someone said “we are reading the
first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are
infinite”. i don’t know who wrote these words, but
i’ve always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything
we want it to be. we are all in the position of the farmers. if we plant a good
seed ,we reap a good harvest. if we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at
all.
we are young. “how to spend the youth?”
it is a meaningful question. to answer it, first i have to ask “what
do you understand by the word youth?” youth is not a time of life,
it’s a state of mind. it’s not a matter of rosy cheeks, red
lips or supple knees. it’s the matter of the will. it’s the
freshneof the deep spring of life.
a poet said “to see a world in a
grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your
hand, and eternity in an hour. several days ago, i had a chance to listen to a
lecture. i learnt a lot there. i’d like to share it with all of you.
let’s show our right palms. we can see three lines that show how our
love.career and life is. i have a short line of life.
what about yours? i wondered whether we
could see our future in this way. well, let’s make a fist. where is
our future?
where is our love, career, and life? tell
me.yeah, it is in our hands. it is held in ourselves.
we all want the future to be better than
the past. but the future can go better itself. don’t cry because it
is over, smile because it happened. from the past, we’ve learnt that
the life is tough, but we are tougher. we’ve learnt that we
can’t choose how we feel, but we can choose what about it. failure
doesn’t mean you don’t have it, it does mean you should do
it in a different way. failure doesn’t mean you should give up, it
does mean you must try harder.
as what i said at the beginning,
“we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose
pages are infinite”. the past has gone. nothing we do will change it.
but the future is in front of us. believe that what we give to the world, the
world will give to us. and from today on, let’s be the owners of
ourselves, and speak out “we are the world, we are the
future.”
“英语关于健康演讲稿——health的重要性带翻译”来自http://www.91exam.orgthere
are many people who think that wealth is better than health. i used to think so
until one day i read a story about howard hughes. he was an american
billionaire who got anything he wanted. however, in the last twenty years of
his life, his health began to deteriorate and he was miserable. he had the best
doctors and nurses. however, he could still find no relief. i realized that
health is worth all the money in the world. if you have millions of dollars but
your health is poor, you will not be able to do what you want to do. so i would
like to say don’t hurt
yourself trying to make money. instead take care of your body and be happy with
what you do have. health is more important.
which is more important, health or wealth?
it is a hot topic among people. i can hardly answer this question. i didn’t realize that health is more
imporant until i saw a businessman’s real life.
a successful businessman, one of my father’s friends, devoted himseff to his
business. he works from morning to night every day. there is no weekends in his
mind. he often says, “i must earn much money so that i can get what i want.
“lately, he is ill. though he has a lot of money, he can do nothing but lie in
the hospital’s bed.
so i think health is more important than
wealth“英语关于健康演讲稿——health的重要性带翻译”来自http://www.91exam.org. people can
do nothing if they are always in poor health, let alone happiness. no matter we
are rich or not, we can not ignore the importance of health.
dream is beautiful, it is the bottom of my
heart the most beautiful expectations, so the dream also become our long-held
beliefs.
dream is the sun, it makes people from
impetuous to solid, from the hesitation to the firm, and on the road to
success.
dream is powerful, it is the life source of
forward momentum; lofty dreams can inspire a life all potential.because of this
we will go to dream, to grasp the dream, the pursuit of dreams.
our new president xi jinping came up with
the dream of the chinese nation’s rejuvenation on december 29, 2014. he said:
the chinese dream is a dream of national strength prosperity and people’s
happiness. our people have an ardent love for life. they wish to have better
education, more stable jobs, more income, greater social security , better
medical and health care, improvedhousing conditionsand better environment, they
want their children to grow well, have ideal jobs and lead a more enjoyable
life. to meet their desire for a happy life is our mission."
i always ask myself what can i do for our
great chinese dream ?as we all know that the wiserthe youths are ,the wiser the
nation will be;the wealthier
the youths are ,the wealthier the nation will be;the stronger the youths are ,the stronger the nation will be. here
the word wealthy means: enriching our knowledge reserve. as a new generation of
youth , every one here shouldering the great historicalmissionof making china
powerful and strong. you may say that this may exaggerate our role, but i want
to say you are wrong. if i am a little screw our great dream may be a
multifunction and complex machine. through this example i just want to say i am
very tinybut i am indispensable .
i believe that as long as all of our young
people unite together and perform our own functionsthat study hard in school
and work hard after we graduating from university . we must be able to achieve
our great dream meanwhile enrich ourselves unwittingly!
my dream, our dream, to improve the chinese
dream. let us unite together to realize chinese nation’s great rejuvenation to
struggle! to you the day of my dreams to realize, is standing at the time of
china.
god suddenly decide to give the man a wish
... ...
god asked ... ...
what wishes do you have ... ...
the man thinking ... ...
heard that cats have9 lives ... ...
would you please give me9 lives ... ...
god said ... ...
your wish come true ... ...
one day, the boring ... want to say one
death to die ... ...
there are9 life lying on the tracks ... ...
the results of a train in the past ... ...
the man was dead ... ...
why is this?
because the train compartment having10day
... ...
有个人一天碰到上帝......
上帝突然大发善心打算给那人一个愿望......
上帝问......
你有什么愿望吗......
那个人想了想......
听说猫都有9条命......
那请您赐给我9条命吧......
上帝说......(来源说明好范文网:wWW.91exam.org) 你的愿望实现咯......
一天,那个人闲来无聊......
想说去死一死算了......
反正有9条命嘛就躺在铁轨上......
结果一辆火车开过去......
那人还是死了......
这是为什么呢?
因为那列火车的车厢有10节......
music class the teacher played a beethoven
song
xiao ming asked her:" do you
understand music?"
xiaohua:" yes"
xiao ming:" you know what teachers
do in the shells?"
xiaohua:" piano."
音乐课上老师弹了一首贝多芬的曲子
小明问小华:“你懂音乐吗?”
小华:“是的”
小明:“那你知道老师在弹什麼吗?”
小华: “钢琴。”
traveler: can i catch the three o’clock
train to toronto?
ticket agent: that depends on how fast you
can run. it left fifteen minutes ago.
旅行者:我还能赶上3点钟那班到多伦多的火车吗?
售票员:那得看你跑得有多快。火车15分钟前开出。
第五篇:英语作文带翻译
1. how to spend my weekend
iam going to prepare for my lessons because
the mid-term exam is coming. i am sure if i have good preparation, i will get
good grades. i am going to help my parents do some housework because they work
hard every day.of course i will visit my good friend and play table tennis with
him because doing sports is good for our health. i will surf the internet and
listen to music because they are good ways to relax. i am sure i will have a
busy and meaningful weekend. 我打算复习功课,因为期中考试即将到来,我相信如果做好充足的准备,我一定会取得好成绩的。我打算帮父母做些家务,因为他们整天忙于工作。当然了,我要拜访我最好的朋友并和他一起打乒乓球,因为做运动有益于身体健康。我要上网并听音乐,因为他们是最好的放松方式。我肯定我会过一个忙而有意思的周末的。
2how to learn english well
learning english just like learning any
other language, is hard work so my first advice is to spend much time
practicing using english every day. besides, we should listen to the teacher
and take notes carefully in class. go over what is learnt regularly and finish
doing our homework carefully. listen to english radio programmes, read english
stories and newspapers, watch english films and tv programmes ,keep a diary in
english and attend english debbates and speech contests. if we make mistakes,
correct them at once and try not to make the same mistakes. what’s more, we
should look up new words in the dictionary before class and prepare each lesson
carefully before class. i believe if we work hard and have good ways of
learning english, we will learn english well.学习英语就象学习其他语言一样是艰辛的。因此我的第一个建议是每天花多点时间练习使用英语。除此之外,我们应该上课认真听讲、记笔记。定期复习所学内容,认真做作业。听英语广播,读英语故事和报纸,看英语电影和电视节目,用英语写日记,参加英语讨论和演讲比赛。如果我们犯错误,就要立刻改正,尽力下次不要犯同样的错误。而且,我们在上课前要查字典,认真准备每节课。我相信如果我们努力学习、有好的学习方法,我们会学好英语的。
1.class begins!good morning,boys and
girls!sit down,please!
