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进入耶鲁大学的校园，看到莘莘学子青春洋溢的脸庞，呼吸着书香浓郁的空气，我不由回想起40年前我在北京清华大学时的美好时光，老师们对我的教诲，同学们给我的启发，我至今仍受用不尽。

耶鲁大学以悠久的发展历史、独特的办学风格、卓著的学术成就闻名于世。如果时光能够倒流几十年，我真希望成为你们中的一员。耶鲁大学校训强调追求光明和真理，这符合人类进步的法则，也符合每个有志青年的心愿。

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Coming to the Yale campus with its distinctive academic flavor, and looking at the eager young faces in the audience, I cannot but recall my great experience studying at Qinghua University in Beijing 40 years ago. I still benefit greatly from the instruction and my interaction with other students.

Yale is renowned for its long history, unique way of teaching and excellence in academic pursuit. If time could go back several decades, I would really like to be a student of Yale just like you. Yale’s motto “Light and Truth,” which is a calling for human progress, represents the aspiration of every motivated young man and woman.

2. As a scourge of the modern society, obesity has become the world’s biggest public-health issue today--the main cause of heart disease, which kills more people these days than AIDS, malaria, war. Since the World Health Organization labeled obesity an "epidemic" in 2000, reports on its fearful consequences have come thick and Fast.

Will public-health warnings, combined with media pressure, persuade people to get thinner, just as they finally put them off tobacco? Possibly. In the rich world, sales of healthier foods are booming and new figures suggest that over the past year Americans got very slightly thinner for

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the first time in recorded history. But even if Americans are losing a few ounces, it will be many years before the country solves the health problems caused by half a century’s dining to excess. And, everywhere else in the world, people are still piling on the pounds. That’s why there is now a consensus among doctors that governments should do something to stop them.

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作为现代社会的一个祸害，肥胖已成为当今世界最大的公共健康问题。肥胖是引起心脏病的主要原因，现今因心脏病致死的人数已超过死于艾滋病、疟疾、战争的人数。自从世界卫生组织于 2000 年将肥胖症定为“流行病”以来，已经连篇累牍地发表了有关肥胖症引起可怕后果的报告。

对肥胖症发出的公共卫生警示，加上传媒宣传所形成的压力，是否会像最终促使烟民们戒烟那样，说服人们去减肥呢?这有可能。在富裕国家，健康食品的销量正在大幅上升，而且新的数据表明，在过去的一年美国人的体重有史以来首次略有下降。

但是即使美国人是瘦了一点，美国要解决因半个世纪以来饮食过度而造成的健康问题，还需要许多年时间。况且，在世界各地，人们的体重仍在增加。这就是为什么现在医生们一致认为各国政府应采取措施来制止人们发胖。

3. Back in 1972 $1 million was still an eye-popping amount of cash. But to Robert Hecht, an enterprising American antiquities dealer living in Paris, it was not too much to charge the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an exquisite Greek vase created 500 years before the birth of Christ and painted by one of the acknowledged masters of the craft. Since the acquisition of the

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Greek vase, the prices of antiquities have shot skyward.

The problem with the burgeoning traffic in antiquities, however, is not so much the price but something far more significant: the provenance, i.e. where are these precious artifacts coming from? And who are their rightful owners? Evidence is increasing that more and more artifacts are being illegally unearthed from their countries of origin. A recent British study of five large collections totaling 546 objects, for instance, determined that 82 percent of the objects were suspect. From Italy to Greece to Turkey, countries have long complained about the trade in smuggled artifacts and have been largely unable to stop it.

在 1972 年， 100 万美元可真是一大笔钱。但对于住在巴黎的经营有方的美国古董商罗伯特·海克特而言 , 将一个古希腊花瓶卖给纽约大都会博物馆，他的开价并不算高。这只精美花瓶的制作比耶稣诞生还要早 500 年，是由当时一个公认的美术大家绘制的。自从收购这只希腊花瓶以来，古董的价格一路飙升。

然而，日益兴盛的古董买卖，其问题不在于价格离谱，而是远比价格更为重要的事情，那就是古董的来源。这些稀世珍宝来自何方?谁是其合法拥有者?日益增多的证据表明，越来越多的文物正在其所在国被非法挖掘。例如，最近英国对总数达 546 件文物的五大收藏进行了研究，确定其中 82% (的文物)来源可疑。从意大利到希腊到土耳其，许多国家长期来一直在抱怨走私文物交易，却多半无法加以阻止。

1.老龄化社会 aging society/population 老龄人口话题

Welfare 福利

Well-being “幸福”, 良好的状态

Well-off 小康/富裕

Good perks 津贴，补贴

Allowance=subsidy 补贴

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Retire/retiree/retirement 退休/退休者

Pensioner 领养老金者

Health care 保健

Health insurance 医疗保险

Social security system 社保体系

2. 人口负担

Population explosion 人口爆炸

Resources exhaustion/consumption/depletion 资源耗竭

修饰资源耗竭速度之快用at an alarming rate/alarmingly 惊人的

类似的有startling/shocking/surprising/appalling

恐怖主义 terrorism

反恐 counter-/anti-terrorism

nuclear proliferation 核扩散

3. 世博展会

Exhibition

Exposition 博览会

Fair 交易会

Exhibitor 参展商/国

Delegation 代表团

Representative/deputy 代表

Pavilion 场馆

Better city, better life 城市，让生活更美好

Diverse urban culture 多元城市文化

Bureau of International Exhibition 国际展览局

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展示的几种说法：

Display/show/showcase/present/stage…

高科技：

High-tech 高科技

Genetic modification 转基因

Artificial intelligence 人工智能

Hybrid car 混合动力车

Fuel efficiency 燃料经济性

4. 自然灾害：

Degradation/deterioration of grassland 草场退化

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