公众人物毕业演讲 第159期:比尔·奈马萨诸塞大学2014(6)

 　　And by the time you all reach your billionth second here on earth when you're a little over six months into your 31st year

　　你们也会等到十亿位变动的那一刻到时你们大约是31岁半过一点

　　We will probably be over 9 billion and perhaps well on our way to 12 billion humans on earth

　　地球人口可能会超过90亿甚至可能会一直增长到120亿

　　What this means is we are all part of the problem

　　这意味着我们都是问题的一部分

　　we are all consuming resources, we are all parts of the crisis of climate disruption

　　我们都在消耗资源 我们都是气候破坏危机的一部分

　　but your parents and I want you especially to create the solutions and I dare say change the world

　　不过我和你们的父母 都将寄希望于你们 来找出解决方式我敢说 你们会改变世界

　　I believe that if the graduates of 2014 go into the world ready for change change will happen

　　我相信 2014届毕业生如果能够做好改变世界的准备改变就会发生

　　So please consider the following

　　请考虑如下这些

　　Thank you

　　谢谢

　　Reckoning our role in the growth of the world's population is one thing

　　认识到我们在世界人口增长中的角色是一点

　　but there's another thing the world is changing in another way

　　此外还有另一点世界正以另一种方式在变化

　　a way reckoned not by the thousandth of millionth but by the thousandths of thousandths, the millionths

　　这不是通过十亿来衡量的而是通过百万来衡量的

　　This year we are officially over 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide above the earth in our atmosphere

　　今年官方数据显示地球大气中的二氧化碳已经达到百万分之400

　　our remarkable quality of life here in the developed world depends on electricity

　　发达国家的生活质量很大程度上都取决于电力

　　much of which is made by burning old fuel which produces carbon dioxide

　　而发电很多又来自于燃烧老式燃料这会产生很多二氧化碳

　　And here's some very bad news, everybody

　　这里有一则很坏的消息 大伙