第一篇：希拉里演講集

Thank you.Thank you so much.Thank you.And does it get any better than this, a graduation ceremony for one of the great universities in the world in the home of New York Yankees? Nothing could be better.And thanks to all of you for cheering a visitor.I didn’t realize that was permitted in Yankee Stadium.謝謝，謝謝，非常感謝。還有比這更好的事嗎——世界上最好的大學(xué)之一在紐約揚(yáng)基隊(duì)主場(chǎng)所在地舉行畢業(yè)典禮？真是再好不過(guò)了。謝謝大家如此熱烈地為一位來(lái)訪的客人加油。我原以為在揚(yáng)基體育場(chǎng)不可以這樣做。

I am honored to receive this degree.And on behalf of the other honorees, I say thank you.Thank you for giving us this singular privilege of being part of this commencement ceremony.As I look out at this huge crowd of graduates, family, and friends, I can only reflect on what an extraordinary moment in history you are receiving your degrees, a moment in time of our country and the world where your talents and your energy, your passion and commitment is more needed than ever.There is no doubt that you are well prepared for a world that seems somewhat uncertain but which will welcome the education that you have received on behalf of not only of yourselves and your families, but your communities and your country.能夠獲得這個(gè)學(xué)位，我感到十分榮幸。我代表獲得此一榮譽(yù)的其他人向你們表示感謝。謝謝你們給予我們參加這次畢業(yè)典禮的殊榮。當(dāng)我看到眼前這一大群畢業(yè)生及其親朋好友時(shí)，我不禁想到，你們是在一個(gè)不同尋常的歷史時(shí)刻獲得學(xué)位，我們的國(guó)家和整個(gè)世界比以往更需要你們的才智和精力、你們的激情和承諾。毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)，你們已經(jīng)為投入這樣的世界作好了充分的準(zhǔn)備：這個(gè)世界似乎前景不很明朗，但將贊賞你們不僅為了你們自己和家人而且為了你們的社區(qū)和國(guó)家所接受的教育。

As Secretary of State, I am well aware of the challenges that we face.You, as new graduates, and your generation will be up against those challenges: climate change and hunger, extreme poverty and extreme ideologies, new diseases and nuclear proliferation.But I am absolutely convinced that you and we are up to the task.There is no problem we face here in America or around the world that will not yield to human effort, to cooperation, to positive interdependence that makes clear humanity is going on, our challenges are ones that summon the best of us, and we will make the world better tomorrow than it is today.更多信息請(qǐng)?jiān)L問(wèn)：http://www.tmdps.cn/ 作為國(guó)務(wù)卿，我十分清楚我們面臨的各項(xiàng)挑戰(zhàn)。作為新的畢業(yè)生，你們和你們這一代人將面對(duì)這樣的挑戰(zhàn)：氣候變化和饑餓、赤貧和極端主義的意識(shí)形態(tài)、新的疾病和核擴(kuò)散。但我深信，你們和我們能夠勝任這樣的任務(wù)。我們?cè)诿绹?guó)和整個(gè)世界所面臨的各種問(wèn)題，都能夠通過(guò)人們的努力、合作和積極的相互依賴得到解決，而這種相互依賴表明，人類社會(huì)正在繼續(xù)前進(jìn)。挑戰(zhàn)將激發(fā)我們最好的一面，我們將把明天的世界變得比今天更加美好。

Now, I know that it is fashionable in commencement speeches to be idealistic, and that may sound so, but at the root of my conviction is a strong sense of reality.Because you see, I don’t think we have a choice.We can sit on the sidelines, we can wring our hands, we can retreat into cynicism, and we know what the results will be: We will cede the field to those whose ideologies are absolutely anathema to people of conscience and faith all over the world.So our positive interdependence, which is a fact, will prepare us to meet these challenges.But they can no longer be seen just as government-to-government.There is a time and an opportunity, and with the new technologies available, for us to be citizen diplomats, citizen activists, to solve problems one by one that will give in to hard work, patience, and persistence, and will then aggregate to the solutions we seek.我知道，在畢業(yè)典禮上作理想化的演說(shuō)是當(dāng)前的時(shí)尚，[我的講話]聽(tīng)起來(lái)也許很理想化，但我的信念深處有一種強(qiáng)烈的現(xiàn)實(shí)感。因?yàn)槟銈冎?，我認(rèn)為我們別無(wú)選擇。我們可以袖手旁觀，我們可以束手無(wú)策，我們可以采取悲觀懷疑的態(tài)度，但我們知道這樣做會(huì)產(chǎn)生什么樣的結(jié)果：我們會(huì)把陣地拱手讓給那些其意識(shí)形態(tài)為世界上所有有良知和信仰者所不齒的人。因此，我們之間積極的相互依賴 ——這是一個(gè)事實(shí)——將使我們?yōu)閼?yīng)對(duì)這些挑戰(zhàn)做好準(zhǔn)備。但這不能再被僅僅視作政府與政府之間的事情。隨著新技術(shù)的不斷涌現(xiàn)，我們有時(shí)間和機(jī)會(huì)成為公民外交家、公民活動(dòng)家，通過(guò)辛勤工作、耐心和毅力一個(gè)一個(gè)地解決問(wèn)題，逐步積累成我們所尋求的解決方案。

Food Caching 食物儲(chǔ)存

Humans may be one of the smartest animals on the planet, butwhen it comes to remembering where things are, Clark’snutcrackers have us beat.A relative of jays松鳥(niǎo) and crows烏鴉, nutcrackers hide pine seeds inthe ground each autumn so they have a source of food during the Colorado Rocky Mountainwinter.They cache as many as 30,000 seeds in 5,000 different locations over a fifteen square milearea.Since they cannot smell the seeds buried in the soil very well, they must use their remarkablespatial memory to find them.Nutcrackers are not the only animals that cache 躲藏food.Caching behavior is seen in birds,mammals and even insects.Chickadees store collections of seeds, insects and spiders in the barkof trees or under leaves.Red squirrels cut conifer cones from trees and bury them in plant litteron the forest floor.Harvester ants bring seeds back to their nests and store them in chambers,while honey bees save nectar花蜜 and pollen花粉 in their hive.蜂房

Because nutcrackers are one of the best at remembering cache locations, researchers arestudying them to find out why they have such great memories.Scientists know that thenutcracker’s abilities evolved because of environmental pressure.Nutcrackers with poor memoriesdid not likely survive the harsh mountain winters.Now researchers want to find out how the brainsof nutcrackers are different from other brains.They are particularly interested in the hippocampus,a small area of the brain that helps form memories.Finding out how the nutcracker’s brain isdifferent from other species may give us clues to why humans have memory problems.It mayeven lead to a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.人類也許是世界上最聰明的動(dòng)物之一，但說(shuō)到記憶，克拉克（新澤西州）的星鳥(niǎo)比我們?nèi)祟悘?qiáng)多了。

星鳥(niǎo)屬于松鳥(niǎo)和烏鴉的近親，它在秋天的時(shí)候把松子藏在地底下，這樣寒冷冬天的就有食物吃了。它們會(huì)儲(chǔ)存多達(dá)30000顆種子，而且是在十五平方公里內(nèi)的5000個(gè)不同位置。因?yàn)椴荒芡ㄟ^(guò)氣味辨別埋在土里種子的位置，它們就必須依靠驚人的空間記憶力來(lái)找到這些種子。

不止星鳥(niǎo)會(huì)儲(chǔ)存食物。哺乳動(dòng)物、鳥(niǎo)類，甚至昆蟲(chóng)都會(huì)貯藏東西。山雀貯存種子，還有樹(shù)皮和樹(shù)葉下面的昆蟲(chóng)，蜘蛛。紅松鼠會(huì)將針葉樹(shù)上的果實(shí)割下來(lái)，然后埋在森林地面的落葉中。紅蟻會(huì)將種子拖到巢穴內(nèi)并貯存在室內(nèi)。蜜蜂也是把花蜜和花粉貯存在蜂房里的。

因?yàn)樾区B(niǎo)是最擅長(zhǎng)記住儲(chǔ)存位置的動(dòng)物之一，研究人員正仔細(xì)觀察它們，想找出星鳥(niǎo)擁有超強(qiáng)記憶力的原因?？茖W(xué)家明白星鳥(niǎo)的技能是由于環(huán)境形成的。記憶力差的星鳥(niǎo)在這么嚴(yán)酷的冬天也許不能生存?，F(xiàn)在，研究人員想找出星鳥(niǎo)的大腦有什么不同之處。他們對(duì)（腦內(nèi)的）海馬狀突起很有興趣，那是大腦里幫助記憶的很小一個(gè)區(qū)域。找出星鳥(niǎo)與其他物種大腦結(jié)構(gòu)的區(qū)別也許會(huì)給出線索，了解為什么人類記憶會(huì)出現(xiàn)各種問(wèn)題。甚至能幫助治療老年癡呆癥。

第二篇：TED演講集勵(lì)志

before i die i want to...there are a lot of ways the people around us can help improve our lives.we dont bump into every neighbor, so a lot of wisdom never gets passed on, though we do share the same public spaces.我們周圍的人能以很多種方式 來(lái)幫我們把生活變得更美好 我們不一定能常常碰到我們的鄰居 所以即使我們生活在同一片公共空間里 鄰居的智慧也難以被傳遞開(kāi)來(lái)

所以在過(guò)去的幾年里，我嘗試著以不同的方式 如用貼紙、展板和粉筆這些簡(jiǎn)單工具 來(lái)在公共空間里與鄰居分享更多的東西 這些項(xiàng)目都源自于我自己的一些疑問(wèn)，如 我的鄰居得付多少房租？（笑聲）我們?cè)趺礃幽軌驈泥徖镩g互借到更多的東西 同時(shí)避免在不合時(shí)宜的時(shí)候敲開(kāi)對(duì)方的門？ 我們?cè)鯓幽軌蚋玫胤窒砀髯缘?關(guān)于被毀棄的建筑的回憶 并更好地理解我們居住的這片土地？ 怎樣更能表達(dá)我們對(duì)空置的店面的期待 使我們的社區(qū)能反映出

我們現(xiàn)在的需求和夢(mèng)想？ now, i live in new orleans, and i am in love with new orleans.my soul is always soothed by the giant live oak trees, shading lovers, drunks and dreamers for hundreds of years, and i trust a city that always makes way for music.(laughter)i feel like every time someone sneezes, new orleans has a parade.(laughter)the city has some of the most beautiful architecture in the world, but it also has one of the highest amounts of abandoned properties in america.我現(xiàn)時(shí)住在新奧爾良 并深深地愛(ài)上了這座城市 那些生生不息的巨型橡樹(shù)總是可以撫慰我的靈魂 幾百年來(lái)，情侶、醉漢和追夢(mèng)人們 總會(huì)稍息在樹(shù)影下 我深信這一座充滿著音樂(lè)律動(dòng)的城市 每當(dāng)有人打噴嚏時(shí)，我都感覺(jué)新奧爾良來(lái)了一只游行隊(duì)伍（笑聲）新奧爾良擁有世界上很多最漂亮的建筑 但同時(shí)，她也是全美擁有最多 廢棄建筑的城市 i live near this house, and i thought about how i could make it a nicer space for my neighborhood, and i also thought about something that changed my life forever.我住在這棟房子附近，我就想如何讓它 在這片社區(qū)里成為一個(gè)更好的地方 也思考了另一件事 這件事徹底改變了我的人生 in 2009, i lost someone i loved very much.her name was joan, and she was a mother to me, and her death was sudden and unexpected.and i thought about death a lot, and this made me feel deep gratitude for the time ive had, and brought clarity to the things that are meaningful to my life now.but i struggle to maintain this perspective in my daily life.i feel like its easy to get caught up in the day-to-day, and forget what really matters to you.2009年，我失去了一個(gè)我摯愛(ài)的人 她的名字叫瓊，對(duì)我來(lái)講，她就像我的母親一樣 她死得很突然，沒(méi)有人預(yù)料到 然后我思考了很多關(guān)于死亡的事 然后這件事讓我對(duì)我擁有的時(shí)光懷著深切致意 并且 顯現(xiàn)出了那些 對(duì)我的生命有真正意義的東西 但我卻很難在日常生活中保持這種心態(tài) 我覺(jué)得人們太容易被日復(fù)一日的瑣碎困住 而忘記什么才是真正重要的事 so with help from old and new friends, i turned the side of this abandoned house into a giant chalkboard and stenciled it with a fill-in-the-blank sentence: before i die, i want to...so anyone walking by can pick up a piece of chalk, reflect on their lives, and share their personal aspirations in public space.我于是在一些新老朋友的幫助下 把這棟廢棄的房子的一面墻 做成了一個(gè)巨型黑板 我在上面寫(xiě)滿了同一道填空題 “在死之前，我想??” 所以每一個(gè)路過(guò)的人都可以撿起一根粉筆 在公共場(chǎng)合里留下一些他們?nèi)松暮圹E 且來(lái)分享他們內(nèi)心深處的愿望 i didnt know what to expect from this experiment, but by the next day, the wall was entirely filled out, and it kept growing.and id like to share a few things that people wrote on this wall.我并不知道該從這個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)里期待些什么 但是第二天，整個(gè)墻壁都被填滿了 而且不斷有人添加新的答案 我想跟大家分享一些人們?cè)谀敲鎵ι?寫(xiě)的東西

“在死之前，我想為我的海盜行為接受審判”（笑聲）“在死之前，我想跨過(guò)國(guó)際日期變更線” “在死之前，我想在上百萬(wàn)的觀眾面前唱歌” “在死之前，我想種一棵樹(shù)” “在死之前，我想過(guò)隱居的生活” “在死之前，我想再抱她一次” “在死之前，我想成為某個(gè)人的騎士” “在死之前，我想要做完全真實(shí)的自己” so this neglected space became a constructive one, and peoples hopes and dreams made me laugh out loud, tear up, and they consoled me during my own tough times.its about knowing youre not alone.its about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.its about making space for reflection and contemplation, and remembering what really matters most to us as we grow and change.這個(gè)本來(lái)被遺忘的建筑變成了一個(gè)極具建設(shè)性的地方 這些人的希望和夢(mèng)想 讓我放聲大笑，也黯然落淚 也曾在我經(jīng)歷困境的時(shí)候給我安慰 這讓我們相信自己并不孤單 讓我們對(duì)鄰居有了全新的 啟發(fā)心智的了解 這為我們營(yíng)造了一個(gè)反省和思考的空間 也提醒我們?cè)诓粩喑砷L(zhǎng)改變的過(guò)程中 什么才是最為重要的這個(gè)黑板是我去年做的，然后我就不斷收到 一些熱情的人們給我發(fā)的信息 說(shuō)想在他們的社區(qū)里也設(shè)立一面這樣的墻壁 所以我和我的同事們就做了一個(gè)小型工具箱 現(xiàn)在，這面墻壁已經(jīng)遍布全球 包括哈薩克斯坦，南非 澳大利亞 阿根廷等地 這些跡象表明，如果我們能有一個(gè) 表達(dá)自己的意愿并與他人分享的機(jī)會(huì) 那么公共空間將發(fā)揮巨大的作用 two of the most valuable things we have are time and our relationships with other people.in our age of increasing distractions, its more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.death is something that were often discouraged to talk about or even think about, but ive realized that preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do.thinking about death clarifies your life.我們所擁有的最珍貴的兩樣?xùn)|西，一個(gè)是時(shí)間 還有一個(gè)，是與他人的聯(lián)系 在這個(gè)物欲橫流的時(shí)代里 努力堅(jiān)持自我，銘記人生的短暫與生命的脆弱 變得比以往任何時(shí)代都更重要 我們總是沒(méi)有勇氣談?wù)撍劳?甚至沒(méi)有勇氣去想著死亡 但是我意識(shí)到，為死亡做心理準(zhǔn)備 是我們能夠做到的最有力的事情之一 思考死亡能夠讓你對(duì)自己的人生有更清醒的認(rèn)識(shí)

