Have you insisted on reading great books
What is a great book? There is no end to the making of books. Nor does there seem to be any end to the making lists of great books. There has always be more books than one could read. You can be happy at the fact that the number of that is relatively small.
However,today,people usually leave it in the library. According to the national reading survey issued by The China Academy of Press and Publication, in 2012, only 55% Chinese aged between18 and 70 book read books .That is to say, there are more than forty percent of the people seldom read in China.
It is a great challenge to literature. As a educated student,have you insist on reading great books. In order to change the situation ,we must take actions to read great books.
In Adler’s essay of What is A Great Book, he explain why we should read great books. I conclude it as follows.
First,great books are the most readable. They will not let you down ,if you read them well. The have more ideas per page than most books in the their entirety. This is why you can read a great book over and over again and never exhaust it contents.
Second ,great books are always contemporary,in contrast to the books we called contemporary,because they are currently popular ,last for a year or tow,or ten at most. You may probably can not recall the names of many earlier best sellers,and you may probably would not be interest in reading them. But the great are never out modeled by the movement of thought or the shifting winds of opinion .
Third ,great books are the most instructive. This follows the fact that they are original communications. They contain what cannot be found in other books. Whether you ultimately agree or disagree what they say. They are the primary teachers of mankind. They have made basic contribution to human right .
Just giving you the reason is not enough, I will give you some methods to realize you reading dream.
Firstly,you can begin with a interesting novel. You will be attracted by the figures,the plots .Than ,after reading a lot of books ,you may be get into a habit of reading. So,you can contact with some complex books,such as philosophy ,arts and so on. You will be shocked at the new world.
There are countless great books in our library,you must make great advantage of it. Of course ,it is a better choice to buy great books. Collecting books is a enjoyable thing,at least for me. So,reading great books. The new world is coming.
第二篇：关于英语演讲
生活中，有时强烈的思念使我们恨不得一把将所爱的人从梦中带走，实实在在地拥抱他们。做自己想做的梦吧，生命只有 0
There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go；be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
生活中，有时强烈的思念使我们恨不得一把将所爱的人从梦中带走，实实在在地拥抱他们。做自己想做的梦吧，生命只有一次，机会只有一回。
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trails to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. Always keep yourself in other’s shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.
愿你有足够的欢乐，使自己甜蜜；有足够的考验，使自己坚强；有足够的悲伤，使自己富有人情；有足够的希望；使自己幸福。要经常换位思维一件事，要是你感到对自己有伤害，就可能对他人也有伤害。 The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. 最幸福的人并不是那些拥有最好的东西的人，他们只是能够将得到的东西变得最好。幸福属于那些会哭泣的人，那些受过伤害的人，那些探索的人，以及那些尝试过的人。只有他们才懂得对自己生活有影响的人们的重要。爱以微笑开始，在亲吻中成长，以泪水终结。光明灿烂的明天建立在忘却的过去之上。只有让以往的失败和伤心随风而去，你才能过得更好。
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
出生的时候，哭啼的是你，周围的人却在微笑。珍视生活，好好地活着，这样当你死去时，周围的人在哭泣，而你却在微笑。
Please send this message to those people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your
life in one way or another, to those who make you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you really down, to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship. And if you don’t, don’t worry, nothing bad will happen to you, you will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten someone’s day with this message.
请把这些语言送给那些你所关心的人，那些在生活中这样或那样同自己打交道的人，那些需要时能给你带来微笑的人，那些在逆境中依然能使你看到光明的人，那些你珍视与他们之间的友谊的人。即使你没有这样做，也不要紧。没有什么大不了的事情，你只是错过了用这些言语照亮他人日子的机会。
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.
无论是60岁还是16岁，你需要保持永不衰竭的好奇心、永不熄灭的孩提般求知的渴望和追求事业成功的欢乐与热情。在你我的心底，有一座无线电台，它能在多长时间里接收到人间万物传递来的美好、希望、欢乐、鼓舞和力量的信息，你就会年轻多长时间。
An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
人的生命应当像河流，开始是涓涓细流，受两岸的限制而十分狭窄，尔后奔腾咆哮，翻过危岩，飞越瀑布，河面渐渐开阔，河岸也随之向两边隐去，最后水流平缓，森森无际，汇入大海之中，个人就这样毫无痛苦地消失了。
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.
