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PeterEigen_2009X-_如何揭露腐败_
I am going to speak about corruption , but I would like to juxtapose two different things. 我将要谈论腐败的问题, 但是我想先将两件不同的事情 放在一起讲讲。
I am going to:我将要做什么事情 corruption:n.贪污,腐败;堕落; juxtapose:vt.并列;并置;
One is the large global economy , the large globalized economy , and the other one is the small, and very limited , capacity of our traditional governments and their international institutions to govern, to shape, this economy. 其一是宏大的全球经济, 全球化经济, 而另外一个则是渺小的而且非常受限的 旧式政府 以及其国际组织 对经济的监控以及改造能力。
economy:n.经济;节约;理财; globalized:vt.使全球化; limited:adj.有限的; n.高级快车; v.限制; (limit的过去分词和过去式) capacity:n.能力;容量;资格,地位;生产力; traditional:传统的,惯例的, institutions:n.机构;慈善机构;风俗习惯,制度;(institution的复数)
Because there is this asymmetry , which creates, basically , failing governance . 这种不对称性的存在, 基本上导致了 无能失策的政府。
asymmetry:n.不对称; basically:adv.主要地,基本上; governance:n.管理;统治;支配;
Failing governance in many areas, in the area of corruption and the area of destruction of the environment, in the area of exploitation of women and children, in the area of climate change. 政府的无能表现在很多方面, 例如腐败以及环境的破坏, 对妇女和儿童的剥削, 以及气候变化,等等。
destruction:n.破坏,毁灭;摧毁; exploitation:n.开发,开采;利用;广告推销;
In all the areas in which we really need a capacity to reintroduce the primacy of politics into the economy, which is operating in a worldwide arena . 在所有的这些领域中,我们真的很需要 端正政治 在经济活动中的 首要地位 达成一个世界级的合作。
reintroduce:vt.再引入;再提出;再介绍; primacy:n.首位;卓越;大主教的职位; politics:n.政治;钩心斗角;政治观点;v.(贬)从事政治活动;(politic的第三人称单数) worldwide:adj.全世界的;adv.在世界各地; arena:n.舞台;竞技场;
And I think corruption, and the fight against corruption, and the impact of corruption, is probably one of the most interesting ways to illustrate what I mean with this failure of governance. 而我认为腐败 和针对腐败的反击 以及腐败的影响 也许是最有趣的方式 来阐明我 对政府无能失策的看法。
impact:n.影响;效果;碰撞;冲击力;v.挤入,压紧;撞击;对…产生影响; illustrate:v.解释;加插图于;给(书等)做图表;表明…真实;
Let me talk about my own experience. 我来谈谈我的经历吧。
I used to work as the director of the World Bank office in Nairobi for East Africa 我曾经担任 世界银行在内罗毕办事处的总监 服务区域是东非
World Bank:n.世界银行(向处于困境需要资助的成员国贷款的国际机构);
At that time, I noticed that corruption, that grand corruption, that systematic corruption, was undermining everything we were trying to do. 那时候我注意到 腐败,那种明目张胆的腐败, 系统性的腐败 在不断侵蚀我们的努力成果。
systematic:adj.系统的;体系的;有系统的;[图情]分类的;一贯的,惯常的; undermining:v.逐渐削弱;使逐步减少效力;从根基处破坏;(undermine的现在分词)
And therefore, I began to not only try to protect the work of the World Bank, our own projects, our own programs against corruption, but in general , I thought, we need a system to protect the people in this part of the world from the ravages of corruption. 所以,我开始 竭力维护 世界银行的工作成果, 我们的项目,我们的各项企划 防止它们受到腐败的侵害 但总体而言,我认为,我们需要一种制度 去保卫 该地区的人民 使他们免受腐败的侵害。
in general:总之,通常;一般而言; ravages:n.毁坏后的残迹; v.破坏(ravage的第三人称单数形式);
And, as soon as I started this work, 然而,一当我展开工作时,
as soon as:一…就;
