第一篇：潘基文世界水日致辞（精选）
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，也是维系地球上所有生命的纽带。水直接关系到我们联合国的各项目标：改善孕产妇和儿童健康和提高预期寿命、增强妇女力量、粮食安全、可持续发展以及适应和减缓气候变化。正是因为认识到这些联系才宣布2005-2015年为“生命之水”国际行动十年。
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顺译
1.Link 后为定语，定语前置
Linke 译为纽带。
2.Living beings 生命
3.It 代替water，被动变主动
4.Goal 后面同位语，解释目标，分译
5.Maternal： 孕产妇
6.Empowerment 力量
增词：提高预期寿命，增强妇女力量
7.Mitigation 减缓
Adaption mitigation 转换词性。名词——动词
8.The declaration of 抽象名词变动词
9.Recognition of these links led to the
正是因为认识到才„„（注意翻译方法）
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.我们不可缺少的水资源确实具有巨大的复原力，但它们越来越脆弱也日趋受到威胁。不断增长的人口对食物、原材料和能源用水的需求与大自然本身对维持濒危生态系统和继续提供我们赖以生存的服务的水量需求之间竞争日趋激烈。人类每天都向世界各水系中倾倒千百万吨未经处理的污水以及工业和农业废物。清洁饮水已经成为稀缺资源，而且随着气候变化的到来将变得更加稀缺。穷人将首当其冲地受到污染、缺水和缺乏适当卫生条件的影响。
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注意语序调整
1.Resilient 复原力
2.Indispensable 不可缺少的3.Have proven themselves to be greatly resilient 确实具有巨大的复原力（减译？prove themselves都省略了？）
4.need for water for „„对„..水的需求（一开始看错了，以为水和后面是并列的呢。）
5.A compete B A 与B之间的竞争 increasingly竞争日益激烈
6.and the services on which we depend 这里省略了water？
7.Onset 1.开始，开端，发生，肇始（尤指不快的事件）2.攻击,袭击3.【医】发病
8.First and most 首当其冲
9.Suffer 根据句子上下文来译，这里是影响。
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.今年世界水日的主题是“保障清洁水源，创造健康世界”，强调水资源质量和数量都面临威胁。因饮用不卫生的水而死亡的人数超过了包括战争在内等一切形式暴力的死亡人数。这些死亡是对我们共同人性的侮辱，也破坏了许多国家充分发挥发展潜力的努力。
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1.Clean Water for a Healthy World：保障清洁水源，创造健康世界（我永远想不出来这么翻译）
2.at risk 有危险，面临威胁
3.die from死于 柯林斯显示后跟of和from是一样的。
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.世界已掌握解决这些难题的专门技能，能够更好地管理水资源。水对于我们的所有发展目标都至关重要。现在，该国际行动十年已为期过半，我们期待今年举行千年发展目标首脑会议，让我们保护水资源并对之进行可持续的管理，以增进穷人和弱势群体的利益，保护地球上的所有生命。
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1.know-how 1.<口>技术2.实际知识;技能;本事;窍门
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 这个词应该是指人，但是这里他翻译成掌握
3.central 至关重要
4.mid-point 中点
5.mark 省略了？
6.MDG Summit 千年发展目标首脑会议
7.for the poor, the vulnerable and for all life on Earth.以增进穷人和弱势群体的利益，保护地球上的所有生命。（注意翻译增词）
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第二篇：联合国秘书长潘基文2010年世界水日致辞
联合国秘书长潘基文2010年世界水日致辞
MESSAGE ON WORLD WATER DAY
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