青春意味着战胜懦弱的那股大丈夫气概和摈弃安逸的那种冒险精神。往往一个60岁的老者比一个20岁的青年更多一点这种劲头。人老不仅仅是岁月流逝所致，更主要的是不思进取的结果。
Years may wrinkle the skin,but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
光阴可以在颜面上留下印记，而热情之火的熄灭则在心灵上刻下皱纹。烦恼、恐惧、缺乏自信会扭曲人的灵魂，并将青春化为灰烬。
英语不难！难的是你还没开始
人生最不幸的事情并不是失去，而是你一直拥有却从来没有意识到过，甚至等到失去的时候才意识到，却已晚了。人生最 0
人生最不幸的事情并不是失去，而是你一直拥有却从来没有意识到过，甚至等到失去的时候才意识到，却已晚了。人生最无奈的事不是得不到，而是你对自己拥有的不满足。看完这篇美文，知足的活着吧，犹如这是人间乐土。
Heaven on Earth 人间乐土 中英对照：
If you woke pup this morning with more health than illness……you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
如果你早上醒来的时候健康无恙……那么，比起活不过这一周的百万人来说，你真是幸运多了。
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation…you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
如果你未曾经历过战争的危险、入狱的孤独、严刑的苦楚、饥饿的痛苦……那么，比起世界上５亿人来，你真是幸运多了。
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep… you are richer than 75% of this world.
如果你冰箱里有食物，身上有衣服可穿，有屋篷遮蔽，有地方睡觉……那么，比起世界上75％的人来，你真是富足多了。
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in dish someplace…you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealth.
如果你银行中有存款，钱包中也有钱，还能到某处消费习菜……你便跻身在世界上最富有的８％人口当中了。
If your parents are still alive and still married…you are very rare, even in the United Stated and Canada.
如果你的父母依然健在，而且还在一起生活的话……这可是非常难得的事，即使是在美国与加拿大。
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
有人说过：我所付出的终将会回归。
So…
Work live you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Sing like nobody’s listening.
Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.
所以……
去工作时，犹如你不需要金钱。
去爱他人，犹如你从未被伤害。
去舞蹈吧，犹如无人在一旁观看。
去歌唱吧，犹如无人在一边谛听。
好好地生活，犹如这里是人间乐土。
The thing that goes the farthest toward making life worthwhile,
That costs the least and does the most, is just a pleasant smile. The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves its fellow men, Will drive away the clouds of gloom and coax the Sun again.
It'sfull of worth and goodness, too, with manly kindness blent; It’s worth a million dollars, and it doesn’t cost a cent. There is no room for sadness when we see a cheery smile; It always has the same good look; it’s never out of style; It nerves us on to try again when failure makes us blue; The dimples of encouragement are good for me and you.
It pays the highest interest — for it is merely lent;
It’s worth a million dollars, and it doesn’t cost a cent.
A smile comes very easy — you can wrinkle up with cheer,
A hundred times before you can squeeze out a salty tear;
It ripples out, moreover, to the heartstrings that will tug, And always leaves an echo that is very like a hug.
So, smile away! Folks understand what by a smile is meant; It’s worth a million dollars, and it doesn’t cost a cent.