I received a memorandum from the World Bank, from the legal department first, in which they said, you're not allowed to do this. 我就收到了世界银行法律部门 的一封便函 函内写道,你这样做是不被允许的。
memorandum:n.备忘录;便笺; legal:adj.法律的;合法的;法定的;
You are meddling in the internal affairs of our partner countries. 你这是在干预我们合作国家的内政。
meddling:v.管闲事;干涉;干预;瞎搞,乱弄(meddle的现在分词) internal:n.内脏;本质;adj.内部的;里面的;体内的;(机构)内部的;
This is forbidden by the charter of the World Bank. 这是世界银行纲领所禁止的。
forbidden:adj.禁止的; v.禁止; (forbid的过去分词和过去式) charter:n.章程; v.包租(飞机、船等);
So I want you to stop your doings . 所以,我们要求你停止你的行动。
doings:n.举动,行为;所做之事(doing的复数);
In the mean time, I was chairing donor meetings for instance , in which the various donors , and many of them like to be in Nairobi -- it is true, it is one of the unsafest cities of the world, but they like to be there because the other cities are even less comfortable. 在那段时期,我正在主持 捐赠者会议 各类捐赠者都出席了会议 他们中的很多人喜欢待在内罗毕-- 的确,它是世界上 最不安全的城市之一, 但是他们喜欢待在这里,因为其他城市 让人感觉更不舒服。
instance:n.实例;情况;建议;v.举...为例; donors:n.捐赠人(donor的复数);[电子]施主;
And in these donor meetings, I noticed that many of the worst projects which were put forward by our clients , by the governments, by promoters , many of them representing suppliers from the north, that the worst projects were realized first. 在这些捐赠者回忆中,我注意到, 很多最差的项目 总是被 我们的顾客、政府、 赞助人 他们其中很多人代表 北方的供应商, 最先地 启动进行。
put forward:v.提出;拿出;放出;推举出; clients:n.委托人;当事人;客户机;(client的复数) promoters:n.促进者;推广员;推销商;激活子(promoter的复数形式); representing:v.代表;维护…的利益;等于;相当于;(represent的现在分词)
Let me give you an example. 让我来给你们举一个例子。
A huge power project, 300 million dollars, to be built smack into one of the most vulnerable , and one of the most beautiful areas of western Kenya. 一个巨大的能源项目, 价值30亿, 将在 世界上最脆弱、又最美丽的地域之一, 肯尼亚西部开始启动。
smack:v.用巴掌打; n.打巴掌; v.恰好; vulnerable:adj.易受攻击的,易受…的攻击;易受伤害的;有弱点的;
And we all noticed immediately that this project had no economic benefits. 我们都立刻发现, 这个项目没有经济利益。
economic:adj.经济的,经济上的;经济学的;
It had no clients. Nobody would buy the electricity there. 他没有消费者。没人会从那里购买电力。
electricity:n.电力;电流;强烈的紧张情绪;
Nobody was interested in irrigation projects. 没人对灌溉项目感兴趣。
irrigation:n.灌溉;[临床]冲洗;冲洗法;
To the contrary , we knew that this project would destroy the environment, it would destroy riparian forests, which were the basis for the survival of nomadic groups, the Samburu and the Tokana in this area. 相反地,我们知道这项工程 会摧毁环境, 会毁掉河岸森林, 而这些正是 那个区域的游牧部族, 如Samburu和Tokana部族所赖以生存的。
To the contrary:相反; riparian:adj.河边的;水滨的;n.河边居民;河岸拥有人; survival:n.幸存,残存;幸存者,残存物; nomadic:adj.游牧的;流浪的;游动的;
So everybody knew this is a, not a useless project, this is an absolute damaging, a terrible project, not to speak about the future indebtedness of the country for these hundreds of millions of dollars, and the siphoning off of the scarce resources of the economy from much more important activities like schools, like hospitals and so on. 所以,每个人都知道这不仅是个没用的项目, 更是个绝对毁灭性的、可怕的项目。 且不说这个国家将来会因此负债累累, 亏欠亿万美元, 它还会贪婪地吞噬 本来可以花在 如学校、医院等更重要的活动上的 稀少有限的资源。
