英语演讲美文精选

英语演讲美文精选.txt假如有一天你想哭打电话给我不能保证逗你笑但我能陪着你一起哭。坚强的基本，就是微笑。 面具戴久了丶就成了皮肤≈The Quality of Life Is Measured by Little Things

Chen Huijun

We each long to do something great with our life. But what is greatness? How can a person really make an impact on the world around them? How can we ex－perience the quality of life? The

definition of the qual－ity of life may differ from person to person. The way for people to achieve a quality of life may vary from one another.

However one thing is certain, the quality of life is measured by little things.

"Every day we're called to do small things with great love." Thus claimed the U.S. President Gorge W. Bush in his inaugural speech. Through touching every little thing, Helen Keller knew the outer world, and longed for three days to see to emphasize sharply the values of life.And I still remember my childhood dream was to become a millionaire so I could bring about a happy life to my parents. But now it seems that by frequent going back home, or a simple phone call to my family on a very ordinary day or a letter enclosed with a smiling picture of me makes thern even happier. How much greater difference can these little things make than a million yuan.

The so-called little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of

departure, which generally speaking, decides the whole future of the quality of life.

To strengthen the relationship with my friends, I always wonder, how can it really work without our mu－tual understanding and support by communication. To show my sincere appreciation for my

teachers'persis－tence in giving the lectures when they are ill, what can be better than extending a cup of tea to them during the break or a piece of greeting words. To fulfill my obligation to society, I'd like to begin from giving my hands and showing my love to those in need.

It is by studying the little things that we attain the great art of having a quality life. Life is long, but no matter how long it takes me to go, I should and will cover it little by little and

reach the climax of my life at last, for I believe constant dripping wears away a stone.

So enjoy your life by doing the little things, for little things are what inspire great things.

Thank you!

点滴小事品味人生

陈惠军

在漫长的生命过程中，我们每个人都渴望着做一两件伟大的事情。但是什么样的事情才能算伟大呢？一个人的人生价值究竟能有多大呢？我们应如何去体味人生的价值呢？这，我们不得不承认，不同的人对人生价值有着不同的定义，不同的人获取人生价值的途径也不尽相同，但是，有一点却是肯定的：点滴小事体现人生。

美国总统乔治·布什在他的就职演讲中说：每一天，我们都应饱含深情地去做好每一件小事。作家海伦·凯勒只能通过触摸生活中的每一种物品，来感觉和认识这个丰富多彩的外部世界，在她的文章———《假如给我三天光明》中，她是多么渴望能得到光明去充分品味她的人生，哪怕只有三天！可是，这只是她的一个梦想，无法实现的。这使我想起我儿时的梦想：有朝一日自己能成为一个百万富翁，那样我就能让父母过上快乐幸福的生活。但是，现在我发现，经常回家看看自己日益年迈的父母，在很普通的日子给家里打个电话或捎封信回家并附上自己一张面带微笑的照片，也照样甚至更能让他们感觉到幸福和满足。是的，这些小事所起的作用甚至是一百万元钱也做不到的。

事实上，我们所说的小事恰好是那些伟大事情的萌芽和开端，是决定一个有意义人生的旅程和起点。

我时常想，如果没有最为简单的交流沟通和最起码的理解与支持，我们就无法增进朋友之间的情谊；而对于那些有病在身但仍在坚持给学生上课的老师，课间如能为他们端上一杯清茶或递上一张问候的纸条，也能很好地表达出我们对老师的真诚和感激之情；要履行自己对社会的责任和义务，我们不妨从小事做起，从给那些需要帮助的人以援助之手和真爱之心开始。

也只有对点滴小事认真对待，我们才能获得一个真正有意义有价值的人生，因为点滴小事能焕发无穷光芒。路再长，也长不过我们的脚，水滴石穿，绳锯木断，只要我们脚踏实地一步一步向前走，我们定能达到人生的高峰。

让我们的生命从做好每件小事开始吧！因为伟大孕育其中！

谢谢！

The Earth,the only Home for Human beings

Jiang Shengliang

Dear friends,

Good afternoon. I'm very glad to see you here. The topic of my speech is “The Earth, The Only Home For The Human Beings".

Do you know that dust storms had swept through North cities

several times this spring? Dust has enveloped the sun and turned the sky an eerie yellow. People haven't found a way to fight against the dust storms but to be in their homes and offices. Because a cloud of loess filled the whole sky, there were many traffic accidents, which loss in lives and property was beyond our estimates.

We know that China already produces 11 per cent of the world's greenhouse－gas emissions. We also know that the Huanghe River once dried up, the grassland of Inner Mongolia rapidly turns into desert and there are many cities where the water we live by is lacking. We can't forget that more than 4000 people who lived in London had been killed by thick black smog in the winter of 1952. We also are aware that nearly 50,000 species become extinct and 2.7 million acre lush, fertile cropland turns into barren land every year in the world...

These numbers are so startling; the scenes are too horrible to look at!

Of course, I am sure, everyone here like the blue sky and white clouds. There is no one who dislikes the clean river and verdant mountains extending a thousand li. We are eager to have a breath of fresh air freely. However, we have to deal with so much endless noise and breathe the air mixed up with dust. We have nothing to do but stride over so many sewage ditches...

This is the earth, our only homeland we human live on. It is the earth that supplies us with enough food, water and oxygen. It's also the earth that supplies us with deep enough atmospheric layer in order to protect us from the hurt of ultraviolet ray... Although the earth gives us all that she has, we still hurt her so deeply. She is covered all over with cuts and bruises. She is groaning and shedding tears. To our surprise, we human have been conscious that we will not survive if the earth remains to be hurt, but there is still so much sever deforestation and damage to the grassland. We still

waster raw materials, destroy forest for more arable land and don t save on water?

Wake up, wake up to reality. We have suffered so many heavy losses. Can t we come to realize our error? We must draw the lesson from them. We can t follow the same old road to ruin, and we can t sit here and watch our only home－the earth turning into another Loulan. Today, I stand here and want to call out at the top of my voice: the development of economy needn t pay the cost of

environment pollution. Please don t hurt our only home again. If the earth remains to be destroyed, if the land, water and atmosphere we lived by remains to be polluted, my dear friends, where will we go and live? So improving the environment is to save us human beings. Dear friends, let s begin to act now, act from us, act from trifles. I believe firmly that the earth will take on a new look if everyone tries one s best to do it.

My speech is over. Thank you!

译文：

地球，人类惟一的家园

亲爱的朋友：

下午好！很高兴在这儿见到你们。我今天演讲的题目是：地球，人类惟一的家园。

不知大家有没有听说，今年春天沙尘暴已多次席卷了北方的大部分城市。尘土遮天蔽日，人们不得不呆在办公室或家里。黄沙漫天，由此而造成的交通事故及损失更是无法估量。

我们知道现在中国排放出的温室气体已占全世界排放量的11％；我们也知道黄河曾一度断流，内蒙古草原正在急剧沙漠化，各大城市的生活用水也变得越来越紧张；我们不会忘记19xx年冬天，伦敦有4000多市民死于一片浓黑的烟雾之中；我们还意识到世

界上每年大约有5万种生物正在悄悄绝迹，270万英亩的青草繁茂的草原和肥沃的土地正在变成寸草不生的沙漠??

触目惊心的数字，惨不忍睹的一幕幕，无不让人痛心！

是的，我相信，在座的各位，没有谁不喜欢蓝天白云，没有谁不喜欢清澈见底的河水和绵延不绝翠绿的山脉，更是渴望能在纯净清新的空气中自由自在地呼吸。可是，每天我们不得不面对无休无止的噪音，呼吸着充满灰尘的毒气，小心地走过臭气熏天的污水地带??

这就是地球——我们人类所赖以生存的惟一的家园，是她供给我们生存所需的食物、水和氧气，是她提供给我们大气保护层，以免我们遭受紫外线的伤害??地球，我们惟一的家园默默地献出了她所有的一切，而我们却深深地伤害了她，遍体鳞伤的她正在痛苦地呻吟，正在伤心地流泪。更为可悲的是，我们人类明知伤害了她，明知伤害了她势必带来威胁自身生存的恶果，可是他们还在继续滥伐森林，乱垦草地；他们还不知道退耕还林，节约用水??

醒醒吧，醒醒吧，难道惨痛的代价和血的教训还不能让我们清醒吗？我们不能重蹈历史的覆辙，我们不能让我们惟一的家园——地球重演楼兰的一幕！在这里，我要大声呼吁：经济的发展并不一定要以破坏环境为代价，请不要再伤害我们的家！

如果我们的生存环境再这样恶化下去的话，如果我们赖以生存的土壤、水和空气再这样被污染下去的话，同学们，我们人类将上哪才能找到我们的生存之地呢？所以拯救地球就是拯救我们人类自己，就是拯救我们的未来。同学们，让我们行动起来，从我做起，从小事做起。我坚信，只要人人都伸出手，尽自己所能，我们定会重返那个鸟语花香、莺歌燕舞、生机盎然的美好家园！

我的演讲完了，谢谢大家！

My Definition of Failure

Mo Junhua

S－U－C－C－E－S－S. SUCCESS. Success is the catch-word of the times. It

goes without saying that almost all of us want to be successful. Like it or not, however, we must admit that it s not easy to achieve success. More often than not, we have to deal with its opposite, namely failure.

But first of all, what is failure? It is hard to define, because dif-ferent people have different answers. However, as far as I'm con-cerned, I think real failure is not to try hard.

It's commendable that you set your mind on the best and

con-stantly strive for it. At many times, however, it's unlikely that you'll do the best, because of the scarcity of No. 1 and because of the fact that the attainment of the very best involves many things, some of which are beyond your expectation. In addition to your own merit, that of your competitors also plays an important part. So it is a more sensible, but no less commendable thing for you to compete with yourself, not with others. You don t have to do best. But you should always try to do your best in whatever you are determined to do. If you have given it 100 percent, you are not a

failure, even though you are outplayed by others. Because you have given it 100 percent, there s nothing to regret, nor is there any need to blame yourself. Instead, you should give credit to yourself for trying.

I don t like finding excuses for our failures, because we haven t failed at all. Take myself for example. Last year, I enrolled for the Sports Meet in my university and competed in the 3,000－meter race. I did this not because I m gifted in or good at running, but because I wanted to fulfill a childhood dream. I had been an

in-competent student of physical education or P.E., ever since I was a primary school student. As a weak student of P.E., I never got a chance to participate in a sports meet. I envied my classmates who were good at sports. I used to dream of becoming one of them and displaying my skills in a sports meet. After I entered university, I spent much of my spare time on physical exercises, such as running, the long jump. Although I can run much faster than before, I m not capable of winning a prize or a good place in a campus－wide run-ning competition. In spite of that, I still entered for the event,

be-cause I wanted to challenge myself and fulfill my athletic dream. I could have stayed away and had an easy time of it by not going in for this race. But I chose to accept the challenge and face the difficul-ties. I trained hard for the race, so when I came out last but one in the competition, I didn t call my attempt a failure, because I had tried and struggled.

Real failure is not to try hard. “I will forgive myself if I fail; I won t forgive myself if I don't try”, because “It's better to have fought and lost than not to fight at all”.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement once said：“the most important thing in Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part, just like the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well.”

But what if we did fail in something? Simple. First, don t panic, because failure is not the end of the world. As the English saying goes, he who falls today may rise tomorrow. Second, try, try again, because nothing is really over until the moment we stop try-ing. So long as we persist and never give up, we will succeed eventually. No failure is sweet. However, just as bitter medicine cures sickness, failure may prove to be very instructive, so long as we can put it in perspective. There is a saying that failure is the mother of success. It's natural for us to get depressed for a

certain period of time, but we shouldn't inflate the importance of our temporary setback and be disheartened by setbacks, even never recover. We should be undaunted by failures and motivated to strive

even harder to succeed.

Real failure is not to try hard. It is my firm belief that one's earnest efforts will not be wasted. They will pay off either in other ways or at other times. In this sense, today's failure prepares tomorrow's triumph.

At last, let's bear Goldsmith's remarks in mind：“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but rising every time we fall。” Thank you all!

译文：

失败之我见

莫俊华

S－U－C－C－E－S－S。成功。成功是时代的流行语。不用说，几乎所有的人都渴望成功。然而，不管我们是否愿意，我们必须承认要获得成功并不是一件容易的事。更多的时候，我们不得不面对成功的反面，即失败。

那么，什么是失败呢？很难一下子给失败下个定义，因为不同的人对这个问题会有不同的答案。然而，就我个人而言，我认为真正的失败是不去拼搏。

如果你立志做得最好，并且在不断地为这个目标努力，这当然是一件值得称赞的事。可是，在很多时候，要做得最好，对你来说是一件不太可能的事，因为只有一个第一，而且在追求最好的过程中会牵涉到很多因素，其中一些因素是你始料不及的。再说，除了你自身的实力外，你的竞争对手的情况也很重要。因此，一个更加明智但却同样值得称赞的做法，就是跟你自己竞争，而不是一味去跟别人比。你不必苛求凡事都做得最好，但是，在你下定决心要做什么事的时候，你就要尽自己最大的努力去做。如果你已经尽力了，即使你没有别人做得好，你也不是失败者。因为你已经尽力了，也就没有什么遗憾，也就不必自责了。相反，你应该肯定自己勇于尝试。

我并不是想为我们的失败找借口，因为我们根本就没有失败。就拿我自己来说吧。去年，我报名参加了学校的运动会，我的项目是3000米长跑。我这么做，并不是因为我有长跑天赋或是我擅长长跑，而是因为我想实现一个儿时的梦想。从我上小学起，我的体育成绩就一直不合格，正因为体育不好，所以，我就一直没有机会参加学校的运动会。我非常羡慕那些擅长体育的同学，也常常梦想着自己能成为他们中的一员，在运动会上大显身手。上大学以后，我花了大部分空余时间在体育锻炼上，例如跑步、跳远等等。虽然我现在跑得比以前快多了，但是，我知道，要想在一个全校性的长跑比赛中得个奖或是拿个好名次，自己还是不可能的。尽管如此，我还是报名参赛了，因为我想挑战自己，实现自己的体育之梦。我原本可以置身事外，不参加这个比赛，轻轻松松地过日子。但是，我选择接受挑战，直面困难，而且为了那次比赛，我训练得很苦，汗水也流了很多很多。所以，尽管我是倒数第二名，我也不认为自己是一个失败者，因为我已经奋力拼搏过了。

真正的失败是不去拼搏。“我能原谅自己的失败，但是却不能原谅自己不去努力尝试”，因为“拼搏过但却输了，要比根本就没有拼搏好得多”。现代奥林匹克运动的创始人埃伦·顾拜旦曾经说过：“奥运会中最重要的不是获胜，而是参与，就像人的生命中最重要的不是胜利，而是奋斗。人生的本质，不是要去征服什么，而是要去努力拼搏。”

但是，如果我们确实失败了，那又该怎么办呢？很简单！第一，不要惊慌失措，惶惶不可终日，因为失败不是意味着世界末日的来临。常言道：“今日虽失败，明日可成功。”第二，努力，再努力，因为只要我们没有停止努力，我们就没有彻底地失败。只要我们坚持不懈、永不放弃，我们就一定能成功。

当然了，没有一次失败的滋味是甜蜜的，然而，就像良药苦口利于病一样，

只要我们能够冷静地对待失败，失败也可能是一件很有益的事，不是说“失败是成功之母”吗？当然，因为失败而消沉一段时间是很正常的，但是，我们也不能过分地夸大一时的挫折，不要一遭遇挫折就灰心丧气，一蹶不振，而应该在失败面前毫不气馁，更加努力地去追求成功。

真正的失败是不去拼搏。我始终坚信：真正的努力是不会白费的。它们会以别的方式或在别的时候回报我们。从这个意义上说，今天的失败是在为明天的成功做准备。 最后，让我们记住戈德·史密斯的名言：“人生最大的光荣不是我们永远都不会摔倒，而是在每次摔倒之后，我们都能爬起来，继续前行。”

谢谢大家！

I think, therefore I am

Mo Junhua

Dear fellow friends:

Good morning. Today I m going to share with you the most valuable thing that I have learned at university.

I was born in 1977. But my life didn t begin in the real sense until 1999. Prior to that, I spent every hour, every day and every year doing what was expected of me , eating, sleeping, studying, playing, so on and so forth. I didn't have the idea of who I am, what I should do now and next or what life means to me. Never had I thought about these questions. This situation lasted for year after year. It underwent few changes even after I entered the university. And it was another two years later that I began to think about these questions, which are of great significance to me, From then on, my life turned over a new leaf, because independent thinking, which didn t have any place in my life, started to play an important part. First, thinking helps me to know myself, such as my dream,

interest, strengths and weaknesses. As we all know, every one of us has his own character, although we are all human beings. It is

therefore vital for us to develop a sense of identity, form our own opinions, make our own choices and take responsibility for our own destinies. We won t be the initiator of our action or in charge of our life, unless we think about our uniqueness and make our

individuality clear. To my joy, I ve started to do that. Now I set my own standards and regard them as my code of conduct rather than judge myself by how others estimate me or how much approval I m getting from other people. I won t live in the shadow of anyone else. I live my life in my own way.

Second, thinking stimulates me to treat life and time seriously. Man s dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once. So how we spend our life and time is a question we are supposed to ask ourselves. It s a pity that some people have never made an effort to seek the meaning of life. They live their own life, but not in a meaningful way. Most of them seem disoriented, not knowing what to

do or how to make use of time. To be honest, I used to be troubled by the same problems. However, as I learned to think, I came to know the purpose of life, which is by no means food, drink and

merrymaking. Now I ve made up my mind to be a diligent, responsible man. On the one hand, I m eager to give full play to my professional knowledge and live out my dream. On the other hand, I m trying my best to fulfill my obligations to society as well as my family and friends. In a word, I want to live a full, meaningful life. I hate to spend my time in vain. So I m working hard to challenge and

improve myself. It can be said without the fear of exaggeration that thinking has awakened my slumbering soul, transformed me into an enterprising young man.

It is therefore apparent that thinking is playing a very important role in my life. However, it can be painful at times. Although I spend much time thinking, I still cannot sort out some of the

problems I encounter. Consequently, I will get depressed. It seems that I m asking for trouble. Why not go and have some fun instead of taking pains to think? The reason is that its rewards far outnumber those momentary displeasure. Thinking is the key to life, the

gateway to psychological maturity, and the beacon to the road ahead. Leaning to think is the milestone in my life. It is the most valuable thing I learned at university. Now it has become an indispensable part of my life.

"I think, therefore I am."

Thank you!

