广外高翻学院口译课训练材料原文

Good evening everyone.

It’s a very great honor and pleasure to be with you here in Donguan this evening and to pay tribute to this quite remarkable development which um… has left me amazed and impressed and desiring to return again to this wonderful place, thank you.

I’d also like to tell you that for me um…China has a special place in my heart and in my family. My brother is actually married to a Chinese lady, a very wise choice. And my little boy, that’s Stuart, um… he is just seven years old, and he’s begun to study Chinese in his school back in London. So who knows, maybe in 40 years’ time he will come along and address you in perfect Chinese. But to the moment NIHAO is all I can say.

Now, um… I would like to talk to you reasonably briefly and I understand we’re gonna to have time to take questions and answers, um.. so please feel free then to ask me any questions you want, I will be pleased trying to give you as good answers as I can.

But I’d like to, in my remarks to you, address the… this question really, which is how do we develop our economy and society both in countries like this and in countries like mine so that we maximize the potential of our countries and our people.//

And I believe there are a number of ways that we have to do this. The first is that we have to have the right partnership between government and business. And I would like to congratulate you, MR vice mayor and all those who are engaged in government in this province, for the very wise and intelligent way that you have partnered the private sector in the developments that have come about. I think that has made a big difference to this region. Thank you, Sir.

I also believe that it is only when government and industry work together that we can deal with some of the major questions of planning and urban development that are so critical in making sure we are offering opportunities to everybody in our society, not simply a few.

The biggest problem in any modern country today is how do we ensure that the benefits of the wealth that we create are spread amongst the whole of the population. And, in order to do that, we need the closest possible cooperation between those who work in government and those who work in business. I have to… seeing Mr. Chen’s amazing development just a short distance from here, to which congratulations, err…it’s an incredible achievement. But I know that that could not have been done unless with the right cooperation and partnership between those in positions of government and those like yourself who are entrepreneurs. So that’s the first thing, the partnership between public and private sector. //

The second thing is the importance of education. I think for all our countries today, the thing that we can do most is to build the knowledge and capability of our people. In every one of our societies, at the moment, there are people of talent and ability. But unless they get the education opportunities that they need, they will never be able to fulfill that opportunity properly. I would like to think in years to come, that there would be partnerships, for example, between the universities and scientific institutes in a country like the UK. And how you develop your university sector and science here? I think for Europe, there is much much more that we can do, to try to make sure that Europe and China work more closely together in developing the knowledge