2.boys and girl,are you happy today?i’m
happy,too.let’s sing an english song together,ok?”what’s your favourite
season?”clap your hands,ple(91考试网:WWW.91exam.org)ase.wow!wonderful!
ⅱ.presentation
let’s learn
1.now boys and girls,please look at this
picture.what season is it now?yes,it’s summer.why?because i can swim.read after
me.this line,please read this word one by one.great!
2.look at this picture!what season is
it?why?because i can make a snowman.read after me.this line,read it.very good!
3.in summer,i can swim.in winter,i can make
a snowman.and in winter,i can skate,too.follow me,please.
4.i don’t like summer,it’s too hot.i don’t
like winter,it’s too cold.i like spring,it’s sunny and warm.in spring,i can fly
kites.i can plant trees,too.please read after me.
5.let’s review the phrases.in summer,i
can....in winter,i can..,i can also....in spring,i can...,and i can
also....great!
6.now please take out your pens and write
these five phrases on your exercise books.finished?please check your partner’s
spelling.who is all right?all of you have done a good job!
group work
1.what season is it now?yes,it’s spring.i
like spring,it’s sunny and warm.i’d like to go hiking.what about you?what would
you like to do?i’d like to....
2.now we’re going out together.what would
you like to do?please work in groups , talk about it and fill in the chart.then
report the numbers to me.
3.stop here.are you ready?who wants to be
the reporter?you,please.wonderful!thank you.
ⅲ.consolidation
1.boys and girls,are you happy this
class?let’s play a guessing game,ok?i want one of you to come here and act the
phrases,the others say the phrase with “i can...”or”i’d like to...”for
example,....are you clear?let’ begin!
2.ok,all of you have done a good job.you
can continue this game after class,ok?
3.so much for this class.class is
over.goodbye,everyone!
a great deal of dead fish can be found
floating on the surface of the huaihe river(淮河), because of serious pollution this summer. in a report, anhui
daily called on residents (居民) to help protect the river against pollution.要求:1 必须包括对上述主要内容的感想,可以适当增减细节,使其连贯、完整。2 词数:100左右
chinese people are now face to a serious
problem--pollution. and this problem is a little bit different from others--the
goverment can not solve it by themselves. we need everyone to protect our
environment. but we also know that it is very hard to call everyone to join us
to protect the environment. but it seems that they have found the way to let
everybody know it. in a report, anhui daily called on residents to help protect
the river against pollution. i am so glad about it. and i believe that
somewhere the pollution must stop.
第二篇:2014届英语100日誓师词
2014届新洲中学百日誓师大会誓词—高三英语备课组
坤:ladies and
gentlemen! 在最后的100天,2400个小时,我们全体高三
英语老师甘愿与同学们再“crazy”100天。
全体英语老师:我们将忠于职守,甘苦与共。
我们将精诚团结,通力合作。
我们将笑对质疑,热情答问。
我们将刻苦钻研,精心备课
我们将随时关注高考动态,采集高考最新信息
为了你们的一切,我们将赴汤蹈火,在所不辞!
坤:同学们,还记得我们英语组的口号吗?我们一定要以什么为前提?学生:hard work
坤:以什么为导向?
学生:ambition
坤:以什么为保证?
学生:persistence
坤:以什么为保障?
学生:practice
坤:多对自己的进步说什么?
学生:yes
坤:就能做到怎样的备考?
学生:happy
全体英语老师:yes,我们一定要以“ hard work”为前提,以“ambition”为导向,以“persistence”为保证,以“practice”为保障,多对自己的进步说“yes”,即能做到“happy”备考,秒杀高考!
第三篇:大学英语四百词演讲稿
good morning, my fellow students. i am very
glad to give you a speech about stress.
psychologist tell us that stress is a state
of worry caused by the problem of living , such as too much work or study ,
heavy responsibilities , and quickened pace of life .statistics show that
stress comes from every detail in our life. financial problems, poor health,
being laid off, may be the stress that most adults now suffering. as students
in the university, we are also under our special stress. such as passing the
college english test band four. and the things make us felt stressed may be our
parent’s greater expectations on us that we could not reach. later,
when we are likely to graduate, some other problems will also annoy us. as i
see it, we will worry a lot about our ability to compete in the job market and
how to use what we’ve learned at college in our future job.
the chief problem we should face to is our
attitude towards stress .people usually says they cannot live in the sun except
they escape from stress. it is unwelcome! yes, however .just image a world
where stress does not exist and people lead their life in a very comfortable
way. but is this kind of living condition as perfect as we hope? no. without
stress, we may feel very satisfied with the current life but lack of
interesting to discover new things .too much stress result in nothing except a
countermarch of the society. no stress, no development. so a certain amount of
stress is right and necessary.
it is a fact that stress really exists in
the word. how to do with ourselves when stress suddenly breaks into our life?
wave the white flag, give up, or just want to suicide as to put an end to
everything … of cause not. we should try our best to release
ourselves, such as to do sports, to take a rest and to learn to view these
changes of life as challenges .it’s no use crying over spilt milk.
only to accept what has happened can solve the problem.
well, i have to say i was under large
stress three minutes before, but now i am here and have finished my speech.
here is the last thing i want to add to my topic, face to it and overcome it.
stress is also a piece of cake……
第四篇:大学生英语演讲稿500词
yes,we can
this is for my people who just lost
somebody, your best friend, your baby, your man or your lady. lift your head to
the sky, we will never say bye.
these are words of the song bye-bye. every
time when i hear it, i’ll always lose myself in grief recalling the tough time we came
through in 2014.
the snow storm, the tibet issue, the
obstruction to the olympic torch relay,the earthquake……time dates back to the day the horrible earth quake
occurred in sichuan, tens of thousands of people lost life and families. i’ll never forget those days i sat
front of the tv, moved by people never gave up under ruins even there’s little hope to survive. i’ll never forget those days most
newspapers and websites were all in black and white. i’ll never forget those days i had my
black coat on, writing down my best wishes to the suffering people.
at the same time, i also remember those
days my friends abroad told me that they joined in the protest against western
world’s bias on
china and the fight against the tibetan separatists. i can still remember the
day when i went to see the torch relay at hangzhou with heart shaped stickers
on cheek. i wore the t-shirt with words light the passion, light the dream .