New York, 22 March 2010
联合国秘书长潘基文2010年世界水日致辞
纽约 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，也是维系地球上所有生命的纽带。水直接关系到我们联合国的各项目标：改善孕产妇和儿童健康和提高预期寿命、增强妇女力量、粮食安全、可持续发展以及适应和减缓气候变化。正是因为认识到这些联系才宣布2005-2015年为“生命之水”国际行动十年。
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.我们不可缺少的水资源确实具有巨大的复原力，但它们越来越脆弱也日趋受到威胁。不断增长的人口对食物、原材料和能源用水的需求与大自然本身对维持濒危生态系统和继续提供我们赖以生存的服务的水量需求之间竞争日趋激烈。人类每天都向世界各水系中倾倒千百万吨未经处理的污水以及工业和农业废物。清洁饮水已经成为稀缺资源，而且随着气候变化的到来将变得更加稀缺。穷人将首当其冲地受到污染、缺水和缺乏适当卫生条件的影响。
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.今年世界水日的主题是“保障清洁水源，创造健康世界”，强调水资源质量和数量都面临威胁。因饮用不卫生的水而死亡的人数超过了包括战争在内等一切形式暴力的死亡人数。这些死亡是对我们共同人性的侮辱，也破坏了许多国家充分发挥发展潜力的努力。
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.世界已掌握解决这些难题的专门技能，能够更好地管理水资源。水对于我们的所有发展目标都至关重要。现在，该国际行动十年已为期过半，我们期待今年举行千年发展目标首脑会议，让我们保护水资源并对之进行可持续的管理，以增进穷人和弱势群体的利益，保护地球上的所有生命。
第三篇：联合国秘书长潘基文2010年世界水日致辞
MESSAGE ON WORLD WATER DAY UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
New York, 22 March 2010 联合国秘书长潘基文2010年世界水日致辞
纽约 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，也是维系地球上所有生命的纽带。水直接关系到我们联合国的各项目标：改善孕产妇和儿童健康和提高预期寿命、增强妇女力量、粮食安全、可持续发展以及适应和减缓气候变化。正是因为认识到这些联系才宣布2005-2015年为“生命之水”国际行动十年。
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.我们不可缺少的水资源确实具有巨大的复原力，但它们越来越脆弱也日趋受到威胁。不断增长的人口对食物、原材料和能源用水的需求与大自然本身对维持濒危生态系统和继续提供我们赖以生存的服务的水量需求之间竞争日趋激烈。人类每天都向世界各水系中倾倒千百万吨未经处理的污水以及工业和农业废物。清洁饮水已经成为稀缺资源，而且随着气候变化的到来将变得更加稀缺。穷人将首当其冲地受到污染、缺水和缺乏适当卫生条件的影响。
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.今年世界水日的主题是“保障清洁水源，创造健康世界”，强调水资源质量和数量都面临威胁。因饮用不卫生的水而死亡的人数超过了包括战争在内等一切形式暴力的死亡人数。这些死亡是对我们共同人性的侮辱，也破坏了许多国家充分发挥发展潜力的努力。
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.世界已掌握解决这些难题的专门技能，能够更好地管理水资源。水对于我们的所有发展目标都至关重要。现在，该国际行动十年已为期过半，我们期待今年举行千年发展目标首脑会议，让我们保护水资源并对之进行可持续的管理，以增进穷人和弱势群体的利益，保护地球上的所有生命。
第四篇：潘基文-2010世界老年日致辞
UN Secretary-General's Message on the International Day of Older Persons New York, 1 October 2010
联合国秘书长潘基文在2010年国际老年人日的献词
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.今天是国际老年人日二十周年纪念日。作为领袖、照顾者和志愿人员，老年人在所有社会中发挥宝贵的作用。然而，他们也很容易遭受歧视、虐待、冷落和暴力行为。
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.联合国一直为争取老年人的权利和幸福而长期奋斗，并使他们呼声得到倾听。在今年纪念活动中，我们庆祝得来不易的成就，特别是与千年发展目标有关的成就。很多国家的老年人因贫穷和饥饿率降低、更易获得医药和保健服务和有更多的教育工作机会而受益。
