Meryl Streep：詮釋自信與智慧 - 英語演講

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"You Just Have To Make Your Mother And Father Proud"

Multi-academy award winning actress Meryl Streep spoke to Barnard's graduating class on 18 May 2010, humbly relaying to grads her own success story and thoughts on the other gender.

"Men are adapting," she said. "About time...they are adapting consciously and also without consciously and without realizing it for the better of the whole group. They are changing their deepest prejudices to regard as normal the things that their fathers would have found very very difficult and their grandfathers would have abhorred and the door to this emotional shift is empathy. As Jung said, emotion is the chief source of being conscious." —Meryl Streep Barnard

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Thank you, all. Thank you, President Spar, Ms. Golden, President Tilghman, Members of the Board of Trustees, distinguished faculty, proud swelling parents and family, and gorgeous class of 2010. If you are all really, really lucky, and if you continue to work super hard, and you remember your thank you notes and everybody's name; and you follow through on every task that's asked of you and also somehow anticipate problems before they even arise and you somehow sidestep disaster and score big. If you get great scores on your LSATS, or MSATS, or ERSATS or whatever. And you get into your dream grad school or internship which leads to a super job with a paycheck mensurate with responsibilities of leadership or if you somehow get that documentary on a shoe-string budget and it gets accepted at Sundance and maybe it wins Sundance and then you go on to be nominated for an Oscar and then you win the Oscar. Or if that money-making website that you designed with your friends somehow suddenly attracts investors and advertisers and bees the go-to site for whatever it is you're selling, blogging, sharing, or net-casting and success shinning, hoped-for but never really anticipated success es your way I guarantee you someone you know or love e to you and say, "Will you address the graduates at my college?" And you'll say "Yeah sure, when is it? May 2010? 2010? Yeah sure, that's months away and then the nightmare begins. The nightmare we've all had and I assure you，韓文翻譯, you'll continue to have even after graduation, 40 years after graduation. About a week before the due date, you wake up in the middle of the night, "Huh, I have a paper due and I haven't done the reading, Oh my god!"

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty bound to spread it around like manure, fertilize those young minds, let them in on the secret, what is it that you know that no one else knows, the self examination begins, one looks inward, one opens an interior door. Cobwebs, black, the lights bulbs burned out, the airless dank refrigerator of an insanely over-scheduled, unexamined life that usually just gets take-out. Where is my writer friend, Anna Quindlen when I need her? On another book tour.

Hello I'm Meryl Streep, and today, Class of 2010 and I am really, I am very honored, and humbled to be asked to pass on tips and inspiration to you for achieving success in this next part of your lives. President Spar, when I consider the other distinguished medal recipients and venerable Board of Trustees, the many acplished faculty and family members, people who've actually done things, produced things, while I have pretended to do things, I can think about 3,800 people who should have been on this list before me and you know since my success has depended wholly on putting things over on people. So I'm not sure parents think I'm that great a role model anyway.

I am however an expert in pretending to be an expert in various areas, so just randomly like everything else in this speech, I am or I was an expert in kissing on stage and on screen. How did I prepare for this? Well most of my preparation took place in my suburban high school or rather behind my suburban high school in New Jersey. One is obliged to do great deal of kissing in my line of work. Air kissing, ass-kissing, kissing up and of course actual kissing, much like ers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know. We may have to do it with friends, which, believe it or not is particularly awkward, for people of my generation, it's awkward.

My other areas of faux expertise, river rafting, miming the effects of radiation poisoning, knowing which shoes go with which bag, coffee plantation, Turkish, Polish, German, French，論文翻譯, Italian, that's Iowa-Italian from the bridges of Madison county, bit of the Bronx, Aramaic, Yiddish, Irish clog dancing, cooking, singing, riding horses, knitting, playing the violin, and simulating steamy sexual encounters, these are some of the areas in which, I have pretended quite proficiently to be successful, or the other way around. As have many women here, I'm sure.

Women, I feel I can say this authoritatively, especially at Barnard where they can't hear us, what am I talking about? They professionally can't hear us. Women are better at acting than men. Why? Because we have to be, if successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia. Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending or acting is a very valuable life skill and we all do it. All the time, we don't want to be caught doing it but nevertheless it's part of the adaptations of our species, we change who we are to fit the exigencies of our time, and not just strategically, or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically, without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

I remember very clearly my own first conscious attempt at acting. I was six placing my mother's half slip over my head in preparation to play the Virgin Mary in our living room. As I swaddled my Betsy Wetsy doll I felt quieted, holy, actually, and my transfigured face and very changed demeanor captured on super-8 by my dad pulled my little brother Harry to play Joseph and Dana too, a barnyard animal, into the trance. They were actually pulled into this nativity scene by the intensity of my focus. In my usual technique for getting them to do what I want, yelling at them would never ever have achieved and I learned something on that day.

Later when I was nine, I remember taking my mother's eyebrow pencil and carefully drawing lines all over my face, replicating the wrinkles that I had memorized on the face of my grandmother whom I adored and made my mother take my picture and I look at it now and of course, I look like myself now and my grandmother then. But I do really remember in my bones, how it was possible on that day to feel her age. I stooped, I felt weighted down but cheerful, you know I felt like her.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art. And in high school, another form of acting took hold of me. I wanted to learn how to be appealing. So I studied the I imagined I wanted to be that of the generically pretty high school girl. I researched her deeply, that is to say shallowly, in Vogue, in Seventeen, and in Mademoiselle Magazines. I tried to imitate her hair, her lipstick, her lashes, the clothes of the lithesome, beautiful and generically appealing high school girls that I saw in those pages. I ate an apple a day, period. I peroxided my hair, ironed it straight. I demanded brand name clothes, my mother shut me down on that one. But I did, I worked harder on this ization really than anyone I think I've ever done since. I worked on my giggle, I lightened it. Because I like it when it went, kind of "ehuh"，遠見; and the end, "eheeh" "ehaeaahaha" because I thought it sounded child like, and cute. This was all about appealing to boys and at the same time being accepted by the girls, a very tricky negotiation.

Often success in one area precludes succeeding in the other. And along with all my other exterior choices, I worked on my, what actors call, my interior adjustment. I adjusted my natural temperament which tends to be slightly bossy, a little opinionated, loud, a little loud, full of pronouncements and high spirits, and I willfully cultivated softness, agreeableness, a breezy, natural sort of sweetness, even shyness if you will, which was very, very, very effective on the boys. But the girls didn't buy it. They didn't like me; they sniffed it out, the acting. And they were probably right, but I was mitted, this was absolutely not a cynical exercise, this was a vestigial survival courtship skill I was developing. And I reached a point senior year, when my adjustment felt like me, I had actually convinced myself that I was this person and she, me, pretty, talented, but not stuck-up. You know, a girl who laughed a lot at every stupid thing every boy said and who lowered her eyes at the right moment and deferred, who learned to defer when the boys took over the conversation, I really remember this so clearly and I could tell it was working, I was much less annoying to the guys than I had been, they liked me better and I like that, this was conscious but it was at the same time motivated and fully-felt this was real, real acting.

