演讲-unit9

听力讲义
Unit 9. Mario Cuomo’s Speech at Jona College
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马利奥·库默史上著名政治演说家，在jona college 带给学生们的一篇演讲。

是前纽约州州长，著名的银舌参议员。

也就是说他的演讲非常棒，在他的演讲中，有一篇抨击里根总统的星球大战政策，而呼吁美国选民站起来抵制共和党的统治。

1分15秒------7分31秒:
讲解1:
Mario Cuomo’s Speech at Jo na College
Indeed, as I think about it, I have to conclude / that these young people before me today / are the best reason for hope / that this world knows.
I see them as believers and doers / who will take what we will pass on to them so clumsily / and make it something better than we have ever known. Honoring us by their works, but wanting to be better than we have been.
1.doern. 实干家，执行者
例She’s a doer, not just a thinker. 她是个实干者，而不仅仅是个空想主意者。

2. clumsily adv. 笨拙地
例I answered their question clumsily，and that made them laugh at me. 我笨拙地回答了他们的问题，这使得他们嘲笑了我一番。

Birds fly clumsily towards their nests.那群鸟笨拙的飞向他们的鸟巢。

3. honor vt. 给予……荣誉：尊敬
例children should be taught to honor their elders. 应该教育孩子尊敬长者。

He swore by his honor he would return the bike.他以自己的名誉发誓，他会归还自行车。

7分31秒-----14分01秒:
讲解2:
I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, looking at them now, closer and harder than I have before, I have a feeling about these people /that makes me want to live long enough to see / and be part of the world they will create.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, parents and grandparents, I would like to tell them, the graduates, all of this, and I know that / if we thought they wouldn’t be embarrassed by hearing it, we would all be telling them / about how proud we are of them / and how much we believe in
them and their future. But again maybe we don’t have to tel l them; maybe they know. Maybe they can tell us /just by seeing the love in our eyes today.
Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen, on the good children you have cared for and raised.
1. embarrass vt. 使窘迫；使不安
例Arthur seemed embarrassed by the question. 亚瑟似乎被这个问题弄得有些窘迫。

Girls embarrass easily 女孩遇事容易感到不安。

I didn’t mean to embarrass you. 我不是故意让你难堪。