when the torch passed by, we cheered go china, go beijing, sang the national
anthem again and again, waving flags, dancing, hugging, clapping.
it was the opening ceremony of 2014 beijing
olympic games which shocked the whole world and told the entire human yes, we
can.
yes, we can, because we are united and
brave
yes, we can because we have trust and love
yes, we can because we are the member of
the great nation china
第五篇:大学英语四百词演讲稿
good morning, my fellow students. i am very
glad to give you a speech about stress.psychologist tell us that stress is a
state of worry caused by the problem of living , such as too much work or study
, heavy responsibilities , and quickened pace of life .statistics show that
stress comes from every detail in our life. financial problems, poor health,
being laid off, may be the stress that most adults now suffering. as students
in the university, we are also under our special stress. such as passing the
college english test band four. and the things make us felt stressed may be our
parent’s greater
expectations on us that we could not reach. later, when we are likely to graduate,
some other problems will also anno(版权归91考试网WWw.91exam.org)y
us. as i see it, we will worry a lot about our ability to compete in the job
market and how to use what we’ve learned at college in our future job.
the chief problem we should face to is our
attitude towards stress .people usually says they cannot live in the sun except
they escape from stress. it is unwelcome! yes, however .just image a world
where stress does not exist and people lead their life in a very comfortable
way. but is this kind of living condition as perfect as we hope? no. without
stress, we may feel very satisfied with the current life but lack of
interesting to discover new things .too much stress result in nothing except a
countermarch of the society. no stress, no development. so a certain amount of
stress is right and necessary.
it is a fact that stress really exists in
the word. how to do with ourselves when stress suddenly breaks into our life?
wave the white flag, give up, or just want to suicide as to put an end to
everything … of cause not. we should try our best to release ourselves, such as
to do sports, to take a rest and to learn to view these changes of life as
challenges .it’s no use
crying over spilt milk. only to accept what has happened can solve the problem.
well, i have to say i was under large
stress three minutes before, but now i am here and have finished my speech.
here is the last thing i want to add to my topic, face to it and overcome it. stress
is also a piece of cake ~~~~~~
good morning, my fellow students. i am very
glad to give you a speech about stress.
psychologist tell us that stress is a state
of worry caused by the problem of living , such as too much work or study ,
heavy responsibilities , and quickened pace of life .statistics show that
stress comes from every detail in our life. financial problems, poor health,
being laid off, may be the stress that most adults now
suffering. as students in the university,
we are also under our special stress. such as passing the college english test
band four. and the things make us felt stressed may be our parents’s greater expectations on us that
we could not reach. later, when we are likely to graduate, some other problems
will also annoy us. as i see it, we will worry a lot about our ability to
compete in the job market and how to use what we’ve learned at college in our future job.
the chief problem we should face to is our
attitude towards stress .people usually says they cannot live in the sun except
they escape from stress. it is
unwelcome! yes, however .just image a world
where stress does not exist and people lead their life in a very comfortable
way. but is this kind of living condition as
perfect as we hope? no. without stress, we
may feel very satisfied with the current life but lack of interesting to
discover new things .too much stress result in nothing except a countermarch of
the society. no stress, no development. so a certain amount of stress is right
and necessary.
it is a fact that stress really exists in
the word. how to do with ourselves when stress suddenly breaks into our life?
wave the white flag, give up, or just want to suicide as to put an end to
everything … of cause not. we should try our best to release ourselves, such as
to do sports, to take a rest and to learn to view these changes of life as
challenges .it’s no use
crying over spilt milk. only to accept what has happened can solve the problem.
well, i have to say i was under large
stress three minutes before, but now i am here and have finished my speech.
here is the last thing i want to add to my topic, face to it and overcome it.
stress is also a piece of cake ~~~~~~
global warming, the gradual increase of the
temperature of the earth’s lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in
greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution.
The temperature of the atmosphere near the
earth’s surface is warmed through a natural process called the greenhouse
effect. Visible, shortwave light comes from the sun to the earth, passing
unimpeded through a blanket of thermal, or greenhouse, gases composed largely
of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. Infrared
radiation reflects off the planet’s surface toward space but does not easily
pass through the thermal blanket. Some of it is trapped and reflected downward,
keeping the planet at an average temperature suitable to life, about 60°F
(16°C).
全球变暖英语演讲稿Growth
in industry, agriculture, and transportation since the Industrial Revolution
has produced additional quantities of the natural greenhouse gases plus
chlorofluorocarbons and other gases, augmenting the thermal blanket. It is
generally accepted that this increase in the quantity of greenhouse gases is
trapping more heat and increasing global temperatures, making a process that
has been beneficial to life potentially disruptive and harmful. During the past
century, the atmospheric temperature has risen 1.1°F (0.6°C), and sea level has
risen several inches. Some projected, longer-term results of global warming
include melting of polar ice, with a resulting rise in sea level and coastal
flooding; disruption of drinking water supplies dependent on snow melts;
profound changes in agriculture due to climate change; extinction of species as
ecological niches disappear; more frequent tropical storms; and an increased
incidence of tropical diseases.
Among factors that may be contributing to
global warming are the burning of coal and petroleum products (sources of
carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone); deforestation, which increases
the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; methane gas released in animal
waste; and increased cattle production, which contributes to deforestation,
methane production, and use of fossil fuels.
Much of the debate surrounding global
warming has centered on the accuracy of scientific predictions concerning
future warming. To predict global climatic trends, climatologists accumulate
large historical databases and use them to create computerized models that
simulate the earth’s climate. The validity of these models has been a subject
of controversy. Skeptics say that the climate is too complicated to be
accurately modeled, and that there are too many unknowns. Some also question
whether the observed climate changes might simply represent normal fluctuations
in global temperature. Nonetheless, for some time there has been general agreement
that at least part of the observed warming is the result of human activity, and
that the problem needs to be addressed. In 1992, at the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development, over 150 nations signed a binding
declaration on the need to reduce global warming.
In 1994, however, a UN scientific advisory
panel, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, concluded that reductions
beyond those envisioned by the treaty would be needed to avoid global warming.
The following year, the advisory panel forecast a rise in global temperature of
from 1.44 to 6.3°F (0.8–3.5°C) by 2100 if no action is taken to cut down on the
production of greenhouse gases, and a rise of from 1 to 3.6°F (0.5–2°C) even if
action is taken (because of already released gases that will persist in the
atmosphere).
A UN Conference on Climate Change, held in
Kyoto, Japan, in 1997 resulted in an international agreement to fight global
warming, which called for reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases by
industrialized nations. Not all industrial countries, however, immediately
signed or ratified the accord. In 2001 the G. W. Bush administration announced
it would abandon the Kyoto Protocol; because the United States produces about
one quarter of the world’s greenhouse gases, this was regarded as a severe blow
to the effort to slow global warming. Despite the American move, most other
nations agreed later in the year (in Bonn, Germany, and in Marrakech, Morocco)
on the details necessary to convert the agreement into a binding international
treaty, which came into force in 2005 after ratification by more than 125
nations.
