第一篇：潘基文世界水日致辭（精選）

Water is the source of life and the link that binds all living beings on this planet.It is connected directly to all our United Nations goals: improved maternal and child health and life expectancy, women's empowerment, food security, sustainable development and climate change adaptation and mitigation.Recognition of these links led to the declaration of 2005-2015 as the International Decade for Action “Water for Life”.水是生命之源，也是維系地球上所有生命的紐帶。水直接關系到我們聯合國的各項目標：改善孕產婦和兒童健康和提高預期壽命、增強婦女力量、糧食安全、可持續發展以及適應和減緩氣候變化。正是因為認識到這些聯系才宣布2005-2015年為“生命之水”國際行動十年。

學習：

順譯

1.Link 后為定語，定語前置

Linke 譯為紐帶。

2.Living beings 生命

3.It 代替water，被動變主動

4.Goal 后面同位語，解釋目標，分譯

5.Maternal： 孕產婦

6.Empowerment 力量

增詞：提高預期壽命，增強婦女力量

7.Mitigation 減緩

Adaption mitigation 轉換詞性。名詞——動詞

8.The declaration of 抽象名詞變動詞

9.Recognition of these links led to the

正是因為認識到才??（注意翻譯方法）

Our indispensable water resources have proven themselves to be greatly resilient, but they are increasingly vulnerable and threatened.Our growing population's need for water for food, raw materials and energy is increasingly competing with nature's own demands for water to sustain already imperiled ecosystems and the services on which we depend.Day after day, we pour millions of tons of untreated sewage and industrial and agricultural wastes into the world's water systems.Clean water has become scarce and will become even scarcer with the onset of climate change.And the poor continue to suffer first and most from pollution, water shortages and the lack of adequate sanitation.我們不可缺少的水資源確實具有巨大的復原力，但它們越來越脆弱也日趨受到威脅。不斷增長的人口對食物、原材料和能源用水的需求與大自然本身對維持瀕危生態系統和繼續提供我們賴以生存的服務的水量需求之間競爭日趨激烈。人類每天都向世界各水系中傾倒千百萬噸未經處理的污水以及工業和農業廢物。清潔飲水已經成為稀缺資源，而且隨著氣候變化的到來將變得更加稀缺。窮人將首當其沖地受到污染、缺水和缺乏適當衛生條件的影響。

學習：

注意語序調整

1.Resilient 復原力

2.Indispensable 不可缺少的3.Have proven themselves to be greatly resilient 確實具有巨大的復原力（減譯？prove themselves都省略了？）

4.need for water for ??對?..水的需求（一開始看錯了，以為水和后面是并列的呢。）

5.A compete B A 與B之間的競爭 increasingly競爭日益激烈

6.and the services on which we depend 這里省略了water？

7.Onset 1.開始，開端，發生，肇始（尤指不快的事件）2.攻擊,襲擊3.【醫】發病

8.First and most 首當其沖

9.Suffer 根據句子上下文來譯，這里是影響。

The theme of this year's World Water Day, “Clean Water for a Healthy World”, emphasizes that both the quality and the quantity of water resources are at risk.More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war.These deaths are an affront to our common humanity, and undermine the efforts of many countries to achieve their development potential.今年世界水日的主題是“保障清潔水源，創造健康世界”，強調水資源質量和數量都面臨威脅。因飲用不衛生的水而死亡的人數超過了包括戰爭在內等一切形式暴力的死亡人數。這些死亡是對我們共同人性的侮辱，也破壞了許多國家充分發揮發展潛力的努力。

學習：

1.Clean Water for a Healthy World：保障清潔水源，創造健康世界（我永遠想不出來這么翻譯）

2.at risk 有危險，面臨威脅

3.die from死于 柯林斯顯示后跟of和from是一樣的。

Die：

When someone dies as a result of a disease or injury, you can say that they die of the disease or injury or die from it.An old woman dying of cancer was taken into hospital.His first wife died from cancer in 1971.He died of a heart attack....a man who died from a suspected heart attack.Many of the injured sailors died of their wounds.Simon Martin died from brain injuries caused by blows to the head.You do not use any preposition except `of' or `from' after die in sentences like these.See also entry at dead.(c)HarperCollins Publishers.4.affrontn冒犯，侮辱affront to

