Ladies and gentlemen, if you would take your seats.
女士们先生们，请就座。
A formal self-introduction正式场合的自我介绍
A real Introductions dialogue: A formal self-introduction. 40 lines, 4 key words, one phrase to keep and a short check.一段真实的介绍对话：正式场合的自我介绍。40 句对白、4 个重点词、一句金句和一个小练习。
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Is this the part where I stand up?
这是我该站起来的部分吗？
Not yet. That comes at the end.
还不是。那是最后。
I will keep my speech in my pocket.
我把演讲稿放在口袋里。
How long is it?
有多长？
Four minutes. I timed it in the car.
四分钟。我在车里计时了。
Four minutes is good. Three is better.
四分钟不错。三分钟更好。
I will cut the part about my first job.
我把第一份工作那段删掉。
Keep the part about your mother.
关于你母亲的那段留着。
You have read it?
您读过了？
I have read all of them. It is my job.
全部都读过。这是我的工作。
Then you know more about me than I do.
那您比我还了解我。
I know the version you sent on Tuesday.
我知道你周二发来的版本。
That is the only version.
那是唯一的版本。
Good. We are ready.
好。我们准备好了。
One thing. What do I call the woman on my left?
还有一件事。我左边那位女士怎么称呼？
Professor Adjei. She does not like first names.
阿吉教授。她不喜欢别人直呼名字。
And the man on my right?
那我右边那位先生？
He likes first names too much.
他太喜欢直呼名字了。
So I will say nothing to either of them.
那我对两位都不说话。
Say good evening and eat the soup.
说声晚上好，然后喝汤。
That I can do.
这个我做得到。
Ladies and gentlemen. Our guest tonight has spent thirty years turning small clinics into working hospitals.
女士们先生们。今晚的嘉宾用三十年把小诊所变成了能运转的医院。
Twenty-nine.
二十九年。
Twenty-nine years.
二十九年。
And I did not do it alone.
而且我不是一个人做的。
He always says that.
他总是这么说。
Because it is always true.
因为这话总是真的。
He began in a town with one doctor and no electricity.
他从一个只有一名医生、没有电的镇子开始。
We had electricity. It came at night.
我们有电。晚上才来。
Tell them about the first night.
跟大家说说第一个晚上。
The generator failed at nine. We operated by torchlight.
发电机九点坏了。我们靠手电筒做手术。
And the patient?
那病人呢？
The patient is here tonight. She is at the back, and she is eighty-one.
病人今晚就在这里。她坐在后面，八十一岁。
I did not know that.
我不知道这事。
You read the speech, not the life.
您读的是演讲稿，不是人生。
Then finish it yourself.
那你自己说完吧。
Thank you. I will keep it short. Everything I built, I built with people who are in this room.
谢谢。我说短一点。我建的一切，都是和这间屋子里的人一起建的。
Four minutes?
四分钟？
Three. I cut the part about my first job.
三分钟。我把第一份工作那段删了。
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Key words关键词
speech演讲
clinic诊所
generator发电机
torchlight手电筒的光
Key phrases
Everything I built, I built with people who are in this room.
我建的一切，都是和这间屋子里的人一起建的。
A three-question check三道小题，检验一下
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01Question 1 of 3
Ladies and gentlemen, if you would take your seats.
02Question 2 of 3
Say good evening and eat the soup.
03Question 3 of 3
Three. I cut the part about my first job.