Improved automobile mileage, reforestation
projects, energy efficiency in construction, and national support for mass
transit are among relatively simpler adjustments that could significantly lower
U.S. production of greenhouse gases. More aggressive adjustments include a
gradual worldwide shift away from the use of fossil fuels, the elimination of
chlorofluorocarbons, and the slowing of deforestation by restructuring the
economies of developing nations. In 2002 the Bush administration proposed
several voluntary measures for slowing the increase in, instead of reducing,
emissions of greenhouses gases
culture is the essence of a nation’s strength, so how to develop our
culture and treat oversea culture is an important issue. there are different
thinking and actions in the world. some nations reject foreign culture.
meanwhile, there are some nations imitate others. of course, there are
countries keep the good traditional culture as a basic and then adopt others’ strengths, such as china, japan. i
hold the idea that we should make cultural diversity become mainstream in the
future world and avoid cultural integration at the same time.
to date, how to develop its own culture has
never been stopped thinking. every nation has its own assumption, action and
reform. keep cultural diversity is successful and effective. cite china, tang
dynasty enjoys its own booming economy and colorful culture. search for its origin
and we are easy to find that tang dynasty learn oversea advanced culture at the
basic of its own accessible culture. as for our present china, the strength is
obviously clear. once we take up “reform and open” policy, the situation and
status in international society change greatly. our life standard of course has
been raised sharply. keep cultural diversity contributes much to the
development of china. qing dynasty made the strength of china fall behind
advanced countries for several tens years. there is no wonder for it to
experience this result if you have understood something of chinese history. in
qing dynasty, its emperor operated cultural tyrancy(文化专制主义). that is to say, it stuck to
cultural integration inside of our country.
after hearing the above examples, you may
say that culture seems to have nothing to do with economy and how you can prove
diversity creates beauty and cultural integration blocks development. maybe you
are right, but don’t forget that culture is soul and spirit for a nation. it provides
direction and dynamic power for its people to create bright future. as an old
saying puts, “idea comes before action.”
in this paragraph, i want to analyse the
inner connection between cultural diversity and how it work wonder-beauty.
first, personality distinguishes our special individual and makes our world
colorful. it’s the same to
cultural diversity. lack of diversity, vibrant society would disappear. second,
everything has more than one angle. one person cannot find all angles and research
all of them successful. in the multicultural society, we can learn others’ fruit and others learn our extra
gains. this can enrich our culture and make it constant and effective
development.
for culture development in china, i think
we should keep our root-fine traditional culture and we should also adopt
others’ strength
points. go on constant reform of culture to make sure that it adapts to present
situation and can ensure the constant development of our nation.
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.
ever since the accelerated development of
human civilization, perpetual scientific discoveries of nature had accompanied
mankind all along the journey. it was by discovering the world around us that
human beings have been able to lead a more sophisticated life. however, as g.k.
chesterton once said, “one may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the
self is more distant than any star.” similarly, our life is a journey of
unrelenting efforts to discover more of ourselves.
when i was 6 i constantly pictured myself
as an elegant and skilled pianist rendering chopin’s nocturne beautifully on the
stage, receiving warm applause after my
performance. as i furthered my piano
lessons, it was hard to be oblivious of my non-gifted skills. sometimes i
couldn’t help but
have this feeling of despair when i woke up to the reality and discovered that
my goal was unrealistic. brutal but real, it was the first time i had
discovered that i couldn’t have it all.
when i was 12 i thought the coolest job in
the entire universe was to be a surgeon. i spent hours and hours watching the
drama “grey’s anatomy”,
and couldn’t help
falling in love with the kind of life those doctors lead on the screen. i was
utterly mesmerized by the scalpel and all those fancy medical terms they use.
however, i stopped dreaming about being a surgeon when i discovered that it was
the idea of being a surgeon that appealed to me, not what it truly was.
therefore, the dream ended and i discovered some more about myself.
this year i turned 16, i could proudly say
i do not dream to be but ascertain to pursue being a lawyer in the future.
since junior high school i was always awarded the “most eloquent debater” in
every single debate i participated in. i cannot only think logically but also
deliver my thoughts promptly. my huge interest in philosophy also adds to my
reasoning whenever i tried to argue on
something equivocal. being aware of the obstacles and hardships on the way to
becoming a great lawyer never panics me, for the simple reason that i have this
faith and passion in what i am aspiring after.
g.k. chesterton was absolutely correct, the
most complicated part of comprehending the world is the study of the somehow
smaller world—ourselves. i subsequently realized that growing up is the process
of discovering ourselves; we get to know what we truly are, and become who we
dream to be. as we shape ourselves, and as we shape our lives, we gradually
become more aware of our limits and potentials and consequently learn to
adjust to what’s out there. and by that, ladies
and gentleman, i’m proud to
say that i’ve discovered
part of myself, still discovering today standing on this stage, and hopefully a
lot more in the future. i will always keep this embedded into my heart that
things do not change, we do.
第四篇:曹丰21世纪英语演讲比赛演讲稿清华大学曹丰21世纪英语演讲比赛演讲稿 our future: a battle
between dreams and reality
good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen: when
i was in the primary school, i have a dream. i want to invent a device which
could bring you from one place to another in no time at all. when i was in the
secondary school, my dream was to study in my ideal university. and when
eventually i got into the university, my dream was to graduate. how pathetic!
when we grow up, we dream less and become more realistic. why? why do we have
to change our dreams, so ,so in order to let it be “fulfilled”? why do we have to surrender to the
so –called “reality”? what is the reality actually?
ladies and gentlemen, the reality is not
real. it is a barrier keeping us from all the possible fantasies. flying, for
example, had been a dream to mankind for thousands of
years. a hundred years ago, “man could not
fly” was still regarded as the “reality”. now if that was really the reality,
what did the wright brothers do? how did some of you get to macao? only when we
believe that the reality
is not real can we soar with our
dreams.people say that our future is a battle between the reality and our
dreams. and if, unfortunately, mr. reality wins this war, then i see no future
of mankind at all. aids will never be curable as this is the reality; people
living in the undeveloped countries will suffer form starvation forever as this
is the reality; disputes among different countries would never be settled as
this misunderstandings and intolerance is the reality.
ladies and gentlemen, how many of you
have a dream of being able to make a lot of
money? please raise your hands. oh, quite a number of you! actually, ladies and
gentlemen, this is not a dream, but a task. every one of us
has to make a living, right? anyway i hope
your task will be accomplishes. how many of you think that you have already
fulfilled your dream and that you don’t dream anymore? dear adjudicators, what do you think?
c.s. lewis once said, “you are never too
old to dream a new dream.” so for our future, please and be unrealistic. now that
i am a university student my goal is to graduate with excellences. but at the
same time, i have a dream deeply rooted in our future. one day, people living
in the areas now sweltering with the horror of wars will be able to sit with
their families and enjoy their every moment. one day, people from the rich
countries are willing to share what they have with those from the poor
countries. and those from the poor countries will eventually be able to make
their own happy living themselves. one day, different cultures in this age of
coexist with tolerance and the unfriendly confrontations
among them will be eliminated. one day, the
globe will share the dream with me. and we will all contribute to making our
dream come true. one day, our dream will defeat the reality! thank you very
much.
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 f(好范文网wWW.91exam.org)ace 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.