5.humanity 人性

The world has the know-how to solve these challenges and become better stewards of our water resources.Water is central to all our development goals.As we mark the mid-point of the International Decade for Action, and look forward to this year's MDG Summit, let us protect and sustainably manage our waters for the poor, the vulnerable and for all life on Earth.世界已掌握解決這些難題的專門技能，能夠更好地管理水資源。水對于我們的所有發展目標都至關重要。現在，該國際行動十年已為期過半，我們期待今年舉行千年發展目標首腦會議，讓我們保護水資源并對之進行可持續的管理，以增進窮人和弱勢群體的利益，保護地球上的所有生命。

學習：

1.know-how 1.<口>技術2.實際知識;技能;本事;竅門

knowledge, practical ability, or skill to do something:

those who have the know-how to exploit the technology to the fullest

the know-how needed by today's practising lawyer

No other company had thetechnical know-howto deal with the disaster.2.steward 這個詞應該是指人，但是這里他翻譯成掌握

3.central 至關重要

4.mid-point 中點

5.mark 省略了？

6.MDG Summit 千年發展目標首腦會議

7.for the poor, the vulnerable and for all life on Earth.以增進窮人和弱勢群體的利益，保護地球上的所有生命。（注意翻譯增詞）

1評分人數

第二篇：聯合國秘書長潘基文2010年世界水日致辭

聯合國秘書長潘基文2010年世界水日致辭

MESSAGE ON WORLD WATER DAY

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

New York, 22 March 2010

聯合國秘書長潘基文2010年世界水日致辭

紐約 2010年4月22日

Water is the source of life and the link that binds all living beings on this planet.It is connected directly to all our United Nations goals: improved maternal and child health and life expectancy, women's

empowerment, food security, sustainable development and climate change adaptation and mitigation.Recognition of these links led to the

declaration of 2005-2015 as the International Decade for Action “Water for Life”.水是生命之源，也是維系地球上所有生命的紐帶。水直接關系到我們聯合國的各項目標：改善孕產婦和兒童健康和提高預期壽命、增強婦女力量、糧食安全、可持續發展以及適應和減緩氣候變化。正是因為認識到這些聯系才宣布2005-2015年為“生命之水”國際行動十年。

Our indispensable water resources have proven themselves to be greatly resilient, but they are increasingly vulnerable and threatened.Our growing population's need for water for food, raw materials and energy is increasingly competing with nature's own demands for water to sustain already imperiled ecosystems and the services on which we depend.Day after day, we pour millions of tons of untreated sewage and industrial and agricultural wastes into the world's water systems.Clean water has become scarce and will become even scarcer with the onset of climate change.And the poor continue to suffer first and most from pollution, water shortages and the lack of adequate sanitation.我們不可缺少的水資源確實具有巨大的復原力，但它們越來越脆弱也日趨受到威脅。不斷增長的人口對食物、原材料和能源用水的需求與大自然本身對維持瀕危生態系統和繼續提供我們賴以生存的服務的水量需求之間競爭日趨激烈。人類每天都向世界各水系中傾倒千百萬噸未經處理的污水以及工業和農業廢物。清潔飲水已經成為稀缺資源，而且隨著氣候變化的到來將變得更加稀缺。窮人將首當其沖地受到污染、缺水和缺乏適當衛生條件的影響。

The theme of this year's World Water Day, “Clean Water for a Healthy World”, emphasizes that both the quality and the quantity of water resources are at risk.More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war.These deaths are an affront to our common humanity, and undermine the efforts of many countries to achieve their development potential.今年世界水日的主題是“保障清潔水源，創造健康世界”，強調水資源質量和數量都面臨威脅。因飲用不衛生的水而死亡的人數超過了包括戰爭在內等一切形式暴力的死亡人數。這些死亡是對我們共同人性的侮辱，也破壞了許多國家充分發揮發展潛力的努力。

The world has the know-how to solve these challenges and become better stewards of our water resources.Water is central to all our development goals.As we mark the mid-point of the International Decade for Action, and look forward to this year's MDG Summit, let us protect and sustainably manage our waters for the poor, the vulnerable and for all life on Earth.世界已掌握解決這些難題的專門技能，能夠更好地管理水資源。水對于我們的所有發展目標都至關重要。現在，該國際行動十年已為期過半，我們期待今年舉行千年發展目標首腦會議，讓我們保護水資源并對之進行可持續的管理，以增進窮人和弱勢群體的利益，保護地球上的所有生命。

