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【英语语言学习】比尔克林顿在耶鲁大学的演讲

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Thank you very much, Caitlin, Bobby, ladies and gentlemen.
 
I wasn't sure I was coming to fashion week.
 
President Levin, Vice1 President Lorimer, if I had -- you know, all I got was this little class napkin.
 
I feel if it were a little bigger, I'd turn it into a doo-rag so I could feel right at home.
 
[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] I just went over and said a word to Dean Brenzel, because you may have seen he had an article in the Huffington Post.
 
It said, now if they'd asked me to give this speech, this is what I would have said.
 
It's really good.
 
It's really good.
 
But if you had done that then I'd have missed all your hats.
 
How could anybody possibly be worried about the future of the world when it's in your hand? [APPLAUSE] I mean anybody with this kind of judgment2 and head gear will have no problem solving all the other challenges.
 
Let me say, in all seriousness, I'm honored to be here.
 
I congratulate the graduates, and I want to thank you and your families, your friends, the faculty4 and staff for letting me share this day.
 
I am profoundly grateful to Yale because of the things I learned, the professors I had, the friends of a lifetime, the fact that I still work with a lot of people from Yale in public health and endeavors we have together in Ethiopia and in Liberia.
 
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is here and I thank her.
 
But most of all, I'm grateful because if I hadn't come here I never would have met Hilary.
 
[APPLAUSE] So, she's been in Shanghai for two days at this big world expo they're having over there, and she called me last night and told me she had given this speech and how much it meant to her, how much you loved it.
 
She didn't prepare me for your sartorial5 splendor6 quite as much as she should have, but I'm very proud of the work she's doing and I'm very grateful to Yale because I would have missed it if I hadn't come here.
 
And we've had a remarkable7 life together.
 
I say that because we've been gone from Yale since 1973 -- that's 37 years, if my math still works.
 
And yet it seems to me as if we were here yesterday.
 
So I thought and thought and thought.
 
I said how can I be brief, which I owe you -- you know, when you have as good a sense of humor as you've displayed today, you're at least entitled to a short speech, and still say something that might be helpful.
 
Here's the best I can do.
 
The world you are going into that you will shape, should be the most interesting, exciting, fulfilling, stunning8 time in human history.
 
I mean after all, we've torn down all these barriers of time and space and people are no longer confined to where they were born, and so America has become explosively diverse.
 
You might be interested to know that at our pavilion in Shanghai, one of the things that is most emphasized is how there's somebody here from everywhere.
 
I'm trying to get the World Cup of soccer to come to America in 2018 or 2022, and my main pitch is this is the only place you can go where everybody will have a home team cheering squad9.
 
It's an amazing thing and it makes life a lot more interesting.
 
The internet is amazing.
 
When I became President, believe it or not -- I know for a lot of you this is the dark ages, but it was really just yesterday -- on January of 1993, January 20th, you know how many sites there were on the entire worldwide web? 50.
 
5-0.
 
More than that have been added since I started talking.
 
The average cell phone on the day I took the Oath of Office weighed five pounds.
 
Now you know somebody like me with big hands has to have one wide enough so that you only had to redial about one in every four times.
 
It's a fascinating time.
 
Look at all these scientific discoveries that have been coming out -- the genome was sequenced first in 2000, probably the major scientific advance of the eight years I served, and I spent a lot of your family's tax money trying to get that done.
 
[LAUGHTER] But certainly the most amusing, off-shoot of genome research appeared the last couple of weeks when we learned that every one of us in our genomic make up are between 1% and 4% descended10 from neanderthals.
 
And I'm glad all of us made it because if only the men had made it, we'd never hear the end of it.
 
And now we all have an excuse for every dumb thing we've ever done going back to age five.
 
It's great.
 
I say that but it is interesting.
 
It is interesting furthermore that the genome sequencing's first profoundly significant finding was that, from a genetic11 point of view, all human beings are 99.9% the same.
 
Then Craig Ventor's independent project said, no that's all wrong, we're only 99.5% the same.
 
Now with three billion units, 4/10 of 1% is significant, but from a social, political, philosophical12 point of view, it doesn't matter.
 
You just look around this vast crowd of your classmates, every single physical difference you can see is the product of somewhere between 1/10 and 5/10 of a percent of your genetic makeup13.
 
And what I want to say is most of us spend 99% of our time thinking about that 1/10, the 5/10 of 1%.
 
