Audrey Hepburn speech to the United Nations in 1989: for the children

奧黛麗•赫本簡(jiǎn)介

奧黛麗•赫本常常被人稱作是“降臨人間的天使”，這不僅僅是因?yàn)樗贻p時(shí)清麗脫俗的外表，演藝圈的輝煌燦爛，還因?yàn)樗哂幸活w善良的心。赫本一生中共獲得五次奧斯卡最佳女主角提名。1999年，她被美國(guó)電影學(xué)會(huì)評(píng)為“百年來(lái)最偉大的女演員”第三位。2002年5月，聯(lián)合國(guó)兒童基金會(huì)在其紐約總部為一尊7英尺高的青銅雕像揭幕，雕像名字為奧黛麗精神（The Spirit of Audrey），以表彰赫本為聯(lián)合國(guó)所做的貢獻(xiàn)。

奧黛麗•赫本（Audrey Hepburn），1929年5月4日出生于比利時(shí)布魯塞爾，英國(guó)電影和舞臺(tái)劇女演員。

1948年，赫本在一部時(shí)長(zhǎng)僅39分鐘的荷蘭風(fēng)光紀(jì)錄片《荷蘭七課》中出鏡，開(kāi)始電影生涯。

1954年，她在影片《羅馬假日》中第一次出演女主角，并獲得奧斯卡最佳女主角獎(jiǎng)。同年，她因在舞臺(tái)劇《美人魚(yú)》中的表演，獲得托尼獎(jiǎng)的最佳女主角。

1961年，她主演了電影《蒂凡尼的早餐》。1964年，她主演了歌舞片《窈窕淑女》。1989年，息影多年的奧黛麗客串出演最后一部電影《直到永遠(yuǎn)》。

晚年時(shí)，奧黛麗•赫本投身慈善事業(yè)，是聯(lián)合國(guó)兒童基金會(huì)親善大使的代表人物，為第三世界婦女與孩童爭(zhēng)取權(quán)益。1992年被授予美國(guó)“總統(tǒng)自由勛章”，1993年獲奧斯卡人道主義獎(jiǎng)。1993年1月20日，奧黛麗•赫本因乳腺癌病逝于瑞士，享年63歲。

演講英文原文：

I must say that up until a year ago, before I was given the great privilege of becoming a volunteer for UNICEF, I used to be overwhelmed by a sense of desperation and helplessness when watching television and reading about the misery of the developing world’s children and their mothers. If I feel less helpless today, it is because I have seen what is being done by UNICEF and many other marvelous organizations and agencies, by the churches, by governments and most of all, with very little help, by people themselves.

 

The effects of the monstrous burden of debt have made the poor even poorer and have fallen most heavily on the neediest, and those whom it has damaged the most have been women and children. We must do more about the alarming state in which the children in the developing world are only just surviving, especially when we know that the finances needed are minimal compared to the global expenditure of this world; when we know that less than half of one percent of today’s world economy would be the total required to eradicate the worst aspects of poverty and would meet their basic human needs over the next 10 years. In other words, there is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

 

The question I am most frequently asked is: “what do you really do for UNIGEF?” Clearly, my task is to inform, to create awareness of the needs of children. To fully understand the problems of the state of the world’s children, it would be nice to be an expert on education, economies, ...politics, religions, traditions and culture. I am none of these things, but I am a mother.

 

There is, unhappily, a need for great advocacy for children~children haunted by undernourishment, disease and death, and you don’t have to be a financial whiz to look into so many little faces with diseases, glazed eyes to know that this is the result of critical malnutrition. One of the worst symptoms of which is Vitamin A deficiency that causes comeal lesions resulting in partial or total blindness followed within a few weeks by death. Every year there are as many as 500,000 such cases in countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, and Ethiopia. Today there are in fact millions of children at risk of going blind. Little wonder that I and many other UNICEF volunteers travel the world to raise funds before it is too late, but also to raise awareness and to combat a different kind of darkness-a darkness people find themselves in through lack of information on how easy it is to reach out and help these children.