第三篇：聯合國秘書長潘基文2010年世界水日致辭

MESSAGE ON WORLD WATER DAY UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

New York, 22 March 2010 聯合國秘書長潘基文2010年世界水日致辭

紐約 2010年4月22日

Water is the source of life and the link that binds all living beings on this planet.It is connected directly to all our United Nations goals: improved maternal and child health and life expectancy, women's empowerment, food security, sustainable development and climate change adaptation and mitigation.Recognition of these links led to the declaration of 2005-2015 as the International Decade for Action “Water for Life”.水是生命之源，也是維系地球上所有生命的紐帶。水直接關系到我們聯合國的各項目標：改善孕產婦和兒童健康和提高預期壽命、增強婦女力量、糧食安全、可持續發展以及適應和減緩氣候變化。正是因為認識到這些聯系才宣布2005-2015年為“生命之水”國際行動十年。

Our indispensable water resources have proven themselves to be greatly resilient, but they are increasingly vulnerable and threatened.Our growing population's need for water for food, raw materials and energy is increasingly competing with nature's own demands for water to sustain already imperiled ecosystems and the services on which we depend.Day after day, we pour millions of tons of untreated sewage and industrial and agricultural wastes into the world's water systems.Clean water has become scarce and will become even scarcer with the onset of climate change.And the poor continue to suffer first and most from pollution, water shortages and the lack of adequate sanitation.我們不可缺少的水資源確實具有巨大的復原力，但它們越來越脆弱也日趨受到威脅。不斷增長的人口對食物、原材料和能源用水的需求與大自然本身對維持瀕危生態系統和繼續提供我們賴以生存的服務的水量需求之間競爭日趨激烈。人類每天都向世界各水系中傾倒千百萬噸未經處理的污水以及工業和農業廢物。清潔飲水已經成為稀缺資源，而且隨著氣候變化的到來將變得更加稀缺。窮人將首當其沖地受到污染、缺水和缺乏適當衛生條件的影響。

The theme of this year's World Water Day, “Clean Water for a Healthy World”, emphasizes that both the quality and the quantity of water resources are at risk.More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war.These deaths are an affront to our common humanity, and undermine the efforts of many countries to achieve their development potential.今年世界水日的主題是“保障清潔水源，創造健康世界”，強調水資源質量和數量都面臨威脅。因飲用不衛生的水而死亡的人數超過了包括戰爭在內等一切形式暴力的死亡人數。這些死亡是對我們共同人性的侮辱，也破壞了許多國家充分發揮發展潛力的努力。

The world has the know-how to solve these challenges and become better stewards of our water resources.Water is central to all our development goals.As we mark the mid-point of the International Decade for Action, and look forward to this year's MDG Summit, let us protect and sustainably manage our waters for the poor, the vulnerable and for all life on Earth.世界已掌握解決這些難題的專門技能，能夠更好地管理水資源。水對于我們的所有發展目標都至關重要。現在，該國際行動十年已為期過半，我們期待今年舉行千年發展目標首腦會議，讓我們保護水資源并對之進行可持續的管理，以增進窮人和弱勢群體的利益，保護地球上的所有生命。

第四篇：潘基文-2010世界老年日致辭

UN Secretary-General's Message on the International Day of Older Persons New York, 1 October 2010

聯合國秘書長潘基文在2010年國際老年人日的獻詞

2010年10月1日

This Day marks the twentieth anniversary of the International Day of Older Persons.Older persons play an invaluable role in all societies--as leaders, caregivers and volunteers – yet are also vulnerable to discrimination, abuse, neglect and violence.今天是國際老年人日二十周年紀念日。作為領袖、照顧者和志愿人員，老年人在所有社會中發揮寶貴的作用。然而，他們也很容易遭受歧視、虐待、冷落和暴力行為。

