名校励志英语演讲 第114期:21世纪的挑战(8)

[00:00.34]Last year, President Jiang and I asked senior Chinese and American law enforcement officials to step up our cooperation against these predators, 去年，我和江主席请求中美双方的高级执法官员加强合作，打击这些犯罪分子， [00:11.44]to stop money from being laundered, to stop aliens from being cruelly smuggled, 防止洗钱，防止在恶劣的条件下走私人口， [00:17.18]to stop currencies from being undermined by counterfeiting. 防止伪币破坏货币的信用。 [00:21.19]Just this month, our drug enforcement agency opened an office in Beijing, 就在本月，我们的缉毒署在北京开设了办事处。 [00:28.18]and soon Chinese counter narcotics experts will be working out of Washington. 不久，中国的缉毒专家也将在华盛顿开展工作。 [00:35.44]In the 21st century, your generation must make it your mission to ensure that today's progress does not come at tomorrow's expense. 在二十一世纪，你们年轻一代的使命是必须保证今天的进步发展不以明天为代价。 [00:48.47]China's remarkable growth in the last two decades has come with a toxic cost, 中国过去20年来的快速增长以遭受有素污染物的毒害为代价， [00:55.14]pollutants that foul the water you drink and the air you breathe—the cost is not only environmental, 贵国人民饮用的水和呼吸的空气都已遭受污染。这种代价不仅仅体现在环境方面， [01:03.55]it is also serious in terms of the health consequences of your people and in terms of the drag on economic growth. 对人民的健康也造成了严重的危害，而且还会阻碍经济的发展。 [01:13.32]Environmental problems are also increasingly global as well as national. 环境问题正在变得日趋全球化和全国化。 [01:19.01]For example, in the near future, if present energy use patterns persist, 例如，在不久的将来，如果目前的能源使用模式不改变， [01:25.41]China will overtake the United States as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, 中国将超过美国成为世界最大的温室气体的排放国。 [01:33.18]the gases which are the principal cause of global warming. 温室气体是全球性升温的主要原因。

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