialogue. | 以及鼓励对话的容忍。 |
| 134 | Freedom and equality are both key principles of | 自由与平等是人权的两个关键原则。 |
| 135 | our democracy. | 我们的民主。 |
| 136 | When I visited Washington DC this summer, I read the words of the Gettysburg address | 我今年夏天去华盛顿时 读了葛底斯堡的地址 |
| 137 | inscribed on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial in which President Lincoln called for a new birth | 在林肯纪念馆的墙上 林肯总统呼吁重新诞生 |
| 138 | of freedom and defended government of the people, by the people, for the people. | 人民为人民捍卫人民政府。 |
| 139 | These are values | 这些是价值 |
| 140 | that transcend partisan political difference. | 超越党派政治分歧。 |
| 141 | As I stood on the steps of the memorial, I thought | 当我站在纪念碑的台阶上,我想 |
| 142 | of Martin Luther King who one century after Gettysburg spoke on those steps and said, | 马丁·路德·金 格底斯堡之后的一个世纪 谈到这些台阶并说, |
| 143 | I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. | 我有一个梦想,那就是,有一天,这个国家将站起来,活出其信条的真正意义。 |
| 144 | We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. | 我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的,所有的人都是平等的。 |
| 145 | And as Dr. King also said | 正如金博士所说 |
| 146 | that day, when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution | 那天,当我们的共和国的建筑师们 写下了伟大的宪法 |
| 147 | and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American | 和《独立宣言》,他们正在签署一份本票,每个美国人 |
| 148 | was to fall heir. | 成为继承人 |
| 149 | This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable right | 这份说明是保证所有男人都享有不可剥夺的权利 |
| 150 | of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | 生命、自由和追求幸福 |
| 151 | The ideals of Lincoln and King live on and speak | 林肯和国王的理想 继续生存和说话 |
| 152 | to us today as we search for the true meaning of equality and freedom. | 我们今天在寻求平等和自由的真正意义。 |
| 153 | As members of a democracy, | 作为民主国家的成员, |
| 154 | we agree to live as equals according to laws and to determine those laws through debate | 我们同意依法平等生活,通过辩论确定这些法律 |
| 155 | and discussion and legal processes and not by force. | 讨论和法律程序,而不是以武力。 |
| 156 | And as members of a university community, | 作为大学社区的成员 |
| 157 | we commit to dialogue and evidence. | 我们致力于对话和证据。 |
| 158 | A university is not exactly a microcosm of society. | 大学并不是社会的缩影 |
| 159 | You were | 你曾经是 |
| 160 | chosen to come to Yale because of your unique talents. | 选择来耶鲁是因为你独特的才华 |
| 161 | But the university is even more dependent | 但大学更依赖 |
| 162 | than society as a whole on its commitment to words and persuasion as the means for resolving | 承诺将言辞和说服作为解决问题的手段 |
| 163 | disputes. | 争议。 |
| 164 | You are here to learn skills like analysis, argument, imagination, critical judgment. | 你们是来学习诸如分析、辩论、想象、批判判断等技能的。 |
| 165 | These are skills that you will take with you no matter what you study as you go out into the world | 这些技能,无论你学习什么, 你都会带着你进入世界 |
| 166 | to lead and serve. | 领导并服务。 |
| 167 | History in which all of one side is bad and all of the other side is good | 历史中,一方各有坏处,另一方各有好处 |
| 168 | is tempting but usually misleading. | 有诱惑力,但通常是误导性的。 |
| 169 | And now at a time when the challenges that we hear to ideals | 而现在,我们所听到的对理想的挑战 |
| 170 | from President Zedillo, President Lincoln, and Dr. King are all around us, it can be tempting to doubt | 从塞迪略总统,林肯总统和金博士 都围在我们身边,这可能会令人怀疑 |
| 171 | democratic processes or institutions like the university or principles like freedom of speech. | 民主进程或大学等机构或言论自由等原则。 |
| 172 | No university can define justice for all its students. | 没有一个大学能够为所有学生确定正义。 |
| 173 | But the liberal education ahead of you | 但自由主义教育在你面前 |
| 174 | will equip you to inquire about justice, to explore the complexity of historical, political, | 将帮助你询问正义 探索历史政治的复杂性 |
| 175 | and moral arguments, and to grapple with them using evidence and reason. | 和道德的争论, 并用证据和理性来对付他们。 |
| 176 | In the days, | 这几天 |
| 177 | weeks, and years ahead, find ways to serve, perhaps through Dwight Hall, our Center for Public Service. | 未来数周和数年,寻找办法,也许通过我们的公共服务中心德怀特·霍尔提供服务。 |
| 178 | If you're a U.S. citizen, be sure to exercise your right to vote in November. | 如果你是美国公民,一定要在11月行使选举权. |
| 179 | But also consider | 但也要考虑 |
| 180 | getting involved at the campus level through the Yale College Council or globally through the Yale | 通过耶鲁大学理事会或全球通过耶鲁大学参与校园一级的活动 |
| 181 | International Relations Association. | 国际关系协会。 |
| 182 | Most important, seek out conversation with your peers from all | 最重要的是 找大家的同龄人聊聊 |
| 183 | backgrounds. | 学问 |
| 184 | You have four years ahead of you in which to explore your freedoms in a community | 你还有四年的时间去探索你的自由 |
| 185 | of equals. | 平等无边. |
| 186 | And when you graduate, take that spirit of leadership and service with you. | 当你毕业的时候, 带着领导精神 和你的服务。 |
| 187 | Once again, | 再说一次 |
| 188 | welcome to Yale. | 欢迎来到耶鲁大学 |
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