【一个被忽视的演讲】白岩松·耶鲁大学·我的中国梦

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中英文对照（上）

过去的二十年，中国一直在跟美国的三任总统打交道，但是今天到了耶鲁我才知道，其实它只跟一所大学打交道。

We talked to three president of China in the past thirty years, but I didn’t know that we talked to a single university until today when I come to Yale.

但是透过这三位总统我也明白了，耶鲁大学培养的学生的水准也并不很平均。

But we can also, from these three president, we can pretty much see that the average level of graduate of Yale is not even.

接下来，就进入我们这个主题，或许要起个题目的话，应该就叫，我的故事以及背后的中国梦。

So, now entering our topic. My topic is “my personal story and through my personal story, the dream of China”.

我要将五个年份，第一个我要讲的年份是1968年。

I want to talk about five years in Chinese history. The first one I want to talk about is 1968.

那一年，我出生了。

That’s the year I was born.

但是那一年世界非常乱，在法国，有他的这个巨大的街头的骚乱；在美国也有，然后美国的总统肯尼迪总统遇刺了，但是的确，这一切的原因，都与我无关。

It was a year of chaos worldwide, there were people marching in France, and in US, President Kennedy was assassinated, but I must say that none of that had anything to do with me.

但是那一年，我们更改记住的是，马丁路德金先生遇刺，虽然那一年他倒下了，但是“我有一个梦想”的这句话，却真正的站了起来。不仅在美国站起来，在全世界站起来。

That was also the year ’s famous call “I have a dream”, which was, and even though, that was also the year that Dr. was assassinated, and we lost him, we did not lose the words but the ideal became an ideal not just for the US, but also for the world.

但是当时很遗憾，不仅仅是我，几乎很多的中国人，并不知道这个梦想，因为当时中国，每一个个人，很难说拥有一个梦想，因为梦想变成了国家的梦想，甚至是领袖的梦想。

But at that time the truth is that, not just for me, but for all the Chinses, not every individual has individual dream. We have national dream, we have the dream of our leaders, but not dream of individual people.

中国与美国的距离非常遥远，不亚于地球与月亮的距离。

The distance between China and the America is very large, not less than the distance between the earth and moon.

但是我并不关心这一切，我只关心我自己是否可以吃饱。因为我刚出生两个月，我跟父母就被关进了文化大革命特有的牛棚。因此我的爷爷为了给我送奶，要跟看守进行非常激烈的搏斗。

I of course wasn’t paying attention of that, and I was very concerned whether I can eat. My family and I were clapped in cow shed where in cultural evolution, people were held for a time. And I was able to eat, because my grandfather was milk to me, my grandfather was able to hold very good negotiations with one of the keepers regarding the transform of milk.

很显然，我的出生并不是时候，不仅对于当时的中国，对于世界来说，似乎都有些问题。

It seems that my birth was not in auspicious time, it was not just my family or China, but the whole world into having issued than.

接下来要将的故事，就是1978年，10年之后。我10岁，我已然生活在那个只有20万人口的城市，你要知道，在中国，那是一个非常小的城市。

I was still living in a city that I was born, it was the village of 200, 000 people, which you must understand that it is a very small village.

它离北京的距离有2000公里，它要想看北京出的报纸的话，要在3天之后才能看见，所以，对于我们来说，是不存在新闻这个说法的。

It was 2000 kilometers from Beijing, so if we want to see the newspapers form Beijing, that will be three days later. So, for us, when you say news, which in Chinese is new things, that won’t new things to us.

那一年，我的爷爷去世了，而在两年前，我的父亲去世了。所以，只剩下我的母亲和我们哥俩，那么只有我母亲是挣钱的人，她一个月的工资不到十美元。

My grandfather passed away that year, and my father died two years earlier. So my mother was left alone to raise myself and my brother, and she was the only wagers at that point, and she earning less than 10 dollars a month.

因此，在这样的（环境下），即使10岁了，梦想对于我来说，是如此陌生的一个词，我从来不会去想它。

So, although I was ten years old at that time, if you ask me what my dream was, it is a very strange word, I have never thought of it.

