经典名人英语演讲稿27：前联合国秘书长安南在清华大学的演讲 mp3

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[00:02.33]27. Speech in Tsinghua University by Kofi Annan, Former Secretary General of the United Nations
[00:12.92]Ladies and Gentlemen, 
[00:14.59]It is a great honour for me to speak at one of China's great academic institutions one 
[00:20.64]that is helping to revive and maintain your country's historic tradition of leading the world in science and technology, 
[00:27.91]and one whose alumni are to be found in positions of leadership throughout the country.
[00:35.72]Here, as in so many other places in China, no visitor can help feeling the excitement of a great country developing at breakneck speed, 
[00:47.18]and every day opening up new vistas of knowledge and opportunity to its citizens. 
[00:52.95]You can be really proud of your country and what it has achieved in the last 25 years. 
[01:00.29]As I look out over the young faces in this audience I cannot help envying the international students more than a thousand, 
[01:09.41]I am told, from over 50 countries who have the privilege of sharing your learning experience here. 
[01:15.84]It reminds me for a moment of my own student days, when my country, Ghana, was newly independent. 
[01:23.41]We felt we were suddenly reaching out to the world, and making new discoveries every day. 
[01:29.97]But then I also remember that times of rapid change can bring pain and confusion, 
[01:36.41]even destruction, as well as progress and excitement. 
[01:41.45]The more rapid and exciting it is, the more change calls for careful management, and wise, humane leadership. 
[01:50.80]Order and stability have to be preserved, but without choking off the freedom to enquire, 
[01:57.55]and experiment, and express oneself, since as you young researchers know better 
[02:05.79]than anyone knowledge and science have a vital role in national development. 
[02:11.36]And technical expertise needs to be harnessed to the development and security of society as a whole, 
[02:17.95]so that it not only creates greater wealth for the few, but enables all citizens to feel safer and more prosperous. 
[02:27.33]The development of such a great country as China cannot happen in isolation. 
[02:33.79]It affects the whole world, and it draws you into new relationships with other parts of the world. 
[02:39.64]Increasingly, your economy depends on exchanges with other countries both imports and export, of both goods and capital. 
[02:49.69]Foreign investment plays an essential role in your growth, while your holdings of foreign currencies 
[02:55.78]and your management of your own currency are coming to play a vital part in the international monetary system. 
[03:03.84]This means that you have a stake in the development and prosperity of the wider world. 
[03:09.40]And your security, too, depends on international peace and stability.

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经典名人英语演讲稿27：前联合国秘书长安南在清华大学的演讲 mp3