名校勵(lì)志英語演講 第104期:執(zhí)著于你的夢(mèng)想(9)

[00:00.12]Now, what did this 92 year-old black woman do that deserved such great honor? What did she do? 這位92歲的黑人婦女到底做了什么竟能獲得如此殊榮？她做過什么？ [00:06.39]Well, in 1955, the days of racial segregation, she had refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. 1955年，美國那時(shí)還處于種族隔離時(shí)期，羅莎·帕克斯在公交車上拒絕把座位讓給一個(gè)白人。 [00:15.40]She had refused. Her simple refusal to move to the back of the bus put into motion events 沒錯(cuò)，她拒絕讓座給白人。她拒絕到公交車尾這一簡(jiǎn)單的舉動(dòng) [00:22.07]that led to my country's great civil rights movement. 推動(dòng)了美國偉大的民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)的進(jìn)展。 [00:26.01]The small protest of a woman that maybe weighed less than 100 pounds. brought down a racist system. 一位體重不足100磅的女人的一個(gè)小小的抗議竟瓦解了種族主義制度。 [00:34.09]As you can see, the individual can make a difference. 由此你們可以看到，個(gè)人可以產(chǎn)生深遠(yuǎn)的影響。 [00:38.24]Let me tell you about another individual, Ken Behring, a millionaire California businessman 讓我再給你們講述一個(gè)人，這個(gè)人就是加利福利亞州的百萬富翁肯·貝林， [00:43.22]who found his passion in giving wheelchairs to poor and physically disabled people all around the globe, including China. 他是一位商人，他對(duì)援助輪椅情有獨(dú)鐘，曾向包括中國在內(nèi)的全世界各個(gè)國家的貧困殘疾人捐助輪椅。 [00:51.21]He says that he has met people who have spent years in rooms with no window, 他說他曾見過一些殘疾人連續(xù)數(shù)年待在沒有窗戶的屋子里面， [00:55.47]just lying there and staring up at the ceiling, never seeing the outside world 只是躺在那兒盯著天花板看，看不到外面的世界， [00:59.56]unless someone was willing to pick up that person and take them outside to show them the world. 除非有人愿意扶起他們，帶他們?nèi)タ赐饷娴氖澜纭? [01:05.39]He says that it's no wonder so many of those physically disabled people dream about being a bird. 他說難怪那么多殘疾人都?jí)粝胫约耗艹蔀橐恢恍▲B呢。 [01:11.05]Mr. Behring says that most of us think that a wheelchair would be a confinement, 貝林先生說，我們大多數(shù)人認(rèn)為輪椅是一個(gè)禁錮， [01:16.19]but to millions of people it is not a confinement, it is freedom, freedom to move and to go to school, 但對(duì)于無數(shù)殘疾人而言，輪椅不是禁錮，而是邁向自由的工具。有了輪椅，他們可以自由行動(dòng)，自由地去學(xué)校， [01:23.12]freedom to vote, freedom to get a job, and freedom for hope for the future. 自由地去投票，自由地得到一份工作，甚至自由地暢想未來。 [01:28.22]He has given freedom and wheelchairs to 400,000 people around the world. The individual can make a difference. 他給全世界40萬殘疾人提供了輪椅和自由。個(gè)人可以產(chǎn)生深遠(yuǎn)的影響。

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