我母亲一直到现在都没有建立一个新的婚姻，是她一个人把我们哥俩养大。

My mother did not have a new marriage until today, she raised me and my brother alone.

我看不到这个家庭的希望，只是会感觉，那个时候的每个冬天都很寒冷，因为，我所生活的个城市，离苏联更近。

And again there was no dream in the family, where mostly I think is to keep warm, because the city we lived at the time was closer to the Soviet Union.

但是就在我看不到希望的1978年的时候，不管是中国这个国家，还是中国与美国这两个国家之间，发生了巨大的变化，那是我们在座的所有人，今天都改记住的年份。

But even though we did not see the hope, in fact there was a tremendous transformation not only for china but between china and US. That’s the year that everyone here should remember very clearly.

1978年的12月16号，中国与美国正式建交。那是一个大事件。

In December 26, 1978, China and the US reengaged in diplomatic relations, and that’s a very important transformation.

而在中美建交两天之后，12月18号，中国的十一届三中全会召开了，今天你们知道，那是中国改革开放三十一年的开始。

Two days later, that is on December 18, 1978, the Chinese people congress convene than to determine the opening and reform of policy, which we have all celebrating the beginning of thirty-first years of policy of reform.

历史，两个伟大的国家，一个非常小的可怜的家庭，就如此戏剧性的交织在一起。不管是小的家庭，还是大的国家，其实当时，谁都没有把握知道，未来是什么样的。

So at that moment in history, the relationship of the two great nations’ impact of all those nations, including the poor far away family, was the moment when none of us was able to foresee the changes that would come at that moment.

接下来的年份，该讲1988年了，那一年，我20岁。

Next, we talk about 1988, when I was 20 years old.

这个时候，我已经从边疆的一个小城市，来到了北京，成为一个大学生。

At that moment, I have move from that small village into Beijing and become a university student.

虽然我们今天在中国，已然有很多人，在抨击中国的高考制度，认为他有很多的弊端，但是，不得不承认，正式高考，让我们这样一个又一个非常普通的孩子，拥有了改变命运的机会。

Many people have criticized and are criticizing now our national college entrance examination system and there are many reasons to do that, but we must recognize that there are advantages of this, that people like me, that ordinary poor individuals to change fate under that.

但这个时候，美国不再是一个很遥远的国家，他变的很具体；他也不再是传说中的美帝国主义，二是变成了生活中的很多细节。

At that moment, the US was no longer so far away as it was, and it became more specific and concrete. And it’s no longer the monster that was called the American imperialism, but has become a series of concrete details.

这个时候，我已经第一次尝试过喝可口可乐，而且，喝完可口可乐之后，会觉得中美两个国家真的是如此接近，因为它几乎和中国的中药是一样的。

I have already have a first taste of coca cola, and after that I thought that wow, the us and China are so close to each other, and I thought that it just tastes like Chinese medicine.

那个时候，我已经非常狂热的去喜欢摇滚乐，那个时候正式迈克尔·杰克逊还长的比较漂亮的时候。

I was also a great fan of rock music at that point, and that’s the moment when Michael Jackson still looked good.

更重要的是，这个时候的中国，已经发生了巨大的变化。因为改革已经进行了十年。

More importantly, china itself started changing quite a lot, because the reform has operated for ten years.

那一年中国开始尝试放开很多商品的价格。

That year, china started marketization of many commodities.

这在你们觉得是非常不可思议的事情，但是在当时的中国，是一个很大的跃进，因为很多商品的价格，都是由政府决定的。

Many of you now may think it unthinkable, but it was a very big progress in China because prices of many commodities at that moment was set by the government.

但是，就在那一年，因为放开了价格，大家都在疯狂的抢购。大家都觉得这个不知道能维持多久，于是要把一辈子的食品和用品买回到家里头。

The marketization initialized many huge buying, because the public would thought, look, the price is dropped, who knows, if it may be not this low again, we’d better buy at least food price, so it’s also a big ?

这一年也就标志着，中国离市场经济越来越近了。

And that also was another step forward closer to market economy.

当然，那个时候，没有人知道，市场经济会有次贷危机。

Of course, at that time we did not know the downsides of market economy. either.