公共空間可以更好的體現(xiàn)到底什么對(duì)我們是真正重要的 無(wú)論是對(duì)個(gè)人來(lái)說(shuō)或者對(duì)于整個(gè)社區(qū)來(lái)說(shuō) 有了更多的方式來(lái)分享我們的希望，恐懼和經(jīng)歷 我們身邊的人不僅能夠幫助我們創(chuàng)造更美好的地方 更幫助我們過(guò)上更美好的生活 謝謝篇二：【ted演講集】 偉大的領(lǐng)袖如何激勵(lì)行動(dòng) 偉大的領(lǐng)袖如何激勵(lì)行動(dòng) 當(dāng)事情的發(fā)展出乎意料之外的時(shí)候，你怎么解釋？換句話說(shuō)，當(dāng)別人似乎出乎意料地取得成功的時(shí)候，你怎么解釋？比如說(shuō)，為什么蘋(píng)果公司創(chuàng)新能力這么強(qiáng)？這么多年來(lái)，年復(fù)一年，他們比所有競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手都更加具有創(chuàng)新性，而其實(shí)他們只是一家電腦公司，他們跟其他公司沒(méi)有任何分別，有同樣的途徑接觸到同樣的人才，同樣的代理商、顧問(wèn)和媒體。那為什么他們就似乎有那么一點(diǎn)不同尋常呢？同樣的，為什么是由馬丁·路德·金來(lái)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)？那個(gè)時(shí)候在美國(guó)，民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)之前，不僅僅只有他一個(gè)人飽受歧視，他也決不是那個(gè)時(shí)代唯一的偉大演說(shuō)家，為什么會(huì)是他？又為什么懷特兄弟能夠造出動(dòng)力控制的載人飛機(jī)，跟他們相比，當(dāng)時(shí)的其他團(tuán)隊(duì)似乎更有能力、更有資金，他們卻沒(méi)能制造出載人飛機(jī)，懷特兄弟打敗了他們，一定還有一些什么別的因素在起作用。大概三年半之前，我有了個(gè)新發(fā)現(xiàn)，這個(gè)發(fā)現(xiàn)完全改變了，我對(duì)這個(gè)世界如何運(yùn)作的看法，甚至從根本上改變了我的工作生活方式。那就是我發(fā)現(xiàn)了一種模式，我發(fā)現(xiàn)世界上所有偉大的令人振奮的領(lǐng)袖和組織，無(wú)論是蘋(píng)果公司、馬丁·路德·金還是懷特兄弟，他們思考、行動(dòng)、交流溝通的方式都完全一樣，但是跟所有其他人的方式完全相反。我所做的僅僅是把它整理出來(lái)，這可能是世上最簡(jiǎn)單的概念，我稱它為黃金圓環(huán)：為什么？怎么做？是什么在？這小小的模型就解釋了為什么一些組織和領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者能夠在別人不能的地方激發(fā)出靈感和潛力，我來(lái)盡快地解釋一下這些術(shù)語(yǔ)。地球上的每個(gè)人、每個(gè)組織都明白自己做的是什么，百分之百，其中一些知道該怎么做，你可以稱之為是你的差異價(jià)值，或是你的獨(dú)特工藝，或是你的獨(dú)特賣點(diǎn)也好，怎么說(shuō)都行。但是，非常、非常少的人和組織明白為什么這么做，這里的“為什么”和“為利潤(rùn)”沒(méi)有關(guān)系，利潤(rùn)只是一個(gè)結(jié)果，永遠(yuǎn)只能是一個(gè)結(jié)果。我說(shuō)的“為什么”指的是：你的目的是什么？你這樣做的原因是什么？你懷著什么樣的信念？你的機(jī)構(gòu)為什么而存在？你每天早上是為什么而起來(lái)？為什么別人要在乎你？結(jié)果是我們思考的方式、行動(dòng)的方式、交流的方式都是由外向內(nèi)的。很顯然的，我們所采用的方式是從清洗開(kāi)始，然后到模糊的東西，但是激勵(lì)性領(lǐng)袖以及組織機(jī)構(gòu)，無(wú)論他們的規(guī)模大小、所在領(lǐng)域，他們思考、行動(dòng)和交流的方式都是從里到外的。舉個(gè)例子吧，我舉蘋(píng)果公司時(shí)因?yàn)檫@個(gè)例子簡(jiǎn)單易懂，每個(gè)人都能理解，如果蘋(píng)果公司跟其他公司一樣，他們的市場(chǎng)營(yíng)銷信息就會(huì)是這個(gè)樣

子：“我們做最棒的電腦，設(shè)計(jì)精美、使用簡(jiǎn)單、界面友好，你想買一臺(tái)嗎？”不怎么樣吧。這就是我們大多數(shù)人的交流方式，也是大多數(shù)市場(chǎng)推廣的方式，大部分銷售所采取的方式，也是我們大部分人互相交流的方式。我們說(shuō)我們的職業(yè)是干什么的，我們說(shuō)我們是如何的與眾不同，或者我們?cè)趺幢绕渌烁?，然后我們就期待著一些別人的反應(yīng)，比如購(gòu)買，比如投票，諸如此類。這就是我們新開(kāi)的律師事務(wù)所，我們擁有最棒的律師和最大的客戶，我們總能滿足客戶的要求；這是我們的新車型，非常省油，真皮座椅，買一輛吧。但是這些推銷詞一點(diǎn)勁都沒(méi)有。這是蘋(píng)果公司實(shí)際上的溝通方式：“我們做的每一件事情都是為了突破和創(chuàng)新，我們堅(jiān)信應(yīng)該以不同的方式思考，我們挑戰(zhàn)現(xiàn)狀的方式是通過(guò)把我們的產(chǎn)品設(shè)計(jì)得十分精美、使用簡(jiǎn)單和界面友好。我們只是在這個(gè)過(guò)程中做出了最棒的電腦，想買一臺(tái)嗎？”感覺(jué)完全不一樣，對(duì)吧？你已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備從我這里買一臺(tái)了。我所做的只是將傳遞信息的順序顛倒一下而已，事實(shí)已經(jīng)向我們證明，人們買的不是你做的產(chǎn)品，人們買的是你的信念和宗旨?！叭藗冑I的不是你做的產(chǎn)品，人們買的是你的信念”這就解釋了為什么這里的每個(gè)人從蘋(píng)果公司買電腦時(shí)都覺(jué)得理所當(dāng)然，但是我們從蘋(píng)果公司買mp3播放器、手機(jī)或者數(shù)碼攝像機(jī)時(shí)，也感覺(jué)很舒服。而其實(shí)，我剛才已經(jīng)說(shuō)過(guò)，蘋(píng)果公司只是個(gè)電腦公司，沒(méi)有什么能從結(jié)構(gòu)上將蘋(píng)果公司同競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手區(qū)分開(kāi)來(lái)，競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手和蘋(píng)果公司有同樣的能力制造所有這些產(chǎn)品。實(shí)際上，他們也嘗試過(guò)，幾年前，捷威（gateway）公司推出了平板電視，他們制造平板電視的能力很強(qiáng)，因?yàn)樗麄冏銎桨屣@示器已經(jīng)很多年了，但是沒(méi)有人買他們的平板電視。戴爾公司推出了mp3播放器和掌上電腦，他們產(chǎn)品的質(zhì)量非常好，產(chǎn)品的設(shè)計(jì)也非常不錯(cuò)，但是也沒(méi)有人買他們的這些產(chǎn)品。其實(shí)，說(shuō)到這里，我們無(wú)法想象會(huì)從戴爾公司買mp3播放器。你為什么會(huì)從一家電腦公司買mp3播放器呢？但是每天我們都這么做，人們買的不是你做的產(chǎn)品，人們買的是你的信念。做公司的目標(biāo)不是要跟所有需要你的產(chǎn)品的人做生意，而是跟與你有著相同理念的人做生意，這是最精彩的部分，我說(shuō)的這些沒(méi)有一個(gè)是我自己的觀點(diǎn)，這些觀點(diǎn)都能從生物學(xué)里面找到根源，不是心理學(xué)，是生物學(xué)。當(dāng)你俯視看大腦的橫截面，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)人類大腦實(shí)際上分成三個(gè)主要部分，而這三個(gè)主要部分和黃金圓環(huán)匹配得非常好。我們最新的腦部，管轄智力的腦部，或者說(shuō)我們的大腦皮層對(duì)應(yīng)著“是什么”這個(gè)圓環(huán)，大腦皮層負(fù)責(zé)我們所有的理性和

邏輯的思考和語(yǔ)言功能，中間的兩個(gè)部分是我們的兩個(gè)邊腦，邊腦負(fù)責(zé)我們所有的情感，比如信任和忠誠(chéng)，也負(fù)責(zé)所有的行為和決策，但這部分沒(méi)有語(yǔ)言功能。換句話說(shuō)，當(dāng)我們由外向內(nèi)交流時(shí)，沒(méi)錯(cuò)，人們可以理解大量的復(fù)雜信息，比如特征、優(yōu)點(diǎn)、事實(shí)和圖表，但不足以激發(fā)行動(dòng)。當(dāng)我們由外向內(nèi)交流時(shí)，我們是在直接通控制行為的那一部分大腦對(duì)話，然后我們由人們理性地思考我們所說(shuō)和做的事情，這就是那些發(fā)自內(nèi)心的決定的來(lái)源。你知道，有時(shí)候你展示給一些人所有的數(shù)據(jù)圖表，他們會(huì)說(shuō)“我知道這些數(shù)據(jù)和圖表是什么意思，但就是感覺(jué)不對(duì)”，為什么我們會(huì)用這個(gè)動(dòng)詞“感覺(jué)”不對(duì)？因?yàn)榭刂茮Q策的那一部分大腦并不支配語(yǔ)言，我們只好說(shuō)“我不知道為什么，就是感覺(jué)不對(duì)”，或者有些時(shí)候，你說(shuō)聽(tīng)從心的召喚，或者說(shuō)聽(tīng)從靈魂，我不想把這些觀念分解得太徹底，但心和靈魂都不是控制行為的部分。所有這一切都發(fā)生在你的邊腦，控制決策行為而非語(yǔ)言的邊腦，如果你自己都不知道你為什么干你所做的事情，而別人要對(duì)你的動(dòng)機(jī)作出反應(yīng)，那么你怎么可能贏得大家對(duì)你的支持，從你這里購(gòu)買東西，或者更重要的、對(duì)你忠誠(chéng)，并且成為你正在做的事情的一份子呢？再說(shuō)一次，目標(biāo)不僅僅是將你有的東西賣給需要它們的人，而是將東西賣給跟你有共同信念的人；目標(biāo)不僅僅是雇傭那些需要一份工作的人，目標(biāo)是雇傭那些同你有共同信念的人。你知道嗎，我總是說(shuō)，如果你雇傭某人只是因?yàn)樗茏鲞@份工作，他們就只是為你開(kāi)的工資而工作，但是如果你雇傭跟你有共同信念的人，他們會(huì)為你付出熱血、汗水和淚水。這一點(diǎn)，沒(méi)有比懷特兄弟的故事更恰當(dāng)?shù)睦恿恕４蠖鄶?shù)人都沒(méi)聽(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò)塞繆爾·蘭利這個(gè)人，20世紀(jì)初期，投入機(jī)動(dòng)飛行器的熱情就像當(dāng)今的網(wǎng)站熱，每個(gè)人都在做嘗試，塞繆爾·蘭利擁有所有大家認(rèn)為是成功的要素。我的意思是，即便是現(xiàn)在，你問(wèn)別人“為什么你的產(chǎn)品或者公司失敗了呢？”人們總是用同樣的三個(gè)東西以同樣的排列順序來(lái)回答你：缺乏資金、用人不善、形勢(shì)不好?？偸悄侨N理由，所以讓我們來(lái)逐個(gè)分析一下，國(guó)防部給了塞繆爾·蘭利5萬(wàn)美金作為研制飛行器的資金，所以說(shuō)，資金不是問(wèn)題。他在哈佛大學(xué)工作過(guò)，也在史密森你學(xué)會(huì)工作過(guò)，人脈極其廣泛，他認(rèn)識(shí)當(dāng)時(shí)最優(yōu)秀的人才，因此，他雇傭了用資金能吸引到的最優(yōu)秀的人才。當(dāng)時(shí)的市場(chǎng)形勢(shì)相當(dāng)有利，紐約時(shí)報(bào)對(duì)他做跟蹤報(bào)道，每個(gè)人都支持他，但是為什么你們連聽(tīng)都沒(méi)聽(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò)他呢？與此同時(shí)，幾百公里之外的俄亥俄州代頓市有一對(duì)兄弟，奧維爾·萊特和維爾伯·萊特，他們倆沒(méi)有任何我們認(rèn)為的成功的要素，他們沒(méi)有錢，他們用自行車店的收入來(lái)追求他們的夢(mèng)想，萊特兄弟的團(tuán)隊(duì)中沒(méi)有一個(gè)人上過(guò)大學(xué)，就連奧維爾和維爾伯也沒(méi)有，紐約時(shí)報(bào)更是不沾邊的，不同的是奧維爾和維爾伯追求的是一個(gè)事業(yè)、一個(gè)目標(biāo)、一種信念，他們相信如果他們能研制出飛行器，將會(huì)改變?nèi)澜绲陌l(fā)展進(jìn)程。塞繆爾·蘭利就不同了，他想要發(fā)財(cái)、他想要成名，他追求的是最終結(jié)果，是變得富有?？窗?，看接下來(lái)怎么樣了。那些懷有和懷特兄弟一樣夢(mèng)想的人，跟他們一起熱血朝天地奮斗著，另一邊的人則是為了工資而工作。后來(lái)流傳的故事說(shuō)，每次懷特兄弟出去實(shí)驗(yàn)時(shí)都必須帶著五組零件，因?yàn)槟鞘窃谒麄兓貋?lái)吃晚飯之前將要墜毀的次數(shù)。最后，在1903年12月17日懷特兄弟成功起飛，但是沒(méi)有任何其他人在場(chǎng)目睹，我們是在幾天后才知道的。后來(lái)的事情進(jìn)一步證實(shí)了，蘭利動(dòng)機(jī)不純，他在懷特兄弟成功的當(dāng)天就辭職了，他本來(lái)應(yīng)該可以說(shuō)“伙計(jì)們，這真是一項(xiàng)偉大的發(fā)明，我可以改進(jìn)你們的技術(shù)”，但是他沒(méi)有。因?yàn)樗皇堑谝粋€(gè)制造出飛機(jī)的人，他就不會(huì)變得富有、他也不會(huì)變得有名，所以他辭職了。人們買的不是你的產(chǎn)品，而是你的信念，如果你講述你的信念，你將吸引那些跟你擁有同樣信念的人。但是為什么吸引那些跟你擁有同樣信念的人非常重要呢？創(chuàng)新的傳播有一個(gè)規(guī)律，如果你不知道這個(gè)規(guī)律，你一定了解這個(gè)概念，我們的社會(huì)中有2.5%的人是革新者，13.5%的人是早期的少部分采納者，接下來(lái)的34%是早期接受的大多數(shù)，然后是比較晚接受的大多數(shù)和最后行動(dòng)的。這部分最后行動(dòng)的人買按鍵電話的唯一原因是因?yàn)樗麄冊(cè)僖操I不到轉(zhuǎn)盤(pán)電話了。雖然我們?cè)诓煌臅r(shí)候會(huì)處在這個(gè)曲線上不同的位置，但是創(chuàng)新的傳播規(guī)律告訴我們，如果你想在大眾市場(chǎng)上獲得成功，或者要大眾接納一個(gè)點(diǎn)子，你得等到獲得15%-18%的市場(chǎng)接受度這個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)之后才行，那時(shí)之后市場(chǎng)才真正打開(kāi)。我喜歡問(wèn)公司：“你的新生意怎么樣呀？”他們會(huì)很自豪地告訴你“哦，大概有10%吧”。是呀，你有可能九子啊10%的顧客群這里過(guò)不去了，我們都能讓10%的人“意會(huì)”，對(duì)，我們一般這樣形容他們，就好比描述那種感覺(jué)“哦，他們有點(diǎn)心領(lǐng)神會(huì)了”。問(wèn)題是：你怎么在他們還沒(méi)有成為你的顧客之前就發(fā)現(xiàn)那些能意會(huì)的人和那些不能意會(huì)的人？這就是問(wèn)題的所在，就是這點(diǎn)間隙，你得把這個(gè)間隙給填上。正如杰弗里穆?tīng)査f(shuō)的“跨越鴻溝”，因?yàn)樵缙诘拇蠖鄶?shù)不會(huì)嘗試新事物，除非有些人已經(jīng)先嘗試過(guò)了，而這些人，創(chuàng)新者和早期的少數(shù)人，他們喜歡大膽的嘗試，他 ted 演講集 下定的目標(biāo)可別告訴別人 everyone please think of your biggest personal goal.okay? for real, you can take a second;you got to feel this to learn it.take a few seconds and think of your personal biggest goal.okay? the repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes them less likely to happen.anytime you have a goal, there’s some steps that need to be done, some work that needs to be done in order to achieve it.ideally you will not be satisfied until you’ve actually done the work.but when you tell someone your goal, and they acknowledge it, psychologists have found that it’s called “social reality” that the mind is kind of tricked in the feeling that it’s already done.and then because you felt that satisfaction, you are less motivated to do the actual hard work necessary.so this goes against the conventional wisdom that we should tell our friends our goals, right? so they hold it to it?hold us to it?yeah.so hmm?let’s look at the proof.1926, kurt lewin founder of social psychology called this substitution;1933, wera mahler found when it was acknowledged by others it felt real in the mind;1982, peter gollwitzer wrote a whole book about this;and in 2009, he did some?hmm?new tests that were published.goes like this: well, you could resist the temptation to announce your goal;you can delay the gratification that these social acknowledgement brings;and you can understand that your mind mistakes the talking for the doing.but if you do need to talk about something, you could say that in a way that gives you no satisfaction, such as “i really want to run this marathon, so i need to train 5 times a week and kick my ass if i don’t, okay?” so audience, next time you’re tempted to tell someone your goal, what will you say? exactly!well done!篇四：ted演講：改變無(wú)數(shù)生命的18分鐘 ted演講：改變無(wú)數(shù)生命的18分鐘