译文：

我思故我在

亲爱的朋友们：

早上好!今天，我将与大家一起分享我在大学里学到的最有价值的东西。 我是19xx年出生的，但是，我真正意义上的人生却是到19xx年才开始的。在那以前的每一时、每一天、每一年，我都是做着别人希望我做的事，吃饭、睡觉、学习、玩耍。我根本就不知道我是谁，不知道我现在该做什么、将来要做什么，也不知道生活对我意味着什么。我也从来没有想过这些问题。这种状态持续了许多年，即使在我上大学之后，也没有发生什么变化。在大学里呆了两年之后，我才开始独立思考一些对我有重大意义的问题。从那时候起，我的人生翻开了崭新的一页，因为过去不曾在我生活中占有一席之地的独立思考逐渐成为我生活中的一件大事。

首先，独立思考帮助我认识自己，比如说我的梦想、兴趣、优点和缺点。我们都知道，虽然大家都是人，但我们中的每一个人都有自己的个性和特征。因此，发展我们的个性、形成我们自己的观点、做出我们自己的选择以及对我们自己的人生负责就是一件至关重要的大事。如果不考虑自身的特点、不明确自己的个性，我们就不会是自己行动的发起者或自己命运的主人。令我感到欣慰的是，我已经开始这么做了。现在，我有了自己的标准并以此作为自己行为的主要准则，而不是根据别人对我的评价来评价自己，或是根据我得到别人的多少认可来肯定自己。我不愿意生活在任何人的阴影之下，我要按自己的方式来生活。

其次，独立思考促使我认真地对待时间与生命。人的一生最宝贵的是生命，生命属于人只有一次。那么，如何度过我们这一生、如何分配我们的时间就值得我们去扪心自问。遗憾的是，有些人从来没有试着去寻找生命的意义。他们一天天地活着，但活得并不是很有意义。他们似乎没有目标，不知道该干什么或是怎样利用时间。老实说，我曾经也被这些问题困扰过。但是，当我慢慢地学会独立思考，我就逐渐认识到生活的目的。我认为人活着决不是为了吃喝玩乐。现在，我已下定决心做一个勤奋的、有责任心的人。一方面，我渴望发挥自己的才能，实现自己的梦想；另一方面，我又尽力去履行我对社会、亲人和朋友的义务。总之，我想过一种充实的、有意义的生活。我不愿意无所事事、浪费时间。所以，我现在很勤奋、很努力，不断挑战自己、提高自己。可以毫不夸张地说，独立思考唤醒了我沉睡的心灵，使我成为一个积极向上、不断进取的年轻人。

很明显，独立思考在我的生活中发挥了重要作用，然而，它有时候也给我带来了痛苦。虽然我花了很多时间去思考，但我还是不能把我遇到的一些问题想清楚。结果，我会感到很压抑。我似乎是在自寻烦恼。为什么不出去找玩一玩，轻松一下?为什么自找麻烦去思考?原因是思考给我的回报要远远地超过那些暂时的烦恼。独立思考是开启生命之门的钥匙，是通向心理成熟的途径，是照亮未来之路的灯塔。

学会独立思考是我生命中的里程碑，是我在大学里学到的最有价值的东西，现在，它已成为我生活中不可缺少的一部分。

“我思故我在。”

谢谢!

How to be a Useful Youth for Our Country

Li Mingdao

Mr. chairman， ladies and gentlemen.

First of all， I must say that youths are the pillar of the country. We have the heavy burden of the duties of the times and we have something to do with the prosperity and decline of our country. Since we play such an important role， then， how to be a useful youth for our country? According to my humble opin－ions:

First， a good youth must have good health. In every walk of life， health is the foundation upon which our success depends. Good health makes us able to work hard and to stand firm， to strive and to

persist. Besides， we can be more fit for the task we are in， for the struggle of success， for the endurance of hardships， and for the service of our country.

Second， a good youth should cultivate good and noble character. Many young people with fine knowledge have gone astray. They do more harm than good to the society， and even to the country. They only seek for their own benefits and selfish interests. They have never learned to be moral. From this point of view, we know that virtue is extremely important to a good youth.

The third is patriotism. Patriotism makes a country strong， and also makes her history glorious. If the youth of a country are not patriotic， the country must be very thin and weak. History tells us how some countries of ancient times， ow－ing to lack of patriotism，

were conquered by other nations and how the people of the conquered countries became slaves under the yoke of their victorious masters. So we， youths， must show our love and respect to our country. We must be ready to sacrifice our own lives and do many other deeds which can bring benefits for our people.

And at last， I think a good youth should possess both fine

knowledge and industry. As we know youths will be the future masters of our country. We should have a good command of every kind of knowledge. The more knowledge we have， the more power we can do a great task.

At the same time， we should be diligent in our work. Mr. Ronald Reagan once said: "I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do， but， I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing." He wants us to believe in the struggle， not in the fate.

Though our country is now in difficulty， yet， we， youths， should not be despaired. Since we are the ones who decide the prosperity and happiness of our country and people， we should exercise our bodies， build our characters and enrich our knowledge. Then， I am sure the 21st century will be the century of the Chinese. Thank you very much!

怎样做一个于国家有益的优秀青年

姚磊群（编译）

主席先生，女士们，先生们：

首先，我必须强调说，青年是擎起国家的柱石，我们肩负着时代的重任和国家的重托，并与国家的命运休戚相关。由于我们扮演着如此重要的角色，我们就应该时刻扪心自问：我们该怎样才能成为一名于国家有益的优秀青年呢?拙见如下：

第一点，要想成为一个优秀的青年必须要有一个健康的体魄。无论我们做什么事，从事什么行业，健康的体魄都是我们赖以成功的基础。它能保证我们有足够的精力潜心致力于工作，并且能够坚定不移；它能保证我们有充足的耐力奋发拼搏，并且能够一如既往。除此之外，健康的体魄还能更好地保证我们适应当前的形势，吃苦耐劳，排除困难，为实现自己的目标和报效祖国而努力奋斗。

第二点，要想成为一个好青年必须要培养优良、高尚的品格。很多年轻人只注重学识的增长而忽略了品行的培养，这些学识渊博的人一旦误入歧途，对社会及国家的危害远远大于他们所做的贡献。他们只追求一己的私利，而视道德于不顾。由此看来，“德行”对一个优秀青年而言尤其重要，不可掉以轻心。

第三点，要想成为一个好青年必须要拥有一颗爱国心。爱国才能使国家富强、历史辉煌。假使举国上下的青年都没有爱国之心，那么这个国家一定会一蹶不振，毫无生机。历史告诉我们，自古以来，一些国家由于人民缺乏爱国情操而遭受异族侵略，从而使百姓深受侵略者的奴役与蹂躏，处在水深火热之中。鉴于此，我们年轻人必须树立爱国精神，培养爱国情操。只要于国家有益，于人民有益，我们就应随时贡献自己的一份热，一份力，甚至奉献出自己的一生。

最后一点，我认为要想成为一个好青年必须要有广博的知识和勤勉的精神。正如大家所知，青年是国家的栋梁，是国家的希望。我们应遨游于知识的天空，因为我们所

拥有的知识越广博，越丰富，就越有能力成就宏绩伟业，开拓国家的未来。

同时，我们还必须勤奋、扎实地工作。罗纳德·里根曾经说过：“我不相信无论我们怎样做，我们的命运均相同；我只是相信，如果我们什么都不做，结果肯定是一样的命运不济。”他这样说，是要我们相信拼搏，而不要相信命运。

虽然目前国家还有些困难，可是我们年轻人决不能泯灭希望。因为青年决定着国家的繁荣与人民的幸福，所以从现在开始，我们必须锻炼身体、塑造品质、丰富知识。如果这些都做到了的话，我坚信二十一世纪将会是属于中国人的世纪。谢谢大家。

A Dream That I Have

He Tingting

Good morning! Ladies and Gentlemen,Today, I'm so glad to come here. It's my honor to give the speech. I'm He Tingting, coming from A'Ba Tibet and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. As a Qiang girl. I welcome you to our hometown. Now I'll talk about my dream.

My hometown is a remote, lonely village, with verdant mountains and clean streams, full of fresh air... The sur－roundings is quiet and graceful. What a wonderful sight!

But I'm sorry to say it's so poor, so backward.

One day in a late autumn, my parents and I went back there

together, in order to call on my grandfather being ill. Getting off the bus, slowly we walked hard towards my hometown along a narrow winding path. Suddenly, the hap－py laughter of children interested me. I looked around, and caught sight of some children playing, aged 8-9. It seemed they were free from care. I went up to them, and asked, " Why aren't you at school now? Are you on leave?" One boy stood up and said sadly, " We don't have any teachers, No teachers teach us. Two years ago, we had a teacher from a city. But only two weeks later he went away. From then on, no teacher comes here any more. Also we have no school to attend here."

"Why don't you go to the city to study?" I asked. "My parents are both farmers, we haven't enough money." He stopped for a moment, and then continued, "We really hope for school." After hearing that, I couldn't say a word with a heavy heart.

Later, I thought it over for a long time. That's the children's fault? No. That's their parents' fault with no money? No. But I don’t really understand why.

If they could be at school like me. How wonderful it is. However, in fact they couldn’t be. What can I do for them?

Facing the children unable to go to school;

Facing the poverty of minority nationality regions;

Facing all these facts， suddenly, a bright idea struck me. From that moment, I have a dream, a splendid dream!

I dream, one day, I will be able to be a teacher and return to my hometown. I'll try my best to let the children in－to the school,

into the classroom. I'll teach them to read and teach them to write, with my patience, with my love, hon－estly. I'll turn them into the persons with a lot of knowledge.

I dream, one day, I can set up a school for children by myself; let these children enter the school. Of cause I'll hope to set up schools as many as I can, to let all the children enter the school. Also, I dream, one day, the students I teach will graduate from universities and take heavy responsibilities of building our hometown, building our motherland.

I dream, one day, all these will come true. And my hometown will become richer and richer, more and more beautiful.

That's my dream. I'u return to my mother school with my faith. Having this belief, I'u value the time, every hour, every minute, every second. I'll study each lesson well, and lay the foundation, in order to realize the hope of children's attending school, seeking for knowledge.

Having this belief, I'u break up a new path to achieve the goal. Having this belief, I'l1 have enough courage to change all the bad situation.

I believe that my dream will turn into reality.

As you all know, some years ago, we had a Hope Project, a lot of children have already returned to the school grounds.

We all know, our government decides to develop the western area. Our ent decides to develop areas in－habited by the minority nationalities. Especially, Our government decides to develop the education.

And I know, a lot of people in and out of our prefecture are working hard at it. Everyone is trying to contribute to our motherland.

So I'm sure, my dream will come true, at last! I believe that! Thank you!

译文

我有一个梦

贺婷婷

女士们，先生们，早上好！

很高兴能有这样一个演讲的机会。我叫贺婷婷，是一个羌族女孩，来自阿坝藏族羌族自治州。欢迎你们到我的家乡来!现在，我想和大家一起分享分享我的梦想。 我的家乡是一个边远、偏僻的小山村，青翠的群山，清澈的小溪，清新的空气??这儿的一切是那样的宁静和优美。

但是，我很遗憾地告诉你们，这里很穷，也很落后。

深秋的一天，我和父母一起回到那儿，去探望我那生病的爷爷。下车后，我们沿着一条狭窄、蜿蜒崎岖的山路艰难地走着。突然，一阵嬉笑声吸引了我。我向四周看了看，发现有许多八九岁的孩子正在那儿玩耍，看起来是那样的无忧无虑。我走过去，问：“你们为什么不去上学呢？是放假了吗？”一个男孩站起来，很难过地说：“我们没有老师??

没有老师教我们。两年前，有一位城里的老师到了这里，但是两星期后他就走了。从那以后，再也没有老师肯来这儿了，我们也就没有学校可上了。”

“那你们为什么不到城里去读书呢？”我问。“我爸妈都是农民，我们没有足够的钱。”他停了一会儿，然后继续说，“我真的好想上学！”听了之后，我心情极其沉重，一句话都说不出来。

我想了很久，那是孩子们的错吗？不。是他们的父母没有钱的错吗？当然也不是。但是我真的不明白为什么。

如果他们能像我一样上学读书，那该多好。但是事实上，他们不可能。我能为他们做些什么呢？

面对着这些不能上学读书的孩子们；

面对着贫穷的少数民族地区；

面对着这所有的事实，突然，我的内心震撼了，从那时起，我有了一个梦想，一个极好的梦想！

我梦想有一天，我将成为一个老师，重回我的家乡。我会尽我最大的努力让孩子们走进学校，走进教室；我会用我的耐心、我的爱心，教他们读书、写字。我会让他们成为最有知识的人。

我梦想有一天，我会亲自为孩子们建立一所学校，让这些孩子都能够上学，当然，我将尽我所能建立更多的学校，让所有的孩子都能够上学。

我梦想有一天，我教过的学生能够从大学毕业，并且背负建设家乡、建设祖国的重任。

我梦想有一天，这所有的一切都成为现实，而我的家乡也将越来越富饶，越来越美丽。

这就是我的梦想，我将带着我的信念重返母校。

有了这个信念，我将分外珍惜这美好的时光，每时，每分，每秒。我会学好每门功课，打好基础，让孩子们实现上学学知识的心愿。

有了这个信念，我能从荆棘丛中劈出一条希望之路。

有了这个信念，我将会有足够的勇气去改变这所有的一切。

我坚信，我的梦想一定会实现。

大家知道，许多年前，我们有了希望工程，许许多多的孩子已经重返校园。 我们知道，我们的政府决定发展西部地区，发展少数民族地区，尤其要发展西部的教育。

并且，我知道，我们州内州外的人们都在辛勤地工作着。

所以我深信，我的梦想一定会实现。我坚信！

谢谢！

Smile——The best Present

Zhao Hongyan

Dear teachers and fellow students:

Good evening. I m deeply honored that I have the opportunity to talk something about the topic “what is the best present to give other” with everyone here.

Different people always have different ideas about the same thing. We may probably get all kinds of answers to the question mentioned above, if we carry on a poll. A little child may regard the candy or

toy he loves as a gesture of friendship. Someone may think that a book or a piece of information he needs urgently is the best present. Even someone considers money is valuable... But to most people, even all people, believe it or not, smile is the best

present. The conclusion is not my fabrication. It can be proved by the experience of David, who is a successful businessman of America. “Warm smile is the best present to others, especially to those who are in bad situations.” David knew that it was a truth on a cold winter morning, which changed his life.

It was a cold winter day. Then David was still a nine－year－old boy, with thin, shabby and unfitted clothes, standing at the corner of the main street, just like the other hundreds of little beggars. In his little heart, he regarded the thing he was doing as the worst one, compared with all the other careers. But he had no other

choice, because his family was poor and he badly required a big sum of money. Mother died when he was five years old. Father worked for a rich man, earning money to bring him up. But the day before, he was suddenly ill. In order to send Father to hospital, he had to make money. But he wad so young that no factory would adopt him as a worker. So he had to become a beggar.

It was the first day that he was a beggar. He could not persuade himself to do like others, dragging clothes of the gentlemen or ladies passing by, following him or her until they get the money wanted. He just stood there, and watched the pedestrians quietly, wishing someone would have bestowed favor. It got dark and dark. Hunger, anguish, despair and shame made him almost shed tears. Just at that moment, he caught sight of a young man, who was very

important in his later days. From the first glance, David knew the young man was not the one he had been waiting for, because he was also poor, which could be easily judged from his appearance. His clothes seemed not much warmer than David s, and the suit on him was unfitted. David was sure that he himself had no hope to get any

money from the young man, but he could not remove his sight from the face. The reason was that the young man seemed so youthful, so happy and so confident. David gazed at him until he also paid attention to him. He came up to David and stopped. Suddenly a warm and bright smile appeared on his face. Then he said, “Sorry, little fellow, I have no change for you, but I could take you to my home and offer you a cup of hot coffee, if you like of course. ”“Thank you! ”David repaid his kindness with a smile.

That day, David took little money home, but he was not despaired any longer. From that bright smile, he knew there was another unfortunate man in the world, who lived so happily.

Thanks God! Father got well soon. Under his request, father sent

him to school, then to college. Now David need not worry about making living any longer, but he still remember that young man's smile. When he gives help to people who are in difficulties, he will also give him a sincere smile.

From the story about David, we can see the importance of smile. In a certain degree, smile means understanding, tolerance and comfort. To those who need help and comfort urgently, smile is just like the warm flame in cold winter and disperse the coldness in the heart. Smile is also like a lamp in the long night, it can light the way and show the direction out. Facing a warm smile, you will never feel lonely any more. Perhaps you can get the confidence to overcome the difficulties from it. Meeting one needs your help, if you think you can do nothing useful for him, please give him a bright and sincere smile. Remember, sometimes smile is even more important than money; smile is the biggest help to others!

Thank you all!

译文：

微笑——最好的馈赠

老师们、同学们：

晚上好！很荣幸今晚能有这样一个机会，与在座的各位就“对别人的最好馈赠是什么”的话题进行交流与探讨。

不同的人往往对同一件事情抱有截然不同的意见与看法。如果对上述提到的问题进行一番民意调查，我相信我们会得到成千上万种形式各异的答案。小孩们会认为把自己喜爱的糖果或玩具送给对方就是最友善的表示；有的人会把一本急需的书或一则重要的信息看作是最好的礼物，而另外一些人则认为金钱是最有价值的??信不信由你，对于大多数人，甚至所有的人来说，微笑永远都是最好的礼物。这并不是我的凭空捏造，戴维——一个成功的美国商人的切身经历就是很好的证明。

“温暖的微笑是赠给别人的最好的礼物，尤其是对那些身陷困境中的人。”戴维是在那个改变了他一生的寒冷冬天的早晨深深体会到这条真理的。

那时戴维还是一个9岁的小男孩，同其它成百上千的小乞丐一样，衣着单薄、破烂而不合身，站在一些主要街道的拐角处。在他幼小的心灵里，他认为他自己当时正在从事的职业（如果说乞丐也能被称得上一种职业的话）是世界上最糟糕的一种。但是他别无选择，因为他是一个穷孩子。母亲在他五岁时就去了天国，是父亲靠给一个富人做工赚的钱来抚养他。然而，昨天，父亲突然病倒了。为了把父亲送到医院去治疗，小戴维必须得到一笔钱，但是他太弱小了，没有一家工厂肯接受他。就这样9岁的他成了一个小乞丐。 那天是戴维第一次出门去乞讨。强烈的自尊心使他不能说服自己像其他的孩子那样，死死地拉住路过的人的衣服，并紧紧跟住他们，直到将钱弄到手。他只是站在那儿静静地注视着过往的行人，期盼能有一位好心人会停下脚步给他一两个便士作为施舍。天越来越黑了，寒冷、饥饿、羞辱与绝望使他几乎流下眼泪。就在那一刻戴维看到了一个年轻人，那个在他整个生命中都至关重要的年轻人。从见到这个年轻人的第一眼起，戴维就断定他并不是自己一直在等待的能驻足施舍的那类人，因为显而易见他也并不富裕到哪里去。他身上的那件外套看起来并不比戴维的那件暖和多少，而且同样的不合身。戴维明白这个人并不能带给自己什么，但他却无法使自己的目光从这个年轻人的脸上移开，因为他看上去那么快乐，那么自信。终于年轻人注意到了一直在注视着他的戴维，他走到戴维面前，止住脚步，

蓦地，一个温暖而明朗的笑容出现在他脸上，“很遗憾，小家伙，我身上没有零钱。不过如果你愿意的话，我可以请你去我住的地方喝杯热咖啡，这样，你的感觉会好些。”“谢谢”，戴维回答道并回赠给他一个感激的微笑。

那一天，戴维拿回家的钱很少很少，但他不再感到绝望。从那个明朗的微笑中，他知道在世界上还有一个和他同样不幸的人，但那个人生活得却是那样的开心，那样的快乐。

感谢上帝！父亲的病很快痊愈了，在戴维的请求下，父亲把他送进了学校，然后又进了大学。现在戴维再也用不着为钱而担忧了，但他仍然忘不了那张带着笑意的脸庞。当他对那些陷入困境的人伸出援助之手时，他同样也会给对方一个真诚的微笑。

从戴维的故事中，我们明白了微笑在人际交往中的重要性。在某种程度上，微笑意味着理解，意味着宽容，意味着抚慰。对于那些处于危难之中的人来说，微笑就像寒冬中的一束火焰，可驱散他心中的寒意；又像漫漫长夜中的一盏明灯，为迷失者照亮道路，指明方向。在微笑的照耀下，独处者将不再孤独，失败者将不再无助。面对一个向你伸出求助之手的人，如果你认为自己实在没有什么可以给他时，那么送给他一个明朗而真挚的微笑吧。要知道，有时微笑甚至比金钱更重要，它是给别人的最大的帮助！

谢谢大家！

One of my Dreams:to Run a Travel Agency

Wang Yuan

This morning, I would like to argue for true ecological tourism, or eco-tourism. To me a true eco-tour is a tour that allows us to express our passion for nature and for our cultural heritage.