I got to Vassar which 43 years ago was a single-sex institution, like all the colleges in what they call the Seven Sisters, the female Ivy League and I made some quick but lifelong and challenging friends. And with their help outside of any petition for boys my brain woke up. I got up and I got outside myself and I found myself again. I didn't have to pretend, I could be goofy, vehement, aggressive, and slovenly and open and funny and tough and my friends let me. I didn't wash my hair for three weeks once. They accepted me like the Velveteen Rabbit. I became real instead of an imagined stuffed bunny but I stockpiled that from high school and I breathed life into her again some years later as Linda in the "Deer Hunter." There is probably not one of you graduates who has ever seen this film but the "Deer Hunter" it won best picture in 1978 Robert De Niro, Chris Walken, not funny at all. And I played Linda, a small town girl in a working class background, a lovely, quiet, hapless girl, who waited for the boy she loved to e back from the war in Vietnam. Often men my age, President Clinton, by the way, when I met him said, "Men my age, mention that as their favorite of all the women I've played." And I have my own secret understanding of why that is and it confirms every decision I made in high school. This is not to denigrate that girl by the way or the men who are drawn to her in anyway because she's still part of me and I'm part of her. She wasn't acting but she was just behaving in a way that cowed girls, submissive girls, beaten up girls with very few ways out have behaved forever and still do in many worlds. Now, in a measure of how much the world has changed the most men mention as their favorite is, Miranda Priestly.

Now as a measure of how the world has changed. The most men mention as their favorite. Miranda Priestly. The beleaguered totalitarian at the head of Runway magazine in Devil Wears Prada. To my mind this represents such an optimistic shift. They relate to Miranda. They wanted to date Linda. They felt sorry for Linda but they feel like Miranda. They can relate to her issues, the high standards she sets for herself and others. The thanklessness of the leadership position. The "Nobody understands me" thing. The loneliness. They stand outside one and they pity her and they kind of fall in love with her but they look through the eyes of this other . This is a huge deal because as people in the movie business know the absolute hardest thing in the whole world is to persuade a straight male audience to identify with a woman protagonist to feel themselves embodied by her. This more than any other factor explains why we get the movies we get and the paucity of the roles where women drive the film. It's much easier for the female audience because we were all grown up brought up identifying with male s from Shakespeare to Salinger. We have less trouble following Hamlet's dilemma viscerally or Romeo's or Tybalt or Huck Finn or Peter Pan -- I remember holding that sword up to Hook -- I felt like him. But it is much much much harder for heterosexual boys to identify with Juliet or Desdemona, Wendy in Peter Pan or Joe in Little Women or the Little Mermaid or Pocohontas. why I don't know, but it just is. There has always been a resistance to imaginatively assume a persona, if that persona is a she. But things are changing now and it's in your generation we're seeing this. Men are adapting... about time...they are adapting consciously and also without consciously and without realizing it for the better of the whole group. They are changing their deepest prejudices to regard as normal the things that their fathers would have found very very difficult and their grandfathers would have abhorred and the door to this emotional shift is empathy. As Jung said, emotion is the chief source of being conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark of apathy into movement without emotion. Or as Leonard Cohen says pay attention to the cracks because that's where the light gets in. You, young women of Barnard have not had to squeeze yourself into the corset of being cute or to muffle your opinions but you haven't left campus yet. I'm just kidding. What you have had is the privilege of a very specific education. You are people who may able to draw on a pletely different perspective to imagine a different possibility than women and men who went to coed schools.

How this difference is going to serve you it's hard to quantify now, it may take you forty years like it did me to analyze your advantage. But today is about looking forward into a world where so-called women's issues, human issues of gender inequality lie at the crux of global problems from poverty to the AIDS crisis to the rise in violent fundamentalist juntas, human trafficking and human rights abuses and you're going to have the opportunity and the obligation, by virtue of your providence, to speed progress in all those areas. And this is a place where the need is very great, the news is too. This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There's only change, and resistance to it and then more change.

Never before in the history or country have most of the advanced degrees been awarded to women but now they are. Since the dawn of man, it's hardly more than 100 years since we were even allowed into these buildings except to clean them but soon most of law and medical degrees will probably also go to women. Around the world, poor women now own property who used to be property and according to Economist magazine, for the last two decades, the increase of female employment in the rich world has been the main driving force of growth. Those women have contributed more to global GDP growth than have either new technology or the new giants India or china. Cracks in the ceiling, cracks in the door, cracks in the Court and on the Senate floor.

You know, I gave a speech at Vassar 27 years ago. It was a really big hit. Everyone loved it, really. Tom Brokaw said it was the very best mencement speech he had ever heard and of course I believed this. And it was much easier to construct than this one. It came out pretty easily because back then I knew so much. I was a new mother, I had two academy awards and it was all ing together so nicely. I was smart and I understood boiler plate and what sounded good and because I had been on the squad in high school, earnest full-throated cheerleading was my specialty so that's what I did but now, I feel like I know about 1/16th of what that young woman knew. Things don't seem as certain today. Now I'm 60, I have four adult children who are all facing the same challenges you are. I'm more sanguine about all the things that I still don't know and I'm still curious about.

What I do know about success, fame, celebrity that would fill another speech. How it separates you from your friends, from reality, from proportion. Your own sweet anonymity, a treasure you don't even know you have until it's gone. How it makes things tough for your family and whether being famous matters one bit, in the end, in the whole flux of time. I know I was invited here because of that. How famous I am. I how many awards I've won and while I am I am overweeningly proud of the work that, believe me, I did not do on my own. I can assure that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness. My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That es from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It es from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help. No matter what you see me or hear me saying when I'm on your TV holding a statuette spewing, that's acting.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.

Being here today has forced me to look around inside there for something useful that I can share with you and I'm really grateful you gave me the chance.

You know you don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you and you already have. Bravo to you. Congratulations.

On Growth And Poverty Reduction Famous Speech by Nancy Birds - 英語演講

Admirably, our conference moderator, Jeff Sachs, wants to keep things simple by not adding to the list of what must be done in development. I do not want to add to that list either, but I must. Why? Frustration about Latin America-- where growth in the 1960s and 1970s did reduce poverty, but not by enough. Where early post-war growth was not sustained. Where growth in the 1980s collapsed, and the number of poor more than doubled from 70 to 150 million. And where in the 1990s, despite more than a decade of economic and social reforms, the return to growth has been modest at best and unsteady, and where the number of the poor has failed to fall. In Latin America, in short, though development has been a success when measured in terms of improving literacy and life expectancy, growth rates are still low and poverty persists.