最具活力的演講形式，最先進(jìn)的科技、教育、創(chuàng)意的碰撞。以講故事的形式把一些好的思想帶給你，并且 最多只占用你18分鐘，足以讓你對(duì)主題窺一斑而知全豹。這就是ted演講的魅力所在。思想的力量能改變世界嗎？

每年在美國(guó)加州舉辦的 ted 大會(huì)就有這樣的野心，號(hào)稱“超級(jí)大腦spa”。然而，它真正在大范圍內(nèi)改變世界，卻是始于2006年，第一個(gè) ted 演講視頻被傳到網(wǎng)上。迄今，演講視頻的收視率超過(guò)8億人次。不用買昂貴的門票去現(xiàn)場(chǎng)，在家里的電腦和手機(jī)屏幕上，越來(lái)越多的人正在用這18分鐘來(lái)影響和改變自

己，包括很多中國(guó)的大中學(xué)生。

“ted演講的前沿性，是國(guó)內(nèi)目前極少講座可以與之相比的——最先進(jìn)的科技以及思想動(dòng)態(tài)幾乎都能在ted的舞臺(tái)上見(jiàn)到蹤影，它以講故事的形式把一些好的思想帶給你，并且最多只占用你18分鐘。但很多

時(shí)候，那已足以讓你窺一斑而知全豹?！?/p>

在最短的時(shí)間內(nèi)，學(xué)到牛人最厲害的地方

“ted給我的第一印象是：哇！” 李翔第一次看到ted的視頻，是在大一的一次交流活動(dòng)上。隨后，各種各樣的ted演講開(kāi)始給他帶來(lái)大大小小的頭腦沖擊，“我居然能免費(fèi)在家里觀看到這么前沿的東西！” 沒(méi)有開(kāi)幕式、演講臺(tái)、西裝和領(lǐng)帶，也不歡迎“在法律上不能告訴我們真相的ceo們，和因服務(wù)于很多選區(qū)而不能說(shuō)出真相的政客們”，給予每個(gè)演講者的時(shí)間是18分鐘。在ted的舞臺(tái)上，最不缺的就是牛人。他們演講的內(nèi)容卻往往與在其他場(chǎng)合不同：以慈善家身份出現(xiàn)的比爾·蓋茨一邊說(shuō)著“沒(méi)有理由只讓窮人體驗(yàn)被蚊子攻擊的滋味”，一邊將蚊子釋放到會(huì)場(chǎng)里，讓與會(huì)者也體驗(yàn)一下喂蚊子；美國(guó)前副總統(tǒng)戈?duì)杽t做

了一場(chǎng)有關(guān)氣候變暖的演講，成了奧斯卡最佳紀(jì)錄片《難以忽視的真相》的緣起。

“在最短的時(shí)間內(nèi)，我可以學(xué)到這些牛人最厲害的地方，他們會(huì)給你描述一個(gè)你從未想過(guò)的世界或世界觀?！?007年，吳恒看到諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)得主詹姆斯·沃森用通俗易懂的方式講述自己發(fā)現(xiàn)dna的過(guò)程時(shí)，他突然覺(jué)得，“這和從教科書(shū)里學(xué)習(xí)的感覺(jué)截然不同！傳統(tǒng)的教育方式是老師對(duì)著教科書(shū)講，ted則是讓教科書(shū)的作者來(lái)教你。”2009年，他開(kāi)始做ted字幕翻譯計(jì)劃的志愿者，“看了那么好的視頻，就覺(jué)得有必要

讓更多的人看到，就像是在傳播文明?！?/p>

么遙不可及?！?/p>

小人物在上面講課，比爾·蓋茨在下面聽(tīng) ted每集演講的時(shí)間都很短，這正好迎合了現(xiàn)代人生活的碎片化。高二開(kāi)始看ted的陳小瑜總是在早上起床或晚上上床之前，一邊放著ted音頻，一邊做別的事情。陳謙則習(xí)慣在每天晚上洗完澡后吹頭發(fā)的時(shí)間里看一集視頻。

“人們很多時(shí)候不想學(xué)習(xí)，又想學(xué)習(xí)。不想學(xué)習(xí)，指的是不愿意投入太多時(shí)間在某些只是好奇的陌生領(lǐng)域；又想學(xué)習(xí)，指的是人們對(duì)于自己熟知領(lǐng)域之外的其他領(lǐng)域充滿好奇心。ted演講的18分鐘格式很好地解決了這個(gè)問(wèn)題?！比藗兊臅r(shí)間有限，如何搭建出色的知識(shí)結(jié)構(gòu)是一個(gè)很大的挑戰(zhàn)，ted演講是一個(gè)很好的新型學(xué)習(xí)工具。

看過(guò)的ted演講有幾百個(gè)了，半數(shù)以上改變了他對(duì)某個(gè)東西或者是對(duì)自己的看法。并且，它們讓他看到了一種趨勢(shì)：這個(gè)世界正在變得更好，而且我們每個(gè)人都可以為此做點(diǎn)什么。雖然有非常嚴(yán)重的金融危機(jī)，有日益惡化的生態(tài)危機(jī)，但是，我們的世界還是充滿了很多積極的故事：暴力正在減少、人們重新發(fā)現(xiàn)社

區(qū)的價(jià)值、社會(huì)創(chuàng)新正在蓬勃興起、我們都能作出改變，不管是億萬(wàn)富豪還是布衣平民。

之前，每當(dāng)有人問(wèn)起 ted是什么的時(shí)候，比爾·蓋茨、比爾·克林頓、愛(ài)德華·威爾遜等人都會(huì)被當(dāng)做例子，以展現(xiàn)ted舞臺(tái)之強(qiáng)大。但看的演講越多越發(fā)現(xiàn)，真正的ted明星不是那些大牌人物，而往往是一些在自己領(lǐng)域里默默耕耘和創(chuàng)新的無(wú)名人士。這些人有的是警察，在嘗試新的方法去與囚犯接觸；有的是小學(xué)校長(zhǎng)，通過(guò)一些有趣的活動(dòng)，鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生去從社會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)問(wèn)題并且發(fā)出自己的聲音；還有的是剪紙藝術(shù)家，通

過(guò)剪紙去講述這個(gè)時(shí)代的故事??“也許他們本來(lái)只改變了囚犯、幾十個(gè)學(xué)生或普通市民，但一經(jīng)ted舞

臺(tái)的放大，他們的感召力和影響力馬上幾十倍幾百倍地增長(zhǎng)。”

做著有趣事情的普通人，也同名人一樣有機(jī)會(huì)站在ted的舞臺(tái)上，向世界介紹和傳播思想。李翔覺(jué)得，在以往的學(xué)校演講臺(tái)上站著的，除了專業(yè)類演講，或者是事業(yè)成功人士來(lái)演講的，或者是來(lái)給學(xué)生勵(lì)志的，這正是ted與其他講座、課程最大的不同?！斑@個(gè)平臺(tái)能讓一個(gè)名氣不大的小孩在臺(tái)上講，美國(guó)副總統(tǒng)、比爾·蓋茨都在下面聽(tīng)。如果只讓大學(xué)教授在演講臺(tái)上喋喋不休，學(xué)校會(huì)扼殺年輕人創(chuàng)造力的?！?/p>

是通識(shí)教育，也是靈感的觸發(fā)器

王三木最初接觸ted時(shí)，剛剛碩士畢業(yè)進(jìn)入廣州一所三本獨(dú)立學(xué)院當(dāng)老師。3年里，通過(guò)ted這個(gè)窗口，他了解了不同形態(tài)的教育。他慢慢發(fā)現(xiàn)，自己最初對(duì)教育的理解是幼稚的。

“ted的演講者都是高水平的，他講出的問(wèn)題，可能也是我們同樣會(huì)遇到的。這樣，與其聽(tīng)現(xiàn)實(shí)中的老師再講一遍，不如老師和學(xué)生一起，聽(tīng)一遍ted關(guān)于這個(gè)問(wèn)題的探討，再一起討論，效果就會(huì)好很多?！蓖跞菊f(shuō)，很多學(xué)生抱怨上大學(xué)，或者對(duì)自己的專業(yè)不滿，經(jīng)常逃課，如果把逃課的時(shí)間用在看看ted演

講上，也會(huì)受益匪淺。

王三木覺(jué)得，在學(xué)習(xí)的過(guò)程中，他個(gè)人的收獲也不亞于學(xué)生。ted不僅是強(qiáng)大的內(nèi)容提供方，也是一種工

具，幫助他找回了上大學(xué)以后就消失已久的學(xué)習(xí)熱情，重新開(kāi)始主動(dòng)地、有意識(shí)地學(xué)習(xí)。

“18分鐘是很短的，基本都是做一些思維的碰撞，讓你知道有這么一個(gè)新的理論或思想，但要真正深入掌握一門知識(shí)，是需要讀書(shū)和實(shí)踐的?！痹谕跞究磥?lái)，對(duì)ted的學(xué)習(xí)包括兩個(gè)階段：如果還不了解自己的興趣，或者對(duì)世界的認(rèn)識(shí)還不夠，ted就可以作為通識(shí)教育的工具，讓你打開(kāi)眼界；如果有了比較明確的想法，就可以專門接觸某一類演講，順藤摸瓜，去閱讀演講者的著作，探究他所在的領(lǐng)域，了解他所做的 事情，并和自己的工作結(jié)合在一起。這樣，ted就會(huì)變成靈感的觸發(fā)器。ted則直接影響到李翔的人生選擇。他看了無(wú)數(shù)遍一個(gè)名為《學(xué)校扼殺創(chuàng)造力》的演講，在這段視頻中，肯·羅賓遜指出，現(xiàn)代教育不應(yīng)該只是為了最終產(chǎn)出大學(xué)教授，而應(yīng)該是多元的；不是數(shù)學(xué)不好，但美術(shù)、音樂(lè)、舞蹈也同樣重要，可惜我們現(xiàn)在的課程都是注重分?jǐn)?shù)、基點(diǎn)，讓學(xué)生最終向著同一個(gè)方向：背書(shū)、拿到高分，順利畢業(yè)。

這段視頻讓李翔有了休學(xué)的想法，大二時(shí)，他決定開(kāi)始間隔年，后來(lái)，他從那所獨(dú)立學(xué)院退學(xué)，申請(qǐng)去了新西蘭留學(xué)，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)創(chuàng)業(yè)取得了小小的成功?！皌ed讓我感到生活是如此的多元，不用一條路走到黑?！?/p>

世界各地的志同道合者集合在一起 “ted演講其實(shí)只是一個(gè)窗口，但是，通過(guò)這個(gè)窗口，我們可以找到很多來(lái)自全球各地的志同道合者?！?在世界各地，喜歡ted的志同道合者正在聚集到一起。2009年3月，ted推出了tedx項(xiàng)目，只要滿足以下條件，任何人都可以自己組織tedx討論會(huì)：不能超過(guò)一天，會(huì)上25%的內(nèi)容必須是ted演講視頻

目前，以城市、高校為平臺(tái)，中國(guó)也已經(jīng)有了幾百個(gè)tedx組織。在這些小小的分會(huì)場(chǎng)上，更多的人走上

分享的舞臺(tái)，交流人生、靈感與創(chuàng)新。

“一些對(duì)理想有追求、希望作出某些改變的人走到一起，他們?cè)诹私馐澜缙渌胤秸诎l(fā)生什么，再相互

探討這樣的變化對(duì)本地有何借鑒意義——這就是tedx最典型的一個(gè)寫(xiě)照?！?/p>

在美國(guó)硅谷舉辦的一場(chǎng)tedxsv大會(huì)上，tedx全球項(xiàng)目總監(jiān)拉瓦·斯丹說(shuō)，整個(gè)tedx的社區(qū)就是一個(gè)具有全球凝聚力的部落。這個(gè)部落的故事，就是全球不同文化相交融的故事，部落里的人也許膚色種族

信仰各不一樣，但大家都堅(jiān)信一點(diǎn)：優(yōu)秀的思想可以改變我們的未來(lái)。

著名音樂(lè)家 bob geldof 則在2008年的ted大會(huì)上說(shuō)過(guò)：“人類的進(jìn)步要靠一些?非理性?的人。理性的人看到世界是什么就是什么，?非理性?的人則堅(jiān)持要努力去改變它。假如要我說(shuō)ted是什么，我會(huì)說(shuō)，ted本身就是一幫?非理性?的人的聚會(huì)?！闭沁@些“非理性”的人在重新定義著我們這個(gè)時(shí)代成功的概念。篇五：【ted演講集】世界需要不同的思考