I love travelling. One of my most memorable trips was climbing the Great Wall. There, I cherished seeing people of all races and ages gathered on this ancient structure. I cherished seeing these people smiling to each other, making way for each other, and reminding each other to watch their step.

While I love travelling, I'm also sad to see the damage tourism has done to nature and to our relics. Many tour agencies like to label their business eco-tours. But they have cut down trees and filled up rivers in order to build roads, hotels and cable cars so as to attract tourists. And on their tours, some people pick

flowers, catch birds and throw away food that might poison animals. This is not eco-tourism at all. True eco-tourism involves

responsibility. As we enjoy the beauty of nature, we should also help protect it. Let me share an experience.

Once, I joined some young volunteers on an outing. The excursion took us to the peak of a mountain where we got a beautiful view of the city. We were, however, not ordinary tourists. As we were climbing, we were also picking up the trash left behind by other climbers. Finally, we used large bags to carry all the trash down the mountain.

The excursion was exhausting, but I believe, not a single one of us will ever litter any tourist spot. Moreover, when we were

cleaning up the mountain slope, we caught the eye of many others.

Some of them might see us as foolish, but more of them, I believe, will take note of the need to protect the environment.

My experience as an eco-tourist revealed many misunderstandings. 1 once telephoned several travel agencies to inquire about eco-tours. Here is how it went:

"Hello! I'm interested in the eco-tour you've advertised."

"Oh, yeah, eco-tour."

"I'm wondering if we should do anything special as eco-tourists." "I'm sorry??Oh, nothing. Just enjoy the scenery."

Every conversation ended up with "enjoying the scenery." No one mentioned "protecting wildlife", or "respecting local customs". None of them made any mention of responsibility and obligation on the part of tourists.

Like other students, I have had many dreams of what I would like to do after graduation. One of these dreams is to run a travel agency. In this travel agency, I would do three things.

First, I'd like to have a staff of people who love nature as they love their mothers and can pass on to the cus－tomers the same kind of love.

Second, I'd like to let customers appreciate the beauty of nature in those natural reservations, safari parks and wild forests and show them how they can contribute in return for the air, water, and nourishment that nature provides.

Last but not least. I'd encourage my customers to work as volunteers as I once did. They would live close to nature by

cleaning up the natural resorts and planting trees as mementos of their visit.

I remember when I was standing on top of the Great Wall. I could see in some distance many bare mountains with no trees there. Eco-tourism should be an experience of learning and offering; it should not be just seeing the famous sites and posing for photos. On

the flag of my agency, I would print this mott

Take nothing away except memory; leave nothing behind except trees.

Join my tour, my dear friends. 1 will make China green -- and make the world a better place to live in.

Thank you.

(“21世纪爱立信”杯第八届全国英语演讲比赛获奖作品)

旅行社：我心中的梦

王东福 （译）

今天上午我想和大家一起来探讨一下什么才是真正的生态旅游。在我看来，真正的生态旅游体现的是一种对大自然和文化遗产的热爱之情。

我喜欢旅游，其中最让我难忘的是那次登长城。在长城上，我欣喜地看到不同种族和年龄的人聚集在一起，他们彼此微笑着给对方让路，并相互提醒走路小心。 尽管我喜欢旅游，但是在这个过程中，我竟伤心地看到旅游对大自然和文物古迹所带来的损害。虽然许多旅行社都标榜自己是生态旅游，但是他们却为建桥、造宾馆、开索道以吸引游客而乱砍乱伐；而有些游客呢，在旅游时随意摘花，捕鸟，把一些可能对动物有害的食物丢在路上。这根本不是生态旅游。真正的生态旅游需要我们承担责任。在我们欣赏大自然的美景的同时，我们应当努力去保护它。还是来听听我的亲身经历吧。

有一次，我们几个青年志愿者一起外出旅行。旅行社把我们带上了山的最顶峰，在那儿，我们看到了整个城市的全貌。当然，我们不是普通的旅游者，在爬山的同时，还拾捡其他登山人留下的垃圾。结果，我们用了好几个大袋子才把所有的垃圾背下了山。 这次旅行虽然很累，但我相信，有了这次经历，我们中的任何一个人在以后的旅游中不会乱扔东西了。而且我们清理山坡引起了很多游客的注意，也许有些人会说我们傻，但我相信，更多的人会从中意识到保护环境的重要性。

作为一名生态旅游者，我的经历还是让许多人感到不可理解。我曾经给好几家旅行社打电话咨询生态旅游的事。情况大致都是这样的：

“你好！我对你们广告中所说的生态旅游很感兴趣。”

“哦，对，生态旅游。”

“我想知道，作为生态旅游者，我们应当做点什么特别的事情。” “对不起??其实，你什么也不用做，你只管欣赏美景好了。”

我和旅行社的每次谈话都是以“欣赏美景”结束的。没有一个人提到要“保护野生生物”或“尊重当地风俗”之类的话，也没有谁讲过游客需要承担什么责任和义务。 和其他同学一样，我也有许多梦想等我毕业以后去实现。其中一个就是要办一家旅行社。在这个旅行社里，我想做以下三件事。

首先，我要招一批像爱他们母亲那样热爱大自然并能把这种爱传递给游客的职员。

其次，我要让游客在自然保护区、狩猎场和原始森林中欣赏美景的同时，学会如何回报大自然赐给他们的空气、水和食物。

最后一点，但并不是最次要的一点是，我要鼓励我的游客像我一样当一名志愿者，通过清理景点或种植纪念树之类的活动来贴近大自然。

我记得，在我登上万里长城时，看到远处有许多光秃秃的山。我想，生态旅游应该是一次学习和奉献的机会，而不应该仅仅是看看风景照照相而已。在我们旅行社的社旗上，我会写上这样的话：除了美好的回忆，不要带走任何东西；除了树木，不要留下任何东西。

亲爱的朋友，加入我的旅游行列吧。我们将为中国添绿，并让世界更适合人们居住和生活。

The Strength of trust

Xiao Yanzi

Boys and girls，

Good afternoon.

The content that I will give a lecture today is still about the subject that's unchanged since ancient times to now days， which is friendship. There have been thousands of explanations as for the word "friend". But I resolutely think that there is the best

definition to explain it， which is Trust. The story that I read recently makes my idea firm.

It happened in Italy four centuries B.C.A young man named Pi Sia was sentenced to death， because of having offended the tyrant. Pi Sia was a filial son， and he asked to see his old mother before death. The king promised him ， but set down the condition that he must find another person to be in prison instead of him. The condition was so critical that it was almost impossible to be

realized. But Pi Sia did find such a man， who was his friend named Dameng. Then Pi Sia went home to bid farewell with Mother as he wished.

Days passed quickly， and the term of imprisonment was near at hand， but Pi Sia had not turned back yet. Most people ascertained that Pi Sia had deceived his friend.

It was a rainy day. When Demeng was sent to the execution ground， all persons watching around laughed at him， but Demeng himself was not worried at all. The rope was hanging on his neck， and just at the critical moment， one person ran quickly through the rain shouting loudly， "Please wait， I'm coming!" It was Pi Sia who turned back in time.

This was the most moving curtain in the world. Demeng took no care of himself in order to help his friend realize the duty， whose kind of spirit was moved one to tears. While Pi Sia did not hesitate to take life as the price for performing the promise， whose kind of courage was also rare to meet. My dear friends， do you know why Demeng was so calm before death? The reason was that he believed his friend Pi Sia would not do such despicable thing as deceiving friends. This depended on the strength of trust.

This is a true story that is enough to shock everyone. Especially to contemporary people who are surrounded by the benefit of themselves， it is more worth of pondering. Friendship is the

precious deposits of the human world and the coordinate of life， and it may keep the flowers of heart fresh and sweet forever. A true friend is large treasure of your whole life. When you are

downhearted， they may encourage you to do all to catch up with the others， and when you are proud of yourself， they may remind you of keeping a clear head with sincere advice.

However， In the modern society that regards the real interest as the most supreme power ， friendship becomes fragile and stingy .It is common that good friends known several years fall out to become enemies， and the friendship also becomes the chip of business... In fact friendship will not die out， but people do not know to value it .The famous writer Bi Shumin once said in a piece of paper， " There is only one fruit in the tree of friendship， which is

Trust." Friendship is a kind of nutrition for people that is the most simple and the most luxurious at the same time， which needs irrigating with trust and true feelings. It is just like the flower living in the comfortable hothouse. Only with the attentive care， can it become more and more beautiful. In the modern and changeable age， we should abide by the an－cient rule， which is trust.

Friendship is so hard that it may exist forever as long as you treat it with heart.

Trust is one kind of precious feeling in the world. No one can buy it with money， and no one can get it by cheating or force. It comes from the innermost soul of people. Just like clean spring， it washes away the dirt of common customs and makes you pure and

self-confident. Moreover， it can clear away the obstacles in your heart and help you gain more friend－ship.

In the real life， what will be kept in the history is not material wealth， but mutual affection being loyal-hearted. Let us abandon suspicion， hate out of jealousy， and deal with friends in all

sincerity. Believing that our eyes will brighten， and there will be even more happy laughter and cheerful voices in our world.

译文：

信任的力量

同学们：

下午好！

今天我所要演讲的内容仍然围绕着人类的一个亘古不变的话题进行，那就是———友情。千百年来，世人对于“朋友”的阐释有千种万种，但我一直坚决地认为，对这一定义的最好解释只需两个字，那就是信任。前不久，读了一篇久远而真实的故事，更坚定了我这一看法。

那是在公元前四世纪的意大利，有一个名叫皮斯阿司的年轻人因触犯了暴君而被判处绞刑。皮斯阿司是个孝子，临死之前，他希望能与远在百里之外的母亲见最后一面。国王感其诚孝，决定让他回家与母亲相见，但条件是必须找到一个人来代替他。这是一个看似简单其实近乎不可能实现的条件。要知道，有谁肯冒着被杀头的危险来替别人坐牢？但世界上真的有这样的人，他就是皮斯阿司的朋友达蒙。于是，皮斯阿司如愿以偿回家与母亲诀别。

日子如水，眼看刑期在即，可皮斯阿司却丝毫没有回来的迹象。人们议论纷纷，都说达蒙上了皮斯阿司的当。

行刑日是个雨天，当达蒙被押赴刑场之时，围观的人都在嘲笑他，但刑车上的达蒙却面无惧色。绞索已经挂在达蒙的脖子上，就在这千钧一发之际，淋漓的风雨中一人飞奔而来，高呼着：“等等，我来了！”是皮斯阿司回来了。

这是人世间最最感人的一幕。达蒙为顾全朋友的孝心置自身安危于度外，这种精神可歌可泣；皮斯阿司为履行诺言不惜以生命为代价，这种勇气世间又有几人能具备？同学们，面对死刑，达蒙之所以坦然，就在于他相信皮斯阿司不是那种言而无信、出卖朋友的小人，这就是信任的力量。

这是一个真实的震撼人的灵魂的故事，尤其对于尊崇自我中心化的现代人而言，它更是发人深省。友情是人间的宝藏，是人生的坐标，是保持心灵之花永不枯萎的甘

露。真正的朋友会在你消沉时以微笑激励你奋起直追，会在你得意时以忠言提醒你保持清醒。可是，在当今现实利益具有无上威力的社会里，友情却变得脆弱而吝啬，数年的好友可能一夜间反目成仇，友情也可能成为交易的筹码??

其实，友情不会泯灭，只是人们不懂得珍惜。著名作家毕淑敏在一篇文章中提到：“友情：这棵树上只结一个果子，叫做信任。”友谊是最简朴同时也是最奢侈的营养，需要用信任和真情去灌溉；它仿佛温室中的花朵，只有在悉心地呵护和滋养下才会愈加娇艳和灿烂。在什么都是越现代越好的年代里，友谊，我们还应保持那古老的准则———信任。只要你信任以待，友情就会永远地捍卫在你的周围，成为你终生的财富。

信任是一种弥足珍贵的感情，没有人能够用金钱买得到，也没有人可用利诱和武力得到。它来自一个人的灵魂深处，仿佛流淌的清泉，涤除世俗的污垢，让心灵充满纯洁和自信；它可以拯救灵魂，扫除盘踞于人内心深处的屏障，使你获得加倍的友谊。 人生一世，消失的是岁月，收获的是情谊。长留史册的，不是锱铢必较的利益，而是肝胆相照的情分。让我们抛弃猜疑和嫉恨，以信任之情和朋友坦诚相待。相信我们的眼睛将云翳顿散，相信我们的世界会有更多的欢声笑语。

Mother's Love

Wang Yuan

My dear friends：

Do you know what is the most precious and everlasting thing in the world?

Money? You may lose everything you have if you do not use money carefully enough. Youth? In one?'s long life youth is like a flash in the pan and no one in the world has the secret to keep his youth forever. Beautiful look? Many people pray that they can get hold of beauty, but it disappears far more quickly than they can imagine. And when they are in real trouble beauty itself feels helpless. A good job? As you grow older and your brain and hands cannot work as fast as before, it will become other people?'s wealth.

Then what is the most precious and ev－erlasting thing in the world?

When you are far away from your fam－ily and feel especially lonely, who will you think of? When you stand on the crossroad in your life and do not know which way to choose, who will you think of? When you encounter greater difficulties than ever and need other?'s encouragement, who will you think of? When you decide to make the greatest decision in your favorite course, who will you think of? Who gave birth to you? Who brought you up? Who shed cheer－ful tears when seeing you make achieve－ments? Whose

wholehearted blessing will be always with you no matter how far you will go?

Yes, it's mother that you will always think of and it's mother's love that will be always together with you.

I once heard a moving story about a mother. Two children were drawn into the flood and the situation was very dangerous. Their

mother jumped into the water without the least hesitation. But you know the moth－er could not swim at all. Jumping into the water means she might lose her life. But at that time she had no time to think about herself. She just wanted to try all means to save her children.

Maybe her courage moved the God. The miracle happened. She finally succeeded in saving her children one by one. And she, of course, felt extremely ex－hausted.

My friends, mother's love is the greatest love. Mother's love is the safest love. No matter you are happy or sorrowful, rich or poor, mother's love will always stay with you.

Thank you all!

母 爱

灵 筠（译）

亲爱的朋友：

你知道什么是世界上最珍贵、最永恒的事物吗？金钱？不！不是！因为即使你腰缠万贯，但如果挥霍无度的话，你也会有不名一文的时候。青春？也不是！在人漫长的一生中，青春如昙花一现，稍纵即逝，世界上谁也没有永葆青春的秘诀。也许你会说美貌，我觉得也不是。尽管很多人都希望美丽常在，可是往往不如人意，况且我们一旦陷入困境时，即使拥有美貌，那也无能为力。那么，一个好的工作应该是了吧？但是，朋友，你应意识到，随着年龄的逐渐增大，我们一天天在衰老，思维呢，不如以前敏捷；手脚呢，也不如人家灵活。这时，你不能胜任那个工作了，即使它再好，也不得不拱手相让。

那么，到底什么才是世界上最珍贵、最永恒的事物呢？

当你远离家乡漂泊异地，倍感孤单寂寞的时候，你会想到谁？当你站在人生的十字路口，迷惘彷徨，不知何去何从时，你会想到谁？当你在挫折和痛苦面前悲观、叹息、失望，急需别人的安慰和鼓励时，你会想到谁？人生道路，需要你做出重大抉择时，你会想起谁？是谁给了你最初的生命，把你带到这个世界，享受多姿多彩的生活？是谁教你说话，教你走路，含辛茹苦把你抚养成人？当你取得成绩时，谁会激动得泪流满面？谁的祝福，无论你走得多远，都会围绕在你身边，直到永远？

是的，种种情况下，你想得最多的就是母亲，因为，你知道也相信，母亲的爱是永远和你在一起的。

我曾听到过这样一个关于母亲的感人故事：两个小孩不幸被卷入洪水中，也许一瞬间他们幼小的生命就将被无情的大水所吞噬。可就在这危急时刻，他们的母亲毫不犹豫地跳进了那正在怒吼着的洪水之中??同学们，洪水是无情的！可更让我们担心的是，这位母亲根本不会游泳！跳入水中也就意味着她可能失去她自己宝贵的生命！但是，那个救孩子心切的母亲根本没有时间去考虑她自己，她心里装的只是那两个孩子，那两个将被洪水夺去生命的孩子，她必须想方设法去抢救他们。也许她的勇气和她那无私的伟大的母爱感动了上帝，奇迹发生了：她竟然成功地把两个小孩的生命从无情的洪水中抢了回来！毫无疑问，与洪水一番搏斗之后，这位母亲也筋疲力尽了。

朋友们，母爱是伟大的，母爱也是最安全的，不管你是快乐还是悲伤，富裕还是贫穷，母亲的爱都将永远和你在一起。

谢谢大家！

简评：向听众提问是演讲者惯用的开始讲演的手段，以期一开场便能吸引听众的注意力。本篇演讲的作者便是利用这一方式提出了“什么是世界上最珍贵、最永恒的

事物”这一问题，并对可能的回答逐一进行了分析、辨别和否定，当听众心中疑团顿生之时，八个有序而有力的问题的引导使人心中豁然开朗，如有拨云见日之感：是啊，世界上有什么东西能超越母亲的爱呢？作者还用典型事例更加有力地说明了这一点。

From Monday until Friday most people are busy working or studying, but in the evenings and off weekends they are free to relax and enjoy themselves. Some watch television or go to the movie ,others participate in sports. It depends on individual interests. There are many different ways to end our spare time. Almost everyone has some kind of hobby. Some hobbies are worth a lot of money; others are valuable only to their owners. I know a man Who has a coin collection worth several thousand yuan. A short time ago he bought a rare ten-yuan piece worth 250 yuan. He was very happy about the purchase and thought the price was reasonable, on the other hand, my students collects match boxes. He has almost 600 of them but I doubt if they are worth any money. However, to my student they are extremely valuable. Nothing makes him happier than to find a new match-box for his collection.

I have many hobbies, such as reading, skating, and watching TV. But reading is my favorite hobby.

