I think that we are all here very anxious to get down to work and deal with the issues that face us, and, as we live at the beginning of the twenty-first century, we are faced with a world that is very different to that of the preceding century.
我想，大家都很急于要开展工作，处理我们所面对的各项问题。 现在，二十一世纪刚刚开始，但我们的世界已与上一个世纪很不相同了。