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正文第一篇:优秀大学生英语演讲稿president clinton:
thank you. thank you, president chen,
chairmen ren, vice president chi, vice minister wei. we are delighted to be
here today with a very large american delegation, including the first lady and
our daughter, who is a student at stanford, one of the schools with which
beijing university has a relationship. we have six members of the united states
congress; the secretary of state; secretary of commerce; the secretary of
agriculture; the chairman of our council of economic advisors; senator sasser,
our ambassador; the national security advisor and my chief of staff, among others.
i say that to illustrate the importance that the united states places on our
relationship with china.
i would like to begin by congratulating all
of you, the students, the faculty, the administrators, on celebrating the
centennial year of your university. gongxi, beida. (applause.)
as i'm sure all of you know, this
campus was once home to yenching university which was founded by american
missionaries. many of its wonderful buildings were designed by an american
architect. thousands of americans students and professors have come here to
study and teach. we feel a special kinship with you.i am, however, grateful
that this day is different in one important respect from another important
occasion 79 years ago. in june of 1919, the first president of yenching
university, john leighton stuart, was set to deliver the very first
commencement address on these very grounds. at the appointed hour, he appeared,
but no students appeared. they were all out leading the may 4th movement for
china's political and cultural renewal. when i read this, i hoped that
when i walked into the auditorium today, someone would be sitting here. and i
thank you for being here, very much. (applause.)
over the last 100 years, this university
has grown to more than 20,000 students. your graduates are spread throughout
china and around the world. you have built the largest university library in
all of asia. last year, 20 percent of your graduates went abroad to study,
including half of your math and science majors. and in this anniversary year,
more than a million people in china, asia, and beyond have logged on to your
web site. at the dawn of a new century, this university is leading china into
the future.
i come here today to talk to you, the next
generation of china's leaders, about the critical importance to your
future of building a strong partnership between china and the united states.
the american people deeply admire china for
its thousands of years of contributions to culture and religion, to philosophy
and the arts, to science and technology. we remember well our strong
partnership in world war ii. now we see china at a moment in history when your
glorious past is matched by your present sweeping transformation and the even
greater promise of your future.
just three decades ago, china was virtually
shut off from the world. now, china is a member of more than 1,000
international organizations -- enterprises that affect everything from air
travel to agricultural development. you have opened your nation to trade and
investment on a large scale. today, 40,000 young chinese study in the united
states, with hundreds of thousands more learning in asia, africa, europe, and
latin america.
your social and economic transformation has
been even more remarkable, moving from a closed command economic system to a
driving, increasingly market-based and driven economy, generating two decades
of unprecedented growth, giving people greater freedom to travel within and
outside china, to vote in village elections, to own a home, choose a job,
attend a better school. as a result you have lifted literally hundreds of
millions of people from poverty. per capita income has more than doubled in the
last decade. most chinese people are leading lives they could not have imagined
just 20 years ago.
of course, these changes have also brought
disruptions in settled patterns of life and work, and have imposed enormous
strains on your environment. once every urban chinese was guaranteed employment
in a state enterprise. now you must compete in a job market. once a chinese
worker had only to meet the demands of a central planner in beijing. now the
global economy means all must match the quality and creativity of the rest of
the world. for those who lack the right training and skills and support, this
new world can be daunting.
第二篇:优秀大学生英语演讲稿president
clinton:
thank you. thank you, president chen,
chairmen ren, vice president chi, vice minister wei. we are delighted to be
here today with a very large american delegation, including the first lady and
our daughter, who is a student at stanford, one of the schools with which
beijing university has a relationship. we have six members of the united states
congress; the secretary of state; secretary of commerce; the secretary of
agriculture; the chairman of our council of economic advisors; senator sasser,
our ambassador; the national security advisor and my chief of staff, among
others. i say that to illustrate the importance that the united states places
on our relationship with china.
i would like to begin by congratulating all
of you, the students, the faculty, the administrators, on celebrating the
centennial yea(本站向您推荐wWW.91exam.org)r
of your university. gongxi, beida. (applause.)
as i’m sure all of you know, this campus
was once home to yenching university which was founded by american
missionaries. many of its wonderful buildings were designed by an american
architect. thousands of americans students and professors have come here to
study and teach. we feel a special kinship with you.
i am, however, grateful that this day is
different in one important respect from another important occasion 79 years
ago. in june of 1919, the first president of yenching university, john leighton
stuart, was set to deliver the very first commencement address on these very
grounds. at the appointed hour, he appeared, but no students appeared. they
were all out leading the may 4th movement for china’s political and cultural
renewal. when i read this, i hoped that when i walked into the auditorium
today, someone would be sitting here. and i thank you for being here, very
much. (applause.)
over the last 100 years, this university
has grown to more than 20,000 students. your graduates are spread throughout
china and around the world. you have built the largest university library in
all of asia. last year, 20 percent of your graduates went abroad to study,
including half of your math and science majors. and in this anniversary year,
more than a million people in china, asia, and beyond have logged on to your
web site. at the dawn of a new century, this university is leading china into
the future.
i come here today to talk to you, the next
generation of china’s leaders, about the critical importance to your future of
building a strong partnership between china and the united states.
the american people deeply admire china for
its thousands of years of contributions to culture and religion, to philosophy
and the arts, to science and technology. we remember well our strong
partnership in world war ii. now we see china at a moment in history when your
glorious past is matched by your present sweeping transformation and the even
greater promise of your future.
just three decades ago, china was virtually
shut off from the world. now, china is a member of more than 1,000
international organizations -- enterprises that affect everything from air
travel to agricultural development. you have opened your nation to trade and
investment on a large scale. today, 40,000 young chinese study in the united
states, with hundreds of thousands more learning in asia, africa, europe, and
latin america.
your social and economic transformation has
been even more remarkable, moving from a closed command economic system to a
driving, increasingly market-based and driven economy, generating two decades
of unprecedented growth, giving people greater freedom to travel within and
outside china, to vote in village elections, to own a home, choose a job,
attend a better school. as a result you have lifted literally hundreds of
millions of people from poverty. per capita income has more than doubled in the
last decade. most chinese people are leading lives they could not have imagined
just 20 years ago.
of course, these changes have also brought
disruptions in settled patterns of life and work, and have imposed enormous
strains on your environment. once every urban chinese was guaranteed employment
in a state enterprise. now you must compete in a job market. once a chinese
worker had only to meet the demands of a central planner in beijing. now the
global economy means all must match the quality and creativity of the rest of
the world. for those who lack the right training and skills and support, this
new world can be daunting.
in the short-term, good, hardworking people
-- some, at least will find themselves unemployed. and, as all of you can see,
there have been enormous environmental and economic and health care costs to
the development pattern and the energy use pattern of the last 20 years -- from
air pollution to deforestation to acid rain and water shortage.
in the face of these challenges new systems
of training and social security will have to be devised, and new environmental
policies and technologies will have to be introduced with the goal of growing
your economy while improving the environment. everything i know about the
intelligence, the ingenuity, the enterprise of the chinese people and
everything i have heard these last few days in my discussions with president
jiang, prime minister zhu and others give me confidence that you will succeed.