I like reading for three reasons. First of all, books introduce me to a new world, which is colourful and without time and space limit, Through reading, I can trace back. to ancient Egypt, the cradle of human civilization. It can bring myself to the United states, a glamorous land I have been longing to visit. Secondly, reading can better myself by showing me a new horizon. In the past years, most of my knowledge has been obtained from books. I have learned from many people by reading about their ideas on scithee, politics, life and society. Thirdly, reading bridge the gap between my dream and my goal. In order to succeed in my career in the future, I must keep reading, thinking and practising.

Reading has become part of my life. Every day, I spend some time reading books, newspapers and magazines. At night, I can hardly go to steep without a novel in my hand.

That’s what a hobby mean , I guess . It is something we like to do in our are time simply for the fun of it. The value in money is not important, but the pleasure it gives us

我的嗜好

从周一至周五大部分人都在忙于工作或学习，但在晚上和周末小康，他们都是免费的放松和享受自己。有的看电视，或到电影，其他人参与体育活动。这要视乎个人利益。有许多不同的方式结束我们的闲暇时间。几乎每个人都有某种嗜好。一些嗜好是值得了很多钱;他人是宝贵的，只有他们的业主。我知道一个人有一个钱币收藏价值数千万元。短的时间前，他买了罕见的10元一块价值二百五十元。他很高兴有关购买和思想的价格是合理的，另一方面，我的学生收集箱匹配。他已差不多600人，但我怀疑，如果他们是值得任何金钱。不过，为了我的学生，他们是极其宝贵的。没有什么令他开心比寻找一个新的比赛中，他收集。

我有很多爱好，如阅读，滑冰，看电视。但阅读是我最喜爱的嗜好。

我喜欢读的原因有三。首先，图书介绍我到一个新的世界，这是色彩缤纷，没有时间和空间的限制，通过阅读，我可以追溯。古埃及，人类文明的摇篮。它可以使自己向美国，迷人的土地，我一直向往访问。其次，读可以更好地展示自己，我的新局面。在过去几年里，我大部分的知识已获得从书本。我了解到，从很多人通过阅读有关他们的想法就scithee ，政治，生活和社会。第三，读桥之间的差距，我的梦想和我的目标。为了取得成功，在我的职业生涯在未来的日子，我必须继续阅读，思考与实践。

读已成为我生命的一部分。我每天都花一些时间读的书籍，报纸和杂志。在夜间，我很难去陡峭，没有一种新颖的在我的手。

这是一种爱好，意思是，我猜想。这是我们喜欢做在我们的是时间，只为乐趣。价值在金钱并不重要，但很高兴让我们

Speech for Candidate of Student Union

竞选学生会干部演讲词

Since I came to the college, I have been holding positions of class and youth league union. I also have done some pragmatic work for the university and our schoolmates. During the communication with our schoolmates, I feel it deep that the cohesion of a unit lies in a developing and advancing collective, while the strength for it comes from sincerity, understanding and contributions. As a leader of student, one should have a firm belief with sacrifice. As a leader of student, one should be willing to make up the gap between man and man, idea and reality with his fierce feelings. As a leader of student, one should not be selfish. What he seeks for is to work hard and give himself up to the service.

I, as one of the thousands of students of Economy College, am proud of it. I would be more willing to take up the duty belonging to me. This is my initial hope. This is why I am standing here today.

I remember one candidate himself said loudly, "Should I leave the position quietly or be bold to stay?" During the last competition for student union. As a result, he was bold to stay for the position. To day, I would like to let everyone know that I hope that I will be kept for the position. Even though I fail, I won't leave quietly and angrily out of spite because I am a member of Economy College, and because my roots are in the Mei Campus.

No mater where I go, Mei Campus always stays with me and my deep feelings to it always keeps in me. I would like to work heart and soul, for my love of Mei Campus. I earnestly hope to contribute my feelings and fervently hope to share the happiness and be concerned about the worries with every one of Mei campus.

进校以来，我一直担任班级团干部的职务，也做了一些实实在在的工作。在和同学们的交往中有一个深刻的感受，那就是：一个集体的腾飞，来源于其内在的凝聚力，而造就这种力量的基石是：真诚、理解与付出。作为学生会干部，就要有燃烧自己的信念，用炽热的情感去填平人与人、理解与现实之间的沟壑，不为谋求些什么，只求能够付出自己的一分热忱与努力......。

作为经院八百莘莘学子中的一员，我为自己是经院人而自豪，也更愿承担属于自己的那份责任，这，就是今天我站在这里的初衷。

记得上届学生会竞选的时候，有位候选人曾经响亮地问自己："我是该安静地走开，还是勇敢地留下来？"结果，他勇敢地留下来了。今天，我想告诉大家的是：我真诚地希望自己也能够留下来。即使面对失败的苦涩，也不会负气"安静地走开"，因为，我是经院人，我的根在梅园！

走遍山山水水，梅香依旧，深情依旧。为了曾经拥有过的一份眷恋，我愿洒一把热汗，溅一腔真诚，乐经院人之乐，忧经院人之忧！

*My Attitude towards Marks

#我的分数观

For our students, marks are above everything. Teachers will judge us from our marks. With marks we can be enrolled into junior middle schools. With marks, we can be enrolled into senior middle schools. With marks we can be enrolled into college. With marks we can be enrolled into postgraduate and doctor studies. Still with marks we can be graded and be allowed to go abroad for further studies. Our parents will be strict with us with the marks. Our society judges us from marks. However, sometimes we students compare one another with marks directly. We are completely controlled by marks. We like them and we feel sorry for them. But what attitude towards our marks should we take?

Truly, marks functions cannot be underestimated. In terms of test in our study, marks are fair and real. That is the reason why we say, "Everyone is equal before marks." However, I didn't think marks are the sole standard to judge the success or failure of studtens in exams. Sometimes, marks more than ten or less than one or two in our exams comparing with others means not everything. The success or failure in exams will be influenced by experience on the spot and the examinee's health etc. Once in a while one cannot fail in exams. "Success or failure is common for military." I think everyone is familiar with the famous saying. Don't you think such will be the case with our study? In exams, one cannot be "never-defeated general". Even though one will be very good in everyday study, he cannot succeed in every exam sometimes. We can get proof from the fact that the very best one we call "Number One Scholar" in the entrance exams for college and ordinary middle school and specialized secondary school over the years is not eminent above all others nor top student in every study. As a matter of fact, "high marks" and "ability" are not unified. Some time ago, a new phrase "high marks but poor competence" came into being. Once I happened to meet such a teacher as this. It is said that the teacher just graduated from a far-famed key university. But his teaching result is much less than that of the one who just graduated from a not-well-renowned college. When lecturing, the teacher only repeated what the textbook says, which was very dull, so the students' interest in learning was not aroused. His teaching was short of unity of teaching and learning. At present there is a fact that we know a few brilliant and top colleges graduates are not qualified for their posts. The reason for it may be lack of the ability to combine knowledge learnt from books with pragmatics in their work. Students of this kind will be successful in every exam but they won't be able to use freely their knowledge in their posts. Don't you think it waste training such persons for the country? From the above, I can say marks are not absolutely authoritative for some. If we neglect training and developing the students' ability and competence and if we only

seek for the high marks, we will be absolutely wrong. We should take an objective attitude towards the marks. Neither should we neglect them nor should we overvalue them like a God.

分数，对于我们学生来说，是至关重要的了。老师要用分数来衡量我们──上初中要分数；上高中要分数；上大学要分数；考研究生、博士要分数；出国、评职称还是要分数。家长用分数来要求我们，社会用分数来衡量我们，而我们自己也常常用分数在相互直接做着攀比。我们完全为分数所左右了，我们为它欢喜，我们为它丧气。那么，我们应该怎样对待分数呢？

的确，分数有它不可低估的作用。从检验学习的角度上来说，它具有一定的公平性和真实性，"分数面前人人平等"讲的就是这个道理。

然而，分数并不是估量一个学生得失成败的惟一标准。考试成绩偶尔低了一两分乃至十来分，并不一定说明什么问题。考试的成败有时也会受到诸如临场经验、健康状况等方面的影响。"胜败乃兵家常事"这句话大概不会有人不知道，而我们在学习上又何尝不如此？在考虑上很少有"常胜之师"，即使平时成绩再好的同学，也难免会有偶尔的失误。历届中考、高考"状元"并非就是平时出类拔萃的优等生的事实，便是明证。

事实上，"高分"与"能力"往往是不统一的。前段时间，社会上出现了一个新词"高分低能"。笔者就曾经碰见这样一位教师，据说他毕业于某赫赫有名的重点大学，但从教学效果上讲，却远远逊色于一些并非著名高等院校毕业的老师。其授课只是照本宣科而已，枯燥乏味，根本不能引起听课同学的学习兴趣，缺乏一种教与学之间的协调功能。目前不少大专院校的高材生，毕业后不能胜任他们的工作，原因就在于缺少将书本中的知识运用到实际工作中去的能力。这种人，尽管在学校中每每能考出高分，可无法在工作岗位上灵活自如地运用自己所学到的知识。国家培养出这样的"人才"，不也是一种浪费吗？

由此可见，分数并不如有些人想像的那么绝对和权威，忽视了对各方面才能的培养，只一味追求高分，是不行的。因此，我们应该客观地去看待分数，既不应轻视它，也没有必要把它看得过于神圣。

Never Seeing through Your Colorful Life

七彩人生莫看穿

Our life is like a polygon rhombus. Some are happy with their success; some are unhappy with their failure. We can not be successful without the experience of failure. Why do you lose heart once you meet with failure? Why do you think you yourself will see through the vanity of life since then? A young and inexperienced fellow will be doubtful about everything he sees in the society, because he feels that what he reads from the books and what he sees in the real world seem to be two extreme different worlds. He will say everything seems hypocritical to him. Form him, "truth, good-and-honest, virtue" and "self-sacrifice for justice" and "self-sacrifice for saving another" seem hypocritical. They are all like castles in the air. For him everyone in the world seems to dress himself in a mask as flowers that will be blooming soon. When he meets with all these in the world, he cannot help himself but to sign, "I would rather live in the leisure world alone in life." But actually, when one sees the world itself, he makes great progress, which means that he is experienced and knowledgeable. However, God enables us to reform the world, "why don't you seek for self-development" by "reform" the world, on the base of your experience and knowledge about the world?

"Seeing through your life," means ending your life. When you think every life is such,

you will always complain and lose heart. When you act like this, you will lose your spirit, your belief and idea. On the contrary, all those who seek and struggle with their firm belief will say with smiles "How happy we are!" even though life may be cruel and hard on them.

现实生活是多棱的，有成功的喜悦，也有失败的痛苦。经不起败阵的考验，无以做成功的主人，一时一度的失意，何以从此悲观失望，自以为看破红尘呢？

一个初出茅庐的青年，他会怀疑社会上的一切，因为他感到现实与书本近乎两个极端。一切都是那么虚伪，什么"真、善、美"，什么"舍身取义"、"仗义救人"，都是空中楼阁似的虚无缥缈。人人都戴着面具，好像要把自己装扮成含苞欲放的花朵似的。于是不禁叹道：还是一生一世生活在那个虚幻的世界里好。事实上，认识了世界的真面目本身就是一大进步，这比那些只会称赞"七彩人生"的人有见识多了。然而，上帝赋予我们"改造"世界的权力，为什么不在体验、认识周围世界的基础上，通过"改造"世界，寻求"自身的发展"呢？...... "看穿人生"也等于生命的结束，因为一旦你自以为人生莫不如此，就会怨声载道，垂头丧气，也就丧失了人类的灵魂──信念与理想。相反，那些怀有坚定不移的信念和追求的人，即便人生对他苛刻得近乎残酷，他也会微笑着说："我仍然是一个无比幸福的人"。

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Winston Churchill

May 13, 1940

英汉对照

On Friday evening last I received from His Majesty the mission to form a new administration.

It was the evident will of Parliament and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties.

I have already completed the most important part of this task. A war cabinet has been formed of five members, representing, with the Labor, Opposition and Liberals, the unity of the nation.

It was necessary that this should be done in one single day on account of the extreme urgency and rigor of events. Other key positions were filled yesterday. I am submitting a further list to the King tonight. I hope to complete the appointment of principal Ministers during tomorrow.

The appointment of other Ministers usually takes a little longer. I trust when Parliament meets again this part of my task will be completed and that the administration will be complete in all respects.

I considered it in the public interest to suggest to the Speaker that the House should be summoned today. At the end of today's proceedings, the adjournment of the House will be proposed until May 2l with provision for earlier meeting if need be. Business for that will be notified to M. P. 's at the earliest opportunity.

I now invite the House by a resolution to record its approval of the steps taken and declare its confidence in the new government. The resolution:

"That this House welcomes the formation of a government representing the united and

inflexible resolve of the nation to prosecute the war with Germany to a victorious conclusion."

To form an administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself. But we are in the preliminary Phase of one of the greatest battles in history. We are in action at any other points-in Norway and in Holland-and we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean. The air battle is continuing, and many preparations have to be made here at home.

In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and colleagues or for mer colleagues who are affected by the political reconstruction will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act.

I say to the House as I said to Ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word, It is victory. Victory at all costs-victory in spite of all terrors-victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.

Let that be realized. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.

I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men.

I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "热血、汗水和眼泪"

温斯顿·丘吉尔

19xx年5月13日

上星期五晚上，我奉陛下之命，组织新的一届政府。

按国会和国民的意愿，新政府显然应该考虑建立在尽可能广泛的基础上，应该兼容所有的党派。

我已经完成了这项任务的最主要的部分。战时内阁已由五人组成，包括工党、反对党和自由党，这体现了举国团结一致。

由于事态的极端紧急和严峻，新阁政府须于一天之内组成，其他的关键岗位也于昨日安排就绪。今晚还要向国王呈报一份名单。我希望明天就能完成几位主要大臣的任命。

其余大臣们的任命照例得晚一些。我相信，在国会下一次召开时，任命将告完成，臻于完善。

为公众利益着想，我建议议长今天就召开国会。今天的议程结束时，建议休会到5月21

日，并准备在必要时提前开会。有关事项当会及早通知各位议员。

现在我请求国会作出决议，批准我所采取的各项步骤，启示记录在案，并且声明信任新政府。决议如下：

"本国会欢迎新政府的组成，她体现了举国一致的坚定不移的决心：对德作战，直到最后胜利。"

组织如此规模和如此复杂的政府原本是一项重大的任务。但是我们正处于历史上罕见的一场大战的初始阶段。我们在其他许多地点作战--在挪威，在荷兰，我们还必须在地中海做好准备。空战正在继续，而且在本土也必须做好许多准备工作。

值此危急关头，我想，即使我今天向国会的报告过于简略，也当能见谅。我还希望所有在这次改组中受到影响的朋友、同僚和旧日的同僚们对必要的礼仪方面的任何不周之处能毫不介意。

我向国会表明，一如我向入阁的大臣们所表明的，我所能奉献的唯有热血、辛劳、眼泪和汗水我们所面临的将是一场极其严酷的考验，将是旷日持久的斗争和苦难。

若问我们的政策是什么？我的回答是：在陆上、海上、空中作战。尽我们的全力，尽上帝赋予我们的全部力量去作战，对人类黑暗、可悲的罪恶史上空前凶残的暴政作战。这就是我们的政策。

若问我们的目标是什么？我可以用一个词来回答，那就是胜利。不惜一切代价，去夺取胜利--不惧一切恐怖，去夺取胜利--不论前路如何漫长、如何艰苦，去夺取胜利。因为没有胜利就不能生存。

我们务必认识到，没有胜利就不复有大英帝国，没有胜利就不复有大英帝国所象征的一切，没有胜利就不复有多少世纪以来的强烈要求和冲动：人类应当向自己的目标迈进。 我精神振奋、满怀信心地承担起我的任务。我确信，大家联合起来，我们的事业就不会遭到挫败。

在此时此刻的危急关头，我觉得我有权要求各方面的支持。我要说："来吧，让我们群策群力，并肩前进！"

Enjoy Yourself While Fulfilling Responsibility

By Wang Yu王羽四川师范大学)

(20xx年11月8日，在西安举行的第七届 "21世纪·爱立信杯”英语演讲比赛西北地区比赛中获得第一名)

专家点评:本文主题突出，以小见大，寓意深刻，语言朴实自然，表达的情感强烈，是一篇演讲佳作。

In my 18 years of life, there have been many things. University days are the best part of them. I can never forget the days when I stepped into my university. I was impressed by its garden-like campus, its enthusiastic students and especially its learning atmosphere. I at once fell in love with it.

After the arduous military training, I get absolutely absorbed in my studies. The classes given by the teachers are excellent. They provide us with information not only from our textbooks but from many other sources as well. They easily arouse my insatiable desire to take in as much as I can.

Frankly speaking, at first I had some difficulty following the teachers. However,

through my own efforts and thanks to my teachers' guidance, I made remarkable progress. Now I've benefited a lot from lectures and many other academic reports.

Learning is a long process; I'll keep exploring in the treasure house of knowledge to enrich myself. This summer I got out of the ivory tower and entered the real world.

A publishing house offered me a part-time job in compilation and revision.

At the beginning I was belittled by my colleagues. But they were really surprised when I translated seven English articles over 5,000 words on only one day. Gradually, they began to look at me with respectful eyes. In their opinion I turned out to be a useful and trustworthy colleague.

I also realize that only those who bring happiness for others can be truly happy. So I often take part in activities concerning public welfare. I once went to a barren mountain village with my classmates. We taught the kids there who could not afford school. While showing them how broad and how civilized the outer world is, I was deeply touched by their eagerness to learn, their honesty and their purity. I couldn't control my tears on the day when we left. The precious experience with the poor kids made me aware of the responsibility on the shoulders of us, future teachers. Besides study and social practice, there are entertainments as well. I do body building every day, hoping to keep healthy and energetic. We also write a play and put it on in our spare time.

Campus life is the most splendid time. But different people have different choices. The majority of students cherish their beautiful season and cherish the hope that one day they'll become outstanding. But there are indeed some students still under ignorance. They gather together for eating, drinking or playing cards. They're busy in searching for a girlfriend or a boyfriend. They forget completely about their mission as college students and the hope of their motherland.

Finally, I do hope everybody can try their best to become a worthy citizen of the country. I do hope everybody can become the backbone of our nation and make great contributions to society!