世界需要不同的思考

我想以簡(jiǎn)單談?wù)勛蚤]癥是什么作為開(kāi)場(chǎng)。自閉癥是個(gè)非常大的范圍，從非常嚴(yán)重不會(huì)說(shuō)話的小孩到天才的科學(xué)家及工程師。而我事實(shí)上覺(jué)得這里像家一樣，因?yàn)樵谶@有許多自閉癥遺傳學(xué)，各位不會(huì)有任何，這是特質(zhì)的范圍。呆瓜何時(shí)變成亞斯伯格，只是中等的自閉癥，我是說(shuō)愛(ài)因斯坦、莫扎特及特斯拉可能被診斷為自閉癥。依照現(xiàn)今自閉的等級(jí)，而現(xiàn)在我真正有疑慮的一件事是，如何培育這些將發(fā)明未來(lái)能量的小孩。這問(wèn)題比爾蓋茨今早有談到，現(xiàn)在若你想了解自閉癥、動(dòng)物，我要跟各位談?wù)劜煌乃伎寄Ｊ?，你必須脫離口語(yǔ)化的語(yǔ)言，我以圖片為思考，我不以語(yǔ)言為思考?，F(xiàn)在重點(diǎn)是自閉的腦專注于細(xì)節(jié)。這是一個(gè)你必須選擇大字母或小字母的測(cè)試，而自閉癥的腦子選出小字母比較快，重點(diǎn)是正常的腦子忽略細(xì)節(jié)，若你要建條橋，細(xì)節(jié)是頗為重要的，因?yàn)槿裟愫鲆暭?xì)節(jié)則橋會(huì)垮。而我最大的疑慮是現(xiàn)今多數(shù)的政策，這些事務(wù)漸漸太過(guò)深?yuàn)W了，人們漸漸逃離親手實(shí)作的這些事物，我真的很擔(dān)心許多學(xué)校取消動(dòng)手實(shí)作課程，因?yàn)樗囆g(shù)及這類課程是我表現(xiàn)突出之處。在我研究牛隻時(shí)，我發(fā)現(xiàn)大部分人不注意的小事會(huì)讓牛隻畏懼，就像是這在獸醫(yī)中心前方飄揚(yáng)的旗幟，這喂食場(chǎng)要將他們整座獸醫(yī)中心拆除，他們只需要遷移旗桿，相對(duì)而言，快速的遷移。在70年代早期我剛開(kāi)始時(shí)，我親自跑到牛道中來(lái)觀察牛隻看到什么，人家覺(jué)得我狠瘋狂，掛在圍籬上的大衣會(huì)讓他們畏怯，陰影會(huì)讓他們畏怯，地上的水管??人們不去注意這些事，一條鐵鏈垂掛，而電影里都是美化的。事實(shí)上我狠喜歡他們復(fù)制我所有的研究專案，那是我怪咖的一面，我的手繪圖也在電影里客串上一角，這電影叫「天寶葛蘭汀」，不是「圖像思考」。所以，什么是圖像思考，實(shí)際上就是你腦中的電影。我腦子的運(yùn)作像是影像的google，當(dāng)我是個(gè)小孩時(shí)我不了解我的思考有何不同，我以為每個(gè)人都是以圖像來(lái)思考。后來(lái)當(dāng)我寫(xiě)「圖像思考」時(shí)，我開(kāi)始訪談一些人看他們?nèi)绾嗡伎?，我很訝異的發(fā)現(xiàn)我的思考是非常不同的。如同，若我說(shuō)「思考一座教堂的頂端」，大部分的人得到的是一般普通的頂端，或許對(duì)現(xiàn)場(chǎng)的各位不是如此，但在許多不同地方卻是如此。我只看得到特定的圖像，它們由我記憶中跳出，就像google的圖片，在電影中，它們有個(gè)很好的場(chǎng)景，當(dāng)「鞋」這一字被說(shuō)出時(shí)，一大堆50及60年代的鞋子就跳入到我腦海中。這是我小時(shí)候的教堂，那很明確，還有更多，科林斯堡，那些有名氣的又如何呢？它們會(huì)出現(xiàn)，像 這樣，只是非常快速，像google的圖片，它們一次出現(xiàn)一張，然后我會(huì)想，或許我們可以有點(diǎn)雪或是來(lái)場(chǎng)暴風(fēng)雨，我們可以保持住圖像然后轉(zhuǎn)為影片。圖像思考在我設(shè)計(jì)牛隻中心時(shí)是巨大的資產(chǎn)，我非常努力研究改良牛隻在屠宰場(chǎng)的待遇，我在設(shè)計(jì)上能夠?qū)嶋H在我腦中做設(shè)備的測(cè)試，就像一臺(tái)虛擬實(shí)境的電腦系統(tǒng)，我其中一個(gè)案子的休息區(qū)的鳥(niǎo)瞰圖，這是被用在電影中，那可是超級(jí)酷的。有許多像是亞斯伯格及自閉類型的，也在電影場(chǎng)景中工作，但是其中有件事讓我很擔(dān)心的是，這些小孩未來(lái)的愿景何在？他們不會(huì)在屬于他們的硅谷出現(xiàn)。我在很早期學(xué)到的一件事是，因?yàn)槲也皇呛苌鐣?huì)化，我必須販?zhǔn)畚业淖髌范皇俏冶旧恚邑準(zhǔn)畚壹倚笞髌返姆绞绞?，我展現(xiàn)我的手繪稿、展現(xiàn)物品的圖片。作為一個(gè)小孩另外幫助我的是，50年代你被教導(dǎo)要有規(guī)矩，你被教導(dǎo)你不可以在商店里亂動(dòng)商品、搗蛋。當(dāng)小朋友在三或四年級(jí)時(shí)，你可以發(fā)現(xiàn)這小孩將成為一位圖像思考者，以透視法來(lái)作圖，我要強(qiáng)調(diào)并非所有的自閉癥兒都是圖像思考者。我許多年前做過(guò)這腦部掃描，我以前常笑說(shuō)，我有這條很粗的網(wǎng)路干線深入我的視覺(jué)皮層，這是張量造影，而我巨大的網(wǎng)路干線是比控制線大兩倍，紅線是我的，而藍(lán)線是性別及年齡的控制線，而我有這條巨大的干線，而控制線在那邊，真的很細(xì)的藍(lán)線。目前有些研究顯示，在自閉癥范疇里的人，實(shí)際上以視覺(jué)皮層為主要的思考，但是重點(diǎn)是，視覺(jué)思考著只是其中一種思考方式，自閉癥的腦是傾向?yàn)樘貏e的腦，善于一件事，而不良于其他事，而我不優(yōu)的就是代數(shù)，而我不能上幾何或是三角函數(shù)，超大的錯(cuò)誤。我發(fā)現(xiàn)許多孩童需略過(guò)代數(shù)，直接學(xué)幾何或是三角函數(shù)。另外一種思考方式是模式思考著，更抽象，這類是工程師、電腦程式師。這是模式思考，那張合掌螳螂是由單一的一張紙做出來(lái)的，沒(méi)膠帶、沒(méi)裁剪，那背景是折疊的圖案。這是思考的種類：圖片寫(xiě)實(shí)視覺(jué)思考，像我就是；模式思考者，音樂(lè)及數(shù)學(xué)的腦子，有些這類的人常有閱讀上的問(wèn)題，你也會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)有這類問(wèn)題的孩童是朗讀困難的，你將發(fā)現(xiàn)這些不同種類的腦，還有口語(yǔ)的腦，他們知道所有事情的理論。另一件事情是感知的問(wèn)題，我對(duì)必須在臉上穿戴這裝備很有疑慮，我在開(kāi)場(chǎng)前半小時(shí)就到場(chǎng)，好將設(shè)備安裝好且習(xí)慣它，為了不要碰到我的下巴，他們還把它折彎了。但是感知是個(gè)問(wèn)題，有些孩童會(huì)被日光燈干擾，有些則有聲音敏感的問(wèn)題，各類型的問(wèn)題。視覺(jué)思考讓我了解很多動(dòng)物的想法，因?yàn)橄胂肟矗瑒?dòng)物是一個(gè)感知為基礎(chǔ)的思考著，而非口語(yǔ)的，以圖像來(lái)思考、以聲音來(lái) 們必須與這些學(xué)生合作，這引導(dǎo)出心靈導(dǎo)師，我的科學(xué)老師不是一位認(rèn)證老師，他曾是一位nasa太空科學(xué)家，目前有些州采取的方式是，若你有生物或化學(xué)的學(xué)位，你可以進(jìn)學(xué)校教生物或化學(xué)，我們需要這樣做，因?yàn)槲矣^察到的是，對(duì)許多這些孩童有益的老師都是在社區(qū)大學(xué)里。我們的高中需要引進(jìn)這些好老師。另一件可以非常非常成功的事是，有許多人可能從軟件業(yè)退休，而他們可以教一個(gè)小孩，若他們教授的是事物也沒(méi)關(guān)系，因?yàn)槟闼龅氖屈c(diǎn)燃火花、你啟發(fā)那小孩，你啟發(fā)他，然后他將學(xué)習(xí)所有的新事物。心靈導(dǎo)師是不可或缺的，我無(wú)法言喻我的科學(xué)老師為我做了什么，我們必須引導(dǎo)他們、雇傭他們，若你的公司雇傭他們實(shí)習(xí)，關(guān)于自閉癥、亞斯伯格類的思考，你必須給他們一向特定的任務(wù)，別只說(shuō)設(shè)計(jì)個(gè)新軟件，你必須告訴他們更明確的東西「好吧！我們正要設(shè)計(jì)一套電腦軟件，而且它必須能做一些特定的功能，而且它只能使用這么多的記憶體」，那樣的明確性是你所需要的。提問(wèn)：你曾寫(xiě)道，我很喜歡這段話：若有些奇跡，自閉癥從世上被消除，那人類將仍在山洞口的火堆前社會(huì)化。天寶葛蘭?。阂?yàn)槟阏J(rèn)為是誰(shuí)做了第一把石矛？就是亞斯伯格患者，若去除所有自閉癥遺傳，那將不會(huì)有硅谷存在，而且能源危機(jī)也無(wú)法解決 提問(wèn)：所以我想問(wèn)你其他問(wèn)題，若你覺(jué)得不適當(dāng)，只要說(shuō)“下個(gè)問(wèn)題”。但若現(xiàn)場(chǎng)有人有自閉癥的小孩或認(rèn)識(shí)一個(gè)自閉癥的小孩，覺(jué)得有些無(wú)法跟他們溝通，你給他們的建議是？ 天寶葛蘭?。菏紫?，你必須看年齡。若你認(rèn)識(shí)一個(gè)2、3歲或4歲的小孩，不會(huì)說(shuō)話、不會(huì)互動(dòng)，我一直強(qiáng)調(diào)：不能等。你每周需要至少20小時(shí)的一對(duì)一教學(xué)。重點(diǎn)是自閉癥是有不同程度的，在自閉癥的范疇里大約有一半的人將學(xué)不會(huì)說(shuō)話，而他們將無(wú)法在硅谷工作，這對(duì)他們來(lái)說(shuō)并不是合理的事。但你也有聰明怪咖的小孩有些自閉，而這就是你必須引發(fā)他們做些有趣的事，我藉由共同興趣而獲得社會(huì)化的互動(dòng)，我跟其他小孩一起騎馬，我跟其他小孩一起做火箭模型、做電子實(shí)驗(yàn)室。在60年代那是將鏡子黏在橡膠膜揚(yáng)聲器，做出一個(gè)燈光秀，那時(shí)我們認(rèn)為是超級(jí)酷的。

第三篇：TED演講集education

TED演講集：Sir Ken Robinson 談推動(dòng)學(xué)習(xí)革命

Bring on the learning revolution!

education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents.And human resources are like natural resources;they're often buried deep.You have to go looking for them.They're not just lying around on the surface.You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.Every education system in the world is being reformed at the moment.And it's not enough.Reform is no use anymore, because that's simply improving a broken model.What we need--and the word's been used many times during the course of the past few days--is not evolution, but a revolution in education.This has to be transformed into something else.One of the real challenges is to innovate fundamentally in education.Innovation is hard because it means doing something that people don't find very easy for the most part.It means challenging what we take for granted, things that we think are obvious.The great problem for reform or transformation is the tyranny of common sense--things that people think, “Well, it can't be done any other way because that's the way it's done.”“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.” “As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.”

That there are ideas that all of us are enthralled to, which we simply take for granted as the natural order of things, the way things are.And many of our ideas have been formed, not to meet the circumstances of this century, but to cope with the circumstances of previous centuries.But our minds are still hypnotized by them.And we have to disenthrall ourselves of some of them.Everybody who's spoken at TED has told us implicitly, or sometimes explicitly, a different story, that life is not linear, it's organic.We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the

circumstances they help to create for us.human communities depend upon a diversity of talent, not a singular conception of ability.And at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence.This linearity thing is a

problem.The other big issue is conformity.We have built our education systems on the model of fast food.And we have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education.And it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.I think we have to recognize a couple of things here.One is that human talent is tremendously diverse.People have very different aptitudes.But it's not only about that.It's about passion.Often, people are good at things they don't really care for.It's about passion, and what excites our spirit and our energy.And if you're doing the thing that you love to do, that you're good at, time takes a different course entirely.You know this, if you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes.If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.And the reason so many people are opting out of education is because it doesn't feed their spirit, it doesn't feed their energy or their passion.So I think we have to change metaphors.We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people.We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of

agriculture.We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it's an organic process.And you cannot predict the outcome of human development;all you can do, like a farmer, is create the

conditions under which they will begin to flourish.So when we look at reforming education and transforming it, it isn't like cloning a system.There are great ones like KIPPs, it's a great system.There are many great models.It's about customizing to your circumstances, and personalizing education to the people you're actually teaching.And doing that, I think is the answer to the future because it's not about scaling a new solution;it's about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support based on a personalized curriculum.

第四篇：成人組 演講集

一、李雯佳，22歲，云南

Our common destiny

― We are made wise not by the recollections of the past but by our responsibility for the future‖----George Bernard Shaw

China is faced with some enormous challenges as it enters the 21st century.In order to ensure the prosperity of our nation and its future generations we must confront and ultimately solve these challenges.Some of the more pressing issues facing China are universal.These include environmental degradation, over population and the effects of globalization.To overcome some of the things we need to implement include: Enhancing our scientific and industrial technologies in such areas as IT, Bio-tech, AI and Cybernetics.Further develop public infrastructure in under developed regions.Promote education reform at all levels.Introduce sustainable development initiatives.The implementation of free trade agreement between China and ASEAN.The benefit to China in introducing these initiatives will be significant and far-reaching.It is important to realize that these initiatives need to filter down through all elements of the society in China.For instance, cutting edge technologies and intellectual properties;the development of e-commerce based economy;an education system that encourages innovation and creativity;increased foreign investment;higher living standards;more efficient use of natural resources.It is important for us to realize these reforms are both essential and necessary.These will help China to fulfill its vast and unrealized potential on the world stage.It will also contribute more to a globalized world of the new century.As for the future our task is not to foresee but to enable.我們的共同命運(yùn)

―我們并不是靠回憶過(guò)去而變得睿智，我們之所以明智是由于我們有對(duì)未來(lái)的責(zé)任感‖。

中國(guó)在邁向二十一世紀(jì)的同時(shí)，也面臨著一些巨大的挑戰(zhàn)，為了確保我國(guó)的繁榮及為子孫后代著想，我們必須面對(duì)挑戰(zhàn)并最終從根本上解決它們。

一些中國(guó)即將面臨的挑戰(zhàn)迫切的問(wèn)題是全球普遍存在的。這些問(wèn)題包括環(huán)境惡化，人口過(guò)剩及全球化的影響。為了解決這些問(wèn)題，我們需要實(shí)施以下措施：

（1）提高并增強(qiáng)我們的科學(xué)及產(chǎn)業(yè)技術(shù)，如在信息技術(shù)產(chǎn)業(yè)，生物技術(shù)領(lǐng)域，人工智能以及神經(jīng)機(jī)械學(xué)領(lǐng)域；

（2）加快推動(dòng)欠發(fā)達(dá)地區(qū)的公共設(shè)施建設(shè)；

（3）促進(jìn)不同層次的教育改革；

（4）使可持續(xù)發(fā)展的觀念深入人心；

（5）推行中國(guó)與東南亞聯(lián)盟的自由貿(mào)易協(xié)定。

中國(guó)將受益于積極主動(dòng)的采取具有重要深遠(yuǎn)意義的措施。認(rèn)識(shí)到這些措施需要實(shí)施到中國(guó)社會(huì)的各個(gè)層面是重要的，從而帶來(lái)廣泛且深遠(yuǎn)的各種改善，如：邊緣科技及知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)；發(fā)展以電子商務(wù)為基礎(chǔ)的經(jīng)濟(jì)； 一種鼓勵(lì)發(fā)明與創(chuàng)造的教育體制；更多的外國(guó)投資； 更高的生活水平；更加有效的利用自然資源。

我們要意識(shí)到各項(xiàng)改革措施是根本的也是有必要的。這些將會(huì)促進(jìn)中國(guó)在世界舞臺(tái)上實(shí)現(xiàn)其巨大且尚未實(shí)現(xiàn)的潛力。這也將會(huì)對(duì)全球化的新世紀(jì)做出貢獻(xiàn)。至于未來(lái)，我們的任務(wù)不是去預(yù)知未來(lái)，而是努力去使其成為現(xiàn)實(shí)。

二、李延雷，22歲，河北

What College Education Means to Me

The title of my speech is ―What college education means to me‖.Now reflecting on the past two and half years of my college experience, I come to realize how much it has shaped me.For me, college education is a marvelous ship-builder who designed me from kneel plates up.With great vision, college education has equipped me, first with a powerful propeller----the sophisticated knowledge in certain field and wide exposure to other disciplines.By dedicating myself to the engineering courses in the day and immersing myself in the rich banquet of the world literature at night, I’ve amassed the driving force for the future and enriched my soul.Besides, college education has also provided me with a precise compass----the sense of social responsibility.How can I best serve the interest of the public while achieving my self-fulfillment? My one year’s experience as a part-time English teacher has testified: to be valuable to society as well as to find my place, I have to possess some actual strength and the ability to function well in the most challenging situation.Amid the hectic schedule that balances club activities, sports, and academic courses, I feel the rhythm and beauty in the intensity of my high-pitched life, knowing that I ’m on the right way.And more importantly, college education has set up not only single ships, but also fleets with common destinations.By interacting with friends of common beliefs, I’ve acquired skills of relating to other people.Now ,as a ship about to make my maiden voyage ,I’m still not in the position to tell what’s waiting ahead of me ,but with a powerful propeller, a precise compass and ardent companions of sailing in the sea of society, I’m ready to be a great sea-explorer.Thank you.大學(xué)教育對(duì)我的意義

今天我演講的題目是―大學(xué)教育對(duì)我的意義‖?；仡櫵妓髦湃サ膬赡臧氲拇髮W(xué)生活，我漸漸認(rèn)識(shí)到大學(xué)教育對(duì)我產(chǎn)生的巨大影響。對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)，大學(xué)教育猶如一位技藝精湛的造船師，從船頭至船尾地塑造了我。

首先，具有遠(yuǎn)見(jiàn)卓識(shí)的大學(xué)教育為我裝配了一只馬力強(qiáng)勁的推進(jìn)器；精深的專業(yè)知識(shí)及廣博的課外知識(shí)給我?guī)?lái)無(wú)限動(dòng)力。白天我全神貫注地研習(xí)自己的工科課程，晚上則盡情享受世界文學(xué)所帶來(lái)的盛宴，在此過(guò)程中，我既為未來(lái)積聚了力量，又充實(shí)了自己的靈魂。

此外，大學(xué)教育還為我提供了一個(gè)精確的羅盤(pán)，即社會(huì)責(zé)任感。―如何才能在實(shí)現(xiàn)自我價(jià)值的同時(shí)最大限度地服務(wù)于社會(huì)？‖我一年的兼職英語(yǔ)教師的經(jīng)歷證明：只有擁有過(guò)硬的實(shí)力和對(duì)高挑戰(zhàn)性局面應(yīng)付自如的能力，我才能成為一個(gè)對(duì)社會(huì)有價(jià)值的人，一個(gè)找到自己位置的人。在協(xié)調(diào)著社團(tuán)活動(dòng)、體育運(yùn)動(dòng)和專業(yè)課程的忙碌日程中，我感受到了高節(jié)奏、高密度生活的韻律與美麗。

更為重要的是，大學(xué)教育不僅僅制造了一只只單個(gè)的船只，他還組建了一支支駛向同一目的地的大艦隊(duì)。在與志趣相投的朋友們的相處、融合中，我鍛煉了與人交往的能力。

現(xiàn)在我即將作為一只巨輪開(kāi)始我的首航，盡管前方的情況還無(wú)法預(yù)料，我卻有充足的信心作一名出色的海洋探索者，因?yàn)槲矣袕?qiáng)勁的推進(jìn)器、精確的羅盤(pán)，還有一幫與我同行、一起駛向社會(huì)之洋的熱心朋友！

三、李夢(mèng)園，19歲，湖北

The Importance of Keeping Optimistic

Honourable judges, ladies and gentlemen，Good afternoon!Today I would like to talk about the importance of keeping optimistic.When we encounter difficulties in life, we notice that some of us choose to bury their heads in the sand.Unfortunately, however, this attitude will do you no good, because if you will have no courage even to face them, how can you conquer them? Thus, be optimistic, ladies and gentlemen, as it can give you confidence and help you see yourself through the hard times, just as Winston Churchill once said, ―An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity;a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.‖ Ladies and Gentlemen, keeping optimistic, you will be able to realize, in spite of some hardship, there’s always hope waiting for you, which will lead you to the ultimate success.Historically as well as currently, there are too many optimists of this kind to enumerate.You see, Thomas Edison is optimistic;if not, the light of hope in his heart could not illuminate the whole world.Alfred Nobel is optimistic;if not, the explosives and the prestigious Nobel Prize would not have come into being.And Lance Armstrong is also optimistic;if not, the devil of cancer would have devoured his life and the world would not see a 5-time winner of the Tour De France.A rose may be beautiful, or maybe not;that depends on your attitude only, and so does success, so does life.Hindrances and difficulties do exist, but if you are optimistic, then they are only episodes on your long way to the throne of success;they are more bridges than obstacles!Now I prefer to end my speech with the great British poet Shelley’s lines: ―If winter comes, can spring be far behind?‖ Thank you!

