公眾人物畢業(yè)演講第11期:邁克爾·彭博哈佛大學(xué)2014畢業(yè)典禮演講(3)

Joined together

兩者結(jié)合在一起

they form a sacred trust that holds the basis of ourdemocratic society

構(gòu)成了維持民主社會(huì)根基的神圣信賴

But let me tell you that trust is perpetuallyvulnerable

但我要告訴大家 這種信賴是很脆弱的

to the tyrannical tendencies of monarchs, mobs, and majorities

特別是在君主 暴民 多數(shù)的專橫傾向下

And lately, we have seen those tendencies manifest themselves too often

最近 這種傾向經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)在

both on college campuses and in our society

我們的大學(xué)校園和社會(huì)中

That's the bad news

這是個(gè)壞消息

and unfortunately, I think both Harvard

而且很不幸的是 哈佛

and my own city of New York, have been witnesses to this trend

以及我自己的城市紐約 也都見(jiàn)證過(guò)這種趨勢(shì)

First, for New York City

首先 在紐約市

Several years ago, as you may remember

你們可能記得 幾年前

some people tried to stop the

有些人強(qiáng)烈反對(duì)

development of a mosque a few blocks from the World Trade Center site

在世貿(mào)中心舊址幾個(gè)街區(qū)遠(yuǎn)的地方建一座清真寺

It was an emotional issue

這是一個(gè)情感問(wèn)題

and polls showed that

民意調(diào)查顯示

two-thirds of Americans were against a mosque being built there

超過(guò)2/3的美國(guó)人都反對(duì)在那里建清真寺

Even the Anti-Defamation League

即便是反誹謗聯(lián)盟

widely regarded as the country's most ardent defender of religious freedom

這一被公認(rèn)為全國(guó)宗教自由最熱情的捍衛(wèi)者

declared its opposition to the project

也毫不掩飾對(duì)該項(xiàng)目的反對(duì)

The opponents held rallies and demonstrations

反對(duì)者進(jìn)行著集會(huì)和示威

They denounced the developers

譴責(zé)開(kāi)發(fā)者

and they demanded that city government stop its construction

要求市政府停止這項(xiàng)工程

That was their right and we protected their right to protest

這是他們的權(quán)利 我們保護(hù)他們的抗議權(quán)

But they could not have been more wrong

但他們的觀點(diǎn)絕對(duì)是錯(cuò)誤的

And we refused to cave in to those demands

我們拒絕屈從

The idea that government would single out a particular religion

政府如果單獨(dú)選出某種宗教

and block its believers and only its believers

阻止而且只阻止其信徒

from building a house of worship in a particular area

在特定地點(diǎn)建立宗教活動(dòng)場(chǎng)所

is diametrically opposed to the moral principles that gave rise to our great nation

這絕對(duì)是和偉大美國(guó)的道德原則背道而馳的

and the constitutional protections that have sustained it

這應(yīng)是憲法保護(hù)所不允許的

Our union of 50 states rests on the union of two values

美國(guó)這個(gè)五十州聯(lián)邦依賴于兩大價(jià)值的結(jié)合

freedom and tolerance

自由和寬容