译文:享受生活、不忘使命

在我这18年的生命中，有着许多美好的经历，而大学生活则是其中最难忘的一段。我永远不会忘记刚刚跨进大学校园的那几天:花园一样的校园，热情活跃的学生，特别是那里的学习气氛，给我留下了深刻的印象。

经过了一段艰辛的军事训练后，我完全融入到了学习中。老师的讲课真是棒极了。他们传授给我们的不仅是课本上的知识，还包括其他各种各样的信息。我渴望获得尽可能多的知识，是老师激发起了我这个不能满足的欲望。

坦率地说，一开始我还不能跟上老师的讲课。但是，通过我自己的努力以及老师的指导，我取得了巨大的进步。我从老师的授课和其他许多学术报告中获益匪浅。

学习是个循序渐进、长期的过程，我会在知识的宝库中不断探索，丰富自我。今年暑假，我跨出象牙塔，进入并接触到了真正的社会。一个出版社给了我编辑和校对的兼职工作。 工作初期，同事们都礁不起我。但是，当我在一天之内翻译完7篇(总字数超过5000字)的英语文章后，他们真的是

大吃一惊。渐渐地，他们开始用尊敬的眼光看待我。他们认为，我变成了一个有用并值得信赖的好同事。

我也同样意识到，只有那些为别人带来幸福的人才能真正的幸福。因而，我经常参加有关公众福利享业的活动。有一次，我和同学去了一个贫痔的山区村庄。在那里，我们教那些没钱上学的孩子。我向他们展示了一幅宽广、文明的外部世界的画面，但同时我也被那些孩子学习的渴望、他们的真诚和纯洁深深打动了。在我们离开的那一天，我那不争气的眼泪禁不住流了下来。这次珍贵的经历让我们这些未来的教师意识到了自己肩上的责任重大。 除了学习和社会实践，我还经常参加娱乐活动。我每天都锻炼身体，希望保持健康和充满活力。我们还在业余时间写剧本并排练演出。

园生活是最丰富多彩的。但是，不同的人有着不同的选择。大多数的学生珍惜他们的美好时光，并殷切希望将来能出类拔萃。可是，的确有学生无动于衷。他们聚在一起吃喝玩乐;他们忙于追求异性朋友;他们完全忘记了自己作为大学生的使命和祖国对他们的厚望。 最后，我希望每个人都能尽最大努力成为国家的有用人才。我也希望每个人都能成为我们民族的脊梁，为社会做出巨大的贡献!

Knowing the Consequences of Choice

Over the past Spring Festival, I got involved in a family dispute. Right before I got home, four satellite channels of CCTV were added to the 14 channels we had already had. In prime time at night, they all had interesting shows. Therefore, the five of us-my parents, my sisters and I-had to argue over what to watch. Finally, we agreed that we should watch the "most interesting" programme... If we

could agree what that was.

However, all of us there remember that for a long time after we had TV, there were only one or two channels available. The increase in options reveals an important change in our life: the abundance of choice.

Fifteen years ago we all dressed in one style and in one colour. Today, we select from a wide variety of designs and shades.

Fifteen years ago, we read few newspapers. Today, we read English newspapers like the China Daily and the 21st Century, as well as various Chinese newspapers. Fifteen years ago, English majors took only courses in language and literature. Today, we also study Western culture, journalism, business communications, international relations, and computer science.

The emergence of choices marks the beginning of a new era in China's history; an era of diversity, of material and cultural richness, and an era of the rebirth of the Chinese nation.

We enjoy the abundance of choice. But this has not come easily.

About 150 years ago, China was forced to open up its door by Western canons and gunboats. It has been through the struggle and sacrifice of generations that we finally have gained the opportunity to choose for ourselves. The policy of reform and openness is the choice that has made all the difference.

Like others of my age, I'm too young to have experienced the time when the Chinese people had no right to choose. However, as the next century draws near, it is time to ask: What does choice really mean to us young people?

Is choice a game that relies on chance or luck? Is choice an empty promise that never materializes? Or is choice a puzzle so difficult that we have to avoid it? First, I would like to say: To choose means to claim opportunities.

I am a third-year English major. An important choice for me, of course, is what to do upon graduation. I can go to graduate school, at home or abroad. I can go to work as a teacher, a translator, a journalist, an editor and a diplomat. Actually, the system of mutual selection has allowed me to approach almost every career opportunity in China.

Indeed, this is not going to be an easy choice. I would love to work in such big cities as Beijing or Shanghai or Shenzhen. I would also love to return to my hometown, which is intimate, though slightly lagging in development. I would love to stay in the coastal area where life is exciting and fast-paced. I would also love to put down roots in central and western China, which is underdeveloped, but holds great potential.

All of these sound good. But they are only possibilities. To those of us who are bewildered at the abundance of opportunities, I would like to say: To choose means to accept challenge.

To us young people, challenge often emerges in the form of competition. In the next century, competition will not only come from other college graduates, but also from people of all ages and of all origins.

With increasing international exchanges, we have to face growing competition from the whole outside world. This is calling for a higher level of our personal development.

Fifteen years ago, the knowledge of a foreign language or of computer operation was considered merely an advantage. But today, with wider educational opportunities, this same knowledge has become essential to everyone.

Given this situation, even our smallest choices will require great wisdom and personal determination.

As we gain more initiative in choice making, the consequence of each choice also becomes more important.

As we gain more initiative in choice making, the consequence of each choice also becomes more important.

Nuclear power, for instance, may improve our quality of life. But it can also be used to damage the lives and possessions of millions.

Economic development has enriched our lives but brought with it serious harm to our air, water and health.

To those of us who are blind to the consequences of their choices, I would like to say, To choose means to take responsibility. When we are making choices for ourselves, we cannot casually say: "It's just my own business. " As policy makers of the next century, we cannot fail to see our responsibility to those who share the earth with us.

The traditional Chinese culture teaches us to study hard and work hard so as to honor our family. To me, however, this family is not just the five of us who quarreled over television programmes. Rather, it is the whole of the human family. As I am making

my choices, I will not forget the smile of my teacher when I correctly spelled out the word "China" for the first time, I will not forget the happy faces of the boys and girls we helped to send back to school in the mountains of Jiangxi Province. I will not forget the tearful eyes of women and children in Bosnia, Chechnya and Somali, where millions are suffering from war, famine or poverty.

All these people, known and unknown, make up our big human family. At different points, they came into my life and broaden my perspective. Now as I am to make choices for myself, it is time to make efforts to improve their lives, because a world will benefit us all only if every one in it can lead a peaceful and prosperous life.

选择的重要性

去年春节期间，我陷入过一场家庭纷争。在我回家之前，我们家的电视除了已有的14个频道外又增加了四个卫星频道。晚上的黄金时间，每个频道的节目都很精彩.结果，我们一家五口(父母，两个姐姐和我)为了选台而争执起来。最后，我们决定应当看“最有意思”的节目——如果我们在什么是“最有意思”上可以认同的话。

不过我们全都清楚地记得，买了电视后的好长一段时间里，只有一两个频道可供选择。电视频道的增多反映出我们生活中的一个重大变化:选择余地的扩大。

15年前，我们身着同样的款式，单一的色调。而如今，纷繁的花色和众多的式样让我们挑得眼花缭乱。

15年前，我们几乎无报可读。而如今，除了大大小小的中文报纸，我们还读上了《中国日报》、《21世纪报》这样的英文报纸。

15年前，英语专业的学生只能选语言与文学课程。而如今，我们还学习西方文化，新闻，商务，国际关系，甚至还有计算机课程。

选择的涌现标志着中国进入了一个崭新的时代，一个充满多样化的时代，一个物质与精神都愈加丰富的时代，一个中华民族获得新生的时代。

我们为选择之多而欢呼雀跃，同时也深深地感到这一切来之不易。

一个半世纪之前，在西方大炮、战舰的威通下，中国被迫打开了国门。经过祖祖辈辈的抗争与牺牲，我们才最终赢得了当家作主的机会。改革开放这个正确的抉择使一切发生了翻天覆地的变化。

我和其他同龄人一样，太年轻了、没有经历过中国人丧失选择权的岁月。但是，随着下个世纪的脚步越走越近，我们是该们心自间了:选择，对于我们青年一代，到底意味着什么? 选择，是场靠侥幸来获胜的游戏吗?是句不用兑现的空话吗?抑或是种让人知难而退的困境?

首先，我认为，选择意味着抓住机遇。

我是英语专业三年级学生，我所面临的一个重大选择当然是毕业后的去向。我可以攻读硕士学位，或在国内，或在国外。我可以走上工作岗位，做名教师，翻译，记者，编辑或外交家.实际上，双向选择的体制在我面前铺开了通向各行各业的大道。

说真的，这个选择并不好做。我愿意在像北京、上海、深圳这样的大都市里工作，我也盼着能回到虽不那么发达却使我倍感亲切的故乡。我希望可以留在生活节奏快，令人兴奋的沿海地带，我也愿意扎根于广炭的中西部地区，那里虽然条件艰苦，却有极大的发展潜力。 所有这一切听上去令人振奋，但它们毕竟只是可能性。有些人面对五花八门的选择挑得眼花缭乱，我要告诉他们:选择就意味着接受挑战。

对于我们青年一代，挑战常以竟争的形式出现。到下个世纪，竞争者将不仅只是其他大

学毕业生，更有各行各业不同年龄层的人们。

随着国际交流的不断增多，我们得面对来自整个外部世界日益激烈的竞争，这就对我们个/、的发展提出了更高的要求。

15年前，懂门外语或会用计算机是个优越条件。但今天，随着受教育面的拓宽，以上的知识也成了每个人必备的条件。

在这种形势下，即便最细小的选择也要求我们具有极大的智慧和自主精神。

当我们面对选择不断增强自己的主动性时，每一次选择的结果也同样变得愈加重要。 比方说，核能可以提高人民的生活水平，可它同样也能毁灭千百万人的生命财产。

经济的发展使我们富裕起来，却也给我们的空气、水、健康带来了严重危害。有些人对选择的后果毫不在乎，我要对他们说:选择还意味着承担责任。我们替自己做选择时，不能随口一句“这不关别人的事”。作为下个世纪的决策者，我们必须承担对和我们共同拥有这个地球的人们所负的责任。

传统的中华文化教育我们，要勃奋学习，努力工作，以荣耀家门。然而我认为，这个家门并不只指诸如我的那个争看电视的五口小家。更确切地说，它指的是整个人类这个大家庭。当我为自己的未来做出选择时，我不会忘记自己第一次正确读出“China"这个单词时老师脸上的笑容。我也不会忘记在我们的帮助下重返校园的江西山区的孩子们兴奋的脸庞。我更不会忘记饱受战火、饥荒、贫困蹂蹦的波斯尼亚、车臣、索马里，不会忘记那里成千上万的妇女儿童泪水模糊的双眼。

所有这些我认识或不认识的人们组成了人类这个大家庭。他们从不同的时空中走进了我的生活，开拓了我的视野。现在，我将为自己做出抉择，该是为使他们的生活变得美好而奋斗的时候了。因为只有当每个人都过上和平、富足的生活，世界才能成为大家的乐园.

Regain Confidence

By Li Jun (李军青岛海洋大学)

(20xx年11月下旬，在上海举行的第七届“21世纪·爱立信杯”英语演讲比赛华东地区比赛中获得第一名)

专家点评:本演讲语言较流畅，从具体事件人手，将主题升华，催人奋进。

I received a devastating blow to my self-confidence in the first interview of my college years. I applied to be a host in our Student Acting Troupe and felt confident that I would be accepted. But one of the panel members told me: "You seem inadequate and you are a little vertically-challenged." My life has never been the same since. I used bigger heels to complement my height and psychological maneuvers and tricks to hide my lack of confidence. But no matter how hard I tried to look the part, there was still something missing.

As president of English Club, I organized the rehearsal of Snow White for an English party. Unfortunately, we could not find an actor to be the last dwarf. It had to be someone who was humorous by nature and fluent in English. Suddenly, all eyes turned to me, and I knew I would have to be the dwarf. To my great surprise and delight, once on stage, I was totally absorbed in the performance and my humorous nature was put to full use. As the dwarf, I was a big hit.

Yes, each of us is only one among millions of others, but each of us is an individual and each of us is unique. Cultivating our individuality will transform

our lives, making of them a kaleidoscope of new colors and textures.

A world deprived of diversity would be a bland and boring place. The real tragedy is not being short or shy or ugly, but having your identity lost in a world in which everyone is a clone of a model cool boy or a flawless charming girl.

Given a choice, I would rather be ugly than live in such a world. I'd rather be a genuine dwarf accompanying a Snow White than be a Snow White among nothing but Snow Whites. I would rather be myself. I would contribute my individual and unique colors to create a more diverse universe. Please, be yourself.

译文:我重树信心

大学生活的几年里，当我参加第一次面试时，我的自信心受到了沉重的打击。我向“学生剧团”申请出演一个主角，而且我十分自信地认为我会被录用。但是,其中有个剧团成员告诉我:“你似乎不太合适出演这个角色，因为你的身高有点问题。”我从未遇到过这种情况。我穿着高跟鞋来弥补我的身高，采用心理策略和技巧来掩盖自己信心的缺乏。但是，不论我怎样努力进入角色，感觉还是缺少些什么。

作为英语俱乐部的主席，我为英语晚会组织排演了《白雪公主》短剧。不幸的是，我们找不到合适的人选出演最后一个小矮人。这个角色必须生性幽默，英语流利。突然，所有人的目光都转向了我，我知道那个小矮人就是我了。让我极度奇怪而又高兴的是，一上台，我完全投入到演出中，而且我那幽默的天性被发挥得淋漓尽致。作为一个‘’小矮人”，我取得了巨大的成功。

的确，我们中的任何一个人都是千百万中的一员，但我们中的每个人都是一个与众不同的个体。发挥我们自己的个性会改变我们的生活，使它们成为美丽的万花筒。

失去了多样性的世界是个冷漠、乏味的地方。真正的悲剧不是个矮、害羞或丑陋，而是将自己的个性迷失在一个克隆的世界里，那里到处都是典型的酷男孩或无瑕、迷人的好姑娘。 如果让我选择，我宁可面貌五陋，也不愿生活在这样一个世界里。我宁可做一个伴随“白雪公主”的真实的小矮人，也不愿做“白雪公主”世界里的一个白雪公主，而随波逐流。我宁可作为一个真实的自我而出现。我愿将自己独特的、与众不同的色彩奉献给多姿多彩的世界。“走自己的路，让别人去说吧!”

Responsibility is a Badge of Honour for Youth

(96年“21世纪杯全国大学生英语演讲比赛”二等奖获得者，北京外国语大学 徐义成)

Facing this audience on the stage, I have the exciting feeling of participating in the march of history, for what we are facing today is more than a mere competition or contest. It is an assembly of some of China's most talented and motivated people, representatives of a younger generation that are preparing themselves for the coming of a new century.

I'm grateful that I've been given this opportunity, at such a historic moment, to stand here as a spokesman of my generation and to take a serious look back at the past 15 years, a crucial period for every one of us and for this nation as well. Though it is only within my power to tell about my personal experience, and only

a tiny fragment of it at that, it still represents, I believe, the root of a spirit which has been essential to me and to all the people bred by the past 15 years. In my elementary years, there was a little girl in the class who worked very hard but somehow could never do satisfactorily in her lessons.

The teacher asked me to help her, and it was obvious that she expected a lot from me. but as a young boy, restless, thoughtless, I always tried to evade her so as to get more time to enjoy myself.

One day before the final exam, she came up to me and said, "Could you please explain this to me? I want very much to do better this time. " I started explaining, and finished in a hurry. Pretending not to notice her still confused eyes, I ran off quickly. Nat surprisingly, she again did very badly in the exam. And two months later, at the beginning of the new semester, word came of her death of blood cancer. No one ever knew about the little task I failed to fulfill, but I couldn't forgive myself. I simply couldn't forget her eyes, which seem to be asking, "Why didn't you do a little more to help me, when it was so easy for you? Why didn't you understand a little better the trust placed in you, so that I would not have to leave this world in such pain and regret?"

I was about eight or nine years old at that time, but in a way it was the very starting point of my life, for I began to understand the word "responsibility" and to learn to always do my duties faithfully and devotedly, for the implications of that sacred word has dawned on me: the mutual need and trust of people, the co-operation and inter-reliance which are the very foundation of human society. Later in my life, I continued to experience many failures. But never again did I feel that regret which struck me at the death of the girl, for it makes my heart satisfied to think that I have always done everything in my power to fulfill my responsibilities as best I can.

As I grew up, changed and improved by this incident and many other similar ones, I began to perceive the changes taking place around me and to find that society, in a way, was in its formative years like myself. New buildings, new commodities and new fashions appear every day.

New ideas, new information, new technologies. People can talk with each other from any corner of the earth in a matter of seconds. Society is becoming more competitive.

Words like individuality and creativity are getting more emphasis and more people are rewarded for their hard work and efforts. Such is the era in which this generation ,grows and matures.

Such is the era in which this generation will take over the nation from our fathers and learn to run it. Yet in the meantime, many problems still exist. We learn that crimes take place in broad daylight with crowds of people looking on and not assisting. We hear that there are still about 1 million children in this country who can't even afford to go to elementary schools while enormous sums of money are being squandered away on dinner parties and luxury cars.

We buy shoddy medicines, or merely worthless junk in the name of medicines, that aggravate, rather than alleviate our diseases since money, many people believe, is

the most important thing in the world that must be made, even at the expense of morality and responsibility.

Such an era, therefore, determines that we are a generation with a keener sense of competition and efficiency and a greater readiness to think critically and act creatively.

Such an era, furthermore, demands, that we are a generation with a clear perception of our historical responsibility and an aggressive will to take action and solve the problems. History has long been preparing these qualities in this generation and it is now calling us forward to give testimony to our patriotism and heroism towards this nation and all humanity.

Standing here now, I think of the past 15 years of my life as an ordinary student. Probably I'll be an ordinary man for the rest of my life. But this doesn't discourage me any, for I know that with my sense of responsibility and devoted efforts to always strive, for the best, it's going to be a meaningful and worthwhile life that I will be living.

Standing here now, I think of the past 15 years of this nation, which has achieved greatness that inspired millions of people of my age, most of whom will not attain fame or prestige and only a few of whom will be remembered by posterity. But that doesn't discourage us any, because we know that the world watches, the world listens, the world is waiting to see where this nation will be heading in a time of rich opportunities and fierce competition.

I can't ever forget that little girl in my class who couldn't had the same opportunities as any of us here to enjoy a wonderful life today and a hopeful world tomorrow.

It is the sacred responsibility of this generation to face up to the challenges of the new century and to devote our sweat and blood, our wisdom and passion, to the historic cause of making this nation a greater and happier land for every one of us. We are not going to evade that responsibility. We are going to let people down. And people, far and near, will hear of us. Frost will be brought to their backbones and tears to their eyes when our stories are told and retold, So let us go forth, my fellow members of this luckily chosen generation, and meet the new century in victory and glory.

责任感——青年人荣誉的标志

站在台上面对大家，我心情十分激动。好像是在参加一次历史性的长征。我们今天面对的远不只一场竞赛或角逐。这是才华出众，生气勃勃的中国青年的一次聚会。我们是青年一代的代表。为迎接新世纪的到来，我们正在从各方面作好准备。

在这一历史时刻，能有机会代表同龄人在此认真地回顾于国于己都至关重要的过去的15年，我感激万分。

尽管只能谈谈个人经历，而且只涉及其中一个小小的片段，但我相信，它仍然折射出对我和在过去15年间一同成长起来的青年人都不可缺少的一种思想基础。

我上小学时，班上有位小姑娘，学习非常刻苦而成绩却不尽人意。

老师要我帮助她。看得出，她也寄厚望于我。但我那时还是个小男孩，坐不住，不懂事。我老是ME避她。以便有更多时间自己玩。

期末考试前一天，她来求我说“请你给我讲解一下行吗?这次我很想考得好一点。”我开始给她讲解，不一会儿便草草收场，假装没有察觉她迷茫的眼神，一溜烟儿地跑开了。不出所料，这次她又考砸了。两个月后，新学期依始，传来她死于血癌的消息。我没有完成那项小小的任务，无人知晓。但我却不能原谅自己。她的眼睛令我难以忘怀，仿佛在责问我，“你为什么不愿多帮助我呢?这对于你来说，并不费事。你为什么不能理解我对你的信赖，而让我带着痛苦和遗憾离开这个世界?”