保持樂(lè)觀的重要性

尊敬的評(píng)委、女士們、先生們：

下午好！今天我想談一談保持樂(lè)觀的重要性。

我們注意到，當(dāng)在生活中遇到困難時(shí)，我們中的有些人選擇逃避它們。但令人遺憾的是，這樣的態(tài)度對(duì)你沒(méi)有任何好處，因?yàn)槿绻氵B面對(duì)它們的勇氣都沒(méi)有的話，你怎么去征服它們呢？因此，樂(lè)觀起來(lái)吧，女士們、先生們，因?yàn)樗鼤?huì)帶給你信心，幫助你渡過(guò)難關(guān)。正如溫斯頓·丘吉爾所說(shuō)，―樂(lè)觀者在每次災(zāi)難中都看到機(jī)遇；悲觀者在每次機(jī)遇中都看到災(zāi)難‖。

女士們，先生們，困難是存在的，但如果你保持樂(lè)觀，你就會(huì)意識(shí)到永遠(yuǎn)有希望在等著你，它會(huì)把你領(lǐng)向最終的成功。不管是歷史上還是現(xiàn)實(shí)中，這樣的樂(lè)觀者總是不勝枚舉。你看，托馬斯·愛(ài)迪生是樂(lè)觀的，如果不是的話，他心中那希望的明燈就不能照亮整個(gè)世界；阿爾弗雷德·諾貝爾是樂(lè)觀的，如果不是的話，那炸藥和享有很高聲望的諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)就不會(huì)誕生；蘭斯·阿姆斯特朗也是樂(lè)觀的，如果不是的話，那癌癥的病魔早已吞噬了他的生命，這個(gè)世界就會(huì)少了一位五屆環(huán)法自行車賽冠軍得主.玫瑰花可能很美，也可能不美，這，僅僅取決于你的態(tài)度；而成功也如此，人生也如此。困難和阻礙的確存在，但是如果你很樂(lè)觀的話，那它們就僅僅是我們通向勝利之冠的漫長(zhǎng)道路上的小插曲；與其說(shuō)它們是障礙，不如說(shuō)它們是橋梁！此刻，我想以偉大的英國(guó)詩(shī)人雪萊的一句詩(shī)來(lái)作為我的結(jié)尾：―冬天來(lái)了，春天還會(huì)遠(yuǎn)嗎?‖謝謝！

四、黃艷，24，廣西

Never Give Up

―If I could reach higher, just for one moment to touch the sky…‖---this is from my favorite song Reach.When we are appreciating the passionate melody of Gloria Estefan, we could hardly imagine that she could return to the stage after her paralysis.In the year 1990, this Cuban singer was knocked down in atraffic accident, and the doctor declared that she might never walk again.But Gloria did not give up and kept up constant exercising.Just one year after the disaster, she stood up again and presented this encouraging song at the Atlanta Olympics.Whenever I think of Gloria, I can’t help recalling my memory seven years ago, when I first entered university.Naturally shy, ordinary looking, average scores in study, just like an ugly duckling, I seemed to be the least outstanding one in my class.And the successive failures in the beginning led me into despair.―Am I destined to take the back seat to others?‖ Unwilling to submit to the fate, I paid more efforts on my study as well as many other activities, film dubbing, recital, drama… cause I just want to catch every little opportunity to prove myself.Constant effort yields sure success.Thanks to the competition, I received some awards and most of all, I gained the courage and confidence to face any difficulties in my life journey.Life is just like farming, and what you can reap depends a lot on your sowing and dedication.Once you have a dream, don’’t be hesitant.Your next difficult step may be the one to the top.Keep going forward, even in the toughest time, and never give up.永不放棄

―如果我能到達(dá)更高的地方，哪怕只有碰觸天空的一剎那…‖---選自我所喜愛(ài)的歌曲《到達(dá)》。

當(dāng)我們?cè)谛蕾p葛羅莉亞·伊斯特芬那充滿激情的旋律，我們很難想象她能從癱瘓中回到舞臺(tái)。1990年這個(gè)古巴歌手遭遇車禍，醫(yī)生說(shuō)她可能再也沒(méi)辦法走路了。可是葛羅莉亞并沒(méi)有放棄希望，堅(jiān)持做恢復(fù)訓(xùn)練。在災(zāi)難后僅僅一年，她又站起來(lái)了，并且在亞特蘭大奧運(yùn)會(huì)上唱響了這首鼓舞人心的歌曲。

每當(dāng)我想起葛羅莉亞的時(shí)候，我禁不住回憶起七年前我剛進(jìn)入大學(xué)的時(shí)候。天性害羞，相貌平平，成績(jī)一般，就像一只丑小鴨，我是班上最不起眼的一個(gè)。而且在剛開(kāi)學(xué)時(shí)一連串的失敗讓我陷入絕望。―難道我注定要給別人當(dāng)配角嗎？‖

不愿意向這個(gè)命運(yùn)屈服，我更加努力的學(xué)習(xí)并且參加許多其他的活動(dòng)，電影配音、朗誦、戲劇…因?yàn)槲蚁胱プ∪魏我粋€(gè)微小的機(jī)會(huì)來(lái)證實(shí)我自己。不懈的努力終會(huì)帶來(lái)成功。我從競(jìng)賽中獲得了一些獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)，最重要的是，我從中得到了面對(duì)人生一切困難的勇氣和決心。

生活就像是耕耘，一份耕耘一份收獲。一旦你有了夢(mèng)想，不要猶豫。你艱難的下一步也許就是通往成功的階梯。即使在最困難的時(shí)候也要勇往直前，決不放棄。

五、姚雯靜，21，河南

No One Can Be Perfect

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.Today I want to tell you a story about one of my friends, a lovely and smart girl who is always ready to help others.Being our grade leader, she is good at both work and study.In many people’s opinion, she is excellent and perfect.But one day she told me she was gloomy and insecure.People around her considered her outstanding and flawless, thinking she could handle everything.But the more she thought about herself, the more disappointed she became.She found that she was far from perfection.Last week, she didn’t do well in her French quiz, and the day before yesterday, she was late for a conference.She felt depressed and frustrated, because she failed to be a perfect girl without any mistakes.I was surprised to hear that for I thought she had every reason to be confident.However, the expectation of perfection has become a burden to her.I told her no one could be perfect and I suggested she find her own position.In fact, people are so eager to be perfect that they demand too much of themselves.They want to be special and unique, and they want to have no defects or weaknesses.However, we can never avoid mistakes and errors.It’s impossible for us to be a superman or a superwoman.No matter how successful we are, there are always some flaws.If we hold that everything should be perfect, we would be overcritical.My friend now has changed her attitude.She accepts her shortcomings but still keeps a positive outlook.She is even more active and doesn’’t allow the mistakes to hinder her pursuit of excellence.And I think that’’s the way we should be！That’’s all.Thank you!

沒(méi)有人可以完美無(wú)缺

女士們、先生們，大家早上好！今天我想給大家講一個(gè)我朋友的故事。她是一個(gè)聰明可愛(ài)、樂(lè)于助人的女孩。作為我們的年級(jí)長(zhǎng)，她無(wú)論工作還是學(xué)習(xí)都很出色。在很多人眼里，她是如此優(yōu)秀，近乎完美了。但有一天她卻告訴我，她很迷惘和自卑：周圍的人都認(rèn)為她很優(yōu)秀，完美無(wú)缺，可以對(duì)付任何事情；而她想得越多對(duì)自己就越是失望。她發(fā)覺(jué)自己遠(yuǎn)不夠完美。上周她的法語(yǔ)測(cè)驗(yàn)考得不理想；前天，一個(gè)會(huì)議她又遲到了：很多事情做的不盡完美，這讓她很是灰心喪氣。

聽(tīng)到這些的時(shí)候我很驚訝，我原以為她有充分的理由對(duì)自己充滿信心。然而，對(duì)完美的期望卻變成了她的負(fù)擔(dān)。我告訴她，沒(méi)有人可以完美無(wú)缺的，她應(yīng)該找到自己真正的位置。

實(shí)際上，人們有時(shí)過(guò)于追求完美而且期望的太多了。我們想要特別，想要獨(dú)一無(wú)二；又想要沒(méi)有缺點(diǎn)沒(méi)有弱點(diǎn)?？墒?，人是無(wú)法避免錯(cuò)誤的,有誰(shuí)能成為超人呢？無(wú)論你多么成功，總是有一些事情不夠完美。如果我們堅(jiān)持要完美無(wú)缺，那只能是一種求全責(zé)備。

我的朋友現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)改變了她的態(tài)度。她承認(rèn)自己的不完美，但是保持著樂(lè)觀的心態(tài)。她沒(méi)有停止追求，反而變得更為積極。我想這正是我們應(yīng)該有的態(tài)度。

我的演講完了。謝謝！

六、周怡雪，19歲，上海

I believe in our future

Honorable Judges, fellow students:

Good afternoon!

Recently, ther is a heated debate in our society.The college students are the beneficiaries of a rare privilege, who receive exceptional education at extraordinary places.But will we be able to face the challenge and support ourselves against all odds? Will we be able to better the lives of others? Will we be able to accept the responsibility of building the future of our country?

The cynics say the college students are the pampered lost generation, which would cringe at the slightest discomfort.But the cynics are wrong.The college students I see are eagerly learning about how to live independently.We help each other clean the dormitory, go shopping and bargain together, and take part time jobs to supplement our pocket money.The cynics say we care for nothing other than grades;and we neglect the need for character cultivation.But again, the cynics are wrong.We care deeply for each other, we cherish freedom, we treasure justice, and we seek truth.Last week, thousands of my fellow students had their blood type tested in order to make a contribution for the children who suffer from blood cancer.As college students, we are adolescents at the critical turning point in our lives.We all face a fundamental choice: cynicism or faith, each will profoundly impact our future, or even the future of our country.I believe in all my fellow classmates.Though we are still inexperienced and even a little bit childish.I believe that we have the courage and faith to meet any challenge and take on our responsibilities.We are preparing to assume new responsibilities and tasks, and to use the education we have received to make our world a better place.I believe in our future.我對(duì)未來(lái)充滿信心

尊敬的評(píng)委，各位同學(xué)：

下午好！

最近，社會(huì)上有一場(chǎng)很激烈的爭(zhēng)論。大學(xué)生是一種稀有特權(quán)的享有者，在很棒的地方接受高等教育。但是，我們能面對(duì)挑戰(zhàn)而無(wú)所畏懼嗎？我們能夠改善他人的生活嗎？我們能夠承擔(dān)建設(shè)祖國(guó)未來(lái)的重任嗎？

懷疑論者說(shuō)大學(xué)生是被寵壞的一代，一丁點(diǎn)挫折都受不了。但是他們錯(cuò)了，我所看到的大學(xué)生正在努力的學(xué)習(xí)獨(dú)立生活。我們互相幫助打掃衛(wèi)生，一起上街砍價(jià)購(gòu)物，一起參加兼職工作來(lái)賺零花錢。

懷疑論者說(shuō)我們除了成績(jī)什么都不關(guān)心，從而忽略了性格的培養(yǎng)。但是，他們又錯(cuò)了。我們彼此關(guān)心，我們向往自由，我們珍惜公正，我們追求真理。上個(gè)星期，很多我的同學(xué)去驗(yàn)血，為了給患血癌的孩子貢獻(xiàn)自己的力量。

作為大學(xué)生，我們是處在人生分水嶺的青年。我們都面臨一個(gè)重要的選擇：懷疑人生還是相信自己，每一種都會(huì)給我們的人生帶來(lái)重大的影響，甚至影響我們祖國(guó)的未來(lái)。我相信我們的同學(xué)們，雖然我們依然缺乏經(jīng)驗(yàn)，甚至有些志氣，但是我相信我們有勇氣和自信來(lái)面對(duì)生活的挑戰(zhàn)并承擔(dān)我們的責(zé)任。我們正努力準(zhǔn)備接受新的任務(wù)，用我們所學(xué)習(xí)的知識(shí)將世界變得更美好。我對(duì)我們的未來(lái)充滿信心。

七、馬文娟，欠奉

八、葉瑋，22歲，江蘇

Change

Leo Tolstoy once said, everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.He is right.We always have great plans and dreams in our minds… too ready to achieve something grand that changes the world or benefits all of mankind.For example;we hate pollution and have made up our minds to find new energy sources that keep the environment clean.Yet we still litter on the ground.We complain about traffic jams, so we plan to build more highways to solve the problem, but it never occurs to us that our failure to follow traffic regulations is the leading cause of this situation.We are so concerned that the violence in the media has a bad impact on our children, we urge the government to set laws to protect them.But, do we, as adults, set a good example for our kids? We use nasty words and even spit on the ground in front of them, I dare to say, we harm more!

In my opinion, before we decide to change the world, we had better change ourselves first.As ordinary individuals, we do not have the power to change the world.But we can change our habit of littering, spitting, cussing, we can respect the environment around us, we must act as good models for our kids.If each of us does all of these little things, all of us, millions and millions of individuals together, together we will be strong …strong enough to change our world!

So please, the next time you do something, think how your actions influence not only you, but those around you too, especially our children …and perhaps more importantly…our planet!改變

列夫·托爾斯泰曾說(shuō)過(guò)：每個(gè)人都想改變這個(gè)世界，但是沒(méi)有人想到改變自己。

他說(shuō)的很有道理，我們每個(gè)人都心懷偉大時(shí)志向，時(shí)刻準(zhǔn)備去干一番能造福全人類的大事業(yè)。比如，我們痛恨環(huán)境污染，所以我們下定決心去開(kāi)發(fā)新的更高效更干凈的能源來(lái)保護(hù)我們的環(huán)境，但是同時(shí)我們卻隨手亂扔垃圾；我們抱怨大城市的交通堵塞，計(jì)劃造更多的高速路來(lái)解決交通問(wèn)題，但是我們從來(lái)沒(méi)有想過(guò)，如果我們能遵守交通規(guī)則話，那么這一問(wèn)題是不是可以得到很大得緩解呢？我們擔(dān)心電視電影里面得暴力會(huì)對(duì)我們得孩子產(chǎn)生不良的影響，于是我們敦促政府通過(guò)立法來(lái)保護(hù)未成年人，但是我們這些大人又做得怎么樣呢？我們?yōu)槲覀兊南乱淮龊昧吮砺蕟?？我們說(shuō)粗話，甚至在孩子面前抽煙。不客氣地說(shuō)，我們對(duì)孩子的不良影響更多！

在我看來(lái)，在我們打算改變這個(gè)世界之前，我們最好先改變一下自己。作為一個(gè)普通人，我們其實(shí)沒(méi)有改變這個(gè)世界的能力，但是我可以改變我們隨地扔垃圾，隨地吐痰的壞習(xí)慣，我們應(yīng)該學(xué)會(huì)去保護(hù)環(huán)境，我們應(yīng)該為我們的孩子起好的表率作用。

如果我們每個(gè)人都能從小事起，那么千千萬(wàn)萬(wàn)個(gè)人力量匯聚在一起，那力量是強(qiáng)大的，足以改變這個(gè)世界。

朋友，當(dāng)您在做某一件事情的時(shí)候，請(qǐng)您想一想，您的行為會(huì)對(duì)您周圍的人產(chǎn)生怎樣的影響，因?yàn)?，您的行為不單單影響到您自己，還有您周圍的人，更重要的是我們的孩子…甚至我們的世界。

九、殷建國(guó)，欠奉

十、卡斯木江。阿布都熱依木，24歲，新疆

My Views on Receiving Education

In my early years, I did not see the value of education.When I was going on thirteen, I started to run my own shop.From then on, I worked hard to become a successful businessman.One day I realized the importance of the English language in the business world and started taking night classes.I was able to communicate well with foreign customers after two years of English study.But I started to feel that, in the long run, having a limited knowledge of English was not enough to make my business successful.I knew that only a well-rounded education could guarantee my success in the future.When I was eighteen, I had to make a decision to continue doing business or go back to school.There was one obstacle keeping me from getting an advanced education.I had only completed elementary school up to that point.I then went back to senior high school after four months of tutoring in different subjects.Being at school for the first time after so many years was somewhat embarrassing because my classmates were at least two or three years younger than I.I concluded that my age did not matter.The important thing was getting into college.I took the College Entrance Exams.Although my math exam result was only one point below the required score.I never gave up hope.The following year, I took it again and received the highest score in my city.Achieving such an amazing result gave me encouragement and courage necessary to continue my education to the next step.I am now in my second year of college and know that it is never too late to learn.My passion for studying and improving myself will never come to a halt as long as I continue to live.―Live and Learn.‖ is the motto I have adopted.I believe with an education I will succeed.So, if you are wondering whether education is important, don’t hesitate a moment to step up and seize the opportunity.我對(duì)教育的看法

