凯特王妃 | 2023年“塑形运动”启动致辞

Thank you! Good evening and thank you very much. Amanda and Loki, yes once again for that wonderful performance too.谢谢！晚上好，非常感谢你们！阿曼达和洛基，也再次感谢你们的精彩表演。
This week sees the launch of our new awareness raising campaign “Shaping Us”. The campaign is fundamentally about shining a spotlight on the critical importance of early childhood and how it shapes the adults we become.本周，我们发起了新的提高认知运动——“塑形”。该项运动从根本上讲是为了让人们关注儿童早期的关键重要性，以及它是如何塑造我们成为成年人的。
During this time, we lay the foundations and building blocks for life. It is when we learn to understand ourselves, understand others and understand the world in which we live.这段时期，是我们为生活奠定基础，打好基石，是我们学习了解自己，了解他人以及了解我们所处的世界的时候。
This is why it is essential, to not only understand the unique importance of our earliest years, but to know what we can all do to help raise future generations of happy healthy adults.这就是为什么我们不仅要了解孩童时期的独特重要性，还要知道我们都能做些什么来帮助培养下一代快乐健康的成年人。
“Shaping Us” is a long-term campaign and we're starting by highlighting how we develop during early childhood, and why these years matter so much in terms of shaping who we become.“塑形”是一项长期的运动，首先要强调我们在孩童时期如何发展，以及为什么孩童时期对塑造我们成为什么样的人如此重要。
As the campaign progresses, we'll explore in more depth the importance of a child's social and emotional world, the significance of relationships and the impact of the surroundings and experiences a child is exposed to during these formative years.随着这项运动的进行，我们将更深入地探讨儿童的社会和情感世界的重要性，人际关系的重要性以及儿童在成长过程中所接触的环境和经历的影响。
Together, these play a key role in shaping our future lives. Yet they rarely get as much focus as our physical health and cognitive development.总之，这些因素在塑造我们未来生活中发挥着关键作用。然而它们很少像我们的身体健康和认知发展那样受到人们关注。
And of course, by understanding our own childhoods, what has shaped our own beliefs, relationships, behaviors and feelings, we as adults a better place to play our part in positively shaping future generations.通过了解我们自己的童年，是什么塑造了我们自己的信仰、关系、行为和感受，我们作为成年人可以更好地发挥自己的作用，积极地塑造后代。
Those involved in raising children today need the very best of information and support in helping to achieve this mission, and this campaign aims to help do that too.如今，那些参与养育儿童的人需要最好的信息和支持，以帮助完成这项使命，而这项运动的目的也是帮助实现这一使命。
I want to say a huge and heartfelt thank you to so many of you in this room for your ongoing work in this area. Thank you for the years of dedication and your unfailing determination to advocate for and improve the lives of the very youngest members of our society.我想对在座的许多人表示非常衷心的感谢，感谢你们在这一领域坚持不懈的工作。感谢你们多年来的无私奉献，以及你们为倡导和改善我们社会中最年轻成员的生活而表现出的不屈不挠的决心。
And thank you also to many of you here in this room and this evening for your personal support to me, in helping develop my thinking and work on this issue over the years.同时要感谢今天晚上在座的许多人，感谢你们多年来对我个人的支持，帮助我在这个问题的思考和工作。
As you all know, by building a supportive nurturing world around children and those caring for them, we can make a huge difference to generations to come. Because fundamentally, healthy happy children shape a healthy happy future.大家都知道，在儿童和培养他们的人周围建立一个支持性的养育世界，我们能为未来的几代人带来巨大的变化。因为从根本上说，健康快乐的孩子会塑造一个健康快乐的未来。
Thank you!谢谢！