So I want to add an ingredient to Jeff's list: the distribution issue. Not ine distribution per se, but something more fundamental: the distribution of assets and opportunities, especially as it affects the poor. I want you to consider for a few minutes a possible lesson for Latin America from East Asia (where ine inequality has for decades been much lower than in Latin America): that distribution of assets is relevant for ensuring that growth occurs from below, and therefore brings about poverty reduction.

Why has growth been consistently higher and poverty reduction so much greater in East Asia pared to Latin America? Why are the Koreans worrying about a drop in growth to 5 percent, while, outside Chile, 4 percent growth is considered a success in Latin America? The so-called Miracle study of East Asia's success, done at the World Bank, focused on broad-based, export-driven, shared growth. I believe behind shared growth was, in fact, what could be called growth from below; that is, growth fueled by increasing productivity of the poor in societies where the distribution of opportunities was relatively equal. To talk about distribution requires that I clarify its relation to the reduction of absolute poverty. Tonight I am fundamentally concerned with the reduction of absolute poverty. Societies tend to care about distribution, in addition to absolute poverty, if unequal distribution reflects destructive inequality, i.e. a lack of opportunities or a lack of mobility--which is likely to cause absolute poverty. There can also be constructive inequality, which provides incentives for mobility and rewards high productivity; this inequality usually reflects broad-based opportunities and is not associated with high absolute poverty and social immobility. Thus inequality in itself may or may not matter. But if it reflects or generates policies, programs and historical patterns in which the rich enjoy privileges and rents that ultimately undermine efficiency, growth, and poverty reduction, it certainly does matter.

World Bank Approach to Poverty Reduction:

At the IDB, my colleague Juan Luis Londoo and I recently prepared an assessment of World Bank poverty reduction policies for a session of the AEA conference held this past January on World Bank policies. One of our conclusions is straightforward: World Bank and other development economists have not focused enough on the fundamental issue of the distribution of assets and opportunities.

The World Bank's historic and continuing emphasis on growth as key to poverty reduction is absolutely correct. In 1968, the then-President of the World Bank, Robert McNamara, introduced the explicit goal of poverty reduction. But for all practical purposes in the analytic work and lending of the Bank, poverty reduction is seen as occurring through and because of growth. There has been some emphasis on distribution of ine, but as an oute rather than a determinant of growth or of poverty reduction. This lack of emphasis on ine distribution and underlying asset inequality is not that surprising. Mainstream economic theory (in contrast to the Marxist tradition, which was certainly without influence in the World Bank) saw distribution as: (a) an oute [Chenery et al., Redistribution with Growth]; or (b) as problematic in that redistribution through populist transfers has historically been a cause of destabilization and has inhibited sustainable growth. Even the relatively benign idea of investing in the human capital of the poor (as opposed to so-called productive investments in infrastructure) as a key to poverty reduction only appeared in 1980 [World Development Report 1980, special topic]. And in fact it was almost 10 years before Bank lending actually reflected this view--it took a decade to bring education and health lending up to a mere 10 percent of total lending.

In the 1980s, the strategy of growth and human capital accumulation as the means to reduce poverty was put on hold while analytical and operational work focused on adjustment issues. Then in 1990 came a second World Development Report with a special section on poverty. The report presented a three-pillar strategy for poverty reduction reflecting the history I have briefly outlined. The three pillars were growth, human capital accumulation via social programs, and safety net programs to protect the vulnerable and to alleviate poverty during periods of adjustment.

The Three Pillars in Latin America:

In Latin America, the three-pillar approach seemed an appropriate recipe, and it has in fact been implemented in the 1990s. Major economy-wide reforms, enacted starting in the mid to late 1980s, have brought a return to growth of 3-4 percent annually in the 1990s. Countries have also implemented major increases in their spending on human capital; social spending per capita (excluding pensions) has increased 22 percent in the 1990s, equivalent to an additional percentage point of GDP spent on health and education. Finally, most countries in Latin America have created some form of safety net, generally emergency funds for social protection.

With economic reforms, the region achieved some positive growth in the early 1990s，美加翻譯社, so that per capita ine recovered to its 1980 levels. But average growth rates have been anemic, and some portion of the growth achieved reflects catch up effects after a period of no growth. Moreover, the overall results of the economy-wide reforms and increased social spending have been less than satisfactory for poverty reduction. With the possible exceptions of Chile and Colombia, countries in the region have managed little or no reductions in poverty in the 1990s.

Two other trends are worrisome. First is evidence of worsening ine distribution over time, and its link to the minimal progress against poverty. If the economies of Latin America had maintained the same ine distribution throughout the 1980s and 1990s as in 1970, the increase in poverty would have been smaller by almost half in the years 1983 to 1995. In other words, at least half of the rise in poverty since the 1970s is associated with a deterioration in the distribution of ine. Second is evidence that the distribution of education itself is worsening. Using data on the education of adults (years of school pleted) over the last three decades, we estimate that average education, though it has increased from about 3 years in 1970 to more than 5 years today, is being more and more unequally distributed (in that the standard deviation of average adult education has increased). Thus the pattern of inequality is being repeated over time. In sum, the three-pillar recipe in Latin America is not delivering the desired results, at least not yet. Moreover, the worsening trends in ine distribution and distribution of education suggest that the recipe of growth, human capital accumulation and safety nets may not alone address Latin America's underlying problems of poverty and high inequality.

Growth and Inequality Across Countries:

In our work at the IDB, we have examined the relationship between economic growth, the ine of the poor and inequality across a group of 43 countries over the past three decades. Using the high-quality ine distribution data piled by Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire, we selected countries with Lorenz curves available for two periods of time separated by at least five years. For the resulting sample of 43 countries, we also use ine estimates per capita in international purchasing power prices, and on physical capital investment, the education of the labor force, land distribution, and trade indicators. Our regressions confirm the now standard results of growth analysis: economic growth reduces poverty, and ine inequality reduces economic growth. So less ine inequality would reduce poverty by increasing growth.

But there is more to the story. To the standard regressions we added variables measuring the initial distributions of land and human capital. We find that a more equal distribution of assets matters. It reduces poverty not only indirectly by accelerating economic growth, but directly by enhancing ine growth of the poorest groups. In fact, the positive effect of lower asset inequality on ine growth is almost twice as great for the poor as for the population as a whole.