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那最能赋予生命价值、代价最廉而回报最多的东西，
不过一个令人心畅的微笑而已。
由衷地热爱同胞的微笑，
会驱走心头阴郁的乌云，心底收获一轮夕阳。
它充满价值和美好，混合着坚毅的仁爱之心；
它价值连城却不花一文。
当我们看到喜悦的微笑，忧伤就会一扫而光；
它始终面容姣好，永不落伍；
失败令我们沮丧之时，它鼓励我们再次尝试；
鼓励的笑靥于你我大有裨益。
它支付的利息高昂无比──只因它是种借贷形式；
它价值连城却不花一文。
来一个微笑很容易──嘴角欢快翘起来，
你能百次微笑，可难得挤出一滴泪；
它的涟漪深深波及心弦，
总会留下反响，宛若拥抱。
继续微笑吧！谁都懂得它意味着什么；
它价值连城却不花一文。
No living creature can laugh except man. Trees may bleed when they are wounded, and beasts in the field will cry in pain and hunger, yet only I have the gift of laughter and it is mine to use whenever I choose. Henceforth I will cultivate the habit of laughter. I will smile and my digestion will improve; I will chuckle and my burdens will be lightened; I will laugh and my life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life and now it is mine.
I will paint this day with laughter; I will frame this night in song. Never will I labor to be happy; rather will I remain too busy to be sad. I will enjoy today's happiness today. It is not grain to be stored in a box. It is not wine to be saved in a jar. It cannot be saved for the morrow. It must be sown and
reaped on the same day and this I will do, henceforth.
And with my laughter all things will be reduced to their proper size. I will laugh at my failures and they will vanish in clouds of new dreams; I will laugh at my successes and they will shrink to their true value. I will laugh at evil and it will die untasted; I will laugh at goodness and it will thrive and abound. Each day will be triumphant only when my smiles bring forth smiles from others and this l do in selfishness, for those on whom l flown are those who purchase not my goods.
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只有人类才会笑。树木受伤时也会流“血”，禽兽也会因痛苦和饥饿而哭嚎哀鸣，然而，只有我才具备笑的天赋，可以随时开怀大笑。从今往后，我要培养笑的习惯。 笑有助于消化，笑能减轻压力，笑，是长寿的秘方。现在我终于掌握了它。
我要用笑声点缀今天，我要用歌声照亮黑夜。我不再苦苦寻觅快乐，我要在繁忙的工作中忘记悲伤。我要享受今天的快乐，它不像粮食可以贮藏，更不似美酒越陈越香。
笑声中，一切都显露本色。我笑自己的失败，它们将化为梦的云彩；我笑自己的成功，它们回复本来面目；我笑邪恶，它们远我而去；我笑善良，它们发扬光大。我要用我的笑容感染别人，虽然我的目的自私，但这确是成功之道，因为皱起的眉头会让顾客弃我而去。我不是为将来而活。今天播种今天收获。
As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity. Constant learning supplies us with inexhaustible fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis, and judgment. Learning incessantly is the surest way to keep pace with the times in the information age, and reliable warrant of success in times of uncertainty.
Once learning stops, vegetation sets in. It is a common fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the acquisition of knowledge. On the contrary, learning should be a never-ending process, from the cradle to the grave. With the world changing so fast, to cease learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind. What's worse, the animal instinct dormant deep in our sub-conscious will come to life.weakening our will to pursue our noble ideas, undermining our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling our desire for the refinement of our character. Lack of learning will inevitably lea
d to the stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossilization. Therefore, to stay mentally young, we have to take learning as a lifelong career.
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学习：一生的事业
学习之于心灵，就像食物之于身体一样。摄取了适量的营养食物，我们的身体得以生长而肌肉得以发达。 同样地，我们应该日复一日不断地学习以保持我们心智的敏锐，并扩充我们的智力容量。不断的学习提供我们用之不尽的燃料，来驱使我们磨砺我们的推理、分析和判断的能力。持续的学习是在信息时代中跟时代井驾齐驱的最稳当的方法，也是在变动的时代中成功的可靠保证。
一旦学习停止，单调贫乏的生活就开始了。视学校为汲取知识的惟一场所是种常见的谬误。相反地，从生到死,学习应该是一种无终止的历程。 由于世界变化得如此迅速，只要学习停顿数日就能使人落后。更糟的是，蛰伏在我们潜意识深处的兽性本能就会复活，削弱我们追求高尚理想的意志，弱化我们扫除成功障碍的决心，而且扼杀我们净化我们人格的欲望。缺少学习将不可避免地导致心灵的停滞，甚至更糟，使其僵化。因此，为了保持心态年轻，我们必须将学习当作一生的事业。
What We Cannot Afford to Lose
We youths often ask each other what we cannot afford to lose, which I often think over. Here is my answer.