You're going to have a lot of people tell you, and it'll all be true, how smart you are, how gifted you are, how fortunate you've been, how, as our committee said, if we just give one of you a lever, you can move the world.
 
It's all true.
 
What I want you to take a few minutes thinking about is the 99.5% of you, because my basic belief is the only way that you can make the most of the world that lies before you, is to believe that it's interesting and fascinating and profoundly important as all of our diversities are, our common humanity matters more.
 
And that leads us to certain fundamental conclusion, as does the fact that our fate has caught up with the fate of the planet which we occupy.
 
I think about this a lot now.
 
I think about what young people who have more tomorrows than yesterdays are to make of the world they have inherited.
 
It's really quite extraordinary.
 
I read just this week, we had this amazing breakthrough in physics attempting to determine how life on earth began, and the results seem to suggest that subatomic elements of matter, which normally under the laws of physics would be expected to cancel each other out over and over and over again so life could never have formed in the first place, didn't because there were slightly more positive than negative elements of the most basic building block of matter.
 
If that's true, it is a metaphor14 for how you have to live.
 
Thank God and the primordial15 slime that positive outweighed16 the negative.
 
That's about it, and about what you have to do.
 
And I say that because the world you live in for all of its joys has three problems not very much in evident here today.
 
It is too unstable17, it is too unequal, and it is completely unsustainable.
 
So that if you want your children and grandchildren to be sitting on this lawn with their own inevitable18 choices of funky19 hats, you got to deal with those three things, and you gotta deal with them as an integral part of your life, not something that's over here that you think about sometimes, because these three challenges, that's where your 99.5% to 99.9% comes in.
 
It doesn't matter how smart you are, it doesn't matter how wealthy you grow, you're going to have to share that with everyone.
 
The world is too unequal.
 
Half the world's people live on less than $2.00 a day, a billion on less than $1.00 a day, a billion people have no access to clean water, a billion people go to bed hungry every night, two and a half billion people have no access to sanitation20, one in four of all the people who die on planet earth this year will die of AIDS, tuberculosis21, Malaria22 and infections related to dirty water. 80% of them will be children under five.
 
Those are the killers23 of the poor.
 
And there are no health networks out there for many of them.
 
I work with wonderful people from Yale, who just took a picture with me before I came in, and our Health Access Initiative in Ethiopia and Liberia, and Ethiopia, when we started, the country has 80 million people, 58 million live in villages of fewer than 1,000, 60,000 villages, there were 700 clinics in the whole country.
 
Now moving toward 17,000.
 
We get 17,000 built, everybody will be within a day's walk of a health care.
 
These are things that we don't think about all the time, but the world is unequal.
 
You're sitting here getting a degree from one of the greatest universities in history, founded in 1701.
 
There are more than 100 million children today that still never darkened a schoolhouse door, and another 100 million who go to school but not really, because they don't have trained teachers or adequate learning material.
 
When even one year of schooling24 in a poor country adds 10% a year to learning capacity for life.
 
It's an unequal world within wealthy countries -- most but not all, the world has grown more unequal.
 
The day before the financial meltdown, 2/3 of American families after inflation had lower incomes than they did the day I left office seven and a half years earlier.
 
Median family income dropped $2,000 while the cost of health care doubled, the cost of college after inflation went up 75%, and America fell from first to tenth in the world for the first time since World War II in the percentage of our young people 25 to 35 that had four year degrees.
 
Now I think the Bill just passed by Congress to cut the cost of student loans, the cost of repayment25, and let all of you pay it back as a share of your income is a very good start, because that means people can graduate from college with a degree and still join Teach For America, still join the Peace Corps26, still join Americorps, still go out into rural areas and serve people, or go halfway27 around the world.
 
This is a very good thing, but we have to face the fact that our own country grew more unequal.
 
The world is more unstable.
 
It's entirely28 too unstable.
 
We deal with the threat of terror in every country -- in America, all the way from the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 to this poor tragic29 Pakistani man who got two degrees in America, got his citizenship30, used it to fly home to Waziristan and learn how to make a bomb and tried to set it off in Times Square.
 
Thank God he didn't learn his lesson very well, and people escaped unharmed.
 
But it shows you that when you tear down all the walls and you can break through all the barriers of information, that the same things that empower you to get access to more information more quickly than ever before, could empower you to build bombs.
 