indebtedness:n.债务;受恩惠; siphoning:n.虹吸作用;v.抽取;用虹吸管输送(siphon的ing形式); scarce:adv.勉强;刚;几乎不;简直不;adj.缺乏的;不足的;稀少的; resources:n.[计][环境]资源; v.向…提供资金(resource的第三人称单数);
And yet, we all rejected this project. 我们都驳回了这个项目。
rejected:adj.被拒的;不合格的;v.拒绝,驳回;(reject的过去式和过去分词)
None of the donors was willing to have their name connected with it, and it was the first project to be implemented . 没有一个捐献者愿意 让自己的名字和这个项目扯上任何关系。 但是这个项目是最先开始执行的。
implemented:v.使生效;贯彻;执行;实施;(implement的过去式和过去分词)
The good projects, which we as a donor community would take under our wings, they took years, you know, you had too many studies, and very often they didn't succeed. 好的项目,那些我们捐献者群体 愿意鼎力相助的项目, 却被拖了一年又一年 你得做很多研究, 而且通常它们都不会成功。
community:n.社区;[生态]群落;共同体;团体;
But these bad projects, which were absolutely damaging for the economy, for many generations, for the environment, for thousands of families who had to be resettled . 但是这些差劲的项目却总一帆风顺, 尽管它们我们的经济有着绝对损害 会影响到几代人的环境, 会让成千上万的家庭流离失所。
absolutely:adv.绝对地;完全地; resettled:vi.重新定居;vt.使重新定居;
They were suddenly put together by consortia of banks, of supplier agencies , of insurance agencies , like in Germany, Hermes , and so on, 这些项目很突然地成型 帮助它们的是银行的联合体、 支持供应商的社团 和保险公司。 像在德国,爱马仕公司等等就是背后的推手。
put together:..放在一起;组合;装配; consortia:n.联盟;合作;公会; agencies:n.代理;代理处(agency的复数); insurance:n.保险;保险业;保险费;保费;adj.胜券在握的; Hermes:n.赫耳墨斯(希腊神话人物);爱马仕(Hermès,法国的奢侈品品牌);
And they came back very, very quickly, driven by an unholy alliance between the powerful elites in the countries there, and the suppliers from the north. 它们很快很快地卷土重来 背后的驱动力是 国家里 强大精英间的不正义的同盟 以及北方的供应商。
unholy:adj.不神圣的;罪恶的;不适宜的; alliance:n.联盟,联合;联姻; elites:n.精英(elite的复数);
Now, these suppliers were our big companies. 现在,这些供应商 是我们的大公司。
They were the actors of this global market, which I mentioned in the beginning. 他们是这全球市场的活跃角色, 正如我在演讲之初所指出的一样。
They were the Siemenses of this world, coming from France, from the UK, from Japan, from Canada, from Germany, and they were systematically driven by systematic, large-scale corruption. 它们是世界上那些像西门子一样强大的公司, 来自法国、英国、日本、 加拿大、德国, 它们被有体系的、大型的腐败 有规则地驱动前进。
systematically:adv.有系统地;有组织地; large-scale:adj.大规模的,大范围的;大比例尺的;
We are not talking about 50,000 dollars here, or 100,000 dollars there, or one million dollars there. 我们不是在讨论 五万美元的腐败, 也不是十万,或一百万。
No, we are talking about 10 million, 20 million dollars, on the Swiss bank accounts, on the bank accounts of Liechtenstein, of the president's ministers , the high officials in the para-statal sectors . 我们在讨论的,是一千万、两千万美元, 它们以贿款的形势出现在瑞士的账号上、 列支敦士登的银行账户里, 那些账户属于总统的部长、 半国营部门的高级官员。
ministers:n.部长,大臣; v.辅助; (minister的第三人称单数和复数) sectors:n.部门; v.把…划成扇形;
This was the reality which I saw, and not only one project like that, 这就是我看到的现实, 而且这样的情况不是个例
I saw, I would say, over the years I worked in Africa, 我敢说我在 我在非洲工作的这些年里
I saw hundreds of projects like this. 看见过成百上千个这样的项目。
