Chapter Ⅴ 爱的港湾飘洒圣哲丝语（14）（2/2）
《最震撼人心的声音》作者：姜宇 2017-02-11 10:27
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人们曾以为全球和平与繁荣必然逐步实现，但21世纪一开始所发生的暴力事件就去除了这种幻想。这是新的现实，再也不能视而不见，必须勇敢面对。
In the early beginnings of the twenty-first century—a century already violently disabused of any hopes that progress towards global peace and prosperity is inevitable—this new reality can no longer be ignored. It must be confronted.
20世纪可能是人类历史死难最多的世纪，这个世纪被无法数得清的冲突、不能名状的痛苦和难以想象的罪行折磨。一个集团或国家，往往出于无理性的仇恨和猜疑，或出于极度傲慢及对权力和资源的渴求，一再对另一集团或国家采取极端的暴力行动。为了应付这些大灾难，世界领导人在20世纪中叶走到一起，共同努力，促使各国空前团结起来。
The twentieth century was perhaps the deadliest in human history, devastated by innumerable conflicts, untold suffering, and unimaginable crimes. Time after time, a group or a nation inflicted extreme violence on another, often driven by irrational hatred and suspicion, or unbounded arrogance and thirst for power and resources. In response to these cataclysms, the leaders of the world came together at mid-century to unite the nations as never before.
联合国这个论坛从而产生。各国可以在这一论坛共同申明每个人的尊严与价值，为所有人民争取和平与发展。在这个论坛，各国还可以团结一致，加强法治，确认并设法满足穷人的需要，抑制人的残忍与贪婪，保护自然资源和美丽的大自然，支持男女权利平等，同时提供子孙后代所需的安全。
A forum was created—the United Nations—where all nations could join forces to affirm the dignity and worth of every person, and to secure peace and development for all peoples. Here States could unite to strengthen the rule of law, recognize and address the needs of the poor, restrain man’s brutality and greed, conserve the resources and beauty of nature, sustain the equal rights of men and women, and provide for the safety of future generations.
我们从20世纪继承了一些政治手段和科技工具。只要我们有此意愿善加利用它们，就有可能战胜贫穷、无知和疾病。
We thus inherit from the twentieth century the political, as well as the scientific and technological power, which—if only we have the will to use them—give us the chance to vanquish poverty, ignorance and disease.
dignity / 'diɡn?ti / ：尊严
inherit / in'herit / ：继承
科菲?安南（1938年4月8日—?），加纳人，第51届联合国大会任命安南为联合国第七任秘书长，是出身联合国工作人员行列而当选的第一位秘书长，也是第一位来自撒哈拉以南非洲的联合国秘书长，于1997年1月1日就职。
联合国及其秘书长安南于2001年12月10日在挪威首都奥斯陆获得了挪威诺贝尔委员会颁发的2001年诺贝尔和平奖，安南做了他著名的演讲。
人们曾以为全球和平与繁荣必然逐步实现，但21世纪一开始所发生的暴力事件就去除了这种幻想。这是新的现实，再也不能视而不见，必须勇敢面对。
In the early beginnings of the twenty-first century—a century already violently disabused of any hopes that progress towards global peace and prosperity is inevitable—this new reality can no longer be ignored. It must be confronted.
20世纪可能是人类历史死难最多的世纪，这个世纪被无法数得清的冲突、不能名状的痛苦和难以想象的罪行折磨。一个集团或国家，往往出于无理性的仇恨和猜疑，或出于极度傲慢及对权力和资源的渴求，一再对另一集团或国家采取极端的暴力行动。为了应付这些大灾难，世界领导人在20世纪中叶走到一起，共同努力，促使各国空前团结起来。
The twentieth century was perhaps the deadliest in human history, devastated by innumerable conflicts, untold suffering, and unimaginable crimes. Time after time, a group or a nation inflicted extreme violence on another, often driven by irrational hatred and suspicion, or unbounded arrogance and thirst for power and resources. In response to these cataclysms, the leaders of the world came together at mid-century to unite the nations as never before.
联合国这个论坛从而产生。各国可以在这一论坛共同申明每个人的尊严与价值，为所有人民争取和平与发展。在这个论坛，各国还可以团结一致，加强法治，确认并设法满足穷人的需要，抑制人的残忍与贪婪，保护自然资源和美丽的大自然，支持男女权利平等，同时提供子孙后代所需的安全。
A forum was created—the United Nations—where all nations could join forces to affirm the dignity and worth of every person, and to secure peace and development for all peoples. Here States could unite to strengthen the rule of law, recognize and address the needs of the poor, restrain man’s brutality and greed, conserve the resources and beauty of nature, sustain the equal rights of men and women, and provide for the safety of future generations.
我们从20世纪继承了一些政治手段和科技工具。只要我们有此意愿善加利用它们，就有可能战胜贫穷、无知和疾病。
We thus inherit from the twentieth century the political, as well as the scientific and technological power, which—if only we have the will to use them—give us the chance to vanquish poverty, ignorance and disease.
dignity / 'diɡn?ti / ：尊严
inherit / in'herit / ：继承
科菲?安南（1938年4月8日—?），加纳人，第51届联合国大会任命安南为联合国第七任秘书长，是出身联合国工作人员行列而当选的第一位秘书长，也是第一位来自撒哈拉以南非洲的联合国秘书长，于1997年1月1日就职。
联合国及其秘书长安南于2001年12月10日在挪威首都奥斯陆获得了挪威诺贝尔委员会颁发的2001年诺贝尔和平奖，安南做了他著名的演讲。