23. Commencement Address by Hilary Clinton at New York University

23. 希拉里在紐約大學畢業典禮的演講

As Secretary of State, I am well aware of the challenges that we face, You, as new graduates, and your generation will be up against those challenges: climate change and hunger, extreme poverty and extreme ideologies, new diseases and nuclear proliferation, But I am absolutely convinced that you and we are up to the task There is no problem we face here in America or around the world that will not yield to human effort, to cooperation, to positive interdependence that makes clear humanity is going on, our challenges are ones that summon the best of us, and we will make the world better tomorrow than it is today.

作為國務卿，我十分清楚我們面臨的各項挑戰。作為新的畢業生，你們和你們這一代人將面對這樣的挑戰：氣候變化和饑餓、赤貧和極端主義的意識形態、新的疾病和核擴散。但我深信，你們和我們能夠勝任這樣的任務。我們在美國和整個世界所面臨的各種問題，都能夠通過人們的努力、合作和積極的相互依賴得到解決，而這種相互依賴表明，人類社會正在繼續前進。挑戰將激發我們最好的一面，我們將把明天的世界變得比今天更加美好。

Now, I know that it is fashionable in commencement speeches to be idealistic, and that may sound so, but at the root of my conviction is a strong sense of reality. Because you see, I don't think we have a choice. We can sit on the sidelines, we can wring our hands, we can retreat intocynicism, and we know what the results will be: We will cede the field to those whose ideologies are absolutely anathema to people of conscience and faith all over the world. So our positive interdependence, which is a fact will prepare us to meet these challenges. But they can no longer be seen just as government-to-government. There is a time and an opportunity, and with the new technologies available, for us to be citizen diplomats, citizen activists, to solve problems one by one that will give in to hard work, patience, and persistence, and will then aggregate to the solutions we seek.

我知道，在畢業典禮上作理想化的演說是當前的時尚，聽起來也許很理想化，但我的信念深處有一種強烈的現實感。因為你們知道，我認為我們別無選擇。我們可以袖手旁觀，我們可以束手無策，我們可以采取悲觀懷疑的態度，但我們知道這樣做會產生什么樣的結采:我們會把陣地拱手讓給那些其意識形態為世界上所有有良知和信仰者所不齒的人。因此，我們之間積極的相互依賴——這是一個事實——將使我們為應對這些挑戰做好準備、但這不能再被僅僅視作政府與政府之間的事情。隨著新技術的不斷涌現，我們有時間和機會成為公民外交家、公民活動家，通過辛勤工作、耐心和毅力一個一個地解決問題，逐步積累成我們所尋求的解決方案。

Now, I know we cannot send a special envoy to negotiate with a pandemic, or call a summit with carbon dioxide, or sever relations with the global financial crisis. To confront these threats and to seize the opportunities that they also present, we need to build new partnerships from the bottom up, and to use every tool at our disposal. That is the heart of smart power. But smart power requires smart people, people who have gone the distance for their education, who have opened themselves up to this increasingly complex and interconnected world, and this changing global landscape requires us to expand our concept of diplomacy.
 

我知道我們不能派特使與大規模流行的疾病進行談判，不能與二氧化碳召開高峰會，也不能與全球金融危機斷絕關系。妥抗擊這些威脅并抓住這些威脅提供的機遇，我們需要自下而上地建立新的伙伴關系，利用手中可以利用的一切手段。這就是巧實力的實質。但巧實力來自精明的人，接受過良好教育的人，向日益復雜、相互關聯的世界開放的人，而不斷變化的全球場景妥求我們必須擴大我們的外交概念。

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