名校励志英语演讲 第120期:21世纪的挑战(14)

[00:00.48]Today we do not seek to impose our vision on others, 今天，我们并不试图将自己的见解强加于人， [00:05.02]but we are convinced that certain rights are universal—not American rights or European rights or rights for developed nations, 但我们深信，某些权利具有普遍性，它们不是美国的权利或者欧洲的权利或者是发达国家的权利， [00:14.41]but the birthrights of people everywhere, now enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights— 而是每个人与生俱来的权利。这些权利现在载于《联合国人权宣言》。 [00:23.48]the right to be treated with dignity; the right to express one's opinions, to choose one's own leaders, 这些就是待人以尊严、各抒己见、选举领袖、 [00:31.19]to associate freely with others, and to worship, or not, freely, however one chooses. 自由结社、自由选择信教或不信教的权利。 [00:41.28]In the last letter of his life, the author of our Declaration of Independence and our third President, 《独立宣言》的作者、我国第三任总统托马斯·杰克逊 [00:48.30]Thomas Jefferson, said then that "all eyes are opening to the rights of man." 在他一生的最后一封信中写道：“人们正在睁开眼睛关注人权。” [00:55.54]I believe that in this time, at long last, 172 years after Jefferson wrote those words, 在杰克逊写了这句话172年之后，我相信， [01:09.55]all eyes are opening to the rights of men and women everywhere. 人们现在终于睁开眼睛关注着世界各地男女老少应享受的人权。 [01:16.14]Over the past two decades, a rising tide of freedom has lifted the lives of millions around the world, 过去20年以来，一个高涨的自由浪潮解放了成千上百万的生灵， [01:22.18]sweeping away failed dictatorial systems in the Former Soviet Union, throughout Central Europe; 扫除了前苏联和中欧那种失败的独裁统治， [01:29.04]ending a vicious cycle of military coups and civil wars in Latin America; 结束了拉美国家军事政变和内战的恶性循环， [01:34.44]giving more people in Africa the chance to make the most of their hard-won independence. 使更多的非洲人民有机会享受来之不易的独立。 [01:40.34]And from the Philippines to South Korea, from Thailand to Mongolia, 从菲律宾到南朝鲜，从泰国到蒙古， [01:44.45]freedom has reached Asia's shores, powering a surge of growth and productivity. 自由之浪已冲到亚洲的海岸，给发展和生产力注入了动力。

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