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Let me make a request of the deans and the professors – the intellectual leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please ask yourselves:
请允许我向各位院长和教授，提出一个请求——你们是哈佛的智力领袖，当你们雇用新的老师、授予终身教职、评估课程、决定学位颁发标准的时候，请问你们自己如下的问题：
Should our best minds be more dedicated to solving our biggest problems?
我们最优秀的人才是否在致力于解决我们最大的问题？
Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world’s worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty … the prevalence of world hunger … the scarcity of clean water …the girls kept out of school … the children who die from diseases we can cure?
哈佛是否鼓励她的老师去研究解决世界上最严重的不平等？哈佛的学生是否从全球那些极端的贫穷中学到了什么……世界性的饥荒……清洁的水资源的缺乏……无法上学的女童……死于非恶性疾病的儿童……哈佛的学生有没有从中学到东西？
Should the world’s most privileged people learn about the lives of the world’s least privileged?
那些世界上过着最优越生活的人们，有没有从那些最困难的人们身上学到东西？
These are not rhetorical questions – you will answer with your policies.
这些问题并非语言上的修辞。你必须用自己的行动来回答它们。
make a request of sb
向某人提出请求
1.Can I make a really small request of you?
我能不能向你提个小小的要求？
2.He had made that strange request of me.
他对我提出了这样一个奇怪的要求，
- You can make a written request to the company which you want to join in
你可以给你想加入的公司发一个书面请求。
be dedicated to
献身于
1.I will be dedicated to help you, you're welcome to come.
我公司将热诚为您服务，欢迎您的到来。
2.It 's dangerous to be dedicated to money
献身于金钱是很危险的。
3.This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother.
谨以此书献给我已故的母亲。
keep out of
避开
1.You 'd better keep out of the pessimist
你最好远离悲观主义者。
2.I thought I told you to keep out of my sight.
我想我说过，不要让我看见你。
3.I told him to keep out of the place.
我告诉他远离那个地方。
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