1、英译汉：

真理、力量、奉献--合力前行

这次集会是社区建设的一次活动，这个社区就包括了你们。今天我们欢迎你们来到迦太基，祝贺你们获得了与这个大学永远相伴身份。

你们选择的这个大学，使命简捷：“探求真理、积聚力量、鼓励奉献--合力前行。”探求、积聚、鼓励为励志之词，包涵着成长和变化。

在2009-2010学年迦太基日历里，本月的图片是两个迦太基的学生正在使用扫描电子显微镜。在他们工作旁边写着伽利略的一句话：“所有的真理，一旦发现都很容易理解，关键是怎样发现它们。

探求真理需要勇气和力量，伽利略深知此事。就在400年前的今年，伽利略成为了第一个使用望远镜研究天空的人。集数学、物理、天文学家于一身的伽利略被尊称为现代力学和实验物理的创始人。与亚里斯多德逻辑语言学截然不同的是，伽利略断言：“自然之书…是数学符号写成的。”

伽利略的观察使他确信，哥白尼没错：地球围着太阳转。那可是对多个世纪来人们已普遍接受的观念一次革命性的挑战。很快，伽利略遭到了当时权威人士的发难，特别是教会的指质。以之相反的是，虽然生命最后的8年软禁在家，但他却继续从事发现和写作，直到逝世。

2、 汉译英

                   The Promise of Two Trees

In the seasons of spring and summer, the leaves of ordinary trees turn light green and branches dark green. But here, the two trees change by turns: one grows flourishing and the other lives withered. Supposing the left tree gets green, lively and luxuriantly, the right tree begins to yellow leaves as if in dormancy, drooping, thin and dry. For the latter, the beginning of autumn would be the days of winter.  But the right tree is not rotten to die. It is still alive, expecting to be rejuvenated with thick leaves and strong branches in the coming spring and summer. At that time, the left tree starts to yellow leaves as if entering in dormancy. All in all, it seems that the two trees have such a promise: the one withers this year and flourishes next year; the one flourishes this year and withers next year.

It is told by the local people that the two trees are symbols of an affectionate couple who drowned themselves in river to elude local tyrant’s persecution. They were reborn to be trees. I take it a fictioned love story. On the other hand, I prefer the explanation by a knowldged man, who believed that the two trees live in the bank of the Jinshui River and root deeply in rock crevices with little soil and nutrition. If the two trees used the little nutrition at the same time, they would be hard to grow. Therefore, the trees take turns to keep  growing.  

In a year, one of them is alive only, without growing up strong and sturdy,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              and the other tries to  grow up and up. In this way, they avoid competition from worse to worse and survive from mutual death. The knowledged man said, they are co-existing trees, which is true and right!

In our daily life, we often see those who lead a vain and humdrum life rival each other without any concession. But consequently, won’t they feel disappointed and turn strangers from friends? On the contrary, Those who take overall consideration and help each other will be promoted finally. Therefore, why don’t we learn from the two trees? Let’s have mutual help and respect and co-exist to overcome difficulties altogether.