今年是中文列为联合国官方语言80周年。中国驻外机构与联合国秘书处在纽约、日内瓦、维也纳等地，举办一系列精彩纷呈的庆祝活动。作为世界上最古老的语言之一，中文绵延古今、跨越山海，传承着“和而不同”“和谐共生”的东方智慧，见证了联合国80多年来承载的和平梦想。文字是文明的载体。每一种文明都是人类社会的共同财富，不可或缺，值得珍惜、尊重和保护。This year marks the 80th anniversary of the designation of Chinese as UN official language. The UN Secretariat, together with Chinese missions overseas, held events in New York, Geneva, Vienna and so on to celebrate the occasion. As one of the oldest languages in the world, Chinese dates back thousands of years and is spoken across the world. It embodies the Oriental wisdom of harmony and diversity, and has witnessed the UN’s pursuit for its ideal for peace over the past 80 years. Language is the vehicle of civilization. All civilizations are humanity’s treasures. They are all absolutely essential and deserve equal respect and joint protection.
⛵•今日单词
handwringing / ˈhændˌrɪŋɪŋ / (っ◔◡◔)っ n If you accuse someone of hand-wringing, you mean that they are expressing sorrow about a bad situation but are saying that they are unable to change it. 绝望；歇斯底里状态 ◆There has been all too much defeatist hand-wringing.已经有太多失败主义者的悲观抱怨了。
⛵•外刊例句
◆Hand-wringing over “root causes” gets us nowhere. Neither does a “lock ’em up and throw away the key” approach.对 “根本原因” 的无谓纠结毫无用处，”把他们关起来扔掉钥匙” 的强硬做法也同样行不通。——《华盛顿邮报》◆“There is a lot of hand-wringing at AOL about whether it’s a media company or a technology company,” said John Squires, president of Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. Interactive.《娱乐周刊》和时代集团互动部门总裁约翰・斯奎尔斯表示：”美国在线内部对自己究竟是媒体公司还是科技公司的定位问题忧心忡忡。”——《纽约时报》◆But the big rise in students going to university is cue for hand-wringing by (degree-holding) commentators, as if three more years of education over 80 years of life will lead to decadence.但大学生人数的大幅增长却引发了（拥有学位的）评论员们的焦虑不安，仿佛在 80 年的人生中多接受 3 年教育就会导致道德堕落。——《经济学人》
⛵•影视台词
《The last winter 》（终极冬日）(2008)— “The public is with us on this.“— “They can see the potential, they don’t need to get bogged down with…“— “a lot of hand-wringing.“— “He thinks there’s something off-kilter going on out here.“— “Is that what he’s telling everybody?“
Just do you. Go with the flow and with your life because that’s you experiencing life. You being yourself is you doing your purpose, so the more we get out of the mindset of thinking there’s a certain way to go about things, the more free we become.
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