First, we can't afford to lose our youth. Youth is a time which is precious to everybody. If we cannot make full use of it to learn more and improve ourselves, we will regret when we are old and achieve nothing.
Sceond, we can't afford to lose chances. A chance is something that sometimes goes by you if you don't seize it. Our teachers often tell us everybody has the same chances and what matters is to see who can seize it.
Finally, we can't afford to lose our family. Our family are our closest people in the world. Once you hurt or lose them, you will live sadly.
Therefore, my dear friends, let's make the most of our youth, seize each chance which passes us and treat our family well. Then you will be a happy person.
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What We Cannot Afford to Lose
We youths often ask each other what we cannot afford to lose, which I often think over. Here is my answer.
First, we can't afford to lose our youth. Youth is a time which is precious to everybody. If we cannot make full use of it to learn more and improve ourselves, we will regret when we are old and achieve nothing. Therefore we should work hard to learn more when we are young in order not have regrets when we are old. Catching your youth, you are the biggest winner.
Second, we can't afford to lose chances. A chance is something that sometimes goes by you if you don't seize it. Our teachers often tell us everybody has the same chances and what matters is to see who can seize it. Only by seizing every possible chance, we can make ourselves make the greatest progress.
Thirdly, we can’t afford to lose our friends. Don’t quarrel with your friends often even if they make some mistakes. What are true friends? When you laugh they laugh with you; when you are sad they are sad with you. Remember that a good friend sometimes treats you better than your brother. So try to be kind to your friends and do your best to help them when they are in trouble.
Finally, we can't afford to lose our family. Our family are our closest people in the world. Once you hurt or lose them, you will live sadly. Therefore, love your father, mother, partner, children when they are with you because they really take care of you when you are in need and only they don’t look down upon you even if you are the ugliest.
In a word, my dear friends, let's make the most of our youth, seize each chance which passes us and treat our family well. Only in this way can we be happy persons.
我尽力了，希望对有所帮助。
What we can not afford to lose In the substantial society, we always fight to get what we want, but hardy think about what can we not afford to lose. Life，Money，or real love? Different people hold different views. Life is only once, so, there is no reason to protect every life to hurt. And as the saying goes, no money, no move. This is why people work hard or commit crimes. Our life can not without money. What’s more, the young always sigh that it is more and more difficult to hold the real love. Indeed, finding real love is so hard. Of course, losing love is very pain like the hart is being cut. Therefore, the three things above are all too precious to lose. In my opinion, there are two things I can not to lose. One is the friendship, another is the lost train home. Because the friendship is as rare as the love. Compared to love, friendships always make us happy but not hurt. Moreover, home is the destination forever because our parents are home. They hope us can home to accompany them and know their kids are Ok. So, we can’t miss the last train home.
What We Cannot Afford to Lose ——smile My honourable judges,ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon! When I was a childI always wanted to be a superheroin. I wanted to save the world and then make everyone happy. But I knew that I’d need superpowers to make my dreams come true. Years’ continuous efforts on daily life when I grew up find me an answer, which is definitely what we cannot afford to lose----smile. My mum once told me, if you are not good-looking, let yourself be a brilliant girl. But if you even have no talents, then be a smiling girl. And you can clearly see that, I do it accordingly. Also,Mark Twain , American famous writer and speaker, had a well-known saying that the human race has one really effective weapon, and that is smile. Now, let’s be practical, for ladies here, if you go out and forget to make up, what’s the best remedy? Cindy Crawford, one of the American supermodels told us that the best policy is to flash our smile. Before I continue this speech, I have a question. How many people here in this room smile more than 20 times per day? Raise your hand if you do. Oh, wow. Smiling stimulates our brain reward mechanism, in the way that even chocolate, a well-regarded pleasure inducer,can not match. British researchers found that one smile can generate the same level of brain stimulation as up to 2,000 bars of chocolate. Wait, the same study found that smiling is as stimulating as receiving up to 16,000 pounds Sterling in cash. That’s like 25 grand a smile. It’s not bad. And think about this way: 25,000 times 400, quite a few kids out there feel like Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of facebook. Wow, cool! And if that’s not enough, smiling can actually look good in the eyes of others. A recent study at penn state university found when you smile you don’t only appear to be more likable and courteous but you accturally appear to be more competent. So whenever you want to look great and competent, reduce your stress, or improve your marridge, or feel as if you just had a whole stack of high-quality chocolate, without incurring the caloric cost or whenever you want to tap into a superpower that will help you and everyone around you live a longer, healthier, happier life, smile! Thank you!