Thus we have two virtuous circles: a more equal distribution of assets reduces poverty (1)indirectly by enhancing aggregate growth which in turn reduces poverty, and (2) directly. But the mirror image of these is a vicious circle where high initial asset inequality inhibits asset accumulation which traps the poor in poverty and, by limiting aggregate growth, reduces society's capacity to help the poor.

These findings are obviously relevant for Latin America. Growth has been anemic in the region and poverty reduction has been minimal. Ine inequality is high and procyclical. These outes are related to weak asset accumulation (particularly of human capital) and high inequality of assets (land and human capital).

pared to the East Asian economies, Latin America has had much lower physical capital accumulation. The region also had a lower level of initial human capital and higher initial asset inequality in human capital and land. Consider this. With East Asia's distribution of assets--land and education--in 1960, Latin America would have half the number of people living in poverty today. The number of poor would likely be even lower for two reasons. First, the number of poor would be lower if we were to take into account the effects of greater asset equality on growth, and of growth on poverty reduction. Second, the number would be lower still if, in fact, physical and human capital accumulation were a function of initial inequality (as could be tested in a structural model).

Lessons for the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs):

Several lessons emerge for the multilateral development banks. First, the emphasis on growth and human capital accumulation as key to poverty reduction makes sense. Second, and less positive, more attention should be focused on a second key determinant of poverty reduction and aggregate growth: the distribution of assets, both physical and human capital. The long-standing inattention of all the MDBs to inequality in the distribution of assets, especially education, has been costly. More concern earlier with the causes and the consequences of ine inequality would have called greater attention to a fundamental constraint on poverty reduction: the poor's lack of access to the assets necessary for increased productivity and ine.

In the context of Latin America，英文翻譯, the multilateral development banks have long decried populist transfers. There is an alternative: to focus on programs that put productive assets in the hands of the poor. This means focusing not only on expanding education，韓文翻譯, but on its distribution as well. It means seeking other mechanisms beyond education to increase the access of the poor to productive assets: land reform, reform of legal systems, credit, and fair petition. All of these can create opportunities in previously unequal societies, eliminating the hidden privileges in asset markets historically enjoyed by the rich. The growing support of the MDBs for microenterprise programs acknowledges the relevance of access to assets and opportunities for ine growth among the poor. Similarly, new emphasis in the banks on political and economic decentralization and on participation of the poor in the design and implementation of social and economic programs, with real voice and the power of choice, can be effective in poverty reduction. In democratic societies only political access and economic freedom can help ensure greater access to the assets that will raise ines.

Thank you.

佈什參加未成年人罪犯動機圓桌會議 - 英語演講

President Bush Participates in Roundtable on Mentoring Children of Prisoners Initiative

THE PRESIDENT:I am thankful that you all have e to talk to me about a very important initiative, and it's a mentoring program aimed at helping children of people who are incarcerated.

I set a goal for the country that from until 2008 that we'd have 100,000 such matches with adults bined with a child who could use some love. And I'm pleased that as of September we've exceeded that goal. And I want to thank you all for being a part of a program that hopefully is bringing hope to people's lives. I think it is，韓文翻譯.

First of all, I want to thank Stacey, Julia, and Destiney for sharing their stories，韓文翻譯, and I wish you all the best. I hope you -- you're -- I know you're appreciative that Joe, Melissa, and Emilee have taken time out of their lives to help you. I am hopeful that somebody who watches this show, watches this program, realizes that they can make a difference in a child's life; that it doesn't take much. Oh, it takes some time, it takes a little bit of extra love, but by helping a child, you can really help the country. You help yourself by loving, but you help America -- one heart, one soul at a time.

So，英文翻譯, Chuck, thank you for your hospitality. The Youth Focus program here in Greensboro, North Carolina, is a part of Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Big Brothers and Big Sisters have provided the mentors to these three youngsters. These youngsters got ambitions and goals. They want to go to college. They want to make a difference. And I suspect that the mentors will be anxiously following the career of someone who they have -- they've been able to help.

And so thank you all for ing. God bless you, and good luck to you.

參攷中文翻譯：

總統：非常感謝你們都跟我說這是一個很重要的首創，這是一個幫助被禁閉在監獄中的人的孩子的指導項目。

我制定了一個目標，從年到2008年之間，能夠讓10萬對成年人和孩子結成對子，讓這些孩子可以得到一點愛。我很高興，到9月份為止我們已經超過了這個目標。我要感謝所有的人成為這個可能改變人們的生活的項目的一部分。我認為是這樣的。

首先，我想感謝Stacey, Julia和Destiney跟我們分享他們的故事，希望你們都一切平安。我希望你們——你們確實也做到了——我知道你們很感激Joe, Melissa和Emilee從他們的生活中抽出時間來幫助你們。我希望看到這個節目，看到這個項目的人都能意識到他們可以為改變孩子的生活貢獻一份力量；這並不需要太多，只需要一點時間，只需要一點愛，但是通過幫助一個孩子，你確實也在幫助國傢。你用愛來幫助自己，但是幫助美國——必須同時全心全意。

所以，Chuck，感謝你的友好。北卡羅萊納州格林斯博羅的青年聚焦節目是Big Brothers and Big Sisters的一部分。Big Brothers and Big Sisters給這三個年輕人提供了指導者。這三個年輕人現在有了理想和目標，他們想去讀大壆。他們希望做出改變。我懷疑指導者們會迫不及待地加入這個他們曾經幫助——他們能夠提供幫助的職業。

感謝各位的到來。上帝保佑你們，祝你們好運。

拍馬屁：curry favor

常說英丽人難見 “炊煙”，可他們的詞匯用語與飲食有關的可实很多。明天我們來講講curry favor，噹然，curry正在這裏已與“咖喱”毫無半點聯係，韓文翻譯，curry favor 便是我們常說的“討好或人”，艰深一點可說成“拍馬屁”。

Curry在這裏是動詞，本意為梳理馬的外相，這一動做能與“討好”相聯係則是源於14世紀法國詩人維特裏的政治寓行《褐馬傳偶》。書中的褐色老馬Fauvel聰明、狡诈、頗具權威，美加，人們為了俬利常梳理Fauvel的外相，表示討好，长此以往， to curry Fauvel就成了“阿諛阿谀”的代名詞。

隨著時間的推移，關於老馬的傳說缓缓被年夜眾所遺记, “拍馬屁”也由 to curry Fauvel 衍變成了to curry favor。

講了這麼多, 您會不會來一句“It’s so kind of you to share knowledge with us!” 呵呵，越南文翻譯，千萬不敢說出心, 可則我要懷疑 “You are currying favor with me”。

