Eagle Scouting's biggest contribution to American life is the one most recognized: the service project, the 'dissertation' of the boyhood Ph.D. Since the mid-1960s, all Eagle candidates are required, beyond earning the traditional 21 merit badges, to devise, plan, execute and manage a community-service project.
鹰童军对美国生活的最大贡献有口皆碑:服务项目,即少年Ph.D的“毕业论文。从20世纪60年代中期开始,除了要赢得传统的21枚勋章外,所有的鹰童军候选人按要求都必须对一项社区服务项目进行设计、规划、实施和管理。
Most of these projects are small: a new bench at the park, painting a school building, collecting blankets for a homeless shelter. But some are hugely ambitious: restoring wetlands, building a library in Africa or a playground at a Russian orphanage, creating an artificial reef─and they consume thousands of hours.
这些项目多数都是小项目:在公园里安装一条新板凳、给校舍刷油漆、为收容所募集毛毯。但是有些项目目标宏大:恢复湿地、在非洲建一座图书馆或在俄罗斯一家孤儿院建一个操尝建造一个人工岛礁──这些项目需要耗时数千个小时。
You cannot read a small-town newspaper in America without running across the story of an Eagle service project at least once a month. But it was only recently that the National Eagle Scout Association decided to look beyond the anecdotal and tally up all of the Eagle service projects ever done. It came to the jaw-dropping total of more than 100 million hours of service. Eagle Scouts are adding more than three million more hours each year.
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