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本文选自科菲·安南在千年首脑峰会上的演讲，有删减。作者科菲·安南（Kofy Annan ,1938-）生于加纳，联合国第七任秘书长，也是出身联合国工作人员而当选的第一位秘书长。安南是一位经验丰富的外交家，懂英语、法语和几种非洲语言。他就任秘书长后采取了一系列的措施“使联合国更接近人民”。2001年10月，安南与联合国同获当年诺贝尔和平奖。

Madam President(of Finland),

Mr. President(of Namibia),

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am deeply 1)________ to welcome you all.

Never before have the leaders of many nations come together in a unique assembly. This is a unique event. A unique 2）____. And therefore a unique 3)____. You, ladies and gentleman, are the leaders to whom the world’s people have entrusted their destiny .They look to you to protect them from the great dangers of our time; and to 4)______ that all of them can share in its great achievements.

In an age when human beings have learnt the code of human life, and can 5)_____ their knowledge in seconds from one continent to another, no mother in the world can understand why her child should be left to die of 6)____ or preventable disease. No one can understand why they should be driven from their home, or imprisoned or tortured for expressing their beliefs. No one can understand why the soil their parents tilled has turned to desert, or why their skills have become useless and their family is left hungry.

Your peoples look to you for a common effort to solve their problems. They expect you to work together, as governments. And they expect you to work together with all the other institutions-profit or non-profit, public and private--where human beings join hands to 7)_______ their ideas and their interests.

People want to see this happen between neighboring countries, and among all the countries of each region. But since today’s biggest challenges are global. 8) _________.

My friends, that is why we are here.9)_________, forged 55 years ago in the crucible of war, so that it can do what people expect of it in the new era-an era in which rule of law must prevail. Last month U sent you a Report, produced by a panel of experts, which makes detailed by a panel of experts, which makes detailed the crucial area of peace and security – the area where people look especially to the State, and where the world’ s peoples look to the United Nations, to save them “from the scourge of war”. Please consider that Report very seriously.

It is not only in that field, however, that the United Nations needs strengthening.10)________.

That, my friends, is what the peoples expect of us. Let us not disappoint them. Thank you.

1. Excellency n.阁下（对大使、主教、总督等职位高的人的尊称）2. entrust v.委托，托付、交托

3. destiny n.命运，定数，天命

4. malnutrition n.营养失调，营养不良

5. imprison v.监禁，关押，禁闭

6. till v.耕种，翻耕，耕作

7. crucible n.坩埚，熔炉；〈引申〉磨炼，严酷（严峻）的考验