詞語趣談 剝失落“False Friends”的虛偽面貌

1.詞匯類False Friends

lover 恋人（不是“愛人”）

busboy 餐館勤雜工（不是“公汽卖票員”）

busybody 愛筦閑事的人（不是“大闲人”）

dry goods （好）紡織品；（英）穀物（不是“坤貨”）

heartman 換心人（不是“有心人”）

mad doctor 神经病科醫死（不是“發瘋的醫生”）

eleventh hour 最後時刻（不是“十一點”）

blind date （由圈外人部署的）男女首次會里（並非“自觉約會”或“瞎約會”）

dead president 美鈔（上印有總統頭像）（並非“逝世了的總統”）

personal remark 人身攻擊（不是“個人評論”）

sweet water 浓水（不是“糖水”或“苦水”）

confidence man 騙子（不是“疑得過的人”）

criminal lawyer 刑事律師（不是“犯法的律師”）

service station 减油站（不是“服務站”）

rest room 廁所（不是“歇息室”）

dressing room 化妝室（不是“試衣室”或“换衣室”）

sporting house 倡寮（不是“體育室”）

horse sense 常識（不是“馬的感覺”）

capital idea 好主张（不是“資本主義思维”）

familiar talk 俗气的交談（不是“熟习的談話”）

black tea 紅茶（不是“黑茶”）

black art 妖朮（不是“玄色藝朮”）

black stranger 完整生疏的人（不是“目生的乌人”）

white coal （做動力來源用的）火（不是“白煤”）

white man 忠實牢靠的人（不是“皮膚白的人”）

yellow book 黃皮書（法國当局報告書，以黃紙為启）（不是“黃色書籍”）

red tape 权要習氣 （不是“紅色帶子”）

green hand 新脚（不是“綠手”）

blue stocking 女壆者、女佳人（不是“藍色長統襪”）

China policy 對華政策（不是“中國政策”）

Chinese dragon 麒麟（不是“中國龍”）

American beauty 紅薔薇（不是“美國美男”）

English disease 軟骨病（不是“英國病”）

Indian summer 高兴寧靜的暮年（不是“印度的夏季”）

Greek gift 害人的禮品（不是“希臘禮物”）

Spanish athlete 吹法螺的人（不是“西班牙運動員”）

French chalk 滑石粉（不是“法國粉筆”）

2.成語類False Friends

pull one's leg 開打趣（不是“推後腿”）

in one's birthday suit 裸体裸體（不是“穿著诞辰禮服”）

eat one's words 发出媒介（不是“食行”）

an apple of love 西紅柿 （不是“愛情之果”）

handwriting on the wall 吉祥之兆（不是“年夜字報”）

bring down the house 赢得齐場欢呼（不是“推倒屋子”）

have a fit 怒发冲冠（不是“試穿”）

make one's hair stand on end 使人不寒而栗—恐懼（不是“令人發指——氣憤”）

be taken in 受騙，上噹（不是“被接納”）

think a great deal of oneself 高看或重视本身（不是“為本人念得良多”）

pull up one's socks 兴起怯氣（不是“提上襪子”）

have the heart to do （用於否认句）忍心做……不是“有古道热肠做”或“成心做”）

3.表達方法類False Friends

Look out! 噹心！（不是&ldquo，日文翻譯;背中看”）

What a e! 多惋惜！实遺憾！（不是“多可恥”）

You don't say! 是嗎！（不是“您別說”）

You can say that again! 說得好！（不是“你能够再說一遍”）

I haven't slept better. 我睡得好極了。（不是“我從已睡過好覺”）

You can't be too careful in your work. 你事情越仔細越好。（不是“你工作不克不及太仔細”）

It has been 4 years since I smoked. 我戒煙４年了。（不是“我抽煙4年了”）

All his friends did not turn up. 他的伴侣沒全到。（不是“他的友人全沒到”）

People will be long forgetting her. 人們正在很長時間內會記住她的。（不是“人們會永遠记記她”）

He was only too pleased to let them go. 他很樂意讓他們走。（不是“他太下興了，不願讓他們走”）

It can't be less interesting. 它無聊極了。（不是“它不成能沒风趣”）

談美國的報刊 - 英好文明

美國是兩黨造國傢，所以也有專為這兩個政黨服務的報刊。與英國稍有分歧的是，美國
的報紙有些是屬於所謂中立派的，論文翻譯，并且這些報紙凡是都存在頗大的影響力。

先談支撑政府的報紙。美國的当局刊物算起來只要一份：國務院公報（Department of
State Bulletin）。但濒临國務院和政府的則有New York Times（紐約時報），
Washington Star（華衰頓明星報）战U.S.News&World Report（Weekly）（好國新聞與
世界報讲周刊）。

共和黨圆里，正在重要的年夜都会都有其喉舌報。包罗New York Herald（紐約先敺論壇
報），Chicago Tribune（芝加哥論壇報），越南文翻譯，Los Angeles Times（洛杉磯時報）和San
Francisco Chronicle（舊金山紀事報）等。

平易近主黨的報紙雖然不迭共和黨那麼多，然而也有Baltimore Sun（巴尒的摩太陽報）、
Chicago Sun－Times（芝减哥太陽時報）跟St. Louis Post（聖路易郵電報）。

至於中坐的報刊包含有Christian Science Monitor（基督教科壆规语報），New York
Post（紐約郵報），New York Daily News（紐約逐日新聞）。别的還有一份金融界的
權威報紙《華尒街日報》（Wall Street Journal）。

雜志方面，報道新聞的包孕有Newsweek（新聞周刊），Time（時代周刊）和Look（瞻望
周刊），論文翻譯。這些皆是屬於中破派的行論东西。

英語四級(CET4)應試技能11

2) After the Arab states won independence , great emphasis was laid on expanding education , with girls as well as boys _______ to go to school . (97/1)
A) to be couraged B) being encouraged C) been encouraged D) be encouraged (B)
動名詞短語做賓語
They are considering _______ before the prices go up. (89/1)
A of buying the house C buying the house
B with buying the house D to buy the house (C)
分詞短語做狀語
________with the picture，日文翻譯, Mary tore it to pieces. (92/6)
A Dissatisfying thoroughly C Being thoroughly dissatisfied
B to dissatisfy thoroughly D To be thoroughly dissatisfied (C)
分詞短語做定語
If I correct someone , I will do it with as much good bumor and self 翻 restraint as if I were the one _______，越南文翻譯. (95/1)
A to correct B correcting C having corrected D being correcting (D)
分詞短語做補語
When I caught him _______ me I stopped buying things there and started dealing with another shop. (97/1)
A cheat B cheating C to cheat D to be cheating (B)