 

I have known UNICEF a long time. For almost 45 years ago, I was one of the tens of thousands of starving children in war-ravaged Europe to receive aid from UNICEF immediately after our liberation that freed us from hunger, repression and constant violence, when we were reduced to near total poverty as is the developing world today. For it is poverty that is at the root of all their suffering—the not having- not having the means to help themselves. That is what UNICEF is all about, helping people to help themselves. Giving them the aid to develop. Thereby allowing them to become self-reliant and live in dignity.

 

Unlike droughts or floods or earthquakes, the tragedy of poverty cannot easily be captured by the media and brought to the attention of the world-wide public. It is happening not in any one particular place, but in slums and shanties and neglected rural communities across two continents. It is happening not at any one particular time, but over long years of increasing poverty which have not been featured in the nightly news but which have changed the lives of many millions of people.

 

UNICEF’s business is children, not the workings of the international economy. In its every-day work in over 100 developing nations UNICEF is brought up against a face of today’s international economic problems which is not seen in the corridors of financial power, not reflected in the statistics of debt service ratios, not seated at the conference tables of debt negotiations. It is in the face of a child. It is the young child whose growing mind and body is susceptible to permanent damage from even temporary deprivation. The human brain and body are formed within the first five years of life and there is no second chance. It is the young child whose individual development today and whose social contribution tomorrow are being shaped by the economics of now. It is the young child who is paying the highest of all prices.

 

There is so much we cannot do. We cannot give the children back their parents, but we can return them the most basic of human rights, the right to health, to tenderness, to life. Thank you.

廈門(mén)演講稿翻譯-廈門(mén)名人證件翻譯-廈門(mén)論文翻譯-廈門(mén)文學(xué)翻譯-廈門(mén)英語(yǔ)翻譯公司-廈門(mén)英語(yǔ)翻譯-廈門(mén)英譯中翻譯-廈門(mén)項(xiàng)目翻譯—廈門(mén)有資質(zhì)的翻譯公司，廈門(mén)中國(guó)翻譯協(xié)會(huì)金牌提供商，廈門(mén)美國(guó)翻譯協(xié)會(huì)會(huì)員，廈門(mén)翻譯公司哪家好 就找廈門(mén)譯語(yǔ)翻譯

中文譯文如下：

我必須承認(rèn)就在一年前，也就是我有幸成為聯(lián)合國(guó)兒童基金組織志愿者之前， 每當(dāng)我在電視和報(bào)紙上獲悉發(fā)展中國(guó)家兒童和母親的悲慘境遇時(shí)，我都會(huì)沉浸在巨大的絕望和無(wú)助之中。如果說(shuō)現(xiàn)在我不會(huì)感到那么無(wú)助了，那是因?yàn)槲铱吹搅寺?lián)合國(guó)兒童基金組織及其他偉大組織、教會(huì)、政府都在努力幫助他們，更重要的是人們?cè)谝宰约何⒈〉牧α颗M(jìn)行著自助。

 

沉重的債務(wù)負(fù)擔(dān)重重地壓在了那些最需要我們幫助的人肩上，它使得窮人愈窮，但最終飽受摧殘、傷害最大的往往是婦女和兒童。我們還應(yīng)該為那些處于危機(jī) 邊緣的發(fā)展中國(guó)家的兒童做更多的事情，他們中的一些人現(xiàn)在僅僅處于能活命的狀態(tài)。尤其是當(dāng)我們了解到所需的資金與世界開(kāi)支相比微乎其微之后，其實(shí)只要拿出不到世界經(jīng)濟(jì)0.5%的資金就足以根除地球上最貧窮的狀況，滿足這些人在今后10年的基本生活需求。換句話說(shuō)，我們并不缺少人手，我們?nèi)鄙俚氖侨藗兊囊庠浮?/div>