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，就像所有国家和区域的整体千年发展目标方面的进展不均匀那样，这方面的进展也一直不均匀。例如在受到艾滋病大流行病打击最严重的国家，到头来照
顾艾滋病孤儿的往往是祖父母。在撒哈拉以南非洲，60岁和60岁以上的农村妇女有20%是她们孙辈的唯一抚养者。这些照顾者负起额外和往往是突如其来的责任，一般获得的所需资源不多或根本没有资源，迫切需要社会服务特别是社会养恤金，以便让她们及其家属有机会过上除了挣扎生存以外的较佳生活。
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.老年人人数和比例正在迅速增加。在过去30年中，他们的人数翻了一番。到2050年，全球老年人人口总数将达20亿，大大改变了世界人口面貌，对我们大家都产生影响。
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.值此国际日之际，我吁请各国政府进一步努力解决老年人的需要。大家熟悉的重要措施是：普及提供社会服务；增加养恤金计划的数目和价值；制定防止工作场所实行年龄歧视和性别歧视的法律和政策。在离2015年千年发展目标截止日期尚余五年的期间内，世界各国政府必须把握时机，采取财政、法律和社会保护措施，使数以百万计的老年人摆脱贫穷，并确保他们享有尊严的、老有所为和健康的生活的权利。
第五篇：联合国秘书长潘基文2013年世界水日致辞（精选）
联合国秘书长潘基文2013年世界水日致辞
Secretary-General’s Message on World Water Day
秘书长世界水日致辞
New York, 22 March 2013
2013年3月21日 纽约
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.水是可持续发展的关键所在。我们的健康、粮食安全和经济发展都需要水。然而，每年都面临新的压力。三分之一的人民已经生活在中度到高度缺水的国家，全球近一半的人口到2030年可能面临水资源匮乏，需求量将比供应量高出40%。农民和牧民、工业和农业、城镇和乡村、上游和下游以及各国之间对水资源的争夺日趋激烈。气候变化、不断扩大的人民需求以及富裕繁荣要求我们必须共同致力于保护和管理这一脆弱和有限的资源。
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.今年是国际水合作年，2013年―世界水日‖旨在强调需要共同努力，确保人民和地球能够公平分享水资源。联合国系统，通过联合国水机制及30个联合国会员国和25个国际伙伴，正在促进全球一级乃至基层的协作。例如，联合国开发计划署推出的―共享水资源伙伴关系‖正在尼罗河流域等地支持签署关于共享水资源的政治协议。联合国教科文组织正为避免冲突而支助跨界水资源的公平管理，而联合国欧洲经济委员会的《跨界水道和国际湖泊保护和利用公约》将在近期分发给所有联合国会员国。我敦促欧洲经委会区域以外的国家加入《公约》，并进一步将其发扬光大。
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.农业迄今为止使用的淡水量最大，在农业与居民和工业(特别是能源生产)的用水需求之间进行协调变得日益迫切。气候变化也日益威胁到农业生产力和粮食安全。我提出的―零饥饿挑战‖可通过分享最佳做法及利用最适当技术，帮助小农户和产业巨头提高单位用水的作物产量，从而促进可持续农业发展。
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.关于水资源的致辞必须提到环境卫生问题。虽然千年发展目标中关于提供改良水源的具体目标已经实现，但环境卫生方面仍然存在巨大差距。约25亿人无法通过使用厕所获得尊严和健康，也无法在未经处理的废物面前得到保护。我们可以盘点生命成本——每天有4 500名幼儿死亡——以及经济生产率成本。然而，我们知道用于环境卫生的每一美元可带来五倍回报。因此，副秘书长本周已发起一项全球呼吁，要求采取行动以加快实现环境卫生领域的千年发展目标。环境卫生投资是建设可持续未来的首期付款。
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.距离千年发展目标的最后期限只剩1 000多天的时间，但只要再接再厉，我们就能够完成千年发展目标推出时启动的工作。但2015年并非终点线，只不过是漫长而艰巨旅程中的一个里程碑。在制定2015年后的发展议程时，我们的目标是消除极端贫穷和饥饿，创造人人享有机会的公平世界。为此，我们需要对可持续发展的环境层面给予同等考虑。离开清洁和充足的淡水，我们无法实现繁荣。值此世界水日，我呼吁加强合作。水是一种公共资源。为了人人获得公平份额，让我们更明智地利用水资源并减少浪费。
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