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我感谢陆登庭校长的邀请,使我有机会在这美好的金秋时节,来到你们这座美国古老而又现代化的学府。I wish to thank Dr. Neil L. Rudenstine, President of Harvard University, for inviting me to this ancient yet modernized institution of the United States in this golden fall. c<$OA=n
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哈佛建校360年来,培养出许多杰出的政治家、科学家、文学家和企业家,曾出过6位美国总统,30多位诺贝尔奖获得者。Since its founding some 360 years ago, Harvard has nurtured a great number of outstanding statesmen, scientists, writers and businessmen, including six of the American Presidents and over thirty Nobel Prize winners. *%@h(js
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先有哈佛,后有美利坚合众国,这说明了哈佛在美国历史上的地位。The fact that Harvard was founded before the United States of America testifies to its position in the American history. U}j0D2
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哈佛是最早接受中国留学生的美国大学之一。Harvard is among the first American universities to accept Chinese students. pBA7,z"`mP
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中国教育界、科学界、文化界一直同哈佛大学保持着学术交流。The Chinese educational, scientific and cultural communities have all along maintained academic exchanges with this university. jPW#(3hoE
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哈佛为增进中美两国人民的相互了解作出了有益的贡献。Harvard has thus made useful contribution to the enhanced mutual understanding between the Chinese and American peoples. y>e.~5;
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相互了解,是发展国与国之间关系的前提。Mutual understanding is the basis for state-to-state relations. $43qME
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惟有相互了解,才能增进信任,加强合作。Without it, it would be impossible for countries to build trust and promote cooperation with each other. Y#$%iF
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中美建交以来,我们两国人民之间的相互交流与了解在逐渐扩大和加深,但还不够。Since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and the United States, the exchanges and mutual understanding between our two peoples have broadened and deepened steadily. However, this is not enough. :$BCRQ
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为了推动中美关系的发展,中国需要进一步了解美国,美国也需要进一步了解中国。To promote the development of China-U.S. relations, China needs to know the United States better and vice versa. L"*/:$EJL.
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要了解中国,可以有很多视角。To know China better, one may approach it from different angles. LsS
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现实中国是历史中国的发展。China today has been evolved from its past. r/6o \-
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中国是一个有5000年文明历史的国家,China is a country with 5,000 years of civilization. K':;%~I
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从历史文化来了解和认识中国,是一个重要的视角。It is important to approach China from a historical and cultural perspective. .j<]m
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记得我在高中读书时,老师给我们讲微积分,第一课就是讲《庄子》中的“一尺之棰,日取其半,万世不竭”,很形象地使我建立起极限的概念。I recall my first lesson on calculus in senior high school. My teacher quoted a line from Zhuang Zi, a Chinese philosopher over 2,000 years ago, which reads "Cut away half of a rod and keep on halving what is left, and there will be no end to that process." This gave me a vivid concept of limit. T\j{Bi5 \J
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这表明中国古人就已认识到事物的发展变化是无限的,也说明我们的先人对自然界的认识已达到相当的水平。It shows that the ancient Chinese realized the endless process of changes of matters and had a fairly good understanding of the nature. v4c[(&
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早在公元前2500,中国人就开始了仰观天文、俯察地理的活动,逐渐形成了“天人合一”的宇宙观。As early as in 2,500 B.C. Chinese began astronomical observation and geographical survey, and gradually formed a world outlook of an “integration of the universe and humanity.” eMY<uqdw
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中国历史上产生了许多杰出的哲学家、思想家、政治家、军事家、科学家和文学艺术家,留下了浩如烟海的文化典籍。China produced in its history many outstanding philosophers, thinkers, statesmen, strategists, scientists, writers and artists and left us numerous volumes of literature. 4DOH`6#an
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春秋战国时期出现的“百家争鸣”局面和老子、孔子等诸子百家的学说,在世界思想史上占有重要地位。The scene of “contention of a hundred schools of thought” brought forth in the Spring and Autumn Period 2,500 years ago and the Warring States Period over 2,200 years ago and the emergence of various schools of thought and their exponents such as Lao Zi and Confucius about 2,400 years ago all occupy a very important position in the world history of philosophy. wFsyD3
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古代中国在天文历法、地学、数学、农学、医学和人文科学的许多领域,都作出过独特的贡献。Ancient China made unique contributions to many areas of science including astronomy, calendric system, geography, mathematics, agriculture, medicine and the humanities. F9E<K]7K
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殷商时期的甲骨文中就有日月之食的记载。Records of solar and lunar eclipses are found in the inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty over 3,000 years ago. P.;aMRMR
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从秦代到清末的2100多年间,哈雷彗星出现27次,中国都有记录。In the 2,100 years from the Qin Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty (221 BC-1911), the 27 appearances of Halley Comet were all recorded in China.
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汉代张衡发明了测定地震方位的地动仪和演示日月星辰的浑天仪。Zhang Heng of the Han Dynasty over 1,800 years ago invented a seismograph to determine the location of earthquakes and the celestial globe that showed the movement of the sun, moon and other stars. Dhw(#{N
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先秦的数学家提出了勾股定理。Mathematicians in the pre-Qin days over 2,200 years ago put forward the proposition known as the Pythagorean theorem in the West today. "2P&X
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南北朝的祖冲之算出圆周率为3.1415926。In the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the 4th century A.D., China's mathematician Zu Chongzhi calculated the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter to be 3.1415926. -
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中国的丝织、制瓷、冶金、造船技术很早就达到世界的先进水平。China's silk weaving, porcelain making, metallurgy and shipbuilding reached the world's advanced level in ancient times. V=qwwYz~
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明代朱载首创十二平均律,后来被认定为世界通行的标准音调。In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zaiyu initiated the twelve-tone temperament which later became the universal standard tones. R)z4n
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中国的医药学在世界上独树一帜。The Chinese medicine is a unique school of its own. ;04Ldb1{|3
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特别是中国的造纸、火药、印刷术、指南针4大发明,曾经改变了世界的面貌。Particularly, China's four great inventions of paper making, gunpowder, printing and compass had once changed the face of the world. sz
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直到15世纪以前,中国的科学技术在世界上保持了千年的领先地位。China had been a world leader in science and technology for one thousand years until the 15th century. j!4et;
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中国人的这些发明创造,体现了人与自然协调发展、科学精神与道德理想相结合的理性光辉。These inventions and creations of China have brought forward the rationalistic brilliance of coordination between humanity and the nature and the integration of scientific spirit with moral ideals. 0-|b
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中国的历史文化始终处于发展进步之中。China's culture in history has never stopped developing. oiyzHx
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它是通过各种学科、各种学派的相互砥砺、相互渗透而发展的,也是通过同世界各国的相互交流、相互学习而进步的。It has enriched itself through the contention and infiltration of various disciplines and schools of thought, and also through the mutual exchanges and learning between China and other countries in the world. ;D
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中国人早就懂得兼取众长、以为己善的道理。Since old times, the Chinese people came to know full well the importance of “drawing widely upon others' strong points to improve oneself.” vR=6pl$|~~
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