What We Cannot Afford To Lose Here are many things in the world that we can not afford to lose , such as our health , our families and friends , wealth , lovers and so on . But the most important one of which , I think ,is the pure and fresh surroundings. As is well known , although we can not see the air is also touched , but it is everywhere , without it we will not be able to continue to survive . Air pollution is one of the major problems of the modern world . The environmental pollution caused by ecological system will give direct damage and influence . For example, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and ozone depletion is derived by air pollution of environment effect. Of course, the pollution of the environment is the most direct, the most easy to people feel consequence is that human environment quality decline, the effects on human quality of life, health and production activities. Such as the city's air pollution cause air dirty, the incidence of people rise, etc; Water pollution makes the water environment quality deterioration, drinking water quality generally decline, the threat to the health of the human body, cause fetal premature delivery or deformity, etc. Serious pollution event not only bring health problems, also cause social problems. With the aggravation of the pollution of the people and the improvement of environmental awareness, due to the pollution caused by the crowd disputes and conflicts increases year by year . In the face of such a severe environment pollution situation, we must take effective protective measures. In order to make the prevention and control of environmental pollution, we every citizen must try to enhance environmental awareness: on the one hand to be aware to the human in the exploitation and utilization of natural resources in the process, often on the ecological environment caused by pollution and destruction; On the other hand we should put the knowledge into their own practical action, with "the protection of the environment is everyone duty" attitude actively participate in various environmental protection activities, protect the environment consciously cultivate morality. In order to let us live healthier lives better, everyone should to protect the environment and contribute. This thing we aim at will do, because the pure and fresh surroundings we live in is the most precious thin
What We Cannot Afford to Lose In the way to go to the lighthouse, there are many things that we can not afford to lose, such as opportunities, attitudes, challenges, persistence, goals, self-confidence and so on. But in my opinion, I think the goals are crucial. Where there is a goal, there is motivation. When a man lose his goals, he will be hard to go ahead. As is known to us, Florence Chadwick was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. However, as far as she can see, she would have a further goal, which was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast. As a result, she swam with her faith intact and her goal clearly pictured in her mind and she made it! Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel. We are proud of this woman. From ancient times to nowadays, there
were many famous people that their goal is not clear, they were failure in the meanwhile. What is more, I can see many students in my schoolfellow of high school who were already get married that they were failure in the college entrance examination since as they did not have a certain goal. Just as a saying goes that what you are, so is your world. What goals are, so is your height. Nevertheless, it is not equal to the small goals can create little benefit. We should set up different level goals endlessly, only ike this, we can get up the top notch of success. Then in terms of our average person how can we reach our goals? Of course desiresthey are heartbeats of soul, which demand and impel to action. A desire goes out from itself, it firmly reached out, demanding the thing desired, and divinely creates it in reality. Consequently, fire your desire so that your goals will come true. And fire it with your feelings and emotions. I believe that as long as we can have a try, it will not a problem. Lots of people are not due to their own defect to failure, but owing to they can not keep their goals in sight, and they do not know their own direction to advance. For these reasons, particularly as juniors of a university, we should build our own goals, and achieve it industriously.