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Nobel Prize Address for Literature

温斯顿·伦纳德·斯宾塞·丘吉尔 / Wston L.S.Churchill

温斯顿·伦纳德·斯宾塞·丘吉尔（1874—1965），英国传记作家、历史学家和政治家，生于牛津附近的布莱尼姆宫。1893年考入桑德斯特陆军军官学校，1895年，以少尉军衔编入皇家第四骑兵团。1945年，在反法西斯胜利前夕，因保守党在大选中失败，丘吉尔失去首相职位。其后，他用6年时间完成了六卷本《第二次世界大战回忆录》。1951年，保守党在选举中获胜，丘吉尔77岁高龄再次出任首相。1955年因年事高辞职退休，专心撰写四卷本《英语民族史》。1965年1月因脑溢血辞世。

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What do you know about Wston Churchill as a British pri ister or a ner of Nobel Prize？Do you know anythg about his personality？

The roll on which y na has been scribed represents uch that is outstandgthe world’s literature of the eh tury.The judgnt of the Swedish Acadey is aepted as ipartial, authoritative and scere throughout the civilized world.I a proud but also awestruck at your decision to cde .I do hope you are right.I feel we are b a nsiderable risk, and that I do not deserve it.But I shall have no isgivgs if you have none.

Stion have events seed so harshly to dersonalities.Rarelyhistory have brutal facts so doated thought or has such a widespread dividual virtue found so di a llective foc.The fearful question nfronts : Have our probles got beyond our ntrol? Undoubtedly assg through a phase where this ay be so.Well ay we huble ourselves and seek fuidand rcy.

WeEurope and the western world who have pnned for health and social security, who have arveled at the triuphs of did sce, and who have aid at jtid freedo for all, have heless been witnesses of fae, isery, cruelty aru before which pale the deeds of Atti and Janghiz Khan.And we who, firstthe League of Nations and nowthe United Nations, have attepted to give an abidg foundation to the peace of whi have dread so long, have lived to see a world arred by cleavages and threatened by disrds even graver and ore violent than those whivulsed Europe after the fall of the Roan Epire.

It is upon this dark background that preciate the ajesty and hope which spired the ion of Alfred Nobel.He has left behd hi a bright and endurg bea of culture, of purpose, and of spiration to a geion which standssore his world-fao stitution pots a true path forto follow.Let , therefore, nfront the ctter and rigidity we see aroundwith tolerance, variety and cal.

The world looks with adiration and deed with fort to Sdavia, where three untries, without sacrificg their snty, live uheir thought,their enoic practice, andtheir healthy way of life.Fro such fountas new and brighter opportunities ay e to all ankd.These are, I believe, the sentts which ay ahose who the Nobel Foundatios to honor,the sure knowledge that they will th be respectg the ideals and wishes of its ilstrio founder.