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4.Commencement Address by Hilary Clinton at New York University
希拉里在紐約大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮的演講
As Secretary of State, I am well aware of the challenges that we face. You, as new graduates, and your generation will be up against those challenges: climate change and hunger, extreme poverty and extreme ideologies, new diseases and nuclear proliferation. But I am absolutely convinced that you and we are up to the task. There is no problem we face here in America or around the world that will not yield to human effort, to cooperation, to positive interdependence that makes clear humanity is going on, our challenges are ones that summon the best of us, and we will make the world better tomorrow than it is today.
作為國務(wù)卿，我十分清楚我們面臨的各項(xiàng)挑戰(zhàn)。作為新的畢業(yè)生，你們和你們這一代人將面對這樣的挑戰(zhàn)：氣候變化和饑餓、赤貧和極端主義的意識形態(tài)、新的疾病和核擴(kuò)散。但我深信，你們和我們能夠勝任這樣的任務(wù)。我們在美國和整個世界所面臨的各種問題，都能夠通過人們的努力、合作和積極的相互依賴得到解決，而這種相互依賴表明，人類社會正在繼續(xù)前進(jìn)。挑戰(zhàn)將激發(fā)我們最好的一面，我們將把明天的世界變得比今天更加美好。
Now, I know that it is fashionable in commencement speeches to be idealistic, and that may sound so, but at the root of my conviction is a strong sense of reality. Because you see, I don’t think we have a choice. We can sit on the sidelines, we can wring our hands, we can retreat into cynicism, and we know what the results will be: We will cede the field to those whose ideologies are absolutely anathema to people of conscience and faith all over the world.
我知道，在畢業(yè)典禮上作理想化的演說是當(dāng)前的時尚，我的講話聽起來也許很理想化，但我的信念深處有一種強(qiáng)烈的現(xiàn)實(shí)感。因?yàn)槟銈冎?，我認(rèn)為我們別無選擇。我們可以袖手旁觀，我們可以束手無策，我們可以采取悲觀懷疑的態(tài)度，但我們知道這樣做會產(chǎn)生什么樣的結(jié)果：我們會把陣地拱手讓給那些其意識形態(tài)為世界上所有有良知和信仰者所不齒的人。