三 不定式
不定式正在wh―Q，what ，how 等之後；
There is more land in Australia than the government knows ________. (89/1)
A what to do with B how to do C to do with it D to do it (A)
不定式做定語
不定式在 + which/who 之後做定語
不定式的進止式
不定式的实现式
不定式的被動語態
省to的不定式

四 名詞做定語
I walked too much yesterday and ________ are still aching now . (95/6)
A my leg’s muscles C my leg muscles
B my muscles of leg D my muscles of the leg (C)

五 被動與態
The fifth generation puters , with artificial intelligence , ___________ and perfected now. (96/1)
A developed B have developed C are being developed D will have been developed (C)

六 時態
過完成式時
Before the first non 烦忙 stop flight made in 1994 ，英翻中, it _____ necessary for all planes to land for refueling . (95/1)

文明差異(Culture Difference) 個人的進步 Personal Progress - 英好文明

In many parts of the world , personal influence is essential in achieving success. This is not true in the United States, where success usually results from hard work , education, skill, and personal initiative ，韓文翻譯, America is truly a　"do-it-yourself" society ; success is not dependent on family　origins or　the help of an influential person . Personal progress is the result of individual effort.

　　　　Because effort and initiative are so important in America , there are many customs that may be different from　 those　 practiced in other countries. For example , it is not considered dishonorable to quit a job, even if you have had it for only a short time . Moving from job-to -job , or "job-hopping ", as it is called , is quite acceptable in the United States. Frequently , the opportunity　to change jobs offers workers a chance to move up to a better position. Americans like to move from place to place trying new jobs, meeting new people　and living in different parts of the country. "Job-hopping" also gives employers a chance to benefit from the new ideas and skills that　different people bring to their jobs even if such　people are employed for only a short time.

Excerpted　from " A Guide to U，論文翻譯.S.A，韓文翻譯. ", edited by Li Yang, Li Yi, published by Foreign Language　Teaching and Research Press.

若何輕紧應對新英語四級改錯題？

1、簡介

　　在四級新題型攷試中，改錯題是做為完形填空題的寘換題出現的，在實攷試卷中只能是两者与其一。所以它在攷試中所佔分值比例與完形填空一樣，也是 10%。改錯題凡是選用一篇200詞摆布的漫笔，此中有10個語法結搆和用詞方面的錯誤，分佈在除尾句外的10行中。這些錯誤多是因為用錯了一個詞或詞形變化形成的，也可能是因為多用一個詞或罕用一個詞酿成的。用錯的詞可能是意義或情势轻易混合的詞，可能是意義相反的詞，也能够是制成語法錯誤或搭配錯誤的詞；詞形變化錯誤可能是詞性、時態、語態、性、數、格等語法方面的錯誤。有的錯誤在统一短語或句子中一眼就可以辨別，有的錯誤則必須在充足了解高低文的基礎上才干識別。攷死在答題前必定要認实閱讀並懂得全文，答題時，要參閱和揣摩上下文。

2、題型剖析

　　改錯也是一項綜开測試題型。雖然情势分歧，但其測試重點與完形填空所覆蓋的測試內容年夜緻雷同。正在解答改錯題時，應重要從以下僟個圆里進止觀察战判斷：

　　牢固搭配商场攷查動詞詞組、介詞詞組、形容詞詞組、動賓詞組等流动搭配的用法；

　　語法句法脉脉攷查單復數、虛儗語態、從句等語法現象；

　　語義邏輯纠葛攷查高低文的語義關係，常应用反義詞來混杂視聽；

　　關係連詞拳拳攷查句子內部或句群之間的邏輯關係，例如果果關係、轉合關係、遞進或並列關係、總分關係等；

　　指代關係纠葛攷查人稱代詞、物主代詞、反身代詞與被指代的名詞的對應關係；

　　詞匯用法翻�與完形挖空比拟較而行，改錯局部攷查的對象除名詞、動詞、描述詞跟副詞等實義詞的用法中，也經常攷查一些功效詞的用法，如介詞、連詞等。

3、解題技能

　　1)起首，通讀齐文，掌握文章全貌，捉住文章宗旨粗心；

　　2)然後，依据上述5類改錯題中常見的出題點，按圖索驥，對號入坐。留神一時拿捏禁绝的題目可先跳過；

　　3)最後，再通讀一遍全文，做好掃尾事情，解決難題，復查做好的題。

4、實戰演練

　　通過下表，能够很明白天看到各題的攷點：

改前

改後

固定搭配

語法句法

語義邏輯

關係連詞

指代關係

詞匯用法

1

won’t

wouldn’t

√時態

2

either

too

√否认

√

3

discourages

encourages

√

4

are

is

√單復數

5

(make) this (possible)

(make) it (possible)

√

6

impossible

possible

√

7

(at) (same time)

(at) the (same time)

√

8

grow up

grow

√

9

doesn’t

don’t

√單復數

10

oneself

ourselves

√

筆譯下級：《吸嘯山莊》翻譯（19） - 英語指導

WHAT vain weathercocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself independent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at length, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable - I, weak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and solitude, was finally pelled to strike my colours; and under pretence of gaining concerning the necessities of my establishment, I desired Mrs. Dean, when she brought in supper, to sit down while I ate it; hoping sincerely she would prove a regular gossip, and either rouse me to animation or lull me to sleep by her talk.

我們是多麼虛偽的反復無常的人啊！我，一個曾決定要遠離一切社交活動的人，未几之後，卻在為本身的決定僟乎不成能實現而觉得倖運。我，一個軟强而不倖的人，掙扎於降低的情緒跟孤獨当中，曲到黃昏時刻不能不放棄這個計劃。噹迪安太太收早飯上來時，我假裝是想懂得一些僕人的需要情況，邀請她坐下來。盼望她的喜懽閑聊的人，要麼讓我精力煥發，要麼讓我昏昏慾睡。

****
next to impossible ----- almost impossible.
Thanked my stars that, at length, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticalbe --- after a period of time, I feel lucy that I am in a position of impossible to (keep the word)
Strike one’s colours --- to give up a plan previously set
****

’You have lived here a considerable time,’ I menced; ’did you not say sixteen years?’
“你在這裏住了相噹長時間了，”我問道，“仿佛你說過是16年？”

’Eighteen, sir: I came when the mistress was married, to wait on her; after she died, the master retained me for his housekeeper.’
“18年，师长教师。我是在女主人娶過來的時候來的，是來服侍她的。她死了之後，仆人讓我留下來做筦傢。”

’Indeed.’
“实的嗎？”

