踌躇英语演讲原文：奥巴马演讲 主持召开非洲青年领袖大会4

2021年1月24日发(作者：prevents)
奥巴
马
演
讲

主持召开非洲青年
领
袖大会
4

Q Mr. President, my name is Bai Best (phonetic) from
Liberia. The late Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller was the first black
-- the first black psychiatrist 1
（精神病学家）
in America and
probably in the world. In my country in Liberia, where there
are a lot of great people who make landmark 2
accomplishments 3 both in their nation and in the world,
many of them are not recognized for their
accomplishments. Today, Dr.
Fuller’s name is etched
（
蚀
刻）

where there is a medical -- there is a psychiatric center
named in his honor at a place in Boston. There are many
other young African and young Liberian talented people who
have great ideas and who want to come back home and
contribute to their countries, to the development of their
peoples. But many times, their efforts -- their patriotic 4
（
爱
国的）
efforts -- are stifled 6 by corrupt 7 or sometimes
jealous officials in government and in other sectors 8 .
It’s
an age-old problem. Many times, they want to seek -- that
basically leads them to seek greener pastures and better
appreciation 9 abroad instead of coming back home. What
are your thoughts on this?

THE PRESIDENT:
Well, look, this is a problem that’s not
unique to Africa. Given different stages of development

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around the world, one of the problems that poorer countries
often have is that the best educated and the most talented
have opportunities elsewhere.
And so there’s what’s
called the “ brain drain
（人才外流）

”
-- people saying, I
can make 10 times as much money if I’m a doctor in
London as I can if I’m a doctor back home.


And so this is a historic problem. Here is the interesting
moment that we’re in, though
-- if you look at where the
greatest opportunities are, they're actually now in emerging
markets. There are countries in Africa that are growing 7, 8, 9
percent a year.
So if you’re an entrepreneur now with an
idea, you may be able to grow faster and achieve more back
home that you could here.

Now, it entails 10 greater risk, so it may be safer to
emigrate. But it may be that you can actually achieve more,
more quickly back home. And so the question is for young
leaders like yourselves, where do you want to have the most
impact?
And you’re
probably going to have more impact at
home whether you’re a businessman or woman, or you are
a doctor or you are an attorney, or you are an
organizer. That's probably going to be the place where you
can make the biggest change.


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Now, you’re absolutely r
ight, though, that the conditions
back home have to be right where you can achieve these
things. So if you want to go back home and start a business,
and it turns out that you have to pay too many bribes 11 to
just get the business started, at some point you may just give
up.


And that's why one of the things that we’re trying to do
--
working with my team -- when we emphasize development,
good governance is at the center of development.
It’s not
separate. Sometimes people think, well, that's a political
issue and then there’s an economic issue.
No. If you have a
situation where you can’t start a business or people don't
want to invest because there’s not a clear sense of rule of
law, that is going to stifle 5 development.

If farmers have so many middlemen
（中
间
商，
经纪
商）
to
get their crops to market that they're making pennies when
ultimately their crops are being sold for $$10, over time that
stifles 12 agricultural development in a country. So what we
want to do is make sure that in our interactions with your
governments, we are constantly emphasizing this issue of
good governance because I have confidence that you’ll be
able to figure out what changes need to be made in your
country.

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