欧美名人演讲 第42期:莱昂纳多气候峰会演讲(1)

 　　Please welcome newly appointed United Nations Messenger of Peace, Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio.

　　请欢迎新任联合国和平大使，莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥。

　　Thank you, Mr. Secretary-General, your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, and distinguished¹ guests.

　　尊敬的秘书长先生，女士们先生们，以及尊贵的客人们，谢谢你们。

　　I’m honored to be here today, I stand before you not as an expert but as a concerned citizen, one of the 400,000 people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday, and the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis.

　　我今天很荣幸来到这里，不是以专家身份，而是以一个关心气候问题的市民身份站在你们面前，不仅是作为周日漫步在纽约街头的40万市民之一，也作为全世界数十亿想要解决气候危机的人们之一。

　　As an actor I pretend for a living. I play fictitious² characters often solving fictitious problems.

　　作为一个演员，我以扮演别人的方式谋生。我扮演虚构的角色去解决虚构的问题。

　　I believe that mankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way, as if it were a fiction, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away. But I think we all know better than that now.

　　我觉得过去人类也是以同样的方式看待气候变化，好像这是一件虚构的事情，好像假装气候变化不是真实的事情，就能让它消失。但我想我们现在了解得更多了。

　　Every week, we’re seeing new and undeniable Climate Events, evidence that accelerated Climate Change is here right now.

　　每周，我们都看见新的且不可否认的气候问题，加速了气候变化的迹象随处可见。

　　Droughts are intensifying³, our oceans are acidifying, with methane⁴ plumes⁵ rising up from the ocean floor.

　　干旱在加剧，海洋伴随着甲烷缕流从海底升腾而上正在酸化。

　　We are seeing extreme weather events, and the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melting at unprecedented⁶ rates, decades ahead of scientific projections⁷.

　　极端天气频现，南极西部和格陵兰冰盖正以空前的速度融化着，比科学预测提前了几十年。

　　None of this is rhetoric⁸, and none of it is hysteria. It is fact. The scientific community knows it, industry knows it, governments know it, even the United States military knows it.

　　这一切都不是夸张，也不是狂热，是铮铮的事实。科学界知道这些，工业界和政府知道，甚至美国军队也知道。

　　The Chief of the U.S.Navy’s Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Locklear, recently said that Climate Change is our single greatest security threat.

　　美国海军太平洋司令部长官尊敬的塞廖尔·洛克利尔上将最近说过：“气候变化是我们面临的唯一最大的安全威胁。”

　　My Friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering⁹ in human history now faces this difficult but achievable task. You can make history or you will be vilified¹⁰ by it.

　　我的朋友们，这个团体——也许比人类历史上的任何一次集结人数更多，正面临着一个艰巨但可以达成的任务。你可以选择创造历史，或者被历史蔑视。

1 distinguished   

adj.卓越的，杰出的，著名的

参考例句：

• Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
• A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。

2 fictitious   

adj.虚构的，假设的；空头的

参考例句：

• She invented a fictitious boyfriend to put him off.她虚构出一个男朋友来拒绝他。
• The story my mother told me when I was young is fictitious.小时候妈妈对我讲的那个故事是虚构的。

3 intensifying   

v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的现在分词 )；增辉

参考例句：

• The allies are intensifying their air campaign. 联军部队正加大他们的空战强度。 来自辞典例句
• The rest of the European powers were in a state of intensifying congestion. 其余的欧洲强国则处于越来越拥挤的状态。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史

4 methane   

n.甲烷，沼气

参考例句：

• The blast was caused by pockets of methane gas that ignited.爆炸是由数袋甲烷气体着火引起的。
• Methane may have extraterrestrial significance.甲烷具有星际意义。

5 plumes   

羽毛( plume的名词复数 )； 羽毛饰； 羽毛状物； 升上空中的羽状物

参考例句：

• The dancer wore a headdress of pink ostrich plumes. 那位舞蹈演员戴着粉色鸵鸟毛制作的头饰。
• The plumes on her bonnet barely moved as she nodded. 她点点头，那帽子的羽毛在一个劲儿颤动。

6 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

7 projections   

预测( projection的名词复数 )； 投影； 投掷； 突起物

参考例句：

• Their sales projections are a total thumbsuck. 他们的销售量预测纯属估计。
• The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。

8 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

9 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

10 vilified   

v.中伤，诽谤( vilify的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was vilified in newspapers. 他在报纸上受到了诽谤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She was vilified by the press for her controversial views. 因她持有异议，新闻界对她横加挞伐。 来自互联网