在我小的時(shí)候，我不覺(jué)得教育有什么價(jià)值。在13歲的時(shí)候，我開(kāi)始經(jīng)營(yíng)我自己的商店。從那時(shí)開(kāi)始，我為成為一個(gè)成功的商人而努力工作。

一天，我意識(shí)到了英語(yǔ)對(duì)做生意的重要性并且開(kāi)始上夜校。在經(jīng)過(guò)兩年的英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)之后，我已經(jīng)能夠很流利的和外國(guó)顧客交流。但我逐漸意識(shí)到，從長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)來(lái)看，我現(xiàn)在僅有的英語(yǔ)知識(shí)無(wú)法使我的生意蓬勃發(fā)展。我知道只有淵博的知識(shí)是我未來(lái)成功的保證。

18歲的時(shí)候，我必須在繼續(xù)從商和重新回學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)之間做出選擇。當(dāng)時(shí)我僅有的小學(xué)學(xué)歷成為我接受高等教育的一大障礙。經(jīng)過(guò)4個(gè)月各門功課的惡補(bǔ)，我又回到了高中。多年后再次回到學(xué)校，讓我有些尷尬。因?yàn)槲业耐嗤瑢W(xué)至少比我小2至3歲。然而在我看來(lái)，年齡不是問(wèn)題，重要的是能上大學(xué)。

我參加了高考。雖然我的數(shù)學(xué)只比分?jǐn)?shù)線低了一分。但我沒(méi)有放棄。第二年，我又參加了高考并取得了當(dāng)?shù)氐牡谝幻?。得到這樣一個(gè)令人欣喜的結(jié)果，給了我進(jìn)一步深造的動(dòng)力和膽量。

現(xiàn)在，我上大學(xué)二年級(jí)，也知道學(xué)無(wú)止境。只要我活者，我對(duì)學(xué)習(xí)和自我充實(shí)的熱情就不會(huì)減退。

―活到老，學(xué)到老‖是我的座右銘。我堅(jiān)信只有學(xué)習(xí)才會(huì)使我成功。因此，如果你對(duì)接受教育的重要性有所懷疑，不要猶豫，勇敢的邁出第一步，這樣幸運(yùn)之神便會(huì)光顧你。

十一、李雪婷，20歲，山東

Beggars Today

Beggars are one of the most familiar groups in every city.They accompany us from our childhood until now, and I’ve found both the beggars and I change in this journey.Years ago as a little girl, when I came across some old and disabled beggars on the road, I’d donate some pocket money to them, happily thinking I was helping.As I have grown older, I’ve found the number of beggars has grown larger and they are more diverse.They appear in every corner of the city, on the overbridge, on the street, near restaurants, and even at your door.In contrast with the old days, it seems like the situation with beggars today is more complicated, which has made me hesitate before deciding whether to help them or not.It’s hard for me to give them money considering some who appear beggars in day time but dress up and go to fancy restaurants at night;and some who are controlled by some illegal organization and the money they get all goes to the organization.If I help them, I’d be making the problem worse, I’d be doing harm to the society, indirectly.But it’s also hard not to give them money, considering there’re real beggars who really need help.If I don’t help them, who will? And where is my sympathy?

What hurts me the most is not how hard it is to distinguish the real help-seekers from the many false ones, but that some children are forced by adults, sometimes even their parents, to beg.They grow up despised by the world, out of mainstream society.When I see their eyes filled with desperation and impudence instead of purity and innocence, my heart sinks.We don’t know how they will face the world when they grow up, how this will shape their characters, and what they may do to the society, to perpetuate this cycle of violence.Months ago the Fu Jian government has promulgated a new policy to deal with 8 kinds of beggars.An internet survey shows that over 80% of voters reacted positively toward the policy.We know that one single policy cannot solve a problem as complex as this one, but we do look forward to some improvement.I wish all humanity can live like human.今日乞丐

在城市中，乞丐是我們最熟悉的群體之一。他們伴隨著我們的成長(zhǎng)，從童年直到現(xiàn)在。在這個(gè)過(guò)程中，我發(fā)現(xiàn)，乞丐和我都在變。

小時(shí)候，每當(dāng)看到路旁的乞丐，通常是老人或殘疾人，我會(huì)給他們一些零錢，并且高興地認(rèn)為我?guī)土怂麄儭?/p>

長(zhǎng)大后，我發(fā)現(xiàn)身邊乞丐的數(shù)量有所增加，而且他們種類繁多。他們無(wú)所不在，天橋上，大街上，飯館旁，家門口，城市中處處是他們的身影。比起過(guò)去，今天的乞丐似乎更加復(fù)雜，使得我在決定幫不幫他們的時(shí)候猶豫不決。

想到那些白天裝作乞丐行乞，而夜晚?yè)Q裝后跑到賓館作樂(lè)的人；想到那些被不法集團(tuán)控制，然后把乞討來(lái)的錢上交給集團(tuán)的人，我真的很難做到給他們錢?？墒?，想到那些真正需要幫助的乞丐，又很難做到不幫他們。如果不幫他們，我的同情心死到哪去了？

最讓我難受的，并不是因?yàn)閺谋姸嗟募倨蜇ぶ姓页稣嫫蜇な嵌嗝吹睦щy，而是那些被成人，甚至被父母教唆，去乞討的孩子們。他們?cè)谄缫曋虚L(zhǎng)大，和主流社會(huì)脫離。當(dāng)我看到他們眼睛里本應(yīng)有的純真和童稚被絕望和無(wú)恥取代時(shí)，心里便很難受。我們不知道他們長(zhǎng)大后會(huì)怎樣面對(duì)這個(gè)世界，他們的性格會(huì)被童年的經(jīng)歷塑造成什么樣子，以及他們有可能對(duì)社會(huì)做出怎樣的事情---讓惡性循環(huán)繼續(xù)？

幾個(gè)月前，福建省頒布了一項(xiàng)針對(duì)八類乞丐的新政策。網(wǎng)上調(diào)查顯示，超過(guò)80%的人對(duì)此政策持樂(lè)觀態(tài)度。雖然如此復(fù)雜的問(wèn)題不能通過(guò)單單一項(xiàng)政策得以解決，我們還是期待著一些改善。愿所有的人都能像人一樣活著。

十二、劉懿，21歲，重慶

Make Every Moment count

One night, I complained to my mom about the lack of time.Finally she said,＂you are short of time just because you waste precious minutes on complaints and anxiety.The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard, you can always fit in some thing more.＂

It is the same with filling the jar.Even if you place a dozen fist-sized rocks and a bucket of gravel into the jar, there is still space for sand and water between the rocks and gravel.The lack of time is just the excuse for my negligence of every single minute.I believe that the great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in six words,＂I did not have enough time.＂The fact is I do have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.The point is I have never touched upon the real meaning of life which lies in snatching, seizing and enjoying every minute of it.No idleness, no delay, no procrastination, no complaint!It is during my moments of complaining or hesitation that my destiny is shaped.Once I make full use of every moment, I believe that, my worries will be gradually cut down to nothing.Time is the most valuable of all our possessions, but the most perishable as well.As Henry David Thoreau said,＂You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.＂

Whenever I fell the lack of time in the future, I will tell myself ＂Carpe diem , seize the day, make every moment count.＂

抓住每分每秒

有天晚上，我向媽媽抱怨自己事情太多，時(shí)間不夠。她說(shuō)道：―你抱怨沒(méi)有時(shí)間就是因?yàn)槟惆颜滟F的分分秒秒都浪費(fèi)在抱怨和焦慮上。關(guān)鍵是，無(wú)論你的時(shí)間表排得多滿，如果你真的努力嘗試了，你還是總能間插地做些事情?！?/p>

這同填充廣口瓶是一個(gè)道理，即使你將一小堆拳頭大小的石塊和一桶碎石倒進(jìn)瓶里，也還能繼續(xù)倒入沙子和水，使其漏進(jìn)石塊的間隙中去。

―沒(méi)時(shí)間‖無(wú)異于我為自己浪費(fèi)分分秒秒找的托詞罷了。我相信成功與失敗的一線之差可以用六個(gè)字來(lái)形容：―我沒(méi)足夠時(shí)間?！?/p>

然而事實(shí)上，我卻與海倫．凱勒，帕斯特，杰弗遜和愛(ài)因斯坦每天所擁有的時(shí)間分秒不差。關(guān)鍵是我并未觸及生命的真諦：抓住，享受生命的每一分鐘。不要碌碌無(wú)為，不要耽擱推遲，不要牢騷抱怨！往往是在我抱怨和遲疑的時(shí)候，我的命運(yùn)就被決定了。而一旦我能善用分分秒秒，我相信我的煩惱也會(huì)被逐漸瓦解。

在我們所擁有的財(cái)富中，時(shí)間是最珍貴而又最不持久的。正如梭羅所說(shuō)的那樣：―你得抓住現(xiàn)在，把握機(jī)會(huì)，在短暫的瞬間中尋找永恒。‖如果將來(lái)我再發(fā)覺(jué)沒(méi)時(shí)間的時(shí)候，我會(huì)告誡自己，―carpe diem(拉丁語(yǔ))，抓住今天，抓住每分每秒。‖

十三、張晶晶，21歲，山西

Hold Fast To Your Dreams

I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every vally 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.Wow, what a dream it has been for Martin Luther King.But the changing world seems telling me that people gradually get their dreams lost somehow in the process of growing up, and sometimes I personally find myself saying goodbye unconsciously to those distant childhood dreams.However, we need dreams.They nourish our spirit;they represent possibility even when we are dragged down by reality.They keep us going.Most successful people are dreamers as well as ordinary people who are not afraid to think big and dare to be great.When we were little kids, we all dreamed of doing something big and splashy, something significant.Now what we need to do is to maintain them, refresh them and turn them into reality.However, the toughest part is that we often have no ideas how to translate these dreams into actions.Well, just start with concrete objectives and stick to it.Don’t let the nameless fear confuse the eye and confound our strong belief of future.Through our talents, through our wits, through our endurance and through our creativity, we will make it.Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.So my dear friends, think of your old and maybe dead dreams.Whatever it is, pick it up and make it alive from today.抓牢你的夢(mèng)想

我今天有一個(gè)夢(mèng)想。

我夢(mèng)想有一天，幽谷上升，高山下降，崎嶇之地變平原，曲折之路成坦途。圣光展露，滿照人間。

這對(duì)馬丁路德金是怎樣的一個(gè)夢(mèng)想啊。不過(guò)這個(gè)變化著的世界似乎在告訴我，在成長(zhǎng)的過(guò)程中，人們卻不知不覺(jué)把他們的夢(mèng)想弄丟了，而我自己也有時(shí)會(huì)覺(jué)得在告別很多童年的夢(mèng)。

然而，我們是需要夢(mèng)想的。夢(mèng)想滋養(yǎng)我們的靈魂，夢(mèng)想代表著我們被現(xiàn)實(shí)拉垮時(shí)依然具有的希望。它鼓勵(lì)我們不斷前進(jìn)。大多數(shù)成功人士都是夢(mèng)想家，同時(shí)也是普通人，只是他們敢于夢(mèng)想敢于成就偉大。當(dāng)我們還是孩子的時(shí)候，我們都?jí)粝脒^(guò)做一番大事業(yè)，現(xiàn)在應(yīng)當(dāng)做的就是保存好那些夢(mèng)想，再度恢復(fù)它們，并將它們實(shí)現(xiàn)。不過(guò)最難的是我們通常不知道怎樣付諸實(shí)施。那么，就從最具體的目標(biāo)開(kāi)始，堅(jiān)持去做吧。不要讓那些莫名的恐懼迷惑了我們的雙眼，影響了我們對(duì)未來(lái)的信念。用我們的天資和智慧，用我們的耐力和創(chuàng)造力，我們一定會(huì)實(shí)現(xiàn)夢(mèng)想。

抓牢你的夢(mèng)想，因?yàn)槿绻麎?mèng)想死亡，生活就成了一只折斷翅膀的鳥(niǎo)再也不能飛翔。抓牢你的夢(mèng)想，因?yàn)槿绻?mèng)想，生命就成了一塊覆蓋著冰雪的貧瘠的凍土。親愛(ài)的朋友們，想想那些過(guò)去的或已經(jīng)死去的夢(mèng)想吧。不管是什么，重新將它撿起，并從今天開(kāi)始讓它重生。

十四、郭峰，22歲，寧夏

I Am Tripping My Elephant Here

Once upon a time, a weenie ant was walking on his way.As he was walking, suddenly he felt the ground shaking terribly.He looked around with his paranoid eyes and saw an elephant walking right behind him.Quickly, the little ant covered himself with dirt, but one leg was unfortunately left out.A sparrow saw everything, so she flew down with the purpose of teasing the ant: ―Hey, chicken!Watch out your leg, it’s out!‖ The ant felt embarrassed at first but then calmly responded: ― Shi…I am going to trip that elephant.‖

Right now, I’m standing on this glamorous stage.But everything here reminds me of is a not so fun memory.Around this time last year I was in Nanjing competing in another speech contest.That was the first time for me to be in such a large event.Of course the pressure I was under was immense too.After a sleepless and stressful night, I went onto that stage without the feeling in my legs.That speech turned out to be horrible.I don’t remember how I get down from there, but I do remember afterwards I just wanted to find a hole to hide in just like the ant in the story.Back at my school, it took a long time for me to recover.Thanks to all the help I got from my special friends.My confidence was restored.After rounds of giving speeches and answering tough questions, I am here today.From all that I’’ve been through I’ve learned that a good future is based on a forgotten past, if I want my life to go on well

I have to let go of my past failure.So today, with out fear, I am tripping my elephant again.我又一次在絆大象

從前，一只小螞蟻在路上走著，走著走著，忽然感覺(jué)到地在顫動(dòng)，回頭一看是一只大象正朝他走來(lái)。于是他很快用土蓋住身體，不幸一只腳忘在了外面。一只麻雀看到了一切，她飛下來(lái)想要取笑一下這只螞蟻，說(shuō)：―咳，膽小鬼，小心你的腳，露出來(lái)了！‖

螞蟻開(kāi)始有些尷尬，但一會(huì)不緊不慢地告訴麻雀說(shuō)：―小聲點(diǎn)，我要在絆那只大象。‖

今天，我站在這個(gè)講臺(tái)上。但周圍的一切讓我想到的卻并不是一段有趣的回憶。大概是去年的這個(gè)時(shí)間，我在南京參加另一個(gè)全國(guó)英語(yǔ)演講比賽。那是我第一次參加大賽，當(dāng)然壓力非常大。經(jīng)過(guò)壓抑無(wú)眠的一整夜，我走上了演講臺(tái)。那時(shí)我有史以來(lái)最差的一次演講。我不記得自己怎么從講臺(tái)上走下來(lái)的，只記得當(dāng)時(shí)很想找一個(gè)地方躲進(jìn)去再也不出來(lái)就想我故事中的螞蟻。回到學(xué)校，我花了好一段時(shí)間才恢復(fù)過(guò)來(lái)。幸好有朋友和老師的鼓勵(lì)，我又一次有了勇氣和信心。經(jīng)過(guò)一輪又一輪的演講和回答問(wèn)題，我今天站在了這里。讓也我領(lǐng)悟了一個(gè)道理：一個(gè)好的將來(lái)是建立在忘掉過(guò)去的基礎(chǔ)上的，直到真正忘記過(guò)去的失敗生活才會(huì)變的美好。今天，我沒(méi)有懼怕，又一次站到了大象的面前。

十五、黃揚(yáng)，21，福建

Farewell, Indifference

Who was the most well-known figure in China last month? It’s Ma Jiajue—the college student who murdered 4 of his roommates.Many people attributed his crime to his poverty and deficient education.In my opinion, his crime also has much to do with his classmates’indifference.Indifference is a terrible disease in today’s colleges and the whole society.It’s not rare that two students who have studied together for 4 years have never spoken to each other.It’s not rare that a student who has been absent from class for several days is not noticed at all.It’s also not rare that a student who has severe psychological problems is not cared about at all.Some people may say ,‖What the students with psychological problems like Ma JiaJue need is not care but psychotherapy.‖ However, when people are ill, what they need most is not only medical treatment, but also care from people around them.Every smile and every caring word will bring sunshine to their life.I once heard one of my roommates who was an introverted girl sobbing at mid-night.Being afraid of disturbing her, I sent a text message to comfort her.The next day, she told me that she was crying for not being invited to one of her friend’s birthday party.She thought she was neglected by others.But my message was really comforting which told her someone still cared about her.What can we do to prevent the tragedy of Ma JiaJue from happening again? Some people may say ’’Let’s open more psychological courses in schools.’’ and other people may say ’’Let’s donate more money for the poor students.’’ But I’ll say ―My fellow student, let’’s give more love and care to our roommates, our classmates and every person around us!‖

走出冷漠

誰(shuí)是中國(guó)上個(gè)月最有名的人物?