It's an unstable world.
 
The financial crisis started in America, pretty soon it's all over Europe, then it hurts Latin America and Asia.
 
Now you've got Greece, a very small part of the European union imperiling the whole enterprise of the common currency and spooking investors31 around the world in every place that has significant debt.
 
We have to reduce the instability.
 
And the third thing we have to recognize is that because of the way we produce and consume energy, the world you live in is totally unsustainable.
 
Oh, I know the climate change deniers got a little juice out of some stolen emails at the University of East Anglia, but an independent scientific panel just reviewed them and said they confirm what everybody knows -- the world is warming at an unsustainable rate that's going to lead to radical32 variations in temperature.
 
When we had this huge snowfall in February, all on the East coast, all the way down to Florida, they opened the Olympics in Canada and it was so hot up there they were afraid they wouldn't be able to start some of the outdoor winter sports.
 
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric33 Administration just released this week its finding that April was the hottest April ever recorded.
 
Clearly, we have to do something, and a lot of people are discouraged because there was no agreement made in Copenhagen.
 
I'll come back to this, but the reason there was no agreement in Copenhagen is simple -- unlike when Al Gore34 and I tried to take this issue on, now nearly everybody accepts the fact that climate change is real and caused by human activity and we gotta do something about it.
 
But many people still don't believe we can do what we need to do and still grow the economy.
 
When I was your age, a little younger, Martin Luther King used to say, used to quote the great French writer Victor Hugo, saying there's nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
 
Today with regard to this climate change issue, we ought to say there's nothing more destructive than an idea whose time has come and gone and people just won't give it up.
 
The truth is that if we change the way we produced and consumed energy in an intelligent way, it would do more than anything else we could do to reduce inequality, start an economic boom, stabilize35 our future, as well as deal with the sustainability issue.
 
It is the greatest opportunity this country has faced since we mobilized for World War II, and this time it can be entirely constructive36.
 
[APPLAUSE] And I'm going to make this point a little more explicitly37 in a moment, but one problem we have in the modern world is we got access to more information than ever before, but we don't all listen to the same information.
 
America's a much more tolerant country today in most conventional ways.
 
It's not as racist38 as it used to be, there's not the religious prejudices as used to be, it's not as sexist as it used to be, it's not as homophobic as it used to be -- we're getting there.
 
The only place where we're bigoted39 now is we only want to be around people who agree with us.
 
You think about it.
 
And in our media habits, we go to the television stuff, we go to the radio talk shows, we go to the blog sites that agree with us.
 
And it can have very bizarre consequences.
 
Hawaii, the State where President Obama was born, has done everything they can to debunk40 this myth that he wasn't born in America.
 
They've done everything but blow up his birth certificate, put it in neon lights and hang it on the dome41 of the Capital.
 
But 45% of registered Republicans still believe that he is serving unconstitutionally.
 
Why? Because they've been told that by the only place they go to get information.
 
I force myself to listen to people who disagree with me, and to try to get into a fact-based mode.
 
So I will say again, I think that this is an enormous opportunity for you, but you have to understand just about anything you think is wrong with the world can be categorized as a result of too much inequality, too much instability, or too much unsustainability.
 
So the mission of every citizen, not just in the United States, but every empowered person in the world in this time has to be to build up the positive and reduce the negative forces of our interdependence.
 
Whenever anybody asks me, what's your position on x, y or z, I have this little filter that automatically runs the question through and I ask myself will it build up the positive and reduce the negative forces of our interdependence? If it will, I'm for it.
 
If it won't, I'm against it.
 
And I think it's really important to think about that.
 
Now let's talk about what that means.
 
It means that we have to be relentlessly42 committed to change, and change is hard.
 
We once had a member of Congress when I served as president who used to say, you know what they say about change, let's do it, you go first.
 
It's hard.
 
First you have to have a vision of the future.
 
We've got to put America, and increasingly the world, more determinedly43 in the future business.
 
Secondly44, we have to ask the right questions and answer them.
 
Most the time I was in politics, we debated two things.
 
If you looked at the news or read the press, usually people talk about two things.
 
One reason I combed the blogs is that they go beyond that.
 
But most discussion is what are you going to do and how much money are you going to spend on it.
 
You agree? We're going to do something in health care, how much will it cost -- no, no, you should cut taxes, how much will you spend, right.
 