我当时才八九岁。但从某种意义上讲，这件事成了我生活的新起点。因为我开始体会到“责任”二字的意义，并尽心尽力地学着完成自己的义务。我也逐渐领会了这个神圣字眼的深刻内含:人与人之间的彼此需要和信任、合作和依赖正是人类社会存在的基础。

之后，我在生活中又经受过多次失败，但那小姑娘之死所引起的懊悔，心里却不曾再现。想到自己做每一件事都能尽职尽责，一种满足之感便油然而生。

此事及类似的多起事件改变了我，完善了我。当我长大成人，我开始领悟周围发生的一切变化。我发现，从某种意义上说，社会跟我一样，正处在一个自我完善的时期。新建筑、新商品、新款式一天一个样。新思维、新信息、新技术层出不穷。即便万里相隔，人们在转瞬之间即可相互交谈。社会竞争越演越烈。

人们越来越强调个性和创造性。越来越多的人因工作努力而受到奖赏。这就是当今的时代，一代新人由成长迈入成熟的时代。这是我们这一代人接替父辈治国安邦的时代。然而，我们也面临很多间题。

据悉，坏人在光天化日之下作恶，周围的群众居然袖手旁观，无动于衷。我还听说，目前我国尚有100万儿童连小学也上不起，而巨额资金却拿去举办奢侈的宴会和购置豪华的轿车。

我们常常买的是劣质药品，或名曰药品实为一文不值的废物，非但不能除病去痛，反而会使病情加重。在某些人看来，世上金钱最宝贵，只要能赚钱，不惜牺牲道德和责任。

因而，这个时代赋予我们的是更强烈的竞争和效率意识，使我们更善于批判性地思考和创造性地行动。

此外，这个时代要求我们这一代人必须认清自己肩负的历史重任，下定决心，采取行动，解决上述问题。长期以来，历史一直在我们这一代人身上培养着这些品质。现在，历史呼唤我们挺身而出，以实际行动向全民族及全人类证实我们的拳拳爱国之心和大无畏的英雄主义。 此刻，我站在讲台上回顾15年来的学生生活。今后的岁月，我很可能平平淡淡地度过。但这丝毫不会让我心灰意冷。因为我知道，凭借强烈的责任感和精益求精的不懈奋斗，我将追求一种有意义的生活，一种不枉此生的生活。

此刻，我站在讲台上回顾过去，15年来祖国取得的巨大成就激励着千千万万的同龄人。我们之中大多数人将与名利和权力无缘。只有极少数人或许会后世留芳。对此我们丝毫也不会在意。因为我们知道，世界在观望，世界在倾听。在这个大量机遇和激烈竟争并存的时代，我们国家究竟去向何方，整个世界都在关注。

我永远不会忘记班上那位小姑娘。她本应该却没能和在座各位一样享受今天美好的人生和明日充满希望的世界。

接受新世纪的挑战，把我们的血汗、智慧和热情奉献给建设祖国、造福人民的伟大历史事业。这就是我们这一代人的神圣职责。

我们决不逃避责任，决不辜负人民的期望。我们的业绩将四海传扬。我们的故事将被反复讲述，定会令人惊叹不已，以至热泪盈眶。

有幸与时代为伍的朋友们，让我们勇往直前，以胜利的姿态迎接光辉灿烂的新世纪的来临!

A s everyone knows,English is very important today.It has been used everywhere in the world.It has become the most common language on Internet and for international trade. If we can speak English well,we will have more chance to succeed.Because more and more people have taken notice of it,the number of the people who go to learn English has increased at a high speed. But for myself,I learn English not only because of its importance and its usefulness,but also because of my love for it.When I learn English, I can feel a different way of thinking which gives me more room to touch the world.When I read English novels,I can feel the pleasure from the book which is different from reading the translation.When I speak English, I can feel the confident from my words.When I write English,I can see the beauty which is not the same as our Chinese...

I love English,it gives me a colorful dream.I hope I can travel around the world one day. With my good English, I can make friends with many people from different contries.I can see many places of great intrests.I dream that I can go to London,because it is the birth place of English.

I also want to use my good English to introduce our great places to the English spoken people,I hope that they can love our country like us.

I know, Rome was not built in a day. I believe that after continuous hard study, one day I can speak English very well.

If you want to be loved, you should learn to love and be lovable. So I believe as I love English everyday , it will love me too.

I am sure that I will realize my dream one day!

Thank you!

亲爱的老师，同学们：

我很高兴可以在这个课堂上做一次演讲。这一次，我想谈谈英语。我的话题是我爱英语。

正如每个人所知，英语在今天十分重要。它已经被应用到世界的各个角落。它已经成为商业上最为通用的一门语言并广泛的用于国际贸易。如果我们能说好英语，我们就有更多的机会成功。因为越来越多的人注意到这一点，学英语的人数正在已很高的速度增长。

但是对我而言，我学英语不仅仅因为它的重要性以及它的实用性，更是因为我喜爱英语。当我学英语时，我可以体会到一种不同的思维方式，它可以给我更多接触世界的空间。当我读英语小说时，我能感受到不同于阅读翻译文的快乐。当我说英语时，我可以感到自信。当我写英语时，我能够感到不同于汉语的那种美??

我爱英语，它给了我一个色彩斑斓的梦。我希望有朝一日我可以畅游世界，用我流利的英语，我可以和世界各地的人交友。我能看到许多的名胜。我希望我能够到伦敦去，因为那里是英语的故乡。

我也希望用我流利的英语来将我们的名胜介绍给说英语的朋友，我希望他们可以像我们一样

的爱我们的国家。

我知道，罗马不是一天筑成的。（成功需要日积月累。）我相信在持续不断的努力学习下，总有一天我可以拥有一口流利的英语。

如果你想被爱，你就应该学着去爱他人。所以我相信我对英语的爱定将换来它对我的爱。

我相信总有一天我会实现我的梦！

We all come to the world, but why do some of us make great achievements known forever and why are they remembered forever even though they leave the world? And why do some leave the world without anything valuable to his generation and the people? Every one of us will hope to have a significant and valuable life. But what kind of life is both significant and valuable? Answers to the questions are ?? "If you cherish your value of your own life, you will create something valuable for the world." Johann Goth said. "The life value should be judged from his contribution rather than his profession." Einstein said. Lei Feng, a communist soldier, said, "one lives to make others a more beautiful life." As we all know, Marx is an outstanding and great man. He founded his brilliant and scientific theory of communism. The theory guides the ways for the human being's liberation. Marx said, "If we can elect one suitable profession, we won't be demoralized with its pressure, because we make sacrifice for human beings. Only by this way will we not be addicted to the joy of narrow-minded and individualism. Our happiness belongs to thousands upon thousands of people. I see, although it may be unknown, our cause will never be forgot forever. Even when we depart to God, the kind people will tear down upon our ashes." When he said these words, he was only 17 years old. He meant his word with his deeds in his late lifetime period. After his death, on his 100-birthday anniversary, the proletarian and the revolutionary people of the whole world still cherish the memory of Marx and mourn him respectively. It is his distinguishingable contribution to the mankind that his life is that significant. It is his great devotion to the human being that his life value is beyond measure. We also know that Lu Xun is a man of great. Without his nobility "Fierce-browed, I wooly defy a thousand point fingers, head bowed like a willing ox I serve the children", and without his spirit of his loyalty and devotion to the last for the bright future of the Chinese people, his life would not have been so significant and so great. Actually, didn't those regarded as essence of human who live forever in the hearts of people make great contributions to the cause of the people? Wouldn't the people remember those whose great achievements for human are recorded in history? We know for certain that not every of us will be a second Marx or Lu Xun. However, a person of noble aspirations will do solid work. Struggle continuously and effortless. He will try to make his greatest contribution in his shortest time. He will try what he can to bring benefit to the people in his lifetime. We'd say it is impossible for one to live alone if he isolates society and people. If he hopes to make a benefit life, he will bring benefit and make contribution to people. As a socialist youth, he will devote his life to the cause of communism in

order to make a benefit life. Moreover, we say that a value of life will be only in direct proportion to achievement and contribution he makes to our society. In our real life, we can see many revolutionary martyrs die young for the people. Don't you think they cherish the life? Yes. They do. They are sentimentally attached to life; they are full of hope and desire. But they confront the death bravely and resolutely in order to make many more people live. Their brilliant status will be living in the hearts of people. They die glorious and great. The life of those who die busy about his lifetime without any achievements can not be compared with their life. In our real life, we have many cases like those. Life is endless and tackling key problems will be continuous. Let's take these as examples. Mr. Jing Zhuying worked for the Chinese science causes to the last of his life. Mr. Zhang Hua sacrificed his own young life for the sake of others, which set a good example of the communist. Mr. An Ke died for fulfillment for the duty as a citizen. Ms Zhang Haiti, compared to be Paul of our time, worked very hard and faced frustrations of her life, though she was disabled. She still continues to live on bravely. All these are the strong of their life. Their value of life is precious. My fellow students, don't you say what a beautiful life they have? Beethoven once said; "I must learn to control my life which will never make me give myself up. Oh, If only I can live more than thousands times!" Paul Cocking also had a golden saying, "Life is but one." I think every youth of us keep this in our minds. let's turn it into reality with our deeds. Let's not be a man full of promises but without any deeds, like Lusting, one of the characters by Dougeshefol. My fellow students, let's not wander. Let's not hesitate. Only lament and vexation does not mean consideration and exploration. Only lament and vexation does not mean advancing and does not mean mature at all. Let's not kill our lifetime by playing cards. Let's not waste our youth by drinking. Let's not destroy our will without any achievements. Let's make great contribution to human. And only by these can we create benefit life. Every one will have to die and every body will be rotten. But every one may make achievements and contributions. We hate being rotten. Let's brighten up! Up! And up!

我们每一个人来到这个世界上，为什么有的人功业千秋，永垂不朽？为什么有的人悄悄而去，却没有给后人和社会留下一点儿有价值的东西？！人谁不希望自己的一生过得有意义、有价值？那么，怎样的人生才算是有意义有价值的人生呢？对于这个问题??

歌德说："你若要喜爱自己的价值，就得给世界创造价值。"

爱因斯坦说："一个人的价值，应当看他贡献什么，而不是看他得到什么。" 共产主义战士雷锋说："自己活着，就是为了让别人过得更美好。"

马克思是历史上一个了不起的伟大人物，他创立了科学的、光辉的共产主义学说，为人类的彻底解放指明了前进的道路。马克思曾说："如果我们能选择一种最适合于人类工作的职业，那么，我们就不会在它的重压下变得意志消沉，因为我们是在为人类而作出牺牲，这样，我们就不会陷入到一种毫无意义的、狭小的、个人主义的欢乐之中。我们的幸福属于成千上万的人们。我们的事业虽然是无声无息的，但它将永世长存，在我们死后，善良的人们将在我们的骨灰上洒下他们的热泪。"说这段话的时候，马克思只有17岁，而在以后的人生历程

中，他用实际行动履行了他所说的话。他诞辰100周年时，全世界无产阶级和革命人民，不是还在深切地怀念他、悼念他吗？正因为马克思为人类作出了卓越的贡献，他的一生才有那样重大的意义，他的人生价值才那样无可估量地巨大。

鲁迅先生也是个伟大人物，如果他没有"横眉冷对千夫指，俯首甘为孺子牛"的崇高精神，如果他没有为中国人民的美好未来而鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已，其人生的意义和价值就不会这样伟大了。

事实上，那些千古不朽、光照史册、堪称人类精英的伟大人物，又有哪个没有为人类的共同事业做出过巨大的贡献呢？

当然，我们不可能人人都成为马克思、鲁迅第二，但真正的有志之士，总是在最短的时间内去做出伟大的成绩，在有生之年尽自己的全部力量去为人类造福。

一个人是不可能离开人类、离开社会而独立生活的，要使人生有价值，就得造福于人类，为社会做出贡献。作为一个社会主义社会的青年，要使人生有价值，就得把自己的生命融入伟大的共产主义的事业之中。

人生的价值只能和一个人对社会做出的贡献的多少、立下的功绩的大小成正比。

许多革命烈士，年纪轻轻就为人民献出了生命，难道他们就不爱人生？不，对人生，他们也充满了眷恋，充满了渴望。但是，他们为了更多人的生，面对死亡毅然决然。他们的光辉形象将永远耸立在人们的心中！他们死得光荣，死得伟大，他们的人生价值是那些碌碌无为而寿终正寝的人不可比拟的。

在今天的现实生活中，这样的事例也是很多的。生命不息，攻关不止，为中华的科学事业战斗到最后一刻的蒋筑英；用美好壮丽的青春，谱写舍己救人共产主义之歌的张华；用生命去履行一个公民职责的安柯；更有身残志坚、顽强学习，面对坎坷的人生之路，仍然勇猛前进的当代保尔张海迪。他们都是人生征途上的强者。他们的人生价值是可贵的。

朋友们，这样的人生是多么美好啊！

贝多芬曾说："我必须学会掌握自己的命运，我决不会屈服于命运。能把生命活上千次百次真是很美！"

然而生命只有一次，保尔·柯察金那段至理名言，我们每个青年都应当牢牢记住，并把它变为自己的实际行动。千万不要像屠格涅夫笔下的罗亭那样，成为语言的巨人、行动的矮子！

亲爱的朋友们，一味地徘徊、彷徨，一味地哀叹、烦恼，并不等于思考、探索、前进，更不是成熟的标志。我们不能让生命在纸牌中磨灭，不能让青春在酒精中溶化，不能让斗志在空想中瓦解，而应当在为祖国和人民的贡献中创造自己的价值！

人生可能腐朽，也可能燃烧，我们不愿腐朽，让我们燃烧起来吧！燃烧起来吧！燃烧起

来

Facing this audience on the stage, I have the exciting feeling of participating in the march of history, for what we are facing today is more than a mere competition or contest. It is an assembly of some of China's most talented and motivated people, representatives of a younger generation that are preparing themselves for the coming of a new century.

I'm grateful that I've been given this opportunity, at such a historic moment, to stand here as a spokesman of my generation and to take a serious look back at the past 15 years, a crucial period for every one of us and for this nation as well. Though it is only within my power to tell about my personal experience, and only a tiny fragment of it at that, it still represents, I believe, the root of a spirit which has been essential to me and to all the people bred by the past 15 years. In my elementary years, there was a little girl in the class who worked very hard but somehow could never do satisfactorily in her lessons.

The teacher asked me to help her, and it was obvious that she expected a lot from me. but as a young boy, restless, thoughtless, I always tried to evade her so as to get more time to enjoy myself.

One day before the final exam, she came up to me and said, "Could you please explain this to me? I want very much to do better this time. " I started explaining, and finished in a hurry. Pretending not to notice her still confused eyes, I ran off quickly. Nat surprisingly, she again did very badly in the exam. And two months later, at the beginning of the new semester, word came of her death of blood cancer. No one ever knew about the little task I failed to fulfill, but I couldn't forgive myself. I simply couldn't forget her eyes, which seem to be asking, "Why didn't you do a little more to help me, when it was so easy for you? Why didn't you understand a little better the trust placed in you, so that I would not have to leave this world in such pain and regret?"

I was about eight or nine years old at that time, but in a way it was the very starting point of my life, for I began to understand the word "responsibility" and to learn to always do my duties faithfully and devotedly, for the implications of that sacred word has dawned on me: the mutual need and trust of people, the co-operation and inter-reliance which are the very foundation of human society. Later in my life, I continued to experience many failures. But never again did I feel that regret which struck me at the death of the girl, for it makes my heart satisfied to think that I have always done everything in my power to fulfill my responsibilities as best I can.

As I grew up, changed and improved by this incident and many other similar ones, I began to perceive the changes taking place around me and to find that society, in a way, was in its formative years like myself. New buildings, new commodities and new fashions appear every day.

New ideas, new information, new technologies. People can talk with each other from any corner of the earth in a matter of seconds. Society is becoming more

competitive.

Words like individuality and creativity are getting more emphasis and more people are rewarded for their hard work and efforts. Such is the era in which this generation ,grows and matures.

Such is the era in which this generation will take over the nation from our fathers and learn to run it. Yet in the meantime, many problems still exist. We learn that crimes take place in broad daylight with crowds of people looking on and not assisting. We hear that there are still about 1 million children in this country who can't even afford to go to elementary schools while enormous sums of money are being squandered away on dinner parties and luxury cars.

We buy shoddy medicines, or merely worthless junk in the name of medicines, that aggravate, rather than alleviate our diseases since money, many people believe, is the most important thing in the world that must be made, even at the expense of morality and responsibility.

Such an era, therefore, determines that we are a generation with a keener sense of competition and efficiency and a greater readiness to think critically and act creatively.

Such an era, furthermore, demands, that we are a generation with a clear perception of our historical responsibility and an aggressive will to take action and solve the problems. History has long been preparing these qualities in this generation and it is now calling us forward to give testimony to our patriotism and heroism towards this nation and all humanity.

Standing here now, I think of the past 15 years of my life as an ordinary student. Probably I'll be an ordinary man for the rest of my life. But this doesn't discourage me any, for I know that with my sense of responsibility and devoted efforts to always strive, for the best, it's going to be a meaningful and worthwhile life that I will be living.

Standing here now, I think of the past 15 years of this nation, which has achieved greatness that inspired millions of people of my age, most of whom will not attain fame or prestige and only a few of whom will be remembered by posterity. But that doesn't discourage us any, because we know that the world watches, the world listens, the world is waiting to see where this nation will be heading in a time of rich opportunities and fierce competition.

I can't ever forget that little girl in my class who couldn't had the same opportunities as any of us here to enjoy a wonderful life today and a hopeful world tomorrow.

It is the sacred responsibility of this generation to face up to the challenges of the new century and to devote our sweat and blood, our wisdom and passion, to the historic cause of making this nation a greater and happier land for every one of us. We are not going to evade that responsibility. We are going to let people down. And people, far and near, will hear of us. Frost will be brought to their backbones and tears to their eyes when our stories are told and retold, So let us go forth, my fellow members of this luckily chosen generation, and meet the new century in victory and glory.