as you build a new china, america wants to
build a new relationship with you. we want china to be successful, secure and
open, working with us for a more peaceful and prosperous world. i know there
are those in china and the united states who question whether closer relations
between our countries is a good thing. but everything all of us know about the
way the world is changing and the challenges your generation will face tell us
that our two nations will be far better off working together than apart.
the late deng xiaoping counseled us to seek
truth from facts. at the dawn of the new century, the facts are clear. the
distance between our two nations, indeed, between any nations, is shrinking.
where once an american clipper ship took months to cross from china to the
united states. today, technology has made us all virtual neighbors. from
laptops to lasers, from microchips to megabytes, an information revolution is
lighting the landscape of human knowledge, bringing us all closer together.
ideas, information, and money cross the planet at the stroke of a computer key,
bringing with them extraordinary opportunities to create wealth, to prevent and
conquer disease, to foster greater understanding among peoples of different
histories and different cultures.
but we also know that this greater openness
and faster change mean that problems which start beyond one nations borders can
quickly move inside them -- the spread of weapons of mass destruction, the
threats of organized crime and drug trafficking, of environmental degradation,
and severe economic dislocation. no nation can isolate itself from these
problems, and no nation can solve them alone. we, especially the younger
generations of china and the united states, must make common cause of our
common challenges, so that we can, together, shape a new century of brilliant
possibilities.
in the 21st century -- your century --
china and the united states will face the challenge of security in asia. on the
korean peninsula, where once we were adversaries, today we are working together
for a permanent peace and a future freer of nuclear weapons.
on the indian subcontinent, just as most of
the rest of the world is moving away from nuclear danger, india and pakistan
risk sparking a new arms race. we are now pursuing a common strategy to move
india and pakistan away from further testing and toward a dialogue to resolve
their differences.
in the 21st century, your generation must
face the challenge of stopping the spread of deadlier nuclear, chemical, and
biological weapons. in the wrong hands or the wrong places, these weapons can
threaten the peace of nations large and small. increasingly, china and the
united states agree on the importance of stopping proliferation. that is why we
are beginning to act in concert to control the worlds most dangerous weapons.
in the 21st century, your generation will
have to reverse the international tide of crime and drugs. around the world,
organized crime robs people of billions of dollars every year and undermines
trust in government. america knows all about the devastation and despair that
drugs can bring to schools and neighborhoods. with borders on more than a dozen
countries, china has become a crossroad for smugglers of all kinds.
last year, president jiang and i asked
senior chinese and american law enforcement officials to step up our
cooperation against these predators, to stop money from being laundered, to
stop aliens from being cruelly smuggled, to stop currencies from being
undermined by counterfeiting. just this month, our drug enforcement agency
opened an office in beijing, and soon chinese counternarcotics experts will be
working out of washington.
in the 21st century, your generation must
make it your mission to ensure that today’s progress does not come at
tomorrow’s expense. china’s remarkable growth in the last two decades has come
with a toxic cost, pollutants that foul the water you drink and the air you
breathe -- the cost is not only environmental, it is also serious in terms of
the health consequences of your people and in terms of the drag on economic
growth.
environmental problems are also
increasingly global as well as national. for example, in the near future, if
present energy use patterns persist, china will overtake the united states as
the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the gases which are the
principal cause of global warming. if the nations of the world do not reduce
the gases which are causing global warming, sometime in the next century there
is a serious risk of dramatic changes in climate which will change the way we
live and the way we work, which could literally bury some island nations under
mountains of water and undermine the economic and social fabric of nations.
we must work together. we americans know
from our own experience that it is possible to grow an economy while improving
the environment. we must do that together for ourselves and for the world.
building on the work that our vice
president, al gore, has done previously with the chinese government, president
jiang and i are working together on ways to bring american clean energy
technology to help improve air quality and grow the chinese economy at the same
time.
but i will say this again -- this is not on
my remarks -- your generation must do more about this. this is a huge challenge
for you, for the american people and for the future of the world. and it must
be addressed at the university level, because political leaders will never be
willing to adopt environmental measures if they believe it will lead to
large-scale unemployment or more poverty. the evidence is clear that does not
have to happen. you will actually have more rapid economic growth and better
paying jobs, leading to higher levels of education and technology if we do this
in the proper way. but you and the university, communities in china, the united
states and throughout the world will have to lead the way. (applause.)
in the 21st century your generation must
also lead the challenge of an international financial system that has no
respect for national borders. when stock markets fall in hong kong or jakarta,
the effects are no longer local; they are global. the vibrant growth of your
own economy is tied closely, therefore, to the restoration of stability and
growth in the asia pacific region.
china has steadfastly shouldered its
responsibilities to the region and the world in this latest financial crisis --
helping to prevent another cycle of dangerous deva luations. we must continue to
work together to counter this threat to the global financial system and to the
growth and prosperity which should be embracing all of this region.
in the 21st century, your generation will
have a remarkable opportunity to bring together the talents of our scientists,
doctors, engineers into a shared quest for progress. already the breakthroughs
we have achieved in our areas of joint cooperation -- in challenges from
dealing with spina bifida to dealing with extreme weather conditions and
earthquakes -- have proved what we can do together to change the lives of
millions of people in china and the united states and around the world.
expanding our cooperation in science and technology can be one of our greatest
gifts to the future.
in each of these vital areas that i have
mentioned, we can clearly accomplish so much more by walking together rather
than standing apart. that is why we should work to see that the productive
relationship we now enjoy blossoms into a fuller partnership in the new
century.
if that is to happen, it is very important
that we understand each other better, that we understand both our common
interest and our shared aspirations and our honest differences. i believe the
kind of open, direct exchange that president jiang and i had on saturday at our
press conference -- which i know many of you watched on television -- can both
clarify and narrow our differences, and, more important, by allowing people to
understand and debate and discuss these things can give a greater sense of
confidence to our people that we can make a better future.
from the windows of the white house, where
i live in washington, d.c., the monument to our first president, george
washington, dominates the skyline. it is a very tall obelisk. but very near
this large monument there is a small stone which contains these words: the
united states neither established titles of nobility and royalty, nor created a
hereditary system. state affairs are put to the vote of public opinion.
this created a new political situation,
unprecedented from ancient times to the present. how wonderful it is. those
words were not written by an american. they were written by xu jiyu, governor
of fujian province, inscribed as a gift from the government of china to our
nation in 1853.
i am very grateful for that gift from
china. it goes to the heart of who we are as a people -- the right to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the freedom to debate, to dissent, to
associate, to worship without interference from the state. these are the ideals
that were at the core of our founding over 220 years ago. these are the ideas
that led us across our continent and onto the world stage. these are the ideals
that americans cherish today.
as i said in my press conference with
president jiang, we have an ongoing quest ourselves to live up to those ideals.
the people who framed our constitution understood that we would never achieve
perfection. they said that the mission of america would always be “to form a
more perfect union” -- in other words, that we would never be perfect, but we
had to keep trying to do better.
the darkest moments in our history have
come when we abandoned the effort to do better, when we denied freedom to our
people because of their race or their religion, because there were new
immigrants or because they held unpopular opinions. the best moments in our
history have come when we protected the freedom of people who held unpopular
opinion, or extended rights enjoyed by the many to the few who had previously
been denied them, making, therefore, the promises of our declaration of
independence and constitution more than faded words on old parchment.