There's almost no discussion about the third question, which I predict to you will be the most important question, public question, of your next 20 years, which is whatever you're going to do and however much money you have or don't have, how do you propose to do it, so you can turn your good intentions into real changes in other people's lives.
 
The how question will determine how well we move into the future.
 
And the last point I want to make about that is that when you're determining how to do something, your goal should be what in game theory is called a non-zero sum game.
 
One of the most influential45 books I've read since I left the White House is Robert Right's Nonzero.
 
A zero-sum game, as all of you know, is the Yale-Harvard football game, right.
 
I mean there's gotta be a winner and a loser.
 
We now in college football make people play 50-11 overtimes until somebody drops, if necessary, until there is a winner and a loser.
 
We're in the pro3 basketball championships -- fascinating time -- they'll play as many overtimes as they have to until somebody wins, and you know somebody won because somebody lost.
 
A non-zero sum game is where both parties can win.
 
Zero-sum games are more fun on the playing fields -- they don't work in the 21st century.
 
If the world is interdependent and too unequal, too unstable, too unsustainable, obviously, if you wanted to change, you have to find a way for everybody to win.
 
And that means politics is important, that means what you do for a living is important, and how you do it is important.
 
Think of this.
 
Throughout most of human history the vast mass of humanity didn't have a thousandths of the choices you have before you today.
 
People didn't have any choice about what they did for a living -- they worked to eat and support their families and have shelter and keep people alive, and all over the world today most people still do it that way.
 
You have choices.
 
And as you make those choices, you should do what makes you happy -- most people are happiest doing what they're best at.
 
But you should relentlessly, relentlessly, every single day check yourself and say, am I building up the positive and reducing the negative forces? Am I helping46 to create a world in which we can all win? Am I reducing the inequality, instability, unsustainability? Am I building all these wonderful positive things that I have loved so much in my life? And, as I said, that requires you to be good at work, be responsible when you have your own kids, cast intelligent and informed votes.
 
And it also, in this new century, requires all of us to be part of some non-governmental movement.
 
The NGO movement -- which many of you are already actively47 participating in, in community service here, around the world -- is older than the Republic.
 
Benjamin Franklin organized the first volunteer fire department in the United States before the Constitution was ratified48.
 
We've been doing this a long time.
 
But the whole movement has been in overdrive for the last 12 years.
 
We have about a million foundations and 355,000 religious institutions doing this work in America -- half of the foundations have been established in the last dozen years, and there are parallels all over the world -- private citizens doing public good.
 
The work we do in our foundation with Yale is an example of what we try to do all over the world, in energy and climate change and health care and education.
 
We try to figure out how to do things faster, better, at less cost, and then get it adopted either by government or in a new business model, so we can go on and do something else.
 
You need to do that, because you got a good deal out of that 1/10 to 5/10 of a percent of your genetic makeup that was different.
 
No matter how hard you work, no matter what you had to overcome, you're still very fortunate to be here today.
 
You got a good deal, and you have lots of choices going forward.
 
Some of those choices should be to do public good as private citizens.
 
[APPLAUSE] The problems with poor and rich countries are fundamentally different, and your needed here and around the world.
 
The problem with poor people is they're just is smart as we are and they work harder just to keep body and soul together, but they don't have systems and organized structures that give predictable consequences when they exert good efforts.
 
Just think of just the little thing you're taking for granted here today.
 
You'd be shocked if this microphone went off and you couldn't hear a word I'm saying, or if those lights failed.
 
You know when you leave here, if you're hot and dry you can get a drink of water and you'll be fine.
 
I spent a lot of my life in places where none of that is taken for granted.
 
We take things for granted that other people don't have.
 
So, for Haiti, for example, the work I'm doing now with the UN, and we have to build them systems so that the gifts of their people can be manifest at home and they don't have to come to the United States or Canada or France or someone else for people to say boy, those people are smart and gifted and wonderful.
 
Less than 2% of the African American population is Haitian.
 
11% of our African American physicians are Haitians.
 
The head of one of the largest foundations in America's a Haitian American.
 
Some of the most important people in the health care community in New York City are Haitians.
 
The Haitians are rather like the Palestinians -- they're only poor in their own backyard, and they deserve a better deal and a chance to build a better future for their children and I think you can give it to them. [APPLAUSE] But it's important to realize that the reason that can happen is there is an enlightened self-interest in the cache transfers that all these wealthier countries and multilateral organizations are going to send to Haiti.
 
