英语美文名人励志故事43:科菲·安南发表诺贝尔和平奖演讲（I）的故事
43. Kofi Annan: The Speech by the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize Winner (I)
43. 科菲·安南诺贝尔和平奖演讲(I)
No one today is unaware of this divide between the world's rich and poor. No one today can claim ignorance of the cost that this divide imposes on the poor and dispossessed who are no less deserving of human dignity fundamental freedoms, security, food and education than any of us. The cost, however, is not borne by them alone. Ultimately, it is borne by all of us, north and south, rich and poor, men and women of all races and religions.
今天，谁都知道世界上这种富人与穷人之间的差别，谁也都知道这种差别给穷人和被剥夺财产者所带来的苦楚，而他们和我们同样应该享有尊严、基本自由、安全、食物和教育。然而，这种苦楚不是完全由他们来承受的。最终，这种苦楚将由我们所有人北方和南方、富人和穷人、所有种族和宗教的男人和女人一起承受。
Today's real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered privileged and humiliate Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another.
今天真正的边界并非在国家之间，而是在有权者与无权者、自由者与失去自由者、尊贵者和卑微者之间。今天，没有一堵墙能将世界上一个地区发生的人道主义和人权危机和另一地区的国家安全危机完全隔开。
Scientists tell us that the world of nature is so small and interdependent that a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest can generate a violent storm on the other side of the earth. This principle is known as the "Butterfly Effect". Today, we realize, perhaps more than ever, that the world of human activity also has its own "Butterf1y Effect" for better or for worse.
科学家告诉我们，自然界是如此之小和相互依存，亚马列、雨林里一只蝴蝶扇动它的翅膀，就能在地球的另一面引起一场猛烈的风暴。这个原理就是所谓的“蝴蝶效应”。今天，我们也许比以往更清楚地认识到，人类活动的世界，无论是好是坏，也有自己的“蝴蝶效应”。
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