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Obama Kicks Off 100th Birthday Celebration for Nelson Mandela
奧巴馬慶祝納爾遜·曼德拉誕辰100周年
South Africans and freedom fighters around the world celebrated the birth and life of Nelson Mandela this Wednesday. Mandela’s birthday has been recognized as Mandela Day since 2010, but this year marked 100 years since the former South African president’s birth. Barack Obama kicked off the celebration in Johannesburg with a lecture reflecting on past inequalities and honouring Mandela’s legacy in promoting democracy and human rights. In Obama’s first major appearance since leaving office, he used the opportunity to comment on today’s “uncertain times,” calling the current news cycle “head-spinning and bizarre” and warning that human progress is at risk. Obama ended on a positive note, asking young people to “Keep believing. Keep marching. Keep building. Keep raising your voice.”
本周三，南非人和世界各地的自由戰士慶祝了納爾遜·曼德拉的誕生和生存。自2010年以來，曼德拉的生日被公認為曼德拉日，但今年是這位前南非總統誕辰100周年。巴拉克·奧巴馬（Barack Obama）在約翰內斯堡舉行了一場慶祝活動，講述了過去的不平等現象并致敬曼德拉在促進民主和人權方面的貢獻。在奧巴馬離任后的首次重要亮相中，他利用這個機會對如今“不確定的時期”發表了評論，稱現在的新聞界“讓人頭暈目眩而且很奇怪”并警告人類的進步面臨風險。奧巴馬演講的結尾比較積極，讓年輕人“繼續相信。繼續前進。繼續建設。繼續發聲。”
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