They're our neighbors -- we realize our interdependence and we want it to be positive.
 
But that means we have to keep getting better, too.
 
And the problems of wealthy countries are just the reverse.
 
We have systems, otherwise you wouldn't be here today, but the problem with all systems is that at some point, going back to the Sumerian civilization 8,000 years ago, the people who are a part of those systems acquire a greater interest in holding on to their position then continually advance the purpose for which the system was set up in the first place.
 
So you tell me how we get off spending 17.2% of our income on health care.
 
No one else spends more than 10 and one-half, and we now have 40 countries with lower infant mortality rates than we have, and we are ranked 35th in overall health outcomes.
 
And the people who fought the attempt to reform health care and finally provide coverage49 to everybody said we were going to mess up the health care system.
 
We spend 30% of our health care dollars on paperwork, no one else spends more than 19 from all sources -- that's $215 billion a year, that's twice what it would take to give everybody insurance.
 
So we have to be in the reform business, and we have to do it with education, we have to do it with government, we have to do with finance, we have to do with the financial regulations, we have to do with energy.
 
And every place we do it we should ask ourselves a simple question.
 
What will give us more positive interdependence and reduce the negative interdependence? A lot of this fight over the recent financial transactions has, to me, missed the point -- not so much whether it's legal or not but whether it's legal or not, does it make us more unstable without doing anything to create more businesses, more jobs, more investment, a broader future? If the answer is yes, we should stop doing it whether it's illegal or not.
 
You need to put the right filter on your glasses when you look into the future and ask these questions.
 
You need to ask yourself what you can do about it.
 
And let me just like one final thing.
 
I talked about all these problems, but nobody could stand where I'm standing50 and look at you and be pessimistic about the future.
 
And I have always believed, the one thing I have never changed my opinion on from when I was your age, I've always believed that cynicism and pessimism51 were cop-outs -- they're an excuse to take a dive.
 
They're self-fulfilling prophecies.
 
[APPLAUSE] And, for example, people have been betting against the United States since George Washington took on King George -- you should go back and read some of the things.
 
Oh, Washington is nothing more than a mediocre52 surveyor who lost every battle he was ever involved in before this.
 
He doesn't even have a good set of false teeth.
 
Abraham Lincoln's a baboon53 -- be better if somebody killed him before he could take the Oath of Office -- an editorial in an Illinois newspaper.
 
I could go on and on and on.
 
Nobody remembers the naysayers.
 
In the end, all that endures are the builders, and in the end even the builders are forgotten and all that endures are the ripples54 of what they built, and that's good -- that's a good thing.
 
So, go out there with a happy heart.
 
Learn to live with confidence in the face of all these changes, and give other people the courage to live with confidence in the face of change.
 
A lot of these whacko things that are happening in American politics today are not really what they seem, they're just people screaming -- stop the world, I want to get off.
 
The problem is you can't stop it and you can't get off.
 
And since we're all stuck, we better make it better together.
 
Thank you.
 
Good luck, and God bless you all.

