第十六届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军许吉如

演讲视频 Have you ever bought any food on the train? And do you ask for the receipt after buying it? Nowadays, all trains in China provide its passengers with receipts for commodities, but 7 years ago, things were quite different.

On 13th of October, 2004, the train T109 from Beijing to Shanghai was speeding on the railway. A graduate student bought a sausage at 1 yuan on the train, then asked for a receipt.

“Are you kidding? It?s just one yuan!” The crew member was surprised. The student, however, answered in a determined voice, “I paid the money, so I deserve the receipt.”

“But we never give receipts on the train.? As a result, his further request was turned down by a cold shoulder.

Several days later, the student sued the National Railway Ministry, for not providing receipts for passengers.

To his dismay, the court turned down the case for lack of evidence. But he, who majored in law at that time, believed law as a most powerful weapon, so he did not give up. Instead, he began his journey of collecting first-hand evidence by taking trains and buying commodities aboard. When his classmates were playing soccer, he was taking the train; When his classmates were buying food at Mcdonald?s, he was buying food on the train; When his classmates were asking girls out, he was asking for the receipts. As he joked, ?I was either taking the train or on the way to take the train.?

One month later, he appeared in the court again, with newly-collected evidence and a stronger confidence. And I guess, ladies and gentlemen, you will all cheer for the result because this time, the student won the case. Very soon, a regulation about receipts on the train came out. And whatever we buy on the train now, there?s a receipt for us.

Outside the court, the student was asked, “How do you make it to the end?” He said, “As a law student, I root my faith in law. I believe that law is there, to protect every person with no exception, and to ensure every person has a say.”

His words spread a strong faith in law, which is not only a doctrine of a law student, but also a belief that all citizens ought to hold. It is this faith that initiates the student to resort to law for a tiny issue; it is this faith that supports him to endure all the exhausting trips when collecting evidence; It is this faith that makes a seemingly “ridiculous” receipt request legal and rightful. It is this faith that helps to change our life, enhance our judicial system and bring social justice.

To many, a receipt of 1 yuan is too small to mention, however rights are to be respected and law is to be believed in. It all starts with a tiny receipt of 1 yuan, but we get a monumental case, a new regulation and a bumper harvest in social justice. The bridge that leads a tiny start to a bumper harvest is faith, the faith in law, rightful and strong.

你曾经买过火车的食物？和你要收据后购买？如今，所有列车的乘客在中国提供收据的商品，但是7年前，事情是完全不同的。

在十月的第十三个，2004个，从北京到上海的火车t109超速行驶的火车。研究生1元买了香肠的火车上，然后要求一个收据。

你逗我呢吧？这只是一个元！“船员惊讶。

学生，然而，在一个确定的声音回答，“我付了钱，所以我应得的收据。”

“但我们不给#5@p上火车。”因此，他进一步的请求被拒绝的一个冷肩膀。

几天以后，学生状告国家铁道部，没有提供收据的乘客。

但令他沮丧的是，法院拒绝了该案缺乏证据。但他，他主修的是当时的法律，认为法律是一个最有力的武器，所以他并没有放弃。相反，他开始了他的旅程采集第一手证据以火车和购买商品上。当他的同学们踢足球，他乘火车；当他的同学们买吃的麦当劳，他买了火车上的食物；当他的同学们问女孩，他问的收据。他开玩笑说，“我是乘火车还是乘火车的方式。” 一个月后，他出现在法庭上，与newly-collected证据和较强的信心。我猜，女士们先生们，你们都会欢呼，结果因为这个时候，学生胜诉。很快，一个调节收入上火车了。无论我们买火车上呢，有一个收据，我们。

法庭外，学生问，“你是怎么做的到底是什么呢？“他说，”作为一个法律系的学生，我的根我的法律信仰。我相信法律是保护每个人，无一例外，并确保每个人都有说。”

他的话展开强大的法律信仰，它不仅是一种学说的一个法律系学生，但也认为，所有公民都应当把握。正是这种信念，倡导学生诉诸法律的一小的问题；它是这个信念，支持他忍受所有的排气旅行时收集证据；正是这种信念使看似“荒谬”的回执要求法律和合法。正是这种信念，有助于改变我们的生活，提高我们的司法系统，带来社会正义。

许多，一收到1元太小提，然而权利得到尊重和法律是要相信。这一切都始于一个小收到1元，但我们得到了一个巨大的情况下，一个新的规则和丰收社会正义。桥梁，导致一小开始丰收是信仰，法律信仰，合法的和强大的。

第二篇：全国英语演讲大赛演讲稿之第五名

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, honorable judges and distinguished guests:

After thinking for a long time, I realize it’s not a good idea to downsize the topic from our future to any individual future. But since actually did it, I thought it couldn’t be any worse if I intend to talk about history all over my speech, as I perfectly agree with Shakespeare in, “what’s past is prologue,” （quotation from Shakespeare to prove past is just the beginning of future and to express the reason why he didn’t talk about history next ）and this prologue starts our play for the future. So our story, at the beginning, takes us back to Thomas Edison. Many would say Edison’s greatest invention, light bulb, is the result of a determined course accompanied by hard labor and the sprit of never giving up, as we all know,（take Edison’s story of inventing light bulb for example） he said, “a genius is 1% inspiration with 99% perspiration.” （quotation） But the amusing fact was Edison actually stumbled across the phenomenon that electric-currents would heat up fibers and makes them glow when he was working with his gramophone. So light bulb, we say is an unintentional invention. Yes, your might point mirror thing in his mother’s operation story（another story） could have worked as an incentive for to dream of something brighter. But it is hard to imagine that little boy, as he was holding the mirror in the front of the candles saying to himself, “I am going to invent something called light bulb someday”.

The speaker totally takes two examples of Edison

I guess not, most likely that what we get is a bigger candle. （put his own opinion forward since here）So future cannot be planned, someday not even the way we dream of it in our pursuit for success. It is a match that favors neither the swift nor the strong. But time and chances as Mark-twain said “Name the greatest of all inventors: accident.” But why do we still call these inventions great when all they need was a little luck? They are great because they did not live by their luck, their greatness came from anther thing, perseverance. （emphasize the importance of perseverance）

Back to Edison, anyone working with electricity couldn’t have missed the phenomenon-heated up wire is a daily occurrence, but it was Edison-and Edison only-who tried out more than a thousand materials and got about the same number of failures and succeeded in the end(think deeply, why Edison finally can make it). Chances help those who help themselves. If Edison had been an opportunist, most likely he would live the rest of his life selling light bulbs.(brave assumption) But he didn’t. Indeed, sometimes that however much perspiration you have paid, that 1% of inspiration just don’s stride your head like my experience in writing this speech. （another perspective that inspiration play an significant role in Edison’s success）

But more often the case is that those who had the 1% of inspiration wasted it in their daydreaming.(reflection of the negative fact in modern society) So luck alone-like being a big game winner in a casino-that makes you rich, but it does not make you great; it is what you do with the chance that makes a difference, do after such a long prologue, the play is still left us to finish and this is a play we never get tired of, for future is a stage of infinite tales. And to all the great directors of our future plays, remember this question: Do we each have a destiny, or are we just rather flowing an accident life in the breeze? Maybe it’s both can happen at the same time. And I never stop believing that every solid step I made will lead me to somewhere eventually. Actually it did lead me here and I would call it an unintentional destiny. (put person’s brave assumption after question and state his person brief , short end but arise audience’s deep

thoughts)Thank you!

词汇：

1downsize

verb

[with obj.](chiefly US)make (something) smaller

(主美)将…改小

I downsized the rear wheel to 26 inches.

我改用26英寸的小后轮。

■make (a company or organization) smaller by shedding staff.

对（公司或机构）裁员，对…实行精减

■[no obj.](of a company) shed staff.

（公司）裁员，精减

recession forced many companies to downsize.

经济衰退迫使许多公司裁员。

2 prologue

a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work

序言；序诗；序曲

the suppressed prologue to Women in Love.

小说《恋爱中的女人》中那压抑的开场白。

■an event or action that leads to another event or situation.

引出某种情况的事件（或行动）；开端序幕

the events from 1945 to 1956 provided the prologue to the post-imperial era.

1945到19xx年发生的一系列事件拉开了后帝国时代的帷幕。

■(in professional cycling) a short preliminary time trial held before a race to establish a leader. （职业自行车赛前举行的）领头车选拔赛

■the actor who delivers the prologue in a play.

（在剧中）念开场白的演员

3 breeze

noun

a gentle wind

微风

■蒲福风力等级为2到6级的风（427节750公里/小时）

(informal)a thing that is easy to do or accomplish

(非正式)轻而易举的事

travelling through London was a breeze.

穿越伦敦是件轻而易举的事。

verb

[no obj., with adverbial of direction](informal)come or go in a casual or light-hearted manner (非正式)轻松愉快地来（或去）

Roger breezed into her office.

罗杰轻松愉快地走进她的办公室。

■轻松应对

Milan had breezed through their first defence of the European Cup.

欧洲杯赛上，米兰队轻松地赢了第一场欧洲杯卫冕赛。