偶像勵志英語演講 第119期:直面恐懼(6)

So actually there is a Big Brother. But he's not a malevolent fiction, he's actually all of us andhe lives in our search engines. So no matter how many times I do the calculations, I come upwith a social job, the positives bounce the negatives, the axis equal the wise, and our hopesweigh as much as our fears, but I hesitated on that last one because fear, good lord, fear is apowerful physiological force in 2011.
所以事實上還是有“老大哥”。但是他不是惡毒的、虛幻的，他就是我們大家，而且他就在我們的搜索引擎里。所以，世界空間是變好還是變壞，不管我怎么算，答案都是它們打成平手。正面和負面的發(fā)展彼此抵消、蠢人和聰明人一樣多、希望與恐懼兩者并存。但是我對后者有些猶豫，因為恐懼，天啊，恐懼是2011年一股非常強大的生理力量。
We here, up in the stands and surrounding your graduation class, look to you as we do everyyear, hoping you will now somehow, through your labors, free us from what we have come tofear, and we have come to fear many things. Fear has become the commodity that sells ascertainly as sex. Fear is cheap. Fear is easy. Fear gets attention. Fear is spread as fast asgossip and is just as glamorous, juicy and profitable. Fear twists facts into fictions thatbecome indistinguishable from ignorance. Fear is a profit-churning go-to with a wholemarket--being your whole family.
我們站在這里的演講臺上，周圍是即將畢業(yè)的你們，像每年一樣，期待你們會通過你們的努力，讓我們不再恐懼，而我們已對許多事情充滿恐懼。恐懼成了很好賣的商品，跟性一樣。恐懼很廉價，很容易制造，又引人注意。它傳播快速、八卦聳動，而且有利可圖。它把事實與虛構(gòu)攪和在一起，讓人由于無知而無法辨別。恐懼就是利潤的攪拌器，有廣泛的市場，也可以進入你的家里。
You're sitting in the house, one day, watching a game on TV not long ago along came apreamble for the local nightly news, "Are our schools poisoning our children?"
某一天，當你在家里看電視的球賽轉(zhuǎn)播，看到了一則當?shù)匾归g新聞的預告：“學校是否在毒害我們的小孩?”
That story in summer is hot bikinis at night eleven. In that I had school-age kids, at the time Ifeared, they were, in fact, being poisoned at school, and summer was a few weeks away. So, Iturned in to get to school.
夏天晚上11點時聽到那個故事簡直讓人眼前一亮。因為家里有小孩在上學，我擔心孩子們正在學校里受到毒害，而且馬上就是夏天了，我特地在當晚收看。
1. come up with
想出，提出(計劃、想法等);
eg. I don't think he can come up with any clever move.
我看他也沒有什么高招。
eg. Scientists in different countries, working independently of each other, have come up withvery similar results.
各國科學家各自獨立進行研究都得到了非常相似的結(jié)果。
2. come to do sth.
(經(jīng)歷漫長的過程或時間后)開始(做某事);
eg. She said it so many times that she came to believe it.
這件事她說了太多遍，以至自己都開始相信了。
eg. Although it was a secret wedding, the press did eventually come to hear about it.
盡管是場秘密的婚禮，媒體最終還是聽到了消息。
3. free sb. from sth.
把某人從某事中釋放出來;使某人擺脫某事;
eg. The wide application of electronic computers in science and technology will free man fromthe labour of complicated measurement and computation.
電子計算機在科學技術(shù)方面廣泛的應用將使人們從復雜的計量和計算中擺脫出來。
eg. Even the wise are not always free from error.
智者千慮，必有一失。