And so, I became convinced that this systematic corruption, which is perverting economic policy making in these countries, which is the main reason for the misery , for the poverty , for the conflicts , for the violence , for the desperation in many of these countries. 因此,我相信 这种系统性的腐败 正在使这些国家的经济政策走向歧途, 也正是这种腐败将这些国家推进 苦难、贫穷、 纷争、暴力、 绝望 的深渊。
convinced:adj.坚信; v.使确信; (convince的过去分词和过去式) perverting:vt.使堕落;滥用;使反常;n.堕落者;行为反常者;性欲反常者; policy:n.政策,方针;保险单; misery:n.痛苦,悲惨;不幸;苦恼;穷困; poverty:n.贫困;困难;缺少;低劣; conflicts:n.冲突; v.抵触; violence:n.暴力;侵犯;激烈;歪曲;
That we have today, more than a billion people below the absolute poverty line , that we have more than a billion people without proper drinking water in the world, twice that number, more than two billion people without sanitation and so on, and the consequent illnesses of mothers and children, still, child mortality of more than 10 million people every year, children dying before they are five years-old. 现今,我们有 超过十亿的人处在绝对贫困线以下 我们有超过十亿人 没有合理处理过的清水可以饮用 更有两倍那么多的人, 超过二十亿的人 没有卫生设备等等, 因此女人和孩子 常受到疾病侵袭 直至今日,每年还有 超过千万的儿童 在五岁前死亡。
poverty line:n.贫困线(政府规定维持最低生活水平所需的收入标准); drinking water:n.饮用水; sanitation:n.[医]环境卫生;卫生设备;下水道设施; consequent:n.结果;adj.随之发生的;作为结果的; mortality:n.死亡数,死亡率;必死性,必死的命运;
The cause of this, is to a large extent grand corruption. 追根溯源,这些问题在很大程度上 是因为规模庞大的腐败。
extent:n.程度;范围;长度;
Now, why did the World Bank not let me do this work? 那么,为什么世界银行 不让我对此作出反应呢？
I found out afterwards, after I left, under a big fight, the World Bank. 在我于一场大争执后离开世界银行以后 我才搞明白。
The reason was that the members of the World Bank thought that foreign bribery was okay, including Germany. 原因是世界银行的成员国 觉得对外贿赂是没问题的, 比如德国就这么认为。
bribery:n.[法]贿赂;受贿;行贿;
In Germany, foreign bribery was allowed. 在德国,对外行贿是被允许的。
It was even tax-deductible . 它甚至是可免税的。
tax-deductible:adj.可免税的;
No wonder that most of the most important international operators in Germany, but also in France and UK and Scandinavia, everywhere, systematically bribed . 难怪绝大多数德国、 法国、英国、斯堪地那维亚, 所有地方大多数最重要的国际公司 都有系统地进行着贿赂
bribed:v.向(某人)行贿;贿赂;(bribe的过去分词和过去式)
Not all of them, but most of them. 我不是说所有的,但是绝大多数的公司对此都不能问心无愧。
And this is the phenomenon which I call failing governance, because when I then came to Germany and started this little NGO here in Berlin, at the Villa Borsig, we were told, you cannot stop our German exporters from bribing , because we will lose our contracts . 我把这样一个现象 称作政府失效。 当我来到德国 建成了这个小小的非政府组织 在柏林,在Borsig公馆, 我们被告知,我们不能阻止 德国出口商行贿, 因为我们德国会因此失去合约。
phenomenon:n.现象;杰出的人;非凡的人(或事物); Villa:n.别墅;郊区住宅; exporters:n.[贸易]出口商;出口公司(exporter的复数形式); bribing:v.向(某人)行贿;贿赂(bribe的现在分词) contracts:n.[经]合同; v.使收缩;
We will lose to the French, we will lose to the Swedes , we'll lose to the Japanese, and therefore, there was a indeed a prisoner's dilemma , which made it very difficult for an individual company, an individual exporting country to say, we are not going to continue this deadly , disastrous habit of large companies to bribe. 我们会输给法国人、 瑞士人、日本人, 因此,这就形成了一个“囚徒困境” 这样一来, 单独的公司, 或者出口国 就很难说,我们将不再 继续这种灾难性的 行贿习惯了。
