名校勵志英語演講 第120期:21世紀的挑戰(zhàn)(14)

[00:00.48]Today we do not seek to impose our vision on others, 今天，我們并不試圖將自己的見解強加于人， [00:05.02]but we are convinced that certain rights are universal—not American rights or European rights or rights for developed nations, 但我們深信，某些權利具有普遍性，它們不是美國的權利或者歐洲的權利或者是發(fā)達國家的權利， [00:14.41]but the birthrights of people everywhere, now enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights— 而是每個人與生俱來的權利。這些權利現(xiàn)在載于《聯(lián)合國人權宣言》。 [00:23.48]the right to be treated with dignity; the right to express one's opinions, to choose one's own leaders, 這些就是待人以尊嚴、各抒己見、選舉領袖、 [00:31.19]to associate freely with others, and to worship, or not, freely, however one chooses. 自由結社、自由選擇信教或不信教的權利。 [00:41.28]In the last letter of his life, the author of our Declaration of Independence and our third President, 《獨立宣言》的作者、我國第三任總統(tǒng)托馬斯·杰克遜 [00:48.30]Thomas Jefferson, said then that "all eyes are opening to the rights of man." 在他一生的最后一封信中寫道：“人們正在睜開眼睛關注人權?！? [00:55.54]I believe that in this time, at long last, 172 years after Jefferson wrote those words, 在杰克遜寫了這句話172年之后，我相信， [01:09.55]all eyes are opening to the rights of men and women everywhere. 人們現(xiàn)在終于睜開眼睛關注著世界各地男女老少應享受的人權。 [01:16.14]Over the past two decades, a rising tide of freedom has lifted the lives of millions around the world, 過去20年以來，一個高漲的自由浪潮解放了成千上百萬的生靈， [01:22.18]sweeping away failed dictatorial systems in the Former Soviet Union, throughout Central Europe; 掃除了前蘇聯(lián)和中歐那種失敗的獨裁統(tǒng)治， [01:29.04]ending a vicious cycle of military coups and civil wars in Latin America; 結束了拉美國家軍事政變和內戰(zhàn)的惡性循環(huán)， [01:34.44]giving more people in Africa the chance to make the most of their hard-won independence. 使更多的非洲人民有機會享受來之不易的獨立。 [01:40.34]And from the Philippines to South Korea, from Thailand to Mongolia, 從菲律賓到南朝鮮，從泰國到蒙古， [01:44.45]freedom has reached Asia's shores, powering a surge of growth and productivity. 自由之浪已沖到亞洲的海岸，給發(fā)展和生產力注入了動力。

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