英語演講原文：奧巴馬演講建設21世紀清潔能源經(jīng)濟5

1、奧巴 馬 演 講 建 設 21 世 紀 清 潔 能源 經(jīng)濟 5All right. Gentleman right here.Q Hi, Mr. President. First off, thank you very much on behalf of everyone here for coming today. It really means a lot to us.THE PRESIDENT: You bet.Q My name is Alan Berchel (ph). I m a Canadian. I just moved here about a year ago. And m

2、y question for you today is in reference to the Canadian tar 1 sands. Now, we ve heard you speak today about the importance of manufacturing things domestically for the purpose of exporting.We ve heard you speak about the importance ofdomestic energy security, as well the importance of outperforming

3、 China in terms of the ability for us to manufacture wind turbines.Now, I would like to know how you balance your commitment to the environment with domestic energy security, given that there has been recent domestic dissent 2 from (不 贊 同) the idea of importing Canadian oil, and as well, keeping in

4、mind that it does require energy in order to manufacture these turbines - if you do not import the Canadian tar sands oil, you are opening the door to further investments by SunCor in Canada; as well you re essentially3 offering up this very vast and politically stable oil - energy resource to a cou

5、ntry like China. I just want to know how you re balancing all these different pressures.THE PRESIDENT: Did you talk to this guy? (Laughter.) Youknow - (laughter.) For those - just to give background tofolks, there are these tar sands in Canada than can produceoil. There is talk about building a pipe

6、line 4 into the UnitedStates to import that oil. I can t comment on the specificsof this because the State Department is going through thiscomplicated review process, and if it looks like Ing m puttmy fingers on the scale before the science is done, then people may question the merit ( 優(yōu) 點，功 績 ) of

7、thedecision later on. So I m not going to get into the details of it.I will make this general point, which is that, first of all, importing oil from countries that are stable and friendly is a good thing. So, for example, some of you saw I went down to Brazil a couple of weeks back. And I know peopl

8、e think I was going there to see samba dancers or something; they play soccer. I was going down there partly because Brazil is actually already doing a really good job with biofuels. They ve got some of the best cellulosic ethanol （酒精）- this ethanol that s not made with corn, but it smade with like

9、sugar cane 5 （甘蔗）stalks.So I think a third of their cars already on the road run on biofuels. So I wanted to make sure that we learn from them - - this goes to the point about another way that we can lower gas prices. But they also just had these huge discoveries of oil off their shores underwater,

10、pretty deep down. And can we start working with them using our outstanding technology - some of the lessons we ve learned in the Gulf6 - to create another regular source or supply of oil.Canada already is one our largest oil exporters , or that- swe import from Canada. These tar sands, there are som

11、e environmental questions about how destructive they are, potentially, what are the dangers there, and we ve got toexamine all those questions. It s the same thing with natural gas here in Pennsylvania. Everybody has been hearing about the whole fracking issue, right?Now, natural gas is a clean, rel

12、atively 7 clean energy. It s afossil fuel, but it burns pretty clean. But we ve got to makesure that as we re extracting it mfrothe ground, that thechemicals that are being used don t leach 8 into thewater. Nobody is an environmentalist until you get sick. Andit turns out, well, gosh, why didn t som

13、ebody tell me thatthis might affect the water that we drink or the air that webreathe, or what have you? So we ve got to do somescience there to make sure that the natural gas that we havein this country, we re extracting in a safe wTahye. samething is true when it comes to oil that s being piped in

14、 fromCanada, or Alaska for that matter. We just got to do these evaluations 9 , and we re always trying to do that based onthe science. All right?Let me see. Let s go right here in the glasses. Yes.Q Hey, Mr. President. Welcome back.THE PRESIDENT: Great to be back.Q My children - I have seven of my

15、children and eight grandchildren. I was just wondering, like, what are we going to do about their education? Because we re (inaudible) cutting this school, we re cutting five schoolsc,hsoixolshere and all. I mean, that s our futureIf. we re cutting their heads off, then where are we going to be in 3

16、0 or 40 years?THE PRESIDENT: It s a great question. Can I just ask before I answer, though, is there some rule at Gamesa that you got to have a whole bunch of kids? (Laughter.) I mean, you got 10 over here, you got seven over here. Golly. (Laughter.)Look, the single most important determinant of how