Swedes:n.瑞典人(Swede的复数); dilemma:n.困境;进退两难;两刀论法; individual:n.个人;有个性的人;adj.单独的;个别的; exporting:v.出口;输出;传播,输出(思想或活动);(export的现在分词) deadly:adj.致命的;非常的;死一般的;adv.非常;如死一般地; disastrous:adj.灾难性的;损失惨重的;悲伤的;
So this is what I mean with a failing governance structure because, even the powerful government, which we have in Germany, comparatively , was not able to say, we will not allow our companies to bribe abroad . 这就是我所知的 失效的政府结构 因为即使是强大的政府, 如相对强大的德国政府, 也不能够说, 我们将不允许我们的公司在海外行贿。
structure:n.结构;构造;建筑物;vt.组织;构成;建造; comparatively:adv.比较地;相当地; abroad:adv.在国外;到海外;adj.往国外的;n.海外;异国;
They needed help, and the large companies themselves have this dilemma. 它们需要帮助 而且这些大公司本身 也身处这种两难的境地。
Many of them didn't want to bribe. 其中很多公司并不想行贿。
Many of the German companies, for instance, believe that they are really producing a high quality product at a good price, so they are very competitive . 比如,很多德国公司 相信它们确实是 能够制造出物美价廉、 有竞争力的产品。
competitive:adj.竞争的;比赛的;求胜心切的;
They are not as good at bribing as many of their international competitors are, but they were not allowed to show their strengths, because the world was eaten up by grand corruption. 它们不如其他国际竞争者 善于行贿之术, 但是它们没有机会 展现自己的长处 因为这个世界 正在被大规模的腐败侵蚀。
And this is why I'm telling you this, civil society rose to the occasion. 我想说的是,随着政府的失效, 公民社会组织就应站出来。
civil:adj.公民的;民间的;文职的;有礼貌的;根据民法的;
We had a small NGO, 我们有一个小型的非政府组织,
Transparency International. “透明国际”
Transparency:n.透明,透明度;幻灯片;有图案的玻璃;
They began to think of an escape route from this prisoner's dilemma, and we developed concepts of collective action, basically, trying to bring various competitors together around the table, explaining to all of them how much it would be in their interests if they simultaneously would stop bribing, and to make a long story short , we managed to eventually get Germany to sign together with the other OECD countries and a few other exporters. 我们开始设想 一条从“囚徒困境”里的逃生之路, 我们也开始发扬 集体行动的概念, 即尝试将不同的竞争者 集合到谈判桌前, 向他们解释 如果他们同时停止行贿 是对他们多么有好处。 长话短说, 我们最终得以 使德国和 其他经济合作发展组织的成员国 以及一些其他的出口国
route:n.路线;路途;固定线路;途径;v.按某路线发送; collective:adj.集体的;共同的;集合的;集体主义的;n.集团;集合体;集合名词; simultaneously:adv.同时地; make a long story short:长话短说,简而言之;总之; eventually:adv.最后,终于;
In 1997, a convention , under the auspices of the OECD, which obliged everybody to change their laws and criminalize foreign bribery. 在1997年的一场会议上 在经济合作发展组织的赞助支持下, 使所有参与者 改变法律 将对外行贿犯罪化。
convention:n.习俗;惯例;协定;常规; auspices:n.赞助;保护;预兆(auspice的复数); obliged:adj.感激的;感谢的;v.强迫,迫使;帮忙,效劳;(oblige的过去分词和过去式) criminalize:vt.宣告…为犯法行为;判定…为非法事件;
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Well, thank you, I mean it's interesting, in doing this, we had to sit together with the companies. 谢谢大家,我觉得挺有趣的, 做这件事的时候, 我们必须跟这些公司坐在一起。
We had here in Berlin at the Aspen institute on the Wannsee, we had sessions with about 20 captains of industry, and we discussed with them what to do about international bribery. 我们在柏林的山杨协会 和20个企业大首脑 开了几次会, 我们和他们讨论了 如何应对国际性会的问题。
