莱昂纳多在联合国气候峰会的演讲中英对照

莱昂纳多在联合国气候峰会的演讲

Thank you, Mr. Secretary General, for the honor to address this body once more. And thanks to the distinguished climate leaders assembled here today who are ready to take action.

谢谢秘书长先生再次给我机会让我站在这里发言，谢谢各位卓越的气候领导人今天在联合国大会汇聚一堂准备开始采取行动。

body：团体；组织

President Abraham Lincoln was also thinking of bold action 150 years ago when he said: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present…As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”

150年前，亚伯拉罕·林肯总统也曾考虑过采取大胆的行动，他说：“那些属于宁静往日的教条已不足以应付风雨飘摇的现在，由于我们面临新的问题，我们要有新的思维、新的行动，我们必须打破自身的枷锁，才能拯救我们的国家。”

dogma ['dɒgmə] ：教条，教理

disenthrall [,disin'θrɔ:l]：释放；解放

He was speaking before the U.S. Congress to confront the defining issue of his time – slavery. Everyone knew it had to end, but no one had the political will to stop it. Remarkably, his words ring as true today when applied to the defining crisis of our time – climate change.

当时林肯总统在美国国会发表了这席演讲，正视他的时代所面临的关键问题——奴隶制。所有人都知道奴隶制要终结，但是没有人有政治意愿去解决这个问题。今天他的话听来仍然振聋发聩。我们可以用他的话来描述当今时代的关键挑战——气候变化。

As a UN Messenger of Peace, I have traveled all over the world for the last two years, documenting how this crisis is changing the natural balance of our planet. I’ve seen cities like Beijing choked by industrial pollution, ancient Boreal forests in Canada that have been clear-cut, and rainforests in Indonesia that have been incinerated.

作为联合国的和平使者，我在过去两年中走访了世界各地，记录气候变化给地球的自然平衡带来了怎样的改变。我曾经目睹过像北京那样因工业污染而窒息的城市，加拿大古老的寒温带森林被夷为平地，印度尼西亚的热带雨林被焚烧殆尽。

incinerate [in'sinəreit]：焚烧

In India, I met farmers whose crops have literally been washed away by historic flooding. In America, I have witnessed unprecedented droughts in California and sea level rise flooding the streets of Miami. In Greenland and in the Arctic, I was astonished to see that ancient glaciers are rapidly disappearing well ahead of scientific predictions. All that I have seen and learned on my journey has absolutely terrified me.

在印度，我遇到一些农民，他们的庄稼被百年一遇的洪水冲走；在美国，我经历了加州空前的干旱，并目睹了迈阿密海平面上升淹没了街道；在格林兰和北极，我惊讶地看到古老的冰川迅速消失，其速度远超过科学家的预测。旅途中的所见所闻，让我深感恐惧。

There is no doubt in the world’s scientific community that this is a direct result of human activity and the effects of climate change will become astronomically worse in the future.

我想科学界已经明确证明这是人类行为所带来的直接后果。今后，气候变化的影响还将更具灾难性。

astronomically [,æstrə'nɔmikli] ：天文数字地；巨大地

I do not need to tell you these statistics. You know them better than I do, but more importantly, you know what will happen if this scourge is left unchecked.