提问式英语演 讲开场欣赏.doc

提问式英语演讲开场欣赏

Mr. Chairman, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I should like first of all, to once again thank the Norwegian mittee for the award they have made to the United Nations Peace-Keeping Operations. Their decision has been acclaimed all over the world. I take this opportunity also to express once again my deep gratitude to the countries, which have contributed troops or provided logistical support to these operations. It is to their willing co-operation that we owe the ess of this great experiment in conflict control.
Peace─the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our Aquinas tells a very different story.
Peace is an easy word to say in any language. As Secretary-General of the United Nations I hear it so frequently from so many different mouths and different sources, that it sometimes seems to me to be general incantation more or less deprived of practical meaning. What we really mean by peace?
主席先生,各位贵宾,女士们,先生们:
首先,我要再一次感谢挪威诺贝尔奖委员会决定颁奖给联合国维持和平部队。他们的决定受到了全世界的欢迎。我还要借此机会,对那些派遣军队或提供后勤支援的国家表示深深的感谢。我们要把这种遏制冲突实验的成功归于他们的自愿合作。
和平,这个词唤起了人们最朴素、最珍爱的梦想。和平现在是,而且始终是人类最崇高的希冀。然而,我们的大部分历史却表明,当我们无休无止地谈论和平时,我们的行动却在讲述一个迥然不同的故事。
和平在任何语言中都是一个说起来很容易的词。作为联合国秘书长,我从不同的语言和不同的地方经常听到它,以至于有时在我看来,和平这个词多多少少是失去了其真