Aspen:adj.山杨的;类似白杨的;颤抖的;n.山杨; institute:v.开始(调查);制定;创立;提起(诉讼);n.学会,协会;学院; sessions:n.会议;会期(session的复数);
In the first session, we had three sessions over the course of two years. 我们一共有三个跨时两年的会议 在第一个会议里
And President von Weizs?cker, by the way , chaired one of the sessions, the first one, to take the fear away from the entrepreneurs , who were not used to deal with non-governmental organizations . 一个来自冯·魏茨泽克的主席 主持了第一个会议 以消除企业家们 的恐惧 因为他们不习惯与 非政府组织打交道。
by the way:顺便说一下; entrepreneurs:n.企业家;(entrepreneur的复数) non-governmental:非政府的;非官方的; organizations:n.组织,构造,有机体(organization的复数);组织机构;
And in the first session, they all said, this is not bribery, what we are doing. This is customary there. 在第一个会议里,他们都说, 他们做的不是行贿。那是个习俗。
customary:adj.习惯的;通常的;n.习惯法汇编;
This is what these other cultures demand. 那是其他的文化所要求的。
They even applaud it. 他们甚至赞许这种行为。
applaud:v.欢呼;赞成;
In fact, [unclear] 事实上,有人
still says this today. 到如今还坚持这样的观点。
And so there are still a lot of people who are not convinced that who have to stop bribing. 并且还有很多人 不相信别人已经停止了行贿。
But in the second session, they admitted already that they would never do this, what they are doing in these other countries, here in Germany or in the UK and so on. 但是在第二次会议里, 他们已经承认他们再也不会这样做了, 不会再做这些发生在其他国家, 如德国、英国等等的事了。
Cabinet ministers would admit this. 内阁大臣们承认了这一点。
Cabinet:n.内阁;储藏柜;陈列柜;adj.内阁的;小房间用的;玲珑的;细木工做的;
And in the final session, at the Aspen Institute, we had them all sign an open letter to the Kohl government, at the time, requesting that they participate in the OECD convention. 在最后一个会议里,在山杨协会, 我们让他们所有人都签署了一封 给那时的科勒政府的公开信, 要求参与到 经济合作与发展组织协定里来。
open letter:n.公开信; Kohl:n.眼影粉;化妆墨; participate:v.参加;参与;
And this is, in my opinion , an example of soft power, because we were able to convince them that they had to go with us. 这在我心中 是一种软实力的体现, 因为我们能够让他们确信 他们必须跟我们统一战线。
in my opinion:在我看来;我认为;
We had a longer term time perspective . 我们有更长远的目光。
perspective:n.观点;远景;透视图;adj.透视的;
We had a broader, geographically much wider, constituency we were trying to defend. 我们要维护 地域上更宽广的 群体利益。
geographically:adv.在地理上;地理学上; constituency:n.(选区的)选民;支持者;(一批)顾客;
And that's why the law has changed. 这就是为什么法律被改变了。
That's why Siemens is now in the trouble they are in. 这就是为什么西门子现在遇到了麻烦。
Siemens:n.[电]西门子(财富500强公司之一,总部所在地德国,主要经营电子电气);
And that's why MIN is in the trouble they are in. 这就是为什么MIN现在碰到了棘手的事。
In some other countries, the OECD convention is not yet properly enforced . 在一些其他国家里,经济合作与发展组织协定 还没有被真正地有力实施。
enforced:adj.强迫的;强制性的;v.强制执行;迫使;(enforce的过去分词和过去式)
And, again, civil societies breathing down the neck of the establishment . 我重申,公民社会 紧盯着当局的一举一动。
establishment:n.大型组织;企业;旅馆;权威人士;建立;
In London, for instance, where the BAE got away with a huge corruption case, which the Serious Fraud Office tried to prosecute , 100 million British pounds, every year for ten years, 比如在伦敦, BAE从一桩 巨大的腐败事件中侥幸逃脱干系 苏瑞惩治诈骗办公室曾尝试惩处他们。 每年十亿英镑的贿款, 十年以来,