這當(dāng)然要數(shù)馬加爵了——這個(gè)殺害了四名同學(xué)的大學(xué)生。很多人將他的犯罪歸結(jié)于他的貧窮和不全面的教育。但我覺(jué)得他的犯罪還跟他周圍同學(xué)的冷漠有很大關(guān)系。

冷漠是流行于當(dāng)今校園及整個(gè)社會(huì)中的一種可怕的疾病。有的同學(xué)在一起學(xué)習(xí)了4年卻從未說(shuō)過(guò)話，有的同學(xué)幾天沒(méi)去上課卻無(wú)人知曉，還有的同學(xué)有了嚴(yán)重的心理問(wèn)題卻得不到關(guān)心。

有人說(shuō)：像馬加爵那樣有心理問(wèn)題的人需要的不是關(guān)心而是心理治療。但在一個(gè)人生病的時(shí)候，除了醫(yī)生的治療，他需要的還有周圍人的關(guān)心。一個(gè)微笑，一聲問(wèn)候都能為他們的生活帶來(lái)陽(yáng)光。

有一天半夜，我碰巧聽(tīng)見(jiàn)寢室里一個(gè)平時(shí)很內(nèi)向的女孩在輕聲抽泣。為了不驚動(dòng)她，我給她發(fā)了一條短信來(lái)安慰她。第二天，他告訴我那晚她哭了是因?yàn)樗囊晃缓门笥验_(kāi)生日聚會(huì)沒(méi)有請(qǐng)她參加，她覺(jué)得自己被大家所忽視了。但我對(duì)短信卻給了她很大安慰，讓她覺(jué)得還是有人惦記著她的。

如何才能阻止馬加爵的悲劇重演呢？有人呼吁應(yīng)該在學(xué)校開(kāi)設(shè)更多的心理輔導(dǎo)課程，有人建議應(yīng)該給貧困學(xué)生更多的捐助，而我要說(shuō)的是：同學(xué)們，讓我們把更多的關(guān)愛(ài)帶給我們的舍友，同學(xué)和身邊的每一個(gè)人！

十六、楊穎，21歲，海南

The East and the West, Let’s enjoy the combination of the two cultures?

Kipling said:―East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet!‖ But now, a century later, they have met.They have met in business.They have met in education.They have met in the arts.Some people will argue that these meetings will leave us with a choice between east and west, but I believe that the best future lies in the creative combination of both worlds.We can make western ideas, customs and technology our own, and adapt them to our own use.We can enjoy the best of both worlds, because our tradition is, above all, one of selecting the best and making it our own.I love Beijing and Hennan opera because it always reminds me of who I am.But I am also a fan of pop music, especially English songs.So I have combined eastern melody with western language.It is called western henna opera.When two cultures meet, there may be things in one culture, which do not fit into the tradition of the other.When this happens, we need to learn to understand and respect the customs of another culture.Then there are certain things some people may not like.To this, I will say, if you do not like it, please try to tolerate it.To learn to tolerate what you personally don’t like is a great virtue at a time when different cultures mix and merge.Before us, there are two rivers, eastern and western cultures.At present, they may run in different courses.But eventually, they will converge into the vast sea of human culture.Right now, I can see peoples of eastern and western cultures, standing side by side, singing the Olympic theme song: we are hand in hand, heart to heart, together we will shape a beautiful tomorrow!Thank you!

讓我們共同感受東西方的融合

吉卜林說(shuō)過(guò):東方是東方，西方是西方，二者永不相聚。但是一個(gè)世紀(jì)后的今天，東西方相匯了!

它們相聚在經(jīng)濟(jì)領(lǐng)域，它們相聚在教育領(lǐng)域，它們相聚在藝術(shù)的殿堂。有人爭(zhēng)論說(shuō):這種融合需要我們?cè)跂|方和西方之間做出選擇，但我卻堅(jiān)信最美好的未來(lái)在于東方和西方創(chuàng)造性的融合。我們可以將西方的思想，觀念和技術(shù)變?yōu)槲覀冏约核玫臇|西。

我喜愛(ài)京劇和河南豫劇，因?yàn)樗鼈兘?jīng)常使我想起自己是誰(shuí)。但我也熱衷于流行音樂(lè)，特別是英文歌曲。于是我將東方的旋律和西方的語(yǔ)言結(jié)合到了一起，它叫做西方版的河南豫劇。

當(dāng)兩種文化相結(jié)合的時(shí)候，也許一方的文化中的某些東西不適應(yīng)另一方的傳統(tǒng)文化。當(dāng)此種情況出現(xiàn)時(shí)，我們需要試著理解并接受另一種文化中的風(fēng)俗習(xí)慣。然而，也許有些東西你并不喜歡，對(duì)于此，我可以說(shuō)，如果你不喜歡它，請(qǐng)?jiān)囍ト萑趟?。?dāng)兩種文化融合的時(shí)候，試著去容忍你個(gè)人不喜歡的東西是一種美德。

在我們面前有兩條河流，東方文化和西方文化?，F(xiàn)在，它們也許正朝著不同的方向流去。但是最終它們將匯合到人類文化的海洋里。

就在此時(shí)此刻，我看見(jiàn)東方和西方的人肩并肩的站在一起，高唱奧林匹克主題曲:我們手拉手，心靠著心，共同創(chuàng)造美好的明天!

十七、王晨，20歲，安徽

Change The Ingredients Of Your Life

This is a glass of water, tasteless, right? However if you add sugar, it will taste sweet, but if you add vinegar, it will become bitter.The same is true with our life____ the flavor is created by our choices.If kindness is added to a strange you will have a friend;but if hostility is added, you will have an enemy.If love is added to a pile of red bricks you will have a home, but if hatred is add to those bricks , you will have an concentration camp.So my dear friends, never complain that life is boring and the world is disappointing.If don’t like the taste of your life, change the ingredients.Three year ago, I weighed more than 100 hundred kilograms which caused significant embarrassment and frustration in my life.like always failing my P.E examinations, like always being laughed at by girls, like being terrified to speak in public.It was my grandmother’’s encouragement that revived from my passive attitude to become confident in myself.She said ― My dear, if you can’t change you figure, why not treat it as your own style.So I began tocautiously employ the new way of thinking.By choosing to change my outlook on life, I developed the confidence to make a difference and finally I found a totally new world.So my dear friend, if faith, hope, love, endurance are added to your life, you will find the confidence to conquer your limitation and embrace new challenges.And hopefully with my speech included, you will have a fantastic speech contest.改變生活的味道

這是一杯白開(kāi)水，平淡無(wú)味，對(duì)吧？可是加上點(diǎn)糖呢，他嘗起來(lái)會(huì)有甜味；如果加的是蘇打水，味道就會(huì)變苦。人生同樣如此——個(gè)中滋味在于我們的選擇。善待他人，你會(huì)擁有朋友；但如果充滿惡意，則會(huì)多個(gè)敵人。將愛(ài)賦予一堆紅磚，你會(huì)擁有一個(gè)家；用仇恨來(lái)澆鑄這堆紅磚，就會(huì)鑄成一座集, 中營(yíng)。

因此親愛(ài)的朋友們，不要抱怨人生乏味，世間無(wú)望。不喜歡生活的味道，那就換一換生活的調(diào)料吧！

三年前，我重達(dá)100多公斤，這給我?guī)?lái)了很多尷尬和挫折：體育課老是不及格，總被女孩們嘲笑，更不敢當(dāng)眾發(fā)表意見(jiàn)。幸而由于祖母的鼓勵(lì)，我不在消極人生，而是充滿自信。她曾經(jīng)說(shuō)過(guò)：―孩子，如果體形無(wú)法改變，為什么不把它看做自己獨(dú)特的風(fēng)格呢？‖ 我開(kāi)始這樣來(lái)審視人生，通過(guò)改變生活的視角，我信心大增地去改變我的人生，很快就發(fā)現(xiàn)一個(gè)嶄新的世界。

朋友們，將信念，希望，愛(ài)意和忍性溶入生命，你就會(huì)找到自信，克服缺點(diǎn)，迎接人生新的挑戰(zhàn)。最后我的演講包括在內(nèi)，希望你會(huì)看到一場(chǎng)精彩的演講比賽。

十八、馮錦月，21歲，江西

LIFE IS A CHOICE

In our daily lives, we have many choices to make, such as what to, eat for supper, what clothes to wear, or what to do on weekends.At certain times in our lives, we need to make even more critical choices, such as which school to attend, what job to take or who to choose as husband or wife.Yes, life is a matter of choice.Seemimgly, it means a choice of tangible things.But in essence, it means choosing a way of life.Life is to be lived, savored, and enjoyed, not to be wasted or complained about.Hardly can we forget the time when our society faced the grave threat from the life-and-death disease--SARS.Yet, even during those dreadful times, some afflicted people remained optimistic.Instead of wearing neutral white masks, some people turned to colourful ones, and thus display a happy mood.And some creative people dubbed SARS to mean “SMILE AND REMAIN SMILING.” I was deeply touched by their optimisim, nearly forgetting that we’re still in a battle.people who survive these kinds of circumstances,(at some point)decide in their minds to carry on in spite of the overwhelming odds.laid-off workers, typically regarded as the victims of economic advancement, are subject to desperation that being unmeployed has brought on them.But, encouragingly, we have witnessed some of them striving hard to rebuild confidence toward life and discover new opportunities for demonstrating their values.Although we cannot choose our appearance, inborn gifts and even avoid unexpected disasters and adversities, we do have the privilege to choose to live optimistcally,to love our lives, to have dreams, and to cherish hopes.Every morning when we get up, we have a choice of how we want to approach life that day.As for me, I choose to be cheerful.生活是一種選擇

日常生活中,我們會(huì)面臨各種各樣的選擇,像是晚餐吃什么,穿什么或是如何度周末.而在人生中的特定階段,我們需要做出更多關(guān)鍵性的抉擇,例如教育,職業(yè)或者人生伴侶.生活就意味著一種選擇.這種選擇看似是對(duì)具體事物的判斷,但歸根究底,是一種生活方式的選擇.任何無(wú)味的抱怨和虛度光陰只會(huì)帶來(lái)乏味,生活的美需要細(xì)心品嘗,用心體會(huì).如今回想起那段籠罩在SARS陰影下的日子依然心有余悸.但即便在那樣令人沮喪的日子里,備受折磨的人們也始終保持著樂(lè)觀.為傳遞一種歡快的情緒,大家換上了色彩繽紛的口罩.而那些富有創(chuàng)造力的人則把SARS解釋為“笑口常開(kāi)”.他們對(duì)待生活的樂(lè)觀態(tài)度深深打動(dòng)了我,幾乎讓我忘記我們還身處在沒(méi)有硝煙的戰(zhàn)場(chǎng).其實(shí),正是堅(jiān)持不懈,堅(jiān)忍不拔的精神引領(lǐng)人們走出了逆境.被看做經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展?fàn)奚返膹V大下崗職工在面對(duì)生存壓力時(shí),特別容易陷入絕望當(dāng)中.但別人欣慰的是,我們看到越來(lái)越多的這個(gè)群體中的成員重建了對(duì)生活的信心,并重新立足于社會(huì)以實(shí)現(xiàn)自己的價(jià)值.盡管容貌和天資都是上蒼給予,而人生旅途中的坎坷與荊棘我們也無(wú)法預(yù)計(jì),那就讓我們熱愛(ài)生命,擁有夢(mèng)想,珍惜希望吧.每日清晨夢(mèng)醒,我們都被賦予了選擇生活的權(quán)利.而我會(huì)讓一切從愉快開(kāi)始.十九、欒瑛，21歲，天津

The Future Is Now-------The Choice is yours

As two men were about to be sent into prison, the warden let each of them make a demand.The American loved smoking, so he wanted three boxes of cigars;while the Jew said all he needed was a telephone to contact with people outside of the prison.Two years later, the first out was the American who still had many cigars in his hands and pockets but was crying: ―Give me some matches!‖ Then the Jew walked out, he shook hands with the warden and said: ―Thank you for the phone, it made my business increase by 200%.‖

What do you think of this story? Life today is what you’ve decided years ago, and so is the future: your decisions today will affect your destiny years later.Now I have two things to choose from: to go abroad, to find myself a decent job after graduation or to further my study as a postgraduate.I haven’t worked out an answer to this question yet, but I know that whatever I do will directly affect my future.An Indian once said life is just like a game of cards, the cards in your hand represent opportunities, while the way you play decides the result you’ll get.Looking back in history, during World WarⅡ, Churchill who led the British people resolved to expect ―blood, toil, tears and sweat‖.They won the victory then.Today Shenzhou 5 took the first Chinese astronaut into space.I am sure that later there’ll be more spacecrafts, like Shenzhou 6,7 and 8 ……

So what does the future look like? No one can tell.But I know the choice is yours, the future is now.Make good use of everyday, a man can achieve greater successes, a country can gain prosperity and the whole world can be united, as it has never been before.未來(lái)在于現(xiàn)在，選擇則在你的手中

就在兩個(gè)人即將入獄之時(shí)，看守讓他們每個(gè)人提一個(gè)要求。美國(guó)人喜歡抽煙，于是要了三大箱的雪茄；而猶太人則說(shuō)，他只要一個(gè)可以與外界聯(lián)系的電話就可以了。兩年后，刑期已滿，第一個(gè)出來(lái)的是美國(guó)人，只見(jiàn)他手上拿著的，口袋里插著的都是煙，卻大叫到：―給我火柴！‖接著猶太人走了出來(lái)，他握緊看守的手說(shuō)：―謝謝您給的電話，我的生意在這兩年間沒(méi)有賠卻增長(zhǎng)了一倍。‖這個(gè)故事告訴了我們什么呢？多年前作的決定影響著你今天的生活，你今天的決定又會(huì)影響著多年之后的未來(lái)?，F(xiàn)在我自己就面臨著這樣一個(gè)抉擇：是出國(guó)，畢業(yè)后找一份安定的職業(yè)還是去考研繼續(xù)深造。我還未找到自己的答案，但我明白無(wú)論我選擇了什么，都會(huì)直接的影響我的將來(lái)。

印度人曾說(shuō)過(guò)，生命就像是一場(chǎng)紙牌游戲，你手里的牌代表著機(jī)遇，而你如何去出牌才真正的決定著你的輸贏。回望歷史，二戰(zhàn)期間，邱吉爾帶領(lǐng)英國(guó)人民決心迎接―血，汗與淚‖并最終贏得了勝利。今天，神州五號(hào)載著第一位中國(guó)宇航員進(jìn)入了太空。我可以預(yù)見(jiàn)到，未來(lái)會(huì)有更多的神州六號(hào)、七號(hào)這樣的中國(guó)宇宙飛船駛?cè)胩?。那么未?lái)的路又是怎樣的那？沒(méi)有人知道。但我可以告訴你，抉擇在你的手中，未來(lái)始于現(xiàn)在。從現(xiàn)在起，充分利用好每一天，一個(gè)人可以取得成就，一個(gè)國(guó)家能夠繁榮起來(lái)，而全世界則會(huì)前所未有的團(tuán)結(jié)在一起。

二十、張巖，19歲，北京

Knowledge collaboration and all-round education

Ladies and gentlemen，We engineering students take it for granted that technology is changing incredibly fast.We are thinking nervously and seriously whether our colleges are failing to provide a foundation in the skills currently needed in industry.Take my major telecommunications for example.Scientists say that 21st century is a biomedical time, not an electrical time.But without the help of electronic data processing and transformation, biomedical technology alone cannot go too far.Funny enough, the word biomedical itself is just a combination of two disciplines.So the interdisciplinary exploitation serves as the critical part for our electric and electronics world as well as any other fields to find new way of being.But the power of knowledge collaboration is certainly not restricted to science and engineering;it is in the full community of learning.Walking around campus I absorbed a reality that there is a seamless web between students from different professional backgrounds.The engineering students are discussing animatedly in a philosophy lecture, speaking passionately in the public speaking club, and looking for sparkling ideas from learning history and arts.How wonderful that is!That, ladies and gentleman, is just a significant step forward to be well-rounded because once we jump out of the circle we can see the bigger picture.My friends, I hope that you have already got what university is all about.Please let me end my speech with the Nobel Prize winner Li Zhengdao’s words: ―The realization of the perfect combination of science and engineering, science and arts, technology and humanity，is the greatest symbol of a university’s success.‖ Thank you.知識(shí)的融合和人才的全面發(fā)展

我們理工科的學(xué)生都知道科技在以一種難以置信的速度變化發(fā)展著。我們都在緊張和嚴(yán)肅地思考著是否我們的大學(xué)能夠?yàn)槲覀兲峁┮粋€(gè)適應(yīng)當(dāng)前工業(yè)需要的知識(shí)基礎(chǔ)。以我的專業(yè)通信工程為例，科學(xué)家們說(shuō)21世紀(jì)是生物醫(yī)學(xué)的世紀(jì)，而不是電氣電子的世紀(jì)。但是如果沒(méi)有電子化的數(shù)據(jù)處理和轉(zhuǎn)換，生物醫(yī)學(xué)時(shí)代就不能發(fā)展。有趣的是：―生物醫(yī)學(xué)‖這個(gè)詞本身就是兩個(gè)學(xué)科的結(jié)合，所以跨學(xué)科的開(kāi)發(fā)手段就成了電氣電子領(lǐng)域以及其他任何領(lǐng)域?qū)ふ倚鲁雎返年P(guān)鍵。

但是知識(shí)的結(jié)合不僅僅局限在科學(xué)和工程中，而是在任何的學(xué)習(xí)中。徜徉在校園里，我看到了這樣一個(gè)事實(shí)：理工科學(xué)生們?cè)谡軐W(xué)講座上討論得熱火朝天，在演講俱樂(lè)部里激情地演說(shuō)，在歷史和藝術(shù)里尋找著閃光的思想。太棒了！朋友們，這就是我們能夠全面發(fā)展的重要一步，因?yàn)楫?dāng)我們跳出自己的圈子時(shí)，我們能看到更大的圖畫(huà)。

朋友們，我希望你們已經(jīng)意識(shí)到了大學(xué)教育究竟意味著什么。讓我以諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)獲得者李政道先生的話結(jié)束我的演講：―科學(xué)與工程，科學(xué)與藝術(shù)，科技與人道的完美結(jié)合，乃是大學(xué)教育的最大成功。‖

謝謝。

二十一、魏旻，21歲，北京

Me and my Fears

Honorable judges, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen:

It is a great honor and pleasure to be here on this beautiful Saturday morning to share with you my sentiments about life and passion for the English language.About a year and a half ago, I took part in my very first English Speech Contest.When I stood before the microphone with all eyes starring directly at me, I could hardly speak.I stood there, embarrassed and helpless, struggling in vain for the right thing to say.My fears had paralyzed me.While my passion for English has never changed, I lost my courage to speak in public.When my professor again encouraged me to take part in this Competition, I said ―no.‖ I couldn’’t endure yet another painful experience.He looked me straight in the eye and said something that pierced my heart.I will never forget his words.―Look,‖ he said, ―We all have our fears, and you have yours.You could twist your ankle in a basketball game, but then be afraid to ever play again.Running away can never dispel your fears, but action will.A winner is not one who never fails，but one who never quits.‖

I spent a whole day with his words twisting and turning in my mind.Then I made the bravest and wisest decision of my life: I would face my fears – and take part in the competition!

