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前几日,芝加哥大型爱国聚会;
(http://2008.sina.com.cn/torch200 ... -25/142074480.shtml)
湖大JK99的MM也作为代表,也发表演讲;
赞一个,fighting, China!!!
下面是英文原稿 :
It’s a great pleasure for me to have this opportunity to discuss the upcoming Olympics with you all. And first of all, I would like to express my appreciation for all those who have been involved in making this possible. Olympic aims to enhance the harmonious of man and promotes a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity. Olympic spirit requires mutual understanding with friendship, solidarity and fair play. An Olympic practice exalts and combines quality of body will and mind and further seeks the convergence between culture and sport. Therefore, it is an impartial stage open for all athletes to compete, to exemplify good samples of joyful effort; it is a chamber to encourage smile and passion to all of the participants regardless to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics and gender. The Olympics has always been a breeze soothing the conceptual obstacles through its unbiased representation of the hosts over the past century. In this summer, it is our turn to carry on it.
The journey of China to Olympics is long and strenuous. From the first participation in 1936 to the first medal in 1960, the first 24 years washed out the memory on sick man of East Asia; from 1960 to 1984, another 24-years stretches the effort of attaining the first gold medal soaring up the ethnic awareness of whole Chinese society; the third 24 years, 1984 to 2008, China improves dramatically and reaches the point to be able to repay all of these benefits. The three transitions take 72 years in total, almost as old as my grandfather. 1.5 million volunteers promised to dedicate their time and effort, some middle-age volunteers even managed to speak “Welcome to Beijing” in English for the first time in their lives.
However, the misunderstanding and distortion on Chinese culture and history still exists. The dated discrimination of “yellow peril” was banished by paper, but not extinguished from mind. Even when history finally awards hard-working Chinese a turning point to restore the long-condemned ethnic confidence, noise blends in cheer. A lot of people are intrigued with Buddhist teaching in. compassion, affection and altruism. A lot of media also assume their moral authority based on these basic human merits. Unfortunately, they act differently from their word. They assert the misleading invasion while forgetting the Tibet was a part of China for hundreds of years; they paralyze in ultimate justice and fabricate suppression with misrecognizing Nepalese policemen as Chinese. When thousands of pro-China people gathered in London and Paris to uphold the torch relay, the only scenes we saw are protests against China, the only voice we heard is boycotting Olympics. I think this is not right. If this legitimate exercise of free speech is dismissed as mere propaganda, why is the malicious labeling the Chinese nation as full of goons and thugs equally disregarded?
I believe most of people here today would agree that Olympic should not be interfered. We are fairly aware that there are a lot to be improved and changed. The transition can never take place by blames thousands of miles away. It can be only accomplished by dedicate efforts. We are working on it. At the same time, we want more understanding and more recognition of our effort for this Olympic. That is why our 11,000 brethrens and sisters united in San Francisco. That is why we gather here in Chicago today. We are here to correct misconception. We are here to support Olympic.
When Olympics were held in ancient Greece, no fighting was the golden rule during the game. It preserves the pure Olympic; No difference, no conceptual biases. Let sport talks. Let the Olympic spirit pervades. Let us expect another wonderful Olympic in the coming August. |
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