17、 we do asan economy is going to be how educated our workforce 10is. That s our biggest competitive advantage, is havingworkers who are skilled. (Applause.) If we ve got the best scientists, if we ve got the best engineers, if we ve gobest mathematicians 11 , if we ve got workers who knowhow to - as

18、they do here at Gamesa - to use high-tech 12 equipment, that s what s going to be our advantage.Like I said, we re not going to win the race just by driving our wages down, because we ll never win that racIem. ean,China doesn t even have the lowest wages now. Some6companies are now moving to the nex

19、t country that lower wages than China, because Chinas gots economy is starting to grow. There s always going to be some country out there with lower wages. But we can out-educate anybody. (Applause.) And we used to have - we used to have the best education system in the world. We used to have the nu

20、mber one percentage of college graduates in the world. We don t anymore. Our kids used to do the best on math and science exams; now we re like ninth, 12th21st. And that means that other countries are going to pass us by.This is why even in these tough budget times, where we need to cut the things t

21、hat we don t need, we cant stopinvesting in education. We can t stop investing in education. (Applause.) I put forward my budget proposal for next year, and almost every department I cut. Onedepartment I didnt-ceudt ucation. I did not cuteducation, I actually increased our investment in education. (

22、Applause.)Now, money is not the only thing that makes a good school, so we ve also got to reform our schools. Some schools are not structured to make sure kids learn. There are schools out there where they ve got enough money, but for whatever reason - most of the time they re in pogorhbnoerihoods,b

23、ut part of it is also that the teachers, the principals, et cetera, they re not working together in as effective a way with the parents and the community to make sure that there are high expectations for the kids and everybody is performing.re going to put more moneySo what we ve said is, yes, wein

24、the schools, but were also going to reform theve-d-ownheaitsschools. And part of the money that we we ve done is we ve carved out some of this money and we ve said, instead of it jus t going to every school district based on some formula, we want you to compete forit. Come up with a plan explaining

25、how you re going toreform our education system; how you re going to makesure there are high standards for every kid; how you regoing t o get the best teachers; how you re going to trainand retain those teachers; how you re going to make sureAnd itthat the schools are accountable. And if you do those

26、 things, we re going to give you a little bit of extra money.gives an incentive 13（ 動 機，刺激）for every state andevery school district to start looking at what they re doto see if they re using the best practices possible to educateour kids. So that s on the K through 12 level. 文章重點單詞 注 釋 ：1tarn.柏油，焦油；

27、vt.涂或澆柏油/焦油于 參考例句：The roof was covered with tar. 屋 頂 涂抹了一層瀝 青。We use tar to make roads. 我 們 用 瀝 青 鋪 路。 2 dissent n./v. 不同意，持異議參考例句：It is too late now to make any dissent. 現(xiàn) 在提出異議 太晚了。He felt her shoulders gave a wriggle of dissent. 他感到她的肩膀因為 不同意而 動 了一下。 3 essentially adv. 本 質 上， 實質 上，基本上9參考例句：Really

28、 great men are essentially modest. 真正的 偉 人大都很謙 虛。She is an essentially selfish person. 她本 質 上是個自私自利的人。4pipelinen.管道，管線參考例句：The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.該 管道供 給約 旦 15% 的原油。A single pipeline serves all the houses with water. 一條 單 管路 給 所有的房 子供水。5canen.手杖，細長的莖，藤條；v.以杖擊，

29、以藤編制的參考例句：This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy. 這 甘蔗既甜又多汁。English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment. 英國小學 老 師過 去常用教鞭打男學生作為懲罰 。6gulfn.海灣；深淵，鴻溝；分歧，隔閡參考例句：The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged. 兩位 領導 人之 間 的 鴻 溝 難 以跨越。There is a gulf between the two cities. 這 兩座城市間 有

30、個海灣。7relativelyadv. 比 較 .地，相對 地參考例句：The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相對較 新引入澳大利亞 的物種。The operation was relatively painless. 手 術 相 對 來 說 不痛。8leachv.分離，過濾掉；n.過濾；過濾器參考例句：Liquid water can leach soluble materials from the interface.液 態(tài) 水能 夠 從界面溶解出可溶性物質 。They believe that the humic materials are leached from decaying plantmaterials. 他 們認為 腐植物料是從腐爛 的植物體浸瀝 而來。9evaluations估價 （ evaluation 的名 詞 復數(shù)）；賦值 ； 估 計 價 值 ； 醫(yī)學診 斷參考例句：In fact, o