优秀！“清华刘昊然”入选最强本科生，英语演讲超厉害！

11月12日，清华大学公众号推送了2020年清华大学特等奖学金（本科生）答辩全程实录 ↓

据了解，清华大学特等奖学金于1989年设立，是学校授予在校学生的最高荣誉，能够获得特等奖学金，可以说是“最强本科生”了。今年是特等奖学金评选办法修订后实施的第二年，在以往评选的基础上，学校一方面强调以德为先，引导和培育优良的学风，另一方面也严格评审的流程，充分发挥公示环节的监督作用，希望特等奖学金的获得者，能够充分地体现清华人肩负使命、追求卓越的勇气和担当。

清华大学发布答辩推文后，很多网友都关注到了有颜有才的物理系小哥哥陈逸贤 ↓

（图源：清华大学公众号评论区截图）

来看看陈同学亮闪闪的简介 ↓

▲ 清华大学物理系陈逸贤（图源：清华大学公众号）

据介绍，初入数理大类的陈逸贤同学广泛地涉猎不同方向课题，通过SRT中分析费米望远镜探测数据，对天文方向产生了兴趣。

大一下学期开始，明确了方向的他，成绩迅速进步。在基础课程之外，陈逸贤还选修了天文系研究生课程，完成了30分钟的全英文报告。在进一步确定了行星科学领域的研究方向后，他努力投身科研，成绩斐然。

值得一提的是，陈逸贤课余积极参与文体活动，3年来跟随集体参加了10余场校级演出。而其本人，还是校艺术团合唱队的队员。

除了专业学习和文体活动表现优异，陈同学出众的英语水平也备受瞩目。

在陈逸贤的自述里，是同为大学英语老师的父母为他营造了良好的英语学习氛围。小学五年级“半英半中”地读《哈利波特与凤凰社》，初中时翻译了几十集科幻电视剧《神秘博士》，课余还写了十多万字的英文科幻小说。

而如果你正好关注过2019年举办的第24届中国日报社“21世纪·可口可乐杯”全国英语演讲比赛，有没有觉得这位陈同学很眼熟？

没错，他就是冠军。

早在2017年，陈逸贤在杭二中读高三时，参加了全国中小学生英语演讲比赛，拿到高中组总冠军。2019年，读大二的他第二次参加21世纪全国英语演讲比赛，第二次拿到冠军。

Yee君整理了陈同学参加演讲比赛的视频、音频和演讲原文，一起回顾一下他在2019年的夺冠风采↓

视频来源：腾讯视频@21世纪杯英语演讲比赛

附：陈逸贤演讲英语全文

A Glimpse into the Future 

Do you know people who post pictures of themselves almost every day? Snap! Look at my new watch. Snap! Westlake in spring. Snap! Here’s me middle of a speech competition. From streets to campuses, people are obsessed with taking photos of themselves. But when photography was first introduced to China in the 19th century, it traumatized a generation. With the drawtube shaped like a cannon, the dazzling firework at exposure, like that, and most horrifying of all, the bizarre feeling of your own face staring back at yourself in a piece of paper. “Witchcraft,” They say. “An evil ritual taking away our spirits!” 

As the development of technology moves the wheel of history forward, it was always accompanied by fear. Judging in retrospect from an era of selfie craze, of course we would want to tell those benighted people of the past: Fear not! Your souls won’t be sucked into a camera! This, is exactly what I would like to tell people of the present: Fear not! Because when technology revolutionizes our lives, humanity frames our action.

Look at our world now, the debate between scientists and humanists never seem to set our minds at rest. When scientists are bragging about generalizing 5G6G, the humanists say, you are providing easier ways to infringe on personal privacy; When scientists brag AI as human’s ultimate assistant, the sci-fi writers say, beware that they develop consciousness of their own! Once I, a self-proclaimed physicist, talked to my pals from the school of humanities about teleportation, I said, “Theoretically we can transport anything from here to there instantly by breaking up the stuff here and reconstructing an identical one there.” But I was instantly bombarded with: “Oh, soon you will be transporting people in this way, won’t you? But will one be the same person after teleport? Will my consciousness be instantly terminated upon disintegration here, leaving only a duplicate of me to be reconstructed there?” So innocent bystanders, upon hearing these fantastic debates, panic. Oh no! The geeks are going to read our mails! Robots are going to take over the earth! Teleportation is going to destroy thousands of people every day, leaving a world full of clones! 

But none of this is actually going to happen, because humanists are not alarmists and scientists are not geeks. Humanists point out pertinent ethical issues with the hope of correcting them and scientists listen to suggestions rationally to make adjustments as well as amendments. Just like the first pioneer who modified the camera to make it less scary, we can always improve technology with humanitarian and care. We can enhance the security of networks by introducing quantum cryptography. We can put restrictions on AI to prevent rogue elements. As for teleportation, maybe it’s too risky to transport humans, but it can still relieve a considerable burden off Beijing traffic by taking care of the delivery system! 

So, taking a glimpse into the future, what exactly do I see? Not the AI-reigned Dystopia where humans are reduced to slaves, not the post-apocalypse desert after a science breakdown, but a future where humanity thrive with technology as instrument of progress, and technology thrive with humanity as its code of conduct. Just like how we mock at the 19th century people for being fearful in front of a camera, our future generations will also be wondering why we had feared some of their daily routines in the first place, as they reach ever higher dimensions and roam across the stars.

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来源：由译·世界编辑整理自人民日报、清华大学、中国日报双语新闻公众号等

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