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1 vice NU0zQ     
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
参考例句:
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
2 judgment e3xxC     
n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见
参考例句:
  • The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
  • He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
3 pro tk3zvX     
n.赞成,赞成的意见,赞成者
参考例句:
  • The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
  • Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军?
4 faculty HhkzK     
n.才能;学院,系;(学院或系的)全体教学人员
参考例句:
  • He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
  • He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。
5 sartorial Rsny3     
adj.裁缝的
参考例句:
  • John has never been known for his sartorial elegance.约翰从来没有因为衣着讲究而出名。
  • Jeans a powerful egalitarian message,but are far more likely to a sartorial deathtrap for politicians.政客们穿上牛仔裤是传递亲民的讯息,但也更容易犯穿衣禁忌。
6 splendor hriy0     
n.光彩;壮丽,华丽;显赫,辉煌
参考例句:
  • Never in his life had he gazed on such splendor.他生平从没有见过如此辉煌壮丽的场面。
  • All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。
7 remarkable 8Vbx6     
adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的
参考例句:
  • She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
  • These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
8 stunning NhGzDh     
adj.极好的;使人晕倒的
参考例句:
  • His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
  • The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。
9 squad 4G1zq     
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
参考例句:
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
10 descended guQzoy     
a.为...后裔的,出身于...的
参考例句:
  • A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
  • The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
11 genetic PgIxp     
adj.遗传的,遗传学的
参考例句:
  • It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
  • Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。
12 philosophical rN5xh     
adj.哲学家的,哲学上的,达观的
参考例句:
  • The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.老师不能解答这个哲学问题。
  • She is very philosophical about her bad luck.她对自己的不幸看得很开。
13 makeup 4AXxO     
n.组织;性格;化装品
参考例句:
  • Those who failed the exam take a makeup exam.这次考试不及格的人必须参加补考。
  • Do you think her beauty could makeup for her stupidity?你认为她的美丽能弥补她的愚蠢吗?
14 metaphor o78zD     
n.隐喻,暗喻
参考例句:
  • Using metaphor,we say that computers have senses and a memory.打个比方,我们可以说计算机有感觉和记忆力。
  • In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。
15 primordial 11PzK     
adj.原始的;最初的
参考例句:
  • It is the primordial force that propels us forward.它是推动我们前进的原始动力。
  • The Neanderthal Man is one of our primordial ancestors.的尼安德特人是我们的原始祖先之一.
16 outweighed ab362c03a68adf0ab499937abbf51262     
v.在重量上超过( outweigh的过去式和过去分词 );在重要性或价值方面超过
参考例句:
  • This boxer outweighed by his opponent 20 pounds. 这个拳击选手体重比他的对手重20磅。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She outweighed me by ten pounds, and sometimes she knocked me down. 她的体重超过我十磅,有时竟把我撞倒。 来自百科语句
17 unstable Ijgwa     
adj.不稳定的,易变的
参考例句:
  • This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实,装不了这么多书。
  • The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。
18 inevitable 5xcyq     
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
参考例句:
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
19 funky 1fjzc     
adj.畏缩的,怯懦的,霉臭的;adj.新式的,时髦的
参考例句:
  • The kitchen smelled really funky.这个厨房有一股霉味。
  • It is a funky restaurant with very interesting art on the walls.那是一家墙上挂着很有意思的绘画的新潮餐馆。
20 sanitation GYgxE     
n.公共卫生,环境卫生,卫生设备
参考例句:
  • The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看,这个地段非常糟糕。
  • Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
21 tuberculosis bprym     
n.结核病,肺结核
参考例句:
  • People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
  • Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。
22 malaria B2xyb     
n.疟疾
参考例句:
  • He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
  • Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。
23 killers c1a8ff788475e2c3424ec8d3f91dd856     
凶手( killer的名词复数 ); 消灭…者; 致命物; 极难的事
参考例句:
  • He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
  • They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
24 schooling AjAzM6     
n.教育;正规学校教育
参考例句:
  • A child's access to schooling varies greatly from area to area.孩子获得学校教育的机会因地区不同而大相径庭。
  • Backward children need a special kind of schooling.天赋差的孩子需要特殊的教育。
25 repayment repayment     
n.偿还,偿还款;报酬
参考例句:
  • I am entitled to a repayment for the damaged goods.我有权利索取货物损坏赔偿金。
  • The tax authorities have been harrying her for repayment.税务局一直在催她补交税款。
26 corps pzzxv     
n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组
参考例句:
  • The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
27 halfway Xrvzdq     
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
参考例句:
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