The United Nations has long fought for the rights and well-being of older persons, and to make their voices heard.On this year's observance, we celebrate hard-won achievements, especially those related to the Millennium Development Goals.In many countries older persons have benefited from reduced rates of poverty and hunger, improved access to medicines and health services, and greater education and work opportunities.聯合國一直為爭取老年人的權利和幸福而長期奮斗，并使他們呼聲得到傾聽。在今年紀念活動中，我們慶祝得來不易的成就，特別是與千年發展目標有關的成就。很多國家的老年人因貧窮和饑餓率降低、更易獲得醫藥和保健服務和有更多的教育工作機會而受益。

Yet, progress has been uneven, as it has been for the MDGs overall in all countries and regions.For example, in those countries hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic, it is often grandparents who are left to care for AIDS orphans.In sub-Saharan Africa, 20 per cent of rural women aged 60 and older are the sole supporters for their grandchildren.These caregivers, who take on added and often unexpected responsibilities, typically with little or none of the necessary resources, desperately need social services, especially social pensions, so that they and their families have a chance for life beyond mere survival.然而，就像所有國家和區域的整體千年發展目標方面的進展不均勻那樣，這方面的進展也一直不均勻。例如在受到艾滋病大流行病打擊最嚴重的國家，到頭來照

顧艾滋病孤兒的往往是祖父母。在撒哈拉以南非洲，60歲和60歲以上的農村婦女有20%是她們孫輩的唯一撫養者。這些照顧者負起額外和往往是突如其來的責任，一般獲得的所需資源不多或根本沒有資源，迫切需要社會服務特別是社會養恤金，以便讓她們及其家屬有機會過上除了掙扎生存以外的較佳生活。

The number and proportion of older persons is growing rapidly.In the past three decades their numbers have doubled.By 2050, the global population of older persons will total two billion– a significant shift in the world's demographic profile, with implications for us all.老年人人數和比例正在迅速增加。在過去30年中，他們的人數翻了一番。到2050年，全球老年人人口總數將達20億，大大改變了世界人口面貌，對我們大家都產生影響。

On this International Day, I call on governments to do more to address the needs of older persons.The key interventions are well-known: granting universal access to social services;increasing the number and worth of pension plans;and creating laws and policies that prevent age and gender discrimination in the workplace.With five years left before the 2015 MDG deadline, it is time for governments everywhere to institute the financial, legal and social protections that will lift millions of older persons out of poverty and ensure their rights to dignified, productive and healthy lives.值此國際日之際，我吁請各國政府進一步努力解決老年人的需要。大家熟悉的重要措施是：普及提供社會服務；增加養恤金計劃的數目和價值；制定防止工作場所實行年齡歧視和性別歧視的法律和政策。在離2015年千年發展目標截止日期尚余五年的期間內，世界各國政府必須把握時機，采取財政、法律和社會保護措施，使數以百萬計的老年人擺脫貧窮，并確保他們享有尊嚴的、老有所為和健康的生活的權利。

第五篇：聯合國秘書長潘基文2013年世界水日致辭（精選）

聯合國秘書長潘基文2013年世界水日致辭

Secretary-General’s Message on World Water Day

秘書長世界水日致辭

New York, 22 March 2013

2013年3月21日 紐約

Water holds the key to sustainable development.We need it for health, food security and economic progress.Yet, each year brings new pressures.One in three people already lives in a country with moderate to high water stress, and by 2030 nearly half the global population could be facing water scarcity, with demand outstripping supply by 40 per cent.Competition is growing among farmers and herders;industry and agriculture;town and country;upstream and downstream;and across borders.Climate change and the needs of populations growing in size and prosperity mean we must work together to protect and manage this fragile, finite resource.水是可持續發展的關鍵所在。我們的健康、糧食安全和經濟發展都需要水。然而，每年都面臨新的壓力。三分之一的人民已經生活在中度到高度缺水的國家，全球近一半的人口到2030年可能面臨水資源匱乏，需求量將比供應量高出40%。農民和牧民、工業和農業、城鎮和鄉村、上游和下游以及各國之間對水資源的爭奪日趨激烈。氣候變化、不斷擴大的人民需求以及富裕繁榮要求我們必須共同致力于保護和管理這一脆弱和有限的資源。

