《初中英语阅读拓展名人励志演讲我们选择登月素材201906261100》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《初中英语阅读拓展名人励志演讲我们选择登月素材201906261100（11页珍藏版）》请在金锄头文库上搜索。
1、我们选择登月President Pitzer, Mr. Vice President, Governor, Congressman Thomas, Senator Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb, Mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen:皮策校长、副校长、州长、国会议员托马斯、参议员威利、众议员米勒、韦伯先生、贝尔先生、科学家们、尊敬的来宾们、女士们、先生们：I appreciate your president having made me an
2、honorary visiting professor, and I will assure you that my first lecture will be very brief. I am delighted to be here and Im particularly delighted to be here on this occasion.我很感激你们的校长授予我荣誉客座教授的头衔，我向你们保证，我的第一场演讲会跟简短。我很高兴来到这里，尤其是在这样一个场合。We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for
3、progress, in a state noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.我们在这样一所以知识著名的大学，一座以进步闻名的城市，一个以实力
4、著称的国家见面。我们站在这里是这三者的需要，以为我们的见面是在一个充满变化和挑战的时间，是在一个希望和害怕并存的十年，是在一个知识和无知并存的时代。我们学到的还是越多，认识到的无知就越多。Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nations own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a ra
5、te of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension.世界上大部分已知的健在并在职的科学家仍在奋斗不息，这个国家的科研力量每12年便成倍增长，这比我国人口增长总数的三倍还要多。尽管如此，世上的未知领域、未解之谜和未完成的任务的范围之广，仍远远超出
6、了我们所有人的理解能力。No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of mans recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to
7、use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, an
8、d then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power. Newton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicilli
9、n and television and nuclear power, and now if Americas new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight.没有人能够完全明白我们已经走了多远，走得多快，但是如果你愿意，可以把人类有史以来的5万年浓缩成半个世纪的时间跨度。在这个时间跨度下，我们对于开始的40年知之甚少，只知道在这40年的最后人类学会用兽皮遮体。然后，大约10年前，根据这一标准，人类走出洞穴，开始建造其他类型的住
10、房。只有5年前的人类才学会了写字和使用有轮子的车辆。基督教出现还不到两年。今年出现看印刷机，不到两个月前，在人类历史的整个50年跨度中，蒸汽机提供了一种新能源。牛顿研究出重力的意义。上个月电灯、电话和汽车、飞机都可以使用了。仅仅上周，我们就发明了青霉素，电视机和核能，而现在如果美国飞往金星的新的宇宙飞船成功，我们真能在今晚午夜之前到达星星之上。This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, ne
11、w dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.这是激动人心的一步，但这一步在驱除旧弊病的同时，也会产生新的弊病、新的无知、新的问题与新的危险。航天事业战线的远景当然是成本高，但是回报也很丰厚。So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston
12、, this state of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward-and so will space.因此，有人想我们原地休息，继续等待，这毫不奇怪。但是休斯顿这个城市，德克萨斯这个州，美国这个国家都是由那些原地等待，止步不前，喜欢向后看的人建立的。这个国家是由那些不断进取的人所征服的航天
13、事业也是这样。William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.威廉布拉福德在1630年的普里茅斯湾殖民地的建立仪式上说，所有伟大而可敬的行动都伴随着很大的困难，而完成这些行动需具备冒险精神和负
14、责任的勇气。If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation whi
15、ch expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.如果我们密封舱历史上的进步教会了我们什么，那就是人类在寻求知识，追求进步时，是坚持不懈，不屈不饶的。不论我们是否加入，空间探索都会继续。无论在什么时候，它都是一项重大的冒险，没有任何一个期望成为世界领袖的国家希望在这场空间竞赛中落后。Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the indus
16、trial revolution, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it-we mean to lead it.我们的前辈让这个国家掀起了工业革命的第一波浪潮、现代发明的第一波浪潮、核动力的第一波浪潮、核动力的第一波浪潮，而我们这一代并不打算在即将到来的太空时代的浪潮中倒下。我们要参与其中我们要主导潮流。For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall n
