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To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who"ve been honored by this prize. Men and women, who"ve inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace, but I also know that this prize reflects the kind of world that those men and women, and all Americans want to build a world that gives life to the promise of our founding documents.

And I know that throughout history, the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement, it"s also been used as a means to give more momentum to a set of causes. And that is why I will accept the award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.These challenges can"t be met by any one leader or any one nation.CAnd that"s why my administration has worked to establish a new era of engagement in which all nations must take the responsibility for the world we seek.We can not tolerate a world in which nuclear weapons spread in more nations, and in which the terror of a nuclear holocaust endangers more people.

That"s why we"ve begun to take concrete steps to pursue a world without nuclear weapons because all the nations have the right to pursue peaceful nuclear power, but all nations have the responsibility to demonstrate their peaceful intentions.

难点重点,一目了然!

长难句解析Sentence Structures

ASo it"s good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

所以有孩子帮助清醒是好事。

in perspective 适当。例如:The weakness must be kept in perspective.必须正确地对待弱点。

BI am both surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel committee, let me be clear, I do not view it as recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations.

诺贝尔奖委员会的决定让我惊讶,又让我深深地感动。我要说明的是我认为这不是对我个人成就的表彰,而是对美国在实现所有国家人民愿望中所发挥的领导力的肯定。

句中有not……rather的结构,表示不是……而是;let me be clear是句中的插入语,表示让我说明。

CAnd that"s why my administration has worked to establish a new era of engagement in which all nations must take the responsibility for the world we seek.

本届政府致力于创建一个互相往来的新时代,一个所有国家必须为我们所追求的世界承担责任的时代。

take the responsibility for承担责任。例如:They must take full responsibility for the consequences.他们必须对后果承担全部责任。

18.Always on the Side of the Egg(1)永远在鸡蛋的这边(1)

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今日关键语导读Today"s Key Points

2009年日本作家村上春树获得了耶路撒冷文学奖,这是对他作品的高度评价,因为他的作品是对人类爱的深深尊重,在他的演讲词中,他提到了鸡蛋与墙的比喻,他想向我们说明什么呢?

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Good evening.I have come to Jerusalem today as a novelist, which is to say as a professional spinner of lies.

Today, however, I have no intention of lying. I will try to be as honest as I can.AThere are only a few days in the year when I do not engage in telling lies, and today happens to be one of them.

Please do allow me to deliver a message, one very personal message. It is something that I always keep in mind while I am writing fiction.I have never gone so far as to write it on a piece of paper and paste it to the wall:rather, it is carved into the wall of my mind, and it goes something like this:“Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.”

Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong;perhaps time or history will do it.But if there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works be?

What is the meaning of this metaphor?In some cases, it is all too simple and clear. Bombers and tanks and rockets and white phosphorus shells are that high wall.The eggs are the unarmed civilians who are crushed and burned and shot by them.This is one meaning of the metaphor.

But this is not all. It carries a deeper meaning.Think of it this way.Each of us is, more or less, an egg.Each of us is a unique, irreplaceable soul enclosed in a fragile shell.BThis is true of me, and it is true of each of you.And each of us, to a greater or lesser degree, is confronting a high, solid wall.The wall has a name:it is“The System.”CThe System is supposed to protect us, but sometimes it takes on a life of its own, and then it begins to kill us and cause us to kill others—coldly, efficiently, systematically.

难点重点,一目了然!

长难句解析Sentence Structures

AThere are only a few days in the year when I do not engage in telling lies, and today happens to be one of them.

一年里仅有几天我不说谎,今天正好恰巧就是。

engage in doing表示从事某事,happen to表示恰巧。

BThis is true of me, and it is true of each of you.

这对我来说如此,对你们也一样。

be true of表示同样适用于。例如:You should obey these rules.But this is true of us.你们必须遵守这些规则,我们也一样。

CThe System is supposed to protect us, but sometimes it takes on a life of its own, and then it begins to kill us and cause us to kill others—coldly, efficiently, systematically.

体制应该保护我们,但有时,它不再受任何人所控,然后它开始杀害我们,及令我们杀害他人——无情地,高效地,系统地。

take on表示呈现。例如:Her eyes took on a hurt expression.她的眼里流露出受委屈的神情。

19.Always on the Side of the Egg(2)永远在鸡蛋的这边(2)

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总词汇量:0358词汇

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今日关键语导读Today"s Key Points

村上春树告诉我们,要学会审时度势,不要太过死板。要学会逆向思维,用超出常人的想法来应对挑战。更多关心文学与外部世界的联系,更关心文学对人类生活的意义和作用。

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好英文娓娓动听Words and Expressions

I have only one reason to write novels, and that is to bring the dignity of the individual soul to the surface and shine a light upon it.

AThe purpose of a story is to sound an alarm, to keep a light trained on the System in order to prevent it from tangling our souls in its web and demeaning them. I truly believe it is the novelist"s job to keep trying to clarify the uniqueness of each individual soul by writing stories—stories of life and death, stories of love, stories that make people cry and quake with fear and shake with laughter.This is why we go on, day after day, concocting fictions with utter seriousness.

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