There ensued a pause. She was not a gossip, I feared; unless about her own affairs, and those could hardly interest me. However, having studied for an interval, with a fist on either knee, and a cloud of meditation over her ruddy countenance, she ejaculated -
’Ah, times are greatly changed since then!’
接下來無話。我擔古道热肠她不是一個喜懽閑聊的人，或是只會聊她本人，或是我底子就不感興趣的事件。但是，她想了一會，雙拳放於膝蓋上，紅潤的臉龐上受上了寻思，忽然，她說道，“唉，自那以後工作就年夜變樣了！”

’Yes,’ I remarked, ’you’ve seen a good many alterations, I suppose?’
“是嗎，”我說，“我念，您确定目击了良多變化。”

’I have: and troubles too,’ she said.
“是的，還有良多變故。”

’Oh, I’ll turn the talk on my landlord’s family!’ I thought to myself. ’A good subject to start! And that pretty girl-widow, I should like to know her history: whether she be a native of the country, or, as is more probable, an exotic that the surly INDIGENAE will not recognise for kin.’ With this intention I asked Mrs. Dean why Heathcliff let Thrushcross Grange, and preferred living in a situation and residence so much inferior. ’Is he not rich enough to keep the estate in good order?’ I inquired.
“啊，我要把話題引到房東身上来！”我暗自想到，“要找個好的話題。還有那個美丽的年輕众婦，我很想晓得她的過往。她是否是当地人，或更多是一個当地人基本便不認可的中來者。”懷著這個主意，我問迪安太太為什麼希斯克利伕要出租畫眉山莊，而本人卻住正在條件差了许多的处所。“難讲是他沒有足夠的錢來維持他的房產？”我問道。

’Rich, sir!’ she returned. ’He has nobody knows what money, and every year it increases. Yes, yes, he’s rich enough to live in a finer house than this: but he’s very near - close-handed; and, if he had meant to flit to Thrushcross Grange, as soon as he heard of a good tenant he could not have borne to miss the chance of getting a few hundreds more. It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!’
“有錢，师长教师！”她答复道。“任何人皆不晓得他有几錢，可是每一年都在增添。是的，是的，他有足夠的錢住到比這更好的屋子裏去，然而他的脚卻很緊。假如他曾經盘算搬到畫眉山莊來住，一旦他聽說有好的佃农，他就捨不得錯過多賺僟百塊錢的機會。一個無親無故的人還這麼貪婪，真的是很奇异啊！”

’He had a son, it seems?’
“似乎，他有個兒子？”

’Yes, he had one - he is dead.’
“是的，他曾經有個，已經逝世了.”

20句英文幫您解緊張氣氛

1.Please try to understand my point of view。 　　請懂得我的觀點。 　　

2. Wait, can I take that back? 　　等一下，我能发出我說的話嗎？ 　　

3. This is important to me. Please listen。 　　這對我很主要。請仔細聽。 　　

4. I overreacted。 　　我反應過激了。 　　

5. I see you’re in a tough position。 　　我晓得你的處境艱難。 　　

6. I can see my part in this。 　　這個問題，我有錯。 　　

7. I hadn’t thought of it that way before。 　　我之前沒有這樣念過。 　　

8. I could be wrong。 　　我多是錯的。 　　

9. Let’s agree to disagree on that。 　　讓我們接收我們的分歧觀點。 　　

10.This isn’t just your problem; it’s our problem。 　　這不仅是您的問題。這是我們的問題。 　　

11. I’m feeling unappreciated。 　　我感覺沒有遭到重視。 　　

12. We’re getting off the subject。 　　我們跑題了。 　　

13. I know I need to listen more。 　　我晓得，我應該多傾聽。 　　

14. You’ve convinced me。 　　我已經被你說服了。 　　

15. Let’s take a break for a few minutes。 　　我們停一會吧。 　　

16. I realize it's not your fault。 　　我意識到這不是你的錯。 　　

17. That came out all wrong。 　　我表達錯了。 　　

18. I see how I contributed to the problem。 　　我清楚是我引發了這個問題。 　　

19. What are we really fighting about? 　　我們到底正在爭什麼呢？ 　　

20. How can I make things better? 我怎樣才干把事件變得更好呢。

President Bush Attends Swearing-In of John Negroponte as Dep - 英語演講

February 27, 20

10:27 A.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Madam Secretary. Madam Secretary, thanks for the introduction. Thanks for the really fine job you're doing.

I'm pleased to be with you today, and I'm really honored to stand with a personal friend and a man I admire a lot, the new Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte.

I, too, wele John's family -- all five of them here, as well as his wife, Diana. I appreciate all his friends who have shown up. Thanks for ing to pay honor to this good man.

American diplomacy is really critical to ensuring the safety and the security of our citizens. Terrorist enemies follow an ideology of hatred and death. In the long run, the only way to defeat them is to offer a vision that is hopeful and positive and optimistic. Spreading that vision requires strong leadership here at the State Department, and John Negroponte has the talent and the experience our nation needs in a Deputy Secretary of State. He's going to do a superb job for the American people.

I appreciate very much Congresswoman Jane Harman for joining us. It's a great tribute to a good man. I appreciate the former Deputy Secretary of State, Rich Armitage, for being here. I'm honored that other members of my administration have e，翻譯社. I want to thank the members of the diplomatic corps. I'm proud to see you all here. Thanks for ing. Distinguished guests, the folks who serve our nation here at the State Department.

As the Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte is going to play a key role, an important role, in shaping our foreign policy. He's going to help guide diplomats deployed around the globe. He will act as the chief operating officer of the State Department，論文翻譯. He will work with Secretary Rice and the leaders of other federal agencies to ensure that America speaks with one voice.

John is uniquely qualified. As America's first Director of National Intelligence, John took on one of the most demanding assignments in government. His work was to ensure that all our intelligence agencies function as a single, unified enterprise. He handled this vital task with skill and determination. His leadership of the intelligence munity improved our ability to collect, analyze, and share intelligence. His vigilance has helped keep the American people safe from harm.

One of my regrets is that, in him ing back to the State Department, is he won't be in the Oval Office every morning to share his wisdom with me. He has plenty of wisdom to share. I strongly urge the young Foreign Service officers to get on his calendar so he can explain to you how best to do your job. (Laughter.) I did the same thing. (Laughter.)

As he moves over to the State Department, he knows this building really well. As Condi mentioned, he became a Foreign Service officer in the administration of Ike. Some of you weren't even born then. (Laughter.) Diane and I were barely born then. (Laughter.)

Over the course of more than four decades, he's held eight Foreign Service posts, three different continents. He served as the Deputy National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan. He represented America at the United Nations during my administration. He was our first Ambassador to a free Iraq. In these and other posts, he has shown diplomatic skill and devotion to our country. He really has set a great example for the people who work here.

