双语新闻：潘基文卸任 告别联合国

Outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday bid farewell to the United Nations where he has worked for 10 years.

即将卸任的联合国秘书长潘基文于周五向联合国告别，他在那里工作了10年。

Ban said "thank you" to UN staff here at UN headquarters before his departure and encouraged them to keep working hard on UN causes and never give up.

潘在离开前对联合国总部的联合国工作人员表示“感谢”，并鼓励他们继续努力处理联合国事务，并永不放弃。

A crowd of UN officials, staff members, diplomats gathered here to see him off.

一群联合国官员、工作人员和外交官聚集在这里送他离开。

Ban told the crowd that he will join the New Year celebration at the Times Square in New York City on Saturday. He will push the button beginning the official 60-second countdown to the New Year, and call on people worldwide to take actions in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

潘告诉人们，他将于周六在纽约的时代广场参加新年庆祝活动。他将按下60秒新年倒计时的按钮，并呼吁全世界的人们采取行动支持可持续发展目标(SDGs)。

"Millions of people will be watching as I lose my job," he quipped. "Now I feel a bit like Cinderella. Tomorrow at midnight, everything changes."

“数百万人将会看着我失去工作，”他打趣道。“现在我觉得有点像灰姑娘，明天午夜，一切都要变了”。

Ban’s tenure as the eighth UN secretary-general started on Jan. 1, 2007 and will end on Dec. 31, 2016.

潘是联合国第八任秘书长，任期于2007年1月1日开始，将于2016年12月31日结束。

Portugal’s Antonio Guterres will succeed Ban on Jan. 1, 2017.

葡萄牙的安东尼奥.古特雷斯将于2017年1月1日接任潘基文的职务。