today we do not seek to impose our vision
on others, but we are convinced that certain rights are universal -- not
american rights or european rights or rights for developed nations, but the
birthrights of people everywhere, now enshrined in the united nations
declaration on human rights -- the right to be treated with dignity; the right
to express one’s opinions, to choose one’s own leaders, to associate freely
with others, and to worship, or not, freely, however one chooses.
in the last letter of his life, the author
of our declaration of independence and our third president, thomas jefferson,
said then that “all eyes are opening to the rights of man.” i believe that in
this time, at long last, 172 years after jefferson wrote those words, all eyes
are opening to the rights of men and women everywhere.
over the past two decades, a rising tide of
freedom has lifted the lives of millions around the world, sweeping away failed
dictatorial systems in the former soviet union, throughout central europe;
ending a vicious cycle of military coups and civil wars in latin america;
giving more people in africa the chance to make the most of their hard-won
independence. and from the philippines to south korea, from thailand to
mongolia, freedom has reached asia’s shores, powering a surge of growth and
productivity.
economic security also can be an essential
element of freedom. it is recognized in the united nations covenant on
economic, social, and cultural rights. in china, you have made extraordinary
strides in nurturing that liberty, and spreading freedom from want, to be a
source of strength to your people. incomes are up, poverty is down; people do
have more choices of jobs, and the ability to travel -- the ability to make a
better life. but true freedom includes more than economic freedom. in america,
we believe it is a concept which is indivisible.
over the past four days, i have seen
freedom in many manifestations in china. i have seen the fresh shoots of democracy
growing in the villages of your heartland. i have visited a village that chose
its own leaders in free elections. i have also seen the cell phones, the video
players, the fax machines carrying ideas, information and images from all over
the world. i’ve heard people speak their minds and i have joined people in
prayer in the faith of my own choosing. in all these ways i felt a steady
breeze of freedom.
the question is, where do we go from here?
how do we work together to be on the right side of history together? more than
50 years ago, hu shi, one of your great political thinkers and a teacher at
this university, said these words: “now some people say to me you must
sacrifice your individual freedom so that the nation may be free. but i reply,
the struggle for individual freedom is the struggle for the nation’s freedom.
the struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation’s
character.”
we americans believe hu shi was right. we
believe and our experience demonstrates that freedom strengthens stability and
helps nations to change.
one of our founding fathers, benjamin
franklin, once said, “our critics are our friends, for they show us our
faults.” now, if that is true, there are many days in the united states when
the president has more friends than anyone else in america. (laughter.) but it
is so.
in the world we live in, this global
information age, constant improvement and change is necessary to economic
opportunity and to national strength. therefore, the freest possible flow of
information, ideas, and opinions, and a greater respect for divergent political
and religious convictions will actually breed strength and stability going
forward.
it is, therefore, profoundly in your
interest, and the world’s, that young chinese minds be free to reach the
fullness of their potential. that is the message of our time and the mandate of
the new century and the new millennium.
i hope china will more fully embrace this
mandate. for all the grandeur of your history, i believe your greatest days are
still ahead. against great odds in the 20th century china has not only
survived, it is moving forward dramatically.
other ancient cultures failed because they
failed to change. china has constantly proven the capacity to change and grow.
now, you must re-imagine china again for a new century, and your generation
must be at the heart of china’s regeneration.
the new century is upon us. all our sights
are turned toward the future. now your country has known more millennia than
the united states has known centuries. today, however, china is as young as any
nation on earth. this new century can be the dawn of a new china, proud of your
ancient greatness, proud of what you are doing, prouder still of the tomorrows
to come. it can be a time when the world again looks to china for the vigor of
its culture, the freshness of its thinking, the elevation of human dignity that
is apparent in its works. it can be a time when the oldest of nations helps to
make a new world.
the united states wants to work with you to
make that time a reality.
thank you very much. (applause.)
第三篇:优秀大学生英语演讲稿president
clinton:
thank you. thank you, president chen,
chairmen ren, vice president chi, vice minister wei. we are delighted to be
here today with a very large american delegation, including the first lady and
our daughter, who is a student at stanford, one of the schools with which
beijing university has a relationship. we have six members of the united states
congress; the secretary of state; secretary of commerce; the secretary of
agriculture; the chairman of our council of economic advisors; senator sasser,
our ambassador; the national security advisor and my chief of staff, among
others. i say that to illustrate the importance that the united states places
on our relationship with china.
i would like to begin by congratulating all
of you, the students, the faculty, the administrators, on celebrating the
centennial year of your university. gongxi, beida. (applause.)
as i’m sure all of you know, this campus
was once home to yenching university which was founded by american
missionaries. many of its wonderful buildings were designed by an american
architect. thousands of americans students and professors have come here to
study and teach. we feel a special kinship with you.
i am, however, grateful that this day is
different in one important respect from another important occasion 79 years
ago. in june of 1919, the first president of yenching university, john leighton
stuart, was set to deliver the very first commencement address on these very grounds.
at the appointed hour, he appeared, but no students appeared. they were all out
leading the may 4th movement for china’s political and cultural renewal. when i
read this, i hoped that when i walked into the auditorium today, someone would
be sitting here. and i thank you for being here, very much. (applause.)
over the last 100 years, this university
has grown to more than 20,000 students. your graduates are spread throughout
china and around the world. you have built the largest university library in
all of asia. last year, 20 percent of your graduates went abroad to study,
including half of your math and science majors. and in this anniversary year,
more than a million people in china, asia, and beyond have logged on to your
web site. at the dawn of a new century, this university is leading china into
the future.
i come here today to talk to you, the next
generation of china’s leaders, about the critical importance to your future of
building a strong partnership between china and the united states.
the american people deeply admire china for
its thousands of years of contributions to culture and religion, to philosophy
and the arts, to science and technology. we remember well our strong
partnership in world war ii. now we see china at a moment in history when your
glorious past is matched by your present sweeping transformation and the even
greater promise of your future.
just three decades ago, china was virtually
shut off from the world. now, china is a member of more than 1,000
international organizations -- enterprises that affect everything from air
travel to agricultural development. you have opened your nation to trade and
investment on a large scale. today, 40,000 young chinese study in the united
states, with hundreds of thousands more learning in asia, africa, europe, and
latin america.
your social and economic transformation has
been even more remarkable, moving from a closed command economic system to a
driving, increasingly market-based and driven economy, generating two decades
of unprecedented growth, giving people greater freedom to travel within and
outside china, to vote in village elections, to own a home, choose a job,
attend a better school. as a result you have lifted literally hundreds of
millions of people from poverty. per capita income has more than doubled in the
last decade. most chinese people are leading lives they could not have imagined
just 20 years ago.
of course, these changes have also brought
disruptions in settled patterns of life and work, and have imposed enormous
strains on your environment. once every urban chinese was guaranteed employment
in a state enterprise. now you must compete in a job market. once a chinese
worker had only to meet the demands of a central planner in beijing. now the
global economy means all must match the quality and creativity of the rest of
the world. for those who lack the right training and skills and support, this
new world can be daunting.
