Joaquin Phoenix took home the best-actor Oscar on Sunday night for his role in “Joker.” In the following lengthy and wide-ranging speech, the actor, 45, tackled issues of equality and nature preservation.

I’m full of so much gratitude right now. And I do not feel elevated above any of my fellow nominees (被提名者) or anyone in this room 【小题1】 we share the same love, the love of film.

But I think the greatest gift it’s given me, and many of us in this room, 【小题2】 (be) the opportunity to use our voice for the voiceless. And this form of expression has given me the most extraordinary life. I don’t know what I’d be 【小题3】 it.

I’ve been thinking a lot about some of   the 【小题4】 (distress) issues that we are facing collectively. I think at times we’re made 【小题5】 (feel), that we champion different causes. But for me, I see commonality. I think, 【小题6】we’re talking about gender inequality or racism or animal rights, we’re talking about the fight against injustice. We’re talking about the fight against the belief that one nation, one race, or one gender or one species has the right to dominate, control and exploit 【小题7】 without punishment.

I think that we’ve become very disconnected from the natural world, and 【小题8】 we’re guilty of is a self-centered world view that we're the center of the universe.

And I think we fear the idea of personal change because we think that we have to sacrifice something, but human beings, at our best, are so inventive and creative and original. And I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, and implement systems of change 【小题9】 are beneficial to all emotional beings and to the environment.

Now, I have been, I have been a villain in my life. I’ve been selfish. I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with, and I’m grateful that I 【小题10】 (give) a second chance because of the many of you in this room.

Celebrities（名人）like Olivia Munn, as well as fashion companies like Cucci and Versace , are among those who have been opposed 【小题1】 wearing animal fur. Now, San Francisco has become the【小题2】(large) city in the USA to ban retailers from selling new fur to their customers.

The ban aims to send 【小题3】   strong message to the fur industry 【小题4】 the cruelty these animals endure for the purpose of 【小题5】 (become) clothing is not consistent with the value of the city.

As we all know, West Hollywood became the first American city 【小题6】（forbid ）the sale of new fur items in 2011, and Berkeley passed a ban on the sale of fur clothing in 2017. Additionally, in 2000, the UK led the charge(打头阵 ), 【小题7】 (follow) by Australia in 2004. More recently, the Netherlands, the European Union’s main producer of fur , banned fur farming in 2012 and plans to end mink(貂) farming by 2024. In 2018, Norway banned fur farms and 【小题8】(end) fox and mink farming by 2025.

Hopefully, only when efforts like these are made to encourage 【小题9】 (consume) to stop buying real animal fur 【小题10】 the lives of animals be further protected all over the world.

The English word “garden” gives an entirely wrong idea of the Chinese yuan, for “garden” suggests a lawn and a wide 【小题1】 (vary) of flowers, altogether too formal and tidy to suit Chinese taste. The Chinese yuan suggests first of all a wild landscape, perhaps better arranged and more artistically 【小题2】 (plan) than nature, but still a bit of nature itself, with trees, creeks, and flowers. Dotted in this natural landscape are the human structures like pavilions and long winding corridors, so 【小题3】 (perfect) belonging to the scenery as to become a whole with it. The Chinese garden 【小题4】 (characterize) by studied disorderliness. There are no even-cut bushes or symmetric (对称的) rows lining avenues.

No Chinese house allows an outsider 【小题5】 (look) through the iron gates, for that would be against the principle of concealment (隐蔽). Facing the gate, we see a small courtyard giving no idea of the expansiveness of space inside, and leading one step by step into newer views, in 【小题6】 continual series of surprises and astonishments. 【小题7】 wooden framework supporting most of the weight of the house, windows, doors and walls are not limited to certain locations. The essential idea of interior (室内的) decoration is the beauty of simplicity. Home designs are not something 【小题8】 (impress) we buy from a first-class firm. 【小题9】 tells a home from a public building is the personal touch that we give it. It is only when the spirit of leisure and loving care exists 【小题10】 living at home can become an art and a pleasure.

Adaptation from My Country and My People by Lin Yutang