Fraud:n.欺骗;骗子;诡计; prosecute:vt.检举;贯彻;从事;依法进行;vi.起诉;告发;作检察官;
to one particular official of one particular friendly country, who then bought for 44 billion pounds of military equipment. 被送给了某个友好国家的某个官员 这个官因此 买了他们440亿英镑的军备。
official:adj.官方的;正式的;公务的;n.官员;公务员;高级职员; military:adj.军事的;军人的;适于战争的;n.军队;军人;
This case, they are not prosecuting in the UK. 在这个案例里,他们没有在英国得到惩处。
prosecuting:v.起诉;控告;检举;担任控方律师;继续从事(或参与);(prosecute的现在分词)
Why? Because they consider this as contrary to the security interest of the people of Great Britain . 为什么呢？因为当局认为 惩处与英国人民的 安全利益相冲突。
Great Britain:n.大不列颠(包括英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士);
Civil society is pushing, civil society is trying to get a solution to this problem and also in the UK and also in Japan, which is not properly enforcing , and so on. 公民社会在推动, 在尝试给问题找一个解决方案 在英国 也在日本,那里的对外行贿也没有被好好控制, 等等。
solution:n.解决方案;溶液;溶解;解答; enforcing:v.强制执行;强迫;迫使;(enforce的现在分词)
In Germany, we are pushing the ratification of the UN convention, which is a subsequent convention. 在德国,我们在推动 签署联合国协定的进程。 这是一个后续的协定。
ratification:n.批准;承认,认可; subsequent:adj.后来的,随后的;
We are, Germany, is not ratifying . 德国没有签认。
ratifying:vt.批准;认可;
Why? Because it would make it necessary to criminalize the corruption of deputies . 为什么呢？因为签署了它就相当于 使惩罚代理人受贿 成了必须的事。
deputies:n.副手;二把手(deputy的复数形式);
In Germany, we have a system where you are not allowed to bribe a civil servant , but you are allowed to bribe a deputy . 在德国的系统里, 你不能够贿赂一位公务员, 但是可以贿赂一位代理人。
civil servant:n.公务员;政府官员; deputy:n.代理人,代表;adj.副的;代理的;
This is, under German law, allowed. 这是被德国法律所允许的。
And the members of parliament don't want to change this, and this is why they can't sign the UN convention against foreign bribery, one of they very, very few countries 议会成员不想改动这一点, 这就是为什么德国不能签署 联合国反对外行贿协定的原因。 这是世界上极少数的
parliament:n.议会,国会;
which is preaching honesty and good governance everywhere in the world, but not able to ratify they convention, which we managed to get on the books with about 160 countries all over the world. 讲究道德、好管理的的国度之一, 但是它不能签署这份 通过我们努力, 有大约160个国家签署了的协定。
preaching:v.讲道(尤指教堂中礼拜时); n.讲道; (preach的现在分词)
I see my time is ticking. 我看见我的时间不多了。
Let me just try to draw some conclusions from what has happened. 让我就试着 总结一下发生的事。
conclusions:n.结论,总结;决定;(conclusion的复数)
I believe that what we managed to achieve in fighting corruption, one can also achieve in other areas of failing governance. 我相信我们在 与腐败的斗争中取得的, 也可以在 政府失效的其他领域中取得。
By now, the United Nations is totally on our side. 现在,联合国 已经完全和我们站在了一边。
United Nations:n.联合国;
The World Bank has turned from Saulus to Paulus under Wolfensohn, and they became, I would say, the strongest anti-corruption agency in the world. 世界银行已在Wolfensohn领导下从Saulus转向Paulus, 也成为了,我敢说, 世界上最强的反腐败组织。
anti-corruption:n.反腐败;反贪腐;廉政风暴; agency:n.代理,中介;代理处,经销处;
