名人演讲-口语练习：小李子关于解决气候危机的演讲

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名人演讲作为演讲类的英语素材，演讲者清晰的口语表达及其内容的写作手法都是值得我们学习借鉴的。今天的名人演讲是著名演员小李子带来的关于气候保护的演讲。请结合视频内容，开始英语学习吧！

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I stand before you not as an expert, but as a concerned citizen, one of the 400,000 people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday and the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis. 

我站在你们面前，不是以专家的身份，而是以关心此事的公民的身份，是周日在纽约街头游行的 40 万人之一，也是全世界数十亿希望解决气候危机的人之一。

As an actor, I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters, often solving fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way, as if it were a fiction, as if pretending that climate change wasn't real would somehow make it go away. But I think we all know better than that now. 

作为一名演员，我靠扮演角色谋生。我扮演虚构的角色，经常解决虚构的问题。我相信人类也以同样的方式看待气候变化，好像气候变化是虚构的，好像假装气候变化不是真的就能让它消失。但我认为我们现在都知道得更多了。

Every week, we're seeing new and undeniable climate events: evidence that accelerated climate change is here. Right now, our oceans are acidifying with methane plumes rising up from the ocean floor. We are seeing extreme weather events, and the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melting at unprecedented rates, decades ahead of scientific projections. None of this is rhetoric, and none of it is hysteria. It is fact. 

每周，我们都会看到新的、不可否认的气候事件：有证据表明气候变化正在加速。目前，我们的海洋正在酸化，甲烷羽流从海底升起。我们看到极端天气事件，西南极洲和格陵兰岛的冰盖以前所未有的速度融化，比科学预测提前了几十年。这些都不是花言巧语，也不是歇斯底里。这是事实。

The scientific community knows it, industry knows it, governments know it, even the United States military knows it. The chief of the US Navy's Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Locklear, recently said that climate change is our single greatest security threat. My friends, this body, perhaps more than any other gathering in human history, now faces this difficult but achievable task. 

科学界知道这一点，工业界知道这一点，政府知道这一点，甚至美国军方也知道这一点。美国海军太平洋司令部司令塞缪尔·洛克利尔上将最近表示，气候变化是我们最大的安全威胁。朋友们，这个机构，也许比人类历史上任何其他会议都更需要面对这一困难但可以实现的任务。

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it. To be clear, this is not about just telling people to change their light bulbs or to buy a hybrid car. This disaster has grown beyond the choices that individuals make. This is now about our industries and our governments around the world taking decisive, large-scale action. 

你可以创造历史，否则你会被历史所诋毁。需要明确的是，这不仅仅是告诉人们更换灯泡或购买混合动力汽车。这场灾难已经超出了个人的选择。现在，我们的行业和世界各地的政府必须采取果断的大规模行动。

Now must be our moment for action. We need to put a price tag on carbon emissions and eliminate government subsidies for oil, coal, and gas companies. We need to end the free ride that industrial polluters have been given in the name of a free market economy. They do not deserve our tax dollars; they deserve our scrutiny, for the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse. 

现在必须是我们采取行动的时刻。我们需要给碳排放标价，并取消政府对石油、煤炭和天然气公司的补贴。我们需要结束以自由市场经济的名义给予工业污染者的免费待遇。他们不值得我们纳税；他们值得我们审查，因为如果我们的生态系统崩溃，经济本身就会消亡。

The good news is that renewable energy is not only achievable but good economic policy. This is not a partisan debate; it is a human one. Clean air and a livable climate are inalienable human rights, and solving this crisis is not a question of politics; it is a question of our own survival. This is the most urgent of times, and the most urgent of messages. 

好消息是，可再生能源不仅是可以实现的，而且是良好的经济政策。这不是党派之争，而是人类之争。洁净的空气和宜居的气候是不可剥夺的人权，解决这场危机不是政治问题，而是我们自身生存的问题。这是最紧迫的时代，也是最紧迫的信息。

Honored leaders of the world, I pretend for a living, but you do not. The people made their voices heard on Sunday around the world, and momentum will not stop. But now it is your turn. The time to answer Humankind's greatest challenge is now. We beg of you to face it with courage and honesty. Thank you.

尊敬的世界领导人，我假装谋生，但你们不是。周日，全世界人民发出了自己的声音，势头不会停止。但现在轮到你们了。现在是回答人类最大挑战的时候了。我们恳求你们勇敢而诚实地面对它。谢谢。

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