last year, president jiang and i asked
senior chinese and american law enforcement officials to step up our
cooperation against these predators, to stop money from being laundered, to
stop aliens from being cruelly smuggled, to stop currencies from being
undermined by counterfeiting. just this month, our drug enforcement agency
opened an office in beijing, and soon chinese counternarcotics experts will be
working out of washington.
in the 21st century, your generation must
make it your mission to ensure that today’s progress does not come at
tomorrow’s expense. china’s remarkable growth in the last two decades has come
with a toxic cost, pollutants that foul the water you drink and the air you
breathe -- the cost is not only environmental, it is also serious in terms of
the health consequences of your people and in terms of the drag on economic
growth.
environmental problems are also
increasingly global as well as national. for example, in the near future, if
present energy use patterns persist, china will overtake the united states as
the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the gases which are the
principal cause of global warming. if the nations of the world do not reduce
the gases which are causing global warming, sometime in the next century there
is a serious risk of dramatic changes in climate which will change the way we
live and the way we work, which could literally bury some island nations under
mountains of water and undermine the economic and social fabric of nations.
we must work together. we americans know
from our own experience that it is possible to grow an economy while improving
the environment. we must do that together for ourselves and for the world.
building on the work that our vice
president, al gore, has done previously with the chinese government, president
jiang and i are working together on ways to bring american clean energy
technology to help improve air quality and grow the chinese economy at the same
time.
but i will say this again -- this is not on
my remarks -- your generation must do more about this. this is a huge challenge
for you, for the american people and for the future of the world. and it must
be addressed at the university level, because political leaders will never be
willing to adopt environmental measures if they believe it will lead to
large-scale unemployment or more poverty. the evidence is clear that does not
have to happen. you will actually have more rapid economic growth and better
paying jobs, leading to higher levels of education and technology if we do this
in the proper way. but you and the university, communities in china, the united
states and throughout the world will have to lead the way. (applause.)
in the 21st century your generation must
also lead the challenge of an international financial system that has no
respect for national borders. when stock markets fall in hong kong or jakarta,
the effects are no longer local; they are global. the vibrant growth of your
own economy is tied closely, therefore, to the restoration of stability and
growth in the asia pacific region.
china has steadfastly shouldered its
responsibilities to the region and the world in this latest financial crisis --
helping to prevent another cycle of dangerous deva luations. we must continue to
work together to counter this threat to the global financial system and to the
growth and prosperity which should be embracing all of this region.
in the 21st century, your generation will
have a remarkable opportunity to bring together the talents of our scientists,
doctors, engineers into a shared quest for progress. already the breakthroughs
we have achieved in our areas of joint cooperation -- in challenges from
dealing with spina bifida to dealing with extreme weather conditions and
earthquakes -- have proved what we can do together to change the lives of
millions of people in china and the united states and around the world.
expanding our cooperation in science and technology can be one of our greatest
gifts to the future.
economic security also can be an essential
element of freedom. it is recognized in the united nations covenant on
economic, social, and cultural rights. in china, you have made extraordinary
strides in nurturing that liberty, and spreading freedom from want, to be a
source of strength to your people. incomes are up, poverty is down; people do
have more choices of jobs, and the ability to travel -- the ability to make a
better life. but true freedom includes more than economic freedom. in america,
we believe it is a concept which is indivisible.
over the past four days, i have seen
freedom in many manifestations in china. i have seen the fresh shoots of
democracy growing in the villages of your heartland. i have visited a village
that chose its own leaders in free elections. i have also seen the cell phones,
the video players, the fax machines carrying ideas, information and images from
all over the world. i’ve heard people speak their minds and i have joined
people in prayer in the faith of my own choosing. in all these ways i felt a
steady breeze of freedom.
the question is, where do we go from here?
how do we work together to be on the right side of history together? more than
50 years ago, hu shi, one of your great political thinkers and a teacher at
this university, said these words: "now some people say to me you must
sacrifice your individual freedom so that the nation may be free. but i reply,
the struggle for individual freedom is the struggle for the nation’s freedom.
the struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation’s
character."
we americans believe hu shi was right. we
believe and our experience demonstrates that freedom strengthens stability and
helps nations to change.
one of our founding fathers, benjamin
franklin, once said, "our critics are our friends, for they show us
our faults." now, if that is true, there are many days in the united
states when the president has more friends than anyone else in america.
(laughter.) but it is so.
in the world we live in, this global
information age, constant improvement and change is necessary to economic
opportunity and to national strength. therefore, the freest possible flow of
information, ideas, and opinions, and a greater respect for divergent political
and religious convictions will actually breed strength and stability going
forward.
it is, therefore, profoundly in your
interest, and the world’s, that young chinese minds be free to reach the
fullness of their potential. that is the message of our time and the mandate of
the new century and the new millennium.
i hope china will more fully embrace this
mandate. for all the grandeur of your history, i believe your greatest days are
still ahead. against great odds in the 20th century china has not only
survived, it is moving forward dramatically.
other ancient cultures failed because they
failed to change. china has constantly proven the capacity to change and grow.
now, you must re-imagine china again for a new century, and your generation
must be at the heart of china’s regeneration.
the new century is upon us. all our sights
are turned toward the future. now your country has known more millennia than
the united states has known centuries. today, however, china is as young as any
nation on earth. this new century can be the dawn of a new china, proud of your
ancient greatness, proud of what you are doing, prouder still of the tomorrows
to come. it can be a time when the world again looks to china for the vigor of
its culture, the freshness of its thinking, the elevation of human dignity that
is apparent in its works. it can be a time when the oldest of nations helps to
make a new world.
the united states wants to work with you to
make that time a reality.
thank you very much. (applause.)
第四篇:大学生英语演讲比赛优秀演讲稿how to balance study and part-time jobmy distinguished teachers and
dear friends,
good evening.
it ‘s my pleasure to stand here and
introduce myself. my name is ma lian from foreign language department.it’s my
honor to give you a speech .my topic is how to balance study and part-time job.
in order to improve our socializing skills,
lighten our financial burden and also spend our spare time, lots of us choose
to hunt for a part-job.according to the survey ,there are about 70% of collage
students doing a part-time work. so here comes to this question how to balance
study and part-time job.
firstly,many of us may complain about the
shortage of time.when you focus on one, you may lose the other.but remember
positive attitude is the key to everything.be confident that you can deal with
these two items . for instance , you can make a clear timetable and this will
remind you your arrangement and making the full use of you time .after all,not
only study but also accumulate relevant working experience is very important.
secondly,never let part-time jobs occupy
our school time.i usually do a part-time job in my holiday.what’s more,when i
have to choose between work and study,my answer is always study. now,i want to
ask you 2 questions .how many years can we use to study?yes ,three.then,how
many years can we use to work.? yes it will be a long time ,maybe 30 or 40.
it’s obvious now, collage life is so precious ,therefore, we should enjoy our
time in school.in the future there will be opportunities for us to work.and at
that time ,you’ll definitely miss the past time in collage .why not cherish
every second here?
everyone wants to be successful, right?
if you want to be successful, you should
study hard.
if you want to be successful, you should
have part- time job experience.
if you want to be more successful, you
should balance study and part-time job. that’s all for my speech.thanks for
your listening!