（ 96年“ 21世纪杯全国大学生英语演讲比赛”二等奖获得者，北京外国语大学徐义成）

面对这一观众对舞台上，我有令人振奋的感觉，参加在3月的历史，为我们今天所面临的是更多的不仅仅是一个竞争或竞赛。这是大会的一些中国的最有才华和动机的人，代表年轻一代认为，正准备自己为未来的一个新的世纪。

我很感谢我已经给予这个机会，在这样一个历史性的时刻，站在这里，作为一个发言人，我这一代，并采取了严重回头看过去15年中，一个关键时期，为我们每一个和为这个国家，以及。

虽然这只是我的权力，告诉我个人的经验，只有一小片段，它在，它仍然代表，我相信的根源的精神，已必须对我和全体人民的育成，由在过去15年。

我在小学年，有一个小女孩，在阶层人士的工作很努力，可是不知为何不能做的好，在她的教训。

老师问我，帮助她，这是很明显，她预期很多，从我。但作为一个年轻的男孩，躁动不安，考虑的，我一直试图回避她，以便获得更多的时间去享受自己。

一天前的期末考试，她是来对我说： “可否请你解释，这是我吗？我想非常做更好的这个时候， ”我开始解释，并完成在匆忙。假装不通知她仍然混乱的眼睛，我参加过迅速。 NAT的奇怪的是，她再次做非常糟糕，在参加考试。和两个月后，在开始的新学期， Word会来到她的死亡，血液癌症。没有人知道的小任务，我没有完成，但我无法原谅自己。我根本无法忘记她的眼睛，这似乎是问， “为什么不，你这样做多一点帮助我，当它是那么容易了，你为何没有你了解一点更好的信托放置在你，让我也不会离开这个世界，在这样的痛苦和遗憾“ ？

我是约8或9岁在那个时间，但在方式，这是非常的起点，我的生活，因为我开始懂得“责任”一词，并学习要始终尽我的职责，忠实和忠诚，为的影响，认为神圣的字眼已曙光对我说：相互的需要和人民的信任，衷诚合作和跨依赖，这是非常人类社会的基础。 后来在我的生活，我继续经历许多失败的。但永远不会再没有，我觉得很遗憾，这击中了我在死亡的女童，因为它使我的心感到满意，认为我一直做的一切，我的权力，履行我的职责，尽我所能。

正如我成长起来的，改变和改善这一事件以及其他许多类似的，我开始察觉到了正在发生的变化我身边，并寻找社会，在某种程度上，是在其形成年像我一样。新建筑，新商品和新时尚的出现在每一天。

新思想，新观点，新信息，新技术。人可以跟对方从任何一个角落的地球在的问题秒。社会正变得更具有竞争力。

换言之一样的个性和创造力也越来越重视和更多的人给予奖励，为他们的辛勤工作和努力。就是这样的时代中，这一代人，成长和成熟。

就是这样的时代中，这一代人将接管国家，从我们的父辈和学习运行它。但在此同时，还存在不少问题。

我们知道犯罪发生在光天化日之下，与人群的人看，并没有帮助。我们所听到的仍然有大约100万儿童在这个国家的人甚至无法负担去小学的同时，巨大的金钱正在挥霍外的晚宴缔约方和豪华轿车。

我们购买伪劣药品，或只是毫无价值的垃圾，在名称的药品，即加剧，而非减轻疾病以来，我们的钱，许多人认为，最重要的是在世界上必须作出，甚至不惜牺牲道德和责任。

这样一个时代，因此，决定了我们是一代与激烈的竞争意识和效率及更愿意批判性的思考和行为，创造性。

这样一个时代，此外，新要求，我们是一代具有明确的看法，我们的历史责任感和积极的意愿，采取行动和解决问题的办法。历史已久准备这些特质在这一代和现在是要求我们前进的提供证词，以我们的爱国主义和英雄主义对这个国家和全人类。

站在这里现在，我觉得对过去15年来，我的生命作为一名普通的学生。可能是我将一个普通的男子，其余的我的生活。不过，这并不阻止我任何，因为我知道，与我的责任感和致力于始终努力，争取最好的，这将是一个有意义的和有价值的生活，我会生活。

站在这里现在，我觉得对过去15年来，这个民族的，已取得的伟大灵感，以百万计的人我的年龄，其中大多数将不会达到或名利的威望和只有少数人会记住的后代。但是，这并不阻止我们的任何，因为我们知道，全世界都在注视，世界听，世界正等待看到这个国家将在标题的时候，丰富的机遇和激烈的竞争。

我不能忘记，以往的小女孩，在我阶层人士不能有相同的机会，作为我们中的任何人在这里享受美好的生活，今天和充满希望的世界的明天。

这是神圣的责任，这一代人面对这一新世纪的挑战，并把我们的汗水和鲜血，我们的智慧和热情，历史的原因，使这个民族的更大的幸福的土地，我们每一个人。

我们并不是要逃避责任。我们将会让人们下来。和人民，远与近，会听到我们。弗罗斯特将被绳之以法，他们的骨干和眼泪，他们的眼睛，当我们的故事是说，和新编，让我们去了，我的同事选择了这个幸运的一代，和迎接新世纪，在胜利和光荣。

There is only one failure called never try

What is success? Different people have different ideas.You may say success is the realization of one's hopesand justified goals.Under such notion,however,people have different understanding of success because the hopes and goals they cherish vary from one another.

There may ba so mangy kinds of success in the world that i can't enumerate them all.So maybe it's difficult to set a defination for success.But ,in my opinion,it's easy to define what is failure---there is only one failure called never try.

Everyone has his dreams but not all of them dare to make it come true.Just like a huter aimed at his game but never fire or a soldier who crying out but never toward.They are afraid of failure that they might encounter.

That reminds me of a game we used to play.We put the chairs in a circle.And the player must pass through th barriers made by the chairs with his eyes covered up.He would be allowed to memorize the positions of the chairs.But as soon as his eyes is covered,we will remove all the chairs.

Sometimes,our life is just like such kind of game.We tried our best not to bump against the barriers.But these things turn out to be existing only in our minds.And sometimes,we made them for ourselves.We dare not to participate a competition or get

cold feet to call the boy or girl we love.It turns out that the barriers we made for ourselves lead to the loss of a lot of things.

Don't give up trying untill you really bump against the chairs.Even so,at least you have a place to sit on.

Some people would say i tried but i failed to pass an exam or to find a job.I'am a failure .But on the contrary,i prefer to call these things setbacks instead of failures.There is no failure in a winner 's dictionary.

It doesn't matter i you have a tumble , what really matters is that you lose the courage to stand up and give it another try.The process is full of tears and pains.

Just look back on how we learn to walk when we are young.If we gave up easily,today we may only crawl .If Tomas Edison gave up easily in finding a proper material to make a bulb,maybe we will live in the darkness after the sunset.Perhaps we need some torches to go on with our competition.

I,myself,a shy person by nature who easily suffers from stage fright,had to get up my courage to take part in this speech contest like this.I could have stayed away and had an easy time of it by not coming here.But i chose to accept the challenge and to face the difficulties. Now here i am.I will try my best because i know i would broaden my horizon and make a lot of friends here.

I still remember the first time i sang a song at a party ,the first time talking to a foreign friends,the first time made a speech on the platform,etc.Although at first they almost scared me to death,but when it was over,i feel it's worthing trying.There is a saying goes,'people often regret what they didn't do instead of what they have done.'

Forrest Gump often says,'life is like a box of chacolate ,you never know what you are gonna get.' I would say if the chacolate you got is not your favourite.Don't get upset but try the next.

Tomorrow will be better

I was born in Beijing and live in Beijing, and I love Beijing very much. When I heard that Beijing will have a chance to hold the 2008 Olympic Games I feel very happy and excited, and I hope I can do something useful to build Beijing into a beautiful and energetic city.

In the twenty-first century, environment is becoming more and more important, so we have "GREen Olympic" as a slogan. Of course slogan is just a goal, the most important thing is we should do some things to make it true. Such as assort the trash, save

the energy and so on. We are still students now, so we can't do anything really big.

But if everybody does something good for our environment we could make Beijing more

beautiful.

In fact the things we can do are easy. Like not littering the useless batteries

everywhere, assort the trash which we want to throw away, and also protect the animals

and plants around us, because they are important parts of the energetic Beijing.

Luckily I had a chance to take part in an activity that is we planted 5 trees in our

campus. My classmates and I worked very hard. This activity doesn't only plant trees,

but also contribute to our environment. Look at the trees, I believe, tomorrow there

will be more trees and flowers standing in Beijing and give Beijingers a beautiful

environment.

We are all Chinese people, live on the earth. We have only one capital, just like

we have only one earth. If we don't beautify our environment, who will? Good

environment depends on good human consciousness. We should say that protecting our

surroundings is not easy. That's why I'm standing here to summon people do it.

the 2008 Olympics games is coming, this is a chance for us to show the good environment

we have to other people. If we do from the bottom of our heart, Beijing's tomorrow

will be more brilliant it will have blue skies, cleaner rivers. Who don't want Beijing

to become more and more beautiful? If we do our best, tomorrow will be better!

Thanks

我是一个生在北京，长在北京的男孩。对这座城市有着深厚的感情。20xx年北京申办2008

奥运会成功，我感到无比的兴奋与喜悦并发自内心地希望可以为建设一个生态北京，办好一

次绿色奥运尽自己的一份绵薄之力。

在经济飞速发展的21世纪，环境的好与坏逐渐成为了衡量一个城市优劣的重要标准。因

此，我们有了绿色奥运的口号。当然了，口号是指导，最重要的还是要落实到行动当中。诸

如垃圾分类，绿色能源，绿色发电等等等等，都是国家为打造生态北京、绿色奥运做出的不

懈努力。当然，依旧是学生的我们或许无法做什么大事，但如果每一个人都有心去做一点，

那么我们千千万万的北京学子们一定可以让北京美起来！

其实我们要做的也很简单：每当有用完的废电池不要乱扔，应集中交给回收站处理；每

当有生活垃圾要扔掉的时候，应认真地进行垃圾分类，再扔进垃圾箱内；而且我们也应当学

会保护身边的动植物，一花一草，一鸟一虫都是生态北京的一个重要组成部分。

非常幸运的我曾亲身参与过一次绿色活动。就在今年植树节前夕，我和全班同学一起在

校园内种了五棵针叶松。那天风很大，同学们铲土的铲土，挑水的挑水丝毫不怠慢。我和组

里的几个男生也运起力量将树苗放进挖好的坑里。十几分钟的时间树都栽好了。活动稍显短

暂甚至有些仓促。但这不只是为给学校种几棵树。而是自己为了一方环境做出贡献，以自己

的劳动给城市的绿色添上新的一笔。看着眼前的五棵树牵手，我坚信，明天必将有更多更高

大的绿树矗立。这片绿色会从我们心底延伸出去，覆盖我们的北京城使它充满活力，生机勃

勃。给绿色奥运一个美丽的环境，给我们北京的居民们一个美丽的环境。

亲身经历讲完了，最终的目的其实还是希望大家--每一位中学生都应该在心里树立一种

主人公意识！我们都是中国人，生活在共同的神州大地上。首都只有一个，正如地球也只有

一个，不去美化他们，还有谁值得我们为之付出？美好的自然环境是建立在优质的人文环境

基础上的。每一个人主人翁意识的形成和综合素质的提高其实都是在为我们北京的环境打下

基础，人文环境越来越好，自然环境必将随之好上加好！当环保不再只是纸上的两个字，不在只是一句空洞的口号时。是否每一个人都还有喊口号时的那份热情，真的愿意弯下腰拾起路边的垃圾，真的能握住手中的废纸坚持走道垃圾箱旁再放下，或是为自己身边的花花草草着想，不随意践踏了他们。我们不得不承认这不容易，这或许也是我之所以站在这里的原因，去说，去号召并以自己的光彩感染别人。

2008奥运将至，这是我们向世界展示环保成果的一次机会，也是对我们环保的一次考验。要如何去把这个绿色奥运办的名副其实，让全世界为之赞叹，需要我们每一个人的努力！只要我们用心去做了，北京的明天一定会更加美好，这里的天会更蓝，水会更清，处处闻啼鸟不会只是意境，群星拱月之美，也将不只是想象。这样的北京谁不想要！只要我们人人都付出了努力，北京的明天会更好！

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,Good afternoon!

Before I introduce our cultural programs, I want to tell you one thing first about 2008. You're going to have a great time in Beijing.

China has its own sport legends. Back to Song Dynasty, about the 11th century, people started to play a game called Cuju, which is regarded as the origin of ancient football. The game was very popular and women were also participating. Now, you will understand why our women football team is so good today.

There are a lot more wonderful and exciting things waiting for you in New Beijing, a dynamic modern metropolis with 3,000 years of cultural treasures woven into the urban tapestry. Along with the iconic imagery of the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall, the city offers an endless mixture of theatres, museums, discos, all kinds of restaurants and shopping malls that will amaze and delight you.

But beyond that, it is a place of millions of friendly people who love to meet people from around the world. People of Beijing believe that the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing will help to enhance the harmony between our culture and the diverse cultures of the world. Their gratitude will pour out in open expressions of affection for you and the great Movement that you guide.

Within our cultural programs, education and communication will receive the highest priority. We seek to create an intellectual and sporting legacy by broadening the understanding of the Olympic Ideals throughout the country.

Cultural events will unfold each year, from 2005 to 2008. We will stage multi-disciplined cultural programs, such as concerts, exhibitions, art competitions and camps which will involve young people from around the world. During the Olympics, they will be staged in the Olympic Village and the city for the benefit of the athletes.

Our Ceremonies will give China's greatest-and the world's greatest artists a stage for celebrating the common aspirations of humanity and the unique heritage of our

culture and the Olympic Movement.

With a concept inspired by the famed Silk Road, our Torch Relay will break new ground, traveling from Olympia through some of the oldest civilizations known to man-Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Byzantine, Mesopotamian, Persian, Arabian, Indian and Chinese. Carrying the message "Share the Peace, Share the Olympics," the eternal flame will reach new heights as it crosses the Himalayas over the world's highest summit - Mount Qomolangma, which is known to many of you as Mt. Everest. In China, the flame will pass through Tibet, cross the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, travel the Great Wall and visit Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and the 56 ethnic communities who make up our society. On its journey, the flame will be seen by and inspire more human beings than any previous relay.

I am afraid I can not present the whole picture of our cultural programs within such a short period of time. Before I end, let me share with you one story. Seven hundred years ago, amazed by his incredible descriptions of a far away land of great beauty, people asked Marco Polo whether his stories about China were true.He answered: What I have told you was not even half of what I saw. Actually, what we have shown you here today is only a fraction of Beijing that awaits you.

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that Beijing will prove to be a land of wonders to athletes, spectators and the worldwide television audience alike. Come and join us.

Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you all.

Now, I would like to give the floor to Mr. He

主席先生，女士们，先生们，下午好!

在向各位介绍我们的安排之前，我想先告诉大家，你们20xx年将在北京渡过愉快的时光。

北京是一座充满活力的现代都市，三千年的历史文化与都市的繁荣相呼应，除了紫禁城、天坛和万里长城这几个标志性的建筑，北京拥有无数的戏院、博物馆，各种各样的餐厅和歌舞场所，这一切的一切都会令您感到惊奇和高兴。

我相信在座的许多人都曾为李安的奥斯卡获奖影片《卧虎藏龙》所吸引，这仅仅是我们文化的一小部分，还有众多的文化宝藏等待着你们去挖掘。

除此之外，北京城里还有千千万万友善的人民，热爱与世界各地的人民相处，无论是过去还是现在，北京历来是各个民族和各种文化的汇集地，北京人民相信，在北京举办20xx年奥运会，将推动我们文化和全世界文化的交流。

在我们的计划当中，教育和交流将是我们的希望，我们期待在全国尤其是数百万青少年中，留下一笔精神财富。

从20xx年到20xx年我们每年定期举办文化活动，我们将开展多元文化活动，举办世界青少年和表演家参加的音乐会，这些文化活动同时在奥运村和全市范围内展开，以方便运动员的参加。

我们的开闭幕式，将是展现中国杰出作家、导演和作曲家的舞台，讴歌人类的共同理想，以及我们独特的奥林匹克运动。

基于丝绸之路带来的灵感，我们的火炬接力，将途经希腊、埃及、罗马、美索布达米亚，波斯、印度和中国，以共享和平、共享奥运为主题，“奥运”这一永恒不惜的火炬，将跨越世界最高峰——珠穆朗玛峰，从而达到最高的高度，中国的奥运圣活将通过西藏，穿过长江和黄河，踏上长城，途经香港、澳门、台湾，在组成我们国家的56个民族中传递。通过这样的路线，我们保证目睹这次火炬接力的人们，会比任何一次都多。

700年前，马可波罗曾对中国的美丽有过惊奇的描述。有人问马可波罗，你的有关中国的描述是真的吗？他说，我只不过将我所见到的跟你们描述了一半而已。

女士们，先生们，我相信北京和中国将向运动员、观众和全世界的电视观众证明，这是一块神奇的土地。

谢谢主席先生，谢谢大家！

竞选班长英文演讲稿(附中文)

Respected teacher, dear schoolmate, everybody is good! I am XX. I am honored very much today, can stand on the platform, is campaigning for class leader together with schoolmates, hoped that schoolmates support me. I first thank teacher for me this opportunity, lets me be able to demonstrate own talent in this stage. This time campaigns for class leader, I am the process give careful consideration only then make the decision. Because I have had work as class leader's desire, but does not have the opportunity throughout. When I hear may campaign for class leader, my mood is incomparably excited, wishes one could immediately this news to tell each person. From the very beginning, father and mother very support me, afterward they opposed identically, said: “like this will affect your study---------” I said: “from the participation, I wants to try again, to look that I do have this ability!”After several relapse's ideological struggles, I decided that certainly must campaign for, certainly must work as class leader! I like, I choose! I campaign for class leader's goal handle class's and grade's each kind of matter, does well between schoolmate's relations. Class leader is a class collective lead goat, has the responsibility to manage the good class and grade business, everywhere maintains the good class and grade honor. Schoolmate who does not study regarding these, carries on the prompt advice. If I can work as class leader, I meet treat each schoolmate equally, to teacher reported that schoolmates' opinion, transmits teacher's difficulties to the student. I guarantee at any time, in any situation, thought that “schoolmates thought that

anxious schoolmates anxious”; If I am class leader, I will study by oneself in the class to prevent schoolmate who these speeches and will make the petty action randomly, will let study by oneself the class maintains peaceful; When between schoolmate has the contradiction, I can think Baogong such, unselfish, complains about in vain a good person in no way, also lets off an unprincipled person in no way. The initiative mediation contradiction, turns swords into plowshares; If I have been elected as class leader, I will lead everybody, will handle the meaningful matter, to have difficulty schoolmate to offer the compassion. “the train runs quickly, depends entirely on the vehicle head harness”! If I have worked as class leader, I am willing to work as a small ox, diligent, bears the burden of responsibility, serves wholeheartedly for everybody! In the usual life, I will set an example, everywhere will play the model leading role, the good study method, the good custom will give everybody, will progress together! Is teacher in the eye the good student, is in the parents heart's good child, is schoolmate the side the good partner. Schoolmate , please throw a that sacred ticket for me, although I now am not most outstanding, but I in the future will certainly be best! my lecture, has thanked everybody!