This is the International Year of Water Cooperation, and World Water Day 2013

is dedicated to highlighting the joint efforts necessary to ensuring a fair share for people and planet.The United Nations system, through UN-Water and its 30 UN members and 25 international partners, is fostering collaboration from the global level to the grassroots.For example, the UN Development Programme’s Shared Waters Partnership is supporting political agreement on shared waters, such as in the Nile Basin.UNESCO is supporting the equitable management of transboundary water resources to avoid conflict, while the UN Economic Commission for Europe’s Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes will soon be available to all UN Member States.I urge countries outside the UNECE region to join the Convention and further develop it.今年是國際水合作年，2013年―世界水日‖旨在強調需要共同努力，確保人民和地球能夠公平分享水資源。聯合國系統，通過聯合國水機制及30個聯合國會員國和25個國際伙伴，正在促進全球一級乃至基層的協作。例如，聯合國開發計劃署推出的―共享水資源伙伴關系‖正在尼羅河流域等地支持簽署關于共享水資源的政治協議。聯合國教科文組織正為避免沖突而支助跨界水資源的公平管理，而聯合國歐洲經濟委員會的《跨界水道和國際湖泊保護和利用公約》將在近期分發給所有聯合國會員國。我敦促歐洲經委會區域以外的國家加入《公約》，并進一步將其發揚光大。

Agriculture is by far the largest user of freshwater, and there is growing urgency to reconcile its demands with the needs of domestic and industrial uses, especially energy production.Climate change also presents a growing threat to agricultural productivity and food security.My Zero Hunger Challenge promotes sustainable agriculture by sharing best practices and harnessing the

most appropriate technologies so small farmers and industrial giants alike can get more crop per drop.農業迄今為止使用的淡水量最大，在農業與居民和工業(特別是能源生產)的用水需求之間進行協調變得日益迫切。氣候變化也日益威脅到農業生產力和糧食安全。我提出的―零饑餓挑戰‖可通過分享最佳做法及利用最適當技術，幫助小農戶和產業巨頭提高單位用水的作物產量，從而促進可持續農業發展。

No message on water should pass without mentioning sanitation.While the Millennium Development Goal target for providing access to improved water sources has been reached, we are woefully short on sanitation.Some 2.5 billion people lack access to the dignity and health afforded by access to a toilet and protection from untreated waste.We count the cost in lives— 4,500 young children a day – and economic productivity.Yet we know that every dollar spent on sanitation can bring a five-fold return.That is why the Deputy Secretary-General has this week launched a global call to action to accelerate work towards the MDG on sanitation.Investment in sanitation is a down-payment on a sustainable future.關于水資源的致辭必須提到環境衛生問題。雖然千年發展目標中關于提供改良水源的具體目標已經實現，但環境衛生方面仍然存在巨大差距。約25億人無法通過使用廁所獲得尊嚴和健康，也無法在未經處理的廢物面前得到保護。我們可以盤點生命成本——每天有4 500名幼兒死亡——以及經濟生產率成本。然而，我們知道用于環境衛生的每一美元可帶來五倍回報。因此，副秘書長本周已發起一項全球呼吁，要求采取行動以加快實現環境衛生領域的千年發展目標。環境衛生投資是建設可持續未來的首期付款。

There are little more than 1,000 days left before the MDG deadline, but with renewed effort we can finish the job started at the beginning of the Millennium.But 2015 is not a finishing line, merely a milestone in a long and challenging journey.As we develop the post-2015 development agenda, our aim is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, and to create an equitable world of opportunity for all.To do that, we need to give equal consideration to the environmental dimension of sustainable development.We cannot prosper without clean, plentiful freshwater.On this World Water Day, I appeal for heightened cooperation.Water is a common resource.Let us use it more intelligently and waste less so all get a fair share.距離千年發展目標的最后期限只剩1 000多天的時間，但只要再接再厲，我們就能夠完成千年發展目標推出時啟動的工作。但2015年并非終點線，只不過是漫長而艱巨旅程中的一個里程碑。在制定2015年后的發展議程時，我們的目標是消除極端貧窮和饑餓，創造人人享有機會的公平世界。為此，我們需要對可持續發展的環境層面給予同等考慮。離開清潔和充足的淡水，我們無法實現繁榮。值此世界水日，我呼吁加強合作。水是一種公共資源。為了人人獲得公平份額，讓我們更明智地利用水資源并減少浪費。