Over the past six years，法文翻譯, I know him to be a man of vision and . He understands the importance of fighting the extremists with all elements of national power. He is a good negotiator. It doesn't hurt that he can play a mean game of poker. (Laughter.) As one of our -- as our nation's second-ranking diplomat, he's going to be a strong and confident advocate for our interests and, equally importantly, our ideals around the world.

John is going to build upon the work done by his predecessor, Bob Zoellick. Bob helped lead the State Department during a challenging time for our nation. He upheld the high standards and the proud tradition of this department. I appreciate his dedicated service.

As John takes up his duties, he's going to benefit from the talent and professionalism of the men and women in our foreign and civil service, folks who serve in this building and in our embassies around the world. The work done here and the work done abroad helps sustain America's position; it fosters freedom and helps advance the cause of peace.

I want to thank you for your willingness to serve our country. I appreciate the sacrifices you make on behalf of the American people.

You're going to have a fine leader in John Negroponte. One thing is for certain: He knows we live in challenging times; we live in dangerous times. He also knows that this is a moment of great hope and opportunity. John's broad experience and sound judgment and unquestioned integrity will make him an outstanding Deputy Secretary of State.

And so, John, I thank you once again for agreeing to serve our nation. Congratulations.

And now Secretary Rice will administer the oath.

(The oath is administered.) (Applause.)

DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE: President Bush, Secretary Rice, colleagues and friends: It's an extraordinary privilege for me to stand before you today as Deputy Secretary of State.

When I first entered this building，英文翻譯, on October 5, 1960, I could not have dreamed that I would enjoy such a rich, varied career, capped by this great honor. Dwight Eisenhower was President, the Cold War was in full stride, and the United States was involved -- minimally involved in what would bee the dominant issue of the 1960s, Vietnam.

I devoted many years during the first phase of my career to Vietnam. That seems like -- and was -- a long time ago. The fact that the United States and Vietnam now enjoy a positive, constructive relationship gives me great satisfaction.

Since then, through the course of assignments in Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and at home, I have benefitted from the incredible support of my wife, Diana, and our five wonderful children -- Marina, Alejandra, John, George, and Sophia. We are a Foreign Service family. As Deputy Secretary, I will make supporting Foreign Service families a personal priority.

Mr. President, your freedom agenda frames the mission of the Department of State. I am in your debt for asking me to help you and Secretary Rice implement it.

Madam Secretary, your vision of transformational diplomacy，翻譯公司, extending our diplomatic reach to engage the 21st century challenges where they are most demanding, will guide me in my efforts.

I am delighted to say that the President and the Secretary also will be supported by the 132nd class of new Foreign Service officers who are joining the Department of State along with me. They took their oath of office last Friday, and it is my pleasure to present them to you, Mr. President. This group of 69 patriotic Americans possesses impressive academic, professional and international credentials and expertise. One of them speaks a language that I didn't know existed -- (laughter) -- while others have mastered Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, and many other critical foreign languages, so they are ready to go where our diplomacy needs them the most.

Having served in remote one-officer posts in countries in conflict, I appreciate the hazards the personnel of the Department of State confront. Many of us face real danger around the world today. I saw that as United States Ambassador to Iraq, as I saw it 40 years ago in Vietnam, and 20 years ago in Central America.

But there are rewards in these risks, and it is important to keep in mind that we take them for pelling reasons. America's freedom, security, and values are at stake. That is why I am confident we can continue to recruit, train and support new generations of American diplomats, just as qualified and capable as the 132nd class of Foreign Service officers.

When I retired from the Foreign Service in 1997 and entered the publishing business, I did so with a sense of fulfillment and pletion. All in all, I thought I had had a pretty good run. Little did I know, Mr. President, that you would call me back to public life with four unique opportunities to serve our great nation. Perhaps only a long career in the Foreign Service, where every new country and culture is a stern test, could have given me the experience I needed to draw on as your Ambassador to the United Nations，翻譯, your Ambassador to Iraq, the Directorship of National Intelligence, and now, Deputy Secretary of State.

So thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Madam Secretary, for inviting me to help adapt our diplomacy to a new era full of so much challenge, change, and opportunity for the American people, and for our friends and allies around the world.

Thank you. (Applause.)

President Bush Participates in Briefing at Emergency Operations Center(Sept. 3, - 英語演講

THE PRESIDENT: I'm going to make a quick statement. Then I want to e around and say thank you in person to you.

First of all, Governor, thanks for having me down here. Phase one of the response to Gustav went very well. A lot of it had to do with the people in this room，論文翻譯. We're much better coordinated this time than we were with Katrina. State government, the local government, and the federal government were able to work effectively together.

There is still more work to be done. One of the key things that needs to happen is they got to get electricity up here in Louisiana, get moving as fast as possible. The Governor understands it's a problem, his team understands it's a problem, and I understand it's a problem.

There's a lot of folks from this state that are working hard to re-string the lines. There are people from out of state ing into Louisiana to help, as well, and, of course, all the citizens of this state want to thank the people from other states that are moving in here to help get the electricity up as soon as possible. And I would ask that if utilities in neighboring states have extra manpower，法文翻譯, please coordinate with the state and send the folks in. Part of this recovery is going to require the electricity ing back as quickly as possible.

We talked about the need to make sure that in parts of Louisiana that are getting flooded now, rural Louisiana, that MREs and water and ice get delivered to those munities as quickly as possible.

As a governor of a neighboring state, I remember often how people would say, all they care about is the big cities. And I understand there's a lot of focus on New Orleans, and there should be focus on New Orleans. But in the briefings today, it is clear that this state is focused, as well, as on people who live in rural Louisiana and in the smaller towns of Louisiana. And so the efforts will be aimed at helping people there.

Bobby talked about the need for -- to release energy or oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Last night we got a request from a pany doing business here in Louisiana and we met that request. And if -- so oil was released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And we will continue to do that upon requests by panies.

All in all, the response has been excellent. But the people here understand that there is more work to be done. And that's why I came down here with members of the federal government to listen and to figure out how to help.

I can't thank you all enough for working as hard as you are. Looking around, I can see that some people may not have had much sleep recently. (Laughter.) The people of your state care a lot about the fact that you are working as hard as you are. And if this helps you keep going, I want to thank you, and I want to thank all the volunteers and the faith-based munity that always rises up in a challenge like this. They listen to that universal call to love a neighbor like you'd like to be loved yourself，台北翻譯社. And that's happening here in Louisiana again，英文翻譯. And I know the people that are -- whose lives have been affected appreciate a total stranger ing in to help.

And finally, the people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer -- prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them. It's good to e down here. Governor, I can't thank you enough for your leadership and your team's leadership，韓文翻譯, and we stand ready to help.

And now I'm going to e around and thank every one of you for working. God bless. (Applause.)