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Declaration of Independence

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription[美国独立宣言]

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Michael Sheen

The Magic of a Creative Career | Michael Sheen | TED

The city of Port Talbot in South Wales is known for a few things: a steel mill, a proudly working class population and a passionate commitment to the arts that produced Hollywood superstars Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins.

Obama delivers remarks during his address to the United Nations General Assembly

奥巴马2009年在联合国大会上的发言

The United Nations was built by men and women like Roosevelt from every corner of the world — from Africa and Asia, from Europe to the Americas. These architects of international cooperation had an idealism that was anything but naïve — it was rooted in the hard-earned lessons of war; rooted in the wisdom that nations could advance their interests by acting together instead of splitting apart.

BBC地道英语 – Build something on sand

用 “在沙子上建造某物” 来比喻 “事物基础薄弱或没有基础”。虽然它可以描述 “建筑物等有形的事物根基不稳固”,但往往多用来指 “论点或想法毫无根据”,多用于被动语态中,即 “be built on sand”。

Taylor Swift at NYU‘s 2022 Commencement

泰勒·斯威夫特在纽约大学2022年春季毕业典礼上的演讲

We are led by our gut instincts, our intuition, our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams. And you will screw it up sometimes. So will I. And when I do, you will most likely read about on the internet. Anyway…hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it.

BBC地道英语 – Make or break

意思是 “不成则败,成败在此一举”,用来谈论 “关乎某件事情结果成败的关键时刻、决定或时间点,比如一个重要的工作项目”。

William Lyon Phelps in 1895

The Pleasure of Books by William Lyon Phelps

William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) was an American educator, literary critic and author. He served as a professor of English at Yale University from 1901 to 1933. His works include Advance of the English Novel and Essays on Modern Dramatists. On April 6, 1933, he delivered this speech during a radio broadcast.

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