28 entirely entirely     
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
29 tragic inaw2     
adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的
参考例句:
  • The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
  • Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
30 citizenship AV3yA     
n.市民权,公民权,国民的义务(身份)
参考例句:
  • He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生,但没有瑞典公民身分。
  • Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后,她选择了澳大利亚国籍。
31 investors dffc64354445b947454450e472276b99     
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
32 radical hA8zu     
n.激进份子,原子团,根号;adj.根本的,激进的,彻底的
参考例句:
  • The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
  • She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
33 atmospheric 6eayR     
adj.大气的,空气的;大气层的;大气所引起的
参考例句:
  • Sea surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation are strongly coupled.海洋表面温度与大气环流是密切相关的。
  • Clouds return radiant energy to the surface primarily via the atmospheric window.云主要通过大气窗区向地表辐射能量。
34 gore gevzd     
n.凝血,血污;v.(动物)用角撞伤,用牙刺破;缝以补裆;顶
参考例句:
  • The fox lay dying in a pool of gore.狐狸倒在血泊中奄奄一息。
  • Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。
35 stabilize PvuwZ     
vt.(使)稳定,使稳固,使稳定平衡;vi.稳定
参考例句:
  • They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
  • His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。
36 constructive AZDyr     
adj.建设的,建设性的
参考例句:
  • We welcome constructive criticism.我们乐意接受有建设性的批评。
  • He is beginning to deal with his anger in a constructive way.他开始用建设性的方法处理自己的怒气。
37 explicitly JtZz2H     
ad.明确地,显然地
参考例句:
  • The plan does not explicitly endorse the private ownership of land. 该计划没有明确地支持土地私有制。
  • SARA amended section 113 to provide explicitly for a right to contribution. 《最高基金修正与再授权法案》修正了第123条,清楚地规定了分配权。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
38 racist GSRxZ     
n.种族主义者,种族主义分子
参考例句:
  • a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
  • His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
39 bigoted EQByV     
adj.固执己见的,心胸狭窄的
参考例句:
  • He is so bigoted that it is impossible to argue with him.他固执得不可理喻。
  • I'll concede you are not as bigoted as some.我承认你不象有些人那么顽固。
40 debunk inMzK     
v.揭穿真相,暴露
参考例句:
  • let's debunk some of the most common falsehoods.让我们来揭穿一些最常见的谬误吧。
  • Sequences of maps can also debunk misconceptions.一系列的地图,也有助于厘清错误概念。
41 dome 7s2xC     
n.圆屋顶,拱顶
参考例句:
  • The dome was supported by white marble columns.圆顶由白色大理石柱支撑着。
  • They formed the dome with the tree's branches.他们用树枝搭成圆屋顶。
42 relentlessly Rk4zSD     
adv.不屈不挠地;残酷地;不间断
参考例句:
  • The African sun beat relentlessly down on his aching head. 非洲的太阳无情地照射在他那发痛的头上。
  • He pursued her relentlessly, refusing to take 'no' for an answer. 他锲而不舍地追求她,拒不接受“不”的回答。
43 determinedly f36257cec58d5bd4b23fb76b1dd9d64f     
adv.决意地;坚决地,坚定地
参考例句:
  • "Don't shove me,'said one of the strikers, determinedly. "I'm not doing anything." “别推我,"其中的一个罢工工人坚决地说,"我可没干什么。” 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
  • Dorothy's chin set determinedly as she looked calmly at him. 多萝西平静地看着他,下巴绷得紧紧的,看来是打定主意了。 来自名作英译部分
44 secondly cjazXx     
adv.第二,其次
参考例句:
  • Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二,动脑筋提出自己的见解。
  • Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次,需要确定所作用的载荷。
45 influential l7oxK     
adj.有影响的,有权势的
参考例句:
  • He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
  • He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。
46 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
47 actively lzezni     
adv.积极地,勤奋地
参考例句:
  • During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
  • We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。
48 ratified 307141b60a4e10c8e00fe98bc499667a     
v.批准,签认(合约等)( ratify的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The treaty was declared invalid because it had not been ratified. 条约没有得到批准,因此被宣布无效。
  • The treaty was ratified by all the member states. 这个条约得到了所有成员国的批准。
49 coverage nvwz7v     
n.报导,保险范围,保险额,范围,覆盖
参考例句:
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
50 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
51 pessimism r3XzM     
n.悲观者,悲观主义者,厌世者
参考例句:
  • He displayed his usual pessimism.他流露出惯有的悲观。
  • There is the note of pessimism in his writings.他的著作带有悲观色彩。
52 mediocre 57gza     
adj.平常的,普通的
参考例句:
  • The student tried hard,but his work is mediocre. 该生学习刻苦,但学业平庸。
  • Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.只有懒汉庸才才会留恋那大锅饭的年代。
53 baboon NuNzc     
n.狒狒
参考例句:
  • A baboon is a large monkey that lives in Africa.狒狒是一种生活在非洲的大猴子。
  • As long as the baboon holds on to what it wants,it's trapped.只要狒狒紧抓住想要的东西不放手,它就会被牢牢困住。
54 ripples 10e54c54305aebf3deca20a1472f4b96     
逐渐扩散的感觉( ripple的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The moon danced on the ripples. 月亮在涟漪上舞动。
  • The sea leaves ripples on the sand. 海水在沙滩上留下了波痕。
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