2020年翻译catti一级口译试题及答案(卷十)

2020年翻译catti一级口译试题及答案（卷十）Speech by The Duke of Cambridge at the Children’s Global Media Summit

Manchester, 6 December 2017

Good afternoon, everyone. And thank you very much for having myself and Catherine here.

First of all, a word if I might about this fantastic city of Manchester –to which most of you are visitors. You may have seen, if you have had a chance to go outside yet, the symbol of the bee everywhere in the city –the bee is Manchester’s symbol, a reminder of this city’s industriousness and creativity.

It’s also a reminder of Manchester’s community spirit, the sense of pulling together. Manchester has had a tough year, and I personally stand in awe of the way that the people of Manchester have united in bravery and support of one another. This community is a great example to all of us, wherever we are from. And I hope you all have a chance to witness some of this remarkable place for yourselves while you are here for the Summit.

So, the Children’s Summit. We are all here today because we know that childhood matters.

The years of protection and education that childhood has provided are the foundation for our society. The programme makers and tech

leaders in this room understand that.

Our childhood years are the years we learn.

They are the years we develop resilience and strength.

They are the years where our capacity for empathy and connection are nurtured.

They are the years where we impart the values of tolerance and respect, family and community, to the youth that will lead our nations in the future.

Parents like Catherine and me are raising the first generation of digitally-immersed children –and this gives us many reasons to be optimistic about the impact of technology on childhood.

Barriers to information about the world are falling. The child of today can learn about far-flung corners of the world with previously unimaginable ease.

Social media holds the promise for children who can feel isolated to build and maintain friendships.

Digital media is seeing today’s young people develop a passion and capacity for civic involvement that is without parallel in human history.

Programme makers have access to real-time research that helps them shape engaging, educational content for children in ways that would have been unheard of in years gone by.

We should celebrate and embrace these changes.

What we cannot do, however, is pretend that the impact of digital technology is all positive or, indeed, even understood.

I am afraid to say that, as a parent, I believe we have grounds for concern.

I entered adulthood at the turn of the millennium. The generation of parents that Catherine and I are a part of had understood the world of mobile phones, the internet, email, and the like for some time. We had every reason to feel confident.

The changes we have incorporated into our own lives as adults have often felt incremental, not revolutionary.

The vast array of digital television content that many households enjoy today did not spring up overnight.

The birth of the smartphone was heralded as a landmark moment. In truth, though, we incorporated constant texting, checking of email on our devices, and 24/7 availability into our lives over the course of many, many years.

The centrality of the internet for education, shopping, and the organisation of domestic life has been the work of two decades.

And it’s the gradual nature of this change –the slow warming of the water in the pot if you like –that I believe has led us to a moment of reckoning with the very nature of childhood in our society.

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