爱的老师，亲爱的同学，大家好！我是XX。

今天我很荣幸，能够站在讲台上，和同学们在一起竞选班长，希望同学们支持我。

我首先感谢老师给我这个机会，让我能够在这个舞台上展示自己的才华。这一次竞选班长，我是经过慎重考虑才做出决定的。因为我一直都有当班长的愿望，但始终没有机会。当我听到可以竞选班长时，我的心情无比激动，恨不得马上把这个消息告诉每一个人。一开始，爸爸妈妈都挺支持我，后来他们一致反对，说：“这样会影响你的学习---------”我说：“重在自参与，我想试试，看我有没有这个能力！”经过几次反复的思想斗争，我决定一定要去竞选，一定要当上班长！我喜欢，我选择！

我竞选班长的目的是处理好班级的各种事情，搞好同学之间的关系。班长是一个班集体的领头羊，有责任管理好班级事务，处处维护好班级荣誉。对于那些不学习的同学，进行及时的劝告。如果我能当上班长，我会平等地对待每一位同学，向老师反映同学们的意见，向学生传达老师的苦衷。我保证在任何时候，在任何情况下，想“同学们之所想，急同学们之所急”；假如我是班长，我会在自习课上阻止那些说话和乱做小动作的同学，让自习课保持安静；当同学之间发生矛盾时，我会想包公那样，大公无私，决不怨枉一个好人，也决不放过一个坏人。主动调解矛盾，化干戈为玉帛；如果我当选了班长，我会带领大家，做有意义的事情，为有困难的同学奉献爱心。

“火车跑得快，全靠车头带”！如果我当上了班长，我愿当一头小黄牛，勤勤恳恳，任劳任怨，全心全意为大家服务！在平时的生活中，我会以身作则，处处起到模范带头作用，把好的学习方法，好的习惯送给大家，共同进步！做老师眼里的好学生，做父母心中的好孩子，做同学身边的好伙伴。

同学们，请将那神圣的一票投给我吧，虽然我现在不是最优秀的，但我将来一定是最棒的！

我的演讲完了，谢谢大家！

Everybody is good I am *** first day class leader candidates. Napoleon has a famous saying: “does not want to work as general the soldier is not the good soldier”. I believed that not only class leader title, not only a corona, behind it has the substantive content, is closely linked with schoolmates. Therefore, if I were elected, I will not let this “be long” become an unwarranted reputation. Leader should be puts up between teacher and a schoolmate's bridge, is teacher's primary assistant. However, I from start first, requests itself strictly, the model function; Next, I, in any situation, will be able to think that at any time schoolmates thought that anxious schoolmates anxious, will dare to insist the principle, will dare to seek the just rights positively for schoolmates. Class leader takes a class collective to take the lead the character, I have ability to handle class's and grade's each kind of business. everybody has the ambition, everybody positively on own initiative serve for other people. We only then practice unceasingly, can form the good school spirit, the school appearance, can enable us first day (4) class this collective unceasingly to go forward, gains the victory unceasingly, from wins one moves toward magnificently step by step. I meet the able to withstand testing, believed that under everybody's joint effort, our class and grade can certainly do splendidly, becomes the entire school advanced class and grade. my lecture finished, thanks everybody!

大家好我是***，

拿破仑有句名言：“不想当将军的士兵不是好士兵”。

我认为，班长不只是个称号，不只是个光环，它背后有实质性的内容，与同学们息息相关。所以，假若我当选，我不会让这个“长”成为一个虚名。

班长应该是架在老师与同学之间的一座桥梁，是老师的得力助手。不过，我得先从自我做起，严格要求自己，起表率作用；其次，我会在任何时候、任何情况下，都能想同学们之所想，急同学们之所急，敢于坚持原则，敢于积极为同学们谋求正当的权益。班长作为一个班集体的带头人物，我有能力处理好班级的各种事务。

人人都有志向，人人都积极主动为他人服务。我们只有不断实践，才能形成良好的校风、校貌，才能使我们初一（4）班这个集体不断前进，不断地取得胜利，从胜利一步步走向辉煌。 我会经住考验的，相信在大家的共同努力下，我们的班级一定能搞得十分出色，成为全校先进班级。

我的演讲完毕，谢谢大家！

I have a dream演讲稿(中英文)

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of bad captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years

later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live up to the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color if their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning.

My country, ’ tis of thee,

Sweet land of liberty,

Of thee I sing:

Land where my fathers died,

Land of the pilgrims’ pride,

From every mountainside

Let freedom ring.

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York!

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slops of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi!

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last!”

我有一个梦想

一百年前，一位伟大的美国人签署了解放黑奴宣言，今天我们就是在他的雕像前集会。这一庄严宣言犹如灯塔的光芒，给千百万在那摧残生命的不义之火中受煎熬的黑奴带来了希望。它的到来犹如欢乐的黎明，结束了束缚黑人的漫漫长夜。

然而一百年后的今天，黑人还没有得到自由，一百年后的今天，在种族隔离的镣铐和种族歧视的枷锁下，黑人的生活备受压榨。一百年后的今天，黑人仍生活在物质充裕的海洋中一个贫困的孤岛上。一百年后的今天，黑人仍然萎缩在美国社会的角落里，并且意识到自己是故土家园中的流亡者。今天我们在这里集会，就是要把这种骇人听闻的情况公诸于众。 我并非没有注意到，参加今天集会的人中，有些受尽苦难和折磨，有些刚刚走出窄小的牢房，有些由于寻求自由，曾早居住地惨遭疯狂迫害的打击，并在警察暴行的旋风中摇摇欲坠。你们是人为痛苦的长期受难者。坚持下去吧，要坚决相信，忍受不应得的痛苦是一种赎罪。

让我们回到密西西比去，回到阿拉巴马去，回到南卡罗莱纳去，回到佐治亚去，回到路易斯安那去，回到我们北方城市中的贫民区和少数民族居住区去，要心中有数，这种状况是能够也必将改变的。我们不要陷入绝望而不能自拔。

朋友们，今天我对你们说，在此时此刻，我们虽然遭受种种困难和挫折，我仍然有一个梦想。这个梦是深深扎根于美国的梦想中的。

我梦想有一天，这个国家会站立起来，真正实现其信条的真谛：“我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的；人人生而平等。”

我梦想有一天，在佐治亚的红山上，昔日奴隶的儿子将能够和昔日奴隶主的儿子坐在一起，共叙兄弟情谊。

我梦想有一天，甚至连密西西比州这个正义匿迹，压迫成风，如同沙漠般的地方，也将

变成自由和正义的绿洲。

我梦想有一天，我的四个孩子将在一个不是以他们的肤色，而是以他们的品格优劣来评判他们的国度里生活。

我今天有一个梦想。

我梦想有一天，阿拉巴马州能够有所转变，尽管该州州长现在仍然满口异议，反对联邦法令，但有着一日，那里的黑人男孩和女孩将能够与白人男孩和女孩情同骨肉，携手并进。 我今天有一个梦想。

我梦想有一天，幽谷上升，高山下降，坎坷曲折之路成坦途，圣光披露，满照人间。 这就是我们的希望。我怀着这种信念回到南方。有了这个信念，我们将能从绝望之岭劈出一块希望之石。有了这个信念，我们将能把这个国家刺耳的争吵声，改变成为一支洋溢手足之情的优美交响曲。有了这个信念，我们将能一起工作，一起祈祷，一起斗争，一起坐牢，一起维护自由；因为我们知道，终有一天，我们是会自由的。

在自由到来的那一天，上帝的所有儿女们将以新的含义高唱这支歌：“我的祖国，美丽的自由之乡，我为您歌唱。您是父辈逝去的地方，您是最初移民的骄傲，让自由之声响彻每个山冈。”

如果美国要成为一个伟大的国家，这个梦想必须实现。让自由之声从新罕布什尔州的巍峨峰巅响起来！让自由之声从纽约州的崇山峻岭响起来！让自由之声从宾夕法尼亚州阿勒格尼山的顶峰响起！让自由之声从科罗拉多州冰雪覆盖的落矶山响起来！让自由之声从加利福尼亚州蜿蜒的群峰响起来！不仅如此，还要让自由之声从佐治亚州的石岭响起来！让自由之声从田纳西州的了望山响起来！让自由之声从密西西比州的每一座丘陵响起来！让自由之声从每一片山坡响起来。

当我们让自由之声响起来，让自由之声从每一个大小村庄、每一个州和每一个城市响起来时，我们将能够加速这一天的到来，那时，上帝的所有儿女，黑人和白人，犹太人和非犹太人，新教徒和天主教徒，都将手携手，合唱一首古老的黑人灵歌：“终于自由啦！终于自由啦！感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由啦！”

Objectively Speaking

翻译：北京外国语大学北戴河外语培训基地副校长 张宝丹

People in this world can be divided into two categories: those always working and those always making comments. The working ones never have time to idle away. Some may run a hotel, or do some business; some may open a factory or set up a school; others may be absorbed in scientific research, or devoted to military affairs or political issues. Right or wrong, successful or failed, they are always fully committed to their careers. Facing all kinds of risks(not because they neglect them, but mainly because they have the courage), and shouldering the responsibilities, they march forward, bravely and cautiously. They are risking their luck and their lives as well. They have neither time nor energy to comment on others. While attentively planning the future, they devote themselves wholly in hard work, leaving the embroidered stories and malicious gossips flying in the air. The commenting ones, however, usually work less, and even if they want to work sometimes, they simply are not capable enough. They are no better than anyone, but show admiration to nobody either. They blame either the heaven, or the earth, but never themselves. They dare not to take any risks, but they are also afraid of any hard work. They are

gossip-mongers, making stories and spreading rumors, making you feel annoyed and upset. It's not because that you have hurt them, or disturbed them, or hindered them, but because you are working. If only you are working, he is there commenting. Everything is hard at the beginning. You have just started a new cause, needing encouragement and support, yet he is there pouring a jar of cold water or blowing a gust of chilly wind, making you worried or perplexed. But once you have succeeded, he is there again sharing your success without feeling a little ashamed of the discouragement he had given you.

Many people don't like using their mind but enjoy echoing the views of others. They often take it for granted that the working ones are wrong while the commenting ones are definitely right. However in all fairness, how can it be true? Not working itself is already wrong, and it is a blunder to hurt the hard working people.

From ancient time to the present, many great men have been commented on endlessly. Take the cases of Confucius, Emperor Qinshihuang, Empress Wu Zetian, Gengis Khan, Dr. Sun Yet-sun, Chairman Mao, Deng Xiaoping, etc.. Both positive and negative criticism have been made about them. They not only enjoyed compliments but also suffered slanders from all over the world.

When commenting on what's right and what's wrong, the commenting ones themselves don't really know what is wrong and what is right. They are simply demanding perfection. When criticizing the others' inability, they themselves are actually unable to do anything, but simply pretending that they know better. This can well be compared with the actors and spectators. A new program is always followed by large amounts of criticism from the spectators. But if a spectator is given a chance to perform, a disaster will surely happen. Diners are always commenting on the skills of the chefs while readers are always criticizing the writers. Another case in point is the forty-chapter sequel of A Dream of the Red Mansions , which were written by Gao E who did a nearly perfect job. Nevertheless there are always such people who claim to be the experts on the novel, criticizing the latter forty chapters as a wretched sequel to a fine work. What if we ask them to write the sequel? I'm afraid they can only make it worse. It's easier said than done.

Capable and wealthy people are always the focus of the society.

Capable people are usually marching ahead of others and may not be properly understood, hence causing various kinds of comments, more criticism but less support;

Capable people can easily succeed, thus causing both admiration and comments, more jealousy but less appreciation (only their good luck is recognized);

Capable people can be sought for help and attract the attention of the society, thus causing a lot of comments, more complaints but less gratitude (even though they didn't

ask anyone for help, if only they were not able to help others in a satisfactory way, it's already their fault);

Capable people can also suffer setbacks (some even experience ups and downs many times), experiencing fully the warmth and coldness of the human world, more hurts but less helps.

Wealthy people are non the easier. No doubt there are cruel-hearted rich men, but it is also wrong to think that no wealthy people are kind-hearted. They are capable of devising and managing and they often need to take risks to get the chance. But who care about these?

Whenever a group are dining or entertaining, everyone will take it for granted that the rich should pay the bill instead of going Dutch. If the rich doesn't pay, then he'll definitely be regarded as a miser;

Among good friends and relatives, the rich should often help the poor, otherwise he will surely be blamed for his cruel-heartedness;

From the ancient times, people have been used to killing the rich to save the poor, without thinking about how the rich became rich and the poor stayed poor. The policy of “allowing some people to get rich” has balanced people's mind to some extent, but there is still a long way to go before we can get rid of “the hatred toward the wealthy”.

Capable people or rich people are just human, neither sages nor perfect men. They have their own faults, and they may also commit mistakes. But objectively speaking, some mistakes are forced on them, which are the expectations of the public. They are expected to do this or that, but when expectations become disappointments, they have to take the blaming. In fact, it's the public's fault to demand for perfection or counting on unrealistic expectations of the rich.

I encourage people to work, even though they may commit mistakes.

I advise those enjoying commenting to make some effort to do something for the others.

I hope people can make comments objectively instead of subjectively, without going to extremes, and not out of preference.

I also hope that the hard-working people do not care too much about what the others say, even what the others criticize. You should believe that public opinions will finally decide what's right and what's wrong. What we need is just time.

Translated by Zhang Baodan

June 25, 2004

平心而论

北京外国语大学北戴河外语培训基地校长 宋远利

世界上总有一些人在做事，总有一些人在说事。做事的人不闲着，或者包个饭店，或者搞个买卖，或者办个工厂，或者建个学校，或者专心科研，或者从军从政。也许对，也许错；也许成功，也许失败，但很投入。他们担着天下的风险（并非都是忽略，大多还是敢于面对），扛着双肩的责任，奋然前行，又战战兢兢，常常是在赌运、也赌命。他们没有时间去说别人的事，也没有精力去理会别人的事。他们抬头看路，埋头做事，任由别人的飞短流长。

说事的人，常常是不大做事。或者也曾经想做事，但做不来。他们可能谁都不如，但又谁都不服。怨天怨地，不怨自己。他们不敢担任何的风险，又不肯出少许的力气。一件事，他们能从头说到尾。先是乌鸦叫，后来喜鹊噪，一会一变脸，令你心烦闹。

并不是你伤害了他，并不是你干扰了他，并不是你阻碍了他。但只要你在做事，他就会来说事。万事开头难。当你刚刚起步，正需要鼓励与支持的时候，他会一盆凉水，一股阴风，让你浑身不舒服。而一旦你业有所成，他又会满面春风地来分一瓢羹，好象不曾给过你那片下雨的乌云。

世上有许多人不喜欢动脑，却习惯于人云亦云。他们常以为错在做事的人，理在说事的人。但平心而论，怎么会这样呢？不做事，本身就是错。再打击做事的人，不是错上加错嘛！

从古至今，许多能人，伟人，都被无休无止地评论着。如孔夫子、秦始皇、武则天、成吉思汗、孙中山、毛泽东、邓小平等，说是的有，说非的也有。也堪称誉满天下，谤满天下。

说人是非，并非明白是非，不过是求全责备而已。说人不行，未必自己真行，不过装腔作势而已。就如演员与观众，每个节目出来，都会有一大堆褒贬。但真让观众上台，可能又演不成了。食客总是在评论厨师的手艺，读者总是在评论作者的长短。再如《红楼梦》的后四十回，乃高鄂所续写。公平地说，几近天衣无缝。但就有那么些人，甚至打着红学家的招牌，一定要说后四十回怎么不行，怎么狗尾续貂。真不行吗？就让这几位“红学家”写写看，他们恐怕连鼠尾都拿不出来。侃山容易，搬山难啊。

能人、富人，永远都是社会的焦点。

能人可能超前，为世人所不理解，会引起议论纷纷，支持的少，攻击的多。

能人可能成功，引起世人的羡慕，也会引起众多评论，佩服的少，嫉妒的多。（只承认你的运气和侥幸）

能人可能被求助，受到世人的关注，从而导致事后的品评，感谢的少，抱怨的多。（你没有求人，但别人求你的事没办或没办好，都是你的错。）

能人也会遭遇挫折，（有人甚至三起三落）感受人心的冷暖，洞知世态的炎凉，帮扶的少，推墙的多。

富人也不轻松。固然也有为富不仁者，但也不能说所有的富者都不仁。他们还有经营能力和运作手段，并且常常要充满冒险地去把握先机。但谁管这些？

一群人吃饭或游乐，大家一定会认为要富者买单，而不是 AA 制。如果你不买，那就是吝啬。

在亲朋好友的圈子里如果有富者，那就必须经常周济他人，否则就会被指责无情无义。

自古就有“杀富济贫”，不管富是怎么富，贫是怎么贫。允许一部分人先富起来的政策，让人们的心态好多了。但仇富观念的消除，还要漫长的历程。

能人、富人都是人，既不神圣，也非完人。他们都有自身的毛病，也会犯各种错误。但平心而论，还有一种错误是别人强加的，那就是众人的期望。期望他们这样，期望他们那样，期望变成了失望，就成了他们的错。对他们求全责备也好，对他们非份希求也好，其实都不应算作他们的错。

我主张鼓励做事的人，哪怕他们真的有错。

我奉劝说事的人，自己也努力去做些可做的事。

我希望人们能平心而论天下事，不要偏激，不要掺杂个人的恩怨，不要取舍于个人的得失。我更希望做事的人，不要太在意别人一时怎么说、甚至怎么骂。要相信，是非自有公论，只是个时间问题。

As everyone knows,English is very important today.It has been used everywhere in the world.It has become the most common language on Internet and for international trade. If we can speak English well,we will have more chance to succeed.Because more and more people have taken notice of it,the number of the people who go to learn English has increased at a high speed.

But for myself,I learn English not only because of its importance and its usefulness,but also because of my love for it.When I learn English, I can feel a different way of thinking which gives me more room to touch the world.When I read English novels,I can feel the pleasure from the book which is different from reading the translation.When I speak English, I can feel the confident from my words.When I write English,I can see the beauty which is not the same as our Chinese...

I love English,it gives me a colorful dream.I hope I can travel around the world one day. With my good English, I can make friends with many people from different contries.I can see many places of great intrests.I dream that I can go to London,because it is the birth place of English.

I also want to use my good English to introduce our great places to the English spoken people,I hope that they can love our country like us.

I know, Rome was not built in a day. I believe that after continuous hard study, one day I can speak English very well.

If you want to be loved, you should learn to love and be lovable. So I believe as I love English everyday , it will love me too.

I am sure that I will realize my dream one day!

Thank you!

正如每个人所知，英语在今天十分重要。它已经被应用到世界的各个角落。它已经成为商业上最为通用的一门语言并广泛的用于国际贸易。如果我们能说好英语，我们就有更多的机会成功。因为越来越多的人注意到这一点，学英语的人数正在已很高的速度增长。

但是对我而言，我学英语不仅仅因为它的重要性以及它的实用性，更是因为我喜爱英语。当我学英语时，我可以体会到一种不同的思维方式，它可以给我更多接触世界的空间。当我读英语小说时，我能感受到不同于阅读翻译文的快乐。当我说英语时，我可以感到自信。当我写英语时，我能够感到不同于汉语的那种美??

我爱英语，它给了我一个色彩斑斓的梦。我希望有朝一日我可以畅游世界，用我流利的英语，我可以和世界各地的人交友。我能看到许多的名胜。我希望我能够到伦敦去，因为那里是英语的故乡。

我也希望用我流利的英语来将我们的名胜介绍给说英语的朋友，我希望他们可以像我们一样的爱我们的国家。

我知道，罗马不是一天筑成的。（成功需要日积月累。）我相信在持续不断的努力学习下，总有一天我可以拥有一口流利的英语。

如果你想被爱，你就应该学着去爱他人。所以我相信我对英语的爱定将换来它对我的爱。

我相信总有一天我会实现我的梦！

谢谢！