当然我知道那一年，1988年，对于耶鲁大学格外重要，因为你们耶鲁的校友又一次成为美国总统。

Of course , that was also a good year for Yale University, because that was the year another Yale graduate became US president.

好，接下来，又一个年份，1998年，那一年，我三十岁。我已经成为中央电视台的新闻主持人，更重要的是，我已经成为一个一岁孩子的父亲。我开始明白，我所做的很多的事情 ，不仅仅在要考虑我自己，还要考虑孩子，以及他们的未来。

Now，I’d like to talk about 1988, when I was 30 years old. I had already become an anchor at CCTV. And more importantly, I has become a father of a one- year-old child. I became truly understand that whenever I did everything, I need not only thing so much just about me.

那一年在中美之间发生了非常重要的事情，因为那一年的主角就是克林顿。

In US-china relations, there was also an important event in that year. That was because Clinton visited China.

也许在美国记住的是性丑闻，但是在中国记住的是他那一年访问了中国。

Of course in US, you maybe remember the sex scandals. But in China, we remember this visit to China.

在6月份，他访问中国的时候，在北京的人民大会堂，进行了一个开放的记者招待会。然后又在北京大学进行了一个开放的演讲。这两场活动的直博的主持人都是我。

You may remember when he visited the Great Hall of the People, there was an open press conference that he held with Chinese journalists. And then he made a speech at Peking University. And again, it was my broadcast on both of those occasions, I was the anchor managing my broadcast.

在他与江泽民主席的记者招待会上，在直播的情况下，他们讨论了很多关于人权、宗教等等很多非常敏感的问题。

You may remember as well that on a live broadcast in his meeting with Jiang Zemin, they talk directly on live camera about human rights, about the xxx incident, about many other xxx incidents.

当然在北京大学的演讲中，她也是非常自由和 开放的去谈美国的梦想以及他的许多看法。

这所有的活动，都是电视直播的。

He also at his discussion at Peking University was very free and easy, his discussion was about the American dream and his perspective about that. And the entire event was broadcast live on TV in China.

当克林顿总统即将离开中国，在上海大额时候，他接受了记者的采访，记者问你印象最深的是什么，他说我最想不到的是，这次访问，全程直播。

When Clinton was leaving China, he was asked a question that what was your deepest impression of China? He says that my deepest impression in China is that I was very surprised that both of those events were broadcast live on television in China.

不过直播让中国受到的表扬，二美国却受到的批评。

But the truth is you know, the live broadcast brought praise for China, but some criticism for the US.

不过只是一个很小的批评。

Only a small criticism.

在北大的克林顿的演讲中，由于整个克林顿的演讲用的全是美方提供的翻译，因此，整个翻译的水准都不及今天我身边的翻译。

There was an interpreter following president Clinton at the event, who was provided by the US. And I guess that was someone better than my interpreter today.

我猜想，有很多中国的观众是一直知道克林顿在说话，但是说的是什么，不太清楚。

The truth is that many audiences know that President Clinton is speaking, but what he said, actually, didn’t quite understand.

所以，我在直博结束的时候，说了这样一番话，看来美国要对中国有更多的了解，有的时候，要从语言开始。

So I made a comment that stated that if the America does need to understand China, they do need to start from the language.

美国包括美联社在内的很多媒体都报道了我的这句话，但是我说的另外一句话不知道他们有没有报道。

Many of the US media there that day, picked up on the phrase, it was broadcast over year again. But the truth is that I said something else, which I am not sure whether did they pick up.

我说了这样的一句话，我说，对于中美这两个国家来说，面对面，永远要好过背对背。

I said that that for two countries like the America and China, it is always better to talk face to face than back to back.

当然，也是在这一年，年初的时候，我开上了我人生的第一辆车。

It was also earlier that year, for the first time that I began to drive a car.

这是我在过去从来不会想到的，中国人有一天也可以开自己的车。

That was another new thing for me that I never imagine that the average Chinese person can drive their own car.

因此，个人的喜悦，有时候也会让你印象很深刻，因为，往往第一次才是最难忘的。

So, that also impression I will never forget. It’s always the first time that you will never release.

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