As it turned out, my dear old professor was right.Now, here I am, once again standing before a microphone.My heart is beating fast, and my mouth is dry, but most importantly, I have faced my fears--and that makes all the difference!

Thank you.戰(zhàn)勝恐懼

尊敬的評(píng)委，各位來(lái)賓，女士們先生們，我很榮幸在這個(gè)美妙的星期六早上來(lái)到這里，與你們分享我生命中一段特別的經(jīng)歷。

大概一年半以前，我參加了生平第一次演講比賽。站在麥克風(fēng)前，面對(duì)觀眾們期待的眼神，我竟緊張的說(shuō)不出話來(lái)。那一刻，我是多么無(wú)助??！我對(duì)于英語(yǔ)的摯愛(ài)從未改變，但卻從此失去了面對(duì)公眾演講的勇氣。當(dāng)老教授鼓勵(lì)我參加希望英語(yǔ)風(fēng)采大賽時(shí)，我拒絕了。他直視我的眼睛，說(shuō)了一番令我終身難忘的話。―你瞧，‖他說(shuō)，―我們都有自己的恐懼。你可能會(huì)在一場(chǎng)籃球比賽中扭腳，并從此害怕再打球。你只能用行動(dòng)去克服自己的恐懼，逃避是沒(méi)有用的。生活中的成功者往往是永不放棄的人?！?/p>

我花了一整天時(shí)間思考他的話。然后，我做出了一個(gè)勇敢而明智的決定： 我要參加中央電視臺(tái)第五屆―希望之星‖英語(yǔ)風(fēng)采大賽！

老教授是對(duì)的。我發(fā)揮出了自己的水平，一路殺進(jìn)了全國(guó)總決賽。此時(shí)此刻，當(dāng)我再一次站在了麥克風(fēng)前，仍然心跳不止，但更重要的是，我終于能夠勇敢地面對(duì)我的恐懼了，而這已足夠了。

二十二、覃梅玲，19歲，廣東

Welcome to Guangdong

Ladies and Gentlemen, Honorable Judges，Good afternoon.I come from one of the most lovely and attractive areas of China, the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong Province and I’d love to say a few words about this area that is so dear to my heart.Guangdong Province is a magically beautiful wonderland, with endless natural treasures.The lush and green mountains are inhabited by songbirds and exotic animals;the farm land is fertile and productive, providing all of its people with wonderfully nutritious grains and all the fruits they need to be healthy and strong.The Pearl River meanders through the province and eventually comes to our beautiful seashore with crystal clear blue water, flourishing with all kinds of different fish and sea creatures.All these natural advantages help to boost the ever-expanding economy of Guangdong and increase the welfare of its people.Guangdong is privileged to have such a beautiful landscape, with hundreds of historical sites and places of great interest to local people and foreigners alike.Our capital city, Guangzhou, is also known as “the city of flowers”.Everywhere you look you will see flourishing plants and blossoming flowers overflowing with vigor.The people of Guangdong are very friendly to visitors from anywhere.Whoever you are and wherever you come from, Guangdong people will greet you with the only language---Guangdong dialect.Guangdong is also known as the Chinese capital of delicious food.There is an old saying that "The only best delicacies are in Guangdong.‖ Food from this province is internationally famous.Its variety of tastes, shapes and colors can satisfy even the most refined palette.I’’m sure, the moment you seat yourself at a Cantonese banquet, your appetite will naturally become keen and eager to taste all the numerous delicacies of the region.Here are but a few I will mention in passing: steamed fish in ginger sauce, seasoned chicken, drunken shrimp, dance fish balls, fried jellyfish, roast suckling pig or duck, braised crispy chicken or squab, shark fin soup, moon cakes, refreshments and desert, and so many more.My mouth is watering just at the sound of these wonderful dishes.I would like you all to know that there is truly nowhere in the world I would rather live and I invite you all to come discover the hidden treasures of my hometown.I would be glad to serve as your personal guide.Thank you all.廣東歡迎您

我來(lái)自廣東珠三角地區(qū)——一個(gè)可愛(ài)誘人的地方。

廣東神奇美麗，儼如仙境；資源豐富，取之不盡。蔥郁的群山棲息著無(wú)數(shù)的鳴禽候鳥(niǎo)，肥沃的土地培育著營(yíng)養(yǎng)豐富的稻谷和健康宜人的水果。珠江河蜿蜒曲折，河水晶瑩剔透，孕育著品種豐富的水產(chǎn)。所有這些自然優(yōu)勢(shì)帶來(lái)了廣東經(jīng)濟(jì)的不斷發(fā)展，帶來(lái)了廣東人民的幸福生活。廣東景色優(yōu)美，有著許許多多的名勝古跡，深受當(dāng)?shù)厝嗣窈屯鈬?guó)朋友的喜愛(ài)。廣東的省會(huì)——廣州，以花城著稱。茂密的綠林、怒放的鮮花隨處可見(jiàn)。

廣東人民熱情友好，無(wú)論你是誰(shuí)，無(wú)論你來(lái)自何方，他們都會(huì)用同一種熱情的語(yǔ)言歡迎你，那就是廣東方言。

廣東以中國(guó)美食之都著稱。俗話說(shuō)：―食在廣東?！瑥V東的飲食國(guó)際聞名，色香味俱全，令你胃口常開(kāi)，讓你禁不住想嘗一嘗這個(gè)地區(qū)的珍饈佳肴。在此我為你略舉一二：羅漢齋、文昌雞、片皮乳豬、醉蝦、竹絲雞、潮州凍肉、鼎湖上素、東江鹽[火局]雞、大良炒鮮奶等。

朋友們，廣東是您理想的居住地。我誠(chéng)摯邀請(qǐng)你們到廣東來(lái)，我非常樂(lè)意成為你們的導(dǎo)游。

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十三、郭洋，26歲，四川

I can handle it

I can never forget the summer in 1996.I went through an extremity of despair due to my failure in the National College Entrance Examination.It seemed that my dream of being a university student would never come true.One evening my father came and told me the story of Steven Callahan, who was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank.It was a miracle that he survived and was found 76 days later(the longest anyone has survived a shipwreck on a life raft alone).Later in his narrative he wrote these sentences ―I tell myself I can handle it.Compared to what others have been through I’’m fortunate‖.Hearing these sentences I felt something important struck me.I believed my life would mot be that bad and it was proved to be true.Later during my study in the university I always told myself ―I can handle it‖ when my own goals seemed far off or when my problems seemed too overwhelming and every time I said it ,I always came back to my senses.Now I work as an English teacher in a middle school.Whenever my students complain about their difficulties in study or want to give up, I will tell the same story of Callahan to them.I just want to make them believe they can handle their difficulties because their circumstances are only bad compared to something better.But others have been through much worse.Then they will build up fortitude.So here, coming to us from the extreme edge of survival, are words that can give us strength.Whatever you’re going through, tell yourself you can handle it.Compared to what others have been through, you’re fortunate.Tell this to yourself over and over, and it will help you get through the rough spots with little more fortitude.我能挺過(guò)去的

我永生難忘1996年的夏天。由于我在高考中的失利，我感到了極度的失望，我要成為一名大學(xué)生的夢(mèng)想似乎是無(wú)法實(shí)現(xiàn)了。一天傍晚，我的父親來(lái)給我講了一個(gè)關(guān)于史蒂文·卡拉漢的故事，史蒂文獨(dú)自駕駛著帆船橫渡大西洋，途中船遇難下沉，但是他卻活了下來(lái)并在76天后被人發(fā)現(xiàn)。（他是世界上遇海灘在救生艇中存活最長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的人了）。后來(lái)卡拉漢在他的敘述中寫(xiě)到―我告訴自己一定可以挺過(guò)去的，跟別人的遭遇相比，我已經(jīng)算是幸運(yùn)的了‖。

聽(tīng)了這些話，我被深深地震撼了，我相信我的生活不會(huì)太差而事實(shí)也證明了這一點(diǎn)，后來(lái)我得到了進(jìn)入大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)的機(jī)會(huì)，在大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)期間，當(dāng)我覺(jué)得自己的目標(biāo)似乎遙不可及或者我遇到了似乎無(wú)法解決的問(wèn)題時(shí)，我就勉勵(lì)自己說(shuō)―我能挺過(guò)去的‖而每每念及這句話，我總能有所醒悟。

現(xiàn)在我在一所中學(xué)教英語(yǔ)，每當(dāng)學(xué)生們報(bào)怨學(xué)習(xí)的困難或是想放棄時(shí)，我就給他們講卡拉漢的故事，我就是想讓他們相信他們可以從困難中挺過(guò)去的，因?yàn)槔Ь扯际窍鄬?duì)而言的，有些人比我們更不幸，然后他們就會(huì)在自己心中建立起永不放棄的信念。

從這個(gè)大難不死的故事中，我們學(xué)到了能給予我們勇氣與力量的話語(yǔ)，無(wú)論你遭遇了什么，都要對(duì)你自己說(shuō)：一定能挺過(guò)去的。與其他人的不幸相比，你已經(jīng)算是很幸運(yùn)了，要一遍一遍地用此話鼓勵(lì)自己，這個(gè)信念會(huì)使你更有信心渡過(guò)難關(guān)。

二十四、塔娜，21歲，內(nèi)蒙古

My Hometown—Inner Mongolia

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, today, I would like to introduce my beloved hometown—Inner Mongolia to all of you.It has been 57 years since the birth of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on May 1st, 1947.Dominated by the Mongolian nationality, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is located on the northern frontier of China.The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region occupies an area of 1.18 million square kilometers and has a population of about 20 million people who represent a score of different nationalities.Every time when people talk about Inner Mongolia, they’ll come down to the vast grassland.Yes, the Inner Mongolian prairie area makes up a quarter of the total grassland area of the country.On the boundless expanse of the Inner Mongolian prairie are living numerous sheep, Cattle and horses, on which our Mongolian have lived for generations.That is why the grassland is eulogized as ―cradle of life‖.There are two vast grasslands in my hometown—Hulun Buir Grasslands and Xilin Gol Grasslands which are both world-famous regions.People in Inner Mongolia are famous for their bravery, enthusiasm and hospitality.No mater where you are from, as long as you come to a herdsman’s house, you will be warmly entertained with roasted whole lamb and milk tea, and what’s more, you can also appreciate beautiful Mongolian songs and elegant dances.It is not exaggerating to say Mongolians are born singers and dancers.The moment you set your feet on the grassland areas you will discover it is indeed a real land of songs and dances.Today’s Inner Mongolia still maintains her ethnic characteristics and at the dame time, she tries to keep pace with the development of the modern world.Ordus is a worldwide well-known brand, Yili and Mengniu are both the famous dairy industries, which have greatly improved the living standard of our Mongolian people.And I’m sure, our Mongolian people will make great effort to contribute to our hometown.As a college student, I know quite clearly that my mission is to master solid knowledge and one day do good to my beloved hometown.我的家鄉(xiāng)——內(nèi)蒙古

早上好，女士們先生們，今天我想給大家介紹一下我的家鄉(xiāng)——內(nèi)蒙古。內(nèi)蒙古自治區(qū)區(qū)自1947年5月1日成立以來(lái)，已有57年的歷史了。坐落在中國(guó)北部邊陲的內(nèi)蒙古自治區(qū)是一個(gè)以蒙古族為主的地區(qū)。它擁有118萬(wàn)平方公里的土地面積，2000萬(wàn)來(lái)自不同民族的人民共同居住在這里。

每當(dāng)人們談到內(nèi)蒙古都會(huì)想到遼闊的草原，是的，內(nèi)蒙古的草原面積占全國(guó)總草原面積的1/4。成群的羊兒，牛兒和馬兒生活在這片無(wú)邊無(wú)際的草原上，是它們養(yǎng)育了世世代代的草原兒女，因此，草原也被贊頌為―生命的搖籃‖。我們的家鄉(xiāng)有兩大世界著名的草原——呼倫貝爾大草原和錫林郭勒大草原。蒙古族是一個(gè)勇敢、熱情、好客的民族，如果你去到牧民的家里，無(wú)論你來(lái)自哪兒，熱情的牧民都會(huì)用烤全羊和奶茶款待你，同時(shí)，你還可以欣賞到優(yōu)美的蒙古族歌舞。蒙古族人民天生能歌善舞，這一點(diǎn)兒也不夸張，在你踏上草原的那一刻，你就會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)這確實(shí)是一片歌舞的海洋。

今天的內(nèi)蒙古仍然保留著她的民族特色，同時(shí)，她還時(shí)刻緊跟時(shí)代的步伐。鄂爾多斯是聞名世界的知名品牌，伊利和蒙牛兩大乳業(yè)集團(tuán)是內(nèi)蒙古經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展的支柱產(chǎn)業(yè)。我相信，草原人民一定會(huì)繼續(xù)努力為家鄉(xiāng)的發(fā)展做出貢獻(xiàn)，作為一名大學(xué)生，我會(huì)掌握好扎實(shí)的知識(shí)，回報(bào)我可愛(ài)的家鄉(xiāng)。

第五篇：TED演講集：禮物

Imagine, if you will, a gift.I’d like for you to picture in your mind.It’s not too big.About the size of a golf ball.So in vision what it looks like all wrapped up.But before I show you what’s inside, I will tell you that’s going to do incredible things for you.It will bring all of your family together.You will feel loved and appreciated like never before.And reconnect to friends and acquaintances you haven’t heard from in years.Adoration(崇拜，崇敬)and admiration(贊美)will overwhelm you.It will recalibrate what’s important in your life.It will redefine your sense of spirituality and faith.You’ll have a new understanding and trust in your body.You’ll have unsurpassed vitality(生命力，活力)and energy.You’ll expand your vocabulary, meet new people, and you’ll have a healthier lifestyle.And get this, you’ll have an eight-week vacation of doing absolutely nothing.You’ll eat countless gourmet(講究吃的人，食物品嘗家)meals.Flowers will arrive by the truck load.People will say to you:”you look great!have you had any work done?”and you’ll have a life-time supply of good drugs.You’ll be challenged, inspired, motivated and humbled.Your life will have new meaning: peace, health, serenity(平靜,從容), happiness, nirvana(涅磐).The price? Fifty-five thousand dollars.And that’s an incredible deal.By now, I know you’re dying to know what it is and where you can get one.Dose Amazon carry it? Dose it have the apple logo on it? Is there a waiting list? Not likely.This gift came to me about five months ago.And looked more like this when it

was all wrapped up.Not quite so pretty.And this.And then this.It was a rare jam brain tumor.Hemangioblastoma.The gift that keeps on giving.And while I’m ok now.I wouldn’t wish this gift for you.I’m not sure you’d want it.But I would’t change my experience.It profoundly altered my life in ways it didn’t expect.In all the ways I just shared with you.So the next time you are faced with something that’s unexpected, unwanted and uncertain.Consider.that it just may be a gift.