Most of the large companies are now totally convinced that they have to put in place very strong policies against bribery and so on. 绝大多数的大公司 现在已经完全确信 他们需要 执行很强的政策 以防腐败等等。
policies:n.政策;方针;原则;为人之道;保险单(policy的复数)
And this is possible because civil society joined the companies and joined the government in the analysis of the problem, in the development of remedies , in the implementation of reforms , and then later, in the monitoring of reforms. 这是可能做到的,因为公民社会 加入了公司 也加入了政府 一起分析问题 推出纠正方法 执行改革 并在之后,监督改革。
analysis:n.分析;分解;验定; remedies:n.处理方法; v.改正; (remedy的第三人称单数和复数) implementation:n.[计]实现;履行;安装启用; reforms:n.改革(reform的复数);v.改革(reform的单数第三人称);
Of course, if civil society organizations want to play that role, they have to grow into this responsibility. 当然,如果公民社会 想要参与进来, 就得有足够的责任感。
Not all civil society organizations are good. 不是所有的民权社会组织都是造福人类的。
The Ku Klux Klan is an NGO. 3K党也是个非政府组织呢。
Ku Klux Klan:n.三K党(美国南部的白人秘密组织,通过暴力反对社会变革和为黑人争取平等权利);
So, we must be aware that civil society has to shape up itself. 所以,我们必须意识到 民权社会 要不断改良自身。
They have to have a much more transparent financial governance. 他们有一个 透明度高得多的财政管理。
transparent:adj.透明的;显然的;坦率的;易懂的; financial:adj.金融的;财政的,财务的;
They have to have a much more participatory governance in many civil society organizations. 他们有一个参与度高得多的管理。 在很多民权社会组织里都是如此。
participatory:adj.供人分享的;吸引参与的;
We also need much more competence of civil society leaders. 我们也需要更胜任的民权社会领袖。
competence:n.能力,胜任;权限;作证能力;足以过舒适生活的收入;
This is why we have set up the governance school and the Center for Civil Society here in Berlin. 这就是为什么我们在柏林建立了管理学校 以及民权中心。
Because we believe most of our educational and research institutions in Germany and continental Europe in general, do not focus enough, yet, empowering civil society and training the leadership of civil society. 因为我们相信大多数教育以及 研究协会,在德国 和欧洲大陆,从大体上来说, 都对发展和培育公民社会 的力量 还不够集中重视。
educational:adj.教育的;有关教育的;有教育意义的 continental:adj.大陆的;大陆性的;n.欧洲人; empowering:v.授权;给(某人)…的权力;增加(某人的)自主权;(empower的现在分词)
But what I'm saying from my very practical experience, if civil society does it right and joins the other actors, in particular , governments, governments and their international institutions, but also large international actors, in particular , those who have committed themselves to corporate social responsibility, then, in this magical triangle , between civil society, government and private sector , there is a tremendous chance for all of us to create a better world. 但是从我非常实际的经历来看, 如果公民社会做得好, 并与其他成员齐心协力, 尤其是与政府, 政府和他们的国际机构, 那些活跃在国际舞台上的成员, 尤其是那些致力于 共同社会责任感的, 那么,在这个 公民社会、 政府和私营部门形成的神奇三角里, 就会有巨大的可能性, 使我们一起创造出一个更美好的世界。
practical:adj.实际的;真实的;客观存在的;n.实习课;实践课; in particular:尤其,特别; committed:adj.坚信的; v.做出错事; (commit的过去分词和过去式) corporate:adj.公司的;组成公司(或团体)的;法人的;社团的; triangle:n.三角形;三角形物体;三角铁(打击乐器);三角关系; private sector:n.(国家经济的)私营部分; tremendous:adj.极大的,巨大的;惊人的;极好的;
Thank you. 谢谢。
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